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00:00:37.920 Welcome to my cesspool of bigotry and hate.

00:00:41.740 The leftist hyenas at Media Matters have made a 7-minute video compilation and 2,500-word article

00:00:49.020 smearing this show and the rest of the Daily Wire gang as a cesspool of bigotry and hate.

00:00:55.240 Do you know why? 0.87

00:00:56.020 It's because we suggested that it is wrong to kill babies after they've already been born

00:01:01.980 and because we suggested that men are not women.

00:01:05.340 That's actually in the video.

00:01:07.480 I think we're going to use it as a best-of compilation. 0.98

00:01:09.940 We examine the real bigots and haters from Media Matters, those scum-sucking leeches, 0.97

00:01:15.920 all the way to Joe Biden currently leading the pack of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. 0.99

00:01:20.840 Then, actress Rosanna Arquette apologizes for being white and I forgive her. 1.00

00:01:27.400 Huffington Post publishes the dumbest article on the internet today. 0.98

00:01:30.240 And finally, the mailbag. 0.98

00:01:31.440 I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:33.380 Yes, come on in to my cesspool. 1.00

00:01:44.140 We are going to mire ourselves in a truly national cesspool of bigotry and hate, though it's not on the right, it's on the left.

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00:03:43.480 I will get to media matters in a second.

00:03:46.420 I want to save media matters as sort of my entree today.

00:03:49.860 I want to wet my appetite.

00:03:52.000 I really want to get excited. 0.99

00:03:53.160 I want to salivate a little bit before I dig into those scum-sucking leeches at the political outfit Media Matters and Parker Malloy, who is the head of it, and some of the other people there. 0.97

00:04:06.160 Media Matters, by the way, I'll just remind you, Media Matters was a favorite organization of the Ohio Shooter. 0.98

00:04:11.880 Just to remind you, while they're blaming the right for all sorts of awful violence and bigotry, just wanted to remind you that the Ohio Shooter regularly retweeted Media Matters. 1.00

00:04:22.100 Bunch of scum-sucking leeches. 1.00

00:04:23.640 We'll get to them in a second. 0.99

00:04:24.660 First, I want to zoom out a little bit, though, and get to the 2020 presidential race because the left has now turned the racial divisiveness and turned the invective and turned the insults all the way up to 11.

00:04:40.380 Not just the silly, frivolous candidates like Beto O'Rourke, but all the way up to the front runner, Joe Biden.

00:04:46.780 So-called moderate Joe. 0.93

00:04:48.640 So every man Joe.

00:04:50.040 That guy is now referring to President Trump as a white supremacist. 0.98

00:04:56.140 Used to be racist.

00:04:58.080 Now, they've called conservatives racists forever with absolutely no basis for it.

00:05:02.280 Then it was white nationalist.

00:05:04.220 That's the reason they use the term white nationalist is because conservatives have embraced nationalism.

00:05:10.540 I mean, Irving Kristol in the 1960s described conservatism as religion, nationalism, and economic growth.

00:05:15.940 So what they want to do is tie nationalism, a perfectly legitimate concept, with white nationalism, which is an incoherent concept because there has never been a nation of the whites.

00:05:26.120 There is no ethnic group called the whites with a capital W.

00:05:28.640 There are ethnic nations like England or Italy or France or Germany, but there's no nation of the whites. 1.00

00:05:37.460 So they take this incoherent concept called white nationalism and they use it to try to convince idiots that conservatives are bigots. 0.99

00:05:46.260 Now they've turned this all the way up again. 1.00

00:05:48.220 They've called us white supremacists.

00:05:50.740 Here is Joe Biden giving a campaign speech yesterday, comparing Donald Trump to the segregationist candidate, George Wallace.

00:06:00.120 Indeed, we have a president with a toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced the political strategy of hate, racism, and division.

00:06:12.560 So it's up to us, as it was in the 20s.

00:06:18.420 It's up to us.

00:06:20.200 We're living through a rare moment in this nation's history where our president isn't up to the moment,

00:06:27.160 where our president lacks the moral authority to lead,

00:06:31.620 where our president has more in common with George Wallace than he does with George Washington. 1.00

00:06:38.180 Yeah, Trump, he's a white supremacist. 1.00

00:06:40.820 You see, he's awful. 0.99

00:06:41.840 By the way, don't forget, Joe Biden just got shanked by Kamala Harris at the first Democratic presidential debate 0.57

00:06:46.980 because he was extolling the virtues of segregationists not one month ago.

00:06:51.940 One month ago, this guy who has the audacity to call Donald Trump a white supremacist was extolling the virtues of segregationists.

00:07:00.720 This guy, during the 2008 presidential race, referred to Barack Obama as the first black guy who was clean and articulate.

00:07:07.700 And he said, that's a fairy tale, man.

00:07:09.540 He was so shocked it couldn't possibly be the case that in reality a black man is clean and articulate.

00:07:15.360 Joe Biden was shocked by that.

00:07:17.080 That guy, this guy from the political party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, lynchings,

00:07:24.420 that guy, Joe Biden, has the audacity to call President Trump and conservatives white supremacists.

00:07:31.480 Now, Joe Biden, though, he launches this attack.

00:07:35.020 He obviously can't back it up with facts.

00:07:37.840 So the only way he can back up this narrative that Trump is a white supremacist, I mean, imagine that.

00:07:42.680 Donald Trump, the guy you've known since the 1980s, real estate mogul, casino guy, reality TV star for 15 years,

00:07:49.280 won awards literally next to Rosa Parks, old palin' around with Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, that guy that we've all known for 50 years. 0.97

00:07:58.920 Turns out, secretly, he's a white supremacist.

00:08:02.020 That's the narrative that Joe Biden now needs to sell because the Democratic primary has become so radicalized and so disengaged from reality.

00:08:10.000 So he can't back it up with facts.

00:08:11.840 Therefore, he has to back it up with obvious, demonstrable lies.

00:08:17.960 Here is how he justifies the claim that Trump is a white supremacist.

00:08:21.940 How far apart are those comments?

00:08:26.640 How far is it from white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville,

00:08:32.380 Trump's very fine people chanting, you will replace us, to the shooter at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

00:08:41.180 There it is, Trump's very fine people.

00:08:43.460 So that, this is the lie.

00:08:44.580 This is the foundational legend of the Trump is a white supremacist thing,

00:08:49.480 which is that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists very fine people in Charlottesville.

00:08:56.560 They're all saying this, Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign on this lie.

00:09:02.900 So here is, very quickly, 50 seconds or a minute,

00:09:05.940 the full, unedited, unvarnished, no movie magic going on clip of what President Trump said

00:09:13.020 when he used the phrase very fine people in Charlottesville.

00:09:16.680 You can hear very clearly, he explicitly condemns the people that Joe Biden says Trump called very fine people.

00:09:24.260 You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

00:09:33.800 You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.

00:09:38.900 You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them,

00:09:44.320 a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

00:09:49.980 What, nationalists do that?

00:09:51.520 Well, no, George Washington was a slave owner.

00:09:54.380 Was George Washington a slave owner?

00:09:56.760 So will George Washington now lose his status?

00:09:59.800 Are we going to take down, excuse me, are we going to take down,

00:10:03.460 are we going to take down statues to George Washington?

00:10:06.380 How about Thomas Jefferson?

00:10:08.080 What do you think of Thomas Jefferson?

00:10:09.540 You like him?

00:10:10.740 Okay, good.

00:10:11.620 Are we going to take down the statue?

00:10:13.100 Because he was a major slave owner. 0.74

00:10:14.980 Now are we going to take down his statue?

00:10:16.440 So you know what?

00:10:18.160 It's fine.

00:10:18.900 You're changing history.

00:10:20.260 You're changing culture.

00:10:21.500 And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists,

00:10:26.240 because they should be condemned totally.

00:10:28.340 There you have it.

00:10:29.760 That clip was one minute and three seconds long.

00:10:33.160 Within one minute and three seconds, he uses the phrase, very fine people.

00:10:38.220 I mean, he says that phrase a little bit into it.

00:10:40.100 So you have within, certainly within a minute, you have Trump using the phrase, very fine people,

00:10:44.440 and then explicitly stating that he's not calling neo-Nazis and white supremacists and

00:10:50.680 white nationalists very fine people, that they should be condemned totally. 1.00

00:10:54.860 But this is all Joe Biden's got, because Joe Biden is a liar. 1.00

00:10:58.180 He's a pathological liar. 1.00

00:10:59.740 He hasn't just told the kind of lies that politicians tell. 1.00

00:11:02.360 He's told some very sick lies, even lying about the death of his own wife.

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00:13:03.140 Joe Biden is lying.

00:13:06.000 This is the, there is a foundational lie to his presidential campaign, which is that

00:13:09.980 Donald Trump called neo-Nazis very fine people in Charlottesville. 1.00

00:13:12.860 This is now the foundational lie in the stupid speech he gave yesterday. 1.00

00:13:16.260 This is no surprise that Biden is lying. 1.00

00:13:18.700 He had to leave the 1988 presidential campaign because he lied about his law school records.

00:13:23.480 That's why he had to get out of that race. 1.00

00:13:25.500 He lied about his law school records.

00:13:27.100 Then he plagiarized a speech from an Irish politician.

00:13:29.420 And then he lied about that too.

00:13:31.200 But it's not just those kinds of lies that Joe Biden tells.

00:13:34.920 Because look, politicians exaggerate.

00:13:37.100 They bend the truth.

00:13:38.040 Sometimes they tell on truths without, without even meaning to. 1.00

00:13:40.360 The thing about Joe Biden is that he's a pathological liar and he tells really vile lies. 0.97

00:13:47.500 For instance, Joe Biden will often talk about how his wife died right at the beginning of 0.99

00:13:52.160 his political career.

00:13:53.020 And it's this awful tragedy that he had to live through.

00:13:55.560 And his daughter died.

00:13:57.560 I mean, it was just really awful.

00:13:58.900 But Joe Biden doesn't just keep it to that story.

00:14:03.120 He repeatedly lies about the circumstances of it to impugn the other driver who was involved in that car accident,

00:14:10.100 to impugn his motives and his character,

00:14:13.060 and to malign him,

00:14:14.740 and to make himself appear more of a victim.

00:14:17.740 Don't just take my word for it.

00:14:19.300 Don't just take the word of the right wing for it.

00:14:21.280 The Atlantic, a left-wing magazine, called Joe Biden out for this in 2010.

00:14:25.980 They wrote, quote,

00:14:26.800 For many years, Biden described the driver of the truck that struck and killed his first wife and their daughter

00:14:32.120 in December 1972 as a drunk, which he apparently was not.

00:14:37.120 The tale could hardly be more tragic.

00:14:39.260 Why add in a baseless charge?

00:14:42.240 The family of the truck driver has labored to correct the record.

00:14:46.260 But Biden made the reference to drunkenness as recently as 2007.

00:14:50.440 Needlessly resurrecting a false and painful allegation.

00:14:57.040 Why would Biden do this?

00:14:58.820 I mean, it's so, to exploit your wife's death is one aspect of it.

00:15:07.440 But then to rewrite what happened and take a guy who was not a drunk driver, by all accounts,

00:15:15.380 who obviously feels awful for this accident that happened.

00:15:18.420 And then as you, the vice president of the United States, to publicly and wrongly smear him as a drunk driver?

00:15:28.440 Outrageous stuff. 1.00

00:15:29.340 But Biden is a pathological liar. 1.00

00:15:31.140 That's all he's got. 1.00

00:15:32.300 He is a totally hollow shell of a man whose skin is artificial, whose hair is artificial, and whose teeth are artificial. 0.99

00:15:38.820 And obviously, whose thoughts and rhetoric are artificial as well.

00:15:44.800 So, but Biden keeps up this charge. 0.51

00:15:46.740 He goes full-throated for it, and he calls Trump a white supremacist.

00:15:51.420 I don't think it's that far at all.

00:15:54.560 It's both clear language and in code.

00:15:58.040 This president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation.

00:16:03.760 He's fanned the flames of white supremacy.

00:16:06.700 Okay, this is the new line.

00:16:08.060 It's not just Biden who's using this.

00:16:09.800 Elizabeth Warren, Pocahontas, told the New York Times without hesitation, quote,

00:16:15.000 Trump gave comfort to white supremacists.

00:16:18.000 He's done the wink and a nod.

00:16:20.420 He has talked about white supremacists as fine people.

00:16:23.040 We just heard that that isn't true.

00:16:25.480 So, Elizabeth Warren using this lie, too. 0.95

00:16:27.420 He's done everything he can to stir up racial conflict and hatred in this country.

00:16:31.920 Is that right?

00:16:32.500 We'll examine if that's right in a second.

00:16:34.380 Beto O'Rourke, a future former presidential candidate,

00:16:38.240 called President Trump a white supremacist in no uncertain terms.

00:16:40.980 Here he is on MSNBC.

00:16:42.940 And right now, the president is on the tarmac greeting members of the Texas delegation.

00:16:48.280 He's on El Paso soil.

00:16:50.920 What goes through your head hearing that?

00:16:52.080 Well, I think this is the answer to that.

00:16:54.680 You have all these beautiful people from El Paso, but also from Cielo Juarez,

00:16:58.860 Chihuahua, Mexico, our sister city,

00:17:00.500 who are coming together in the wake of this horrific loss of life,

00:17:04.640 this terrorism that was in part inspired by President Trump

00:17:08.740 and his warnings of invasions and infestations, 0.95

00:17:12.580 his demonization of this community, immigrants as rapists and criminals. 0.95

00:17:17.200 There's a very real consequence. 0.91

00:17:18.620 It doesn't just offend us.

00:17:20.260 It hurts us and it kills us.

00:17:22.680 Hold on. 0.98

00:17:23.020 We've got to stop it there before he gets to calling Trump a white supremacist.

00:17:26.380 Because look at the two things he's just said.

00:17:29.220 He said, the shooter was inspired by Trump.

00:17:31.300 We know this isn't true.

00:17:32.280 The shooter himself wrote in the manifesto,

00:17:34.040 I was not inspired by Trump.

00:17:35.260 I had these views much earlier.

00:17:37.800 So that part, it just seems,

00:17:39.600 obviously the shooter can lie,

00:17:41.340 but I don't know why he would tell that lie.

00:17:43.700 Second part, which is the most absurd in the whole discussion,

00:17:48.100 is Beto O'Rourke talks about the targeting of Hispanics as us.

00:17:53.820 He's hurting us. 0.74

00:17:55.320 He's killing us.

00:17:58.440 Who is us?

00:18:00.460 Beto O'Rourke has pretended to be Hispanic for his entire political career.

00:18:04.120 Not for his whole life, but for his political career.

00:18:06.300 Beto O'Rourke, his real name is Robert Francis O'Rourke.

00:18:08.400 He's completely Irish and he's pretended to be Hispanic.

00:18:11.340 He talks in broken, garbled Spanglish on the Democratic debate stage 0.92

00:18:14.800 because he knows the rest of the party is all a bunch of liberal white people.

00:18:17.680 So they're not going to understand that he's just totally mangling the Spanish language. 0.71

00:18:21.140 But this guy actually has the gall,

00:18:23.640 after being called out on this so many times in his career,

00:18:26.760 to say it's us, it's killing us.

00:18:29.120 Who? It's killing billionaire Irish guys?

00:18:33.000 That's who Donald Trump's hate is killing. 0.95

00:18:34.500 Is, is billionaire Irish dudes and skateboarders. 0.99

00:18:40.860 No, he's implying that it's killing Hispanics and he's pretending to be Hispanic, 0.84

00:18:44.320 which he's always been doing. 0.81

00:18:45.460 But then he goes on, he actually gets to the meat of it. 0.99

00:18:47.120 He says, Trump is a white supremacist. 0.98

00:18:49.680 You've been very clear that you believe the president is a racist. 0.98

00:18:51.980 Is the president a white supremacist? 0.96

00:18:54.360 He is.

00:18:55.060 He's also made that very clear.

00:18:57.040 He's made it very clear.

00:18:58.200 Has he?

00:18:58.560 Obviously.

00:18:59.100 Beto O'Rourke said it.

00:19:00.560 Beto would never lie about like, you know,

00:19:02.360 the most important aspects of his own identity.

00:19:04.500 He would never tell a lie like that.

00:19:06.120 So obviously president Trump has made it very clear that he is a white supremacist.

00:19:10.860 Forget what he said a couple of days ago when he said that,

00:19:13.400 that hatred warps the soul and it's,

00:19:16.120 it's terrible and awful and we need to be united and condemn bigotry.

00:19:19.400 We know many,

00:19:20.640 many other times president Trump has embraced racism and bigotry and white supremacy.

00:19:25.780 Hasn't he?

00:19:26.360 Roll the clip. 0.86

00:19:26.760 Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, 1.00

00:19:33.800 including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to 1.00

00:19:42.460 everything we hold dear as Americans. 0.99

00:19:45.300 And I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned 0.89

00:19:50.520 totally.

00:19:51.020 We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.

00:19:57.680 We are equal in the eyes of our creator.

00:20:00.780 We are equal under the law and we are equal under our constitution.

00:20:08.020 Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.

00:20:14.120 How many times do I have to reject?

00:20:17.120 I've rejected David Duke, rejected David Duke.

00:20:20.280 I've rejected the KKK, the Ku Klux Klan.

00:20:24.500 From the time I'm five years old, I rejected them.

00:20:27.460 I put it on Twitter last week.

00:20:29.820 Now I have been asked this question so many times.

00:20:32.960 Yeah.

00:20:33.860 Yeah.

00:20:34.380 Okay.

00:20:34.880 All right, Donald. 0.97

00:20:36.600 It's just what a white supremacist would say. 0.97

00:20:39.820 Okay. 0.90

00:20:40.220 Condemning repeatedly racism and bigotry and white supremacy for years and years and years.

00:20:45.120 Just, that's really convenient, isn't it?

00:20:47.960 But a white supremacist would love to say those things, huh?

00:20:51.260 Not buying it, buddy. 0.97

00:20:53.000 Bernie Sanders jumping on this too, calling Trump a white supremacist.

00:20:56.360 This is the new line of attack. 0.96

00:20:58.620 And Biden is embracing it because he has no principles and he's shameless and he doesn't

00:21:02.660 care if he tears the country apart and he's happy to, to stir up a cesspool of hatred

00:21:08.020 and bigotry and he needs to keep it up.

00:21:10.660 So this is the line.

00:21:11.920 He needs to keep it up if he wants to keep up with the pack of other wacko radicals in 1.00

00:21:17.080 the 2020 Democratic primary.

00:21:19.100 So Biden realizes he's got to address the fact that Trump repeatedly condemns white supremacy

00:21:24.600 and bigotry and hatred.

00:21:26.080 So here is how Biden chooses to do it.

00:21:28.820 He says it's all just words and Trump doesn't really mean any of it.

00:21:31.540 His low energy, vacant eyed, mouthing of the words written for him, condemning white supremacists

00:21:39.660 this week, I don't believe fooled anyone at home or abroad.

00:21:45.140 Whoa, man.

00:21:46.300 This is a poor, I know that some intern or whoever wrote this speech really thought, yeah, I'll

00:21:51.020 call Trump low energy because he calls us low energy and Jeb low energy.

00:21:55.340 So we'll call him low energy.

00:21:57.080 We'll say that he doesn't really believe it.

00:21:59.020 We'll say that he's just vacantly mouthing words that were written for him.

00:22:03.860 The trouble with that is that it isn't true.

00:22:07.140 The reason that Trump's attacks work is because they're true.

00:22:10.640 Jeb Bush really does have low energy.

00:22:14.040 Joe Biden really does look sleepy.

00:22:16.880 You don't have to look any further than the last presidential debate when Joe Biden stood

00:22:20.860 vacant eyed, bungling the words and mouthing the words that someone else had written for

00:22:27.600 him.

00:22:27.820 Let's listen to this clip three, oh, three, three, three, oh, three, oh.

00:22:31.820 If you agree with me, go to Joe three, oh, three, three, oh, and help me in this fight.

00:22:39.980 Thank you very much.

00:22:41.340 So obviously he's projecting the left always projects.

00:22:44.280 We'll explain how they're doing that on hate, hate filled bigotry cesspool in a second. 1.00

00:22:49.520 But he, Joe Biden, at least because he's a practice politician has to try to tie this argument

00:22:55.060 together.

00:22:55.400 So he has to try to make an argument for how all of this fits in the shootings and the

00:23:00.360 hatred and the bigotry and the guns and the Donald Trump.

00:23:04.060 And he tries to wrap it up here at the end of the speech.

00:23:06.860 This is, and this is really saying something, the least coherent argument I've ever heard

00:23:13.720 from Joe Biden.

00:23:15.080 He's trying to tie these things together, hatred, mental health, and guns, all in the,

00:23:21.920 all with relation to President Trump.

00:23:24.400 See if you can make any sense of how he tries to do it.

00:23:27.480 He says guns are not the problem in mass shootings.

00:23:31.980 The issue is mental health.

00:23:34.480 It's a dodge.

00:23:36.520 Hatred isn't a mental health issue.

00:23:40.500 Okay.

00:23:41.240 Let's just try to examine that for a second.

00:23:44.140 That last line, hatred is not a mental health issue.

00:23:48.260 So, so what Joe Biden is saying is this is a dodge.

00:23:53.260 When Trump wants to talk about mental health instead of guns with regard to these shootings,

00:23:58.000 it's a dodge because hatred is not a mental health issue.

00:24:02.300 First of all, yes, it is.

00:24:04.260 Hatred is a mental issue.

00:24:06.320 It is entirely a mental issue.

00:24:07.840 It is a faculty in your mind.

00:24:09.660 Your mind is, is perceiving certain things and coming to certain conclusions.

00:24:14.520 Your faculties of reason are the ones that are ending up in a hate-filled view of the world

00:24:20.100 or your faculties of unreason in, in the case of mental health problems.

00:24:25.360 So hatred is a mental health issue.

00:24:29.520 But what about the dodge on guns?

00:24:32.620 Are, are, is hatred a gun issue?

00:24:35.500 Is hatred a firearms issue?

00:24:37.460 He says it's a dodge.

00:24:39.080 Hatred isn't a mental health issue.

00:24:41.040 It's a manufacturing issue.

00:24:42.980 It's an ammunition issue.

00:24:44.320 It's a firearms issue.

00:24:45.480 No, no, it's not.

00:24:47.820 Hatred is a mental issue, right?

00:24:49.360 Hatred is metaphysical.

00:24:50.580 It's, it's, uh, the product of our ideas and sometimes our own incoherence and our perception

00:24:55.880 of the world.

00:24:57.520 Hatred, whatever hatred is, is not a physical issue.

00:25:01.380 And guns are physical.

00:25:03.460 Guns are, they're just a hunk of metal and a hunk of plastic.

00:25:07.660 Hatred does not pertain to guns because guns are physical objects.

00:25:10.920 You need a mental decision, a mental perception, a mental cause of action to make you pick up

00:25:20.380 the gun and pull the trigger.

00:25:22.080 So what Joe is doing is he's just using words like they all do.

00:25:25.220 They just kind of use words randomly to give the sound of an argument, even though it isn't

00:25:29.500 an argument.

00:25:29.940 This relates to a personal story.

00:25:31.980 Our friends over at Media Matters, which a lot of people don't know what Media Matters

00:25:35.740 is.

00:25:36.060 A lot of media people do.

00:25:37.920 But, uh, to the rest of the world, what we're told is that Media Matters is a media watchdog

00:25:43.380 group, but they're not a media watchdog group.

00:25:45.640 They are a leftist political organization that solely exists to get right-wing media figures

00:25:51.240 fired from their jobs.

00:25:52.600 So they've been trying to get Rush fired forever.

00:25:54.700 They've been trying to get Tucker Carlson fired.

00:25:56.300 They've been trying to get Sean Hannity fired.

00:25:57.760 Now I guess they're trying to get me fired.

00:25:59.360 They want to get all of them fired.

00:26:01.200 And you'll notice the right doesn't have this because we're not afraid of MSNBC running

00:26:05.620 their mouths on cable.

00:26:06.840 We know that our arguments are better than theirs, so we're going to beat them in the

00:26:09.460 court of public opinion.

00:26:10.860 Because the left knows that their arguments are so bad, they have to just try to shut us

00:26:15.480 up.

00:26:15.680 So they try to censor us on social media.

00:26:17.260 They try to censor us on campus.

00:26:18.740 They try to censor us in the workplace.

00:26:20.500 And now they try to censor our TV shows and our podcasts and our radio shows.

00:26:24.480 That's what Media Matters is doing.

00:26:25.680 So they put together a seven minute long clip.

00:26:29.880 They tweeted out, they said, we watched all of these hours of Daily Wire footage and we've

00:26:35.200 concluded this is a cesspool of bigotry and hate.

00:26:39.060 Here's our report.

00:26:40.160 And I'll just play you a brief clip.

00:26:41.840 It's like a 30 second clip from a seven minute long compilation.

00:26:45.520 This is the kind of content that Media Matters is trying to convince people is hateful and

00:26:52.040 bigoted. 0.96

00:26:53.000 I think that it is worse to slaughter babies after they've been born than to wear blackface. 1.00

00:26:58.440 Abortion helps rapists cover up their crimes. 0.99

00:27:02.000 You are just not a decent person if you support giving lethal injection to infants.

00:27:06.180 Abortion doctor number four is a problematic term because it includes the word doctor. 0.64

00:27:10.060 I would suggest the term medical assassin.

00:27:13.080 There is obviously something wrong in the House of Islam. 1.00

00:27:16.100 There is a lot more evidence that Ilhan Omar has sympathies for Al Qaeda than there is that 0.97

00:27:20.560 Donald Trump is a racial bigot.

00:27:22.420 This is this is the best of. 0.98

00:27:24.480 This is what the Media Matters scoured all of our content.

00:27:27.480 How many hundreds, how many thousands of hours of content is there from our shows?

00:27:32.620 I mean, I've done about 400 shows myself and I'm pretty much the newest show at the Daily

00:27:37.220 Wire.

00:27:38.160 How many shows have the other guys done?

00:27:39.840 700 or something like that.

00:27:41.100 How many thousands of hours have they gone through?

00:27:43.780 And the best they could find, the best example of bigotry was that I said that it is worse

00:27:48.540 to slaughter babies after they have been born than to wear a racially insensitive costume.

00:27:56.700 It's the best they've got. 0.98

00:27:58.660 That's what they put forward.

00:28:00.480 Obviously, I stand by all of it.

00:28:01.700 I think this should be an advertiser promo video for us.

00:28:04.460 I think we should put this video out there as a subscriber pitch.

00:28:08.000 It shows us that the left projects.

00:28:11.360 This is what they do. 0.76

00:28:12.800 They call us racists because they are racists. 0.95

00:28:15.360 They call us bigots because they are bigots. 0.90

00:28:17.420 They call us hateful because they are hateful.

00:28:20.580 We're not.

00:28:21.280 Just look at any conservative.

00:28:24.160 Generally speaking, we stay pretty calm.

00:28:26.260 Generally speaking, we talk about unity.

00:28:28.020 We talk about love of country.

00:28:29.500 We talk about how the other side isn't evil.

00:28:31.140 They're just very, very wrong, and we need to convince them to be right.

00:28:35.160 What does the left do?

00:28:37.000 I mean, just look at these terror attacks over the weekend, these shootings. 0.81

00:28:40.060 The one guy in Texas was an eco-fascist.

00:28:42.760 He had aspects of his ideology that I guess you would call right-wing and aspects that

00:28:47.260 you would call far-left-wing.

00:28:48.900 The shooter in Ohio was an avowed leftist, a socialist, an endorser of Elizabeth Warren,

00:28:55.780 and, yes, a fan of Media Matters, the cesspool of hatred that published the hit piece on

00:29:01.960 us.

00:29:02.900 The Ohio shooter literally reposted Media Matters content to his social media pages, and

00:29:09.960 they blame us because they project.

00:29:12.700 Anything that is true of them, they try to accuse us of.

00:29:17.300 They are the haters.

00:29:18.900 They are the bigots. 0.94

00:29:20.340 They lie about what we say.

00:29:21.700 They dox us or nearly dox us the way that Joaquin Castro did just a couple days ago.

00:29:27.040 They commit terror attacks like occurred at the ICE facility.

00:29:30.460 We don't know the motive of the Ohio shooter, but we do know he was an avowed leftist.

00:29:34.060 They gaslight us.

00:29:35.040 They try to strip us of our rights.

00:29:36.920 They are a cesspool.

00:29:38.220 And the reason I bring this up now is it's only August of 2019. 0.99

00:29:41.340 We went from racist to white nationalist to white supremacist in the eyes of the left more

00:29:51.640 than a year out from the 2020 election.

00:29:53.660 How much hotter is this going to get?

00:29:55.180 What are they going to be calling us next November?

00:29:58.680 They'll call us baby killers. 0.95

00:30:00.140 I mean, I guess that's the worst thing I can imagine is being a baby killer.

00:30:03.280 And I guess they'll probably call us that because they always project what they do and 0.84

00:30:07.080 they literally kill babies and they say that killing babies is a human right and it's wonderful 1.00

00:30:11.100 and it should be celebrated and shouted from the rooftops.

00:30:14.220 I do think this is going to backfire.

00:30:16.940 This is the deplorables thing all over again.

00:30:19.560 This is Hillary calling half the country deplorable. 1.00

00:30:22.140 Turns out that doesn't help you win presidential elections, doesn't help you bring people over

00:30:25.720 to your cause.

00:30:26.480 They talk about Trump's base.

00:30:28.000 What is Trump's base?

00:30:30.040 Let's call Trump's base 60 million people voted for him.

00:30:32.920 You figure, say, 10 or 20 million of that is independent or more moderate. 0.71

00:30:38.160 So 40 million Americans are white supremacists, neo-Nazis.

00:30:44.140 That's what they're saying. 0.96

00:30:45.360 Okay, keep it up, guys.

00:30:46.320 Keep it up. 0.98

00:30:47.300 Yep, call them deplorable and irredeemable and Nazis. 0.98

00:30:49.980 That's great.

00:30:50.720 Can't wait to see how that serves you in the 2020 election.

00:30:54.880 The madness of all of it.

00:30:56.060 Rosanna Arquette from the Arquette acting family tweeted out yesterday, quote,

00:30:59.720 I'm sorry I was born white and privileged. 0.93

00:31:01.980 It disgusts me.

00:31:03.260 I feel so much shame. 0.98

00:31:05.880 That's the madness in their heads.

00:31:07.440 Rosanna, I forgive you.

00:31:09.180 You were absolved.

00:31:10.260 I forgive you.

00:31:10.800 It's okay.

00:31:11.620 I think a lot of this is because the left doesn't have religion.

00:31:15.440 They don't have true religion.

00:31:16.760 And so because everybody's got to serve somebody, because you will guide your human nature toward

00:31:23.420 some religious idea, politics becomes their religion.

00:31:26.660 But there's no absolution.

00:31:28.180 We have a broken human nature.

00:31:30.080 And because there is no redemption in the politics of leftism, there is just shame and

00:31:34.640 shame and guilt and bile and vitriol and bigotry and a cesspool of hatred.

00:31:40.240 And you see this. 0.99

00:31:41.140 We don't have time to go through the article, but this is the dumbest article on the internet 0.99

00:31:44.540 today. 0.99

00:31:44.840 It's from the Huffington Post.

00:31:45.760 It might be time to cut my right-wing Trump-loving in-laws out of my kids' lives. 0.98

00:31:52.120 And they go on to describe these just like grandparents, these just regular grandparents

00:31:56.820 who they oppose illegal immigration.

00:32:00.040 They are Catholic.

00:32:01.220 They adhere to a traditional sexual morality.

00:32:04.180 They don't think that men are women. 0.88

00:32:05.760 They don't buy the kind of fashions of the sexual revolution. 0.95

00:32:09.760 And this woman says, because my in-laws are conservative, because they hold a political

00:32:14.840 view that half of the country holds, because they go to church on Sundays, because they're

00:32:19.740 Catholic, I cannot allow my children to see them. 1.00

00:32:25.800 She writes, she says, I always yell at them on Facebook and I always tweet, text them these

00:32:30.480 long creeds about how awful they are and how they need to change their minds.

00:32:34.460 And then she complained, she said, at one point, the mother-in-law writes back and says, thank

00:32:38.460 you for your note.

00:32:40.060 So she says, okay, thank you.

00:32:41.260 I've heard your point of view.

00:32:42.820 But she says, because they won't change, because they won't become liberals and they won't become

00:32:47.640 atheists, the kids, they can't see their grandchildren. 0.97

00:32:50.920 That is the definition of hatred.

00:32:53.560 That is the definition of bigotry.

00:32:55.940 That is a cesspool.

00:32:57.440 And it's not just, there's no moral equivalence.

00:33:00.760 It's not that the left and the right both have this kind of cesspool of hatred and bigotry.

00:33:04.020 They don't.

00:33:05.000 It's not even close.

00:33:06.200 It's just the left.

00:33:07.760 It is 99.9% the left.

00:33:11.500 And it's not just some random guy on Twitter. 1.00

00:33:14.440 It's Media Matters, those scum-sucking hyenas. 1.00

00:33:17.800 It's all the way up to Joe Biden. 1.00

00:33:20.720 Obviously, it's Beto, it's Elizabeth Warren, but it's all the way up to even Joe Biden, leader

00:33:24.860 of the pack, so-called moderate, willing to malign half of his countrymen, whom he hates, 0.99

00:33:30.340 whose guts he hates, willing to malign them, as white supremacists, bigots, Nazis, supporters 1.00

00:33:38.620 of white supremacists. 0.99

00:33:40.740 When they say this to us, you know what I say to them?

00:33:44.900 Okay.

00:33:45.720 So what?

00:33:46.540 Keep it up.

00:33:47.280 Keep it up, guys.

00:33:48.300 See how many elections you win.

00:33:49.460 See how many minds you change.

00:33:51.300 Hatred warps people's own minds.

00:33:53.800 It makes people's own lives much worse.

00:33:56.260 It doesn't make my life worse.

00:33:58.180 The fact that Media Matters went through and did a best-of compilation of my show, thanks.

00:34:02.220 Thanks, guys.

00:34:02.640 You saved me hours of work.

00:34:04.080 Now I can tweet that out there.

00:34:05.740 It doesn't hurt me.

00:34:07.640 Hatred doesn't degrade me.

00:34:10.080 Being smeared as a bigot doesn't degrade me.

00:34:12.480 It degrades the people who are doing it, and it's degrading now.

00:34:15.180 The leaders of the Democratic Party.

00:34:17.140 That's where our country is.

00:34:18.920 It's sad that half of this country, the left, despises the other half.

00:34:22.800 But what can I say?

00:34:24.560 We'll be the adults.

00:34:25.500 We'll be here when you want to stop having your temper tantrum and you want to grow up.

00:34:28.880 We've got to get to the mailbag, so we will do that now.

00:34:31.540 Go to dailywire.com.

00:34:32.600 You know what you get.

00:34:33.220 You get everything.

00:34:34.440 My show, the Andrew Klavan show, the Ben Shapiro show, the Matt Walsh show.

00:34:38.740 You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up.

00:34:40.540 You get to ask questions of backstage.

00:34:44.060 You get another kingdom.

00:34:45.220 You get everything.

00:34:45.840 You get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.

00:34:49.360 Guys, it's August 2019.

00:34:51.760 Imagine how much you will be drowning by November 2020.

00:34:54.220 If you don't get the Tumblr.

00:34:55.380 Head on over.

00:34:56.000 We'll be right back.

00:35:07.360 From Chuck.

00:35:08.600 Michael.

00:35:10.160 Ideally, parents and churches would teach children morality and ethics.

00:35:14.340 But in a world where this often does not occur, should this be taught in our public schools?

00:35:19.960 The Bible should be taught in our public schools.

00:35:24.060 Certainly.

00:35:24.800 I mean, the Bible is the textual foundation of our civilization.

00:35:29.680 It is the most important book or many books that have ever been written.

00:35:33.200 Both because of their objective truth, what they tell us about the human condition, about who

00:35:38.680 we are, about our relationship to our creator, but also for people who are atheistic or agnostic

00:35:44.440 or who don't want to grant that premise.

00:35:46.360 Because it has led to every work of art and literature in Western civilization.

00:35:53.080 If you don't know the Bible, you can't know anything else about Western civilization.

00:35:58.260 And so, just from a very practical, pedagogical level, you need to teach the Bible in schools.

00:36:05.900 I think we should do that.

00:36:07.060 Should we teach ethics?

00:36:08.060 Well, ethics you would teach in a context of either religion, religious education, or philosophy.

00:36:17.060 And I'm not sure that a lot of middle schools and high schools have philosophy classes, so maybe not.

00:36:21.980 In terms of morality, I certainly don't want that kind of very specific religious instruction in public schools

00:36:29.420 because the moral views that are now held by the popular culture are totally perverse.

00:36:34.780 I mean, just to give you one basic example, pride is held up as the greatest virtue.

00:36:40.200 We have a whole month now to celebrate pride, and yet pride is the deadliest of the seven deadly sins.

00:36:45.840 So, no, I don't want public schools teaching their own bizarre version of morality, but they do need to teach the Bible.

00:36:53.480 And the thing is, when you present students with the greatest works of our civilization,

00:36:59.900 the Bible and, of course, the great poems and the great literature and real history,

00:37:06.900 not third-string history, but like actual historical texts, Thucydides, for example,

00:37:12.580 when you teach them that, everything clicks into place.

00:37:16.700 They can see their own civilization clearly.

00:37:19.120 They can see the world much more clearly.

00:37:20.420 When you deny them education in that regard and you just teach them your own ideological view of all of those things, 0.99

00:37:30.920 then it warps their vision and they graduate ignorant, sometimes more ignorant than they were when they were started. 0.96

00:37:37.660 I would say just present to them the great works and allow them to either come to their own conclusions 0.97

00:37:44.580 or hopefully have some sort of moral, ethical, and religious formation at home and in the civic society, civil society.

00:37:52.960 From Nicole,

00:37:54.300 Do you have any advice on how to stay positive during these times of disgust and hatred toward conservatives?

00:38:00.360 I live in California and I am so tired of being called racist and recently responsible for the shootings over the weekend.

00:38:07.100 I have a lot of trouble making friends because they eventually find out my politics and I don't know where to go or what to do.

00:38:13.280 Thank you. Thank you for all you do. Love the show.

00:38:17.420 Yes, I do have advice on this, which is we always knew this was going to happen.

00:38:24.140 We know that in this world, which is run by the Prince of Darkness, the truth is despised.

00:38:32.000 People don't like the truth. They don't like the light.

00:38:34.540 They prefer lies and they prefer darkness.

00:38:36.860 People don't like freedom. People don't want to be freedom.

00:38:39.540 The human heart does not yearn to be free.

00:38:41.180 People, generally speaking, want to be slaves.

00:38:44.680 They want to be told what to do.

00:38:46.200 They want to be coddled.

00:38:47.260 They don't want to rise up and into their full humanity.

00:38:52.340 So, obviously, if you peddle lies and you peddle saccharine nonsense and you peddle leftist politics,

00:38:58.640 you're going to be much more popular in this world. 0.91

00:39:00.820 But it's wrong.

00:39:01.680 And so, you're choosing to speak the truth as you see it.

00:39:05.480 That's going to cost you friends.

00:39:06.660 It's going to maybe cost you a job.

00:39:07.960 It's going to cost you a lot.

00:39:09.180 I mean, that's the price.

00:39:10.680 Everything has a price.

00:39:12.760 But I think there is some hope for you.

00:39:16.760 I mean, on the one hand, in the very political near term, you can have hope of improving your country just by speaking political truths.

00:39:24.920 And then, in the eternal realm, when you are, you know, I mean, Christ tells us this, you'll have pains and troubles in this world, but take heart, I've overcome the world.

00:39:36.580 So, I don't really care.

00:39:37.500 I mean, particularly, I think Catholics have this kind of sense that suffering is sanctifying. 0.99

00:39:43.380 So, suffering isn't evil in and of itself.

00:39:46.140 Suffering is just a fact of life.

00:39:47.800 I mean, that's just a kind of, that's the way the world is.

00:39:50.880 What is moral is your reaction to suffering.

00:39:53.540 So, you can either react to suffering by saying, oh, woe is me, pity, pity me, everything's terrible, gosh, life is so bad.

00:39:59.500 Or you can react to suffering and say, well, I am binding up in my flesh this suffering.

00:40:05.300 I'm kissing it up to God.

00:40:06.540 I'm becoming more saintly.

00:40:09.160 I'm becoming more humble.

00:40:10.480 I'm becoming more grateful for what I do have. 0.97

00:40:12.840 We live in a great time, and just because there are a lot of slanderous idiots out there defaming you, doesn't mean that we don't live in a great time, and doesn't mean that you don't have a lot of opportunities to do good. 0.97

00:40:23.760 And you can always find, I've only lived in left-wing places, and I've somehow managed to find a few conservatives to be friends with, and even some open-minded liberals, obviously. 0.99

00:40:33.780 So, I think that's fine.

00:40:35.740 I would say, take heart.

00:40:37.980 It was ever thus, it was ever thus that someone who is a contrarian to the inherited truths of this world, of this particular terrestrial world, was always going to have a tough time.

00:40:52.160 But take heart, because the world has been overcome.

00:40:54.020 From Amanda, hi, Michael.

00:40:56.860 I'm a new subscriber, and I've heard you mention a few times on your show that you used to be an atheist.

00:41:03.160 When and why did you turn to religion?

00:41:06.020 Yes, gladly.

00:41:06.820 I'm happy.

00:41:07.120 I actually just did a show on this yesterday with the radio host Patrick Coffin, and podcast host Patrick Coffin.

00:41:13.840 I was a cradle Catholic.

00:41:16.260 I was baptized when I was a kid.

00:41:18.100 By the time I was confirmed in the church, I was about 13, I would have considered myself an atheist.

00:41:22.580 And this was for a few reasons.

00:41:24.680 Most importantly, my pride and intellectual hubris.

00:41:27.320 I was a precocious 13-year-old, and I thought I was smarter and cleverer than I was.

00:41:32.060 Partly because there was a sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, which disillusioned a lot of people.

00:41:37.760 Partly because the religion that was presented to me was childish.

00:41:41.620 We were not presented with the fullness of the faith in both the beauty of the liturgy and in the intellectual tradition and in the spiritual fullness of the faith.

00:41:52.620 And because there was a publishing fad that was going on at that time called The New Atheists.

00:41:57.000 Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins.

00:42:01.000 And as a 13-year-old who was arrogant, I found these arguments really compelling.

00:42:05.780 And they're really compelling for 13-year-old boys.

00:42:08.880 And that's about it.

00:42:09.660 Once you become an adult, you realize that they don't make good arguments.

00:42:12.820 They don't really make much of an argument at all.

00:42:15.080 There are probably a dozen good arguments for the existence of God.

00:42:19.120 The evidence of God is everywhere, but there are 13 good arguments if you prefer to go in that way.

00:42:23.520 That's what happened to me.

00:42:24.780 I found the ontological argument very compelling when I was 18.

00:42:27.660 Got to college.

00:42:28.500 Everyone was an atheist.

00:42:29.240 And they were all pretty smart, but the smartest people were Christians and particularly Catholic Eastern Orthodox on their way to more deeper liturgical traditions with greater history behind them.

00:42:43.440 And so I thought, that's a little strange.

00:42:46.300 I wonder why that is.

00:42:47.980 And it's no coincidence, I think, that the smartest people in the history of the world have all believed in an extraordinarily similar conception of religion.

00:42:56.720 And there are very few smart atheists that you find over time. 0.51

00:43:02.760 And upon examination, you realize there's not really any good argument for atheism.

00:43:08.220 And the atheist arguments are convincing in a sort of shallow way, but they don't explain virtually anything that actually matters about our experience of the world.

00:43:20.600 They're clear arguments, the atheist arguments, but they're shallow.

00:43:24.840 Dr. Johnson talked about this.

00:43:26.200 He famously said, shallows are clear and profound things, deep things, are deep.

00:43:32.180 They're murky.

00:43:33.060 They're not so clear.

00:43:34.160 If I can fit my description of the universe onto a little note card in a three-bullet manifesto, probably I'm not going to be able to describe all of reality.

00:43:43.760 Let me ask you something.

00:43:44.920 Can you describe multivariable calculus to me right now?

00:43:50.720 Can you give me a 60-second summation of all of the knowledge of mathematics or all the knowledge we have of biology or all the knowledge we have of physics?

00:43:58.480 No.

00:43:58.700 Now, if you can't give me all the knowledge in 60 seconds of the physical sciences, if you can't explain to me even the physical world,

00:44:07.800 don't you think it's a little silly to purport to explain to me all of the metaphysical world in that same amount of time?

00:44:15.640 You know, I would never go to Richard Dawkins and say, hey, Richard, I've never studied evolutionary biology at all.

00:44:22.160 I've never even taken a class on it, but let me tell you everything about it.

00:44:26.280 He would laugh at me, rightly so, and yet that's exactly what Richard Dawkins does.

00:44:30.000 He has no experience in theology whatsoever or philosophy for that matter.

00:44:33.940 He's not a, maybe he took a class once in undergrad or something, but he just doesn't really have any serious thought in those areas,

00:44:42.360 and yet he would pretend that his one particular expertise in one particular area of the physical sciences qualifies him to describe the totality of metaphysical truth.

00:44:54.220 It's laughable, and it's the sort of thing that precocious 13-year-old boys get taken in by,

00:44:59.680 but when you think about it a little more deeply, you're not.

00:45:03.620 Ultimately, this culminated in some intellectual humility, and after that, only at that point did the religious experience occur.

00:45:13.660 Coincidences, finding a book here and there, finding these strange coincidences in the world,

00:45:18.720 and I ended up at a church in New York called the Church of St. Michael by Father George Rutler,

00:45:23.500 who is a tremendous priest, and that was the moment when it solidified.

00:45:29.140 I could go on forever, but that's the short version.

00:45:31.180 Okay, final last question. Here we go. From Ivan.

00:45:34.660 Hi, Michael. I have a job interview tomorrow. In your experience, what are some ways I could best prepare beforehand,

00:45:40.160 besides the usual advice of making sure I have answers to commonly asked questions?

00:45:43.720 Just for some context, this is a mid-level position in HR and recruiting.

00:45:47.520 Thanks a million. Keep up the great and excellent work. Thank you.

00:45:50.620 I do have some advice. One is, yeah, know the answers to all the questions that you usually get.

00:45:57.320 Specifically, know the answer to the question, what have you failed at?

00:46:01.640 Everyone bungles this question, and so they'll say, sometimes I fail to stop working so hard.

00:46:09.600 Yeah, you know, sometimes I fail to strike a work-life balance because of what a hard worker I am. 0.99

00:46:15.620 You know, sometimes I've failed at not doing things perfectly, and it's just so pathetic and stupid, 1.00

00:46:21.160 or you just stand there and stammer. Actually tell them what you've failed at. 1.00

00:46:24.380 I'm sure you've failed at a million things. I certainly have. Tell them. Be honest. I've found people really respect that.

00:46:31.580 Other aspects of the job interview, things that have always helped me, is probably out of madness.

00:46:37.880 I don't think it's quite—the line between confidence and madness is a little blurry.

00:46:41.520 The job interviews that I've gone into that I've really totally aced are the ones where I didn't really care if I got the job.

00:46:47.020 Now, you might really want this job. You might really care.

00:46:49.220 But you've just got to go in there and know, if I don't get it, it's not the end of the world.

00:46:52.980 I am qualified. I am prepared. I will do a good job. It would be great if it works out.

00:46:57.400 But the sum total of my value in this world is not placed in my getting this job.

00:47:02.240 And if you do that, you will just seem confident.

00:47:05.160 It will help you in salary negotiations and other aspects of the onboarding process.

00:47:10.600 So do that. Know that you're good. You're ready. You've prepared for this.

00:47:14.380 You've got a good life ahead of you. And if you don't get this job, you'll get the next one.

00:47:17.980 Because ultimately, there is more of a guiding hand in your life than just your own personal will.

00:47:24.920 Okay, that's our show. We've got to get out of here. Have a good weekend.

00:47:28.640 I will be here the whole time in my cesspool of bigotry and hate.

00:47:32.200 So please come back and join me in my cesspool on Monday.

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The Michael Knowles Show - August 08, 2019

Ep. 395 - Live From the Cesspool

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