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00:00:00.000 Joe Biden has been very clear. If you call into question the results of our election,

00:00:06.880 you are weakening the foundations of our sacred democracy. Unless you are a Democrat who is down

00:00:15.740 in the polls, in which case all of the elections are a sham. A moment ago, you were asked whether

00:00:22.720 or not you believed that we would have free and fair elections in 2022 if some of these state

00:00:28.060 legislatures reforms their voting protocols. You said that it depends. Do you think that

00:00:37.060 they would in any way be illegitimate? Oh, yeah. I think it easily could be illegitimate. Imagine

00:00:44.620 if, in fact, Trump has succeeded in convincing Pence to not count the votes. Imagine if...

00:00:52.620 In regards to 2022, sir, the midterm election. Oh, 2022. I mean, imagine if those attempts to say

00:01:00.980 that the count was not legit. You have to recount it and we're not going to count, we're going to

00:01:06.920 discard the following votes. I mean, sure, I'm not saying it's going to be legit. The increase

00:01:13.360 in the prospect of being illegitimate is a direct proportion of us not being able to get

00:01:17.920 these reforms passed. I'm not saying it's going to be legit. Yeah, if the Republicans get their way,

00:01:25.880 it could easily not be legitimate. The elections are sacred democracy. The best part about this

00:01:32.760 is that it exposes not just the Democrats for the power-hungry monsters that they are,

00:01:37.720 but the squish Republicans, the Republicans for Joe Biden, for the sanctimonious, disingenuous little

00:01:44.900 twerps that they always were. Because what we were told by all the squishes was, look,

00:01:49.460 we might disagree with Joe Biden and the Democrats on policy issues, but there's something more

00:01:54.780 fundamental at stake. This is the argument that Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were making.

00:01:59.160 There's something fundamental, our democracy. And so for the good of our democracy, we need to elect

00:02:04.000 a man who is civil, a man who is mature, a man using responsible rhetoric, who's not going to tear

00:02:10.420 down the very fabric of our democracy. And then it turns out that on every single count,

00:02:16.660 when you compare Biden and Trump on every count, on rhetoric, on corruption, on scandal,

00:02:22.740 forget policy for a second, where Trump obviously is light years ahead of Joe Biden. But just on all

00:02:28.820 those personal characteristics, it turns out that Biden is worse than Trump on every single count.

00:02:34.880 And in some cases, he's much, much, much worse than Trump. Now he is calling into question

00:02:41.100 our sacred democracy as well. And the best part of that is that he's doing it because he knows that

00:02:47.360 his party is headed toward disaster in November. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:04:43.700 So you know that thing that Joe Biden just said? You know that thing that he just said,

00:04:48.220 that the 2022 midterms easily could be illegitimate? Well, according to White House

00:04:54.460 Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Joe Biden did not say that. You did not hear that. Do not believe your

00:05:01.040 lying eyes. These are not the droids you're looking for. A reporter at White House Press Briefing said,

00:05:06.400 Jen, hold on. Joe Biden ran for the past year. He's been running on how Trump is the worst guy

00:05:11.700 in the world because he called into question the results of our elections. Now he's doing the same

00:05:15.800 thing before the elections even take place. How do you make sense of that? Jen Psaki says,

00:05:19.700 you didn't hear what you thought you heard. President Biden said the midterm elections

00:05:24.040 both easily could be illegitimate. Is he predetermining that the November elections

00:05:32.400 were going to be suspect? Well, I talked to the president about this last night and this morning.

00:05:37.240 He was not intending to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. He was actually

00:05:42.980 attempting to make the opposite point, which is that in 2020, despite COVID, despite many attempts

00:05:49.480 to suppress the vote, a record number of voters, Democrats and Republicans, independents too,

00:05:54.540 turned out in the face of a pandemic and election officials made sure they could vote and have those

00:05:58.520 votes counted. He was also explaining that the results would be illegitimate if states do what

00:06:04.160 the former president asked them to do in more than a half a dozen states in 2020, after the 2020

00:06:09.860 election, toss out ballots and overturn results after the fact. And his view is that one of the

00:06:15.700 most important roles we can play now is informing and educating the public on what these laws are,

00:06:21.360 on efforts to suppress their vote, and even beyond the laws, efforts in different states across the

00:06:27.220 country to make it more difficult for them. Get that woman some honey mustard. She has twisted

00:06:32.760 herself into a human pretzel in this kind of bizarre logic to try to answer the question. At the very end

00:06:41.320 there, the reporter says, he goes, no, no, no, Jen, I'm not talking about 2020. I'm talking about 2022.

00:06:48.260 And then she goes on for another three minutes, not answering the question, because it is very clear

00:06:53.840 what Joe Biden said. He said the 2022 midterm elections easily could be illegitimate. So she

00:07:01.340 says, no, no, he actually said the opposite of what he said. No, what he actually said. And then the best

00:07:06.380 part is she goes on to do the same thing that Joe Biden did and just keep talking about 2020. But

00:07:12.480 that's not, that's not the issue here. So what the Democrats want to be able to do is call into

00:07:19.500 question the results of an election that they are most likely going to lose and lose by a lot.

00:07:24.320 And at the same time, keep the moral high ground of never questioning the elections because they've

00:07:28.360 spent the past year accusing Democrats, or accusing Republicans rather, of destroying our country by

00:07:33.000 doing that very same thing. But it's not working in, in no small part because the White House can't

00:07:39.600 get on the same message here. This has been one of the toughest aspects of the Biden administration

00:07:45.180 is one, you have no idea what Joe Biden's going to say every time he opens his mouth. It's another

00:07:49.900 catastrophe for the communications department. And two, the various parts of the White House of

00:07:56.800 the executive branch never seem to be on the same page. So Joe Biden comes out, he says the 2022

00:08:01.820 midterms easily could be illegitimate. Jen Psaki comes out, he says, Joe Biden did not say that the

00:08:07.080 elections are not going to be illegitimate. And then Kamala Harris goes on TV and says, yeah,

00:08:10.940 I guess I guess he said that. Sorry. Whoops. Let's talk about another comment the president

00:08:15.880 made. He openly cast doubt on whether the 2022 midterm elections would be legitimate. He said

00:08:22.760 it all depends, which is astonishing to hear a president question whether our elections will

00:08:30.160 be legitimate. We've heard it before, but not from this president. Is he really concerned that

00:08:34.880 that we may not have fair and free elections? The president has been consistent on this issue

00:08:43.340 and the issue at hand, the issue I was there last night in the chamber of the Senate. And the issue

00:08:50.740 is that there are two bills, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act that have been

00:08:57.240 the solution that has been offered to address the fact that around our country, states have put in place

00:09:04.080 laws that are purposely making it more difficult for the American people to vote laws, which will be

00:09:10.260 felt by at least 55 million Americans, regardless of their party affiliation, their race, their gender,

00:09:17.220 or their geographic location. And then this answer goes on for another three minutes. No, no, but I'm

00:09:24.400 hold on. How, how are the elections being stolen? How is the election illegitimate? And Kamala Harris just

00:09:30.460 keeps on going with the same platitudes. Yes, yes, absolutely. She's just one day behind the talking

00:09:35.420 points. But I think she's giving the more honest answer, at least in terms of what the Democrats

00:09:41.420 actually believe. I think Joe Biden is giving the more honest answer, not in terms of the reality,

00:09:45.800 but in terms of what the Democrats believe. And the reality is this. The elections are legitimate when

00:09:52.520 the Democrats win them. And the elections are illegitimate when the Democrats lose them.

00:09:57.380 I don't think that I am caricaturing the Democrat position on this. I think they, they truly believe

00:10:03.260 that. And the reason they believe that is not just because of whatever logical pretzels they've got to

00:10:08.300 twist themselves into to say that the way that ballots are counted or the way that ballots are

00:10:12.740 collected happen in a fair way when the Democrats win and in an unfair way when the Democrats lose.

00:10:17.800 It's in the very nature of the Democrats winning or losing itself. Namely, that when,

00:10:23.640 even when the people go out and vote for Republicans, that is a threat to democracy

00:10:30.880 because the people have been misled. The people have been led astray by misinformation. The people

00:10:38.820 are laboring under a false consciousness. So they think that they want to vote for Republicans,

00:10:43.520 but that's only because the Republicans have brainwashed them into voting against their interests.

00:10:47.800 That, that, that, that itself is illegitimate because progress only goes in one direction.

00:10:55.140 They have a vision of progress. And so if you are impeded from moving further along that path toward

00:11:02.220 progress, something had to go wrong. And because the left conflates the ideas of democracy, liberalism,

00:11:11.300 and progress, because it's all the same, because the people, if they were truly free to make their,

00:11:16.320 their choices, they would obviously vote for progress and for the Democrats. Because of that,

00:11:22.480 when the people do something that the Democrats don't like, that is a threat to our democracy.

00:11:27.940 There is, there is a twisted logic there. It's not just pure power hungry interest politics,

00:11:33.880 but, but it shows you that democracy does not mean what, what they think that it means. It reminds me

00:11:40.440 of Max Boot, who yesterday said that the people voting a certain way is a grave threat. The people in

00:11:46.500 America moving from the left to the right, from Democrat to Republican, poses a grave threat to

00:11:50.420 democracy. On the surface, it seems to undermine the point, but there is something deeper here, and it is

00:11:56.320 why the left is so vicious. It's why they are willing to do anything to win these elections.

00:12:04.580 Because goodness, truth, justice, democracy, everything good in this country, in, in the vision of the

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00:14:03.180 talked himself into, Joe Biden discussing the potential illegitimacy of the election is not

00:14:12.100 the dumbest, most catastrophic thing that he's said in recent days. That would probably be Joe

00:14:17.760 Biden's invitation, practically speaking, invitation to the Russians to invade Ukraine.

00:14:24.180 Russia will be held accountable if it invades. And it depends on what it does. It's one thing if

00:14:30.520 it's a minor incursion and then we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, etc. But if

00:14:36.500 they actually do what they're capable of doing with the force amassed on the border, it is going to be

00:14:41.960 a disaster for Russia if they further ingrate you. I wanted to follow up briefly on a question asked by

00:14:47.420 Bloomberg. You said that Russia would be held accountable if it invades and it depends on what it does.

00:14:53.080 Are you saying that a minor incursion by Russia into Ukrainian territory would not lead to the

00:14:58.640 sanctions that you have threatened? Or are you effectively giving Putin permission to make a

00:15:03.240 small incursion into the country? Good question. That's how it did shine a light, didn't it?

00:15:09.800 Yeah. When I said that we wouldn't do anything if Russia only invades part of Ukraine, I guess it

00:15:18.080 sounded like I said that Russia could invade part of Ukraine. Yeah, I guess. Anyway, moving on. Next

00:15:25.060 question. It sounded like that because that's exactly what you said and he doesn't even try to

00:15:29.940 correct it. This is probably the worst case scenario because here Joe Biden is not standing

00:15:40.020 firm with Ukraine and saying, do not invade Russia. There are going to be serious consequences if you

00:15:44.900 invade Ukraine. And he's not even rolling over and saying, okay, Ukraine is yours now. I'm just going

00:15:51.720 to give you Ukraine. He's in this awful middle ground where he's saying, okay, Russia, you can roll those

00:15:59.400 tanks in and you can take some small part of Ukraine and you can kill some people and you can shoot some

00:16:06.660 bullets, but not too many, not too much or else, uh, uh, or else what? I never want to hear about

00:16:19.860 Russian collusion again. It was always so crazy that the Democrats accused Republicans of colluding

00:16:26.720 with the Russians after Democrats spent a full century colluding with the Russians. From the communist

00:16:32.360 revolution in Russia, up until today, the left has been colluding with the Russians. They wanted

00:16:40.440 warmer relationships with the Russians. They opposed attempts to stop Russian expansion. They opposed,

00:16:46.760 uh, Ronald Reagan's policy in the Cold War, for instance, to outspend the Russians, to destroy the

00:16:52.640 Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan was asked, what's, what's your strategy on the Cold War? He said, it's a simple

00:16:56.960 strategy. We win and they lose. The left lost their minds over that. Hillary Clinton, when she was

00:17:01.460 Secretary of State, begged for a Russian reset, she wanted warmer relations with Russia. I think that

00:17:09.220 there are good arguments for warming up relations with Russia to play off of China, for instance. I

00:17:15.380 don't think that's the left's game because I think the left is sucking up to China even more than they

00:17:18.720 are to Russia. But the idea that Republicans are somehow softer on Russia than the Democrats is absurd.

00:17:26.920 And here we have the clearest example of that. Joe Biden inviting Russia to invade what is today

00:17:34.260 an independent nation, Ukraine. More proof that the left projects. And it's a really important lesson

00:17:41.760 because when you're in the moment of, of getting some accusation from the left, your, your instinct is

00:17:47.600 to defend. Your instinct is to take it seriously. Your instinct is to try to reason your way out of it.

00:17:53.180 I don't think you have to do that. When the left comes out and calls you a racist, probably the

00:17:58.100 clearest example, you don't need to defend yourself. You don't need to explain to them why you're not a

00:18:02.640 racist. The Democrat party is deeply, deeply racist. It views politics through the lens of race,

00:18:12.460 much, much more so than Republicans do. The Democrats are advocating policies which create

00:18:17.960 racial hierarchies and reward some races and punish other races. You don't need to take it seriously

00:18:24.260 when they call you that. Just laugh at them. Maybe give them a couple of words that aren't happy

00:18:30.340 birthday and go on your merry way. Certainly the same thing is true with when they tell you that

00:18:34.860 the Republicans are colluding with Russia. You don't need to, you don't need to explain how you're

00:18:39.540 not really colluding with Russia. And actually Trump was misunderstood when he said this or that.

00:18:43.140 Just laugh at them. They're just projecting. They've been colluding with Russia for a century.

00:18:51.080 Nowhere is the left's projection clearer than on the science. We got some great,

00:18:55.500 great news from the CDC. The first level of the news is that the CDC has concluded that natural

00:19:03.320 immunity is better than the vaccine at fighting the Delta variant of the coronavirus. But that's not

00:19:09.280 the best news. The best news as far as I'm concerned about this headline is that we were right yet

00:19:15.980 again. We were right yet again. It was only the conservatives who for the past two years really

00:19:21.240 have said that natural immunity offers strong protection against viruses and specifically against

00:19:27.360 the coronavirus. We suspected that natural immunity would work. We were laughed at. We were called

00:19:33.440 idiots. We were called anti-science rubes. We were called conspiracy theorists. And oh, there it is.

00:19:40.280 Oh, we were right. Because the difference between the truth and a conspiracy theory these days would

00:19:46.400 appear to be six to nine months. This headline that natural immunity is stronger protection against

00:19:55.260 the Delta variant than the COVID vaccines. That was a conspiracy theory two days ago.

00:20:04.120 Two days ago, that was considered by the media, by big tech, by the administrative agencies, by

00:20:08.800 elected politicians. That was a conspiracy theory. Today, they admit that it's the truth. This has

00:20:15.020 happened again and again. The CDC, the FDA, Dr. Fauci, Joe Biden even have been caught in this time and

00:20:24.800 time again. The cloth masks. Right-wingers said the cloth masks don't really do very much to protect

00:20:30.520 against COVID. We were all called conspiracy theorists. And then in the last couple of weeks,

00:20:35.200 the public health officials admit the cloth masks actually don't do very much. The conservatives said

00:20:41.140 that COVID almost certainly escaped from the Wuhan laboratory. We were called conspiracy theorists. What

00:20:46.840 happens? Turns out that was completely correct. Which raises the question, what is considered a

00:20:54.200 conspiracy theory today that we are going to find out tomorrow is the truth? Do we think this is it?

00:21:02.160 We've reached the end of the road? It reminds me of people who believe that everything is completely

00:21:07.980 above board in the intelligence agencies. Governments need intelligence services. I'm not saying that

00:21:14.300 America can do without intelligence services. But sometimes the things that the IC does are a little

00:21:20.320 bit shady. And now they're all being defended by the liberal establishment. It's not the conservatives who

00:21:26.560 are defending the FBI and the CIA. It's the liberals who are defending them. The liberals who previously

00:21:31.900 would point out, the CIA in the 1960s, they performed these experiments, these dodgy, unethical

00:21:38.800 experiments on these people. And they did this. And they invaded this country. And they overthrew this

00:21:43.080 government. And they did this thing that was illegal. And they did all. But I bet they've just stopped

00:21:48.080 doing all of that now, right? But I bet right now, all of the declassified documents that we see from

00:21:54.940 what these agencies have been doing in the past are pretty dodgy. And you really, they should have

00:21:58.720 probably been reined in. But they probably just stopped. All of these lies from the left, from the

00:22:04.420 liberal establishment, from the science, but that's probably just stopped. Right now, everything's

00:22:09.540 going to be above board. No, we have to think for ourselves. Because conspiracy theories today are

00:22:14.200 going to be the truth tomorrow, specifically when it comes to the public health technocracy that keeps

00:22:19.480 lying to us. Now, moving out of the realm of policy into the realm of culture, M&Ms have gone trans.

00:22:30.560 They're trans. They're not transitioning from one sex to another sex. They're not transitioning

00:22:36.700 necessarily from dark chocolate to milk chocolate, say. Certainly not white chocolate. Could you imagine

00:22:42.340 how racist that would be? But the M&Ms are going woke. Mars Incorporated, the candy company that owns

00:22:50.900 M&Ms, gave an announcement yesterday. They said, we took a deep look at our characters, both inside and

00:22:56.660 out, and have evolved their look, personalities, and backstories to be more representative of today's

00:23:02.240 society. As the world changes, so do we. The characters are now going to have, quote, a fresh,

00:23:08.020 modern take on their style, and more nuanced personalities to underscore the importance of

00:23:14.460 self-expression and power of community through storytelling. Because today's, quote, more dynamic,

00:23:20.020 progressive world demands it. We are talking about candy-coated chocolate bites, and we are getting

00:23:28.960 a dissertation on the progressive nature of our society. Why are they doing this? I actually think

00:23:36.080 there's something deeper going on in this story than just the silliness of a piece of candy going

00:23:40.960 trans. Mars says, quote, studies show our desire to belong is as strong as our desire to be loved,

00:23:47.680 and that desire is common for all people, irrespective of culture, race, ethnicity,

00:23:51.720 geography, or location. Again, this release coming from a candy bar company. They showed,

00:23:57.480 the Mars company showed a glimpse of this new program in an Instagram video. They say,

00:24:02.120 we're on a mission to create a world where everyone feels they belong, using the power of

00:24:06.900 fun. Join us for all fun kind. Head on over. So they're saying this world is progressive,

00:24:13.920 so inevitably the world is going to move more in the leftist direction. It's the same sort of thing

00:24:18.080 that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the rest of the Democrats are assuming when they say that

00:24:22.140 elections that they lose will be illegitimate. They're saying the world is inevitably going to become

00:24:26.720 more progressive, and it's good that it's going to become more progressive. And so any time that

00:24:31.980 that progress with a capital P is impeded, by definition, something has gone wrong. By definition,

00:24:37.540 that election is illegitimate. But what M&Ms are pursuing right now, what our society is pursuing

00:24:42.440 right now, is two contradictory objectives. They say that they want more self-expression.

00:24:49.620 They also say that they want more commonality, community, and sense of belonging. You can't have both.

00:24:54.980 You can't have both. Those are at odds with one another, and our culture is radically pursuing

00:25:01.700 both, and it's why we're tearing apart at the seams. M&Ms, much like our cultural leaders,

00:25:11.540 our candy and our cultural leaders, want us to pursue radical self-expression. Meaning, if you're a man

00:25:19.400 and you think you're a woman, then you better dress up in dresses, you better wear high heels,

00:25:24.560 you better rub some lipstick all over your face. Frankly, you should probably mutilate your body,

00:25:28.500 you should go under the knife, you should pump yourself full of hormones, because that's your

00:25:32.060 true self-expression. Now, I don't think that really is your self-expression. I think that yourself

00:25:39.060 is more than just your delusions. I think your body has something to do with yourself. I think reality

00:25:43.360 has something to say about yourself. But in the views of our modern world, the cultural leaders

00:25:50.600 say, whatever whim or fancy you've got, you need to express that. But also, gosh, we're all so lonely.

00:25:57.160 We're all so isolated. We don't even seem to be able to speak to one another anymore. We don't seem

00:26:02.920 to speak a common language, and so what we really want also is community. We all want to be included.

00:26:07.280 We want to be together. But if everybody is off speaking their own language, not talking to one

00:26:14.140 another, not regarding the demands or views of their neighbors, if everyone is off forming their

00:26:20.840 own, to quote Anthony Kennedy, in one of the dumbest Supreme Court decisions ever, Planned Parenthood v.

00:26:25.320 Casey, which has a lot to do with what we're talking about right now, because we're here in D.C. at

00:26:28.560 the March for Life. If everyone's doing that, forming our own concept of existence, we can't have

00:26:35.060 community. We've got to find a middle ground here. We've got to pick, frankly, because we've gone so

00:26:46.260 far in one direction that we don't have anything left in the other. We've gone so far down the

00:26:50.040 radical self-expression rabbit hole that we don't have any community left anymore. And so the answer

00:26:54.860 to this is to limit self-expression. The answer to this is to place some limits upon this mistaken

00:27:02.400 view of liberty we have, which is nothing but licentiousness and delusion. It's a problem not

00:27:06.300 just for the left. The left is pushing it, obviously. It's a problem for the right, too.

00:27:11.760 We, we too, are pursuing a radical individualism, and it is tearing the country apart at the seams.

00:27:18.480 We need to recognize that license and liberty are different things. When, when the left talks about

00:27:23.020 the liberty to go get an abortion, they're describing a license. There is no such liberty.

00:27:28.640 liberty. And that's what we're going to be talking about over the next couple of days. This is the

00:27:32.840 March for Life. It's the 49th annual March for Life. It's been going on every single year since

00:27:38.520 Roe versus Wade created a fictional right to an abortion. And there is a lot of hope this year

00:27:45.000 that Roe versus Wade is not going to make it to 50 because there's a case before the Supreme Court,

00:27:50.100 Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization, which could overrule Roe and could overrule Planned Parenthood

00:27:55.660 v. Casey, which was the case in the 1990s that reaffirmed Roe versus Wade.

00:28:01.040 And do you know what's going to happen then? Is that the end of the pro-life movement? No,

00:28:04.680 that's only the beginning of the pro-life movement. For, for a long time, for a long time,

00:28:10.200 the conservatives said, and the originalists and the textualists, they said, if Roe versus Wade is

00:28:15.000 overturned, that is not going to outlaw abortion around the country. It's just going to send it back

00:28:18.820 to the states. And if you're in Tennessee and you don't want abortion, you should be able to

00:28:22.120 talk to your fellow citizens, talk to your legislators, pass a law, and say no abortion.

00:28:26.600 And if you're in New York and you're a bunch of degenerates, then you should be able to talk to

00:28:31.000 your neighbors, persuade them, talk to your legislators, and have abortion up until the

00:28:34.340 moment of birth. That's democracy in action. And what the left would say is, you guys are being

00:28:38.940 disingenuous. You don't really just want to return this to the states. You want to outlaw abortion

00:28:43.340 nationwide. And to that, I say, yep, you got us. Guilty as charged. Yes, it is not enough to,

00:28:53.960 it's wonderful. We need to overturn Roe versus Wade. I'm very eager. If we can get that, if we

00:28:57.640 can send abortion back to the states, that's a great step in the right direction. But it's not

00:29:03.100 the end of it. I don't really care about the procedural victory of who decides whether or not

00:29:08.180 to kill kids. I care to some degree, but it's not the be all and end all. What I really care about

00:29:13.800 is the substantive issue of ending abortion. The left focuses on progress. For the left, progress

00:29:21.300 is everything. The right needs its own end in mind. The right needs to be able to focus on something

00:29:27.220 beyond mere compromise, beyond mere tactics, beyond mere procedure. What the right needs to focus on

00:29:36.700 is justice. The left has progress. They're moving toward utopia. What the right has is justice.

00:29:43.340 Abortion is simply wrong. No one has a right to do it. Human rights are rights only by virtue of their

00:29:50.800 accord with right reason. If a right is, if a law is unjust, it is no law at all. There is no right to

00:29:58.600 an abortion, not at the national level, not at the state level, not at the local level, not anywhere.

00:30:04.300 Not anywhere. And so we're very excited. I really hope that the Supreme Court makes the right decision

00:30:10.320 and that will move us a step in the right direction. There will be a whole lot more pro-life movement

00:30:14.300 to go. By the way, it's a political winner. I know that the swamp creatures here in D.C. on the left and

00:30:19.800 the right tell you not to talk about abortion. So who cares about that? Especially the ones on the

00:30:24.760 Republican side. They say just talk about cutting taxes. Don't talk about the social issues, the

00:30:28.820 cultural issues. Abortion is a huge winner. There was a poll that just came out from the Knights of

00:30:33.160 Columbus and Marist showing that 71% of Americans support legal limits on abortion. 71%. Not saying

00:30:42.700 to outlaw it outright, but putting limits on abortion. 71%. 49% of Democrats support limits

00:30:50.660 on abortion. 93% of Republicans support limits on abortion. 70% of independents support limits on

00:30:57.280 abortion. There is a huge disconnect between what the American people think about abortion and what the

00:31:02.660 elite media on the left and frankly on the right too. Think about it. But the politicians who are

00:31:08.140 listening to this show do not listen to the elite media. Do not listen to the swamp creatures.

00:31:12.960 They're wrong. They're wrong on this issue. They're wrong on crime. The majority of Americans want

00:31:17.300 more criminals locked up. The elite media, the elites on the left and the right, want to let criminals

00:31:23.500 out of prison. They even got Trump to pass a jailbreak bill. It was politically probably the stupidest

00:31:28.540 thing the guy ever did. And tone deaf. The guy's got a really good sense of what his people want.

00:31:35.380 But he was persuaded by these elites in D.C. to undermine that. The other one is abortion.

00:31:42.880 The majority of Americans want to drastically reduce abortion. The elites on both sides don't

00:31:47.120 want to do it. Well, abortion, or immigration rather, not abortion. Abortion is a similar issue.

00:31:53.600 It's popular to limit abortion even among young voters. There was a poll just released

00:31:59.020 by the Students for Life in America that found that most millennials and Gen Z Americans do not

00:32:06.580 share Joe Biden's radical abortion views. I sound like Joe Biden as I keep tripping over this because

00:32:12.880 it's a very important issue. The poll found 80% of younger Americans believe that they should have

00:32:19.100 the right to vote on abortion-related policies in their state, meaning the Supreme Court should not

00:32:24.520 acknowledge some national right to abortion, some constitutional right. 80% of Gen Z and millennials,

00:32:33.380 that's up from 66% who gave that response just last year. Abortion is the sacred, it's a sacrament

00:32:44.420 really, I suppose, of the feminists. And the feminists broadened it out to the left in the 1960s.

00:32:52.060 Younger generations are less persuaded by that. And I don't think there's, it's a coincidence.

00:32:58.940 The feminists have peddled delusion. The feminists peddled this idea that men and women are exactly the

00:33:04.740 same, and a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. And people had to go along with that. And I think

00:33:09.920 that the younger generations, millennials, and especially Gen Z, are not interested in delusion.

00:33:15.400 I think this is why younger people, when they come into religion, for instance, when they return to

00:33:19.900 the church, they tend not to go to the happy, touchy-feely, squishy churches. They tend to go

00:33:25.500 to the orthodox churches. They tend to go to the hard-hitting truths. I think that these younger

00:33:31.500 generations are much less interested in autonomy than Gen X and the boomers. And I think they're much

00:33:38.120 more interested in truth. And we need to push for that. Yes, overturning Roe versus Wade would,

00:33:46.800 in a way, diminish autonomy. We would have more political autonomy, meaning communities would have

00:33:53.640 more of the right to pass their own laws. Women would have less personal autonomy to kill their own

00:34:00.400 kids. But truth and justice would be served. The truth that the baby is a baby and the baby should not

00:34:06.620 just be killed. And the justice of the whole thing, it is simply wrong. Everywhere, it is simply wrong.

00:34:14.520 This is a great example of conservatives using the politics to affect the culture. We just did it.

00:34:22.080 Daily Wire just did this. We sued the Biden administration. We brought this lawsuit about

00:34:26.260 Joe Biden's OSHA mandate. The court granted our point. And then Starbucks, this major, usually woke

00:34:32.520 corporation. Starbucks ends their own employer mandate. All because Daily Wire brought a lawsuit

00:34:39.340 up to the Supreme Court. We used the government and we found out that culture sometimes is downstream

00:34:43.900 of politics too. Very important on the mandates. Very important on our public health tyranny.

00:34:49.000 Much more important on this issue of life. So everyone who's out there marching, this is great.

00:34:54.540 Hope to see you out there. But the march is just beginning.

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00:35:29.500 Now, speaking of sexual issues, you may have seen this video going around of Matt Walsh,

00:35:36.860 the best-selling LGBTQ children's author, author of Johnny the Walrus. He was debating a transsexual

00:35:42.580 individual on Dr. Phil's show. He asks the transgender activist to define the word woman

00:35:50.500 and this person could not do it.

00:35:53.640 That's a question I would like to throw out to, you know, other members of the panel.

00:35:56.960 Actually, because just like the four-year-old can't answer what is a girl, well, this is one

00:36:01.000 of the problems with this left-wing gender ideology is that no one who espouses it can even tell you

00:36:06.240 what these words means. Like, what is a woman? Can you tell me what a woman is?

00:36:10.660 No, I can't. Because it's not for me to say. Womanhood looks different for everybody.

00:36:16.540 What do you define a woman as?

00:36:18.080 An adult human female.

00:36:19.680 And what does a female mean?

00:36:22.180 How do you define a female?

00:36:23.240 Someone with female reproductive organs.

00:36:25.900 Okay.

00:36:26.240 Someone who's, you know, here's the thing. When you're a female, it goes right down to your bones,

00:36:30.200 your DNA. So that's why if someone dies, we could dig up their bones 100 years from now. We have no

00:36:36.360 idea what they believed in their head, but we can tell what sex they were because it's down in,

00:36:41.020 it's ingrained in every fiber of their being. You stood up here and said trans women are women.

00:36:46.540 Yes.

00:36:46.940 Tell me what you mean. What is a womanhood?

00:36:48.780 Womanhood is something that, just as Ethan explained, I cannot define because I am not myself.

00:36:52.860 But you used the word. So what did you mean when you said trans women are women if you don't know

00:36:55.660 what it means?

00:36:56.160 Right. So here's the thing. So I do not define what a woman is because I do not identify as a woman.

00:37:01.960 Womanhood is something that is an umbrella term. It includes people who...

00:37:05.980 That describes what?

00:37:08.120 People who identify as a woman.

00:37:11.040 Identify as what?

00:37:12.060 As a woman.

00:37:13.320 What is that?

00:37:14.800 The response to this clip has been hilarious. Matt, as is often the case,

00:37:20.040 trended on Twitter for a very long time. All of this because of his book, Johnny the Walrus.

00:37:25.420 Johnny the Walrus sold out within 48 hours. Don't worry, more copies are on the way. You can reserve

00:37:29.560 yours today. Also speaking of good books that you can order on Amazon, Luke Rosiak, who is the Daily

00:37:33.800 Wire journalist who broke the national story about sexual abuse in the Loudoun County Public Schools.

00:37:38.920 He's got a new book coming out. It's called Race to the Bottom, Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying

00:37:43.280 America's Public School System. You can pre-order it at Amazon today. Head on over there at Luke

00:37:48.800 Rosiak's book, Race to the Bottom. Pre-order it on Amazon. We'll be right back with the mailbag.

00:37:52.840 Welcome back to my absolute favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.

00:38:10.460 First question up from Sarah.

00:38:12.840 I have to admit, I have a hard time totally agreeing with you on some of the traditional roles of women.

00:38:17.680 However, it has gotten me thinking, if a woman is in her 20s and doesn't want kids yet,

00:38:24.040 is she just not thinking enough of the future? I feel as though it's fine to want to live life

00:38:28.580 while you're young, but unfortunately for women, we have a shorter time to make the decision about

00:38:32.740 kids and a family. So did feminism just cause us to be short-sighted only for women to find that

00:38:38.660 it's too late once we've had fun, not sleeping around, but having the freedom to pursue things

00:38:42.500 outside of a family? That's my thought at least. Would love to hear yours. Sincerely, Back to the Future.

00:38:48.160 Yes. Yes, that is exactly what happened. You've hit the nail on the head, Sarah. That is it.

00:38:56.040 The libs convinced women that having a child is a terrible burden that should be avoided at all

00:39:03.400 costs. And if you do, if the condom breaks, if all of the contraception that's being pushed on the

00:39:08.840 culture, if that fails, then you really ought to just kill your kid. Why? So that you have the freedom

00:39:14.680 to go be a middle manager at the widget factory because rocking the cradle, you know, the hand

00:39:21.220 that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. That's what we used to think about it.

00:39:24.620 That's terrible. That doesn't do anything. Raising a real life human being that was made inside of you,

00:39:33.160 that loves you more than anyone will ever love you, that loves you because you're his entire world.

00:39:40.940 And raising that human being is much less important than doing spreadsheets for Mr. Smith at the widget

00:39:49.200 factory. That's much more gratifying, we were told. Because then, if you don't have any kids and you

00:39:54.100 don't have a family and you just work at the widget factory, then on Sundays, you can go to brunch with

00:39:58.920 your girlfriends. And you can drink bellinis. And you can have that avocado toast. And maybe you can go to

00:40:04.420 yoga afterward. You're probably going to want to go to yoga before, after you have that big brunch and

00:40:09.080 mimosas with the girls. And then you can go home to your very clean, put together, very expensive New

00:40:14.920 York City apartment and not have any responsibilities. Maybe you'll go out, get a couple more drinks,

00:40:20.500 and then you know what you'll do the next day? You'll go right back to the widget factory and make more

00:40:23.900 money for Mr. Smith. And that's supposedly much more gratifying. Sarah, frankly, you even fall into

00:40:30.560 this trap a little bit in your question. You said, look, I realize that feminists are doing this. I

00:40:36.860 realize this is kind of dumb. I'm seeing your perspective, Michael. But don't you think that,

00:40:43.840 where's the exact line that you use? We have a shorter time to make a decision about kids and

00:40:49.560 a family. So it's fine to want to live life while you're young, but you've got to do these other

00:40:54.420 things too. As if having a kid is not living life. As if getting married is not living life.

00:41:00.340 You have bought the BS premise that the Bellinis and doing the same thing over and over and just

00:41:06.780 living for your own, what you think are your own interests, that that's living life. And then

00:41:12.860 actually producing life or settling down and having a family, or frankly, if you don't want to get

00:41:17.560 married, going into religious life or consecrating your singlehood or becoming a missionary or joining

00:41:23.060 the military or whatever, that that is not living life. It's the opposite. Drew Clavin makes this point.

00:41:31.460 When you have a child, it's not that your life gets much, much better in all ways. It does get a lot

00:41:36.920 better. But in some ways, your life gets kind of worse and more difficult. It's not a better or worse

00:41:42.040 thing. You just get more life. If we're really talking about living your life, you get a whole

00:41:46.460 lot more of it when you commit to society, settle down, and especially if you are lucky enough to

00:41:51.980 have kids. From Benji. All right, my rant is up. My sermon is over. From Benji. Hey, Michael.

00:41:58.260 Thank you for making the show. I listen often. I have a question relating to a friend of mine.

00:42:02.200 She says it happened where she dreams and the thing she dreamed about comes true. For example,

00:42:08.120 she had a dream about a conversation with her family, and six months later, the conversation

00:42:12.300 happened and she finished her family member's sentences. That's creepy. Now, we're both Christians.

00:42:17.040 Do you have any idea why this happens? Could you enlighten me? Thanks. Well, there's more between

00:42:22.080 heaven and earth and is dreamt of in our philosophy, Horatio. And also, as a Christian, you believe in

00:42:29.540 providence. You believe in the world working in such a way that there is a logic to it, that God

00:42:38.560 in his omniscience knows all of things because he's outside of time and space, and that we have our free

00:42:45.120 will, but also there is such a thing as grace. There is also such a thing as providence. There's a

00:42:51.080 great line from Alexander Pope who says, all nature is but art unknown to thee, all chance, direction,

00:42:58.440 which thou canst not see. This is a line that my friend Father George Rutler mentions in a book

00:43:05.920 called Coincidentally, about all of these strange historical coincidences. It's a delightful book,

00:43:10.960 but what's going on with your sister? I don't know. It might just be a coincidence. It might be

00:43:16.160 the veil of providence, you know, getting a little peek through there, but it's a wonderful thing.

00:43:21.300 Whenever these sorts of coincidences, providence, whenever you see providence like this, I really

00:43:26.860 love it because it reminds me, not that it tells me my future, not that it tells me that I have to go

00:43:32.280 do this thing and not this thing necessarily, just reminds me that God is there. There is such a thing

00:43:37.480 as providence. There is a plan. That's a great comforting fact. From Nate. Michael, I have a friend that

00:43:43.420 used to be a very strong Christian, was highly active in her church, but now says she no longer

00:43:47.460 believes in the Christian God. Her main arguments are that she feels that God cannot be all powerful

00:43:52.760 and all good. She says this because if God created everything, then he had to create sin as well.

00:43:57.820 She also believes that if God is all powerful, that human beings are simply robots following orders

00:44:01.880 and don't actually have free will. I'd love to hear how you would respond to this matter.

00:44:06.120 Well, she's clever because I think she's probably realized the problem in her logic. And so she's

00:44:14.820 trying to make up for that problem by denying a facet of reality. Namely, she says that if God is all

00:44:19.780 powerful, then God had to create sin. But that's not true. Not only is that not necessary, but that's

00:44:26.820 not what happened. And that's not what's in the Bible. And that's not what Christians believe.

00:44:30.840 What God could also have done that he actually did do is he could have created beings made in

00:44:37.620 the image and likeness of God with free will. And those beings having free will could turn away

00:44:44.720 from God, which is the essence of sin. And then sin and death could pervade the world as they did,

00:44:51.660 not through God's making, but through the poor choices of human beings with free will.

00:45:00.840 So your friend, I think intuiting this, says, okay, well, there we go. Free will answers that.

00:45:06.940 So then I've got to just deny free will. She says that if God is all powerful, human beings are

00:45:11.700 simply robots and don't have free will. Why? Why is that the case? Why does that fall? If God is

00:45:17.340 all powerful, why can't he create a being with free will? Now, so your friend's argument doesn't make

00:45:24.400 a lot of sense at all because free will simply answers that. Now you might say, okay, well, if God is

00:45:30.180 all powerful or even, even more to the point, if God is all knowing, if he's omniscient, then how on

00:45:37.500 earth do human beings have free will? If he knows what you're going to do before you do it, then are

00:45:42.020 you really the one making that choice? Yes, you are. The way that you can resolve this tension is that

00:45:49.340 God is outside of time and space. So God is seeing all things that have ever happened and will ever

00:45:54.060 happen outside of that linear progression of time. That's one way to try to visualize this.

00:46:01.580 Obviously, you're not going to be able to comprehend it because we're living in time and space and this

00:46:04.800 is a very tough concept to wrap your head around. Some Christian heretics want to resolve this problem

00:46:14.040 by denying grace and providence or God's omniscience or whatever. The real answer is that free will and

00:46:27.940 grace work together. They exist together. I once heard it described as being like a waltz. When one is

00:46:37.680 waltzing, you can't always quite tell which partner is leading the other partner. They kind of dance

00:46:44.500 very gracefully together. From Kate. I have an unusual problem, Michael. Oh my. I've struggled with large

00:46:52.400 breasts my whole life. I know the first reaction guys have when they hear this. I guess I just

00:46:56.280 demonstrated that reaction. However, it can be difficult to work out, clothes are a struggle, and more

00:47:00.840 importantly, I have chronic back pain. What is the general Christian consensus on surgeries like breast

00:47:05.940 reductions and even breast implants? Well, those would be two different issues. On the question

00:47:11.200 of a breast reduction, if it's a medical problem and you're having a surgery to improve your health

00:47:16.960 and solve a medical problem, there would be nothing wrong with that. And you can bring in breast

00:47:23.720 implants on this aspect of the question because I don't see how getting breast implants would help

00:47:28.080 your problem. It seems like it would hurt your problem. If the reason that you're having breast

00:47:33.680 surgery or any other kind of cosmetic surgery is for your own vanity, if it's for your own

00:47:41.360 desire to incite lust among people, that would be no good. If you're having a breast surgery like

00:47:49.520 breast implants, for instance, that destroy mammary glands, that destroy working organs, that would be

00:47:56.180 no bueno. That's not something that you would be permitted to do in the Christian understanding of

00:48:02.220 things. But if you're going to get the surgery just because you're going to break your back

00:48:06.260 otherwise, that's perfectly fine. You don't have anything to worry about there. From Dan. Michael,

00:48:12.260 another relationship question here. It's all these relationship questions. Related to my friend group

00:48:17.220 from high school. I'm vaccinated. One of our friends is not, which has caused my other more COVID crazy

00:48:22.260 friends to ostracize not only him, but me as well, since we live together. They've started to use

00:48:28.600 seeing them as a carrot to try to get our friend to take the Fauci ouchie, saying that they would

00:48:34.000 want to hang with him if he would only get the jab. To me, this is pretty unspeakable because I would

00:48:39.660 never abandon my friends regardless of our differences, and I refuse to let this be the

00:48:43.080 wedge that ends 10 years of friendship. Why are they choosing this moment in the pandemic to make a big

00:48:47.800 deal about the vaccine, and what are some strategies to convince them to switch direction on this BS?

00:48:51.460 Sincerely, you can't make new old friends. You can't, but you can't have a one-sided friendship

00:48:58.340 either. It takes two to tango, and if your friends are saying that their cult of public health is more

00:49:06.580 important to them than your friendship or than their friendship with your roommate, then that's

00:49:12.900 their call, and you can't debase yourself by saying, please be friends with us. Please, come on,

00:49:19.500 please guys, and I wouldn't inject yourself with an experimental drug just to try to win the

00:49:25.120 approval of your friends. They're doing it because they've convinced, they've been convinced by the

00:49:30.660 media and by the liberal establishment more broadly that this is a holy crusade, that they're saving the

00:49:36.360 world by telling everyone to take this new drug to avoid getting the cough. But they seem sincerely

00:49:45.020 to believe that. And when people adopt new religions, when they take on new religious views, especially

00:49:52.520 when they join a cult, one thing that goes along with that very often is they're told to break their

00:49:57.920 old relationships. This is true even beyond these awful kinds of cults. It's true if a guy's hanging

00:50:05.540 out with a bunch of drunks, and he's a drunk himself, and then he decides to get sober, and he goes to

00:50:10.400 Alcoholics Anonymous. One of the first things he's going to be told to do is to stop hanging out with

00:50:15.140 all his drunk friends at three in the morning to break some of those toxic relationships because

00:50:20.860 it's going to be much harder to recover without them. When you join a cult, the cult leader will

00:50:25.400 tell you, don't talk to your friends and family anymore because that's going to pull this new

00:50:30.840 initiate away from the cult. And your friends are dealing with that with their cult leader, Dr.

00:50:36.520 Fauci. You can't do anything about it. I'm sorry to hear it. You're right. You can't make new old

00:50:39.840 friends, but your friends sound like a bunch of schmucks, so try to wait it out, but I don't think

00:50:45.120 you're going to necessarily reason them out of this. If they choose your friendship over Dr. Fauci,

00:50:52.060 that's a wonderful thing, and if they don't, too bad for them. From Jake, Mr. Knowles, I got into a

00:50:57.640 discussion with some friends about lucid dreaming. I had always thought it was a random thing, but some

00:51:02.740 people practice and do tricks to help bring about this state of dreaming. This sparked a debate on lucid

00:51:07.700 dreaming being demonic and not something to be messed with. What are your thoughts on lucid dreaming?

00:51:11.500 Lucid dreaming is when you're having a dream, but you're aware that you're in the dream.

00:51:17.040 And so, well, really what that means is you can just sleep with that lady that you find attractive.

00:51:23.380 I think that's what you're getting to. That if you're in this state of lucid dreaming,

00:51:28.180 you can commit a sin. And it's not really a sin because you're not really doing it because you're

00:51:34.040 dreaming. This is a complicated issue because if you sleep with the cute chicky in your lucid dream,

00:51:45.600 which I think we all know is what is being discussed here, or maybe it's much worse than

00:51:50.460 that. Maybe you commit a murder in that guy that really drives you crazy in class or at work and

00:51:54.700 you just kill him and stab him in your lucid dream. That would be even worse. You are not actually

00:51:59.100 committing the murder. You are not actually committing fornication or adultery with the cute

00:52:02.920 chicky. But you can be sinning if you are engaging in an act of the will. So if you are practicing

00:52:11.940 lucid dreaming and trying to bring this about so that you can, you are actually using your will

00:52:17.720 to entertain impure desires, to bring about all of these fantasies willfully, then you are committing

00:52:24.460 a sin. And you shouldn't do that. And it's creepy. There are more interesting things you can do with

00:52:29.980 your life than just trying to dream about how you can fly or do less, also delusional, but less savory

00:52:36.700 things. Final question. This one actually, I guess it's related from Noah. Dear Prophet Knowles,

00:52:42.600 I want some advice on how to overcome the first days, weeks, and months of porn addiction.

00:52:46.400 I've tried to quit countless times. I can't seem to overcome these first moments porn-free.

00:52:51.660 The urges are so strong. I can't comprehend how it gets easier with time, as it only seems harder

00:52:55.860 after each day. How should I deal with living porn-free during the hardest part of quitting?

00:52:59.180 Well, your question is true for any addiction. You could replace the word porn with heroin or

00:53:05.520 drinking or cigarettes or food or anything that you are abusing. Food is not wrong to consume in

00:53:13.760 and of itself, but it can be abused to the point of even being like an addiction. So how do you deal

00:53:18.440 with that? Well, there are some really practical steps you can take. I've had two friends who have had

00:53:24.400 full-blown porn addictions where they actually sort of needed to get on a recovery plan to get out of

00:53:32.160 it, and it was causing lots of problems in their life. Physical problems, social problems, and so

00:53:36.700 there are resources available. You can put little gizmos on your browser so that, you know, if you

00:53:42.200 go look at the naughty website, it'll send a text to your mom, and you probably don't want that to

00:53:45.840 happen. That would be one thing to do. One thing from the Catholic perspective that I would say if you're

00:53:50.880 trying to break any kind of habitual sin is go to confession. It's the laundromat for the souls,

00:53:56.500 and whether you believe that there is something spiritually edifying about that, I obviously

00:54:01.620 believe that there is. But even if you think that's all bunk, I will just tell you as a practical

00:54:05.240 matter, when you need to get on your knees and tell a priest all the dirty, rotten, terrible things

00:54:11.140 you do, that is quite an inducement not to do them anymore. Because when you want to do them,

00:54:16.480 when you have the impulse to do that, in your case, I guess, looking at porn, you will think,

00:54:20.780 huh, I don't want to have to go and tell the priest that I did that, or I don't want to have an email

00:54:25.340 sent to my mother or my friend or my wife or my buddy or anything else like that. So you can set

00:54:30.720 some practical things in place. You also need to recognize that you're probably going to stumble.

00:54:36.680 If you're in this full-blown kind of addiction, you're probably going to stumble. Don't let the stumble

00:54:40.900 lead you down a binge. Don't let the fact that you've been sober for 20 years,

00:54:45.660 and you have a beer, and now you're going to go on a three-week bender. Don't do that. If you have

00:54:49.080 the beer, that's wrong. You shouldn't have done that. It's a risk. It's the near occasion of sin.

00:54:53.380 But just stop. You can stop. And you have to recognize that moral culpability for habitual sins

00:55:02.140 is less strong because you are not in full command of your will. And so you've got to work on that.

00:55:10.720 You've got to work to develop your addiction. Well, you've got to work to get out of that addiction.

00:55:14.380 You've got to work to cultivate those virtues. So I wouldn't go too hard on yourself,

00:55:18.140 but I would make sure that you do not put yourself in the near occasion of sin. If you always look at

00:55:21.960 porn in some room of your house, don't spend time in that room. If you always look at porn on one

00:55:26.180 device or another, don't use that device as much. Set up those safeguards, and you're not the only one

00:55:31.780 struggling with this. So recognize porn is all around the culture. Unlike heroin, which by the way,

00:55:38.060 heroin at least for now is illegal. Something like porn is everywhere. It's actually encouraged.

00:55:42.920 So it's very difficult, but stay strong. You're one of the many hundreds of people who have written

00:55:47.940 in with this exact question on here. Other people are obviously struggling with it too.

00:55:51.620 And wish you the best of luck. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you Monday.

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