The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 52 - Crooked Hillary Rigged The Election

00:00:00.000 Former interim DNC chairman Donna Brazile has admitted that my crooked cousin Hillary Clinton rigged the 2016 Democrat primaries. 1.00

00:00:08.920 This is really going to hurt Chelsea 2024.

00:00:11.600 Then Candace Owens, Red Pill Black, Alicia Krauss, and Amber Athe join the panel of deplorables as Republicans release their tax plan.

00:00:19.720 Kevin Spacey seeks treatment for sex addiction, which is totally a thing and not just an insincere and rote reaction to bad accusations.

00:00:28.200 And NFL popularity drops so low, it might destroy Papa John.

00:00:33.000 I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:42.620 Poor Papa John.

00:00:44.100 This is a tough day for the Knowles-Rodham family.

00:00:47.360 As you know, Hillary is my third cousin once removed. 0.94

00:00:49.660 Donna Brazile, who took over the DNC chair after Debbie Wasserman Schultz was ousted, has publicly accused Hillary of rigging that primary. 0.99

00:00:57.500 She laments, quote,

00:00:59.920 I had been wondering why it was that I couldn't write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn.

00:01:05.180 Well, here was the answer.

00:01:06.840 Had I known this, I never would have accepted the interim chair position.

00:01:10.560 But here we were with only weeks before the election.

00:01:13.320 These are crocodile tears.

00:01:14.640 Basically what happened is that Hillary bought off the DNC in exchange for controlling the party's finances, strategy, and all of the money raised. 0.98

00:01:23.580 They got to decide who the communications director was.

00:01:26.920 They had a right of refusal on basically all of the staff hires.

00:01:31.240 Hillary bought off the party before she even announced her campaign. 1.00

00:01:35.240 The reason that Donna Brazile's crocodile tears and her new bombshell revelations in her new book are a little suspect is that I'm old enough to remember seven and a half months ago when Donna Brazile admitted to helping Hillary Clinton rig the election and rig the Democratic primaries.

00:01:52.980 In March, in mid to late March, Donna Brazile actually admitted that from her post at CNN she fed Hillary Clinton debate questions before she was debating Bernie Sanders.

00:02:03.680 So it's actually more interesting now that we know that because now Brazile is claiming ignorance, saying she called Bernie Sanders and cried.

00:02:12.360 She apologized.

00:02:13.100 She was so sad.

00:02:13.800 But that isn't true.

00:02:15.160 She's just as much of a Clinton hack as anybody except for now, not anymore.

00:02:20.900 And what that means is that the Clintons are finally, after decades, toxic in the Democrat Party, and even longtime loyalists are running away from them.

00:02:30.560 They probably won't be able to inflict Chelsea 2024 on us or some other Chelsea campaign.

00:02:38.820 She's throwing Clinton under the bus. 1.00

00:02:40.280 A lot of Democrats are throwing Clinton under the bus now. 0.98

00:02:42.360 It's about time.

00:02:43.620 This has been a long time coming.

00:02:45.400 And adios.

00:02:46.280 Sorry, cousin.

00:02:47.500 See you later.

00:02:48.160 I guess I won't see you in any political positions.

00:02:51.640 I won't see you hopefully on TV much longer.

00:02:54.220 We'll just have to see each other at the family reunion.

00:02:56.560 This is even more embarrassing for Democrats because just today they had to apologize for previously admitting that they would discriminate in their hiring practices.

00:03:08.580 So the Democratic National Committee data services manager, Madeline Leder, said that she would discriminate against cisgender straight white males. 0.81

00:03:18.740 There was this email that came out, and she said, send over job candidates, but no cisgender straight white males.

00:03:24.720 There are enough of those already.

00:03:26.080 Please don't pass this along to them.

00:03:28.140 It's really, really nice to see them eating their own.

00:03:31.180 This week they said, no, we would never do that.

00:03:33.040 Democrats have been trying to do this the whole time, that we see something with our own two eyes.

00:03:38.820 We see that Donna Brazile helped Hillary Clinton rig the Democratic primary. 0.62

00:03:42.880 They said, we would never do that.

00:03:44.020 How dare you accuse us of that?

00:03:45.360 Well, my eyes don't lie, buster, so sorry.

00:03:48.680 Also, probably more important, but much less fun, the Republicans have unveiled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

00:03:56.180 Here is Paul Ryan explaining the plan.

00:03:57.740 This plan is for the middle-class families in this country who deserve a break. 1.00

00:04:02.720 It is for the families who are out there living paycheck to paycheck who just keep getting squeezed.

00:04:08.360 You know, about half the country today is living paycheck to paycheck, and a lot more people are about a paycheck away from living paycheck to paycheck in this country.

00:04:16.120 And this is going to help give people relief.

00:04:19.220 The Tax Cut and Jobs Act will deliver real relief for people in the middle, people who are also striving to get there.

00:04:25.400 With this plan, the typical family of four will save $1,182 a year on their taxes.

00:04:35.500 For many families, having an additional $1,182 more will make a real difference.

00:04:42.420 That $1,182 more covers about a year's worth of gas for your car.

00:04:47.080 It covers your family's phone bill for the year, depending on how much data, of course, your kids use.

00:04:51.900 That $1,182 more, it can help you pay down your debt faster.

00:04:59.220 It can help you start and renovate your home faster.

00:05:02.040 That $1,182 more for the average family, that will help you put more money away for college.

00:05:07.940 It will help you save for retirement.

00:05:09.360 It will help you save for a rainy day.

00:05:11.300 With this plan, we are getting rid of loopholes for special interests, and we are leveling the playing field.

00:05:16.880 So a nice presentation by Paul Ryan.

00:05:19.760 There's a lot of great stuff in this plan.

00:05:22.340 But I have to say, as I watch him unveil this, politics has changed so much since Donald Trump came around.

00:05:30.380 It's really strange to watch Paul Ryan giving this speech, because that used to be the status quo.

00:05:36.180 That's what every politician did.

00:05:38.060 It was an earnest presentation.

00:05:40.060 Paul Ryan is a budget wonk.

00:05:42.780 So it's an earnest presentation, but very much in the mold of sincerity and performing and earnestness.

00:05:49.820 And, you know, he made a little joke about depending on how much data your children use.

00:05:54.480 And that's the sort of joke you're allowed to make, is a completely inoffensive, innocuous joke that no one really thinks is funny, but you all sort of politely laugh at.

00:06:02.080 And that was politics until this wrecking ball, this orange wrecking ball, just knocked all of that down.

00:06:09.360 And it's hard to watch a speech given with that sort of rhetoric, given in that mode, and not find it disingenuous.

00:06:16.380 And I don't think Paul Ryan is disingenuous.

00:06:18.280 I think he cares about this proposal.

00:06:19.860 I think it's a good proposal.

00:06:20.740 He's presenting it well.

00:06:21.880 But that manner of speaking that we saw certainly from every other candidate, from Mitt Romney, from John McCain, from, you know, on and on and on, is gone.

00:06:30.640 It seems not dishonest, but it just doesn't ring as true now because you've got a guy like Donald Trump who doesn't put his language through this filter of politics, this filter of decades in Washington.

00:06:46.740 And so it is really jarring.

00:06:48.020 It's an interesting linguistic change that I think we should probably thank Donald Trump for because it's much more interesting than, you know, just droning on about data usage from your children.

00:07:02.560 That said, it's an excellent proposal.

00:07:05.060 So we permanently lower the corporate tax rate to 20 percent.

00:07:09.200 It consolidates tax brackets from 7 to 4.

00:07:12.520 It eliminates a lot of exemptions and deductions.

00:07:14.720 It expands the child tax credit, two new family tax credits.

00:07:19.560 Now, one issue that's becoming – getting a lot of pushback on the left and the right is it repeals state and local tax deductions, but they compromise and they preserve a property tax break.

00:07:30.140 The reason this is important, it's – you know, it might mean that your taxes go up, which is terrible and frustrating, not to the – only because you're not allowed to deduct state and local.

00:07:41.220 But there is a good aspect of this, which is that if you can deduct state and local taxes, then it creates an incentive for your state and local governments to raise taxes because the taxpayer won't feel it on their bottom line.

00:07:54.440 So it's a way for the – it's a way to raise taxes without being honest about it, without people realizing it.

00:08:00.040 By removing those deductions, then all of a sudden the government is accountable.

00:08:04.600 You will feel those increased taxes.

00:08:06.960 Obviously, we have a massive national debt.

00:08:08.980 We've run a lot of deficits, you know, big deficits.

00:08:11.540 At the early Obama years, trillion-dollar deficits.

00:08:13.980 So it might be a way to address the fiscal problem and the debt problem in D.C. while also making your state and local governments more accountable.

00:08:21.800 That said, I don't want my taxes to go up.

00:08:23.840 It repeals the alternative minimum tax, which is very good.

00:08:26.720 A lot of Republican campaigns even that I've been on and that we heard in 2012 and 2016 said we should have an alternative maximum tax.

00:08:33.520 We shouldn't have these minimum taxes that you have to pay.

00:08:36.020 And it repeals the death tax, which is very good because the death tax is income that has been taxed possibly three times.

00:08:42.260 It's income that's been taxed on the – or rather, it's wealth that's been taxed on the income level and capital gains level.

00:08:48.080 And then when you die, they won't even let you get out of this world without taking more money from you.

00:08:51.800 So that is all really nice.

00:08:53.780 For analysis, let's bring on our panel of deplorables.

00:08:57.540 We have Red Pill Black, Candace Owens, Daily Wire's Alicia Krauss, and Daily Caller's Amber Athie.

00:09:03.560 Ladies, thank you for helping me recover from yesterday's all-male panel. 1.00

00:09:08.120 It was just awful.

00:09:09.380 I don't know why you do that to yourself.

00:09:10.760 That sounds awful.

00:09:11.600 It's my producer.

00:09:12.460 It's because I make jokes about him during the show and then he punishes me without my knowing.

00:09:16.620 Amber, is this tax reform proposal, is it sufficiently conservative?

00:09:21.800 I think it's definitely pretty conservative.

00:09:24.240 Lowering the corporate tax rate is something that conservatives have been pushing for for a really long time.

00:09:28.840 As Donald Trump has said repeatedly, we have the highest corporate tax rate among advanced economies.

00:09:34.880 They're simplifying the tax code as well.

00:09:36.860 They're actually reducing the number of brackets there are in the tax code.

00:09:40.660 And there definitely is a conservative case, as you mentioned, for lowering or eliminating the state and local tax deductions because they do primarily benefit states that are willing to raise their taxes, like states like New York and California that have high taxes.

00:09:56.280 And, you know, liberals can get on board with that, too, though, because it primarily benefits high-income earners who are primarily the ones that are itemizing their tax deductions to begin with.

00:10:09.760 You mean it primarily hits high-income earners?

00:10:13.340 Well, they're primarily the ones that are getting the state and local tax deductions.

00:10:16.720 Right, right.

00:10:17.280 Absolutely.

00:10:17.760 That's right.

00:10:18.460 Yeah.

00:10:18.880 So overall, I mean, I think this is a really great start.

00:10:21.180 Obviously, we still have to see if it passes.

00:10:23.320 And then they have this artificial deadline of Christmas.

00:10:25.760 So we'll see how all this plays out.

00:10:27.240 But so far, I think this is a really great start.

00:10:29.480 It is a good start.

00:10:30.500 They do have to do it.

00:10:31.960 We've been talking about this for a long time.

00:10:33.480 There was an Obamacare repeal failure.

00:10:35.820 So we do need to get this done.

00:10:37.340 If Republicans can't agree to lower taxes, clearly something is cracked in our party.

00:10:42.620 Alicia, speaking of getting it passed, can we get this passed as is?

00:10:47.280 I don't think so.

00:10:49.220 I think one of the biggest flaws that—

00:10:50.060 Always the bearer of bad news.

00:10:51.340 Sorry.

00:10:51.700 I think one of the biggest flaws that I instantly saw was, despite them saying that this is

00:10:55.980 a pro-family, pro-cut plan, it's eliminating the adoption deduction.

00:11:01.580 And as a pro-life, very conservative person, I just think that that's bad messaging, and

00:11:06.540 it's going to be something that the mainstream media latches on to, and it's going to be

00:11:09.480 something that a lot of pro-lifers and pro-adoption people have issues with.

00:11:12.400 If you're saying that you're pro-family, then you should be pro all forms of the family,

00:11:16.280 not just biological children, but adopted children as well.

00:11:19.640 I think that the Democrats are going to have a huge problem, of course, with the corporate

00:11:23.360 tax rate, and that's going to become an issue more so when this bill goes over to the Senate.

00:11:27.200 But we'll see.

00:11:27.760 And this brings up a point, which is that it's very easy.

00:11:31.680 Everyone wants to get rid of deductions.

00:11:33.420 Yeah, simplify it, get rid of all those deductions, except for my deductions.

00:11:36.900 Except for mine.

00:11:37.540 I like my deductions.

00:11:38.760 That's how voters are, though.

00:11:39.820 Mm-hmm.

00:11:40.100 Yep, even on the, whether you're on the right or the left, and I think this is how we saw

00:11:43.940 Donald Trump come to power and become president of the United States in 2016, is you had a

00:11:47.700 lot of those Rust Belt people saying, oh, the Democrats aren't doing it for me anymore.

00:11:52.200 This guy's saying that he's going to punish businesses that are going overseas.

00:11:55.340 That ain't conservative, but Donald Trump said that he would do it, so that's why he got

00:11:58.620 their vote.

00:11:59.180 That's right.

00:11:59.540 And it's at least, it might be conservative in a way.

00:12:02.480 I mean, there is, but it's certainly not what we had seen for the previous 20 years, that

00:12:06.920 libertarian streak, very, you know, abstract, neoconservative at times.

00:12:12.040 This is much more in the dirt, much more grounded.

00:12:15.760 Let, you know, let's talk about my bottom line.

00:12:17.940 And it clearly worked.

00:12:19.460 And in defense of wonky Paul Ryan, I mean, Paul Ryan is a numbers guy.

00:12:23.680 This is something that people have known about him for a very long time.

00:12:27.020 He's the, he's the legislative kind of wonk and was always that.

00:12:31.160 Going back to the days that he was an aide on Capitol Hill, and I'm not just defending

00:12:35.140 him because he's married to a fellow Okie, but I actually think it's kind of endearing 1.00

00:12:39.160 when Paul Ryan talks about your kid's cell phone bill.

00:12:41.700 It like makes him seem like that geeky dad that he is.

00:12:45.120 But I think the most impressionable and emotional moment that seemed very real is I believe it

00:12:49.620 came from Representative Kathy McMorris Rogers when she talked about the estate tax and the

00:12:54.980 death tax, because that's what it is.

00:12:56.620 And she was able to share her very real experience of when she was a teenager.

00:13:01.160 And her father died in a tragic accident on their farm.

00:13:04.140 And so they had a family farm.

00:13:05.540 They had the equipment that a family farm has, but they actually had to take out a loan that

00:13:09.560 took her and her mother 10 years to pay off.

00:13:11.860 Because after they experienced this tragedy, the IRS came a knocking and said, you owe us

00:13:16.180 money.

00:13:16.680 That's right.

00:13:17.020 And so I think that that is something that if people even on the left can't get on that,

00:13:20.980 it should be messaging that the Republicans run with. 0.82

00:13:23.520 Because oftentimes Republicans look like the big, bad white guys smoking cigars like Michael 0.96

00:13:27.820 Knowles. 0.97

00:13:28.120 Yeah, they look like me.

00:13:29.040 But we need to share these stories of real incidents and how our tax code is negatively

00:13:36.340 affecting average Americans.

00:13:38.480 And if you can't get behind repealing that, then I don't think you have a heart.

00:13:41.540 And people always say, you know, we can't legislate morality.

00:13:45.420 We can't.

00:13:45.740 We can't.

00:13:46.140 But all legislation is moral because politics is just human interaction.

00:13:51.020 It's how humans exist in civilized society.

00:13:53.360 And the tax code is moral, whether to let you keep more of your money or to extort you

00:13:59.160 when your father dies.

00:14:00.040 That's a moral question.

00:14:01.720 And there's an answer to it as well.

00:14:04.120 Candace, in this culture war era, in the era of Donald Trump, you know, mouthing off and

00:14:10.420 calling people silly names and not the era of Paul Ryan giving an earnest sort of performed

00:14:16.400 presentation on tax law and the tax code, can Donald Trump get his base excited about the

00:14:23.040 intricacies of tax reform?

00:14:26.040 That's a very good question.

00:14:27.800 And I'm going to go ahead and say yes.

00:14:30.200 I mean, yes, you're right that he does sort of use inflammatory language.

00:14:33.740 And that gets people excited because he's sort of pushing through this PC culture, which

00:14:38.400 was very necessary, especially coming off the heels of Obama.

00:14:42.280 But at the same time, you have to remember, he's surrounded by a team of people that are

00:14:45.740 incredibly intellectual.

00:14:47.640 And he understands his base.

00:14:49.240 And he does also understand the liberal base.

00:14:52.320 And it's going to be important that we're able to tap into the emotions, which you guys

00:14:56.200 brought up.

00:14:56.860 And I think that he is able to do that.

00:14:58.400 People don't show those clips of him.

00:15:00.300 But when he is standing on a podium, he is tapping into humanity.

00:15:03.900 And like you said, it's not just politics is largely built off of morality and emotion and

00:15:10.020 humanity.

00:15:10.340 And I think that he is able to do that as well.

00:15:12.680 And he'll be able to execute it perfectly.

00:15:14.480 That's true.

00:15:14.920 And this kind of brings into light, I think, why Paul Ryan giving a speech like that in

00:15:21.000 the era of Trump is so strange, is Paul Ryan comes off as a Boy Scout.

00:15:25.200 And Donald Trump does not come off as a Boy Scout.

00:15:28.280 Paul Ryan may genuinely be a Boy Scout.

00:15:30.980 We just don't, as a culture, we just don't buy it anymore.

00:15:34.320 It's, you know, we're not a culture of Boy Scouts anymore.

00:15:37.780 And I think that's why Mitt Romney got hit as well.

00:15:41.260 I think it's why Mitt Romney probably couldn't communicate.

00:15:43.860 But maybe you just need more of a street talker for a more street society, for a society that's

00:15:52.100 less high-minded and Boy Scout-y than it used to be.

00:15:57.240 OK.

00:15:57.700 We've got to get off this completely meaningless topic of tax reform to get to what really

00:16:02.660 matters, more groping, all of the Hollywood groping. 0.98

00:16:05.760 Kevin Spacey is seeking treatment for sex addiction.

00:16:10.100 This has new allegations mount against actor Jeremy Piven and against that 70s show Danny

00:16:15.520 Masterson.

00:16:16.700 Sex addiction. 0.96

00:16:17.440 There seems to be an epidemic among rich, famous, powerful men of wanting to have sex 0.98

00:16:23.360 with young, beautiful women. 0.69

00:16:25.340 Candace, how did this public health crisis begin?

00:16:29.620 This public health crisis, yes, exactly.

00:16:32.660 This is what happened when people have a lot of money and when they control the press.

00:16:36.320 These people feel untouchable.

00:16:38.260 And what we are seeing is just the greatest thing ever.

00:16:40.620 We've been waiting for this.

00:16:41.600 They have been policing us. 1.00

00:16:42.860 They've been standing up telling us from their moral high ground how stupid we all are, how 1.00

00:16:47.420 disgusting Donald Trump is because of a tape of him talking to somebody privately. 1.00

00:16:53.400 So this is just, it's perfect. 0.99

00:16:55.320 It's karma.

00:16:55.860 It wakes up later and it knocks people in the face.

00:16:58.140 And the PR, of course, of them all going to seek treatment, which I'm pretty sure means

00:17:03.540 let's hide underground in case a bigger, waiting until a bigger story comes up, you know.

00:17:09.120 So they're all going to be in treatment for sex addiction.

00:17:11.440 And again, it comes from having money and too much power and control of the press.

00:17:16.960 Weinstein is in counseling too.

00:17:18.280 So these guys are all going into counseling.

00:17:20.160 You're right.

00:17:20.400 They're just hiding out until the next story drops.

00:17:23.580 And, you know, but there are reports saying that he's not taking it seriously at all.

00:17:27.340 He smuggled in his cell phone.

00:17:28.840 He's saying it's all a conspiracy.

00:17:30.700 Spacey basically shrugged off these 30-year-old allegations and then he came out as gay to distract 1.00

00:17:36.620 from it.

00:17:37.520 Amber, why even go through the charade of this sex addiction treatment?

00:17:42.120 Nobody buys it, right?

00:17:43.060 Well, I think the sad part is that there are a lot of liberals in Hollywood who would buy

00:17:48.280 this because, look, if they frame this as a sex addiction problem, then all of a sudden

00:17:52.460 they're someone with a mental health issue that needs to be coddled and protected and

00:17:56.680 they're no longer some dangerous predator. 0.99

00:17:59.200 You see the left do this all the time with people who are sexual degenerates and they just 0.82

00:18:03.540 excuse their behavior by saying that they're broken or they're troubled.

00:18:06.800 And, of course, Hollywood loves the story of the comeback too.

00:18:09.740 So if these people are, you know, able to, quote unquote, get treatment and spend a week

00:18:15.360 and then take some, you know, a three-month vacation in Cabo and then come back and make

00:18:19.720 a hit film about their struggles, Hollywood's going to eat that right up.

00:18:23.440 And that's exactly the point, the mental health issue, because it goes from being something

00:18:28.200 I did to something my brain made me do.

00:18:30.840 And we have done this with a lot of other issues in society over the last century or so,

00:18:35.760 issues that we would have previously treated as moral failings.

00:18:38.980 We now treat as a clinical kind of mental condition.

00:18:43.000 You see it, people are no longer drunks, they're alcoholics. 0.97

00:18:46.160 People are no longer leches, they are sex addicts. 1.00

00:18:49.820 And actually, there have been good things that have come out of this.

00:18:54.540 Alcoholics Anonymous is, in many ways, evidence that taking a slightly more clinical, less judgmental

00:19:01.260 approach can be effective and can produce good outcomes.

00:19:04.860 But, you know, there might be some benefit to this level of abstraction.

00:19:09.540 But Alicia, are there any hazards to treating moral failings as strictly physical?

00:19:15.400 Yeah, because I think that you potentially have people out there, and I have this issue

00:19:18.920 too, like every single time there's a terror attack or a shooting, they're like, ooh, was

00:19:22.380 it PTSD?

00:19:23.540 Because we've already seen that there's military men and women that legitimately have PTSD,

00:19:28.280 people that have experienced tragic real-life events that actually have PTSD, are afraid to

00:19:32.620 come forward and get treatment for these real issues.

00:19:35.560 And so I'm afraid that you're going to have somebody that legitimately might have a pornography

00:19:39.260 addiction or a sex addiction or have had an assault situation in their past, and now

00:19:44.100 they're afraid to come forward because the Hollywood elite is just scrubbing this off

00:19:48.160 as if it's no big deal.

00:19:49.500 And I'm wondering if that's why you only have two people so far coming forward, because

00:19:53.300 I'm hearing from friends and people that I know in the industry saying they're surprised

00:19:56.780 these Kevin Spacey allegations haven't come out years ago.

00:19:59.220 And now we're hearing that people on his sets knew to keep young boys away from him because

00:20:03.340 he had a penchant for, you know, that was his taste. 0.62

00:20:06.280 And that's just disgusting.

00:20:07.460 And so I think that you have a lot of people, like the man that came out earlier saying,

00:20:11.980 hey, you know, just because I'm straight doesn't mean that that's the only reason I had

00:20:16.160 Kevin's issues with Kevin Spacey groping me inappropriately.

00:20:20.420 It's that he shouldn't be groping dudes at bars inappropriately.

00:20:24.080 And so I think that him now checking in, Weinstein checking in, kind of puts this facade on it

00:20:29.980 like, oh, like you said, it's a mental health issue instead of a moral issue.

00:20:33.540 And that actually prevents people who need help for mental health getting the help that

00:20:37.900 they need, in my humble opinion.

00:20:39.160 Yeah, it does.

00:20:40.020 It does debase it in a lot of ways.

00:20:42.240 Absolutely right.

00:20:43.320 OK, we have a really important story to talk about how the NFL has destroyed even chain

00:20:48.480 pizza through their terrible anti-American activism.

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00:21:17.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:21:17.740 What else?

00:21:19.200 You get this.

00:21:19.900 You get this, right?

00:21:21.120 I just told you a story today about the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1.00

00:21:27.180 calling Hillary Clinton a dirty, rotten crook who stole the election. 0.99

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00:21:35.420 We're going to have to start shipping bigger sizes.

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00:21:39.280 Otherwise, you're going to drown.

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00:21:47.840 We'll be right back.

00:21:48.320 The NFL is now so unpopular that it might destroy Papa John.

00:22:03.800 It might destroy both Papa John and Papa John's Pizza.

00:22:06.740 The CEO of Papa John's, John Schnatter, is blaming his company's dip in share price and his personal loss within 24 hours of $70 million on these ignorant ingrates in the NFL and the leadership of the NFL who refuse to address the problem and allow it to fester and spread throughout the entire league.

00:22:27.420 The take a knee protest, declining NFL viewership, Papa John's has been the official pizza of the NFL since 2010.

00:22:35.600 Bad investment.

00:22:36.760 Bad choice, Papa.

00:22:38.020 Bad choice, Papa John.

00:22:39.380 Alicia, is Mr. John just passing the buck or are SJWs now destroying even chain pizza?

00:22:46.220 I actually side with Mr. Schneider here and not just because he's from Michigan like my husband is.

00:22:52.640 How do you know where everybody's from?

00:22:54.200 This is the second time in the show you've brought up this secret knowledge.

00:22:57.940 It's my worthless talent that makes me no money.

00:23:00.980 But if I could figure out a way for it, too, then that would be really helpful.

00:23:04.200 I'm a big fan of their garlic butter dip, too.

00:23:06.720 So this is another reason why I'm defending Papa John's.

00:23:08.980 I mean, I just inject that right into my veins.

00:23:11.520 Oh, man, it's so good.

00:23:12.760 So there's an element of I get what he's saying.

00:23:15.960 Like you said, he's been the pizza.

00:23:17.820 Papa John's has been the pizza of the NFL since 2010.

00:23:21.260 I mean, haven't they had a Manning in their ads before?

00:23:24.440 And so viewership goes down.

00:23:26.240 The eyeballs that are looking at your commercial during an NFL game and going, hmm, pizza and beer sounds real good about now is definitely going to go down.

00:23:33.140 Now, is it entirely because of the NFL's lack of being able to do business well and lack of understanding of who their audience is?

00:23:40.260 I don't know.

00:23:40.960 There could be some other things going on, too, or, you know, that the shareholders are saying something when it comes to Papa John's.

00:23:46.680 But I think that it could definitely play a role in how it's negatively affecting his business.

00:23:52.140 It's probably negatively affecting a lot of advertisers.

00:23:54.840 And that's why you see ESPN really having to shutter lots of their departments and lay off lots of people because advertisers aren't wanting to work with ESPN anymore

00:24:02.440 because they're losing 15,000 customers a day.

00:24:04.660 I know.

00:24:04.860 Pretty soon ESPN is going to have to shut down its entire politics wing, and then they're going to have to do sports again.

00:24:10.000 They're going to have to go right back to sports.

00:24:12.440 Amber, for years, SJWs have boycotted conservative companies.

00:24:17.260 If they find out that some CEO even considered voting for Bob Dole in 96, they will try to shut that business down.

00:24:26.240 Are we beginning to see activism of that sort among conservatives, that kind of activism on the right?

00:24:32.440 I think to some extent we are because I know, for example, my parents and actually myself, we're not watching the NFL this year

00:24:40.800 because we don't like to see anti-American players sit there and, you know, disgrace the flag

00:24:46.780 and disgrace everything that this country stands for before they go and play a game where they get rich off of American dollars.

00:24:53.120 And it is important to note that the CEO of Papa John's Pizza is actually pretty conservative,

00:24:58.300 and he's been an out conservative for several years now.

00:25:03.060 So I think while it's probably true that the NFL is affecting his bottom line,

00:25:07.640 there's probably another motivation for him to speak out as well,

00:25:10.440 and that's probably because he's against these protests from a moral standpoint as well.

00:25:15.080 Yeah, there's a report today that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was pressuring him to do this

00:25:20.580 or suggested that he do this.

00:25:21.980 So there might be some political machinations that work here too.

00:25:24.720 Honestly, we've got to be, like, the NFL commissioner is really, I think, the main person at fault

00:25:28.840 because we've been hearing for a while some rumblings that there are liberal owners of teams,

00:25:32.860 there are kind of center people that own teams, and then there's people on the right that own teams.

00:25:37.360 And so not all the team owners are okay with how Roger Goodell has handled this situation.

00:25:42.460 Yeah, he's just awful. He's so terrible at his job.

00:25:44.920 I think Condi Rice were commissioner.

00:25:46.460 Remember when Condi, like, there's buzz about Condi being commissioner?

00:25:50.560 She can leave Stanford for a little bit and go take over Roger's job.

00:25:53.340 I'd be totally down with that.

00:25:54.420 Yeah, absolutely. Condi for commissioner.

00:25:56.560 Candice, should we, with these boycotts,

00:25:59.740 should we be punishing the advertisers of SJW virtue signalers?

00:26:05.800 Should we as conservatives do that?

00:26:07.720 Or does that just tediously politicize everything in American culture right down to chain pizza?

00:26:13.620 Well, what's happening here is essentially just a domino effect, you know?

00:26:18.640 And yes, unfortunately, it's going to have to impact all of this in order for them to realize

00:26:24.940 and think about what the core issue is.

00:26:27.300 And I hate to say it, but this is what happens when the inmates are running the prison system,

00:26:31.580 which, by the way, is just a quote that everybody uses.

00:26:34.680 It's no shot at NFL players, but this is exactly on the product. 0.65

00:26:37.800 They are also criminals, by the way.

00:26:39.200 They're arrested on average once every seven days.

00:26:41.900 So it is just a figure of speech, but it's also true.

00:26:47.220 You're going to have to lose money in order for them to realize what's going on

00:26:50.380 and get to the heart of the issue.

00:26:51.500 This is really about something that makes Americans feel disrespected.

00:26:56.680 People kneeling down while the flag, the fact that they did it overseas, okay,

00:27:00.700 is just the most disrespectful thing you could possibly do as an American.

00:27:03.620 There should be a zero-tolerance policy for this throughout the NFL and any other sport.

00:27:09.200 And I'm happy to see this happening.

00:27:11.240 Absolutely.

00:27:12.060 And really kudos on the domino effect line.

00:27:14.840 Spot on.

00:27:15.840 Well done.

00:27:17.020 Okay.

00:27:17.820 We need to move on on that point.

00:27:20.020 Excellent panel.

00:27:20.800 Thank you all for being here.

00:27:22.080 Amber Athe from The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire's on Alicia Krause,

00:27:25.380 and Candace Owens, Red Pill Black. 1.00

00:27:27.100 See you ladies soon. 0.95

00:27:28.300 Now we have to move on to the mailbag so that we can change your lives. 0.69

00:27:31.880 From T.O.

00:27:33.060 Dear Michael Knowles, King of Trolls, great job quoting Thomas Moore last week.

00:27:37.820 Oh, props.

00:27:38.240 My question is, is there any way someone can have a conversion moment just before they commit suicide and go to heaven?

00:27:45.780 Thanks, T.O.

00:27:47.240 Yeah, absolutely.

00:27:48.280 Of course that's true.

00:27:49.980 Antonin Scalia was asked this question in a New York Magazine interview.

00:27:54.120 If you haven't read this New York Mag interview, it's really illuminating because the interviewer doesn't realize who she's talking to. 0.86

00:28:02.680 And she just comes off as so dumb and unread, and she's talking to possibly the smartest guy in American politics and American government. 0.94

00:28:11.420 And she's shocked that he believes in hell. 0.99

00:28:15.460 And he said, you know, I even believe in the devil.

00:28:17.100 And she goes, that must be awful scary.

00:28:18.620 And he says, do you realize how out of touch you are with America?

00:28:22.740 Many smarter people than you or me have believed in the devil.

00:28:26.700 But in that interview, he says he doesn't even know if Judas Iscariot is in hell.

00:28:30.880 It's perfectly plausible that before Newsom himself, Judas Iscariot had a conversion moment and repented, and he could be in heaven.

00:28:39.480 I doubt it because Jesus says that it would be better for that man had he never been born.

00:28:43.640 But who knows?

00:28:44.180 I don't know.

00:28:44.720 You can't know who's in hell easily.

00:28:47.780 There's a good line from Dr. Johnson, which is that, depend upon it, sir, when you know that you're to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates the mind wonderfully.

00:28:55.320 So hanging can concentrate the mind, and it might even be likely that you get a clearer view of yourself and eternity as you're about to hang.

00:29:05.800 Next question from Garrett.

00:29:08.100 Is it wrong of me to use videos like your video on PragerU about the alt-right to substitute a personal deep dive into their ideology?

00:29:16.600 With limited time, it seems that videos like yours or Ben's can sum up the same facts in 30 minutes that I could find reading an entire book.

00:29:22.600 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:29:23.520 I do it all the time with other people, and sometimes, like the Prager video, I'll produce videos myself.

00:29:29.060 That's why we have those.

00:29:30.200 That's why we have people who comment on politics or religion or philosophy or whatever is because I don't have time to delve into everything to a deep degree that doesn't consume my profession or my top three interests, let's say.

00:29:44.960 So I do it all the time with other things that I don't have time to investigate.

00:29:49.680 Obviously, don't take my word for it.

00:29:51.740 If you ever have any evidence that I'm not giving a credible account or that my account is either uninformed or dishonest, then go read the books yourselves.

00:30:00.580 We haven't seen that kind of blowback on my PragerU video, for instance, so I think it's pretty legit.

00:30:06.860 I'll stand by it.

00:30:07.840 I think it's very credible, and most people do as well.

00:30:10.740 But obviously, you have limited time, so you should pursue the academic and literary interests that are most compelling to you.

00:30:20.320 Next question from Alexander.

00:30:23.000 Can one still appreciate a work of art if the artist is evil?

00:30:26.240 An example is appreciating the movies and shows the Weinstein Company produced.

00:30:30.160 Of course, absolutely.

00:30:31.240 I mean, evil is a big claim, but even that much, and certainly the art of very bad people, can be turned to great effect.

00:30:40.480 Even the art of people who have a terrible view of the world, who have an incorrect view of the world, can be good if they're good enough artists.

00:30:46.220 I think I got a lot of flack for this movie review I did on Mother, the Aronofsky film that came out a month or so ago, because Aronofsky seems to be kind of a Looney Tunes liberal, big environmentalist.

00:30:59.900 He's given interpretations of his own movie, Mother, that are not the interpretation that I would give.

00:31:06.220 And nevertheless, if artists are good enough, if they're talented enough, if they're faithful enough to narrative and story, then absolutely, then they're inevitably going to produce art that's worthwhile and beautiful and illuminates something and makes you see something about the world, despite themselves, despite their own best efforts.

00:31:25.220 So a lot of times, people will knock on the right, they'll knock Judd Apatow's movies, because people smoke a lot of pot.

00:31:32.040 But those movies are great.

00:31:34.140 Those movies show a basically conservative view of the world, because he's a good artist.

00:31:37.900 I don't know whether he's conservative or not.

00:31:39.860 Most likely in this town, he isn't.

00:31:41.820 But he's a good filmmaker, and he follows story very well.

00:31:45.040 And so if the story shows a true view of the world, then you're going to get something out of it that is beautiful and artistic and probably more in line with how the right views the world than how ideologues view it.

00:31:56.260 Next question from Eleanor.

00:31:57.960 Hey, Michael.

00:31:59.100 What are your recommendations for young conservatives to do, read, watch, etc.?

00:32:02.980 Thanks.

00:32:03.220 They ought to watch The Michael Knowles Show, if you ask me.

00:32:05.380 And they ought to listen to the Another Kingdom podcast, which is Andrew Klavan's latest story, which I perform as a podcast.

00:32:14.980 We're releasing one a week.

00:32:15.860 We're releasing another episode, the fourth episode tomorrow.

00:32:18.700 It's doing really well.

00:32:19.500 It's got hundreds of reviews, over 400 reviews or 450 reviews.

00:32:23.060 Almost all five-star, except for like Harvey Weinstein gave us a two or something.

00:32:28.140 But it's been a lot of fun.

00:32:29.300 It's about a 30-something Hollywood nobody who walks through a portal into another kingdom and is accused of murder.

00:32:35.540 He's got a bloody dagger in his hand and a dead lady at his feet.

00:32:37.920 I've really enjoyed it.

00:32:39.480 So check that out.

00:32:40.280 That's on art.

00:32:41.240 I always recommend the same books as sort of introductory baseline political philosophy books you should read.

00:32:47.800 Burke, Oakeshott, Payne, those kind of people.

00:32:51.160 That said, I would recommend one book in particular if a young conservative wants to get a total survey view of the American character.

00:33:01.500 That's a book called What So Proudly We Hail, The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song.

00:33:07.600 It's by Leon Kass and his late wife Amy Kass and Diana Schaub.

00:33:11.720 They were all professors of mine at a think tank program in D.C. and a really illuminating book of political philosophy and literature and speeches that will give you, I think, a good view of the American character.

00:33:25.380 You should also watch old Firing Line episodes.

00:33:28.080 They all used to be on Amazon Prime.

00:33:29.800 I know they're all still at least on YouTube.

00:33:32.320 That was Bill Buckley's public affairs program.

00:33:34.860 Nothing like it exists today.

00:33:36.280 Nothing can exist like it in this media landscape.

00:33:38.700 But he would bring on somebody either on the left or on the right and have a very long conversation with them about a significant topic.

00:33:46.760 So check that out.

00:33:47.520 It's a good historical artifact, and you'll be educated by it too.

00:33:51.260 And then constantly discuss issues and your premises and your first principles, not to win debates, not to smash a liberal or anything like that.

00:33:58.420 But because if you do that with people on the left, you'll start to learn what is true about your beliefs, what is not quite correct about your beliefs, where you should go and pursue your own intellectual journey and academic journey.

00:34:11.900 And we're very lucky as conservatives in this culture because while the entire culture is against us, we have to constantly defend what we think and amend possibly what we think and really hone it down to some reality.

00:34:26.720 The left doesn't have that advantage.

00:34:28.600 They are told that whatever they think is right, and the left dominates the universities and dominates Hollywood and dominates so much of our corporate culture.

00:34:36.420 So they don't get that, and you have an opportunity, so you should use it.

00:34:40.280 Next question from Jessica.

00:34:41.740 Good afternoon, Mr. Knowles.

00:34:43.380 I watch your podcast every day and truly appreciate what you do.

00:34:46.320 Thank you.

00:34:47.100 How would you define the purpose of life?

00:34:49.700 Just an easy question for a Thursday afternoon.

00:34:51.960 Thank you.

00:34:52.520 The answer is 42.

00:34:54.160 That's the meaning of life.

00:34:56.320 Some other meanings of life.

00:34:58.140 My reaction is just to give glory to God.

00:35:00.980 That's as basic as you could say it.

00:35:03.240 The Westminster Shorter Catechism, I have learned, agrees with that. 0.99

00:35:07.680 They say man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.

00:35:12.020 1 Corinthians 10.31 says,

00:35:15.740 Whether therefore ye eat or drink or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

00:35:20.500 That's simple.

00:35:21.640 And related to that glory is awe.

00:35:23.740 Related to that enjoying God forever is awe.

00:35:26.060 Holy fear.

00:35:27.120 It's not servile fear.

00:35:28.340 It's not being afraid that the Lord is going to squish you, though certainly he could.

00:35:33.520 It's awe at this infinitely great thing, the maximally great being before being, the creator of the cosmos, the divine logos.

00:35:43.720 And that awe gets to, I think, Ecclesiastes 12.13, which says,

00:35:48.680 The end of the matter, all has been heard.

00:35:51.400 Fear God.

00:35:52.500 Fear meaning holy fear.

00:35:54.020 Be in awe of God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

00:35:58.960 And the reason I recommend awe to you as a compliment to giving glory to God is the world is just, it's the best.

00:36:07.160 It is when you are in awe, when you have a moment that Lewis would call the numinous, an experience of a glimmer, of a hint of a reflection of God,

00:36:17.120 then it illuminates the entire world and puts your own life in perspective and everything around you in better perspective.

00:36:26.220 Next question from Brian.

00:36:28.380 This is equally profound, by the way.

00:36:30.220 Have you checked your Clintonian privilege lately?

00:36:33.820 It is true.

00:36:34.960 Hillary Clinton is my third cousin once removed.

00:36:37.740 She's a member of the family.

00:36:38.800 She goes to family reunions.

00:36:39.900 Well, I'm sorry, she doesn't, but her first cousin that married into my grandfather's mother's family, they go to the reunions.

00:36:45.680 And so I really like the idea of the Clintonian privilege because it's analogous to white privilege in that it used to exist, but it doesn't exist anymore.

00:36:55.920 So there used to be white privilege in this country.

00:36:58.940 There certainly was white privilege. 0.77

00:37:00.880 Blacks were excluded from institutions. 0.89

00:37:03.360 They were excluded by the law. 0.96

00:37:05.140 They were excluded by the society.

00:37:07.700 And they aren't now.

00:37:09.260 Those laws are over.

00:37:11.060 The civil rights movement won.

00:37:13.900 Civil rights, there's no segregation.

00:37:17.180 There's no, by law or statutory, discrimination by race, except the other way. 0.96

00:37:23.660 There's affirmative action, which disadvantages white people and Asian people and Jews.

00:37:29.700 But there is no, but that certainly, you certainly wouldn't call that white privilege.

00:37:33.740 And the same way with the Clintons.

00:37:34.800 The Clintons are over.

00:37:35.500 We saw the former DNC chair, Donna Brazile, throwing her under the bus. 1.00

00:37:41.260 We see Democrats constantly throwing them under the bus.

00:37:43.600 Chelsea Clinton won't even be able to become president within four years. 1.00

00:37:46.800 So it's very, I have checked it.

00:37:49.440 It has been checked by society.

00:37:50.900 And I suppose that's perfectly fine.

00:37:53.160 From Father Greg, dear Michael, I was interested in your discussion with the panel on faith and works.

00:37:59.820 Your panel seemed to articulate that works are not in any way necessary.

00:38:03.700 However, then stated belief is necessary.

00:38:06.780 An excellent point, Father Greg.

00:38:21.120 Thank you for watching and for observing that.

00:38:23.920 I'll just bring up a couple verses that I think throw into light some of this faith versus works pseudo-debate that was happening.

00:38:38.640 Jesus said to them, this is from Matthew, I believe.

00:38:40.680 Jesus said to them, verily I tell you, very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

00:38:50.460 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. 1.00

00:38:56.200 For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink.

00:39:00.220 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 0.98

00:39:04.740 Now, it seems hard to understand this verse without a sacramental view, without realizing that he's describing a sacrament.

00:39:14.760 But even if you don't, he is describing you doing something.

00:39:17.580 He is describing a work in a certain sense.

00:39:20.200 You have to eat of the flesh of him to have life in you.

00:39:23.320 You have to drink of his blood to have life in you.

00:39:26.740 Another point on this is the Acts of the Apostles.

00:39:30.020 That book in the New Testament is not called the Ideas of the Apostles, or the Abstractions of the Apostles, or the Thoughts of the Apostles, or even the Faith of the Apostles.

00:39:39.360 Though it might be called that.

00:39:40.480 It's called the Acts of the Apostles because their faith has motivated their actions, and they were sent forth to preach the gospel.

00:39:51.040 Now, there's another gospel line.

00:39:53.840 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father.

00:40:00.320 Forget what the will of my Father means.

00:40:02.680 Even the verb does.

00:40:04.060 What you do is an action.

00:40:06.380 And this, I think, gets to a problem in politics, too.

00:40:10.540 So I'll expand this beyond just Christianity.

00:40:12.580 Our age, because our politics and our country was born in such a great degree out of the Enlightenment, the temptation is to be rationalist about it, as Oakeshott describes rationalism in politics.

00:40:26.960 So for the rationalist, Oakeshott says he's always standing.

00:40:30.260 He's standing for something.

00:40:31.920 He's never doing anything.

00:40:32.740 He's just standing.

00:40:34.120 And so for the rationalist, he's walking around, and he stands.

00:40:36.840 And then everything exists up here.

00:40:39.600 So all of his virtues, all of his ideas, all of his principles, all of everything that politics means to him is up here.

00:40:45.920 But this is the ethereal realm.

00:40:47.560 This isn't on Earth in space and time where he is.

00:40:51.060 And we are people who are in space and time.

00:40:53.960 We can't abstract our ways out of that.

00:40:56.040 Even thought is an action.

00:40:58.000 It's a neurochemical mechanism that transports ideas and changes ideas.

00:41:02.540 So you cannot escape your space and time.

00:41:06.900 To do so is to deny a fundamental reality that you are in.

00:41:11.720 And so both in our understanding of God and our relationship with God and with the incarnate God, the incarnation of the divine logos, as well as in our politics, you've got to remember you're a person in time and space.

00:41:25.160 And when you abstract too much and you stand valiantly, you're not really doing that much.

00:41:30.300 Next question from Carlos.

00:41:32.540 Hello, Michael.

00:41:33.220 I am planning to go to Cuba sometime in January with my cousin and was wondering where you stayed and spent most of your time while you were there.

00:41:39.840 How long was your visit?

00:41:41.160 I want to speak to the Cuban people.

00:41:42.800 I'm interested in how they feel about their government.

00:41:45.480 And also, how much damage does the embargo against Cuba do?

00:41:49.060 I always hear that the embargo is responsible for disparities in the Cuban economy.

00:41:52.820 But they can do trade with other nations, can't they?

00:41:54.640 Sincerely, Carlos.

00:41:55.680 Yes, they can, Carlos.

00:41:56.760 Good observation.

00:41:57.920 The embargo does nothing.

00:42:00.500 I mean, the embargo obviously hampers their economy.

00:42:03.780 But for years, the communist thug mafia Castro regime has blamed this trade embargo for all of their woes.

00:42:10.800 Well, that doesn't really work for all of the other socialist and communist countries around the world who also have destroyed their own countries, which is what the Castros have done. 0.95

00:42:19.140 So I suppose it's been an excuse for them, but no one really buys it.

00:42:22.880 I was able to see some people in Cuba.

00:42:25.700 Obviously, you've got to be a little touchy about this because they live in a totalitarian regime where people can be offed just for speaking ill of the one party.

00:42:35.940 So the Cuban people universally hate their government.

00:42:40.900 And you don't see Che Guevara t-shirts down there.

00:42:43.640 You see American flags.

00:42:44.760 I did not see anyone wearing a Che shirt that we see white liberals in America wear all the time.

00:42:50.360 I saw them wearing American flags on their jeans, on their t-shirts, on their cars when they can have cars.

00:42:55.960 So I stayed there.

00:42:57.380 I was just there for a long weekend.

00:42:58.440 I'm glad I went in that little window when it was legally feasible and easy enough to go.

00:43:04.680 I just stayed for a few days.

00:43:07.080 I stayed in an Airbnb because from what I gather, first of all, it's a lot cheaper.

00:43:12.320 The big hotels are awful, and they charge you $500 a night.

00:43:15.680 The Airbnbs are beautiful, and they cost you like $30 a night.

00:43:18.780 But also, apparently, the government extorts less of that money than they do from the national hotels.

00:43:24.520 So I'd recommend doing that.

00:43:25.600 Any way you can give money to the Cuban people or to the Cuban black market rather than the government is a good idea.

00:43:33.160 And, you know, I would try to talk to people if you can.

00:43:37.940 There's not a lot of English spoken down there, so I don't speak Spanish at all.

00:43:42.120 I can sort of understand it because I have Italian and some French.

00:43:44.960 But if you really want to speak to people, you'll have to speak Spanish. 0.92

00:43:49.340 And it'll take a little while before they'll speak ill of their government because the totalitarian regime there is so brutal and so awful that there are real consequences of it.

00:43:59.980 So you'll have to be a little patient with that.

00:44:02.380 Okay, enjoy your trip.

00:44:04.120 I'm flying out tonight for the Buckley program at Yale.

00:44:07.120 It's the annual dinner there.

00:44:08.200 So if I don't come back, it's because the shrieking harpies and snowflakes on campus have ripped me limb from limb.

00:44:15.720 Also, make sure you check out Another Kingdom.

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00:44:20.820 It is the way to survive the Clavenless weekend.

00:44:23.280 So go over there to wherever good podcasts are downloaded.

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00:44:28.900 Make sure you check that out.

00:44:30.240 And then I will see you all on Monday.

00:44:32.200 I am Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 02, 2017

Ep. 52 - Crooked Hillary Rigged The Election

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