The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 880 - Kyle Rittenhouse Is The New ＂The Trial of the Century＂

00:00:00.000 After the big win in Virginia on Tuesday, you may have thought the week couldn't get any better.

00:00:05.900 But you would be wrong, as the last few days have seen the collapse of not one,

00:00:11.260 not two, but four major fake news narratives pushed by the left over the past few years,

00:00:18.960 beginning with good old Dr. Fauci.

00:00:21.740 Gain of function is a very nebulous term.

00:00:25.020 We have spent, not us, but outside bodies, a considerable amount of effort to give a more precise definition

00:00:34.440 to the type of research that is of concern that might lead to a dangerous situation.

00:00:41.460 You are aware of that. That is called P3CO. 0.97

00:00:45.660 We're aware that you deleted gain of function from the NIH website.

00:00:49.180 Well, I can get back to that in a moment if we have time.

00:00:52.280 But let's get back to the operating framework and guidelines of which we operate under.

00:00:59.500 And you have ignored them.

00:01:01.280 The guidelines are very, very clear.

00:01:03.640 EcoHealth Alliance took the virus, SHC014, and combined it with WIV1

00:01:09.340 and caused a recombinant virus that doesn't exist in nature,

00:01:12.700 and it made mice sicker, mice that had humanized cells.

00:01:16.640 You're saying that that's not gain of function research?

00:01:18.940 According to the framework and guidelines...

00:01:22.200 So what you're doing is defining away gain of function.

00:01:24.800 You're simply saying it doesn't exist because you changed the definition on the NIH website.

00:01:29.300 No, no, Senator Paul, that's not gain of function research.

00:01:33.440 That is function gaining inquiry.

00:01:37.260 They're very, very different, okay?

00:01:39.440 And basically, gain of function research is whatever I don't do, okay?

00:01:43.960 And that would be bad, okay?

00:01:46.120 But function increasing line of questioning, that's what I did, and that's totally fine.

00:01:53.820 Rand Paul's got Fauci dead to rights.

00:01:56.700 So Dr. Fauci retreats to the oldest left-wing trick in the book.

00:02:01.220 He tries to redefine the words to redefine the reality.

00:02:04.900 And unfortunately for the exalted doctor, the strategy does not seem to be working.

00:02:10.740 Meanwhile, the stories we've been told about Kyle Rittenhouse and the BLM riots,

00:02:15.820 the Steele dossier and Russiagate, and critical race theory all are collapsing this week, too.

00:02:21.760 Because in the long run, no matter how well-crafted the lie, the truth will prevail.

00:02:27.000 At least in the end.

00:02:28.320 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:02:29.120 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:02:30.020 Welcome back to the show.

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00:04:28.520 Fauci is embarrassing himself at this point.

00:04:31.100 Fauci, I always would at least give him credit for being a slick politician who was able

00:04:35.800 to pull a fast one and move the goalposts and people either did not notice or they let

00:04:40.720 him get away with it.

00:04:41.540 But this is really embarrassing.

00:04:42.740 He perjured himself months ago to Rand Paul and said that we are not funding gain-of-function

00:04:49.020 research.

00:04:49.460 We're certainly not funding it in Wuhan, but we're not funding it at all.

00:04:52.600 And then it turns out they were funding it and they were funding it in Wuhan.

00:04:56.260 And so now Dr. Fauci is deleting the gain-of-function definition from the NIH website and he's trying

00:05:01.260 to weasel his way out of it. 0.82

00:05:02.940 And it's pathetic. 0.99

00:05:03.740 It's just falling apart. 1.00

00:05:04.680 And I don't think people buy that anymore.

00:05:06.500 But beyond Fauci, beyond coronavirus, look at the case.

00:05:11.100 Look at the trial that's going on this week.

00:05:13.080 The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:05:15.300 You remember Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:05:16.520 During the BLM riots as the left was torching the country and killing people and setting things 0.78

00:05:21.800 on fire.

00:05:22.560 And we were told it was all mostly peaceful.

00:05:24.320 There was a young man, Kyle Rittenhouse, who was armed.

00:05:29.300 He was protecting himself, but he was going just trying to clean up the neighborhood, trying

00:05:32.660 to help the shop he was working at.

00:05:34.360 And some left-wing terrorists were coming after him.

00:05:39.160 And Kyle Rittenhouse shot them, quite apparently in self-defense.

00:05:44.180 So now because Kyle Rittenhouse is a right-winger and the people who were chasing him and threatening

00:05:50.960 him were left-wingers, the left is trying to portray him as a murderer.

00:05:54.900 They're trying to throw him away for a long time.

00:05:57.120 So the trial's underway and it's really not going well for the prosecution because regardless

00:06:02.840 of what the media told us, regardless of the narrative that they were spinning, even

00:06:07.420 the witnesses that the prosecution is calling are ultimately defending Rittenhouse.

00:06:13.760 I mean, you have no idea what Mr. Rosenbaum was ever thinking at any point in his life.

00:06:18.420 You have never been inside his head.

00:06:19.700 You've never met him before.

00:06:21.560 You don't know.

00:06:21.840 I've never even, I've never exchanged words with him, if that's what your question is.

00:06:25.960 So your interpretation of what he was trying to do or what he was intending to do or anything

00:06:30.800 along those lines is complete guesswork, isn't it? 0.99

00:06:35.540 Well, he said, f*** you, and then he reached for the weapon. 0.99

00:06:41.100 Rosenbaum is one of these guys that Rittenhouse killed and apparently in self-defense. 0.99

00:06:46.120 He goes, so you have no idea.

00:06:47.160 You don't know.

00:06:47.600 Maybe he, maybe he was reaching for his weapon to give it to Kyle Rittenhouse as an early

00:06:54.140 birthday present.

00:06:55.200 Maybe when he said F you, maybe that was just his love language.

00:06:59.320 Maybe that was just his, how do you, you have no idea.

00:07:01.800 You can't get in the mind of another person.

00:07:05.000 Yeah, well, he screamed F you and reached for his weapon.

00:07:07.500 So, you know, I don't know.

00:07:08.720 That's, I'm not, I'm no Sherlock Holmes here, but something tells me he wasn't trying

00:07:13.740 to wish me a happy birthday.

00:07:15.500 Another witness, the prosecution grilling this witness.

00:07:18.620 The facts really not looking good for the left.

00:07:22.520 I stepped in and told everybody, chill out, calm down, stop doing that.

00:07:27.340 I turned and had an exchange with one of the protesters.

00:07:30.240 And I kind of explained to that protester, hey, you know, I get it, get what you're trying

00:07:37.720 to do, but like, not this.

00:07:40.840 And when I turned around, Rosenbaum was right there in front of my face, yelling and screaming.

00:07:47.300 And I would say, dude, back up, just chill.

00:07:52.960 I don't know what your problem is. 1.00

00:07:54.280 And he goes, you know, if I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm going to f***ing kill you. 1.00

00:07:58.700 And he said that to you? 1.00

00:08:00.000 Correct.

00:08:00.940 Did he say that to the defendant as well?

00:08:02.760 The defendant was there.

00:08:04.480 So, yes.

00:08:06.460 Oh my gosh.

00:08:08.260 Look, I think from the facts that we know, it's been clear from the earliest stages of this

00:08:14.020 that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in self-defense.

00:08:15.680 He certainly should not be convicted of any crime.

00:08:18.240 And this is basically a witch hunt.

00:08:22.100 But if the state is going to prosecute this, I think they need a better lawyer.

00:08:28.840 Or maybe it's just the case that all the facts are on the side of the right here.

00:08:34.920 And they're on the side of Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:08:36.580 And they're against the media and the leftists and the government.

00:08:41.700 But I repeat myself. 0.99

00:08:42.740 The guy said to their faces, if I catch you alone tonight, I'm going to kill you. 0.97

00:08:51.820 Is there any clearer justification for acting in self-defense? 0.98

00:08:56.120 Probably not.

00:08:57.300 The narrative, the left-wing narrative can last for a very long time.

00:09:02.420 I don't mean to downplay it.

00:09:03.660 But eventually, eventually, the truth is going to peek out.

00:09:08.680 Okay?

00:09:08.980 It's going to sneak out there.

00:09:09.840 We're seeing this not just with Rittenhouse, but with the Russia hoax.

00:09:14.700 So, there was a big development in the Russia hoax yesterday, which is why you're probably

00:09:19.720 not hearing about it very much in the media is because they want to cover it up.

00:09:22.640 Igor Danchenko was just arrested, indicted by John Durham, who was leading the investigation

00:09:30.080 of the origins of the Russia hoax, and arrested, Igor Danchenko.

00:09:34.920 Who is Igor Danchenko?

00:09:36.980 He was the subsource.

00:09:39.340 He was one of the main sources for the Steele dossier.

00:09:44.420 The Steele dossier was the fake dossier compiled by British spook Christopher Steele that was

00:09:51.920 used as the excuse to let the Obama administration spy on the Trump campaign, and it's what set

00:09:57.560 the stage for the Trump impeachment, and it's what set the stage for undermining the entire

00:10:02.780 Trump administration, practically.

00:10:05.860 It got the FISA warrant to use against Carter Page, which was just a way of bugging the Trump

00:10:11.700 campaign.

00:10:12.140 Who funded the dossier?

00:10:14.940 Hillary Clinton funded the dossier.

00:10:17.180 The DNC.

00:10:19.640 And this guy, Igor Danchenko, just got arrested.

00:10:22.980 Why?

00:10:23.880 He got arrested for misleading the FBI about his relationship with a major Democrat operative

00:10:30.920 who was working for Hillary Clinton.

00:10:32.900 He also fabricated the details of a phone conversation with someone who he said had a well-developed conspiracy

00:10:40.620 of cooperation, knew about a well-developed conspiracy of cooperation between the Trump campaign

00:10:44.340 and Russia, meaning he lied to the FBI about the whole thing, which was a hoax.

00:10:53.760 It was a setup.

00:10:55.000 It was an op.

00:10:55.900 And it's unclear exactly how much of it was set up by the Obama administration and exactly

00:11:02.740 how much of it was set up by the DNC and Hillary Clinton.

00:11:07.120 There's very possibly some combination of the two.

00:11:09.880 But this was a hoax and a setup.

00:11:17.640 And even now, years and years later, after Trump is out of office, at least for now, the

00:11:23.740 truth is coming out.

00:11:24.600 Okay, and for years, you remember?

00:11:27.440 For years and years, it's Mueller time.

00:11:29.600 Trump, he's a Putin stooge. 1.00

00:11:32.360 He's a traitor. 1.00

00:11:33.860 You're any, all of you who support him are insurrectionist traitors selling out your country 1.00

00:11:38.920 to Vladimir Putin. 0.91

00:11:39.660 It was all a complete, not just a lie, it was a complete op.

00:11:42.740 It was a political operation by the very Democrats who were pushing it.

00:11:47.340 And they got away with it for now.

00:11:48.220 By the way, they got, Trump's out of office, right?

00:11:49.840 So they did, they did get away with it.

00:11:51.300 It's a slight consolation that at least maybe someone will go to jail, maybe.

00:11:57.300 But politically speaking, they got away with it.

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00:13:10.760 You got hoaxes falling apart from Dr. Fauci, from the BLM people over Kyle Rittenhouse, 1.00

00:13:20.700 from the Russia hoax people over the Steele dossier.

00:13:24.160 But there's a hoax going on right now.

00:13:27.220 Okay, there's a hoax that the left is trying to perpetrate right now.

00:13:30.880 They are trying to convince everyone that critical race theory is not being taught in

00:13:36.060 schools.

00:13:36.300 What you're being told right now is that critical race, well, for a while they were telling you

00:13:40.880 critical race theory is awesome and we need to have it in every school.

00:13:43.540 But then they realized that wasn't a good strategy.

00:13:45.420 So they said, no, critical race theory, uh-uh, it's only being taught in Harvard Law School. 1.00

00:13:49.760 You idiots, you rubes, you probably haven't even read Kimberley Crenshaw. 1.00

00:13:53.120 No, critical race theory is not being taught in schools and the Republicans are lying to 1.00

00:13:57.740 you about it and they're doing it because they're racists and they don't want to teach

00:14:01.420 about slavery or whatever, right?

00:14:03.560 So an administrator at the largest school district in Indiana has just released a video.

00:14:10.940 It's a really terrific, concise description of how the left is in fact teaching critical

00:14:19.380 race theory in schools.

00:14:21.140 I'm the science coach and admin in the largest public school district in Indiana.

00:14:24.240 I'm in dozens of classrooms a week, so I see exactly what we're teaching our students.

00:14:28.260 When we tell you that schools aren't teaching critical race theory, that it's nowhere in our

00:14:32.260 standards, that's misdirection.

00:14:34.220 We don't have the quotes and theories as state standards per se.

00:14:37.380 We do have critical race theory in how we teach.

00:14:40.420 We tell our teachers to treat students differently based on color.

00:14:43.320 We tell our students that every problem is a result of white men and that everything Western 0.95

00:14:47.640 civilization built is racist. 0.95

00:14:49.480 Capitalism is a tool of white supremacy.

00:14:51.880 Those are straight out of Kimberley Crenshaw's main points, verbatim, in critical race theory,

00:14:56.020 the writings that formed the movement.

00:14:58.160 This is in math, history, science, English, the arts, and it's not slowing down.

00:15:02.880 If students of color have lower reading scores, it's because of inequity.

00:15:06.160 Therefore, we take from the white students and give to the color students. 0.98

00:15:10.540 That's Richard Delgado, straight out of CRT and Introduction.

00:15:13.940 All teaching is political, with reality and facts taking the back seat.

00:15:17.360 That's Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, who outlined how she saw critical race theory fleshed out

00:15:21.420 in public schools, in 1995.

00:15:24.760 When schools tell you that we aren't teaching critical race theory, it means one thing.

00:15:28.500 Go away and look into our affairs no further.

00:15:31.420 No, but it's not critical race theory.

00:15:34.320 It's inquisitive ethnicity idea.

00:15:40.780 Yeah, no, so we're not teaching critical race theory.

00:15:44.200 We're teaching all the tenets of critical race theory, like that we need to abolish whiteness 1.00

00:15:47.740 and that America's hopelessly, irredeemably bigoted and racist because of white supremacy. 0.90

00:15:54.040 And this pervades even the economic system, which is hopelessly unjust, which is why we 0.89

00:15:57.460 need to end free enterprise and enact some form of socialism.

00:16:02.500 And it's why we need to radically upend our system of government.

00:16:05.100 So yeah, it's all the critical race theory stuff, but we don't call it critical race theory

00:16:10.480 anymore.

00:16:10.960 What they're doing, it's the same thing Dr. Fauci tried to do to Rand Paul.

00:16:14.920 Well, they're just trying to redefine reality by redefining all the words.

00:16:22.340 It's a retreat into, to use the technical term, nominalism to say, oh, what does that

00:16:28.080 name even mean?

00:16:29.020 Oh, what really is critical race theory?

00:16:32.020 It's the thing you're teaching.

00:16:33.140 That's what critical race theory is.

00:16:36.160 So what's the answer to all of this?

00:16:38.060 You're seeing an answer right now in Texas, and it's going to make some of the squishes 0.71

00:16:43.400 a little uncomfortable, but it's the right answer nonetheless.

00:16:46.860 Do you know what?

00:16:47.200 Let me see.

00:16:47.560 I think I have an article somewhere here.

00:16:48.820 Yes.

00:16:49.380 So this is how NPR is portraying this in Texas.

00:16:53.680 Headline, a Texas lawmaker is targeting 850 books that he says could make students feel

00:17:01.920 uneasy.

00:17:03.720 Oh, you know what he, I bet he's a book banner, a book burner who is just trying to protect

00:17:09.060 the feelings of the white evil people, and he's ignoring the truth, and we can't ban

00:17:14.520 books, and we, how dare you?

00:17:17.120 It's not exactly what's going on here, but this is really good stuff.

00:17:20.620 The lawmaker's name is Matt Krause.

00:17:23.660 Matt Krause has a list of books that ought to be, that he believes ought to be investigated

00:17:29.040 and potentially removed from curricula at schools because they're filling students' heads 0.99

00:17:33.660 with a bunch of crap. 0.98

00:17:34.460 Now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is now getting behind this movement. 0.99

00:17:40.700 What is really going on here?

00:17:42.420 Is this, is this banning books?

00:17:45.060 Is this regressive sort of, well, I guess in a way it is kind of banning books, okay?

00:17:50.660 And I know that on the right, in recent years, we've adopted this attitude that it's, we should

00:17:54.080 never ban books.

00:17:55.240 We should never, we should just have all the books.

00:17:56.980 They should, we should have, if it includes hardcore porn in schools, we should just have

00:18:01.120 all the books, right?

00:18:01.740 But no, I don't think we should.

00:18:05.520 I really don't think we should.

00:18:06.880 First of all, every political community has limits, even on books.

00:18:13.860 Some people, every political community throughout history has at some point burned books, okay?

00:18:19.620 Not even just ban them, but burn them.

00:18:21.520 And some of the people who have burned books have been perfectly wise and right to do so.

00:18:28.000 Do you know who, Plato would be an example of someone who burned books.

00:18:31.740 He advocated burning the books of one of his philosophical rivals.

00:18:37.880 The apostles, in the Acts of the Apostles, in the Bible, you see burning books, burning

00:18:43.320 sorcery books when the Christians come in and evangelize. 1.00

00:18:45.700 This is portrayed, and it's portrayed as a very good thing.

00:18:49.420 I don't particularly care for Martin Luther.

00:18:51.340 Martin Luther, you know what he did?

00:18:52.320 He burned books. 0.98

00:18:53.000 So it's not just the old, terrible, back-minded Catholics. 1.00

00:18:56.820 The Protestants have burned books. 1.00

00:18:58.540 The pagans have burned books.

00:19:00.720 The liberals burn and ban books.

00:19:05.160 We currently ban books in school, at least one book.

00:19:09.400 And it's been pushed by the liberals.

00:19:12.940 What is the one book that we ban in schools right now?

00:19:15.680 It's an obvious answer, but we don't think about it.

00:19:19.180 The Bible.

00:19:20.620 That's the book. 0.87

00:19:21.680 That's the one book you can't be taught in schools because of a ridiculous Supreme Court decision pushed by the left.

00:19:28.000 So, I hope the left spares me their pearl-clutching over the idea that we're going to kick certain books out of the curriculum. 0.99

00:19:37.100 Yes, we are going to kick Ibram Kendi's idiotic nonsense out of the curriculum, if we can. 1.00

00:19:43.500 Yes, we are going to kick Robin DiAngelo's race-hustling idiocy out of the classroom. 1.00

00:19:49.300 Okay? 0.99

00:19:49.820 Frankly, I think we ought to put the Bible back in the classroom. 1.00

00:19:52.740 The Bible, the most important book ever written, the font of all wisdom, all of Western thought and literature, that we're not allowed to teach. 0.97

00:20:02.400 But the idiotic ravings of Ta-Nehisi Coates, that we have to teach. 0.95

00:20:06.700 That would be an affront to liberal education if we got written. 1.00

00:20:09.420 Give me a break.

00:20:11.120 It's so disingenuous.

00:20:13.940 Okay?

00:20:15.540 There's only so many weeks in the semester.

00:20:17.820 There's only so many books that you can read.

00:20:19.660 Okay?

00:20:20.100 And so, the purpose of education, to make us free, requires that we read the best books.

00:20:29.060 The books that are best going to help us understand the world, cultivate our deepest resources, and bring our base passions into accord with our rational will.

00:20:40.480 Okay?

00:20:40.640 And so, you're going to be able to do that by reading the classics, by reading serious works, and you're actually going to undermine that by reading porn and by filling your head with lies and propaganda, like Howard Zinn, like Robin DiAngelo, like Ibram Kendi.

00:20:54.980 And so, those books should be kicked out of the curriculum.

00:20:57.480 There is nothing hypocritical.

00:20:58.760 There is nothing dangerous.

00:20:59.820 There is nothing illiberal, even, about that.

00:21:01.860 The left has been doing it for a very long time.

00:21:04.720 There are plenty of reasons to circumscribe books, and it's long past time that conservatives started taking a stand in this arena as well.

00:21:15.100 Now, there is some confusion on this because the right has adopted a lot of the language of the left, and I'm afraid that even Winsome Sears, the newly elected lieutenant governor of Virginia, is doing this a little bit as well.

00:21:27.880 I really like what little I know about Winsome Sears.

00:21:32.320 She is really having a moment right now on the internet because her social media team is pretty strong.

00:21:38.680 So, they're calling her based, and they're doing meme contests, and they're sending photos of her just holding like a giant gun, and she just seems great.

00:21:46.240 However, she said something that is not true, and so, though I like her a lot, this is coming from a place of love.

00:21:53.080 It's mostly directed at her speechwriters and her social media director.

00:21:56.160 She tweeted out, quote, let's teach our children how to think, not what to think.

00:22:01.080 And this is a line that countless right-wingers have used in recent years, and it's a nonsensical phrase.

00:22:06.580 It doesn't mean anything.

00:22:07.700 I know people think it means something, but it doesn't because it is not possible to teach someone how to think without also teaching someone what to think.

00:22:17.000 It is not possible to teach someone how to think about English history without teaching them that the Battle of Hastings took place in 1066.

00:22:27.040 You need to teach them that, and if the student says it was 1065, then you've got to punish them.

00:22:32.180 You've got to mark them wrong.

00:22:33.140 You've got to give them a low grade.

00:22:34.620 You have to teach them what to think in order to know how to think about certain.

00:22:38.040 If you don't teach someone that 2 plus 2 equals 4, you cannot teach them how to think about mathematics.

00:22:46.160 This is true in ethics and morality, too.

00:22:47.900 If you don't teach someone that it is wrong to murder, you can't teach someone how to think about morality.

00:22:53.520 The very, very hippy-dippy left-wing notion that we should just teach people to come to their own conclusions about every single thing, no matter what the answer is, is preposterous.

00:23:08.560 Well, I taught my student how to think, and now he thinks that it's good to commit murder, but he came to the decision.

00:23:13.500 He did it himself.

00:23:14.400 No, he got it wrong.

00:23:15.300 He learned how to think the wrong way because the things he learned what to think were not true.

00:23:22.300 Okay, and we need to get a little tougher about that.

00:23:25.580 We're not going to sound really liberal and hippy-dippy and nice and open-minded and everything.

00:23:29.620 We're going to sound in a way a little bit closed-minded, but sometimes you need to be a little closed-minded.

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00:24:53.120 Just a little cherry on top of the Sunday of this wonderful week.

00:24:57.900 There was a race in New Jersey for a state rep race, right?

00:25:02.780 And the state rep race, no one was really paying attention to it because it had the top Democrat lawmaker in New Jersey.

00:25:09.980 Guy by the name of Steve Sweeney.

00:25:12.340 And so he was super powerful.

00:25:14.160 He was that no one was going to really challenge him.

00:25:16.120 And so there was just this guy, this Republican truck driver named Edward Durr.

00:25:20.400 He spent $153 on his campaign, quite a lot of it on donuts.

00:25:26.200 It's not a joke.

00:25:27.880 And so it was going to be a throwaway, whatever.

00:25:29.820 You know, we'll get him next time.

00:25:31.680 And then the truck driver won.

00:25:35.040 The top Democrat went down.

00:25:37.960 And this guy, Edward Durr, who spent $153 on his campaign, he won.

00:25:43.340 Now, look, I don't know anything about Edward Durr.

00:25:49.000 I hope he's a good candidate.

00:25:51.500 I love that he beat the Democrat.

00:25:52.980 I hope he is a good politician.

00:25:56.620 I hope he learns to become a good politician.

00:25:59.000 I just, I really don't know.

00:26:00.640 Nobody really knows a lot about him right now.

00:26:02.960 But I love the victory.

00:26:04.260 And I love the victory because what it shows is people are really sick of this ruling class.

00:26:15.220 Okay.

00:26:15.940 And they just, they want anything but this ruling class.

00:26:21.240 And it shows that we can, at least sometimes, boot this ruling class out of power.

00:26:27.540 The vote for Edward Durr, well, look, he might be the greatest candidate in the world.

00:26:32.420 But the fact that you've got such a low-funded, sort of unknown candidate comes in and beats the top Democrat.

00:26:38.800 That's probably more of a protest vote.

00:26:40.660 It's a protest vote against something.

00:26:42.200 And even in New Jersey, even in blue New Jersey, that's a great sign. 1.00

00:26:46.420 Ron DeSantis is showing this in Florida.

00:26:48.780 Ron DeSantis, you know, he's a very talented politician.

00:26:51.240 And he's very good at using applause lines.

00:26:53.940 And, but take a listen to this applause line that he just used at an event down in Florida.

00:27:00.040 This, this shows you a little bit of a shift in the focus for the Republicans this year and going into 2022 and 2024.

00:27:09.560 Sometimes people will ask me, oh man, how come Florida, 84,000 jobs, the rest of the country, you know, what, what could be done to help the rest of the country?

00:27:16.800 And I say, well, you know, the saying that I always think back, and it's a little bit of a flourish on how it's been used previously.

00:27:22.720 But a recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

00:27:25.980 A depression is when you lose yours.

00:27:28.180 A recovery is when Dr. Fauci loses his.

00:27:33.160 Yeah, now this is an old formulation.

00:27:35.800 You know, a recession is this, a recovery is this, and a depression, a recession is this, a depression is this, and recovery is this.

00:27:42.320 Ronald Reagan made great use of it many decades ago talking about Jimmy Carter.

00:27:46.800 A recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

00:27:51.840 A depression is when you lose yours.

00:27:58.920 And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

00:28:05.220 Great line.

00:28:06.360 I love, I've used the line myself, but, but notice the shift here.

00:28:10.720 In the 80s, it's Ronald Reagan using the line against the elected president, Jimmy Carter.

00:28:20.220 Today, we're using the line against some bureaucrat, Dr. Fauci.

00:28:25.240 In the 80s, the chief political opponent was the Democrat Party.

00:28:32.200 Today, the chief political opponent is the blob.

00:28:36.260 It's the ruling class, the deep state, the permanent government, call it whatever you want.

00:28:41.460 It seems like a subtle shift.

00:28:42.980 That's a major shift.

00:28:45.000 It shows you where the power has moved in the country.

00:28:48.740 And what people are rebelling against right now is not Joe Biden.

00:28:51.800 If Ron DeSantis had used that line against Joe Biden, it would have probably fallen flat.

00:28:56.640 Yeah, we don't like Biden.

00:28:57.840 We joke about him.

00:28:58.460 Let's go, Brandon.

00:28:59.120 Ha, ha, ha.

00:29:00.060 But no one thinks the guy is with it.

00:29:02.400 No one thinks the guy is really pulling the strings.

00:29:04.920 Someone like Fauci, though, he's been around for what, seven presidents now?

00:29:08.280 Highest paid employee in the federal government.

00:29:09.860 He's the problem.

00:29:13.680 It's a regime issue, not so much a partisan issue.

00:29:17.180 Speaking of this ruling class, there was one of the creepiest corporate presentations I've ever seen in my life.

00:29:22.920 Just came out from Microsoft.

00:29:26.080 Listen to how these software spokesmen begin their presentation.

00:29:32.540 Hello and welcome to Microsoft Ignite.

00:29:36.220 We've got a big day ahead and lots in store for you.

00:29:40.620 First, we want to acknowledge that the land where the Microsoft campus is situated was traditionally occupied by the Sammamish, the Duwamish, the Snoqualmie, the Suquamish, the Muckleshoot, the Snohomish, the Tulalip, and other Coast Salish peoples since time immemorial.

00:30:01.660 A people that are still here, continuing to honor and bring to light their ancient heritage.

00:30:08.680 My name is Allison Wines.

00:30:10.760 I'm a senior program manager in our developer tools division.

00:30:14.140 I'm an Asian white female with dark brown hair wearing a red sleeveless top.

00:30:19.160 And I'm Seth Juarez, program manager in the AI Platform Group.

00:30:22.780 I'm a tall Hispanic male wearing a blue shirt, khaki pants.

00:30:26.200 Today we kick off two days of learning more about the latest solutions, exploring how these key innovations can empower you to do great things and connecting with peers from around the world.

00:30:37.240 Huh?

00:30:38.420 What?

00:30:39.060 What was that?

00:30:40.880 First, okay, let's take it backwards from the end to the beginning.

00:30:44.760 They say, I'm an Asian lady and I'm a sort of white guy and I, why do I care?

00:30:52.020 Why do I care about your race and you're talking about the clothing you're wearing?

00:30:55.260 Oh, it's for, I think it's for blind people. 1.00

00:30:59.400 I think they're doing this for blind people because identity politics doesn't work for blind people because they can't see and they genuinely don't, they literally don't see color. 1.00

00:31:06.740 But that doesn't work for the left because the left needs to make every single thing about race and these kind of physical attributes of identity.

00:31:12.900 And so they've actually got to tell you, be like, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm a black guy, treat me differently.

00:31:17.560 Hey, I know you can't see me and you don't care, but I am, you should treat me differently based on my race.

00:31:22.380 Okay.

00:31:22.880 And they open up, they say, we're here on the land of the Shumatami, Muscatuzzi people.

00:31:27.840 And it goes on this whole list.

00:31:29.260 Who cares?

00:31:29.720 When I go to the Bronx, I do not often hear, you know, the Puerto Rican guy in the Bronx say, hi, I'm a Puerto Rican guy wearing, you know, jeans and a t-shirt.

00:31:40.000 And I am acknowledging that I'm standing on land that was once inherited by black guys and before that by Sicilian guys and before that by the Irish and before that, okay, what do I care? 0.90

00:31:50.440 You're in America.

00:31:51.300 You're standing on, you're standing on the Microsoft campus land now run by Microsoft.

00:31:56.060 But it's this, it has to be this constant preening sort of guilt.

00:31:59.340 By the way, I don't think this little acknowledgement makes the Muscatuzzi feel any better that they lost their land hundreds of years ago.

00:32:05.480 Let's move on, buddy.

00:32:06.380 This is, this is the world.

00:32:07.180 This is how, this is how the world works.

00:32:08.300 It's so, the reason I even bring it up is to show though, this is not about, this is not about the government, big government.

00:32:17.960 You know, one of the big unfortunate events that came after the big Virginia win is that the establishment Republicans tried to make this all about socialism.

00:32:26.720 It's all just a rejection of socialism.

00:32:28.320 Socialism did not play a single role in the Virginia election.

00:32:33.360 Okay.

00:32:33.780 It was about culture.

00:32:36.540 It was about critical race theory.

00:32:38.260 It was about transgender ideology in schools.

00:32:40.280 It was, it's not even just about the government.

00:32:42.200 It's about Microsoft. 0.95

00:32:42.880 I don't want my corporations pushing this crap and upending my traditions and my society and ripping America apart at the seams. 0.96

00:32:50.760 And so if it's the government doing that, then let's go after the government. 0.96

00:32:53.480 If it's corporations, I'm happy to go after the corporations too.

00:32:56.320 And that's a big difference between the, the impotent talking points of the Republican Party for the past 20 years and what's going on today.

00:33:04.880 As you may or may not be aware, the Daily Wire filed a lawsuit against the federal government yesterday.

00:33:10.480 Why?

00:33:10.920 Because the Biden administration, the anti-American Biden administration, ordered that large employers must require their employees to be vaccinated against the Wu flu or submit to regular testing.

00:33:24.280 The Daily Wire's lawsuit was filed by the Dillon Law Group and Alliance Defending Freedom in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

00:33:31.380 The lawsuit alleges that the Biden administration lacks constitutional and statutory authority to issue the employer mandate and that the mandate failed to meet the requirements for issuing a rule taking effect immediately without the normal process of considering public comments.

00:33:45.620 This mandate is unconstitutional.

00:33:47.800 We are not standing for it here at the Daily Wire.

00:33:50.180 Our employees deserve to keep their medical history private, have some control over their own bodies, and honor any of their religious beliefs.

00:33:57.700 And there are plenty of reasons not to take this vaccine, moral and prudential.

00:34:02.740 We stand with our employees' rights.

00:34:05.780 We do do this also with the rights of every single American.

00:34:09.420 The Biden administration has warned that any companies that do not comply with this federal overreach could be fined as much as $136,000 per violation, per violation.

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00:35:32.420 Welcome back to my favorite time of the week, the mailbag.

00:35:35.440 First question up from Vincent.

00:35:36.720 Michael, I have a situation in which I require some advice.

00:35:41.840 I am in my college play, and I believe that the costume designer is a girl who says she is a boy.

00:35:47.920 I have not confirmed this, but if this is the case, how should I talk about this person in their presence

00:35:53.940 and in the rest of the cast's presence?

00:35:56.500 Should I make my position known, or should I stay silent so as to not alienate anyone as the show is in a week?

00:36:05.760 I appreciate any advice you give, and thanks.

00:36:07.840 Well, you know, you don't know.

00:36:09.560 I mean, this gets back to the old SNL gag about Pat.

00:36:15.440 Some people are just sort of sexually ambiguous, and you don't know.

00:36:18.840 It's Pat.

00:36:19.500 That's like, is Pat a boy, or is Pat a girl?

00:36:21.380 I don't know.

00:36:21.720 So you don't want to insult this person.

00:36:27.360 You said it's a girl who's pretending to be a boy.

00:36:29.560 So you don't want to be in a position where you make a big issue out of this,

00:36:35.660 and then someone's not even trying to make an ideological point.

00:36:39.260 It's just a girl who seems kind of tomboyish or a boy who's kind of femmy, you know, or whatever. 0.81

00:36:47.200 You don't want to do that.

00:36:48.440 But certainly I wouldn't buy into the transgender ideology. 1.00

00:36:52.300 The good thing of going for you, though, is that when you are in someone else's presence,

00:36:57.160 and you're talking about that person, it's rude to use their pronouns.

00:37:02.120 It's just generally rude.

00:37:03.480 If you're standing next to Sheila from the office, and you go,

00:37:05.920 you know what she said to me the other day?

00:37:07.320 You know what this broad said to me? 0.98

00:37:08.880 No, you would say, Sheila made this good point.

00:37:10.880 And so I think that's how you would get around it.

00:37:13.120 I don't know, I assume this person has a sort of sexually ambiguous name as well,

00:37:17.380 you know, Tyler or something, Skyler, I don't know, whatever.

00:37:20.420 You would probably just use the name.

00:37:23.960 If you're in a theater community, the odds that there is some sexual confusion going around are about 150%.

00:37:29.640 So, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's going on.

00:37:32.500 But there are ways to stand your ground and to not give in to gender ideology without being necessarily offensive,

00:37:45.660 you know, without going out of your way to do so.

00:37:48.260 And this is actually the harder thing to do is just, you know, rather than showboating,

00:37:53.800 I'll take your situation out of it for a second.

00:37:55.680 Let's say you're talking about Bruce Jenner.

00:37:57.540 And you're talking to someone and someone refers to she, you know, she, Caitlyn Jenner.

00:38:02.200 And you say, yeah, well, you know, what Bruce said was da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

00:38:05.720 You can do it in a way that is quiet and subtle and confident and not saying,

00:38:09.460 he's not a she, he's a he, and how dare you? 0.99

00:38:11.980 You know, you can just kind of hold your ground firmly, quietly, politely.

00:38:16.360 That's what I would recommend doing.

00:38:18.260 From Jim, I asked what the point in a high school relationship was a week ago.

00:38:23.240 I might be getting into a high school relationship soon because of your answer.

00:38:26.560 Oh, yeah, because I said I met my wife in high school.

00:38:28.940 We split for college, which I think is now a statutory requirement for millennials.

00:38:32.340 Wish we hadn't.

00:38:32.920 Wish we'd gotten married sooner.

00:38:35.140 But, yeah, I think high school relationships can be great.

00:38:37.360 So, Jim goes on.

00:38:40.060 Now I have to ask, what would I do in a high school relationship?

00:38:44.320 I'm not very good in these types of things.

00:38:46.300 So, I thought I would go to an expert.

00:38:48.180 Thanks.

00:38:49.860 This is a family show, buddy.

00:38:51.300 I don't, you know, I don't know what you, what you want me to say.

00:38:53.680 No, I, I can, I can tell you.

00:38:55.600 When I was a youth, teenage boy into my early teens, I was, I was an atheist, okay?

00:39:05.260 I did not adhere to Catholic teaching, theology of the body, chastity, all the things that

00:39:15.520 you're, you really should be doing.

00:39:17.340 And so, I behaved in a way that I would not recommend, okay?

00:39:22.040 I, but, but I think you certainly can have a relationship as a teenager or in college or

00:39:27.920 in high school or whatever that is a very serious relationship and remains chaste.

00:39:32.560 Does this mean you can never hold the girl's hand?

00:39:34.920 You can never kiss the girl?

00:39:35.940 You can never go?

00:39:36.580 No, it doesn't mean that.

00:39:38.180 But it, it does mean that you ought to respect certain boundaries.

00:39:41.680 And our culture is really bad at that.

00:39:43.980 And I think a lot of people, I hear this a lot from people like me who are reverts, you

00:39:48.240 know, who lived like atheists for a long time and then reverted to the faith.

00:39:51.600 And they feel, or converted rather, also, they feel lied to.

00:39:56.240 They feel like they were told, I mean, they were encouraged in high school and college

00:40:00.980 that you need to sleep around and, and break every sort of social and sexual convention

00:40:08.900 that existed even 50 years ago.

00:40:10.620 And you need to just take things on, date a million people and, you know, swipe right

00:40:14.400 and swipe right and swipe right. 1.00

00:40:15.220 And you just have to do that.

00:40:16.540 That's just what the culture is.

00:40:17.360 And you don't, you don't actually.

00:40:19.620 You don't, you also don't need to sit at home in your room and never speak to a girl,

00:40:23.180 right?

00:40:23.380 That would be the complete other side.

00:40:24.700 But what you can do is recognize that men and women are made for each other.

00:40:29.140 They're complimentary.

00:40:30.280 We think they're cute.

00:40:31.840 You know, we're attracted to these other people.

00:40:33.860 We can express that attraction.

00:40:35.340 We can engage in that while still respecting the other person and respecting ourselves.

00:40:41.500 Moderation actually is a virtue and chastity is too, but have a good time.

00:40:46.020 From Andrew.

00:40:46.840 Hey, Michael, I hear you speaking about how the problem with marriage is how we allowed our 0.99

00:40:50.480 society to have gay marriage and thus redefining what marriage is.

00:40:53.420 Well, it's not the, the problem.

00:40:55.220 There are a lot of problems, but sure, that's part of it.

00:40:57.560 I agree with all this.

00:40:58.680 However, I think marriage was ruined from making it a legal thing in the first place.

00:41:01.800 It ruined its value.

00:41:03.480 It's part of our relationship with God, not people.

00:41:05.800 Therefore, I believe marriage should be overseen by our religious institutions.

00:41:09.260 And if a church or synagogue wants to approve a gay marriage or two, two random guys decide

00:41:12.900 to say they're married.

00:41:13.660 They can.

00:41:14.500 Curious your thoughts on this.

00:41:15.520 Thanks.

00:41:15.840 Love your show and all that you do.

00:41:17.080 I'm afraid, Andrew.

00:41:18.240 I appreciate the compliment, but I'm afraid you are wrong about this.

00:41:23.120 Marriage is an oath before God. 0.69

00:41:26.800 That's true.

00:41:28.360 Marriage is also an oath to this other person, your spouse. 0.75

00:41:32.500 And marriage is also an oath before the public.

00:41:36.420 It is a public act.

00:41:37.960 It always has been, because marriage is not merely a private institution, but a public

00:41:43.720 institution.

00:41:44.800 This is why divorce was not permitted in most places in the civilized West for a very long

00:41:50.240 time, until very, very recently, actually.

00:41:53.860 You're making an oath.

00:41:55.660 You're signing a contract.

00:41:56.940 And it's not just an oath between two people who can consent to do whatever they want.

00:42:00.800 And if they decide to break the contract, it's totally fine.

00:42:03.160 You're making a vow to society, because marriage is the bedrock political institution.

00:42:07.960 The family is the bedrock.

00:42:09.960 It's the local community.

00:42:11.340 The township is not the smallest political institution.

00:42:14.280 It's not the basic one.

00:42:15.520 The family is.

00:42:17.380 Okay.

00:42:18.620 Likewise, if two people decide to say that their relationship is a marriage, they don't have

00:42:25.040 the right to do that if their relationship is not a marriage.

00:42:27.440 No more than I have the right to call my leftist-tears tumbler a bicycle.

00:42:30.800 Well, what's the big deal?

00:42:31.880 Who's it hurting if you say that your leftist-tears tumbler is a bicycle?

00:42:34.440 Well, it's just not true.

00:42:35.780 That's the problem.

00:42:36.440 And we don't have the right to say things that are not true.

00:42:41.000 We have an obligation to pursue the truth.

00:42:43.660 Okay.

00:42:44.240 And so, but I don't, you know, to your point, I don't just blame the gays or something like

00:42:48.720 that.

00:42:49.100 The institution of marriage has been weakened for many, many years.

00:42:52.420 No-fault divorce was really the beginning of that, at least in modern times.

00:42:58.960 And so, my answer to that is not to weaken marriage further and read, just like Dr. Fauci

00:43:06.180 did with gain-of-function research, redefine it into nothingness.

00:43:10.640 My answer to that would be to more clearly define it.

00:43:13.940 Say, no, marriage does involve sexual difference.

00:43:17.920 And two fellas who like each other and two women who like each other, that's fine. 0.55

00:43:22.140 They can like each other.

00:43:22.880 They can have a relationship.

00:43:24.340 But it just is not marriage.

00:43:26.900 And no amount of, you know, messing around with the words is going to change that.

00:43:31.980 And furthermore, if you are married, you can't just get out of it.

00:43:34.640 You can't just break it willy-nilly because you are fracturing, you're hurting children

00:43:38.360 to do that.

00:43:39.160 But you're also fracturing society and you're undermining our trust in one another and our

00:43:43.960 trust in oaths.

00:43:44.980 And the very notion of a public oath itself, to say nothing of your obligation to God.

00:43:50.620 So, I would say, yes, marriage is in a great state of disarray.

00:43:55.220 The answer is not to make it even more subjective, make it even more personal, make it even more

00:44:00.580 relative.

00:44:00.880 The answer is to make it more objective and clearer.

00:44:03.620 From Matthew.

00:44:04.840 Good day, Mr. Knowles.

00:44:06.820 Would you please explain the differences between the philosophies of Edmund Burke and John Locke?

00:44:10.960 Thank you under the omnipotence.

00:44:14.980 Matthew, yes, Burke, broadly, is a conservative.

00:44:22.740 Locke, broadly, is a big lib.

00:44:25.800 That would be the difference.

00:44:27.040 Edmund Burke once said that John Locke's second treatise of government is one of the worst books

00:44:35.200 ever written, okay?

00:44:36.240 And I know a lot of American conservatives these days really like John Locke.

00:44:40.420 It's kind of a more recent development that they're really into John Locke.

00:44:43.500 But John Locke is the father of liberalism.

00:44:45.920 Now, on that, I will say John Locke was way more based than people give him credit for.

00:44:50.320 You know, he did say that we should ostracize atheists from society and things like that.

00:44:53.660 So, he was pretty tough-minded too.

00:44:55.680 But his philosophy, I'm not going to be able to do justice to the great conservative tradition

00:45:02.100 and the great liberal tradition right now.

00:45:03.380 But Locke's idea of society is just a bunch of contracts that, therefore, can be dissolved,

00:45:12.940 basically, at one's whim and caprice, is ultimately a very liberal idea.

00:45:19.040 The idea that we're, you know, the basic unit of society is the individual.

00:45:23.120 That's a very liberal idea.

00:45:24.720 Edmund Burke's idea.

00:45:26.720 And don't forget, Edmund Burke was a defender of the American Revolution.

00:45:29.060 So, it's not as though he were just, he's completely unrelatable to the American experience.

00:45:35.080 But Edmund Burke's idea is, no, we are born not primarily with rights and entitlements,

00:45:40.800 but with obligations, with oaths, with duties, with loyalty.

00:45:46.300 And that the bonds of society really cannot be broken willy-nilly.

00:45:50.700 They ought not to be broken willy-nilly.

00:45:52.480 That we ought to look to our great tradition and recognize we have an obligation to the people

00:45:58.020 who came before us.

00:45:59.580 And that there are higher things than just personal autonomy.

00:46:04.560 Edmund Burke refers to that exalted freedom,

00:46:06.740 which can ennoble even servitude itself.

00:46:12.580 You know, that generous loyalty to rank and sex.

00:46:16.060 I could go on and on about him all day.

00:46:17.420 But basically, Burke was right.

00:46:19.900 Worth reading Locke, but if you're going to read just those two guys,

00:46:22.960 Burke was more correct.

00:46:24.540 From Andrew.

00:46:25.580 Hello, Michael.

00:46:26.240 As a former New Yorker, do you believe that New York City will ever get back to being a city

00:46:29.740 that is actually desirable to stay and raise a family in?

00:46:32.440 It's too expensive.

00:46:33.140 And with the election of Eric Adams, the Democrat,

00:46:35.660 is there any hope of seeing a Giuliani-type mayor return?

00:46:38.660 Should I look into the right flight or stick around and hope for the best?

00:46:42.800 P.S.

00:46:43.060 The vaccine mandate shut down 26 fire stations and thousands of cops are pending exemptions.

00:46:46.900 They will probably get denied, thanks to de Blasio.

00:46:51.000 Yeah, I'm a New Yorker, as you may know.

00:46:53.540 And I did leave New York.

00:46:54.920 And I left New York originally for California.

00:46:57.520 And then Daily Wire, which was based in California, moved to Tennessee.

00:47:01.780 And I'm very happy that I moved to Tennessee.

00:47:03.420 And I like going back to visit New York, but I think New York right now is in the 1970s.

00:47:09.500 Could there be a Giuliani-type?

00:47:11.000 Yeah, I hope so.

00:47:12.360 I hope so.

00:47:13.080 And I really love New York.

00:47:14.220 And I think that New York has a kind of, it has a kind of base-level conservatism

00:47:20.560 that a lot of people who are not New Yorkers don't really get.

00:47:23.000 It's got the conservatism of the Italian immigrants.

00:47:26.980 It's got the conservatism of the cops and the firefighters.

00:47:31.280 It's got the conservatism of just being an old place, you know, being a tough old place.

00:47:39.460 So, yes, there could be some kind of semi-renewal, but it really depends what you want to do.

00:47:47.440 You know, if you, if you want to, if your family's there and you want to stay near your family

00:47:51.560 and, you know, and you love the city and you just want to go to the places in the city

00:47:55.280 and really just continue to build your life there, I think that's all well and good.

00:47:58.760 And just know you're going to have a tough time.

00:48:01.260 If you want to build and grow a business, if you want to, you know, rally the troops,

00:48:08.520 the right-wing troops and have an effect on national politics, if you want to do that sort of thing,

00:48:13.260 I think you got to leave.

00:48:14.420 It's really, it just depends on what you want.

00:48:16.380 From Kenneth.

00:48:18.140 Hey, Mike, if all the nominations for science awards are only for white guys,

00:48:22.440 what does this mean when the left says to follow the science?

00:48:25.440 They're actually saying, listen to the white guys.

00:48:28.640 Seriously, just another white guy.

00:48:30.540 As a slightly off-white guy, you know, taupe maybe or beige or whatever you call this sort of swarthy skin, 0.73

00:48:37.560 I would agree.

00:48:38.600 And I think they should follow me.

00:48:39.840 I think it's a good idea.

00:48:40.980 They should do that.

00:48:41.820 It's true.

00:48:42.160 But they're not, you know, but in fairness, the story you're referencing where the science award committee

00:48:47.860 wouldn't give the award to people because they're white guys,

00:48:50.760 the logical conclusion of that is that if a scientist is a white guy,

00:48:54.920 then he's just not really a scientist, so you shouldn't follow him.

00:48:57.580 If he shouldn't win an award, certainly you shouldn't follow him.

00:48:59.800 From Samantha.

00:49:00.600 Michael, I'm 21 years old.

00:49:02.640 I've felt truly born again by the good book.

00:49:04.380 I'm studying the Bible, coming closer to God.

00:49:06.300 I felt in my heart that I want to be baptized.

00:49:09.140 However, my husband does not share the same enthusiasm.

00:49:11.720 He's 23 in active duty military.

00:49:13.780 His relationship with the army has shaped his relationship with God.

00:49:17.380 This has put us in a position where I'm waking up every Sunday and pleading with him to come with me.

00:49:21.100 I have about a 50% success rate of getting him to come with me.

00:49:24.600 What should I do to motivate him to try again with God?

00:49:27.060 And should I wait on getting baptized until he supports me?

00:49:30.120 Thanks.

00:49:30.480 No, you should get baptized.

00:49:32.180 You know, but it's a big change for him, probably.

00:49:35.200 You know, this has happened with me.

00:49:36.880 You know, I've dated my wife long before I was a practicing Christian.

00:49:41.560 So, it can be jarring when people feel a call to faith.

00:49:45.540 So, I'll try to bring him along.

00:49:48.560 Ask him, you know, be, show him the fruits of your faith.

00:49:53.020 Certainly, I would get baptized at the very least.

00:49:56.860 And, you know, recognize that things happen in God's good time.

00:50:00.700 But one word of caution here.

00:50:02.280 I would not allow anyone to get between your relationship with God.

00:50:07.580 Okay, that's our show.

00:50:08.520 I'm Michael Knowles.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 05, 2021

Ep. 880 - Kyle Rittenhouse Is The New ＂The Trial of the Century＂

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