The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 890 - If You Ain't Cheating You Ain't A Democrat

00:00:00.000 As the jurors in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial remain in a stalemate, reportedly not over the evidence

00:00:06.240 so much as over fear for their lives, MSNBC dispatched a producer to follow the jurors bus,

00:00:13.640 presumably to uncover more about their identities. The judge in that case did not, as you might

00:00:19.420 expect, take too kindly to the legacy media's efforts to harass the jurors.

00:00:25.040 Police, when they stopped him, because he was following in a distance of about a block

00:00:31.420 and went through a red light, pulled him over and inquired of him what was going on

00:00:37.040 and he gave that information and stated that he had been instructed by Ms. Bion in New York

00:00:45.320 to follow the jury bus. The matter is under further investigation at this point.

00:00:53.880 And the media has asked questions about it. That's the latest I have.

00:01:02.700 And he was ticketed for violating a traffic control signal. He's not here today, from what I'm told.

00:01:10.480 And I have instructed that no one from MSNBC news will be permitted in this building for the duration of this trial.

00:01:21.780 Love that. Absolutely right. How can anyone expect a fair and impartial verdict in this case with that kind of intimidation?

00:01:30.720 Not just from the activists outside, but the activists who pretend to be journalists.

00:01:35.520 No matter how weak the prosecution's arguments, no matter how strong the defense's case,

00:01:40.900 no matter how clear the evidence, the jurors fear for their lives.

00:01:46.180 And with good reason. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:48.720 Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Steve Mikkel, who says,

00:02:00.020 everyone takes a beating sometimes is known as the Goodfellas statute. Very well-known law. This is true.

00:02:06.600 And the prosecution, which made that argument, that everybody takes a beating sometimes,

00:02:10.680 is acting like a bunch of gangsters. And, you know, we all see it. We all see that the evidence

00:02:17.200 is on Kyle Rittenhouse's side. We all see that all the pressure and intimidation is on the side of

00:02:22.160 the prosecution. But the fact is, the jurors are people, all right? And they're people who have

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00:03:46.540 for supporting the show. NBC News, which is now, you know, which obviously owns MSNBC. NBC News sent out

00:03:54.660 a very curious non-denial denial about the incident with the jurors bus. Take a listen to this.

00:04:04.680 This apparent denial, which I think is anything but. Quote,

00:04:08.740 last night, a freelancer received a traffic citation. While the traffic violation took place

00:04:14.240 near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations

00:04:21.720 and never photographed or intended to photograph them, NBC News said in a statement. We regret the

00:04:27.860 incident and will fully cooperate with the authorities on any investigation. Okay, hold on.

00:04:32.480 Hold on a second here. If you did nothing wrong, then why do you regret the incident?

00:04:39.600 We did nothing wrong, but we regret the incident. Why? Because you're admitting that you did do

00:04:42.900 something wrong. It was a freelancer who received a traffic citation. Why are you trying to put distance

00:04:49.400 between yourself and your employee? Who you're saying, look, he was working as a freelancer.

00:04:54.320 Right, a freelancer who was apparently working at your direction. No, no, it's a freelancer. It's not us.

00:04:59.780 Okay. He just received a traffic citation. Okay, what was the traffic citation for? Why was he being

00:05:06.600 pulled over in the first place? The freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors

00:05:13.660 during deliberations. There you go. There are the two words that show you that these guys are guilty

00:05:19.540 as can be. During deliberations. No one ever said he was going to contact them during deliberations

00:05:27.540 is back when they're at the courthouse. Obviously, if he's chasing their bus, he's not going to be

00:05:32.880 contacting them during deliberations. The problem is he's contacting them outside of the deliberations.

00:05:37.580 And you know it, and you lying hacks, you dishonest NBC news journalists. 0.90

00:05:46.020 You're admitting it here. Those two words are the proof. Yeah, we sent one of our operatives to go 0.97

00:05:54.360 harass the jurors to find out more about their identities, probably to dox them, at the very least

00:06:00.340 to pressure them to throw this kid in the can, even though all the evidence is on his side. That's

00:06:06.380 what went on, and NBC News, tacitly at least, admitted it. Meanwhile, the prosecution is now

00:06:13.740 admitting that they sent the defense weaker evidence than they had. You remember this issue of the

00:06:20.440 videotape. There was drone footage of the interaction between Kyle Rittenhouse and the Antifa thugs who were

00:06:27.520 trying to kill him. And there was a difference in the quality of the video. The prosecution had

00:06:33.220 extremely high quality HD video, at least three times more clear than the defense had, which was

00:06:39.640 this grainy kind of video. It looked like it was filmed on a Nokia flip phone. So initially, the

00:06:45.660 prosecution said, no, no, no, it's not our fault. It's the defense's fault. It's their iPhone or their

00:06:50.080 Android or their computer. They're the ones whose technology messed up the video. Then the defense

00:06:56.660 came back and said, that's BS. It's got a different file name than the file you had. So obviously,

00:07:00.740 it happened when you sent the file. It has nothing to do with our computers. It has everything to do

00:07:04.840 with what you guys did. So now, the prosecution is making the opposite argument. They're saying,

00:07:09.700 oh no, it was actually the guy who sent it to us. That's why the footage was different for the

00:07:14.060 prosecution and for the defense.

00:07:15.780 What happened? When Detective Howard obtained the video, he airdropped it to my phone,

00:07:28.000 which is a lossless type procedure, or at least it didn't change anything.

00:07:33.360 At some point, I emailed it to myself, which did not change anything. It has the file name,

00:07:39.840 the long file name. I did ask Detective Howard to email it to me as well. Then it had the IMG file

00:07:48.000 name that Attorney Wisco received. So somehow in this Detective Howard transmitting it to everyone,

00:07:58.040 if it was emailed, it was compressed. If he airdropped it, it was complete.

00:08:03.200 And that was not known by anyone until a few days ago on Friday.

00:08:09.320 So let me get this straight. Your first story is that it was the fault of the defense computers.

00:08:15.280 And then when that was shown to be BS, you blame it on the only other person that you could blame

00:08:19.540 it on other than taking responsibility yourself. And what you're saying happened is that the video

00:08:25.780 man airdropped it to you. So you had the perfect quality video. Then you emailed it to yourself.

00:08:34.940 And then you separately had him email it to the defense. And whoopsie daisy, the videos that got

00:08:42.340 emailed were of lower quality than the one that was airdropped. So one, why did you email it to

00:08:48.600 yourself? If you were not going to forward it to the defense, if you were just, and you already had

00:08:54.500 the video file airdropped, the high quality video file, why did you then separately have Mr. Video

00:09:00.280 Man send it to the defense? Why, why were you making sure? And, and if you were just, if you

00:09:08.480 emailed it to yourself to forward it to the defense, then why didn't you just send them the airdrop?

00:09:13.040 There seem to be one or two extra steps in here that mean that this does not pass the smell test.

00:09:20.200 I never want to attribute to malice that which is equally explained by, or explained just as well 1.00

00:09:27.560 by stupidity. And the prosecution has exhibited a lot of stupidity here. But I think they're, I think 1.00

00:09:33.960 they're also exhibiting some malice. I think they're also exhibiting some corruption. I think they're

00:09:41.340 changing their story a little bit too much. I think they're making legal arguments that are so bogus that

00:09:47.880 if they're being made in earnest, you should probably be disbarred. The prosecutor should.

00:09:54.420 Or they're being made disingenuously. I don't buy it. Does not pass the smell test for one single

00:10:01.140 second. It's wrong. It's wrong what they're doing. So why don't we have a verdict yet?

00:10:08.860 Why don't, we don't have a verdict, I think, because the jurors rightly are afraid for their lives.

00:10:13.800 There are reports coming out, again, who knows if they're true, that it's a deadlocked jury.

00:10:19.800 And so I suspect it's not because the evidence is so clear. Kyle was completely acting in self-defense.

00:10:25.040 The whole narrative that we were told by the media, by the state, turned out not to be true.

00:10:31.120 The prosecution's case was undermined by the prosecution's own witnesses,

00:10:34.340 like the guy Grosskreutz, who said, yeah, I actually, Kyle only shot at me after I was coming

00:10:40.540 at him with the gun. Devastating to the prosecution's case. But the fact is that the jury

00:10:49.720 ought to fear for their lives. This whole trial started in the first place because leftist activists

00:10:57.900 burned down Kenosha. The last time they didn't get a movement of the criminal justice system that

00:11:05.900 they wanted, right? Remember the cop shot that degenerate Jacob Blake? Rightly so, absolutely

00:11:11.280 rightly so. He probably should have shot him sooner. And the left didn't like that, so they burned the 0.99

00:11:15.800 city down. And then Kyle Rittenhouse showed up, and then he killed these Antifa guys who were trying

00:11:20.060 to kill him, and now we're on trial. Now it's going to be a vicious cycle. I don't think that this trial,

00:11:26.140 I said, there are two trials going on. The trial in the court of law and the trial in the court of

00:11:29.020 public opinion. Well, I don't think that the verdict is necessarily going to come down to

00:11:32.520 right or wrong. I think it's going to come down to self-preservation for a lot of these jurors.

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00:12:51.760 for 25% off. Speaking of right and wrong, Governor Ron DeSantis gave a speech yesterday,

00:13:00.320 press conference to reporters, when he was asked about his prohibitions on vaccine mandates in

00:13:07.940 Florida, his protection of people's rights and freedoms in Florida, he gave one of the most

00:13:14.340 perceptive answers on conservatism, on our political rights, on what freedom really is. One of the most

00:13:23.160 perceptive answers I have ever heard from a politician. Take a listen.

00:13:26.980 There has never been a federal vaccine mandate imposed on the general public. I hear people

00:13:35.640 talk about, you know, they do things in the military. Yeah, when I was in the military,

00:13:40.120 they used to give me all kinds of stuff. Honestly, I wish I would have thought a little bit,

00:13:43.540 but I mean, whatever it was. But that's much different than regulating the military and then

00:13:47.740 imposing it on civilians in society. It's never been done before. It's not, they don't have the

00:13:52.860 power to do it. There's no federal police power. States have the federal police power. So that's

00:13:59.520 from a constitutional perspective. It is worlds, worlds apart. Now, some people say, hey, these

00:14:05.640 local governments wanted to lock down businesses. They wanted to force mandates. They wanted to keep

00:14:11.700 the kids locked out of school. Yeah, you're damn right I overruled them on that because they were

00:14:15.960 wrong. And the fact of the matter is, the fact of the matter is, you don't have right to, you don't

00:14:26.740 have the right to do wrong. The fact of the matter is, you don't have the right to do wrong. That is

00:14:36.380 one of the most perceptive, insightful observations about American government and the nature of liberty

00:14:44.880 itself that I have ever heard from a politician. You don't have the right to do wrong. The typical

00:14:54.460 Republican answer that you would have heard for the past 20 years is, well, look, you look, people

00:15:00.320 have the right to do whatever they want. If people want to do something crazy with their bodies, if

00:15:03.840 people want to do something crazy and it's, and it's doesn't violate the certain limits of

00:15:09.140 some constitutional interpretation, then that's, that's totally their right. I don't agree with it,

00:15:13.360 but it's their right. You have the, the, the squishy Republican answer would be, you do have the

00:15:18.060 right to do wrong. The correct answer is you do not have the right to do wrong. This is why some of

00:15:26.000 the squishy Republicans will say, look, we're not going to have government mandates for the vaccine,

00:15:29.880 but if a private business wants to, that's totally cool. Private business can do whatever they,

00:15:34.740 they have the right to do whatever they want, even a bunch of wrong stuff. No, they don't. No,

00:15:39.420 they don't. You don't have the right to do wrong. This is something about Ron DeSantis that is

00:15:43.260 powerful. He talks like a linebacker and kind of looks like a linebacker, right? He's just a big

00:15:49.940 guy. He was like, look, okay. When I was in the military, right? He reminds you, I was in the

00:15:54.040 military. When I was in the military, they shot me with all kinds of stuff. It's pretty stupid. I

00:15:57.360 actually kind of wish I hadn't done that. But anyway, I did that, right? And he just talks in this very

00:16:01.180 blunt, down-to-earth way. But then he'll say something that is philosophically extraordinarily

00:16:09.220 sophisticated. You do not have the right to do wrong. So because he has that philosophical premise,

00:16:18.540 he's gotten everything right about COVID in Florida, right? And so those just seem like very

00:16:24.960 pragmatic, practical. No, we're not going to force masks. We're not going to force vaccine.

00:16:28.240 We're not going to let businesses force these sorts of things. But it's because he's got

00:16:32.120 real philosophical clarity here. And I think this is the reason that he's doing very well

00:16:36.540 in the pre-potential running for president type of thing is because Ron DeSantis is where the new

00:16:43.000 right is, which is much less libertarian and it's much more conservative. This is why he's doing well.

00:16:50.440 Now, if Donald Trump runs for president again, it's probably all a moot point because there won't

00:16:54.260 be a primary because he'll clear the field. But very impressive stuff from DeSantis. You want not

00:17:00.800 just do you want that philosophical clarity, but you want to be able to balance out the talking like

00:17:07.140 a truck driver, but having the political vision to know where the country is supposed to go.

00:17:12.200 The lower and the higher, right? The kind of on the ground, tangible, based in reality,

00:17:17.780 and also the pie in the sky, abstract philosophy. And you saw a little bit more of the former when

00:17:23.300 you looked at where he was giving the speech from. He was giving this press conference from

00:17:28.180 Brandon, Florida. It's obvious to a lot of the people in the crowd that they believe you chose

00:17:33.560 Brandon because of the thing that goes around on certain websites. Is this why you came to Brandon

00:17:38.660 because of the trolling of the Biden administration? So I think that Brandon, Florida is a great American

00:17:44.640 city. I think the people here are fantastic. And I can tell you my only negative on Brandon was they

00:17:59.060 when I was growing up playing baseball, they always used to beat us every year. But now I think,

00:18:04.840 you know, as governor, I'm really proud to be able to do it. I want to thank Brandon Honda for hosting us

00:18:10.780 here today. And we're proud to be able to make a stand for freedom in Brandon, Florida.

00:18:18.560 So the guy knows how to troll. I don't think he chose Brandon, Florida because it's his favorite

00:18:25.580 Honda dealership. Okay. I know. I think it might have something to do with the chant about Joe Biden.

00:18:31.620 That's good. You're going to need both of those things. Now, now it's very early. It's 2021.

00:18:38.640 The presidential is not until 2024. In 2013, for instance, no one could have guessed that Trump was

00:18:47.280 going to be the nominee. People thought, oh, it's going to be Bobby Jindal. Oh, it's going to be this

00:18:51.100 guy. Oh, it's going to be that guy. And it just wasn't. So Ron DeSantis has a long way to go to prove

00:18:56.520 himself. There are going to be other candidates that come up. Donald Trump might run and wipe them

00:18:59.780 all out. There might be a nominee who we've never heard of. But the reason I mentioned this DeSantis clip

00:19:04.900 is because he is seeing something here. Okay. And I think you don't have the right to do wrong.

00:19:11.700 That is where the Republican Party is right now. And it's, it's heading in that direction.

00:19:18.360 The stragglers who are not there yet are heading in that direction. And I think

00:19:21.300 whoever is going to be the nominee, whether it's Donald Trump himself,

00:19:26.720 I think they're going to have to be in that area. They're going to have to be doing that thing.

00:19:30.860 And DeSantis is doing an impressive job of that right now. Speaking of the Brandon

00:19:35.200 administration, you know, there's a little infighting going on between Kamala Harris 1.00

00:19:40.580 and Joe Biden. Joe Biden obviously doesn't like Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris launched her 1.00

00:19:47.680 presidential campaign calling him a racist. Kamala Harris doesn't like Joe Biden. Joe Biden keeps

00:19:53.320 throwing her under the bus and saying, oh yeah, I'm putting Kamala in charge of illegal immigration. 1.00

00:19:57.500 Yeah. Deal with the border, Kamala. Good luck. Okay. Enjoy. See ya. Enjoy Texas.

00:20:03.980 And he's not backing her up and he's saying nice things about his other

00:20:06.980 minions. He's saying nice things about Pete Buttigieg, for instance, but he's not really

00:20:11.100 defending Kamala Harris. And now Kamala Harris's flacks are going to the press and saying, yeah,

00:20:15.300 we think Joe Biden's a racist. So there's all this infighting going on. Jen Psaki goes out to try to

00:20:19.820 throw some water on this. She's asked, do you think the criticism of Kamala Harris is because of racism?

00:20:26.120 You took to Twitter this week to defend the most prominent woman there, the vice president, 1.00

00:20:32.200 after there were stories about her this weekend that mentioned low approval ratings,

00:20:36.480 allegations of staff problems. Some of her allies have attributed this to sexism. Do you think she

00:20:42.900 is receiving more criticism because she's the first woman and first woman of color to serve as vice 0.94

00:20:48.060 president? Yes. Criticism from the outside? Absolutely. I do think that it is,

00:20:55.680 it's been easier and harsher from some in the right wing who have gone after her because she

00:21:03.300 is the first woman, the first woman of color. Criticism from the outside? What about the other

00:21:09.300 criticism, darling? Because Kamala Harris doesn't really need to worry about criticism from the 1.00

00:21:13.620 outside, from the Republicans right now. It's from you guys. It's from Donald Trump. It's not from

00:21:17.940 Donald Trump. It's from Joe Biden. Sorry, I got confused over who the president was. It's from Joe

00:21:21.820 Biden. It's why was Kamala Harris the first person out of the Democrat primary? Is it because of

00:21:27.060 racism and sexism? No, no, it's only Republicans who are racist and sexist. Democrats hate Kamala 0.99

00:21:31.620 Harris for completely different reasons. That's why. It's just the go-to. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,

00:21:37.760 totally. Yeah. Racism, sexism, beep, boop, beep, beep, boop. It reminds me of this one time David

00:21:41.840 Webb, you know, was on, on the radio and someone, woman called in, black woman called in and said,

00:21:47.220 David Webb, you're just exposing your white privilege. She didn't realize David Webb's a

00:21:51.340 black guy. It was on radio. So she couldn't, she couldn't say, oh yeah, it's always racism and

00:21:55.100 sexism. Well, okay, honey, what, what's your excuse? Why does Joe Biden seem to be going after

00:22:01.140 Kamala Harris? Why did the Democrats not like Kamala Harris? You're going to need an answer on

00:22:04.980 that before 2024 or 2020. You're going to need an answer on that when you try to figure out who your

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00:23:28.700 entertaining members of the United States Senate, he is, if you're not familiar with John Kennedy,

00:23:33.280 he's the very folksy sounding conservative Republican who, you know, he'll be grilling a

00:23:39.440 cannon. He'll say, well, listen here, you know, I, or he'll go on, he'll often go on cable news and

00:23:44.100 he'll say, listen, I remember the last time a possum skinned my granddaddy. He told me, you know, 1.00

00:23:48.740 he's got all these really folksy expressions, but beneath the folksy expressions, he's always making

00:23:54.560 these very perceptive points. He's very, very intelligent. He knows he's very strategic and

00:24:01.500 kind of like we were talking about DeSantis making these deep philosophical points in a very

00:24:05.900 down to earth way. John Kennedy does a similar kind of thing. So John Kennedy was just grilling

00:24:12.300 Saul Omarova. Saul Omarova is Joe Biden's nominee for comptroller of the currency. So the person that

00:24:20.160 we're going to put in charge of the currency. And the problem with Saul Omarova is that she 0.96

00:24:26.080 is a communist. That's the, I'm not, I'm not exaggerating. I'm not being hyperbolic.

00:24:31.660 Like the, she is an actual communist. And so Senator Kennedy asked her about this.

00:24:39.060 You used to be a member of a group called the young communist, didn't you?

00:24:48.940 Senator, are you referring to my membership in the youth communist organization while I was growing

00:24:56.620 up in the Soviet Union? I don't know. I was, I just, I wanted to ask you that question.

00:25:01.740 Well, Senator, I, there was a group called the young communists and you were a member. Is that

00:25:08.140 right? I'm not exactly sure which group you're referring to. Well, the formal name of it is

00:25:15.220 the Leninist communist young union of the Russian Federation. And it's also known as the Leninist

00:25:24.700 Komsomol of the Russian Federation. And it's commonly referred to as the young communists.

00:25:32.240 Were you a member? Senator, I was born and grew up in the Soviet Union.

00:25:38.080 Okay. Now, before we get to her bogus excuses, just look, take a masterclass lesson here in

00:25:43.900 rhetoric and politics from John Kennedy. He's sitting there. He's got no paper that he's holding

00:25:49.120 up, right? He's just looking and he's playing dumb. And he goes, ah, now I heard you were a member 1.00

00:25:54.440 of the young communists. Is that right? And so everyone who has their prejudices against

00:25:59.420 conservatives, against Southerners, they're going to look at that and say, oh, here we go.

00:26:03.240 Red Scare again, Joe McCarthy. Look at this bloviating guy. He doesn't, there's no idea what

00:26:07.260 he's talking about. There's no group called the young communists. And she thinks she's,

00:26:11.060 she says, hold on the young, the young communists. Yeah, I heard you're part of the young communists.

00:26:15.700 Isn't that right? Um, Senator, I don't, I don't know what on earth you're talking about.

00:26:21.000 Okay, well here, let me, let me check. The actual name is the Leninist communists. And then he goes

00:26:25.200 on because he's got all the details. So he leads her into this trap to sort of deny the young

00:26:31.380 communist connection. He goes, well, here's the official name and here's what it's known as. And

00:26:35.960 here's how long you were a member of it. And here is, oh, oh that, oh yeah, that group. So now she's

00:26:41.780 got to pivot. Now she pivots to, well, I was, I grew up in the Soviet union. I was so oppressed

00:26:47.740 there. I, we were all, you can't blame, if, if a kid grew up in Nazi Germany, he was part of Hitler 0.89

00:26:52.620 youth. You actually can't, you can't blame them. All the kids were part of that. So you can just,

00:26:57.240 just like that, you can't blame this woman for being part of the young communists, right?

00:27:02.220 Right? Well, Kennedy keeps grilling her.

00:27:04.720 You wrote your thesis in college at Moscow State University on, the title was Karl Marx's

00:27:11.580 Economic Analysis and the Theory of Revolution in the Capital. But you won't send Senator

00:27:19.440 Tumi a copy. You studied at university, at Moscow State University, scientific communism, which 0.85

00:27:28.340 is the science regarding the working class struggle and the socialist agenda.

00:27:32.960 In 2019, not 30 years ago, in a Canadian documentary, you called the financial services industry, 0.80

00:27:44.720 quote, a quintessential ass industry. You wrote a paper called Systemically Significant Prices,

00:27:56.400 Calling for the Federal Government to Set Wages, Food, Gas Prices.

00:28:01.580 In 2020, you wrote a paper called The People's Ledger, where you said we need to abolish bank accounts and

00:28:10.440 make everybody set up an account at the Fed where the federal government will have access to your data.

00:28:15.760 He goes on. He's got this woman dead to rights. And he lets her, he first lets her make the 1.00

00:28:23.340 condescending response, right? You don't know what you're talking about, Senator. Then he allows her to

00:28:28.880 play the victim. I was just, I grew up in the Soviet Union. I had no, and then he says, well, no, but you

00:28:32.980 weren't just in the group when you were eight or nine years old. You went on to study scientific

00:28:37.660 communism and you wrote your thesis in a defense of Karl Marx's economics. And then actually just over

00:28:44.220 the last couple of years, you've been defending communist policies, including a takeover of private

00:28:50.680 property by the government, takeover of private bank accounts. The problem isn't that you were a

00:28:58.440 communist when you were a kid. The problem is that you are a communist now. And she, oh boy,

00:29:06.520 does she look bad. Now, can the Republicans actually railroad this nominee? I'm skeptical of that.

00:29:13.520 But the reason I bring it up, one is to show you the radicalism of the Biden administration. Two is to,

00:29:18.820 to show you this great political tool. All of us could take a lesson in this. Manage expectations.

00:29:26.640 John Kennedy, this very, very sophisticated man, walks up and he just, he just talked like a good

00:29:32.360 old boy, you know, just like a good old Uncle Bill, you know, and he, uh, down here now, listen here, you,

00:29:37.120 and he makes everyone underestimate him. And then he clobbers them. Speaking of subverting

00:29:44.520 expectations, I have to, this is going to be a little bit of a weird story, but I have to get to it.

00:29:50.000 Laura Ingram show the other night, Raymond Arroyo is on and they do, they have a discussion

00:29:55.580 where there seems to be some confusion between the host and the guest. And the liberal media

00:30:01.800 went crazy over this. You know, I was watching an episode of, uh, you where measles came up.

00:30:10.040 Wait, wait, wait, when did I mention measles? I don't know. It was on you.

00:30:15.500 What, what, what, what, what was on me? What are you talking about? Right? Is everyone even

00:30:21.320 hearing what I'm saying? I never had the measles. It was on you. We never did a,

00:30:26.660 we never did a measles and vaccine episode. Am I, is this a joke? I don't even know what you're

00:30:31.780 talking about. It was on you. It was on you. I've never had Raymond. I've never had measles.

00:30:37.800 What are you talking about? This is stupid. It was an episode of a show, Laura. 1.00

00:30:43.520 What's it called? You, you, it's called you. I've never done a show on measles. I,

00:30:49.440 I just completely give up. We got to get it. It's a show called you on Netflix.

00:30:54.940 There's a show called Laura Ingham on Netflix. What are you talking about?

00:30:58.480 I'm moving on to Adele. I can't explain this to you. The pop singer. All right. So

00:31:03.080 this is obviously a bit they're doing who's on first. Okay. And whether, I think it's kind of

00:31:07.900 funny, but if you, if you, maybe you think it's funny, maybe you don't think it's funny.

00:31:11.420 They're obviously just doing who's on first. I don't know what's on first. No, what's on second.

00:31:14.660 I don't know. Third base, right? They're just doing that. But about this, this Netflix show

00:31:17.780 and the left didn't get it. And the left said, Oh, these idiots, these, it's so obviously a bit. 1.00

00:31:24.060 But they didn't look at these. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this craziness that the takeaway 1.00

00:31:29.020 from it is not whether or not, you know, this is the funniest bit in the world. The takeaway

00:31:33.980 is the left does not understand the right at all. They don't get it. They think we're

00:31:39.900 so dumb and evil. And so they just like, so don't get what we're saying and what we believe. 0.99

00:31:47.220 And you're, and you're seeing this play out right now in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse. You're seeing

00:31:51.940 a play out everywhere where the facts are sort of secondary to the left, just imposing their will

00:31:59.460 without even considering what the right has to say. You know, as the first people to file a lawsuit

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00:33:06.080 Welcome back to the show. My favorite time of the week, the mailbag. First question up from Daniel.

00:33:22.780 Hi, Michael. I've been struggling with a porn addiction for quite some time now, and lately

00:33:27.520 I've been noticing the toll it has taken, not just on my moods, but on my ability to retain working

00:33:32.760 memory, my ability to concentrate, and my ability to stay active. And it just so happens that the

00:33:38.120 Daily Wire recently published a list of reasons to quit porn, and among them are these very side

00:33:42.340 effects. My question is this. Of what you've read and spoken to people about, to what extent can this

00:33:49.360 damage be reversed? If I succeed in my efforts to get rid of this addiction for good through prayer,

00:33:56.220 accountability, personal discipline, et cetera, will I still be left with permanent damage? Thanks.

00:34:01.120 Love the show. Well, I actually have two friends who have dealt with this. I'm not saying two friends

00:34:09.540 who have looked at naked ladies on the internet. I'm saying two friends who really had a very serious

00:34:14.600 addiction to this sort of thing, and it really had all the side effects that you're talking about,

00:34:18.180 and it took them a long time. I mean, it was like other friends of mine who have dealt with drug

00:34:22.980 addictions or alcohol addiction. I mean, it was certainly to that extent. And as far as I know,

00:34:29.980 as far as I can tell, they both did come out of it. The brain is a pretty elastic thing.

00:34:35.100 And one of the real temptations of the devil, one of the real snares here is to convince you that you

00:34:42.340 can never get any better. And so why even try? You're never going to kick the bottle. Just have

00:34:46.900 another drink. You might as well. You're never going to kick it. Oh, come on. You can't. You're not

00:34:50.800 going to quit dope. You got to just shoot it up. You got it. You never, you're, it's, you're not, 0.99

00:34:55.120 it's not possible for you. And same thing with something like porn or any other addiction.

00:34:59.840 It's a, it's a very pervasive addiction too. I mean, this is something that actually

00:35:03.100 should make you feel a little bit better about it is that what the, the average age of, of male

00:35:09.560 exposure to porn is like 11 years old now or something. So this is something that, especially

00:35:14.660 for younger people, I hear from zoomers all the time. You're very possibly a zoomer yourself.

00:35:19.240 You know, they're, they will have seen these things when they're very, very young. It's

00:35:23.960 obviously not a conscious choice they made, but then they get ensnared in it. Yeah. The

00:35:28.800 thing also that I think one learns about with any kind of addiction is that there's no, there's

00:35:36.400 no shortcut in this life. There's no way around virtue. If you, if you want to be free, you

00:35:45.280 need to pursue virtue and flee vice. You, you just have to, there's no way around it. And

00:35:52.740 we're very confused about that today because we think that we can be free and then do whatever

00:35:58.000 drugs we want and look at whatever porn we want, sleep with whoever we want, eat whatever

00:36:01.200 we want and just do, you know, follow our appetites. But we can't, the very act of doing

00:36:05.760 those things, as you do them, you are losing your freedom. And then you become enslaved to

00:36:12.560 these, to these things and you can't resist. Your, your appetite totally dominates your

00:36:18.140 rational will and you lose your freedom. But it's, it's a pervasive problem. A lot of

00:36:23.480 people have come out of it and you can, and the way to do it is accountability, prayer, and

00:36:29.860 just focusing on it. One, one thing that, you know, I'll give you the Catholic perspective

00:36:33.280 on, on not just this particular sin, but on all sin. One thing that will really persuade

00:36:40.560 you not to sin or not to sin as much or to think twice about it is confession. You know,

00:36:46.200 there's the sacrament of confession in the Catholic church where you have to go into a

00:36:49.580 box and you confess your sins out loud to a priest. And it's very difficult to do. I've

00:36:55.800 done it a zillion times and it's still difficult for me to do, no matter what the sin is. It can

00:37:01.460 seem like the most mild, moderate, but you're going there and you're saying, I did this wrong

00:37:04.840 thing. And I will tell you, if you get into the habit of, of doing this, of confession,

00:37:10.420 then the minute you want to do whatever you're saying, in this case, you know, look at porn or

00:37:14.860 something, you're going to think twice about it. Cause you just think, oh, I just don't want to

00:37:18.840 have to go to confession. I just don't want to have to tell the priest this and make the time.

00:37:24.240 So I, I wish you luck. Uh, I think your prospects are looking very good. The brain is very elastic.

00:37:30.380 My friends who have dealt with this particular problem seem almost entirely better now, you

00:37:36.800 know, much, much, much, much better. And, and as you may know, people have dealt with other

00:37:41.100 addictions and other problems. And how many people do we know who were alcoholics and now they've

00:37:46.920 recovered? You say, well, can the brain ever recover? The brain recovers just fine. You can do

00:37:50.780 it. You can do it, buddy. From Elise. Hey, Michael, I'm a 16 year old girl. I'm conservative and share the

00:37:55.940 belief that generally women should be mothers. However, I've personally never wanted children. 0.65

00:38:00.240 And feel that God has called me on an entirely different path. How would you approach this as

00:38:04.900 a believer? Oh, well, I, I would probably discern a vocation, right? If I felt that I'm not being

00:38:12.040 called to marriage and God is calling me to a path of celibacy, then I would probably pursue,

00:38:17.520 I would discern of whether or not I had a vocation, meaning, am I supposed to be a priest? Or in your

00:38:22.640 case, are you supposed to be a nun, for example? And not everyone is. I did not have a vocation.

00:38:30.240 And I was kind of an atheist at the time when I guess I would have been discerning these things,

00:38:34.760 but I didn't. Manifestly, I did not. Some people do. It's a gift given to some people. You know,

00:38:39.260 it's a charism. And so if you are that, then I, you know, I don't know, again, I don't know your

00:38:43.680 specific religious leanings, but I would discern that. You might be, you might be called to be a

00:38:49.300 nun. And that's great. There's some pretty, pretty cool nuns out there. I mean, some of the greatest 1.00

00:38:54.720 women in the history of the world have been nuns, have been called to a religious life. And even now,

00:38:59.800 you know, I am going to see at an event soon enough, a sister Deirdre Byrne, who's a really

00:39:05.940 impressive nun. She spoke at the RNC. She's, you know, she's in the military and she's a surgeon and

00:39:12.380 she's a nun. Very, very impressive people. So, you know, best of luck with discerning that.

00:39:17.680 Certainly, we can all pray for you. From Nicholas. Hey, Michael, my fellow swarthy former 1.00

00:39:23.160 Westchester, New York resident. How would you respond to the argument that a woman taking a

00:39:27.640 man's last name after marriage is an outdated and sexist tradition? Is there any reason behind 0.98

00:39:33.780 doing so other than its tradition? My fiance has heard from many of her engaged friends that they

00:39:38.720 either plan on having the man take the woman's last name. That's good. That's poor schmucks. Or to 1.00

00:39:47.480 create a new hybrid name based on a combination of the two last names. Luckily, I will be marrying

00:39:53.780 a smart, beautiful Catholic Italian woman who plans on taking my last name when we get married 1.00

00:39:58.580 in June. Could use some ammo for arguments with all these New York libs. You the man. Thank you

00:40:02.740 very much. Okay. You will inevitably be taking a man's name. Your family inevitably will take a man's

00:40:13.880 name. Whether your wife takes your name or you take her name or you both keep your names, you will

00:40:18.920 have a man's name. You will either have your last name, the husband's last name, or the wife's father's

00:40:26.440 last name. And let's say that the wife actually was named after her mother. Okay. Then you're going

00:40:31.140 to be taking the wife's mother's father's last name. But somewhere down the line, you will be taking

00:40:37.080 a man's last name. So if you take the husband's last name, this would seem to reflect that the man

00:40:44.640 has a special leadership role in the household, headship of the household. Doesn't mean he's a

00:40:48.820 knuckle dragging dictator, but there is a leadership role for a man in a household, which I certainly

00:40:55.020 think is the case. If you take the woman's last name, then you're saying that the father-in-law has a

00:41:01.320 special leadership role in the household. Okay. Not the way I want to run my household, but that's

00:41:05.480 fine. And if the woman does not take the man's last name, then you're saying we're not really

00:41:13.220 one flesh, right? We're still two separate individuals who've consented to do certain

00:41:17.200 things together. We share a dishwasher. And if you come up with a hybrid name together, if you just make

00:41:23.380 up a name, then what you're saying is we are doing this thing together, but we have no connection to our

00:41:29.140 past, no connection to our family. No, we are our own thing totally divorced from tradition and custom

00:41:36.740 and convention. Good luck with that. Each man has a very small quantity of reason, and I don't think

00:41:43.680 unfettered reason and unfettered atomized individualism is really going to lead you to a

00:41:49.960 flourishing life. The one exception I will say to this is a friend of mine had a very complicated last name

00:41:56.560 that was difficult to pronounce and probably not great for business. And he did take his wife's last

00:42:00.320 name because it was really succinct and easy to say and looked kind of cool. So there might be

00:42:05.680 prudential reasons to try to work your way around it, but I think generally speaking,

00:42:11.420 your wife should take your last name. From Thomas. Hey, Mr. Knowles. I think the metaverse is great.

00:42:19.820 This is Mark Zuckerberg's new thing where you just plug into the matrix. For the very same reason,

00:42:24.000 I think it's terrible. It's just like drugs or alcohol or porn. It's an escape from reality.

00:42:28.360 I've gone through a ton of trauma in my 19 years of living. As a young adult who struggles with

00:42:32.580 suicidal thoughts, a world away from this one sounds amazing. Sadly, I know the metaverse is in fact a

00:42:38.100 prison worse than this world and not the heaven we want it to be. So I would want to go to the

00:42:44.100 metaverse to escape my giants here. Demons, you might say. The more conservative I get and the more faith I

00:42:50.060 put in God, the more my family hates me. And the girl I love just sees me like an older brother.

00:42:54.960 I've wanted to run away for years and the metaverse seems like a great way to do it. Or like a way to

00:42:59.380 do it, even though I know I would only be running into a dark, lonely cell. Sincerely, a hurting soul.

00:43:03.200 Well, listen, pal, I'm sorry you're going through all this. It's really, really tough.

00:43:09.440 The first step to overcoming a problem is knowing that you have a problem. So you know that you have

00:43:14.380 this problem of trauma that you've got to process. The problem of not particularly enjoying your place

00:43:21.620 in the world and thinking you might need to make a change in your social life. And this problem of

00:43:26.660 recognizing the temptation of fantasy, which is what the metaverse is. So that's good. I think

00:43:30.860 you're really pretty far ahead of the game here. And you said your family hates you because you

00:43:35.940 believe in God. Well, you know, that's what the Bible says. They say they will hate you for my sake.

00:43:40.000 So you can take, I think, a great deal of solace and comfort in that. What would I recommend doing?

00:43:45.200 Well, one, I would recommend seeing a psychologist if you're trying to deal with psychological trauma

00:43:50.060 from your past. If you're not doing that already, I would recommend you do that. I'm not saying you

00:43:53.920 take a bunch of happy pills. I'm saying you speak to someone who might have some expertise in working

00:43:57.620 through this. Recommend talking to a priest. You know, you say you believe in God. So I would

00:44:01.760 definitely do that. And I would resist the temptation. You know it. You know that it needs to be resisted.

00:44:06.980 And sometimes we just need a little comfort to resist these things. Comfort in the sense of Bishop

00:44:11.040 Odo on the bio tapestry, wielding a club, smacking his own men and saying, get back to battle and don't

00:44:16.220 retreat. That would be the thing to do because you're right. The escapism, you know, booze, drugs,

00:44:25.000 porn, the metaverse, even video games can become a problem like this. What they often are about is

00:44:31.900 escaping time. We want to be outside of time. You feel under pressure. You feel like, ah, I just,

00:44:37.580 I don't like being in this world. So you just, you try to get out of that, but you can't get out of

00:44:41.060 that. You'll be far more edified to work out your problems here in the real world. And maybe that

00:44:47.840 means making some changes. Maybe you have to make some changes to your social life. Find a new girl 1.00

00:44:52.040 that you're attracted to. Who cares? The girl doesn't like you. So whatever. There's other fish in the 0.99

00:44:55.820 sea. Get over her. You know, she doesn't sound that great to me. Your family doesn't like you. Well,

00:45:00.700 maybe you need to put a little distance between your family. Or maybe you need to work things out

00:45:04.020 with your family. But, you know, maybe you've got to sort those things out. Maybe you do have to move.

00:45:09.880 Maybe you don't need to move. You're 19. You're very, very young. Maybe you work these things out.

00:45:13.200 People get better at these sorts of things. And the final part of that is maybe you need to recognize

00:45:19.220 the productivity of suffering. No one wants to suffer. Suffering is terrible. I'm sorry that you

00:45:26.440 got to deal with it. But suffering can be a sanctifying thing. You can react to it in a way

00:45:32.060 with patience and humility that is edifying. It will build you up. I just read Jane Eyre. You ever

00:45:37.140 read Jane Eyre? Terrific book. And the first part of the book is on this very point. It might be worth

00:45:42.480 doing that. That would be a much more productive thing to do, to read a great novel like Jane Eyre

00:45:46.800 than to go into the metaverse. Stay strong. You know the answer.

00:45:50.820 However, I think you just need a little comfort. And so I'm happy to provide that if we can.

00:45:57.220 All right. 20 seconds left. I'm still going to get to a question from Jared.

00:46:00.820 Michael, when talking about destigmatizing pedophiles, oh my gosh, it's a heavy episode,

00:46:05.820 guys. Heavy mailbag. Shouldn't we approach, as some people have, evil thoughts? And shouldn't we

00:46:11.200 approach, and this is worded a little weird. It's never okay to act on. But you should get counseling and

00:46:15.380 maybe isolate yourself. Encourage people to be better than their urges in this day and age.

00:46:18.660 Do you think our friends on the other side could accept this standard? If so,

00:46:22.140 we begin to chip away at all this gender stuff, right? If we basically say that you got to work 0.58

00:46:26.720 on these urges. Yes. Yeah, that is the problem. One of the central problems of the gender ideology 1.00

00:46:31.760 is that we're told that all of our desires are fine. And maybe you can't act on all of them,

00:46:36.920 that you can act on most of them these days. But oh, the desires are fine. You should never try to

00:46:41.400 change your desires or couch your desires. But the fact is, we can shape our desires. Maybe not totally.

00:46:46.140 This is a fallen world, and we have natural inclinations that we can overcome. But we can

00:46:50.560 order our desires. A little kid craves milk chocolate all the time. An adult craves filet

00:46:57.440 mignon. This is a cultivation of tastes. And this is true of all of our desires. You can aim your desire

00:47:04.000 toward vice, and then you'll get more of it. Or you can aim it toward virtue, and you'll get more of

00:47:07.120 that as well. That is the only way that you could overcome the gender theory stuff. But it requires a lot 0.84

00:47:12.500 of work on reshaping the moral discourse. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael

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Ep. 890 - If You Ain't Cheating You Ain't A Democrat

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