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00:01:00.000 Why U2 is both some B-I-T-C-H as white boys that don't know no mother effing gang signs? 0.92

00:01:08.360 I mean, this is the kind of thing you get. 0.84

00:01:09.720 I mean, this is why it's a great idea to surrender the programming of your show over to X.

00:01:15.240 Commentary we're going to get from them.

00:01:18.400 Oh, is that what you're doing?

00:01:19.100 That's a gang sign?

00:01:20.820 Modern McCarthy says, I need to hear you guys debate.

00:01:26.660 I'm looking at it.

00:01:27.520 You got to say it.

00:01:28.180 I'm looking at it right now.

00:01:30.000 hey everybody welcome to matt and i having a cigar after our tp usa speech we're still

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00:02:32.960 tonight. I would have been happy just at this beautiful lounge, but the fact that they stock

00:02:38.500 a lot of Mayflower cigars here means it's just the creme de la creme of lounges. Matt, remember

00:02:47.080 when we used to just do this without cameras? If there's no camera, it's not real. It's not real.

00:02:52.440 It's not content, it's not real.

00:02:53.880 That's what I've learned.

00:02:54.680 No, this is good content.

00:02:56.320 So what I did, I tweeted out.

00:02:59.220 I said, I'll let you all in on it.

00:03:01.020 I tweeted out.

00:03:01.620 I said, for the next 45 minutes, we're having a cigar.

00:03:04.120 Ask us anything.

00:03:05.340 That's us.

00:03:06.180 Yeah, can I just, I didn't fully connect that that picture was going to be, that that specific

00:03:10.540 picture was going to be tweeted.

00:03:11.460 Yeah, we look terrible.

00:03:13.540 Yeah, I look really bad.

00:03:14.880 Yeah.

00:03:15.200 I look drunk in this picture.

00:03:16.260 I'm not.

00:03:17.000 You look drunk and hunched over.

00:03:18.260 Yeah.

00:03:19.200 I'm also hunched over.

00:03:19.740 I like to think I'm like not a terrible looking guy.

00:03:22.200 but then I see any picture of me ever and I think I'm this is because they're all the wrong angle

00:03:28.060 there's the lighting yeah all the angles are wrong the right lighting for me is like

00:03:33.380 directly thrown into the sun I guess yeah from so look this is a great first question

00:03:40.680 from R.P. McMurphy why you two is both some B.I.T.C.H. as white boys that don't know

00:03:49.320 no mother effing gang signs i mean this is the kind of thing you get i mean this this is why

00:03:54.080 it's a great idea to to surrender the programming of your show over to x because this is the level

00:03:59.480 of uh commentary we're going to get going to get from them oh is that so you're doing that's a

00:04:05.680 gang sign spell blood is that a gang sign or is that you do is that like a a swan yeah isn't that

00:04:12.940 a shadow puppet i learned that one in high school when i grew up uh on the rough streets near a

00:04:19.240 C. You put C's down, that's like Crips are down, and then you do blood. If a gangster actually

00:04:26.660 comes after me because I did that, that'd be so annoying, but it'd be great content.

00:04:31.120 That would be good content.

00:04:33.000 The next one, this is from James. James with a Ukraine flag, a gay flag, and a trans flag. 0.87

00:04:40.160 He says he's a progressive, liberal, and Walmart Plus admin, BLM power, four times boosted,

00:04:45.120 lgbtqia plus supporter proud husband and stepdad of a six-year-old biracial autistic trans son he

00:04:51.180 him uh he says is that his comment no that was his profile that was his profile the question is

00:04:57.560 how much money do you dorks take from apac how much do you get everyone is getting paid off by

00:05:06.920 everybody i'm not getting paid off by anybody no that no one has ever offered you know they're

00:05:11.560 important enough to pay off. They talk about APAC as if like sort of the top of the heap is

00:05:16.620 getting money from the Jews. That's like the top of the heap, right? And I think, all right, well, 1.00

00:05:20.160 maybe I can't, maybe I'm not going to get that direct APAC payment. You know, I know it's the

00:05:25.600 daily wire, they call it the Israeli wire, but there's like- I've never heard that. I know,

00:05:29.840 I've heard- Do people say that? The Israeli wire, but the problem is that there's like one Jew who 1.00

00:05:34.420 works at the whole company and the rest are Catholics and some Protestants who become

00:05:39.960 Catholics. So you're saying there's criticisms? So occasionally people suggest- I've never heard

00:05:44.780 this. I don't know where to do it. No, it's weird, but I've never gotten any of that. So I'm going

00:05:49.660 to set my sights lower. If I can't get the good Israeli AIPAC money, what about Yemeni money? 0.85

00:05:56.340 How hard is it to get Yemeni? Somalian money? Who's asking for Somalian money? That's a good

00:06:02.180 opportunity. You've got to open a daycare center in Minneapolis for that. Yes. Your hands are

00:06:09.160 perfectly manicured, Michael. Does Matt Walsh keep the same standards? Are your hands actually

00:06:13.840 manicured? No, they're not. You know why? No, all I do is I take my, I actually only use a toe

00:06:21.160 clipper because they're big and strong. And I just clip, clip, clip. The reason they look nice is

00:06:25.620 because I never do any manual labor. That's the reason. Are yours? I clip my nails. Is this kind

00:06:33.580 the content you were looking for is this great content let's go over our strategy for clipping

00:06:39.600 our nails yeah well this is what you get when you try to record content at well it's 10 o'clock at

00:06:46.920 night west coast time yeah after we just did two hours on stage yeah it's quarter midnight central

00:06:52.580 time yeah let's not even talk let's just have this conversation on twitter uh here's one should

00:07:00.700 Fathers be thrown in prison for leaving their children, released only if they agree to come home, says OF Chorus.

00:07:09.200 Thrown in prison if they leave their children.

00:07:12.100 I like, I mean, there's a lot about that idea that I like.

00:07:15.520 Yeah.

00:07:16.680 The problem is, I mean, you run into a lot of practical problems.

00:07:20.560 And also, how do you differentiate between the father left the children and, or...

00:07:28.660 He just needed a pack of cigarettes.

00:07:30.020 or that gallon of milk when it's milk and he got lost uh or the mother is taking the kids but then

00:07:37.840 accusing the father of leaving that's a pretty common thing yeah and in that case should the

00:07:42.080 mom go to prison so that's a that's a hard one plus what if you got really bad kids that there's

00:07:47.400 that too you know i mean hmm yeah i guess i'm i'm for you know i would be for uh legal punishments

00:07:55.960 if you get divorced or something,

00:07:57.740 if you break a marriage contract.

00:07:59.740 Or adultery.

00:08:00.600 Related, or adultery.

00:08:01.540 I mean, obviously,

00:08:02.620 criminalizing adultery is...

00:08:03.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:05.520 Yeah, that's something.

00:08:07.520 Modern McCarthy says,

00:08:08.760 I need to hear you guys debate...

00:08:10.600 I'm looking at it.

00:08:12.740 You got to say it.

00:08:13.420 I'm looking at it right now.

00:08:15.120 I need to hear you guys debate

00:08:16.340 whether aliens are real.

00:08:18.600 They are, by the way.

00:08:22.840 Guys say...

00:08:24.040 No, we finally got to something interesting.

00:08:25.960 we can get the 45 minutes out of this yeah yeah you so you try to wiggle your way out of this

00:08:33.740 question uh if i could say it kind of frankly a cowardly way yeah by wanting to focus on have

00:08:40.840 aliens visited earth which which puts you on a much stronger footing yes uh because obviously

00:08:46.820 i have no evidence that they've visited earth yeah of course you have no evidence that they

00:08:50.080 haven't so it's sort of a wash but the the much more interesting uh question and the one where

00:08:57.280 i'm i feel in a much better stronger position is do aliens exist at all in the universe and to that

00:09:04.200 i would say no it's no almost certainly why it's absurd to think that they don't so okay i i'm glad

00:09:13.520 you have granted they probably haven't been to earth probably maybe at least maybe they haven't

00:09:19.340 into Earth. But let's say... Yeah, I didn't say probably. Maybe they haven't been. Yeah, okay.

00:09:23.060 On the off chance they've never been here. Let's just say 10 trillion light years away

00:09:31.540 on an Earth-like planet, you say it is very likely, almost certain, that aliens exist there.

00:09:40.920 And I would say in response to that, that in order to ascertain the probability that aliens

00:09:46.380 would exist there. You would have to know something about the natural mechanism by which

00:09:52.860 life arises, which we don't. The term would be abiogenesis. I think we know a fair amount.

00:10:01.300 We don't know anything about it. We don't know anything about how life arises?

00:10:04.700 No. No idea. Nothing at all.

00:10:06.880 No. What you were taught in seventh grade was that there was some kind of primordial soup

00:10:12.040 and a bunch of molecules got really hot and banged into each other.

00:10:15.660 And eventually, that was like step A, really hot soup, molecules bang into each other.

00:10:20.200 Step B, question mark.

00:10:21.880 Step three, prokaryotic cells.

00:10:24.260 Yeah, well, and that is your third grade biology teacher, whoever,

00:10:29.200 trying to get around the reality of God.

00:10:30.900 I get that.

00:10:31.540 Yes.

00:10:31.820 I don't have that problem.

00:10:32.700 I'm not, I, so I have no problem filling in the step, well, it's not even step two.

00:10:38.300 I have no problem filling in the question marks with, well, God, that's, God,

00:10:41.540 God makes that happen. God has a process that he uses to create life, and it's a gradual process.

00:10:49.580 No, but what's the start of it?

00:10:51.400 Well, I don't know. It is. I could tell you. But to say we know nothing about how life arises, I mean-

00:10:56.560 We know how life develops. We don't know how life arises.

00:10:59.680 Well, I mean, the way life arises is God takes clay and breathes into its nostrils.

00:11:04.160 But is it more, is it more, so take, take a hypothetical two planets, alien planets.

00:11:09.220 Yeah.

00:11:09.420 One is like, is, um, like Jupiter, a gas giant with a, with a, with a, you know, a hurricane

00:11:18.260 of 500 mile power winds that have been going on, it's been going on over half the planet,

00:11:21.700 whatever, for, for centuries.

00:11:23.340 And the other one is an earth-like planet.

00:11:25.600 Yes.

00:11:26.000 Which one, is it, is it more likely that if there is life at all, that it's on one, which

00:11:32.100 of those planets is more likely to have life?

00:11:33.920 If the non-Earth planets, they are equally likely to have life, which is not likely at all.

00:11:40.460 But if we have to assume that there is life on one of the planets or the other, then yes, life would more likely be on the planet more like Earth.

00:11:49.380 Because the Earth is perfectly finely tuned to support life.

00:11:53.540 So we do know something about how life arises.

00:11:55.700 We know how life is sustained.

00:11:57.860 We know a lot about that, but we don't know how life arises.

00:12:01.020 But you said, no, we don't know anything about it.

00:12:02.640 We don't know anything about it.

00:12:03.060 we know something about it. We know something about the conditions that are probably necessary

00:12:07.520 for life. Yes. We know what, what supports life. Yes. But we don't know. So we know what is

00:12:14.260 necessary for life to arise. No, no. We know something about the conditions that are likely

00:12:19.280 necessary for life to arise. Yeah. Yes. We know that we know something about the conditions

00:12:25.160 without which life probably cannot arise. Yes. Okay. So then I would say that counts as something

00:12:30.660 that we know about how life arises no we just know you just said something that's not nothing

00:12:35.280 no no we know what there has to be in order for the thing that gives life it's a it's arousal so

00:12:42.340 is that something no no what you just said is nothing it what i said is is something about

00:12:48.560 something else but yes you you you are talking you're saying things i'm saying things no no

00:12:54.720 hold on you're saying things about a subject and the subject is how life arises and you're saying

00:12:59.040 things about it in fact you're saying something rather definitive about it so i would say that

00:13:02.400 we can say something about how life we can say you can say the thing that you just said no i'm

00:13:06.240 saying something about the nonsense things that people say in response to the question how does

00:13:11.880 life arise you just you just said that that's that those are the conditions that are probably

00:13:16.200 necessary for life to arise i said those are the conditions that are that are certainly necessary

00:13:21.120 for life to be sustained for life to be supported you said arise rewind the tape that can you say

00:13:28.280 rise they don't exist they don't exist they don't exist is what i'm saying gas they don't i the a

00:13:36.900 10 o'clock we're talking about a big a big giant ball of gas a big giant ball of hot air yeah that's

00:13:44.560 what i'm hearing right now yeah that's what i'm seeing right now is what that's what i'm seeing

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00:14:53.260 Um, there's some AI stuff. The AI stuff is out of control. It's unbearable. Once you learn how to

00:14:59.700 read AI, it's like everywhere. Yeah. I don't know if, I don't know if real people exist anymore.

00:15:05.460 Yeah. It's all just AI. AI isn't just a problem. It's a pandemic. You know, they always do that

00:15:12.000 at the end it's not this it's that yeah or it asking yourself a question rhetorically then

00:15:16.860 answering it yeah i thing yeah of course the m dash but the other thing about it is that there

00:15:21.960 are a few things ai does with writing that i also like like i love the m dash yeah but i can't use

00:15:27.340 it anymore no i know they they tell you someone did that i responded to a tweet i don't know

00:15:33.480 something and they said you didn't write that i said first of all i guess they thought my tweet

00:15:37.700 was smart or accurate but i said what do you mean i didn't write that they said because you used an

00:15:41.440 M-dash. Do you know who taught me the M-dash? Who? Ben Shapiro's father, David. This was 10 years

00:15:47.380 ago. What did he taught you? You didn't know it existed before? I didn't know what it was. I

00:15:50.140 used, I turned in some writing to David. I don't remember what it was even. And I did two hyphens,

00:15:55.480 like an idiot, like a rube, like a dumb dolt. And he looked at me and he said, Michael, do you not, 1.00

00:16:02.420 are you, are you, and then I said, what's wrong? And he said, he preached the gospel of the M-dash. 1.00

00:16:07.340 You did, and I've never gone back. 1.00

00:16:09.480 I've never looked back.

00:16:12.880 There was one here that I thought,

00:16:14.940 well, someone brought up flat earth.

00:16:17.260 Do you think that's real?

00:16:20.880 Obviously, the flat earth isn't real.

00:16:23.300 Flat earth, flat eartherism,

00:16:26.220 is that a real phenomenon?

00:16:28.840 Or is it like a meta thing?

00:16:30.540 Yeah, is it all just a troll,

00:16:32.180 or do people really believe that?

00:16:33.440 And if they do, how is that possible?

00:16:35.880 How is it possible that in a world now where we have all the knowledge of the universe at our fingertips, how is it possible that people are more ignorant about the basic shape of the earth than they were 500 years ago?

00:16:48.980 Yeah, you probably got a lot of COVID shots too, didn't you?

00:16:51.280 You believe all these people.

00:16:52.920 It's all a big conspiracy.

00:16:53.780 I one time was sitting with an interesting guy, but I was sitting with a buddy of mine.

00:16:58.520 We were having a cigar and a guy who I didn't know very well, but he's very interesting, a little quirky though.

00:17:03.320 And he says to me, Michael, you love Dante. I said, I do. He said, so do you believe in Dante's

00:17:09.520 cosmology? I said, what do you mean by that? He said, do you believe the earth is flat,

00:17:15.340 surrounded by a solid firmament? And I said, oh, I don't. And also, more important to your question,

00:17:25.000 Dante didn't believe that either. In fact, it's actually crucial to Dante's cosmology that the

00:17:29.280 world is round because the devil's at like hell's in the middle and you crawl back up out of Mount

00:17:34.480 Purgatory. Anyway, I just thought you don't even, the, the thing you think is leading you to that.

00:17:40.320 Even that is not saying what you think it does. Yeah. Is it, is it just. So what is that?

00:17:46.460 I think it's just being a hipster, right? I don't know. I remember,

00:17:52.580 man like

00:17:56.460 seven years, six, seven years ago

00:17:58.700 when I was still doing

00:18:00.200 the show in my car

00:18:01.840 and

00:18:03.360 that's when I first came across

00:18:05.940 Flat Earth as a modern

00:18:08.480 phenomenon

00:18:09.380 Well it's really only a modern phenomenon

00:18:12.120 that's the irony

00:18:12.820 and I did like a show about it

00:18:16.660 for some reason

00:18:17.420 and I just got annihilated

00:18:20.240 in the comments and it was a very

00:18:22.560 very and and the thing that that blew my mind it's not even the people who were adamant that

00:18:28.800 the earth is flat that's pretty mind-blowing yeah it's more the all these other people in the middle

00:18:35.940 yeah who they're they have the moderate position yes that's that's very common now they take the

00:18:42.500 moderate position and they they say well look i'm not saying the earth is flat but but you know i'm

00:18:47.820 open to the evidence yeah what so you're sane enough to not be totally convinced but you're

00:18:54.540 open like do they think it's a rhombus is that is the moderate position that it's like a cube

00:18:59.160 or a cone or something an octagon i don't know look i don't want to be an extremist all right

00:19:04.080 i just wow yeah i wonder if that's that is like one of the real flaws of the centrists or the

00:19:13.540 moderates is because they don't actually believe in anything. They just want to take the middle

00:19:19.020 position between it. Like you could make them believe the least plausible view. It is much

00:19:28.440 more plausible that the earth is flat than that it is somewhere in between flat and a sphere.

00:19:36.100 Just fluctuates like an accordion. Yeah. Yeah. The earth is an accordion.

00:19:41.720 or the moon landing is fake i mean you the moon landing thing i mean i'm open to the evidence

00:19:46.020 well you're not you're not really open the evidence no i mean is that real is that a real

00:19:50.800 no i'm not no i we landed on the moon but i tell you i went through once it was like

00:19:55.460 six hours where i was completely convinced we did not land on the moon completely because i watched

00:20:03.140 a documentary on like 4chan or something i don't know it was like on some weird website i don't i

00:20:09.160 I guess they don't have documentaries on 4chan, but I, it was like some weirdo link and I clicked

00:20:13.920 it and it was a two hour schizo documentary. And I watched it at the office when I was pretending 0.95

00:20:19.660 to do work. And I texted Elisa from the office and I said, girl, we did not land on the moon.

00:20:26.280 We did not land on the moon. She's like, ah. And then I almost finished this two or three hour 0.70

00:20:31.480 doc. I get home that night. I said, girl, you got to just watch it. We got to finish watching it.

00:20:35.680 so we watched the last 10 of it or whatever and i was like no no you don't because it started to

00:20:40.120 get pretty off the rails at the end and i said no you got to watch you got to go back and watch

00:20:44.000 the whole thing so we watched it again and by the end of the second time i realized i said oh

00:20:48.780 we went to the moon i now it took two times did you ever go through uh we didn't go to the moon

00:20:54.680 phase no no i never went through a train a tranny phase either like what else you want to tell us 0.61

00:21:01.260 Yeah, I mean, the pictures and the videos look pretty crazy. 0.99

00:21:07.580 Which pictures and videos?

00:21:08.980 Like, they were golfing on the moon. 0.57

00:21:11.000 That's silly.

00:21:11.780 They had the little dune buggies, the moon buggies. 0.70

00:21:14.480 This was in the later Apollo missions.

00:21:15.860 It looks weird.

00:21:17.940 Yeah, they're on the f***ing moon.

00:21:19.920 Like, of course it looks weird.

00:21:22.060 It looks weird on the moon.

00:21:23.340 And that is the entirety of the evidence.

00:21:26.180 As people look at the pictures like, that looks weird.

00:21:28.760 Yeah.

00:21:29.220 It's the moon.

00:21:31.260 I mean, it looks like, that's not what it looks like when I take pictures in my backyard.

00:21:35.160 Yeah.

00:21:35.280 You don't live on the moon.

00:21:37.180 So, and we, so by the way, we, we would, to fake it, we faked it multiple times.

00:21:46.500 Like that's the part they leave, they leave out a lot of stuff.

00:21:49.480 The first time we tried to fake it, a bunch of people died because it exploded.

00:21:53.520 Right.

00:21:53.820 And then.

00:21:54.720 But then what, but once you've, let's say we faked it.

00:21:57.160 so you faked it then why would we fake it multiple more like more times after that and fail one of

00:22:04.540 the times we faked it right but the people didn't die but they almost died and we're supposed to

00:22:08.980 believe that every other government uh on the globe to include the soviets well this is the

00:22:15.760 most compelling evidence like like they are in on it i mean because they would know that it was fake

00:22:19.960 yeah and uh and they decided to just be cool about it and not tell anybody i spoke to a famous

00:22:26.060 mutual friend of ours who doesn't think we went to the moon. And I brought up the Soviet thing.

00:22:33.260 And this person had no response to it. And this person has really bought in on we didn't go to 0.72

00:22:40.300 the moon. And there was no response. I said, okay, well, that's it. That decides it.

00:22:43.660 A famous friend?

00:22:45.580 Yes. Not famous for being our friend, like a famous person who is a mutual friend of ours.

00:22:51.740 who doesn't who thinks the moon the moon landing didn't happen yeah i don't want to like it was a

00:22:59.540 private conversation i don't but okay it's a conservative media person or something yeah

00:23:03.720 and we're narrowing it down to like four people i don't uh yes okay well i'll think about it i mean

00:23:10.480 this is i spent uh the last time i did joe rogan we spent an hour on this

00:23:18.020 we spent an hour on the moon landing and i got i didn't i didn't i didn't break i had no

00:23:24.080 breakthrough i tried not yeah well because joe's taking more of a of the in-between position yeah

00:23:30.880 it's like apollo 8 was fake but apollo 10 was real and apollo 13 was fake again but

00:23:40.200 kind of that was like a reverse uno card and then apollo 16 was real well the planet one of the

00:23:47.640 points i try to make to him maybe unsuccessfully and this actually applies to a lot of conspiracy

00:23:53.020 theories the ones that are that are irrational is that you're not just rejecting the so-called

00:24:02.060 official narrative you are proposing an entirely new narrative and so my point is that what you

00:24:11.780 should have evidence for your like you're not just denying that a thing happened you're actually

00:24:16.460 proposing that a whole other thing yes did in fact happen right which in this case is that they set

00:24:21.600 up they did a moon landing on a movie studio somewhere yeah so where's your evidence for

00:24:25.820 that like where is your evidence your positive evidence that this other thing stanley cooper

00:24:30.520 don't you know that where's the evidence of that i mean well he was a filmmaker who did a movie

00:24:35.860 about space right so i think that and he directed the moon landing defense or something yeah he

00:24:43.040 directed, you know, one time I was talking to someone who was talking about the moon and this

00:24:48.440 person said, not the famous person, this person said, well, yeah, but give me a break. I mean,

00:24:54.440 what about the Van Allen radiation belts? Joe was big on that. So I was arrested by this because

00:25:00.460 I thought, looking at this person, I said, you don't, you didn't pay any attention in, forget

00:25:06.940 physics. You didn't pay any attention in any science class in high school. You have no idea

00:25:10.960 what the Van Allen radiation belts are.

00:25:12.780 You don't know how radiation works

00:25:14.760 or what radiation is.

00:25:16.040 And I don't really either,

00:25:17.560 but I don't go around.

00:25:18.960 It's like, it'd be like saying,

00:25:21.440 um, guys, it's like,

00:25:22.920 actually people do this a lot.

00:25:24.260 People who don't know anything,

00:25:25.600 not a single thing about science.

00:25:26.820 And they'll say, well, actually, you know,

00:25:28.460 because of quantum physics,

00:25:30.400 here's why my random fever dream

00:25:33.240 is totally right.

00:25:35.020 And just say like, well,

00:25:35.620 you don't know anything

00:25:36.280 about quantum physics at all.

00:25:38.500 You just, that's just a phrase you learned.

00:25:40.220 you heard you either read that in a popular science journal or more likely heard it in a

00:25:46.760 youtube video yeah and now you're just saying it this is why being informed is so overrated i think

00:25:52.860 it's so overrated because people they we just have all this information bouncing around their

00:25:59.960 in their heads but they don't have any real depth of knowledge yeah to ground that yeah or any

00:26:06.060 wisdom no so you just end up with like little bits of information you've picked up yeah but

00:26:12.360 no way of directing it and so you just end up concocting these all these bizarre ideas yeah

00:26:17.660 based on this like scattershot yeah um and then it would be better for most people to just be

00:26:27.320 totally uninformed yeah but and the thing is then the our theory of government in america

00:26:32.780 is that you just get everybody's like that right and then they can vote and then they vote yeah

00:26:38.920 okay this question is from champaneless who says my question is how can i convince my wife to have

00:26:45.740 four kiddos we have three but she only can i answer so first of all don't call them kiddos

00:26:51.400 i i can't stand that and this is a man who wrote this this is a man yeah

00:26:56.160 kiddos that's that's 35 year old female talk are you a 35 year old woman kiddos you call them 1.00

00:27:06.260 doggos too just call them kids what is this kiddo bull i i can't stand it now when women do it i 1.00

00:27:14.200 can put up with it like fine yeah and my wife does a little bit with the kiddo thing yeah look 1.00

00:27:19.160 whatever we put up with a lot it's a woman thing right yes but when men do that kid that's

00:27:24.340 embarrassing that i mean talk about you shouldn't be allowed to vote like that's 1.00

00:27:27.200 that should exclude you should he be allowed to have four of them four kiddos well if you want

00:27:33.400 your wife to have kids with you don't speak like a woman to her she's not gonna respect you 0.95

00:27:38.680 you know you want you want her to get in bed with you and create kids don't like say wife 0.98

00:27:45.840 let's have let's make some kiddos you totally kills the mood that's my pillow talk can i finish 0.99

00:27:52.440 this question. Can I finish? We have three, but she only wanted two. I was able to talk her into

00:27:57.740 three, but four seems like a better number. Also, congrats on your fourth, Michael. Thank you very

00:28:02.680 much. So yes, I have four, three and a half now, because one's cooking. Matt has 150, I think.

00:28:11.200 I think that's what we're up to.

00:28:11.860 158 children. Yeah. So my answer, and I think this is kind of the way you did it.

00:28:18.680 I don't know if you're Catholic or Protestant or Jewish or Buddhist or whatever, but for the 0.95

00:28:24.880 Catholics, you just basically have to pop them out. So it's very easy to say, well, God demands 1.00

00:28:31.060 it. So let's go lady. Or the lady sometimes has to convince the man. You're just like, well, 1.00

00:28:36.200 you got to do it. There's just a rule. It's outside of you. You had four kids. In fact,

00:28:42.220 I don't want to tell tales out of school. I think you viewed that as sort of your ideal number.

00:28:46.200 and then you had more yeah i you know that's um well i actually i'd always thought six and when

00:28:56.020 my wife and i first got married and we talked about this i mean you know we're open to god's

00:29:01.060 design so it's like your ideal number doesn't really matter doesn't really mean anything

00:29:05.400 when we talked about i was like six sounds like a good number i'm one of six that's probably why

00:29:09.280 i thought that um but then we ended up with four we had four for a while and i thought like this

00:29:14.160 we had two boys and two girls and you're good it's like this is done this is kind of it's kind

00:29:18.820 of good and then and then the youngest kind of got out of the baby phase and was out of the

00:29:23.160 sort of getting out of the toddler phase and it was getting really easy yeah because that's the

00:29:28.360 thing you know when we think about the challenges of parenting and you hear people talk about it

00:29:33.820 there are certainly challenges that come and the kids get older teenage years but most of the

00:29:38.780 the the the challenges that you hear about are really concentrated on like the first

00:29:44.440 four years of life yeah you're not sleeping you can't right go anywhere it's like when you see

00:29:49.180 all these videos of someone who's quote unquote child free and they're tired saying all the

00:29:54.600 benefits oh i can sleep in and i can do this and that it's like yeah so those are arguably benefits

00:30:00.200 you have over someone who has a kid in the first couple few years of life yeah but once your kids

00:30:07.140 are older all that stuff yeah you could do that you could sleep in with older kids whatever any

00:30:10.760 of that stuff you can do um so we had gotten to that stage and it was kind of we're kind of

00:30:15.180 getting settled into it it was kind of nice and it was getting easier and then uh and then we found

00:30:19.760 out that well first we thought okay we're gonna have the fifth it's like all right yeah okay yeah

00:30:24.700 fine let's let's great let's let's do it and then we and then we get the uh the ultrasound so it's

00:30:30.700 gonna be two as we're doing the twins again yeah and that was that was that was kind of daunting

00:30:34.860 at first because the thing is we had twins to start with our first were twins we had no idea

00:30:40.960 we were getting ourselves into at all we had nothing to compare it to we were totally ignorant

00:30:45.240 ignorance is bliss um but twin babies like the first two years of life with twins is

00:30:52.340 that that's parenting on hard hard mode it's really difficult to do it twice yeah and then

00:30:58.420 and then so we'd already been through that and we knew we were we knew it was going to happen

00:31:01.600 and now we're now we're facing that again it was daunting but um but it's a rewarding challenge and

00:31:08.780 uh it's a beautiful thing just covering your bases in case the youngest kids watch this

00:31:13.640 someday in like 20 years you're like no it's actually always wanted another set of twins

00:31:17.420 uh let's see no you sent me one no i don't check my texts one thing this is really great you know

00:31:25.480 in the right wing media when they all are stabbing each other in the back and they're always and the

00:31:30.160 way they do it is they're always posting texts. Well, I got this text from you and you text,

00:31:35.080 whatever, but no one's going to ever do that to me because I don't text anybody back ever.

00:31:41.160 You are worse about that than I am. And I'm really bad.

00:31:45.020 Yeah. It's, it is this story. Some of these are so humiliating and irresponsible that I like,

00:31:51.940 can't say them publicly, but it, yeah. Yeah. It's pretty. But, but when someone is trying to

00:31:58.520 plant me with some scandal good luck but you know what it is i i assume this is what happens with

00:32:05.180 you yeah because i'm also really bad at texting back it's not intentional i'm not trying to be

00:32:09.940 important or whatever but i i see the text when it comes in i almost always see when it comes in

00:32:15.580 yeah and i think to myself like oh i'll get back to him you know because i'm in the middle of

00:32:18.960 something yeah and also i don't need to text you back 30 seconds after you text me no that that's

00:32:23.260 like that's weird that looks desperate yeah and then and then i'm in a conversation right by the

00:32:27.940 way. It's not just a three second text. That's like 15 minutes. Exactly. So then you think I

00:32:33.760 would text them back. And then seven days later, you think, oh, I never text that person back.

00:32:38.720 Now it's too late. I've gone too far. Way too late. I can't, you know, it's, once you get past

00:32:45.180 the 48 hour mark, it's too late. So now I have no choice but to just ignore forever. You know

00:32:49.780 what I do now? I've embraced this later on. I do this with good friends of mine or family members

00:32:57.540 or whatever two months later two months later i'll just it'll be like hey buddy checking in on

00:33:06.420 you i want to let you know i'm having a kid i wanted to reach out about this thing whatever

00:33:10.820 and i'll have forgotten about it i was going to take two months later i'll just be like oh hey

00:33:15.000 sorry sorry uh happy easter whatever it's like it's halloween months later it's halloween happy

00:33:22.700 easter that's what i do you can't do it two months later why not it's why it's too late

00:33:27.100 It's gone. Just let it go. Let that relationship go. I was waiting for this. You know how Twitter

00:33:34.040 is just basically a bunch of people hating the Jews? So our producer, Mr. Davies,

00:33:42.520 texted me this response from Rabbi Goldstein Schickelberg. Handel, the holy Talmud,

00:33:49.920 says we should discuss ideas on how to combat rising Nazism and anti-Semitism

00:33:53.580 and what we can do further as a country for Israel

00:33:56.280 and Israel first, the Holy Land with three Israeli flags. 0.93

00:33:59.620 I don't think this is a real rabbi. 0.99

00:34:02.460 You don't think so?

00:34:03.560 I'm starting to think that...

00:34:06.400 That's you with the conspiracies again.

00:34:08.020 I know.

00:34:08.420 I don't...

00:34:10.380 Something tells me this person might not even be Jewish.

00:34:15.240 That's pretty offensive to that person.

00:34:16.600 Yeah, I know on Twitter it's hard to believe.

00:34:19.600 Hold on.

00:34:20.020 Did I get any...

00:34:20.740 Why is...

00:34:21.880 Davies is only posting...

00:34:23.580 Oh, he texted me the kiddos one, too.

00:34:27.720 Hold on.

00:34:28.580 See, this is what happens.

00:34:29.600 Then I get, I'm just in my phone.

00:34:31.100 I don't want to be in my phone.

00:34:32.740 But now I lost the thread.

00:34:33.500 He's texting you stuff, and he's putting it up on the prompter.

00:34:36.060 And he's sitting right there.

00:34:39.040 You can just say it.

00:34:40.920 You're literally right here.

00:34:42.360 Here's one from Cap'n Caveman.

00:34:44.820 Tone checks her.

00:34:46.440 Well, as long as you shut down free speech, then you boys have a good time.

00:34:51.300 What is that in response to?

00:34:53.140 As long as we shut down free speech, we'll have a good time.

00:34:55.820 I actually do kind of want to shut down free speech, but that's kind of a hobby horse.

00:34:59.700 But is that in response to anything in particular?

00:35:02.620 I don't know.

00:35:04.660 All right.

00:35:05.520 Well, we got a lot of, man, we got a lot of comments on this.

00:35:09.220 Which of you is most likely to become a Protestant?

00:35:13.740 It's not me.

00:35:15.320 No, as you have six kids, you can't, it's not...

00:35:18.240 Speaking of, it's way too late for that.

00:35:19.660 It would be easy if I became not even just a Protestant.

00:35:23.320 Because if I were Calvinist, I guess I'd be a Presbyterian.

00:35:26.240 You'd become like a megachurch, non-denominational.

00:35:30.100 Yeah, like Joel Osteen style.

00:35:32.300 Just like, hey, you know, big smiles.

00:35:34.780 I don't know if I have that in me.

00:35:36.900 P is stored in the...

00:35:39.040 I'm not reading.

00:35:40.200 What?

00:35:40.600 I'm not.

00:35:42.620 I'm not.

00:35:44.540 Hey, you can't dress like that in Idaho?

00:35:46.680 Yes, I can.

00:35:49.660 In response to, hey, we're going to be hanging out having cigars, ask us anything.

00:35:57.240 The guy just posts this picture from dinosaurs. 0.99

00:35:59.580 He says, take out your gun and blow my brains out.

00:36:06.080 Well, on that note, thanks for tuning in to Matt and I Have a Cigar after our talk at Idaho.

00:36:13.340 We'll see you on the next episode.

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 02, 2026

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