The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 399 - Big Tech Censorship Is All About 2020

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00:00:39.440 Two months after leftist cry bully Carlos Maza tried to get Stephen Crowder and other conservatives thrown off of YouTube,

00:00:47.000 it looks like Vox.com is firing him.

00:00:49.580 We talked yesterday about how conservatives should react to the political misfortunes of our political foes.

00:00:55.880 And of course, we should extend an olive branch, even to Carlos Maza, even to leftists who relentlessly seek to smear and silence us tomorrow.

00:01:08.120 Today, however, we should laugh in his face.

00:01:11.920 Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

00:01:13.460 Ha ha ha ha.

00:01:14.760 Ha ha ha ha.

00:01:16.320 Ha ha ha ha.

00:01:17.040 We win, you lose, Carlos Maza.

00:01:20.420 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

00:01:22.720 We will analyze what Vox's move means for 2020, particularly in light of a Google whistleblower's latest document dump on the tech giant's political interference efforts.

00:01:33.840 Then, sex trafficker and cartoonish supervillain Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy reveals broken bones in his neck that are more consistent with homicide than suicide.

00:01:45.940 Hmm.

00:01:46.560 We will examine for any Clintons watching why he still totally committed suicide, and this is all perfectly normal, and I don't know nothing.

00:01:54.840 I don't know nothing, I tell ya.

00:01:56.640 Then, a quick look at 2020, finally the mailbag.

00:01:58.820 I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:08.360 Excellent news coming out of Vox.com.

00:02:11.180 That's the first time I've ever said that statement, but there is excellent news, and it's even good news for big tech in 2020.

00:02:18.040 We'll get to that in a second.

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00:04:23.920 Two and a half months after Carlos Maza tried to get Crowder and other conservatives, and obviously they were looking down the pike at us, trying to take them all off of YouTube, it appears, it's being reported right now, that Carlos Maza is being fired from Vox.com.

00:04:39.120 If you do not remember this insufferable leftist bully, here he is.

00:04:43.260 The stuff he was saying was not, had nothing to do with my political views. 0.98

00:04:47.940 He was calling me a lispy queer, and a sprite, and a fairy, and he called me a gay Mexican, and he would routinely make fun of the way that I spoke, and just do gay impressions. 0.93

00:04:57.820 He made kind of gruesome sexual comments about me. 0.90

00:05:00.260 I hope that YouTube recognizes that the end result of this is not some happy medium.

00:05:05.020 It's a place where only bullies operate. 1.00

00:05:07.220 If the teacher never intervenes, the kids who are getting bullied in the playground will leave the playground, and that's what's happening to YouTube.

00:05:12.540 The truer words have never been spoken.

00:05:15.100 That's right, the bullies, it looked like the bullies were going to just run the whole internet. 0.99

00:05:20.360 The bullies, of course, not being Stephen Crowder, the bullies being this jerk who's trying to silence all of his political opponents. 1.00

00:05:26.620 He was angry at Crowder for calling him gay and queer. 0.99

00:05:29.200 Do you know what this guy's personally selected Twitter handle is? 0.96

00:05:33.640 Gay Wonk. 0.99

00:05:34.600 He calls himself gay all the time. 0.99

00:05:35.860 He calls himself queer all the time. 0.55

00:05:37.120 By the way, we've been told that queer is the new politically correct term.

00:05:40.240 It's in the acronym LGBTQ, used not only by gay people themselves, but also by straight politicians.

00:05:50.140 But only the good ones, only the progressive ones can use the term.

00:05:53.800 The conservative ones, if you use it, it's the same as the N-word.

00:05:56.280 I guess everything's the N-word these days. 0.96

00:05:58.160 Gay is the N-word. 0.96

00:05:59.160 Queer is the N-word. 0.99

00:06:00.120 Fredo is the N-word.

00:06:01.800 I think the N-word is still the N-word.

00:06:04.220 Outrageous stuff trying to get us all kicked off.

00:06:06.900 Now it looks like he's going down, according to reports.

00:06:10.140 This was one of the first media guys to call Tucker Carlson a white supremacist.

00:06:15.300 I mean, in many ways, Carlos Maz is ahead of his time.

00:06:17.980 He is kind of leading the progressive political tactics.

00:06:21.780 He had in his Twitter bio, Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.

00:06:24.800 He referred to himself as a Marxist.

00:06:27.520 Now all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are not only calling Tucker Carlson a white supremacist,

00:06:32.780 they're calling all of the Trump supporters, half of the country, conservatives and Republicans,

00:06:39.140 referring to them as white nationalists and white supremacists. 0.88

00:06:42.300 So I think Carlos Maz, I mean, I got to give the devil his due.

00:06:47.360 He recognized that the way that Democrats can avoid what happened in 2016,

00:06:54.820 really the best way, if not the only way,

00:06:56.880 that the left and Democrats can avoid the re-election of Donald Trump

00:07:00.040 and keep on losing their races is by censoring their opponents.

00:07:06.220 That's the way.

00:07:06.900 The way to do it is because the left controls the flow of information around the internet

00:07:10.640 because all of the big tech companies are decidedly, invariably leftist.

00:07:17.640 The way that they can do it is by censoring us, shutting us up,

00:07:20.500 ruthlessly silencing conservatives on the internet.

00:07:24.500 And apparently this was too much even for Vox.

00:07:27.240 Carlos Maz flew a little bit too close to the sun.

00:07:30.300 And I think this is the right move for Vox to fire him.

00:07:33.620 The reason being, I called this at the time.

00:07:36.180 I said, it's a bad look for a media company to censor their opponents.

00:07:41.080 It's a bad look for an outlet, a news outlet and a commentary outlet,

00:07:44.360 to be trying to silence and censor other people. 1.00

00:07:47.540 Because you just look like such a hypocrite. 1.00

00:07:50.320 You know, the republic dies in darkness. 1.00

00:07:53.480 Democracy dies in darkness.

00:07:54.720 By the way, we need to darken the office buildings of every single one of our competitors.

00:07:59.200 Doesn't look good.

00:07:59.980 I mean, and the left also has operative organizations that exist to silence conservatives

00:08:05.280 and to get all of us fired.

00:08:06.520 They have media matters.

00:08:07.980 So they don't even need Vox.com to fill that gap.

00:08:11.160 I think as a business decision, as a journalistic decision, they had to fire this guy.

00:08:18.280 But this ties in with what we're talking about over here at Google.

00:08:21.160 I mean, I'm really glad that Carlos Maza is going down.

00:08:23.920 I am really glad that the timing works to prove my rule yesterday.

00:08:28.400 The rule I said yesterday is I don't want to jump on Fredo Cuomo for having a couple drinks

00:08:34.240 and defending his honor at a restaurant or a beer garden or wherever he was.

00:08:38.700 I don't want to jump on Don Lemon because of just some allegations in a lawsuit.

00:08:43.360 I want to wait for the evidence.

00:08:44.340 I want to be measured.

00:08:44.940 I want to be reasonable.

00:08:45.860 I don't want people to be fired.

00:08:47.300 I don't want to censor my political opponents.

00:08:48.940 But the left won't play by those rules.

00:08:51.980 And there is nothing moral.

00:08:53.220 There is nothing nice.

00:08:54.260 There is nothing high-minded about unilaterally disarming and letting the left destroy our

00:08:58.500 culture and politics.

00:08:59.520 There's nothing good about that.

00:09:01.180 I think there are some conservatives who think that by remaining above it all and not engaging

00:09:06.520 with political realities saying, well, I'm never going to get my hands dirty, that that's somehow

00:09:11.420 good, that somehow is virtuous or moral.

00:09:13.440 It's not.

00:09:14.160 There's nothing good about letting guys like Carlos Maza totally destroy our culture and

00:09:19.500 our government and our politics.

00:09:20.560 So I'm, I'm glad that we have to, that we're getting into this.

00:09:25.840 I'm glad that this guy's going down and I would be happy to extend grace to my political

00:09:29.820 opponents as the right has regularly done.

00:09:32.660 But they need to extend grace to us three times in a row, just three times in a row.

00:09:40.640 Some, some non-traversy comes up, some tweet or something, some, you know, they can go after

00:09:47.020 Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or one of us, or I don't know.

00:09:50.300 They can, they could go after one of us and they choose not to.

00:09:53.660 If they do that once, that's a good start.

00:09:55.520 They do it a second time, fine.

00:09:56.660 If they do it three times, I'm willing to extend grace to the left until they do that

00:10:01.340 three times in a row.

00:10:03.120 And I, and by the way, I'm not just talking about random Twitter accounts or something.

00:10:06.100 I'm talking about the, these, these guys, Vox.com is a huge outlet on the left.

00:10:10.380 The, the people who are out there forward facing the 2020 democratic presidential candidates,

00:10:14.900 if they extend grace three times in a row, we'll extend grace to them.

00:10:18.880 If they don't, we're going to laugh in Carlos Maz's face.

00:10:22.260 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

00:10:24.600 We'll see what this means for big tech generally.

00:10:26.940 We'll see what it means for 2020.

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00:12:52.200 So this ties in with what we're talking about on big tech generally.

00:12:56.040 There's a whistleblower from Google that just came out thanks to Project Veritas and James

00:13:00.980 O'Keefe.

00:13:01.380 The whistleblower's name is Zachary Voorhees.

00:13:04.100 He delivered nearly 1,000 pages of documents to the Department of Justice's antitrust division

00:13:12.540 demonstrating that Google manipulated its algorithms in such a way that it biased its

00:13:19.340 search engine results against conservatives, against Republicans, against Christians, all

00:13:24.220 the people who are politically incorrect these days.

00:13:26.840 Google was actively going out of their way to suppress them.

00:13:30.800 Here's the whistleblower.

00:13:31.460 I felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever by this company

00:13:39.040 that told the American public that it was not going to do any evil.

00:13:43.700 This is the best thing that I can do in the situation that I'm currently at.

00:13:48.920 So this guy's coming out.

00:13:50.440 He's revealing his face.

00:13:51.420 He's revealing his voice.

00:13:52.420 He's not even using one of those masks or anything like that.

00:13:56.480 He's coming out because he said that this was compromising our election system.

00:14:00.060 This is the greatest irony of the last three years of Russian collusion and the illegitimate 0.59

00:14:04.800 election because the Democrats can't ever admit that they lost a presidential election.

00:14:10.140 They accused Republicans of cheating on the election.

00:14:14.020 There is no evidence that that happened whatsoever.

00:14:16.840 Not a zilch, nothing. 0.98

00:14:19.460 The left, however, did interfere in the election.

00:14:23.020 They did manipulate the election.

00:14:24.300 They did skirt FEC rules because they don't need to point out that when you have the largest

00:14:29.760 companies that control the flow of internet information, when you have them working for

00:14:34.620 one side of the political aisle, that is obviously an in-kind contribution that is worth millions

00:14:39.420 and millions and millions of dollars, if not more, and they get to do it.

00:14:43.980 That is the election interference.

00:14:45.760 How do they do it?

00:14:47.320 They hit us from several angles.

00:14:48.760 They, first of all, they control the flow of information around the internet.

00:14:53.280 Google in particular.

00:14:55.880 Google is search.

00:14:57.900 That's it.

00:14:58.420 They've tried to make other search companies.

00:15:00.020 Google is search, right?

00:15:01.800 They do it when they don't just do it on Google, they do it on Facebook.

00:15:05.620 They do it on Twitter.

00:15:06.940 Obviously, they do it on YouTube.

00:15:08.200 YouTube is owned by Google.

00:15:10.040 Google owns the internet.

00:15:11.860 So they control the flow of information.

00:15:13.260 If there's a story they don't want getting around, they can suppress it, and they regularly

00:15:16.860 do.

00:15:17.420 One thing they did to us for a while is when you'd search for Daily Wire, you'd get a bunch

00:15:21.520 of results of leftist organizations talking about how terrible we are.

00:15:26.220 Those would be some of the first results to come up.

00:15:29.000 So you Google it.

00:15:30.140 You say, okay, I want to hear about this story.

00:15:31.540 They say, oh, I can't trust Daily Wire because the organizations that Google is promoting don't

00:15:36.680 like us.

00:15:37.280 So they control the information.

00:15:38.860 How else do they hit you?

00:15:39.960 They have all of your data.

00:15:42.900 Google owns your data.

00:15:44.320 So every little thing you've ever typed in, every little weird search that you've put

00:15:49.920 into that browser, you know what I'm talking about.

00:15:52.140 I know you look at some weird stuff on the internet.

00:15:54.240 I'm talking about stuff like the Michael Knowles show.

00:15:55.900 I'm talking about stuff like dailywire.com.

00:15:57.440 You look at some weird stuff.

00:15:58.640 Maybe you don't want that to get out there because you could lose your job and your reputation.

00:16:02.600 That is owned by Google.

00:16:04.760 It's not, there are no protections on that.

00:16:07.360 It's not like that's owned by the government.

00:16:08.960 There might not be protections on it even if it were.

00:16:11.080 But it's just a random corporation, a super powerful corporation, a very leftist corporation

00:16:19.320 that hates everything that you believe.

00:16:22.440 Not a good situation to be in, is it?

00:16:25.780 And then they can manipulate the appearance of reality itself.

00:16:30.860 This brings us to deep fakes.

00:16:34.020 I mean, this is, we'll get to deep fakes in a second.

00:16:35.620 But that is too much power.

00:16:39.220 Google has too much power.

00:16:40.840 That's it.

00:16:41.540 They can alter our elections.

00:16:44.340 They can manipulate your data.

00:16:46.440 They have total leverage over you and what you think and all your deepest, darkest secrets

00:16:49.780 and all your financial information and everything, photos of you.

00:16:54.020 And now they can manipulate the appearance of reality itself.

00:16:58.260 I love the deep fake story.

00:17:00.140 I mean, it's very, if you haven't looked at deep fakes, the New York Times is warning about

00:17:05.580 it.

00:17:05.740 They say deep fakes are coming.

00:17:07.080 We can no longer believe what we see.

00:17:09.140 This came out in the New York Times.

00:17:11.160 There is now technology that can so manipulate video that you can't even believe your own eyes.

00:17:17.680 We'll get to that in a second.

00:17:19.040 We'll get to the negative side of that, what that means for us and our privacy and our politics.

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00:19:22.680 Deep fakes actually kind of take us to the logical conclusion of this big tech behemoth.

00:19:30.280 So if you haven't seen or heard a deep fake, check this one out.

00:19:34.460 This is a deep fake of Barack Obama.

00:19:37.620 Looks almost exactly like him.

00:19:39.680 Frankly, it sounds almost exactly like him too.

00:19:42.480 We're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything

00:19:46.940 at any point in time, even if they would never say those things.

00:19:50.420 So, for instance, they could have me say things like, I don't know, Killmonger was right. 0.99

00:20:00.000 Or Ben Carson is in the sunken place. 1.00

00:20:03.100 Or, how about this, simply, President Trump is a total and complete dipshit. 1.00

00:20:08.140 Now, you see, I would never say these things, at least not in a public address. 1.00

00:20:14.880 But, someone else would.

00:20:17.720 Someone like Jordan Peele.

00:20:20.260 There it is.

00:20:22.780 You can see it's Jordan Peele there, and he's the one who's just coming up with all of this monologue.

00:20:28.980 I mean, he's just a comedian, and he's coming up with this monologue.

00:20:30.980 The voice isn't perfect, but if the voice were a little bit better, it would be indistinguishable.

00:20:36.460 Because on the video features, the Obama's face, you almost, it's 99.9%, you couldn't tell that it's a fake video.

00:20:45.560 And there's a lot of alarm, people are freaking out over this, because, talk about future dystopia.

00:20:54.000 Now, you can't even believe what you see.

00:20:58.020 Someone, some big tech giant could just make a fake video.

00:21:02.300 And you wouldn't be able to separate the real video from reality.

00:21:05.400 I mean, we're within like two years of these being pretty much perfect.

00:21:09.240 I actually think it's a pretty good thing.

00:21:12.320 I think this is helpful to conservatives.

00:21:15.400 I think this is helpful to taking down some of this tyranny of big tech.

00:21:23.000 Everything today is on photo or on video.

00:21:27.060 Everything. Everything you did.

00:21:28.560 The coffee you had this morning, the walk you took with your dog, your drive while you were Instagramming a story,

00:21:33.860 as you were driving and, you know, also recording something else and also, everything is out there.

00:21:40.560 And this is especially true for a generation that grew up with Facebook.

00:21:43.780 I was kind of right at the beginning of that.

00:21:45.600 We finally got Facebook when I was in eighth or ninth grade, I think.

00:21:50.440 And that was kind of the new thing.

00:21:52.100 Before that, we had MySpace.

00:21:53.140 Before that, we had Zanga.

00:21:54.020 Before that, we had LiveJournal.

00:21:55.060 So people were all uploading their photos and their information.

00:21:57.700 And now you have a whole generation that didn't exist without those kind of companies.

00:22:03.820 Everything is up there.

00:22:05.940 So I remember at the time, we were in high school, and I was thinking, gosh,

00:22:09.080 when people run for office in 20 or 30 years from this generation,

00:22:13.520 we're going to know everything they ever did.

00:22:16.180 We're going to know every beer they had in high school.

00:22:17.940 We're going to know every rule they broke.

00:22:20.100 We're going to know, I mean, we're going to know everything about them.

00:22:22.260 What is that going to mean for politicians who often are guarded, who guard their privacy?

00:22:27.700 The question you have to ask yourself is, what do those photos and videos really tell us?

00:22:32.940 The best example is the grab-em-by-the-you-know-what video,

00:22:36.380 the Access Hollywood tape that came out in 2016.

00:22:39.180 This video, this was going to end Trump's presidential campaign.

00:22:42.100 People's shock and condemnation everywhere.

00:22:44.020 Because Trump was caught on a hot mic having this private exchange locker room talk with

00:22:48.960 Billy Bush saying, yeah, these girls, when you're a star, they let you do whatever you want to them. 1.00

00:22:53.160 I don't need, I just kiss them.

00:22:54.160 I just grab them by the whatever.

00:22:55.420 What did that video show us?

00:23:00.200 What did it actually tell us about Trump?

00:23:01.860 It told us that Trump is a celebrity.

00:23:04.420 Yep, true. 0.99

00:23:05.400 Told us that Trump is a womanizer. 0.97

00:23:08.380 He likes women. 0.99

00:23:09.500 I'm not saying he's a woman abuser.

00:23:10.720 I'm saying he enjoys the company of women and has dated many, many women while he was married,

00:23:16.920 while he wasn't married.

00:23:17.700 We already knew that.

00:23:18.440 That was all over the tabloids for 30 years.

00:23:20.440 Tells us that Trump has a little bit of a naughty mouth while he's talking with the boys, ostensibly in private.

00:23:27.880 Obviously, we knew that. 0.99

00:23:28.740 He's got a dirty mouth in public. 0.95

00:23:31.000 What did it tell us that was new? 0.99

00:23:33.040 Nothing.

00:23:34.060 But there was this shock of seeing it on video.

00:23:35.860 Because the visual is so much more compelling than just the argument.

00:23:39.600 You know, this is why politicians have television ads. 0.95

00:23:43.540 This is why they produce video.

00:23:45.140 This is why it's all about the style.

00:23:47.500 It's why they spend so much time manicuring their image.

00:23:52.640 It's because the images strike us so much more to our core than merely arguments.

00:23:58.140 This is why Hollywood is so incredibly successful at manipulating our culture.

00:24:03.380 That's why not just leftist culture in the United States,

00:24:06.280 but it's actually why the United States has used Hollywood and film as a tool of what is called on the left cultural imperialism.

00:24:12.920 What we're doing is we're exporting our culture and exerting soft influence around the world.

00:24:18.300 Now, you can't quite trust the video.

00:24:21.180 You know, if Trump had run for office in 10 years from now, he could say,

00:24:25.800 Ah, it's a fake video.

00:24:27.660 Yeah, it's fake.

00:24:28.260 It's a deep fake.

00:24:29.540 Now, we know it's a real video because it happened 10 or 15 years ago.

00:24:33.400 But he could say that.

00:24:34.600 And I think that's a very good thing.

00:24:36.380 I'm actually kind of all for it.

00:24:38.340 I think that we should focus in our politics on what's going on now, on things that actually matter.

00:24:43.520 Obviously, you want to know the character of the guys that you're electing.

00:24:46.540 But I don't care that he said some naughty word on tape 15 years ago.

00:24:50.060 It could have an outsized effect on the electorate, and I don't think it should.

00:24:54.220 I don't care about any of that.

00:24:55.760 The old photos, the video.

00:24:57.960 Frankly, I don't even really care about Governor Northam's yearbook photo,

00:25:02.120 which is actually a very bad photo.

00:25:04.540 It's him either wearing blackface or more likely wearing a KKK hood. 0.54

00:25:08.880 I care what he's doing now.

00:25:10.980 I care if he's discriminating against people now.

00:25:13.180 But I don't care about this gotcha thing from 15 years ago.

00:25:16.800 I mean, I do care about the hypocrisy, but I don't care about the thing itself.

00:25:21.860 I don't care about these gotcha politics.

00:25:23.380 I mean, this has been what we were talking about yesterday and what we're talking about today.

00:25:27.080 This could be a way to loosen up that tyranny of the Internet, that tyranny of images,

00:25:34.920 that tyranny of big tech.

00:25:36.120 And we have to break up the power and credibility of big tech.

00:25:39.500 We have to do it.

00:25:40.900 We can do it corporate death by a thousand cuts.

00:25:43.020 That's fine for me.

00:25:43.760 We can't do it fast enough, and we should do it through leaks, inquiries, investigations,

00:25:48.820 prosecutions, lawsuits, anything and everything.

00:25:51.640 We have to break that up.

00:25:53.280 You know, big tech makes our life incredibly convenient.

00:25:57.500 It really does.

00:25:58.760 Facebook, Twitter, Google, it makes life so convenient.

00:26:02.860 It makes it so easy to do research, to do business, to connect with friends, to do all of that.

00:26:06.900 There is a cost to that.

00:26:08.040 The cost is surrendering your culture and politics to unaccountable, decidedly leftist corporate masters of the universe.

00:26:15.400 There's a cost to breaking them up, too.

00:26:17.700 If we broke up those companies, there's a cost.

00:26:20.260 Maybe a cost of convenience, maybe a monetary cost.

00:26:23.020 You know, nothing in life is free.

00:26:24.520 We've convinced ourselves that, oh, yeah, we get to use all these great services online, and they're totally free.

00:26:29.120 They're not free.

00:26:29.860 There's a cost.

00:26:30.840 The cost of your data and the cost of your culture and politics.

00:26:34.160 You know, we've gone on for 20 years now pretending there's no cost.

00:26:38.140 Kind of a similar issue with China.

00:26:40.000 We've pretended that there's no cost to just importing all these cheap Chinese goods. 0.99

00:26:44.880 There is a cost.

00:26:45.680 There's a cost in now they're our biggest creditor.

00:26:48.000 They own all of our debt.

00:26:49.140 They have a lot of leverage over us.

00:26:50.580 There's a cost in that we don't have a ton of manufacturing anymore because we shipped it all overseas because we wanted cheap technological goods from China.

00:26:57.340 There is a cost.

00:26:59.060 There's a cost that now they can challenge us in the South China Sea or at other points of interest for us around the world.

00:27:05.040 There is a cost to those things.

00:27:06.820 Maybe you've got to pay a little bit more for a t-shirt.

00:27:08.780 Maybe you've got to pay a little bit more to use some gadget or to use some aspect of technology.

00:27:14.560 But you've got to do it.

00:27:16.260 The cost is simply too high.

00:27:19.080 Before we get to the mailbag, I have to talk about Jeffrey Epstein.

00:27:22.040 This autopsy has now revealed that Epstein had multiple breaks in his neck, specifically in the hyoid bone, which experts told the Washington Post is more common in homicide than suicide.

00:27:35.640 One medical study of suicidal hangings cited in this report found that the hyoid bone was broken in only 16 out of 264 cases.

00:27:45.240 And we're talking about hangings, you know, where people usually jump off of a stool and so there's a huge drop and there's a crack.

00:27:50.640 In this hanging, Epstein didn't have that opportunity.

00:27:53.400 He would have had to just basically lean forward from a bedpost using a sheet and to try to asphyxiate himself.

00:27:58.880 So it's even less likely that that bone would have been broken in his case.

00:28:02.860 The likelihood seems incredibly low.

00:28:04.400 Now the former bodyguard of his was talking to New York Magazine.

00:28:07.820 He's contradicting things that he had said years ago in an interview.

00:28:10.680 He's saying he doesn't remember anything.

00:28:12.200 He doesn't remember nothing.

00:28:13.140 There were no underage girls.

00:28:14.720 He seemed very nervous, according to the interviewer.

00:28:17.000 However, obviously, there's more to this story.

00:28:22.420 You know, this guy, you have this guy, this former Russian UFC fighter.

00:28:25.360 He's this really tough guy who years ago in 2015 in a New York Mag interview was saying,

00:28:30.120 yeah, he had these teenage girls around. 0.93

00:28:31.960 Yeah, I was telling him not to do that.

00:28:33.500 Yeah, I was.

00:28:34.280 And then now all of a sudden after this suicide, after the death of Epstein, he's nervous.

00:28:39.440 He's sweating.

00:28:39.940 I have this image off camera of Hillary Clinton there standing with a baseball bat in her hand like, 0.99

00:28:43.960 yeah, that's right.

00:28:45.120 Yeah, you don't know nothing.

00:28:46.200 You don't know nothing about what happened.

00:28:48.000 Some people are still insisting this was a completely accidental suicide.

00:28:52.900 You got to ask me to believe a lot of coincidences to believe that,

00:28:57.260 that it's a completely accidental suicide.

00:28:59.080 The two guards just happened to fall asleep at exactly the same time for hours and hours.

00:29:03.520 You've got to tell me that the suicide watch that he was on, he was taken off of that.

00:29:10.740 Just coincidentally.

00:29:11.520 You've got to tell me that he decided to off himself right at the perfect point of the news cycle.

00:29:15.660 You've got to tell me that all those very, very powerful people all around the world who wanted him dead,

00:29:19.840 who benefited from him dead, just a coincidence.

00:29:22.980 You've got to tell me that he managed to crack this bone in his neck more,

00:29:28.040 which would be more commonly done in strangulation than in hanging.

00:29:33.520 He just happened to be one of the unlucky ones.

00:29:36.380 Oh, and by the way, he did it by pulling on a bed sheet on his knees rather than the way it would normally happen by hanging.

00:29:42.440 That is crazy.

00:29:43.400 The conspiracy theory now, the craziest conspiracy theory, is that he just accidentally did it.

00:29:50.260 That he just accidentally was allowed to kill himself.

00:29:53.500 There's obviously more to this story.

00:29:55.140 The people telling you otherwise are, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.

00:29:59.660 I got a bridge right across the river from that jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

00:30:07.020 Also, important news on 2020.

00:30:09.960 An Economist YouGov poll has Elizabeth Warren up to 20%.

00:30:13.260 That's tied with Joe Biden.

00:30:14.980 Biden's at 21%.

00:30:16.020 Margin of error is 2.6%.

00:30:18.320 They're statistically tied.

00:30:20.840 This is among all likely primary and caucus voters.

00:30:23.980 We are now getting to the point where this primary is really heating up.

00:30:28.220 As we predicted, it looks like Joe Biden's best day was his first day.

00:30:32.040 He just steadily is falling down.

00:30:33.800 Other candidates are jumping up, including Elizabeth Warren.

00:30:37.220 These next debates are going to be very interesting because you are going to see that crowd winnow down very, very quickly.

00:30:42.880 You've got all these guys, Beto, Julian Castro.

00:30:45.600 They're desperately trying to pull their last minute Hail Mary plays.

00:30:49.820 Ain't going anywhere, unfortunately, for those guys.

00:30:52.760 We're about to see the 2020 race actually kick into high gear.

00:30:56.980 And poor old Sleepy Joe just seems to be sliding and sliding further down.

00:31:01.560 We've got to get to the mailbag.

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00:31:55.500 Here we go.

00:31:56.300 I'm going to fly through this mailbag from Shannon.

00:31:58.800 Michael, I was sad to see that the name Fredo is considered an ethnic slur.

00:32:04.240 That has been my husband Alfredo's nickname ever since we've been married.

00:32:09.420 It's a name of endearment.

00:32:11.300 All of his friends call him that as well.

00:32:13.040 Why do people think it's a slur?

00:32:14.940 Is it just because of a movie reference?

00:32:17.060 Thanks, Shannon.

00:32:18.440 Yes, it's just because of the movie.

00:32:20.100 Yeah, Alfredo.

00:32:21.640 The nickname for Alfredo is Fredo.

00:32:23.700 It's the same name as Fred or Frederick or Alfred. 0.99

00:32:28.100 The name in itself took on this kind of connotation of a weak or stupid guy because of the Godfather. 0.97

00:32:34.520 But it's not commonly used. 0.99

00:32:35.700 I mean, I know plenty of people named Fredo.

00:32:38.080 It's not an uncommon name.

00:32:40.780 It's kind of the same way.

00:32:41.900 I mean, they're trying to turn it into an ethnic slur the same way a name like Paco,

00:32:46.060 a Spanish name like Paco, is now used as a kind of slur for Hispanic people.

00:32:50.420 But the comparison doesn't hold up.

00:32:52.340 There are a lot of terms for Italians.

00:32:54.620 I could go, I mean, I could name a dozen ethnic slurs for Italians right now.

00:33:01.300 One of them is not Fredo.

00:33:03.760 That just isn't.

00:33:04.640 You know, to use one example, there's a phrase, Dago, that you use for Italians.

00:33:08.980 Or WAP. 0.52

00:33:11.120 WAP is even probably the better example. 0.73

00:33:13.940 So WAP, there are all these different etymologies for WAP.

00:33:16.780 Does it mean without papers?

00:33:18.020 Does it mean without passport?

00:33:19.180 No, it actually comes from the Neapolitan word guapo, which is just like guy, dude, you 1.00

00:33:25.280 know, hey buddy, hey fella, guapo.

00:33:28.020 And so from that, you get the word WAP that comes out of it.

00:33:31.940 Is the word guapo a terrible word in and of itself?

00:33:34.440 No.

00:33:34.880 But it's used and become a slur against Italians.

00:33:38.600 The same has not happened with Fredo. 1.00

00:33:40.620 Fredo is an insult for idiots, not for Italians. 1.00

00:33:43.660 And it's a perfectly fine name, so just go on calling your husband Fredo, no big deal. 1.00

00:33:48.420 From Jonathan, what is your opinion on the separation of church and state?

00:33:52.620 Thank you, Luke.

00:33:53.860 I'm very keen on keeping the church away from, or I'm very keen, rather, on keeping the

00:33:59.160 church protected from my state and keeping the state out of the affairs of my church.

00:34:04.900 We have in this country a First Amendment that does not establish a religion. 0.50

00:34:10.540 So we have a history in the United States of religious pluralism.

00:34:14.080 The first people who came over here on the Mayflower wanted to practice their own puritanical

00:34:18.260 version of Protestantism.

00:34:19.880 There were other varieties of that that came over, which established their own colonies.

00:34:25.080 You had Maryland was a Catholic colony, Maryland.

00:34:28.540 All these different groups come over.

00:34:30.580 And because of that religious pluralistic history, we have a history of religious toleration

00:34:36.040 and pluralism in the United States.

00:34:38.880 But the fact that we don't establish a church in the United States does not mean that we're

00:34:45.140 some kind of secular country like the people who insist on the separation of church and

00:34:49.080 state would suggest.

00:34:51.400 And by the way, there's no such thing as a perfect separation of church and state because

00:34:56.660 the state is a religious institution.

00:35:00.580 The state has elements of religion to it.

00:35:03.480 The nation has certain sacred things that it holds together.

00:35:07.000 I mean, you can just look in our so-called secular culture today.

00:35:11.080 We have a full-on religion.

00:35:12.340 We have secular saints like Martin Luther King.

00:35:14.860 Martin Luther King, fine guy.

00:35:17.340 I'm not knocking Martin Luther King.

00:35:19.080 But the image of Martin Luther King that has been created in the American civic religion

00:35:23.220 is in many ways a different figure than the actual man himself, Martin Luther King.

00:35:27.780 When you go to the National Mall, speaking of Dr. King, we have lots of monuments and memorials

00:35:33.080 to great American figures.

00:35:34.820 Those, what does the Washington Monument look like?

00:35:38.680 Is it just a statue of Washington?

00:35:40.540 No.

00:35:40.920 It's a giant, bizarre Egyptian obelisk.

00:35:44.360 That's a religious icon.

00:35:46.940 What about Lincoln's memorial?

00:35:49.360 Is it just a statue of Lincoln standing there giving a speech?

00:35:51.920 No.

00:35:52.220 It's him sitting like a god in a Greco-Roman temple.

00:35:56.420 That is a religious idea.

00:35:58.420 We have to hold certain things sacred.

00:36:00.380 I mean, we have an American creed here.

00:36:02.680 We have oaths of allegiance, pledge of allegiance.

00:36:05.780 We have common holidays.

00:36:08.340 We have a secular liturgical calendar.

00:36:10.760 We have Black History Month to celebrate a particular leftist vision of black history.

00:36:15.920 It's not actually celebrating black history, but it's celebrating this particular ideology

00:36:20.380 of oppression.

00:36:22.600 We have Women's History Month.

00:36:24.260 Again, same thing.

00:36:24.880 It's not celebrating women's history.

00:36:26.040 It's celebrating a particular ideological view of women's history.

00:36:29.440 Then we have Pride Month.

00:36:30.600 I mean, we are celebrating pride, which is actually the queen of all sins. 1.00

00:36:34.300 That gets its own month to be consecrated and celebrated on that calendar.

00:36:38.360 I'm not even knocking it because nature pours a vacuum and man has religious longings. 0.92

00:36:43.180 And at the bottom of our politics is culture and at the bottom of that is religion.

00:36:47.400 And so we are going to turn our religious longings toward something.

00:36:51.960 And historically in the United States, that's been toward Christianity or a version of Christianity.

00:36:57.240 And now increasingly it's toward a version of secular liberalism or leftism.

00:37:01.840 But we're kidding ourselves.

00:37:04.660 Even I, who I think I look very realistically at what the separation of church and state means

00:37:10.120 and what not establishing a church in the United States means.

00:37:13.020 But even for people who think we are going to have this firm, hard separation,

00:37:17.040 they just need to understand it's not possible.

00:37:19.580 And you will worship something.

00:37:21.520 You will venerate something.

00:37:22.580 You will consecrate something.

00:37:23.920 The question in our politics is what are we going to consecrate?

00:37:27.900 From Timothy.

00:37:29.220 Recently on Ben Shapiro's Sunday special, you mentioned that you speak several languages.

00:37:35.060 What languages do you speak and how did you come to learn them?

00:37:38.020 So the only languages that I actually speak, I have a very firm grasp on,

00:37:42.260 are English, depending on the day of the week, and Italian.

00:37:45.020 Which is why I'm allowed to say all of those Italian awful ethnic slurs like Fredo.

00:37:48.780 And it's okay because I'm in the in-group.

00:37:51.340 So I learned Italian actually in school.

00:37:53.920 I learned it from the age of 11 onward.

00:37:56.080 Studied it in college.

00:37:57.280 I'm a big fan of Dante and Boccaccio.

00:38:00.020 And spent a lot of time reading Italian literature.

00:38:02.560 I didn't really speak it at home growing up.

00:38:04.740 I'm going to hear words here and there and some dialect.

00:38:06.840 But there are a lot of studies that show that heritage learners

00:38:09.820 just learn the language of their heritage much more quickly

00:38:14.300 than say if I wanted to pick up Swahili or something.

00:38:17.700 And this is specifically true not for the children of immigrants,

00:38:20.980 but for the grandchildren of immigrants.

00:38:22.700 Because they want to not lose a culture that is quickly going away.

00:38:28.220 Particularly for immigrants.

00:38:29.680 So I picked that one up.

00:38:31.220 My French is bad.

00:38:32.120 My Latin is worse. 0.94

00:38:33.400 I did study Esperanto when I was in high school.

00:38:36.420 It's a language that you can learn in 10 lessons.

00:38:38.560 Though I haven't read it in 10 years.

00:38:40.000 So I'm sure I've forgotten all of it.

00:38:41.760 And one way that I try to make my Latin better is I go to the traditional Latin mass.

00:38:45.480 So I can incrementally get a little bit better with my Latin.

00:38:48.940 But the nice thing about learning a Romance language is once you pick one up fairly well,

00:38:53.200 you can sort of understand a lot of them.

00:38:54.940 If I go into a Spanish mass, I can understand almost all of what's going on.

00:38:58.720 And so I highly recommend it.

00:39:00.260 People in the U.S. don't learn a ton of languages.

00:39:03.320 But when you learn language, I think more than really any other educational endeavor,

00:39:08.740 it really expands your mind.

00:39:11.380 And not just because you can read different literature,

00:39:13.540 but because you understand symbols and meaning in a different way.

00:39:16.880 So highly recommended.

00:39:18.400 And you should learn more languages better than I do because I was a little bit derelict in it.

00:39:22.560 From Devin.

00:39:23.580 Hey, Michael, the national debt and the spending deficit continue to be a problem for the U.S.

00:39:29.180 Spending seems to have increased under the Trump administration,

00:39:31.800 and Republicans don't seem to care about it anymore.

00:39:34.640 If you were in office and had the means,

00:39:36.520 what would you do to balance the budget and pay off,

00:39:39.100 or at least begin to pay, the national debt?

00:39:41.920 What cuts would you make or what departments would you eliminate?

00:39:45.500 Thanks, big fan of the show.

00:39:47.660 First thing I would do, I get elected.

00:39:49.700 I would get a nice caterpillar wrecking ball.

00:39:52.220 I would take that down.

00:39:53.520 I forget if it's 14th Street or 15th Street.

00:39:55.860 I would abolish half of the EPA.

00:39:58.540 I wouldn't abolish the whole EPA, but they have a giant, humongous...

00:40:01.960 I wouldn't give them warning either, by the way.

00:40:03.620 I would just go.

00:40:04.480 I would knock half the building down and let half the people fall out onto the sidewalk,

00:40:09.260 and then they can go get other jobs.

00:40:10.860 I would leave, I don't know, half or a tenth of the people in that building.

00:40:14.820 Then I would take my caterpillar wrecking ball to the IRS,

00:40:17.740 and that whole building is gone.

00:40:19.720 There's not going to be a bit of dust left.

00:40:23.260 The people I left at the EPA, I guess they can go do some of the taxes or something at the IRS.

00:40:27.440 Then I would take that caterpillar wrecking ball to the education department.

00:40:30.700 You know what I would do.

00:40:31.460 I'll give you one guess.

00:40:32.380 That's right.

00:40:32.900 I would take the whole thing down.

00:40:34.620 I would eliminate quite a lot of these superfluous federal agencies

00:40:41.580 that have been created in the last 40, 50 years.

00:40:45.260 The reason I would do it is not because I hate the environment.

00:40:48.580 I love the environment.

00:40:49.600 Not because I hate education.

00:40:51.980 I love education.

00:40:53.320 Not even because I hate taxation.

00:40:55.520 I do hate taxation, but it is a necessary evil.

00:40:57.800 So, what does the education department do?

00:41:03.620 Tell me what it does.

00:41:05.720 Can anybody?

00:41:06.840 I can't seem to get an answer on that.

00:41:11.100 What does the EPA do?

00:41:12.760 I understand it's supposed to protect the environment,

00:41:14.520 but practically that's not what it does.

00:41:15.940 It usually just makes it harder for business to operate.

00:41:18.480 It does nothing.

00:41:19.440 It takes away people's property rights,

00:41:20.820 and it doesn't actually protect the environment.

00:41:22.380 So, I would do that,

00:41:23.460 almost more from a matter of personal liberty than saving money,

00:41:26.860 because even if you knock down all of those,

00:41:28.600 it wouldn't save a ton of money,

00:41:30.280 though it would help the economy,

00:41:31.460 stimulate the economy by taking away those burdensome regulations.

00:41:34.100 The only way to actually get the debt issue under control

00:41:37.700 is through entitlement reform.

00:41:39.560 You have to change the massive entitlement programs,

00:41:43.460 Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.

00:41:45.280 They are not sustainable at the moment for people who say,

00:41:48.100 well, I've been paying into it.

00:41:49.180 Good for you.

00:41:49.780 You're not going to get anything out of it.

00:41:50.880 So, you do have to reform those.

00:41:53.200 You have to reform them in keeping with demographic changes,

00:41:55.680 with age changes,

00:41:57.180 and to stabilize programs that were unstable from the very beginning.

00:42:02.600 That's the only way to do it.

00:42:03.660 It's a third rail in politics.

00:42:05.260 There was a moment in 2010 to 20, I don't know, 2012, 2013,

00:42:09.420 when it seemed like conservatives and Republicans

00:42:11.640 were talking a good game on entitlement reform.

00:42:14.160 Paul Ryan tried to do it.

00:42:16.140 Nobody wanted to do it,

00:42:17.300 and President Trump ran on the platform of,

00:42:19.920 I'm not going to touch entitlements.

00:42:21.640 So, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

00:42:25.420 We knew what we were getting.

00:42:26.640 I mean, we knew that when we voted for President Trump.

00:42:28.680 He had his priorities elsewhere.

00:42:30.020 He's done a very good job on most of those priorities.

00:42:32.660 So, I don't even really blame him for it.

00:42:34.620 He was at least honest about it.

00:42:36.220 But if you do want to get deficits and debt under control,

00:42:38.720 particularly vis-a-vis China,

00:42:40.120 I mean, because China is our biggest creditor,

00:42:42.200 you're going to have to make hard decisions

00:42:43.600 when it comes to those massive entitlement programs.

00:42:45.660 And the trouble with those programs is,

00:42:47.820 once you set them up, it is so impossible,

00:42:50.580 nearly impossible, to reform them or to pull them back.

00:42:53.760 Ronald Reagan said that a federal program

00:42:55.680 is the nearest thing to eternal life on Earth.

00:42:58.080 And he was right.

00:42:59.320 From Carl.

00:43:00.640 Hello, Lord of the cesspool of hate,

00:43:02.940 which is what Media Matters called us.

00:43:05.060 My question to you is,

00:43:06.380 how should one respond to militant atheists

00:43:08.680 who say it's impossible for stories in the Bible

00:43:11.120 to have happened, like Noah's Ark and other parts?

00:43:14.720 Oh, what part, I mean, what are you talking about?

00:43:16.800 I guess is the real question,

00:43:17.980 that it's impossible for stories to have happened.

00:43:20.920 What's their story?

00:43:21.820 What's their evidence?

00:43:22.940 We know that much of the Bible

00:43:25.260 is historically corroborated.

00:43:26.860 Many aspects of the Bible are.

00:43:28.540 So, you can point to all those historical moments,

00:43:31.940 not just in the Old Testament,

00:43:33.820 but in the New Testament too.

00:43:34.940 I mean, the life of Christ is well attested to

00:43:37.420 and in other sources that are non-scriptural.

00:43:40.720 So, you can point to that,

00:43:42.140 but you could also point out to them

00:43:43.460 that the Bible contains genre.

00:43:46.740 So, it's not all a history book.

00:43:48.460 I don't even know if it's mostly a history book.

00:43:50.900 The Bible contains poetry.

00:43:52.680 The Bible contains parable.

00:43:54.860 Obviously, Christ speaks in parables.

00:43:57.340 I don't think people think that

00:43:58.660 the book of Job is a history, right,

00:44:02.080 where God and the devil are duking it out

00:44:04.280 over this one poor guy, Job.

00:44:06.660 That doesn't sound like a history to me.

00:44:08.160 So, I would point that out to him.

00:44:11.380 And what it seems to me

00:44:13.480 when people come out and say

00:44:14.420 that the Bible is all nonsense. 0.85

00:44:16.940 It was written by a bunch of 1.00

00:44:18.700 idiot, illiterate farmers or something. 1.00

00:44:21.740 I say, well, what's your view of the world? 1.00

00:44:25.280 Because it seems to me that

00:44:26.200 the Bible contains more historical,

00:44:29.160 poetical, philosophical, theological truth,

00:44:32.820 on and on and on,

00:44:34.220 than anything ever written.

00:44:35.400 And it's endlessly nourishing.

00:44:37.680 And there is endless wisdom

00:44:39.060 that comes out of it.

00:44:40.680 What do you have? 1.00

00:44:41.900 You have some, like, stupid book 1.00

00:44:43.140 by Christopher Hitchens? 1.00

00:44:45.220 You have some, like, cheap book

00:44:47.500 made in 2005

00:44:48.540 that doesn't even do

00:44:49.880 what it says it's going to do,

00:44:50.800 doesn't even answer its own thesis?

00:44:52.180 That God is not great

00:44:53.420 or that religion is terrible or something? 0.98

00:44:54.860 That's crazy. 0.97

00:44:56.380 The line that comes to me always

00:44:57.940 is from Dr. Johnson.

00:44:59.400 All shallows are clear.

00:45:01.660 Shallow thinking is clear.

00:45:02.980 You know, and the people who say

00:45:04.540 the Bible can't be,

00:45:05.720 I suspect they haven't read the Bible.

00:45:08.040 And this comes from

00:45:09.020 a school of resentment,

00:45:10.280 which is what the literary critic

00:45:11.720 Harold Bloom calls it.

00:45:13.300 People now are taught,

00:45:14.860 because of ideology,

00:45:17.000 to approach works of literature

00:45:19.400 or history or texts

00:45:20.880 hating them.

00:45:23.260 Saying, I'm going to see 0.62

00:45:24.340 how this is sexist

00:45:25.280 or how this is racist

00:45:28.540 or this is bigoted

00:45:29.480 or that's all.

00:45:30.020 And so you go in hating it.

00:45:31.200 But really,

00:45:32.340 maybe you should approach it

00:45:33.040 from a position of humility and awe

00:45:34.560 and then say,

00:45:35.580 hmm, what can I take out of this?

00:45:38.200 I think it was John Stuart Mill

00:45:39.860 who described the difference

00:45:41.120 between the radical

00:45:41.920 and the conservative.

00:45:43.940 The radical in the form

00:45:45.280 of Jeremy Bentham,

00:45:46.280 the conservative in the form

00:45:47.580 of Thomas Carlyle.

00:45:49.640 And he said,

00:45:50.500 the radical and the conservative

00:45:52.580 approach a received opinion

00:45:53.960 or a tradition

00:45:54.820 or a work of text

00:45:56.520 or art or whatever.

00:45:57.620 And they look at it

00:45:58.360 and the radical says,

00:45:59.460 is it true?

00:46:01.560 Can I,

00:46:02.180 through my one narrow vision

00:46:04.040 of how this could be true,

00:46:05.380 is it true?

00:46:06.200 And what the conservative does,

00:46:07.360 he looks at it and says,

00:46:08.000 what does it mean?

00:46:09.760 What does it mean?

00:46:10.480 What does the book

00:46:10.980 of Genesis mean?

00:46:11.860 I assume what your friend

00:46:12.900 is taking issue with

00:46:13.760 is some of the book

00:46:15.220 of Genesis.

00:46:17.400 I dare your friend

00:46:18.680 to find me

00:46:19.720 a better description

00:46:22.300 of human nature

00:46:23.280 and history

00:46:24.540 and civilization

00:46:25.680 and how we came to be

00:46:27.180 than the book

00:46:28.340 of Genesis.

00:46:29.580 Ask him if he can find one.

00:46:30.780 If he can't,

00:46:31.940 I think you're on

00:46:32.640 good footing.

00:46:33.740 That's our show.

00:46:34.260 We got more to get to,

00:46:34.960 but ran out of time.

00:46:36.500 I will see you on Monday.

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