The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 589 - Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop In

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00:00:37.720 Have you seen the Instagram challenge?

00:00:40.380 We talked about this on the show yesterday.

00:00:42.120 It's the challenge where women just post selfies of themselves on Instagram as though that were challenging. 1.00

00:00:47.800 Well, it turns out that all of us may be inadvertently participating in the Instagram challenge

00:00:53.940 because it turns out Instagram might be spying on us all the time.

00:00:59.260 People found this out because of an update to the iOS on their smartphones, on their Apple.

00:01:06.080 So they download iOS 14 beta, and it shows you with a little indicator light

00:01:10.620 whenever your phone camera is being accessed by apps that maybe you didn't think were accessing your phone's camera.

00:01:17.380 And as users are scrolling through Instagram, they see the light come on.

00:01:22.340 I hope you're looking hot.

00:01:23.660 I hope you're posing for your challenge.

00:01:25.580 Now, Instagram denies all this.

00:01:27.100 You see, it was just a big misunderstanding.

00:01:29.500 There's a little problem with the code.

00:01:30.940 There's nothing to worry about.

00:01:32.540 We're totally not spying on you all the time everywhere.

00:01:37.500 Well, if you believe that, my friends, I think I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

00:01:43.360 Big tech has got a lot of power, a lot, a lot of power.

00:01:47.460 They were dragged in front of Capitol Hill yesterday.

00:01:50.120 We will examine their testimony and examine why we all need to turn off, tune out, and drop in.

00:01:57.900 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:01:58.580 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:07.480 Welcome back to the show.

00:02:09.340 Where does the power really exist in the United States?

00:02:14.100 Where, forget even just political power, the power to look at you, listen to you, push you in certain directions, figure out what kind of information you're seeing.

00:02:25.160 That's a lot of power.

00:02:26.620 And I think it's time to take some of that back.

00:02:28.440 First, though, we've got to thank our friends over at Rock Auto.

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00:03:01.680 Why would you spend up to twice as much for the same parts?

00:03:03.900 Like, for instance, if you get me, you know, I go into a brick-and-mortar auto parts store, they think, there's my mark, there's a guy who doesn't know anything about cars, I'm going to go online and order the part, then it's going to come in later, I'm going to charge him double.

00:03:14.020 Probably they ordered it from RockAuto.com.

00:03:16.100 Well, I'll tell you, the RockAuto catalog is so easy to navigate, even I can do it, which is shocking.

00:03:21.340 It's unbelievable.

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00:03:27.940 Write Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, in their How Did You Hear About Us box, so that they know that we sent you. 1.00

00:03:35.800 Although probably in the future, we're not even going to have to do any of that because the big tech oligarchs are going to know where we are all the time.

00:03:43.120 They're going to know what we're thinking, they're going to read our thoughts, you know.

00:03:46.880 We all have these stories of how creepy it's getting with our smartphones.

00:03:51.500 For instance, when the lockdown was actually in place, and if you wanted to violate it, you could only go to a few friends' houses.

00:03:59.140 I found out, sweet little Lisa and I, basically were only going to one friend's house every Saturday night.

00:04:05.880 And you start going a few times, and then eventually, maybe after the third or fourth time, I look at my phone, it gets to be four or five o'clock,

00:04:12.580 they say, hey, Michael, are you ready to go to Jonathan's house?

00:04:15.960 Here's the, it's 40 minutes to this address, and you think, oh my gosh, you know where I am all the time.

00:04:21.020 You can predict where I'm going.

00:04:23.200 And actually, in recent years, big tech has disabled some features that were scaring people into realizing how much they know about us,

00:04:30.600 how much they can predict what we're doing.

00:04:32.640 The trouble is, look, we all hate politicians, right?

00:04:37.340 But at least our politicians have some accountability to us, politically, under the law.

00:04:43.680 Big tech, I'm not so sure about that.

00:04:45.900 I don't know that big tech has our interests at heart.

00:04:48.540 I don't think big tech has our personal interests at heart.

00:04:50.980 I don't think big tech has our national interests at heart.

00:04:53.720 I think they have, with maybe one exception, very, very, very little loyalty to the United States,

00:05:00.780 the country that allowed their companies to thrive.

00:05:03.660 So the CEOs yesterday of Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon were hauled in front of Congress.

00:05:11.220 They were asked for testimony.

00:05:13.160 They got to give a little bit more testimony than Bill Barr did two days ago.

00:05:16.900 Specifically, though, they were asked if they think China is stealing from U.S. firms.

00:05:23.740 Very simple question.

00:05:24.700 Do you believe China steals U.S. technology?

00:05:28.500 We all know that's true.

00:05:29.900 We've known that's true for decades.

00:05:31.720 We've all admitted that that is true.

00:05:33.660 So can these zillionaire oligarchs, some of whom rely on Chinese slave labor to build their products,

00:05:41.660 can those CEOs admit what China's up to?

00:05:46.800 For most of them, absolutely not.

00:05:49.600 I don't know of specific cases where we have been stolen from by the government.

00:05:56.560 So you don't believe that the Chinese government is stealing technology from U.S. companies,

00:06:01.180 or you're just saying that not from yours?

00:06:03.880 I'm saying I know of no case on ours where it occurred, which is I can only speak to first-hand knowledge.

00:06:11.360 Mr. Pichai, do you believe that the Chinese government steals technology from U.S. companies?

00:06:18.120 Congressman, I have no first-hand knowledge of any information stolen from Google.

00:06:27.120 Mr. Zuckerberg?

00:06:30.960 Congressman, I think it's well-documented that the Chinese government steals technology from American companies.

00:06:35.920 Thank you.

00:06:38.380 Mr. Bezos, you're on mute.

00:06:40.720 Mr. Bezos, I believe you're on mute.

00:06:42.620 I'm sorry.

00:06:43.480 I have heard many reports of that, and I haven't seen it personally, but I've heard many reports of it.

00:06:49.000 So even beyond their answers to that, I love that the CEO of the largest company ever, practically, Amazon,

00:06:57.440 doesn't know how to unmute his microphone when he's giving congressional testimony.

00:07:01.040 That just, that's perfect.

00:07:02.840 Of all those guys, starts out with Tim Cook, moves on to Sundar Pichai at Google,

00:07:06.900 then Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, then finally Jeff Bezos at Amazon.

00:07:11.220 Only one of them was willing to admit that China steals U.S. technology, which we've all known for years.

00:07:19.440 You've got to give credit where credit's due to Mark Zuckerberg.

00:07:21.920 Of all these guys, Zuckerberg is far and away the best of them.

00:07:26.620 He is the most defensible.

00:07:28.560 And I got a lot of problems with Facebook, but at least this guy is willing to say,

00:07:32.380 he seems actually kind of shocked when he hears the other CEOs.

00:07:35.140 He goes, yeah, I think we can admit, right, that China's stealing our tech. 0.99

00:07:40.520 Like, we know, like, why are we trying, the rest of these guys, they're like a bunch of perps who just got caught.

00:07:46.060 They say, I have no firsthand knowledge.

00:07:48.320 I have none.

00:07:49.760 What are you, China?

00:07:50.620 No, China's good.

00:07:51.860 We love you, Xi Jinping.

00:07:52.960 Keep, keep giving us those slaves to build our products. 1.00

00:07:55.420 We love you.

00:07:56.140 Ha ha.

00:07:56.880 Yeah, we hate Hong Kong. 1.00

00:07:57.980 Yeah, it's, it's pathetic. 1.00

00:07:59.900 It's pathetic. 0.99

00:08:00.760 And there are, there are two angles to this. 0.98

00:08:04.740 One is we need our companies to be patriotic.

00:08:07.720 We need, there is nothing conservative about allowing companies that have thrived in your country to transcend all bonds of loyalty to your country.

00:08:19.640 And in some cases to actively undermine your country.

00:08:23.320 There's nothing conservative.

00:08:24.540 I know conservatives have kind of bought into this idea that we need to support corporate America at all costs.

00:08:31.200 You know, corporate America is what, corporate America is terrible, okay?

00:08:33.660 Corporate America, maybe more than any institution other than the higher education apparatus, is pushing America to the left.

00:08:43.020 Because all they care about is the almighty dollar.

00:08:44.940 There's nothing conservative about chasing the almighty dollar for itself.

00:08:49.940 And that's it.

00:08:50.500 Just make money, money, money, money without any higher end in sight.

00:08:53.920 There's nothing conservative about that.

00:08:55.820 It's very modern.

00:08:56.960 It's very lib.

00:08:57.880 It's very left wing to do that.

00:08:59.400 It's very materialist to do that kind of thing.

00:09:01.580 And we should not tolerate it.

00:09:03.120 But the bigger point here, beyond all of that, is these guys have too much power.

00:09:11.220 Whether or not Instagram is actually spying on you, maybe it is just a bug in the system.

00:09:15.400 It could be.

00:09:16.200 What do I know?

00:09:16.660 I haven't looked into the code.

00:09:18.640 Probably, though, I don't think that's the case.

00:09:20.880 Probably a lot of these apps are spying on us a lot of the time.

00:09:24.400 And even if the apps aren't, people can hack in pretty easily.

00:09:27.300 Okay, and these guys, these big tech oligarchs, are controlling the apparatus with which they do that.

00:09:34.320 They have too much power.

00:09:35.440 They're unaccountable.

00:09:36.500 They've bought off much of Congress, of both parties, and they need to be reined in.

00:09:42.200 Okay?

00:09:42.660 It's not even just the companies themselves.

00:09:45.180 Our reliance on technology, on the digital world, is making us susceptible to all sorts of deception, even outside of the digital world.

00:09:55.060 Right now, there's a major push by the left to try to steal this election by pushing nationwide mail-in ballots.

00:10:00.840 The left has been caught red-handed using mail-in ballots and other schemes as a means of voter fraud for a very long time.

00:10:09.180 They've been doing it forever.

00:10:10.540 Actually, in one of the biographies of LBJ, FDR jokes to LBJ about how you've got to remember to steal some ballots and play with the vote tally at the end if you want to win elections.

00:10:21.780 There's nothing new about that.

00:10:23.300 What is new is Americans thinking that it's normal to be able to just 100% of people vote by mail and nothing is going to happen there.

00:10:31.680 There's a reason that we have polling places.

00:10:33.400 There's a reason we have an election day.

00:10:34.860 There's a reason that we have ballot security people show up at these polling places because people are trying to manipulate you.

00:10:42.760 People are trying to steal your vote.

00:10:44.340 People are trying to suppress your vote.

00:10:45.880 Okay?

00:10:46.200 And there's something that feels very good.

00:10:49.200 It makes us feel very secure in putting in our ballot at a polling station.

00:10:54.080 Many conservatives have been disfranchised before.

00:10:56.200 This has happened to me personally.

00:10:57.740 I voted in a primary and then magically, for some reason, I was kicked off the voter roll for the general election.

00:11:03.360 Okay?

00:11:03.680 We all know people have these stories.

00:11:05.340 So you want to make sure your ballot is secure.

00:11:07.640 Well, a local CBS affiliate in New York took on a little experiment to see just how secure mail-in ballots are.

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00:12:17.580 This time, maybe more than ever, a lot of us are susceptible to invasions of our privacy and even identity theft.

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00:12:30.280 So a CBS affiliate in New York does a little experiment.

00:12:35.440 They take 100 ballots.

00:12:37.020 They put them in the mail.

00:12:38.080 They're mock-up ballots.

00:12:40.440 And they send them to a P.O. box that they've registered for this experiment.

00:12:45.580 Everyone's vote gets counted, right?

00:12:47.280 Everything's totally fine, hunky-dory?

00:12:49.400 Not quite.

00:12:50.060 If you know how to mail a letter, you already know how to mail in your vote.

00:12:56.400 How you doing?

00:12:57.380 Good, sir.

00:12:58.460 Thank you very much.

00:12:59.640 But how long might it take for that vote to actually arrive and be counted?

00:13:04.080 You're welcome.

00:13:04.740 Have a good afternoon.

00:13:05.460 We decided to test it, sending 100 mock ballots simulating 100 voters from locations all across Philadelphia to a P.O. box we set up to represent a local election office.

00:13:16.680 A couple days later, we mailed 100 more using the same size envelopes and the same class of mail as real ballots here.

00:13:24.160 To approximate the weight, we even folded mock votes into every one.

00:13:29.640 In the following week, we checked our P.O. box for the results.

00:13:33.660 Mail pickup notice.

00:13:34.560 There's more.

00:13:35.220 When we went to collect everything, though...

00:13:36.960 So, it turned up short.

00:13:53.160 I also should point out, I pulled a little bit of a Joe Biden there.

00:13:55.540 I thought it was from New York, but it was from Philly.

00:13:57.400 We'll get to Joe Biden making a much more egregious error than that in a moment.

00:14:01.060 Because, frankly, I consider Philadelphia to be a suburb of New York anyway.

00:14:04.200 But it didn't...

00:14:05.860 Wherever they are, it didn't work.

00:14:07.280 And we still don't know where a lot of those ballots are.

00:14:09.420 They couldn't find some.

00:14:10.880 Then they did find the ballots, finally, at the P.O. box.

00:14:15.780 Then the investigative journalists who tried this experiment ended up getting someone else's mail.

00:14:22.300 They ended up getting two birthday cards in there.

00:14:25.380 So, I don't know where their mail went, but they got two birthday cards.

00:14:28.360 21% of the 100 ballots, mock ballots that they mailed out, had not made it to the P.O. box after four days.

00:14:39.760 It's not that far to travel.

00:14:41.800 Some were missing after more than a week.

00:14:45.280 Three out of 100 of the ballots were just completely lost.

00:14:50.440 3%, right?

00:14:51.580 They mailed 100.

00:14:52.520 Three get lost.

00:14:53.280 Do you think 3% could swing an election?

00:14:56.920 I think it could.

00:14:58.280 Of course it could.

00:14:59.240 Our elections are razor thin for the last 20 years anyway.

00:15:03.720 Absolutely 3% could.

00:15:05.380 They're expecting, right now, 80 to 100 million voters to vote by mail.

00:15:11.160 So, you're looking at just using this one little experiment as a test.

00:15:16.200 Three million votes could go missing.

00:15:18.460 And don't forget, only half the country, less than half the country votes.

00:15:24.000 That's a huge percentage of people.

00:15:26.920 It's not secure.

00:15:28.180 Here in California, as of the last couple years, they now list your party registration on the outside of the envelope.

00:15:36.020 In other words, now that we've got voter harvesting throughout a lot of the country, people will come.

00:15:41.860 They'll take a look at that envelope and say, oh, a Republican ballot.

00:15:44.640 Whoops, got lost.

00:15:45.900 Lost in the mail.

00:15:46.840 Well, things get lost in the mail all the time.

00:15:50.520 What happens if, just like the birthday card issue here, someone else gets your ballot?

00:15:56.460 They don't agree with the positions you hold.

00:15:58.760 They can see your party registration on the outside.

00:16:01.660 Might just go missing.

00:16:03.240 This is what the left is pushing for, rife for abuse.

00:16:06.160 Some Democratic Congress lady asked Attorney General Barr yesterday,

00:16:09.740 said, do you have any evidence that there could be fraud involved in the mail-in ballots?

00:16:14.540 And he said, I don't have evidence.

00:16:16.940 I have common sense.

00:16:18.700 Of course it could.

00:16:20.660 Even the fact that the news agency was making all these fake ballots that looked really, really, really real should give us some pause here.

00:16:27.660 But how else are Democrats going to steal this election?

00:16:31.700 They can't, they can't rely on their candidate.

00:16:34.040 Their candidate doesn't know where he is.

00:16:36.220 Forget about confusing a certain CBS affiliate.

00:16:39.360 This guy will actually show up to a place, fly in, drive in, get to a podium, start to give a speech, and have no clue where he is.

00:16:47.240 And worse than that, this happens sometimes in politics, he doesn't even know how to cover for it anymore.

00:16:51.720 Take a listen to the latest, greatest hit from presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden.

00:16:57.200 Good afternoon, everyone.

00:17:00.120 Welcome to Kingswood Community Center.

00:17:04.040 Actually, that's the one down I used to work.

00:17:06.980 It was a joke.

00:17:08.220 You didn't know where we were.

00:17:09.060 Anyway, it's great to be here.

00:17:12.680 Oh, that is sad.

00:17:15.820 That is very sad.

00:17:17.040 Because he walks up there.

00:17:18.580 Like, I don't know, I don't know what the joke would be if that were a joke.

00:17:23.180 That he, he just got confused, right?

00:17:25.220 He's someplace that I guess it's near where he used to be.

00:17:27.820 And then he says, we're here at Kingman Community Center.

00:17:30.580 Oh, wait a second.

00:17:31.560 That's, I'm not, I'm not there.

00:17:33.040 Where am I?

00:17:33.480 I don't, I'm just joking.

00:17:35.720 Just joking.

00:17:36.860 Definitely not in cognitive decline.

00:17:39.780 Anyway, let's move on with the show.

00:17:41.400 So he forgot where he was.

00:17:43.900 He then forgot where President Trump wasn't.

00:17:47.580 It is not a good idea.

00:17:49.700 Evidence the fact that, do you, uh, rhetorical question.

00:17:53.280 I'm not expecting you to answer it.

00:17:54.400 Do you think the president all of a sudden decided not to go to Tallahassee because he

00:17:58.800 no longer, he thought it was the interest of the public?

00:18:01.980 He decided.

00:18:02.920 Jacksonville.

00:18:03.380 I mean, Jacksonville, Florida.

00:18:04.580 So he was referring to the president now moving the Republican National Convention from

00:18:10.880 Jacksonville, Florida, maybe back to Charlotte, maybe back to the White House, who knows?

00:18:15.800 But he didn't even remember where that was going to be.

00:18:18.360 And it's, oh, we're, we're having an earthquake right now at the Daily Wire.

00:18:22.140 It's amazing.

00:18:22.860 I hope we don't fall through the floor.

00:18:24.540 That's, uh, gosh, I made 2020 just can't get any crazier, can it?

00:18:29.260 So in any case, back to Joe Biden, uh, Joe Biden couldn't even remember that where the

00:18:35.880 RNC was going to be, then it wasn't going to be.

00:18:37.560 And beyond his inability to remember where we are, Joe Biden can't formulate the sentences

00:18:45.700 that will allow him to either get out of these gaffes or, or even, or even just get a coherent

00:18:51.500 idea apart.

00:18:52.400 That's probably the saddest part of it, right?

00:18:54.460 He's just kind of trailing off and, oh yeah, sorry, I don't know.

00:18:57.060 And he's, he's not even finishing his sentences.

00:18:58.900 They're just sentence fragments.

00:19:00.600 He was leaving his campaign office the other day.

00:19:03.280 One of his campaign staffers had to lead him out, almost holding his hand.

00:19:09.000 So you can see it's a young staffer and he's kind of, he's looking in other directions and

00:19:16.540 she's, she's holding him like it's her grandpa.

00:19:18.900 Like, you know, okay, come here, grandpa.

00:19:20.680 Don't, nope, don't talk to the reporters.

00:19:21.980 The minute the reporters put a microphone in front of his face, she says, okay, thanks

00:19:27.720 guys.

00:19:27.920 Thank you.

00:19:28.360 Thank you.

00:19:28.680 Bye-bye.

00:19:28.940 Get in the car, Joe.

00:19:29.840 Come on.

00:19:30.300 We can't have you talking to reporters.

00:19:33.760 So they, they cannot campaign out in the open, right?

00:19:38.180 They won't, they won't talk to reporters every, every time they do speak to anybody, it's got

00:19:41.560 to be highly manicured, highly, uh, tied up.

00:19:45.800 This ties in with big tech because what we have is a virtual campaign and a virtual campaign

00:19:51.340 can be manipulated just like a deep fake video, just like a photoshopped photograph.

00:19:56.220 It can be manipulated and manicured to give the illusion of something that it's not.

00:20:01.600 If Joe Biden had to campaign in person, in real life, where we all ought to be living

00:20:06.460 in real life, where we're flesh and blood and we're moving around and we're held accountable

00:20:10.120 for doing real things.

00:20:11.280 He wouldn't stand a chance.

00:20:12.540 Trump would win 50 states and, and Greenland.

00:20:15.640 He'd win 51 states once we annexed Greenland.

00:20:17.960 But because these masters of the universe can create, using Joe Biden's image, they can create

00:20:26.220 a candidate out of whole cloth.

00:20:28.260 He actually might stand a chance.

00:20:30.680 Joe Biden also put out this statement.

00:20:33.880 I'm sure he didn't write it.

00:20:34.940 I'm sure he didn't even read it, but he put out a statement to try to win over some of those

00:20:39.700 voters in the middle.

00:20:40.540 He said, quote, I have said from the outset of recent protests that there is no place for

00:20:44.960 violence and destruction of property.

00:20:46.520 Peaceful protesters should be protected and arsonists and anarchists should be prosecuted.

00:20:52.000 So he's taking this stand.

00:20:53.340 He's moderating for the general.

00:20:54.660 He's saying, yeah, we don't, we don't want to burn down the country.

00:20:57.060 Why is he doing that?

00:20:57.780 Because two days ago, Trump launched the most devastating ad that he has yet on the Biden

00:21:02.940 campaign, which is if you elect Joe Biden, you're going to get robbed.

00:21:06.800 If you elect Joe Biden, the cops are going to get defunded.

00:21:09.680 Democrats are dangerous.

00:21:10.760 That was the message.

00:21:12.160 For the last few months, the Trump campaign has been dithering.

00:21:15.160 The Trump campaign has been attacking Joe for being too conservative.

00:21:18.560 They've attacked Joe for being too tough on crime. 0.95

00:21:20.240 It was just ridiculous. 0.95

00:21:21.580 It was very ineffective. 0.91

00:21:22.700 So the Biden campaign didn't care very much.

00:21:24.800 Now, though, the Trump campaign is getting serious.

00:21:26.960 And so Biden is moderating, too.

00:21:28.440 And he's actually, it seems, leaning toward picking a cop to be his VP.

00:21:34.380 Not a real cop, but but someone with a reputation of a cop.

00:21:38.140 Former California Attorney General Kamala Harris.

00:21:41.080 Now, how do we know that Joe Biden is leading toward Kamala Harris?

00:21:45.360 Because Politico accidentally broke the news in very explicit terms.

00:21:49.580 And then they tried to pretend in our digital age where you can memory hole anything that

00:21:53.960 all it was just.

00:21:54.740 Yeah, that was just a formatting error.

00:21:56.500 Never mind.

00:21:56.980 Nothing to see here.

00:21:58.380 We'll get into their announcement.

00:22:00.040 That was not an announcement.

00:22:01.840 Then we will get into where Trump stands on all of this.

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00:23:38.800 So Politico puts this out on their website, quote, Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris to become

00:23:47.940 his running mate for the 2020 election on August 1st, two weeks before the Democratic National

00:23:52.540 Convention, after keeping his choice close to the chest for months.

00:23:56.280 In his announcement, Biden called Harris a worthy opponent and a worthy running mate,

00:24:00.360 alluding to the pair's rivalry during the earlier stages of the Democratic primary.

00:24:03.940 She will bring her experience as a prosecutor, household name recognition and skill as a 0.83

00:24:08.340 debater to the ticket.

00:24:11.580 So Politico walks this back because as you might notice, it's not August 1st yet.

00:24:15.780 So how do, what, what, what is this announcement?

00:24:18.380 Joe Biden hasn't announced anything to my knowledge.

00:24:20.180 They said, oh, that's just placeholder text.

00:24:23.620 You know, I've, I've worked around newspapers and websites and politics a fair bit.

00:24:29.100 That ain't placeholder text.

00:24:30.980 That's not, placeholder text actually is this kind of nonsense.

00:24:33.940 It's Latin, which is called, it's called lorem ipsum.

00:24:36.840 And it's just the kind of nonsense Latin that you fill in sometimes so you can figure out 0.99

00:24:40.340 how things are going to be spaced out on a page.

00:24:42.420 You don't get very, very specific about who Joe Biden chooses for his running mate and

00:24:47.380 how he chose her and when he did it and what the quotes were.

00:24:51.460 It seems to me the campaign is leaning heavily in her direction, though with all of the leaks

00:24:58.320 about Kamala Harris, they're clearly taking the temperature.

00:25:01.920 And maybe some people are working against her on the campaign.

00:25:05.740 In any case, Joe Biden is getting pretty serious.

00:25:10.540 They will, because of the extended lockdowns, be able to craft whatever image they want.

00:25:16.440 You don't need to worry so much about the gaffes on the campaign trail.

00:25:19.720 This will only favor the left because the big tech masters of the universe only favor the left. 0.87

00:25:25.920 Whenever there's a little accident, a little glitch, a little bug, and, you know, some

00:25:30.160 search results, I don't know, there's search engine manipulation and all the left-wing

00:25:33.740 sites seem to pop up, but not the right-wing sites.

00:25:35.820 Or there'll be some terrible defamation of a conservative on the internet, but then they'll

00:25:39.040 get rid of it.

00:25:39.740 All those accidents, all those glitches only seem to go in one direction.

00:25:44.920 Expect that to get much, much worse as November approaches.

00:25:48.780 So then we get to the question of President Trump.

00:25:50.140 What should he do about this?

00:25:51.080 Right now, it would seem President Trump is leaning in the direction of giving a virtual

00:25:56.240 convention speech from the White House or wherever.

00:26:00.580 That's a bad idea.

00:26:02.240 It's a very bad idea.

00:26:03.300 I said it from the very beginning.

00:26:05.560 Coronavirus is the campaign for Democrats.

00:26:09.160 What I mean by that is that the consequences of the virus, the lockdowns, the mail-in votes

00:26:14.700 everywhere, the digital everything, that is the campaign.

00:26:18.100 That is their strategy to retake the White House.

00:26:22.160 If Trump plays into that, he is handing them the campaign.

00:26:26.140 He's handing them the election.

00:26:27.920 Don't play into that.

00:26:29.820 I think President Trump needs to go to Charlotte or Jacksonville.

00:26:34.380 I guess they're pulled out of there, but go to Charlotte probably or wherever.

00:26:37.920 Give a speech in person to real people waving real Trump signs, wearing real MAGA hats,

00:26:44.920 cheering in real time.

00:26:46.140 He needs the rallies.

00:26:47.260 The president needs the rallies.

00:26:48.820 That's the campaign.

00:26:49.960 And he is being hoodwinked by a liberal media and technological establishment and political

00:26:55.620 establishment and public health establishment.

00:26:57.960 He's being hoodwinked into giving up his campaign, the strongest assets he has for re-election

00:27:02.900 and giving it over to digital manipulators who can make Joe Biden look like he can string

00:27:08.380 three words together.

00:27:09.620 He should not play into that.

00:27:12.120 Okay, we got it.

00:27:13.120 We got to tune out.

00:27:13.820 We got to get, we cannot live our lives exclusively on technology.

00:27:18.920 Technology can be incredibly useful.

00:27:20.420 I think conservatives have benefited from it greatly.

00:27:22.420 It's allowed us to get past the gatekeepers of the mainstream media.

00:27:24.880 We should use it wisely.

00:27:26.260 We cannot give ourselves over to it entirely.

00:27:29.340 That would be to give over our politics to the left and specifically to unaccountable oligarchs 0.90

00:27:34.620 who not only don't care about us, they don't care about our country.

00:27:37.640 They are chasing the almighty dollar all the way to slave labor in China.

00:27:41.780 That is not the American dream.

00:27:43.900 President Trump just got in trouble actually for talking about the American dream. 0.99

00:27:47.060 He rescinded an Obama era housing rule that was extraordinarily stupid and ineffective and, 0.99

00:27:55.240 and even if it were to be effective, not particularly desirable. 0.98

00:27:59.580 And so President Trump pulls this out and he says, quote,

00:28:03.900 I'm happy to inform all of the people living their suburban lifestyle dream,

00:28:08.880 caps on SLD for some reason,

00:28:11.180 that you will no longer be bothered or financially hurt by having low income housing built in your neighborhood.

00:28:16.200 Your housing prices will go up based on the market.

00:28:18.480 Crime will go down.

00:28:19.600 I've rescinded the Obama Biden AFFH rule.

00:28:22.760 Enjoy.

00:28:23.460 Great stuff.

00:28:24.440 Love this idea.

00:28:25.320 Of course, they called him a racist.

00:28:26.360 They call him a racist to be sneezes.

00:28:27.940 This is a great idea.

00:28:29.580 This Obama rule from 2015 allowed the federal government to withhold funding

00:28:33.860 if it doesn't like how state and local governments are tinkering with low income housing

00:28:39.480 in any neighborhood at once.

00:28:41.740 That's obviously an extraordinary power grab by the federal government.

00:28:45.920 Ben Carson, at the head of housing and urban development,

00:28:50.100 suggested that this might happen just a little while ago.

00:28:55.480 His comments were, quote,

00:28:56.940 So then they come out, they rescind this rule.

00:29:14.000 I think it's a wonderful idea.

00:29:14.960 Trump's got to go for the suburbs and the way he's going to win over the suburbs is not playing nice.

00:29:19.280 There's some people, especially on the right, who say the way that Trump's got to win the suburbs

00:29:23.040 is he's got to become liberal and he's got to become a wimp and he's got to give in to the Democrats.

00:29:30.620 No, it's not how you're going to win the suburbs.

00:29:32.260 You know how you win the suburbs?

00:29:34.680 Bring down crime.

00:29:36.320 Make people feel safe.

00:29:38.120 Bring law and order.

00:29:39.380 You always hear that we're losing suburban women. 1.00

00:29:42.060 When push comes to shove, especially in presidential election years,

00:29:44.860 suburban women tend to vote with their husbands. 1.00

00:29:47.100 Okay, so you've got to win the suburbs generally.

00:29:49.620 And the way you win the suburbs is by being normal.

00:29:52.460 Okay, you don't need to be some extreme right-wing ideologue.

00:29:55.000 You certainly shouldn't be an extreme left-wing ideologue.

00:29:57.080 Just be normal and protect people's lives and property and speak to them in a direct way,

00:30:01.900 the way that got President Trump the White House the first time around.

00:30:04.780 And you will win the suburbs.

00:30:05.840 And I think the Trump campaign is finally starting to do that.

00:30:08.360 I think that's a good thing.

00:30:09.400 That should strongly be encouraged.

00:30:13.080 You know, right now, I was reading Vice.

00:30:16.560 Why was I reading Vice?

00:30:17.400 I have no idea.

00:30:18.540 I was reading vice.com and there's a phenomenon going on on the left.

00:30:22.120 It's called woke fishing.

00:30:24.260 Have you heard about this?

00:30:25.120 I say, have you been woke fished while dating?

00:30:27.900 Here's how to tell.

00:30:30.600 There's a gal who's writing, Serena Smith.

00:30:33.300 She says, when I was 17, I decided to go vegan.

00:30:35.980 Okay.

00:30:36.780 And I mentioned my new veganism to the guy I was seeing at the time.

00:30:40.820 17.

00:30:41.420 Okay.

00:30:41.940 And to my surprise, he seemed really annoyed.

00:30:44.060 He responded with an uninterruptible lecture on the importance of supporting British farmers.

00:30:48.380 I can still remember one of his appalled patronizing texts.

00:30:51.480 Oh, no, you're not going to become one of those vegan feminists, are you? 1.00

00:30:53.920 I was confused.

00:30:55.980 He hadn't come across like someone who hated vegan feminists. 0.95

00:30:59.300 So where had this come from?

00:31:01.740 Woke fishing.

00:31:02.780 Woke fishing, put simply, is when people masquerade as holding progressive political views to ensnare potential partners.

00:31:09.500 A woke fish may at first present themselves as a protest-attending, sex-positive, anti-racist, intersectional feminist who drinks ethically sourced oat milk and has read the back catalog of Audre Lorde twice. 0.99

00:31:21.960 But in reality, they don't give an S-H-I-T.

00:31:24.840 Or, as is often the case, they are actively the opposite in their personal lives.

00:31:29.160 It's like catfishing, but specifically with political beliefs.

00:31:33.240 This is terrific stuff.

00:31:35.120 I absolutely love that even the left is waking up to this.

00:31:41.180 First of all, what this woman doesn't understand is that every male feminist, every male vegan, every male leftist activist is just doing it to pick up chicks. 0.73

00:31:53.980 That's it. 0.99

00:31:55.180 The male feminists, they're the creepiest men on the planet. 1.00

00:31:57.900 Stay away from them. 1.00

00:31:59.480 They're pretending to be effeminate.

00:32:02.760 They're pretending to appeal to you.

00:32:04.860 They're just trying to get you into bed.

00:32:06.480 That's all it is.

00:32:07.740 Okay?

00:32:08.160 You shouldn't fall for it.

00:32:11.040 That's true in the real world, too.

00:32:12.480 But this especially seems to be true on the Internet, where people can manicure their own profiles and make them seem to be something that they are not.

00:32:20.940 Well, that's what's going on.

00:32:22.580 We, as a fact of the Internet, are always, we have much more control in making ourselves seem to be something that we are not.

00:32:31.820 Much harder to do that in real life, though.

00:32:33.800 Everyone does that to a certain degree as well.

00:32:35.480 But on the Internet, they do that especially.

00:32:38.120 It's not just on politics.

00:32:39.500 It's even in your personal life.

00:32:41.120 Okay?

00:32:41.440 We need to be a little bit wary of that.

00:32:43.840 We need to realize.

00:32:44.720 When we talk about ideology, we always say there's a big difference between the fantasy of the left and the reality that we see all around us.

00:32:49.660 Big difference between ideological theories and common sense.

00:32:53.000 The Internet magnifies that times a zillion.

00:32:56.260 Because, you know, getting back to our Instagram challenge, you can take the picture to make you look any way you want the picture to make you look.

00:33:03.460 And you can airbrush it and you can have them say anything.

00:33:05.780 We need to avoid this in politics.

00:33:07.060 We need to avoid this in our personal lives as well.

00:33:10.880 Use technology when it's advantageous to us.

00:33:13.420 But as a broader rule for our lives, tune out.

00:33:18.680 Unplug.

00:33:19.580 Dig into the real world.

00:33:20.740 Otherwise, we've lost already.

00:33:22.320 We've got to get to the mailbag, though.

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00:34:23.340 We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:34:24.380 All right, let's jump in.

00:34:38.020 From Brad.

00:34:38.660 Dear Michael, this past weekend you said you would no longer watch the New York Yankees after the entire team knelt during the black ribbon ceremony on opening day.

00:34:45.240 I wanted you to know nearly the entire Boston Red Sox team stood during their opening day ceremony.

00:34:51.460 Will you see the light and become a Red Sox fan?

00:34:55.040 I would rather die than become a Red Sox fan.

00:34:59.820 I don't care how angry I am at the Yankees.

00:35:01.980 The Yankees are dead to me, but I sure ain't going to become a Red Sox.

00:35:05.880 Come on, I've got some dignity.

00:35:07.340 I've got some patriotism and a love of New York left.

00:35:10.840 Absolutely not.

00:35:12.140 Nice try, though.

00:35:12.920 From Hudock.

00:35:13.880 Hi, Michael.

00:35:14.520 I loved your response to Joe Rogan's take on video games.

00:35:17.280 You spoke about how throughout history, great thinkers considered leisure to be an important use of time and that we've lost a lot of our appreciation for leisure in today's culture.

00:35:25.820 What are your favorite leisurely activities or what leisurely activities would you recommend to someone trying to implement more leisure time in their life?

00:35:33.920 How many times can we say leisure?

00:35:35.120 One thing I would recommend is a nice cigar every so often.

00:35:38.640 I did this last night with our pals Jonathan Hay and Drew Klavan.

00:35:44.740 You know, I go to Drew's house a fair bit and have a nice cigar and maybe a scotch or two or three or 25.

00:35:51.100 And so that's a nice activity.

00:35:53.000 Cigars are great.

00:35:54.120 I'm not even joking about the cigar.

00:35:55.500 The cigar is great as a leisure activity because it tunes you into your taste.

00:36:00.300 So you are kind of experiencing this aesthetic thing.

00:36:04.260 But you can either do it on your own.

00:36:06.740 And when you smoke a cigar alone, it forces you to sit down and contemplate for 40 minutes or 45 minutes.

00:36:14.300 It's very helpful.

00:36:15.760 And you can do it as a social activity and it is an aid to conversation.

00:36:20.020 And I don't just mean like, hey, how are the kids?

00:36:22.120 Or did you see what Susie did the other day?

00:36:23.600 I mean real conversation where you're talking about real things that develop your mind and your spirit.

00:36:31.240 And the way that the ancient Greeks would have, you know, the way that this is described in kind of Plato is the idea that you're having a, like, you kind of have an intellectual child with the person you're conversing with.

00:36:41.460 You know, the kind of product of your two ideas and conversations coming together will produce this intellectual child.

00:36:47.060 That's very important.

00:36:47.840 I really like that.

00:36:48.760 Reading, obviously.

00:36:49.660 Though reading is not particularly relaxing, but it is a leisure activity that will develop you.

00:36:54.780 Going to church.

00:36:55.800 Highly recommend going to church.

00:36:57.880 You know, the body is a temple.

00:36:58.760 The temple needs incense.

00:36:59.620 So you've got to smoke the stogies.

00:37:00.940 You should go to church as well.

00:37:02.200 I mean, contemplating God is sort of the definition of a leisure activity.

00:37:07.820 And we're using leisure not in the way that modern people use it, but in the higher sense of that.

00:37:12.480 So you should be going to church.

00:37:13.400 You should be praying.

00:37:14.240 You should be reading the scripture.

00:37:15.900 You should be thinking about God.

00:37:17.260 God, that's probably the highest end of the contemplative life.

00:37:21.040 You can paint.

00:37:22.180 I enjoy painting every now and again.

00:37:24.060 I'm not exactly Caravaggio, but I sure do enjoy it.

00:37:26.780 That's a great leisure activity that allows you to see something new, really focus on color, really focus on where we are in the world.

00:37:33.400 I'm all for the hustle.

00:37:34.440 Well, you know, I work a pretty long work day, but you can't only do that.

00:37:40.360 I mean, even if you're working 12 or 14 hour work day, you need some leisure time to contemplate the eternal things.

00:37:48.000 It'll make you better at your grind and your hustle, first of all, and it will make you a fuller human person.

00:37:53.240 From Alex, after a recent breakup, I'm doubting the institution of marriage being a viable and reasonable outcome for men in today's society.

00:38:00.880 Women are more likely to initiate a divorce, and when they do, the divorce hearings drastically tip in favor of women when it comes to custody. 0.99

00:38:08.420 Not only that, but they also take at least 50% of everything we've made for the family.

00:38:11.840 How can men expect to enter a marriage when they want a family and a lifelong partner, but those things are now harder and harder to hold on to?

00:38:19.060 My very practical advice is be Catholic. 0.51

00:38:22.260 And I say that because if you are Catholic and you're like really Catholic, like you actually practice it and you believe this stuff and you do this stuff, you cannot get divorced.

00:38:31.920 It is not permitted.

00:38:33.660 You would have to abandon your faith to be divorced.

00:38:37.120 It is not accepted.

00:38:38.260 You know, Christ is very clear in Matthew.

00:38:40.760 No divorce.

00:38:41.380 You can't do it.

00:38:42.820 Obviously, there are people who would call themselves or consider themselves Catholic who do get divorced and remarried, but you're not allowed to do that.

00:38:50.280 So that would be one thing that would increase your chances of having a happy marriage.

00:38:54.060 Now, there are many non-Catholics who have happy marriages as well.

00:38:57.920 You've got to make sure that you share at least the basic value that divorce is not an option.

00:39:04.000 You're in it.

00:39:04.660 You're in it for life.

00:39:05.580 There was something actually sort of charming about Will Smith and Jada Pinkett's marriage.

00:39:09.380 Marriage.

00:39:09.860 They had this bizarre conversation about their marriage the other day.

00:39:12.980 And they said, yeah, I cheated on you and I cheated and it was terrible and it was a very hard marriage and I thought it was on the ropes, but we're not getting divorced.

00:39:21.480 And they quoted bad boys.

00:39:23.740 They paraphrased bad boys.

00:39:24.840 They said, we ride together, we died together, bad marriage for life.

00:39:28.360 There's actually something kind of admirable about that.

00:39:31.420 I wish they didn't have a bad marriage, but there's something admirable about saying we're not getting divorced.

00:39:35.460 It's just not going to happen.

00:39:36.780 So, we've got to figure out this marriage.

00:39:40.040 I think there is much greater hope, but you're not going to find it in the kind of regular liberal secular pop culture where marriage is just treated as a slightly more serious relationship in line with all of your other romantic relationships.

00:39:54.480 And you should follow your romantic love wherever it goes.

00:39:57.960 You almost certainly will need to marry someone who's quite religious.

00:40:03.100 You'll have to marry someone who's constitutionally conservative.

00:40:06.060 I don't mean that like the document the constitution.

00:40:08.180 I mean their own personal constitution has to be moderate and conservative so they're not taken to flights of fancy like leaving you for the secretary or something.

00:40:16.620 And you're going to have to spell out what the marriage is at the outset.

00:40:21.940 We always talk about how we have to be specific with words.

00:40:24.180 Well, marriage has been redefined and redefined ad nauseum in the last 60 years.

00:40:29.180 You've got to make sure that you're entering into the same institution that your future spouse thinks they're entering into.

00:40:35.140 But I think there is hope.

00:40:36.020 You've just got to find a good spouse. 1.00

00:40:38.760 From Kara.

00:40:40.080 What a great name.

00:40:41.660 Dear Michael Knowles, people I thought I knew my whole life are coming out on social media completely believing fake news.

00:40:46.920 100%.

00:40:47.400 And the scary part is if you show them the truth, they get angry.

00:40:50.260 There's no middle ground for conversation.

00:40:51.620 The truth is they're delusional and at least they, at the least, they're narrow-minded.

00:40:55.440 Do I turn the other cheek, forgive them for they know not what they do, and keep my mouth shut while their lips flap lies and demand justice over whatever their soup of the day is?

00:41:05.540 Sincerely, Kara, an outcast from New York.

00:41:08.320 You've got to be wise as a serpent and innocent as a dove.

00:41:11.100 If you think it will be productive for you to call out a lie and you think you can do so in a way that's not going to completely destroy the relationship, then I would insert yourself.

00:41:22.400 Or if you were asked your opinion, you should certainly say what your opinion is.

00:41:26.040 You should have integrity about that.

00:41:27.940 But sometimes the problem runs a little bit deeper.

00:41:30.940 You're not going to be able to change someone's mind by just picking apart every little thing that Rachel Maddow says on MSNBC.

00:41:38.660 You're going to have to get down to basics, first principles.

00:41:43.160 Beyond, you know, tax rates and China policy, you've got to get down to what is America?

00:41:49.620 What is the human person?

00:41:50.900 What is our relationship to government?

00:41:52.420 What are we here for?

00:41:53.920 How did we come to be?

00:41:55.080 I mean, like really basic questions.

00:41:56.620 Cardinal Manning, a great political thinker, said, at bottom, all human conflict is theological.

00:42:01.900 So you've got to get down to the basics of where they're getting their political views.

00:42:05.420 And if you can get them dislodged from some of the leftist or liberal lies that undergird their political views, then you might be able to change their opinions, even on the fake news itself.

00:42:16.120 From Joel, austere religious podcaster.

00:42:18.340 My wife and I are coming up on our first anniversary.

00:42:20.820 Since we got married, we have been discussing when to begin having children.

00:42:25.180 As a Catholic, I've been wanting to accept children as they come.

00:42:28.140 My wife, a Methodist, has always wanted to wait a little while.

00:42:31.580 We originally decided that we would wait a year before really trying to have our first child.

00:42:35.520 But with that year ending in the current political climate, she's begun to question whether or not we should wait a little longer.

00:42:41.140 Her fear is that if things get really bad, then our lives and livelihoods could become quickly endangered and we would be unable to support our new child.

00:42:48.560 I've made the argument that childbearing and rearing is the highest calling of a married couple and that to accept a certain level of risk is always present in this endeavor.

00:42:57.580 Do you think I should continue trying to convince her to start having children soon or should I acquiesce to her in this? 0.94

00:43:02.720 Do not acquiesce to your wife. 0.76

00:43:04.320 What is wrong with you?

00:43:06.220 You're right.

00:43:06.860 Your wife is wrong. 0.84

00:43:07.780 It's as simple as that.

00:43:08.540 Have kids.

00:43:09.260 You should have started having kids on day one, but better late than never.

00:43:13.180 Do it.

00:43:13.720 Just do it.

00:43:14.360 First of all, if you're using contraception within marriage, you are at a very basic level withholding something from your spouse.

00:43:25.520 We don't need to get into specifics here.

00:43:27.220 All right.

00:43:27.440 This is not an R or X rated show, but you see what I'm saying.

00:43:31.460 That has symbolic significance that you're withholding something.

00:43:35.700 You ought to give to the spouse totally and you ought to be open to life.

00:43:40.000 You as a Catholic believe that as I do.

00:43:42.000 Your wife is a Methodist. 0.54

00:43:43.180 Maybe he doesn't.

00:43:43.620 And I understand that plenty of couples contracept and they've come to this understanding together and maybe they don't want to have kids.

00:43:50.240 And I guess that's the, that's the decision that they have made.

00:43:54.280 Fine.

00:43:54.700 I get that.

00:43:55.640 But you have a disagreement here and you, you actually have a religious disagreement, which is you, you ought to try to have kids.

00:44:02.740 By the way, not everybody gets to have kids.

00:44:04.660 And for people who are trying to have kids, sometimes it doesn't happen right away.

00:44:08.200 Okay.

00:44:08.460 A lot.

00:44:08.900 I know a lot of young people who think it's going to happen right away and then it doesn't.

00:44:12.440 You got to keep working on it.

00:44:15.140 Maybe try a different angle.

00:44:16.040 I don't know.

00:44:16.380 There are a lot of things you can try, but you should get started right away.

00:44:19.560 It is good.

00:44:20.340 It is objectively good to have children.

00:44:23.020 And it is objectively bad to try not to have children or to try not to let your husband have children or, you know, with you, hopefully.

00:44:33.400 It's, that's, that's a bad thing to close yourself off from life.

00:44:36.760 This argument that, oh, but it's crazy in 2020.

00:44:39.420 Yeah, it's always crazy.

00:44:40.860 Politics is always crazy.

00:44:42.180 Relatively compared to, to most other times in history, things are kind of calm right now.

00:44:47.180 Have kids.

00:44:48.320 Do it.

00:44:48.700 And also the other thing is, I mean, if you, if you have this kind of political or religious, I guess, disagreement on the kids thing, at the very least, you can, you can point to Genesis three and say that you ought to be the head of the household.

00:45:01.580 And in as much as you're doing that, have the kids.

00:45:04.620 And if you can't have kids, maybe consider adoption.

00:45:08.680 And, you know, I mean, look, not, not everyone gets to have kids, but if you can, you certainly should try.

00:45:15.980 All right.

00:45:16.680 Last one from Daniel.

00:45:18.500 Dear austere, religious, mostly peaceful covfefe.

00:45:21.640 That is my official title.

00:45:23.120 Do you think the Biden campaign is delaying their VP pick until as close to the election as possible to avoid scrutiny of their VP?

00:45:29.780 I think if they pick one now, that would shift the focus off of Trump and onto whatever wild eyed radical they put on the Trojan horse.

00:45:41.220 Fair enough.

00:45:42.440 I mean, I, I think the Biden campaign is delaying everything and they're delaying everything because they don't have to campaign.

00:45:49.160 I think the Biden campaign right now believes that they are winning and they're, as long as they get to stay in the basement and Trump is not allowed to hold rallies.

00:45:56.200 And as long as, you know, until maybe the last week or two, the Trump campaign was kind of falling apart, that they're going to win by doing nothing.

00:46:05.280 And so they're going to do nothing.

00:46:06.860 Why, why would they risk anything new?

00:46:10.680 Don't expect the Biden campaign to do anything, including name their, their VP pick until they are forced to buy Republicans.

00:46:19.860 That's what, and that's, that's on us.

00:46:21.880 We've got to pressure them.

00:46:22.940 The Trump campaign's got to pressure them.

00:46:24.360 We've got to use the political levers to get Biden's base to pressure him.

00:46:28.740 We've got to use wedges to split the far left democratic party from Joe Biden on major issues.

00:46:36.020 That's on us.

00:46:36.640 We can't do that without a campaign.

00:46:38.220 We can't do that with a virtual digital campaign that's controlled by the puppet masters of the universe.

00:46:43.320 We've got to get out there and engage in real politics, which means public, which means real life.

00:46:48.520 That is the mission that we have.

00:46:51.320 And if we, if we fail and if we loaf and if we sit on our couches and take selfies or take inadvertent selfies, well, Instagram spies on us.

00:46:59.280 We'll be giving away a whole lot more than just some data on our cell phone.

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The Michael Knowles Show - July 30, 2020

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