The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 966 - Pelosi's Slam Poetry Vs A Nuclear Power

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00:00:30.580 Good news, the war in Ukraine is over, folks.

00:00:34.400 Zelensky has not repelled the Russians. 0.86

00:00:36.760 Putin has not stopped the invasion.

00:00:38.760 Nothing like that has happened.

00:00:40.020 But Nancy Pelosi has figured out how to end the war. 1.00

00:00:45.860 She does not have a peace plan to broker,

00:00:48.120 and she has not managed to get those Polish fighter jets to the Ukrainians or anything like that.

00:00:54.260 But she does have a poem written by Bono.

00:00:57.820 What you saw yesterday was history.

00:01:01.160 Later at the lunch, just maybe you might want to watch,

00:01:04.520 I'm going to be reading a poem written by Bono about Ukraine, which you might find interesting.

00:01:10.780 What's that, President Zelensky?

00:01:13.580 You want a global military effort to save your country?

00:01:18.040 Yeah, the best I'm going to be able to do is a poem from Bono.

00:01:21.160 And maybe you want to watch.

00:01:22.420 I don't, maybe, I'll just tune in.

00:01:23.820 I don't know.

00:01:24.140 I think I read it pretty well.

00:01:26.720 They say as we get older, we become more ourselves.

00:01:29.860 Apparently, this is the case with Nancy Pelosi.

00:01:33.240 This is like Pelosi concentrate.

00:01:35.640 This is the most caricaturish Pelosi experience I could possibly imagine.

00:01:42.620 Here's my answer to this global, potentially nuclear conflict.

00:01:46.200 I'm going to read a poem by Bono.

00:01:48.980 And the poem did not disappoint.

00:01:52.160 I want to, I got this message this morning from Bono.

00:01:58.060 And most of us, we're always, whether we're in Ireland or here, whatever it is,

00:02:03.220 Bono has been a very Irish part of our lives.

00:02:07.800 And he said this.

00:02:10.680 He said,

00:02:11.240 Oh, St. Patrick, he drove out the snakes with his prayers, but that's not all it takes.

00:02:20.720 For the smoke symbolizes an evil that arises and hides in your heart as it breaks.

00:02:27.200 And the evil from, listen from, friends, from the darkness that lives in some men,

00:02:32.020 but in sorrow and fear, that's when saints can appear.

00:02:36.280 To drive out those old snakes once again.

00:02:41.240 And they struggle for us to be free from the psycho in this human family.

00:02:47.520 Ireland's sorrow and pain is now the Ukraine. 0.90

00:02:51.720 And St. Patrick's name is now Zelensky.

00:02:58.580 Oh, okay.

00:03:00.620 On with our lunch.

00:03:01.620 That does it, right?

00:03:02.520 The war is over.

00:03:03.920 Take that, Putin.

00:03:04.640 Now, of course, Ireland is not Ukraine.

00:03:09.180 They're very different countries.

00:03:11.040 And Zelensky is not a fifth century Roman Christian missionary or a saint of any kind

00:03:16.960 that would require him to have died.

00:03:19.120 And he isn't any of those things anyway.

00:03:21.300 And Bono's babbling and Nancy Pelosi's babbling didn't do anything other than make Democrats

00:03:26.860 feel better about their disastrous policies that triggered this war in the first place.

00:03:32.620 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:03:33.520 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:03:34.640 Welcome back to the show.

00:03:44.160 There once was a man named Joe Biden who, when he first started presiding, gave in to Vlad's

00:03:51.340 order for Nord Stream.

00:03:53.060 The border of Ukraine is quickly subsiding.

00:03:57.240 Joe Biden's strategic perversion incentivized Putin's excursion.

00:04:02.840 He invited invasion of a sovereign nation, but only a minor incursion.

00:04:08.340 Folks, I could be here all day and I promise you every one of my poems will be better than

00:04:12.980 Bono's and will, more importantly, be more accurate than Bono's.

00:04:17.520 This was such, it was a revolting display to see the Democrats pretending that they're in

00:04:24.660 any way helping.

00:04:25.660 It's like that little meme of on the Simpsons.

00:04:27.240 I'm helping.

00:04:27.980 I'm, I'm helping by reading a poem by Bono.

00:04:30.300 No, you're not.

00:04:31.180 You're not doing, you caused the freaking war in the first place because your political

00:04:36.440 party lifted the sanctions off Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

00:04:39.580 This is what Vladmore Zelensky, the man you're calling a saint now, he actually said, this is

00:04:44.680 why the war started.

00:04:45.740 And now you're making yourself feel better by reading some babbling nonsense.

00:04:50.540 My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music.

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00:06:57.320 I can't get over the poem because it's not just Pelosi.

00:07:02.180 It's not just Bono.

00:07:03.820 It's not just the House Democrats.

00:07:05.740 It's not even just Joe Biden.

00:07:07.060 It's the whole liberal establishment.

00:07:11.760 They don't know anything.

00:07:14.040 They are extremely emotional and confident in the things that they don't know anything about.

00:07:23.420 They're extremely vindictive if you raise any questions about whatever crusade they've taken on that day that they're just going to change tomorrow.

00:07:30.340 I love it.

00:07:30.960 If you go to your liberal friend's Facebook profiles, try this experiment.

00:07:35.460 I did it yesterday.

00:07:36.320 Go to a random liberal friend's Facebook profile.

00:07:39.000 And I just go back through the pictures.

00:07:41.540 And you'll notice very often it's the same profile picture.

00:07:44.880 And it'll just be different images superimposed on top.

00:07:48.340 Now today it's Ukraine, which is probably the worthiest cause they've had ever in the last 20 years.

00:07:55.040 But then you go before Ukraine, what is it?

00:07:57.340 It's the French flag, superimposed over the same picture.

00:08:00.520 Why?

00:08:01.060 Because I thought, what was the cause?

00:08:02.700 Oh, right, because of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.

00:08:04.580 Okay, then it's the French flag.

00:08:05.920 Then before that or maybe after, I kind of forget which order, then it's the gay flag. 0.83

00:08:09.500 Why was it the gay flag? 1.00

00:08:10.280 What?

00:08:10.840 Oh, because of the Orlando.

00:08:12.280 It was the Orlando shooting.

00:08:13.420 Remember when the Muslim guy shot up the gay nightclub?

00:08:15.680 Okay, and before that it was what?

00:08:18.140 And then you go back and it's Kony 2012.

00:08:19.920 You remember Kony 2012?

00:08:21.540 That was one of the first social media meme slacktivism campaigns where you change your profile picture and you feel like you're doing something.

00:08:29.540 Did we ever get Kony, by the way?

00:08:31.060 I don't think we ever got Kony.

00:08:33.060 I don't think anything ever happened.

00:08:35.060 No one knew who Kony was.

00:08:36.320 No one knows anything about any of these crusades.

00:08:38.460 They just get really ginned up.

00:08:40.640 You have a kind of mass hysteria.

00:08:43.640 You feel all of this emotion, but you don't know anything about what's causing it other than just propaganda from the mainstream media.

00:08:53.120 And you don't, even more importantly, you don't do anything to help or change anything.

00:08:57.980 It's all personal.

00:08:59.480 The clearest example of this I've seen in years, actually, was a post from the American Federation of Teachers.

00:09:06.820 This is the National Teachers Union.

00:09:09.920 And it was these two union bosses holding up a sign, yellow and blue, so in the flag of Ukraine.

00:09:18.640 And it said, we stand with Ukraine.

00:09:22.340 Printed on it.

00:09:23.200 So this was designed somewhere and they printed out a bunch of these signs.

00:09:26.300 And the most ridiculous part of the image is that the flag is upside down.

00:09:35.200 The flag is upside down.

00:09:37.760 The flag printed by the teachers union.

00:09:41.320 Is there any greater summation of the American educational system today than two union thugs holding up a foreign flag upside down as though they are the great moral leaders?

00:10:02.660 They have no idea what they're doing.

00:10:04.280 They can't teach their students anything.

00:10:05.800 They don't know what they are talking about.

00:10:08.020 They're gung-ho to jump on whatever the crusade is of the day.

00:10:13.580 And they're confidently smiling, tweeting this out.

00:10:16.540 They couldn't even Google it.

00:10:17.520 Hey, what's the Ukraine flag look like?

00:10:20.360 Holding it upside down.

00:10:21.460 It was very funny then, too.

00:10:22.860 Later, you saw a picture of a bunch of other of these teacher union people holding up the flags.

00:10:27.080 But then some of the, it was a mixture.

00:10:28.980 Some were the yellow on top of the blue.

00:10:30.800 Some were the blue on top of the yellow.

00:10:31.940 And then when you looked closely at the ones that were accurate with the blue on top of the yellow,

00:10:36.140 you noticed they photoshopped it because they were all printed wrong because these teacher union people don't know a damn thing about anything.

00:10:44.680 And then they did a crappy job photoshopping it.

00:10:48.360 Since then, they have taken down the posts.

00:10:50.980 But that's it.

00:10:51.660 That's our American educational system.

00:10:53.880 And what you see in classrooms, what you see on campuses is a crystal ball.

00:10:58.000 So what you see there is what your country is going to look like 20 years from now.

00:11:02.280 This degradation of our education system has been going on for decades already.

00:11:06.180 And so now we're seeing the fruits of that in our government, which is why our government seems completely feckless in the light of this geopolitical crisis and pretty much all the other ones, too.

00:11:16.220 Because there's really no difference between the completely ignorant educators that are teaching these generations of students and now the completely ignorant political leaders who were taught by them.

00:11:31.700 It's it's as though these people are not really teachers.

00:11:35.740 Well, actually, the teacher union thugs are not teachers.

00:11:38.080 They're union bosses, right?

00:11:39.360 They they just play teachers on TV and their main job is to keep schools closed.

00:11:44.880 That's what they've been doing for the past two years, even after the science showed that covid wasn't a big deal for kids.

00:11:51.200 So pretty much ever that the risk to kids was lower than the risk to basically anybody else from covid.

00:11:57.240 Even after that, the union thugs said, no, you're not going back to school.

00:12:00.960 Now we're going to keep it closed because they don't advocate for students.

00:12:03.740 They don't advocate for education.

00:12:05.220 They advocate to get more vacation time for their union members.

00:12:09.800 They're not teachers.

00:12:10.900 They just play them on TV.

00:12:11.760 That's how I feel about our statesmen.

00:12:13.120 When you think of great statesmen throughout history, Winston Churchill, Metternich, you think of all these statesmen throughout history.

00:12:23.380 Then you get to Joe Biden.

00:12:25.640 Joe Biden doesn't know anything.

00:12:27.080 Kamala Harris knows even less than Joe Biden does.

00:12:30.040 At least Joe Biden's old.

00:12:31.380 So he was never the brightest bulb in the pack.

00:12:33.680 He's always had wind blowing through his ears.

00:12:35.380 But he came of political age at a time when you did kind of have to know a little bit about government and politics if you wanted to be in the government.

00:12:43.660 Kamala Harris did not.

00:12:44.800 We are we are now living in virtual reality government.

00:12:48.020 Right.

00:12:48.280 We are now living in a time where you don't really need to know much of anything to be in the government.

00:12:54.300 It's as though they're not statesmen.

00:12:56.520 They just play statesmen on TV.

00:12:59.240 And so it is no surprise.

00:13:00.680 Probably the greatest example of this is Stacey Abrams, the pretend governor of Georgia.

00:13:07.000 Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia.

00:13:08.920 She lost to Brian Kemp.

00:13:10.820 And then she just didn't concede.

00:13:13.560 She just pretended she was governor of Georgia. 1.00

00:13:15.720 And even though she couldn't live in the governor's mansion, she would go around and started nonprofits to raise money, get her face out there.

00:13:22.340 She goes on TV as though she's an elected politician. 0.52

00:13:25.640 She's not.

00:13:26.220 She holds no office.

00:13:28.140 And if you were tuning into Star Trek recently, you would turn on and find out that Stacey Abrams is not just a failed gubernatorial candidate in Georgia. 0.99

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00:15:01.020 Stacey Abrams.

00:15:02.340 She lost the governorship of Georgia.

00:15:04.860 She gained the presidency, the chancellorship of the entire universe, according to an episode

00:15:11.760 of Star Trek.

00:15:14.020 Today, we greet the president of United Earth.

00:15:26.880 Madam President.

00:15:28.240 Madam President.

00:15:29.360 Welcome.

00:15:30.120 I am so pleased that you've come.

00:15:31.860 We are eager to begin diplomatic discussions.

00:15:34.700 Nothing to discuss.

00:15:36.940 United Earth is ready right now to rejoin the Federation.

00:15:40.520 And nothing could make me happier than to say those words.

00:15:45.260 Thank you.

00:15:46.260 Thank you all.

00:15:47.360 Okay, I've got to fact check myself.

00:15:48.820 I don't watch Star Trek, and I certainly don't watch Stacey Abrams.

00:15:51.240 So she's the president of Earth. 0.99

00:15:53.960 They would never be so ambitious as to say she's president of the universe. 0.98

00:15:57.860 Not yet.

00:15:58.280 She's the president of Earth, and she's united the whole Earth. 1.00

00:16:01.100 And now they're going to join, I guess, the Galactic Federation with Darth Vader.

00:16:05.580 And I don't know.

00:16:06.120 I don't watch any of these shows.

00:16:07.080 The first thing I noticed about this clip from Stacey Abrams, if you're only listening,

00:16:11.060 you wouldn't have noticed this right now.

00:16:13.560 They only ever have the camera on Stacey Abrams for about two to three seconds at a time.

00:16:20.040 Presumably, this is because her performance was terrible.

00:16:23.200 And so they had to just construct her performance.

00:16:25.020 So even as she's speaking, it'll cut to a clip of someone else.

00:16:27.320 It'll cut to a clip behind her because she's not an actress. 1.00

00:16:30.400 She's a politician and a failed politician at that. 1.00

00:16:34.120 But the libs are so desperate to get her into office that they are going to use everything 1.00

00:16:40.120 at their disposal.

00:16:40.920 Not just the legacy media, the news media, to lie about her and lie about that election

00:16:47.420 and give her the biggest boost she can get in her race to try to get the governorship again. 1.00

00:16:53.000 But they're going to use Hollywood.

00:16:54.860 They're going to use everything available to them to meme her into office. 1.00

00:17:00.640 Let me ask you something.

00:17:02.780 Why should Stacey Abrams be the governor of Georgia? 1.00

00:17:06.240 Even if you're, I doubt there are very many Stacey Abrams supporters listening to this show.

00:17:11.060 Maybe there are some though.

00:17:11.940 We have liberal listeners.

00:17:13.280 We have Democrat listeners.

00:17:15.580 What is it about Stacey Abrams that makes her qualified to be the governor of Georgia? 1.00

00:17:22.740 What has she done?

00:17:24.860 What does she do that means she should be the governor of Georgia? 1.00

00:17:28.600 If Stacey Abrams' supporters are being honest with themselves, they will admit nothing, nothing,

00:17:37.000 no accomplishment, no particular quality about her means she should be governor other than 0.99

00:17:42.380 her sex and her race. 0.99

00:17:44.920 That is why.

00:17:45.640 That's why people like her or that's why people pretend to like her. 1.00

00:17:50.060 Because she just plays identity politics. 1.00

00:17:52.620 This is the only reason Kamala Harris is the vice president.

00:17:56.860 Don't take my word for it.

00:17:57.940 That's what Joe Biden said.

00:17:59.120 He said, I'm only going to pick a black woman. 1.00

00:18:01.660 Meaning I think it's electorally beneficial to me to purely play identity politics, pick

00:18:07.540 a black woman. 1.00

00:18:08.300 So I'm just going to pick a black woman. 1.00

00:18:09.540 And he only had three options available to him.

00:18:11.480 Really?

00:18:11.660 It was Karen Bass, who's that communist congresswoman, like an actual literal communist congresswoman. 1.00

00:18:18.340 She wasn't going to work.

00:18:20.120 Kamala Harris, who was extremely unlikable, first out in the Democrat primary. 0.82

00:18:24.520 She didn't seem like she could work. 0.93

00:18:25.980 Or Susan Rice, who was Obama's fall guy for Benghazi.

00:18:29.800 So of three bad options, he picked Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:18:33.560 She's the least popular vice president in recent history.

00:18:37.140 She's less popular than Dick Cheney was after he shot a man in the face, after the Iraq war,

00:18:41.860 after everything that made him unpopular.

00:18:43.660 She's very unpopular.

00:18:44.960 So why did he pick her?

00:18:45.920 He said he only picked her because of the color of her skin and her sex. 0.99

00:18:49.720 Why is Ketanji Jackson the Supreme Court nominee?

00:18:52.860 The only reason is because of the color of her skin and her sex. 1.00

00:18:56.140 Don't take my word for it.

00:18:57.200 That's what Joe Biden said.

00:18:58.160 Why is Stacey Abrams a thing? 1.00

00:19:01.520 Only because of the color of her skin and her sex. 1.00

00:19:03.980 That's what the supporters are talking about.

00:19:06.800 Now, I'm not downplaying her political skills.

00:19:09.280 She's done a pretty good job of remaining in the news, even after she just keeps losing.

00:19:14.560 She should have gone away after that election. 1.00

00:19:16.960 So she's a clever and shrewd politician in that way. 1.00

00:19:21.620 But the only reason that people are supporting her is because of these superficial, virtual things.

00:19:28.160 Oh, she should be the governor of Georgia because she's the president of the earth. 1.00

00:19:31.780 That's why.

00:19:33.000 They're going to try to meme her into office. 1.00

00:19:35.600 And this is a big problem.

00:19:39.420 When you're living in a virtual world, then when real life problems come at you, you're not going to be prepared for them.

00:19:49.040 When we're living in a world of virtual problems, transgenderism, white supremacy, systemic racism, problems that are completely fictional that only exist in people's imaginations.

00:20:06.280 Then when Vladimir Putin rolls tanks into Ukraine, people have no idea what the hell to do.

00:20:11.180 Because that seems so old-timey.

00:20:14.420 Well, hold on.

00:20:14.840 People still roll tanks into foreign countries?

00:20:16.840 Hold on.

00:20:17.180 There are still invasions?

00:20:18.800 There's still war?

00:20:20.100 I thought we were past all that.

00:20:21.560 I thought that our biggest problem now was making sure that hulking dudes can swim in the Ivy League Women's Swim Championship. 1.00

00:20:29.640 Wait, you're telling me we still have to deal with real problems like territory and geography and weapons and buffer states and strategic interests and alliances?

00:20:38.080 Huh, I don't know anything about that.

00:20:40.080 But let me read you a poem by Bono.

00:20:42.420 I'm really good at that.

00:20:43.420 And that's all they can do.

00:20:44.460 And that's why we seem impotent and feckless on the world stage.

00:20:49.300 The propaganda is getting the better of us.

00:20:51.260 I'm not opposed to polities, to states using propaganda, especially in times of war.

00:20:56.840 But just in general, that's what all states have done throughout history.

00:21:00.060 But what's so crazy in this world that we're in now where we're constantly consuming information, where we're scrolling all day long, is that we are the victims of our own propaganda.

00:21:09.800 It's not like in the Cold War when the U.S. would beam propaganda into the Soviet Union and other states.

00:21:15.360 We're beaming propaganda to ourselves.

00:21:17.420 And so then when we believe our own propaganda, we're violating the most important rule my mother ever taught me.

00:21:24.160 I was a kid.

00:21:25.200 I was getting a head that was a little too big because, I don't know, I was doing well in school or something like that.

00:21:30.140 And she said, hey, Michael, don't believe your own press releases.

00:21:34.560 Don't believe your own propaganda.

00:21:36.460 That's what we've fallen into.

00:21:38.380 And it has really, really damaged us.

00:21:41.260 Here's a great example of propaganda.

00:21:42.840 This is my favorite headline in recent weeks.

00:21:46.020 It's from Axios.

00:21:47.300 Came out on March 12th.

00:21:49.700 The rise of white nationalist Hispanics.

00:21:53.840 And they're talking about that guy, Nick Fuentes.

00:21:58.040 He's the picture.

00:21:58.860 But they're talking about a lot of other people.

00:22:00.820 Enrique Tarrio, who is the head of the Proud Boys, right?

00:22:03.560 The Proud Boys is a white supremacist organization.

00:22:06.400 Well, how come the head of it is a black Cuban guy? 0.91

00:22:08.440 That's kind of weird, isn't it?

00:22:10.160 And a few other people, too.

00:22:12.220 The white nationalist Hispanic.

00:22:13.760 First thing I noticed about this article, I thought we weren't supposed to use the word Hispanic anymore.

00:22:18.920 I thought Hispanic was an old word.

00:22:21.620 It's wrong.

00:22:22.260 It's imprecise.

00:22:23.860 Just refers to the Spanish language, but not to race or ethnicity.

00:22:27.760 I thought we're supposed to say Latinx.

00:22:30.300 Remember Latinx?

00:22:31.360 They're trying to make Latinx happen. 1.00

00:22:32.580 At least we should say Latino, right? 1.00

00:22:34.440 So why Hispanic? 1.00

00:22:37.020 It's describing the same people as Latinx.

00:22:39.680 But they say, oh, because Latinx is for the good ones. 1.00

00:22:42.980 And Hispanic is for the bad ones. 1.00

00:22:46.180 Latinx, which is a word used by, what, 2%?

00:22:49.260 Of Mexicans, Guatemalans, you know, all the people who count as Hispanic or Latino or whatever.

00:22:55.480 It's used by 2% of those people.

00:22:57.640 But Latinx is for the good woke ones.

00:23:01.660 Hispanic, that's for the old conservative right wing bad ones. 1.00

00:23:07.980 Okay, so they're white nationalist Hispanics. 0.76

00:23:09.940 What does that mean?

00:23:11.780 It means they're very confused, I guess.

00:23:13.500 The implication is that there are these people who are not white, but they want whites to rule the world. 0.83

00:23:23.380 And gosh, aren't they so stupid?

00:23:24.900 Well, I guess the implication is that the Hispanics, they'll become part of the whites. 1.00

00:23:34.900 They'll meld into the same thing.

00:23:37.280 And that's really bad.

00:23:38.260 Well, hold on.

00:23:38.640 Why is that really bad?

00:23:39.640 Isn't that what we're all kind of after?

00:23:42.040 Don't we want race not to matter that much?

00:23:44.260 And something a little deeper animates us than just race.

00:23:47.480 Isn't that a good thing?

00:23:48.520 If the Hispanics and the whites, which were separate groups, and there were all these power dynamics and oppression and intersectionality, if they can become the same thing, isn't that good? 0.99

00:23:56.080 Isn't that what you want?

00:23:57.320 Works for me.

00:23:58.980 Oh, no.

00:23:59.460 Well, it's bad for some reason.

00:24:00.740 Okay.

00:24:01.340 Then there's a second question that comes from this, which is Axios and the left is looking at this issue of the white nationalist.

00:24:09.720 Why is a black Cuban guy running the Proud Boys? 1.00

00:24:11.540 I was told it was a white supremacist group.

00:24:12.940 They could never come to the conclusion that it's actually not a white supremacist group, which is the real conclusion.

00:24:18.440 But forget that for a second.

00:24:21.140 Axios is asking, why would a Hispanic guy behave in the way that I'm calling white supremacist or white nationalist or whatever the term is?

00:24:30.820 The better question is, why do the white nationalists accept these Hispanic guys?

00:24:38.260 In the case of Enrique Torrio, a black Hispanic guy.

00:24:42.300 Why do the white supremacists accept these guys as their leaders?

00:24:49.000 The obvious answer is because they're not white supremacists, because they're not anti-Hispanic, because they're not anti-black.

00:24:59.200 Because there's something else going on.

00:25:01.380 Okay, now I'm, I don't know anything about Enrique Torrio.

00:25:06.620 I don't really know anything about Nick Fuentes.

00:25:08.340 I met him one time and he was a jerk to me.

00:25:09.840 So I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not saying anything about these groups.

00:25:13.460 I'm talking about the issue itself.

00:25:16.300 I'm talking about the headline.

00:25:17.380 Maybe race is not playing the role in, forget the groups, in our whole politics that the left says that it is playing.

00:25:28.800 Just maybe, I don't know, I'm throwing that up.

00:25:30.100 Maybe the, maybe the left has believed its own propaganda a little too long and now they're having trouble grappling with reality.

00:25:37.540 The, the propaganda issue is not just what is said, but also what we are not allowed to say.

00:25:47.680 We pride ourselves.

00:25:48.480 We've got a, a free, open country, don't we?

00:25:52.880 We've got this free, wonderful, open system.

00:25:55.560 Well, uh, if, if we do have this free, open press, uh, how come they keep censoring stuff?

00:26:00.940 You remember, you remember during the 2020 election, you had the Hunter Biden laptop story.

00:26:09.840 The New York Post broke this story.

00:26:11.640 There was this Hunter Biden laptop that was discovered.

00:26:13.760 It had a ton of compromising material, not just a bunch of stuff with drugs and hookers and potential personal lurid crimes like that,

00:26:22.180 but a bunch of stuff about Hunter Biden's dealings in China, a bunch of stuff about Hunter Biden's shady dealings in Ukraine,

00:26:29.620 a bunch of stuff that implicated Joe Biden in Hunter's shady business dealings in China and Ukraine.

00:26:39.180 And when you tried to post that article on social media, you weren't allowed to.

00:26:45.520 Twitter, Facebook, Google, all these places shut it down.

00:26:49.680 When you tried to privately message your friends with this article, you weren't allowed to.

00:26:54.700 Why?

00:26:54.980 Because the official story coming out of our press was this is dangerous, false, hacked, Russian disinformation.

00:27:08.880 Judge, I have a bunch of questions from this.

00:27:10.440 Let me just start with this.

00:27:12.480 How much does the source matter, right?

00:27:14.480 So you hear the story of this laptop.

00:27:16.020 We don't know a lot.

00:27:17.260 We do know that the way that this information is getting out is through Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.

00:27:22.020 How much does the source matter here?

00:27:26.740 Well, source matters a lot and the timing matters a lot, I think.

00:27:32.380 And to me, this is just classic textbook Soviet-Russian tradecraft at work. 0.62

00:27:40.540 The Russians have analyzed the target.

00:27:42.440 They understand that the president and his enablers crave dirt on Vice President Biden, whether it's real or contrived.

00:27:52.540 It doesn't matter to them.

00:27:54.920 And so all of a sudden, two and a half weeks before the election, this laptop appears somehow without and emails on it without any metadata.

00:28:06.480 It just it's all very curious.

00:28:08.380 Do you think stuff like that could just have been planted in there and be completely fake?

00:28:12.820 I do.

00:28:14.160 I think the emails could be contrived.

00:28:17.840 It's totally completely fake.

00:28:19.400 That's not just some random talking head on CNN who is giving that opinion.

00:28:23.960 Well, the anchor, she is just a random leftist propagandist on CNN. 1.00

00:28:28.100 But the guy who was giving his opinion was the former director of national intelligence for Barack Obama, James Clapper.

00:28:35.700 This is a guy with a lot of credibility, or at least he's got credible credentials.

00:28:41.220 He personally doesn't have very much credibility at all, especially because he was totally wrong.

00:28:44.720 Oh, yes, this Hunter Biden laptop.

00:28:46.680 Classic Russian tradecraft disinformation.

00:28:49.880 Oh, yeah, not even just all the videos and pictures we see with Hunter Biden, obviously in it, doing lots of creepy stuff with drugs and sex and young girls.

00:28:59.160 No, no, not just that.

00:29:01.340 All the emails are fake, probably.

00:29:03.640 It's all fake.

00:29:04.700 It's all totally fake news.

00:29:07.100 And so it's really dangerous.

00:29:08.560 And we've got to suppress that information.

00:29:11.520 Except it was all true.

00:29:12.520 The New York Times just admitted.

00:29:13.500 The New York Times admitted in a headline, Hunter Biden paid tax bill, but broad federal investigation continues.

00:29:20.200 That's not the real story here.

00:29:22.040 The real story is the laptop, which the New York Times in this article admits was legit.

00:29:29.980 So you've got now the way that this was being presented yesterday is New York Times confirms that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.

00:29:40.240 The New York Times didn't confirm it.

00:29:41.900 We already knew the Hunter Biden laptop was real.

00:29:45.420 That was already confirmed.

00:29:47.160 The New York Times did not do any investigative journalism to show that the laptop was real.

00:29:54.000 The New York Times just admitted it.

00:29:56.180 And it's good.

00:29:57.020 That's a moral victory for us, isn't it?

00:29:59.920 That the New York Times, except they admitted it after it didn't matter.

00:30:03.580 Oh, whoopsie daisy, we got it wrong and censored all of you and suppressed your information and rigged the election.

00:30:08.980 Oops, yes, we got it wrong.

00:30:10.580 Okay, moving on to the next one.

00:30:12.800 It's propaganda.

00:30:14.120 That's how propaganda works.

00:30:16.380 Okay, it's not just our enemies overseas that use this kind of propaganda and censorship.

00:30:20.380 We do it too.

00:30:21.180 We do it to our own citizens.

00:30:22.320 Now, Russia, speaking of Russia, collusion, the Bidens, the Clintons, Russia has just sanctioned Joe Biden, senior members of his staff and his cabinet.

00:30:33.440 That we would expect, right?

00:30:34.440 The United States sanctions Russia and top Russian leaders and now Russia is sanctioning the United States.

00:30:39.500 But there were a couple people that Russia sanctioned who are not in the government right now.

00:30:46.360 Russia sanctioned Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton.

00:30:50.580 Why that?

00:30:51.720 Even Hillary was former Secretary of State a long time ago. 0.99

00:30:54.680 Why would they sanction her?

00:30:55.680 Well, I don't know.

00:30:57.080 She's involved in politics.

00:30:58.680 She at least was Secretary of State. 0.79

00:31:00.160 Why Hunter Biden?

00:31:01.160 This too is a sort of form of propaganda.

00:31:04.720 The reason that Russia is sanctioning them and nobody is talking about it, it's to call attention to the fact that they both have had very shady dealings in Ukraine.

00:31:13.860 The Clinton Foundation's top donors by nationality were Ukraine.

00:31:20.420 I'm not saying the Ukrainian government.

00:31:22.200 I'm saying top Ukraine.

00:31:23.180 Ukraine is a corrupt country, just like Russia is a corrupt country, just like a lot of Eastern Bloc places are corrupt. 0.99

00:31:29.840 So top, very wealthy Ukrainians were the top donors to the Clinton Global Initiative.

00:31:35.500 They had weird business dealings there.

00:31:37.000 Hunter Biden had a no-show job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

00:31:41.640 Why?

00:31:42.120 Because of his expertise in Ukrainian energy?

00:31:46.800 No, he doesn't have expertise in Ukraine or energy.

00:31:49.360 It's because they were trying to curry favor with Joe Biden while his dad was point person on Ukraine issues for Obama.

00:31:55.480 And so Russia's sanctioning them to call attention to that fact.

00:31:58.280 Very clever propaganda.

00:32:00.040 Speaking of Hunter, there was a little tweet about sex work that I do really want to get to.

00:32:07.220 I've been meaning to get to it all week.

00:32:08.840 It was this girl, just this random girl, though it kind of went viral.

00:32:11.280 I think Libs of TikTok posted it, said, I'm so effing discouraged.

00:32:14.600 This month from subs, I made pretty much what most people would make in two days at a normal job.

00:32:19.280 Like, what even is the point of this anymore?

00:32:21.000 I'm obviously not good enough, not pretty enough, not skinny enough.

00:32:23.340 I literally am so close to giving up.

00:32:25.200 Like, this is my third year doing sex work and I feel like I'm going insane.

00:32:28.740 All I think about is how everyone else is having so much success and I can't even pay one bill with the amount I make in a month.

00:32:33.280 F this.

00:32:34.640 Sad story for her, but shows you the problem here.

00:32:37.500 Just get a job.

00:32:38.200 Just get a real job.

00:32:39.440 Get a real job.

00:32:41.300 Well, how dare you?

00:32:42.180 You're limiting me in what I can.

00:32:43.460 You're right.

00:32:43.880 In a way, I'm limiting you from selling your body like flesh and treating yourself like you're an object.

00:32:49.120 I am limiting you in doing that.

00:32:50.740 Well, but sex workers can make more money. 1.00

00:32:53.120 No, they can't.

00:32:53.620 They obviously can.

00:32:55.200 Very few of them can.

00:32:56.860 And then most of them get screwed.

00:32:58.460 This is how most morally compromised deals work.

00:33:02.220 You'll sometimes hear people say who are in the sex industry.

00:33:05.580 They'll say, well, I can just make so much more money as a stripper than I can working as a barista. 1.00

00:33:09.680 Yeah, maybe you can.

00:33:11.400 Right.

00:33:11.800 That's how temptation works.

00:33:13.860 That's how these deals with the devil work is, yeah, you think you can gain a lot and it's not worth it.

00:33:19.520 It's not worth selling your soul and your dignity and your integrity and your reputation.

00:33:22.860 And the most ironic part is usually, almost in the long run, never, but even in the short run, usually it doesn't really work out.

00:33:31.820 One last thing I want to get to before we get to the mailbag is this issue of abortion drugs.

00:33:38.500 AOC and a bunch of house dams are writing to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make it easier to get abortion drugs.

00:33:45.300 This is a really, really bad idea, okay?

00:33:48.000 Some conservatives, I doubt very many, but maybe some more libertarian type conservatives, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, they'll say, this is great.

00:33:56.800 Deregulation, just deregulate everything.

00:33:58.540 Deregulate birth control.

00:33:59.780 Deregulate abortion drugs.

00:34:01.480 No, do not.

00:34:02.420 Some regulation is good.

00:34:03.920 Regulation exists for a reason.

00:34:06.060 No one has the right to an abortion. 1.00

00:34:07.960 Just like no one has a right to a baby, okay?

00:34:10.120 This is a real problem.

00:34:11.620 The commodification of sex, like that sex work, and the commodification of babies is a really bad problem in America, okay?

00:34:20.440 You do not have a right to an abortion. 1.00

00:34:23.280 You do not have a right to a baby.

00:34:25.360 A baby is a gift.

00:34:26.540 It's not a scourge.

00:34:27.400 It's not a plague, a disease.

00:34:28.640 A baby is a gift from God.

00:34:30.420 A baby has certain rights that we have to respect.

00:34:33.340 A baby has the right to his natural father and mother, okay?

00:34:36.940 This is why we protect things like marriage.

00:34:39.160 This is why we don't redefine marriage.

00:34:40.900 This is why we don't redefine the family.

00:34:43.200 This is why we don't make technology the center of human procreation. 0.99

00:34:48.440 This is why we have long had bioethical moral strictures against these sorts of things, okay?

00:34:53.140 This is a really bad problem, not only because of the children.

00:34:57.080 Won't somebody please think of the children?

00:34:58.720 That's a real concern, but not only because of that, not only because of what it does to the individuals who are involved in it,

00:35:06.180 but because of what it does to the way we view humanity in the world, okay?

00:35:10.640 We are not just objects to be treated like meat, to be used for each other's pleasure and to fulfill our desires.

00:35:17.380 We are human beings made in the image of God.

00:35:19.580 We have responsibilities to one another, okay?

00:35:21.900 And we have to respect that.

00:35:23.720 We need to realize that when we're talking to people, we're dealing with eternal beings, okay?

00:35:27.460 And that has to be respected.

00:35:30.020 Otherwise, we're all just meat puppets trying to pursue our own desires until we turn into worm food and take a dirt nap.

00:35:36.180 The third and final episode of the Fauci Unmasked docuseries, I Am Science, dropped this morning.

00:35:45.220 In it, I take off the final layer of Fauci's mask, revealing his unnatural rise to the top.

00:35:50.480 It is a tremendous episode, if I do say so myself.

00:35:53.360 I really appreciate everyone who has already watched the series.

00:35:56.320 I've gotten lots and lots of great feedback from all of you.

00:35:59.240 This is only at DailyWire.com.

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00:36:02.840 Check out this sneak preview.

00:36:05.280 He's the highest paid employee in our federal government.

00:36:09.200 And beginning in the spring of 2020, Dr. Fauci began to set national policy that affected the way that 330 million Americans lived their lives.

00:36:18.900 For goodness sakes, I'm telling you, wear a mask, keep social distancing.

00:36:23.620 There's nothing political about that.

00:36:25.320 But who is Anthony Fauci?

00:36:27.720 People who have conspiracy theories, those are people that don't particularly care for me.

00:36:33.780 In this short series, we will do what the establishment media have refused to do.

00:36:38.680 We will give you an unvarnished look at the career of the most powerful politician in America, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

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00:37:48.060 We will be right back with The Mailbag.

00:38:01.220 Welcome back to my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in The Mailbag.

00:38:06.160 First question up is from Kyle.

00:38:07.700 Hello, DWWiseman Knowles.

00:38:10.780 I've really enjoyed all the movies and series coming out of The Daily Wire.

00:38:14.360 I especially enjoy the Fauci Unmasked series.

00:38:16.460 Thank you very much.

00:38:16.980 My question is, why did you decide to do it?

00:38:19.780 Which episode was your favorite?

00:38:21.520 And any behind-the-scenes stories that you can tell?

00:38:24.520 Hashtag Fire Fauci.

00:38:26.160 We decided to do it because Dr. Fauci, first of all, gaslit us all for two years and just

00:38:35.220 changed the story left and right.

00:38:36.860 And we were still supposed to call him not only an expert, but the science.

00:38:40.780 He was actually the representative of science.

00:38:42.400 When in fact, he was nothing more than a craven politician.

00:38:45.660 But two, because he was the most powerful politician in America.

00:38:50.480 And he was so powerful that he actually hid a lot of his power.

00:38:53.840 But he's the most powerful.

00:38:54.480 He's the highest paid employee of the federal government.

00:38:56.340 He's a guy who's been around for 40 years.

00:38:58.540 He's served under, what, seven presidential administrations.

00:39:01.060 And Joe Biden, the current president, said that he would never fire him.

00:39:05.000 Under no circumstances would he fire him.

00:39:07.660 I thought, just from a political standpoint, I said, how the hell does someone get this

00:39:11.460 much political power?

00:39:14.660 It's shocking to me.

00:39:17.300 So we did the series.

00:39:19.220 It's a three-part series, a little extra part at the end, too.

00:39:21.700 My favorite episode is actually episode two because it's the episode with, I felt, stuff

00:39:27.940 that really had not been covered anywhere.

00:39:30.240 I mean, I think every episode has stuff that has not been covered anywhere.

00:39:33.180 But episode two, you just trace this guy's rise from the 80s to the present.

00:39:37.660 He didn't become the most powerful guy in America overnight, okay?

00:39:41.640 And I think it's important to learn how he did it so that we can, one, stop him come

00:39:45.200 November, and two, prevent others like him from rising up.

00:39:49.900 Next question from Keneal.

00:39:51.680 Noel Stradamus, since you continue to prove you know best, I need some advice.

00:39:55.780 I went out with a guy who was nice enough but felt no type of romantic feelings at all.

00:40:00.040 He texted me after saying he'd like to hang out again, but I just don't see my feelings

00:40:03.980 changing.

00:40:05.400 How should I let him down easy?

00:40:06.540 There is no great way to deliver rejection, and ghosting him just feels cruel.

00:40:12.500 So what's the best way to do it?

00:40:14.660 Sincerely, love don't come easy.

00:40:17.020 I would be pretty direct with him.

00:40:20.260 Don't string him along, whatever you do.

00:40:22.080 You're going to think that's easier, and it's not.

00:40:23.500 So you could say, honestly, that right now you're actually sort of involved with someone

00:40:33.020 else, and that's sort of maybe going somewhere.

00:40:38.300 Now, it wouldn't be a lie.

00:40:39.640 First of all, maybe you are.

00:40:40.740 I don't know how many people you're dating.

00:40:41.900 But two, we're all involved with other people, and our relationships with those people are going

00:40:47.560 somewhere.

00:40:47.800 So it wouldn't be a lie, but I would make it very clear.

00:40:51.460 You don't have to say, hey, I think you're ugly. 0.56

00:40:53.420 But if you come out and just say, hey, I am romantically interested in someone else.

00:40:58.860 It's not you, right?

00:41:00.900 It's a way to kind of, okay, well, maybe she was with this guy before me, or maybe whatever.

00:41:05.940 But it's a clear line, okay, I'm not going anywhere here.

00:41:10.920 He might think just because there's a goalie doesn't mean he can't score, but that's his

00:41:14.120 problem.

00:41:14.500 At least you, I think, were as direct as you could be.

00:41:17.420 From Eli.

00:41:18.080 Hey, Michael.

00:41:19.360 Big fan of the show.

00:41:20.280 Love both of your books, even the one with words.

00:41:22.080 Thank you very much.

00:41:23.220 I want to ask your opinion on tattoos, and if it's immoral in the Catholic faith to get

00:41:27.020 one.

00:41:27.360 Personally, I've had issues with depression and have some scars I want to cover up, but I am

00:41:32.300 hesitant.

00:41:33.340 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

00:41:34.840 Thanks, another soar, the Italian conservative.

00:41:37.780 You know, I'm not the biggest tattoo guy myself.

00:41:41.520 You know, I was not a sailor.

00:41:43.340 I have not been a boxer.

00:41:45.240 I've never been a convict.

00:41:47.020 So, you know, I don't think I can totally pull it off.

00:41:50.020 You know, never was in the Marines.

00:41:52.000 But there's nothing immoral about tattoos, as far as I can tell.

00:41:56.540 I don't think there's any, there is one sort of commandment against it in the ceremonial

00:42:03.720 law of the ancient Israelites.

00:42:05.460 But I don't think this in any way extends to the moral law.

00:42:08.260 That certainly is not traditionally the teaching of the church.

00:42:10.340 So I think you're, you're okay to get a tattoo.

00:42:12.460 My only hesitation in your case is you say you're getting a tattoo to cover up this tough thing

00:42:20.800 in your past.

00:42:22.240 I don't know that covering it up isn't necessarily the way out.

00:42:27.420 You, maybe you try to get some kind of cosmetic surgery to lessen whatever scars you've got.

00:42:32.600 But, and look, maybe the tattoo is the way to go.

00:42:37.120 I'm not sure.

00:42:38.240 Perhaps it is.

00:42:38.860 You've moved past whatever emotional problems you had had, psychological problems, and now

00:42:42.900 you just really want to put it behind you.

00:42:44.960 But don't, don't just try to paper over a problem.

00:42:49.080 If that problem is still a real problem, don't focus on the tattoo.

00:42:53.860 Don't focus on the cover up.

00:42:55.340 Focus on the problem and making sure that that is all the way gone.

00:42:59.220 But if you're afraid that if you get a tattoo, you won't go to heaven, I do not think that

00:43:03.120 is the case.

00:43:03.920 From Sarah.

00:43:05.400 Hey, Michael.

00:43:06.520 I have sort of an out of left field question, but I figured you're the master of giving advice

00:43:10.680 on strange situations.

00:43:11.960 What does that say about me?

00:43:13.140 My friend is gay and he invited me to a gay bar birthday party.

00:43:17.240 I love my friend and enjoy hanging out with him, but I'm Christian and feel it would not

00:43:21.280 be appropriate to attend a gay wedding, but a gay bar party feels like a gray area.

00:43:25.760 What do you think?

00:43:26.280 The issue you're talking about here is the issue of scandal, right?

00:43:33.280 Presumably, you're not going to be participating in some gay orgy at this party, but you're worried

00:43:38.820 about the idea that you are a Christian and you would feel dishonest and perhaps that you

00:43:42.740 were leading other people astray.

00:43:43.980 You would be giving into the sin of scandal if you showed up to this.

00:43:47.980 It's a gray area because I don't even know exactly what you mean by gay bar.

00:43:53.440 I'll give you an example.

00:43:55.760 I used to live in LA.

00:43:56.740 There's an infamous bar in West Hollywood called The Abbey.

00:44:00.440 This is probably the most well-known gay bar in all of LA and LA is a pretty gay town.

00:44:07.120 The Abbey is an extraordinarily sacrilegious gay bar because it's built to look like an 1.00

00:44:14.180 abbey.

00:44:14.500 It's built to look like a church with all this Christian symbolism, but inverted.

00:44:20.340 I mean, quite literally perverted to serve not a higher religious purpose, but to serve

00:44:24.940 this sexual political agenda.

00:44:27.520 So if the birthday party were being held at the Abbey, I would say, no, don't go.

00:44:33.880 You forget the sex issue is almost beside the point here.

00:44:37.380 It's because it would be so sacrilegious and so scandalous to go.

00:44:41.640 If the party were at just a bar that has a reputation, right?

00:44:46.700 You walk in, it's a bar like any other bar.

00:44:48.780 It's got drinks behind the bar.

00:44:50.280 It's got people chatting and dancing around.

00:44:53.880 And it just happens to be known in town as a gay bar.

00:44:56.300 Well, that I think is very different.

00:44:57.820 All sorts of bad things happen at all sorts of bars.

00:45:00.220 So if you're going to go to a bar anyway, I'm not sure that that is a total impediment

00:45:03.700 to going to your friend's birthday.

00:45:06.060 Now, here's where the real gray area comes in.

00:45:08.560 If it's a bar that is not, you know, making a mockery of Christianity with, you know, crucifixes 0.73

00:45:16.220 and things on the walls.

00:45:18.300 If it's a bar that is not just a regular bar with a reputation, but let's say it's a bar

00:45:25.120 that makes the rainbow flag part of its theme, right?

00:45:28.120 That makes gay LGBT political advocacy part of its theme.

00:45:33.040 And then that's a much grayer area.

00:45:36.380 I actually like my more right-wing gay friends, really don't like the rainbow flag. 0.96

00:45:44.000 I think the rainbow flag is a horrible political symbol and I don't want to be associated with 1.00

00:45:49.620 it at all.

00:45:51.300 And there are people with same-sex attractions, even who act out on those same-sex attractions,

00:45:56.960 who would agree with that statement and say, oh, I hate the rainbow.

00:45:59.760 The rainbow stuff is insane.

00:46:01.000 Don't lump me in with those crazy people.

00:46:02.380 Well, so if the bar has got that flag, I'm probably not going to go. 0.77

00:46:07.440 I would probably lean on that side.

00:46:09.240 But I do acknowledge it's a gray area.

00:46:10.940 That would be my analysis of the situation.

00:46:13.620 You're going to have to tailor your response to wherever you feel the bar itself and the

00:46:19.780 crowd itself would fall on that spectrum.

00:46:21.860 From Ellie.

00:46:22.880 Hi, Michael.

00:46:23.560 I'm 24 years old.

00:46:24.520 I live in Maryland.

00:46:26.020 Beside the four years I spent at Texas A&M, I've always lived within a 20-mile radius of

00:46:30.200 my entire extended family.

00:46:32.040 I'm dating slash in love with a guy that works for the government and relocates every five or

00:46:35.780 so years.

00:46:36.440 I see a future with him and an amazing life for myself and my future children, but I'm

00:46:40.660 struggling with the idea of having my kids grow up away from the rest of their family.

00:46:44.960 We're an extremely close family that gathers all the time.

00:46:48.200 My question for you is, how important do you think it is for family to be physically present

00:46:51.960 in your kid's life?

00:46:53.280 I am doing my kids a disservice if they grow up outside of the States away, am I rather, 0.66

00:46:58.460 doing my kids a disservice if they grow up outside of the States away from grandparents'

00:47:03.160 family.

00:47:03.720 Being with him means my kids only seeing family a few times a year.

00:47:06.500 Thank you and congrats on the upcoming tiny human.

00:47:08.500 Hashtag came for Ben, stayed for Knowles.

00:47:09.920 You asked me, and so I'm going to give you what I did.

00:47:17.260 I live very far away from my extended family and from my father and from my cousins and

00:47:24.620 from my stepbrother and from my grandparents and from, I live in Nashville.

00:47:31.500 No one in my family lives in Tennessee other than my immediate family, my wife and my kids.

00:47:36.640 Before that, I lived in LA.

00:47:39.540 I moved all the way, from New York, I lived in LA.

00:47:42.700 I moved as far away from New York as you can within the continental United States.

00:47:48.800 I wasn't near my family.

00:47:51.520 My grandparents have the greatest marriage and family I've ever seen in my life.

00:47:56.720 My grandpa was a Navy captain.

00:47:58.340 They moved every few years all over the place, all throughout the United States,

00:48:01.660 throughout the world, Belgium, all over.

00:48:04.100 And that meant they couldn't see extended family.

00:48:07.740 It means that I cannot see extended family.

00:48:09.620 My kids can't see extended family.

00:48:11.800 I'm not saying that's a good thing.

00:48:13.740 But that was my grandpa's career, and I'm very focused on my career.

00:48:17.240 And that's important, and we're prioritizing that.

00:48:19.360 And we pay a price for that.

00:48:21.140 I wish we could see family more frequently.

00:48:24.280 One, it would save on child care.

00:48:26.200 We've got to pay for all these babysitters. 1.00

00:48:27.920 You could just call up, you know, auntie so-and-so, and then you get free child care.

00:48:31.080 But also, I want to see my family.

00:48:32.600 I want to spend time with them.

00:48:33.560 And we can't.

00:48:34.220 That's the price that I'm paying for my career.

00:48:38.240 Maybe that's a price you're willing to pay.

00:48:40.640 I think it's really good and conservative and healthy to live near your extended family.

00:48:45.540 I think that's a really special thing.

00:48:48.380 The price for that might be that you don't get to have that career you want.

00:48:52.100 Or in your case, you might not get to have the husband you want. 0.74

00:48:54.260 I wish I could give you a simple answer here.

00:48:58.420 You know what I chose because I'm professionally ambitious, all right?

00:49:04.320 That's been a focus of mine since I was very little.

00:49:07.520 Not everyone looks at their job the same way.

00:49:13.060 The advice I have for you is not, this is better than this.

00:49:16.120 My advice is, these are the costs.

00:49:18.420 And there are necessarily going to be costs.

00:49:21.120 And there is no cost-free answer.

00:49:23.220 So you've got to ask yourself, what price are you willing to pay for this guy and for his career?

00:49:31.840 Or what price are you willing to pay to be near your extended family?

00:49:36.260 I promise you one thing, though.

00:49:37.940 You're not going to be getting out of this without paying some price.

00:49:41.220 Last question from Ava.

00:49:42.220 Hello, Noel Stradamus.

00:49:43.740 I had a conversation with my neighbor the other day about religion.

00:49:47.100 He was born and raised Catholic.

00:49:48.500 He says he believes in God and loves God.

00:49:50.520 That he also believes that the world would be better off without religion. 0.98

00:49:54.120 Doesn't sound like he loves God very much.

00:49:56.340 He says that religion can be divisive.

00:49:58.420 And religious divisiveness is what started the Crusades. 0.58

00:50:01.720 Okay.

00:50:02.340 I agree with him that certain religions can be exclusionary as they should be in order to maintain traditions, etc.

00:50:06.640 But I never thought that the core reason for war and unrest starting would be because of religious divide.

00:50:11.540 Is my neighbor onto something?

00:50:12.660 Could the world be more peaceful without religion? 0.99

00:50:14.280 Thank you for your advice.

00:50:15.040 Love the show.

00:50:16.020 I think your friend is right in that the wars of the world begin because of religion. 0.95

00:50:21.480 I think all politics comes down to religion.

00:50:24.640 And I don't think it's possible to get rid of religion because we are rational beings.

00:50:29.360 And we think about things.

00:50:30.240 And we don't just think about what food we want to eat.

00:50:32.100 And we don't just think about tax rates.

00:50:33.540 We think about why we're eating this.

00:50:35.880 We think about why we lower the tax rates.

00:50:37.320 We think about how we want to live.

00:50:38.340 We think about what is good and what is bad and what is right and what is wrong.

00:50:41.340 What is true and what is false.

00:50:42.400 How we know what truth is.

00:50:43.680 How we know what goodness is.

00:50:44.680 Those are all religious questions.

00:50:46.240 You cannot escape it.

00:50:48.560 Man is fundamentally a religious being.

00:50:51.000 He mentioned the Crusades.

00:50:52.300 The Crusades actually were a very good war.

00:50:55.140 It's one of the great tragedies in history that the Christian West did not win the Crusades.

00:50:58.580 It was a defensive war against Muslims who were invading everywhere they could invade. 1.00

00:51:03.180 That's a topic for another day.

00:51:06.040 Religion is not some awful thing to be discarded.

00:51:09.460 People very often say, I'm spiritual but not religious.

00:51:12.340 I'm spiritual, which really means I'm interested in myself.

00:51:15.720 I'm not that interested in God.

00:51:17.640 Go back to your Deuteronomy.

00:51:20.360 Go back to Exodus. 0.91

00:51:22.500 God explains how he wants to be worshipped with the tabernacle, the ark, the dress for the priests.

00:51:30.800 Beyond all of that, the moral law.

00:51:33.660 How he wants you to relate to him.

00:51:36.780 Religion, far from making our spiritual life superstitious or unnecessarily complicated,

00:51:46.900 religion applies reason.

00:51:48.860 Religion applies rigor. 0.95

00:51:51.160 Religion allows us to think much more clearly about who God is, who we are, how we relate to him.

00:51:57.200 It actually reigns in the crazy superstitious eccentricities of spirituality and allows it to be grounded in something real, something tangible.

00:52:10.200 It allows it to be grounded in the truth.

00:52:11.960 So, no, you're not going to get rid of religion.

00:52:14.080 You just need to work through religious questions and come to religious truth.

00:52:18.360 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:52:18.960 This is the Michael Knowles Show.

00:52:20.120 See you Monday.

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