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Muriel Bowser, the Democrat mayor of Washington, D.C., has just declared a public emergency in the district after 11,000 illegal aliens have arrived on buses that were sent from Texas and Arizona.
Now, that number is nothing compared to the total number of illegal aliens who pour across the border into border towns every single day.
But for some reason, Mayor Bowser thinks it constitutes a state of emergency, which is really strange.
Since I have been reliably informed by the liberal media that mass illegal migration, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, they call it diversity, is actually our greatest strength.
So how is it?
Maybe you can help me figure this out.
How is it that our greatest strength is now an emergency?
Luckily, we have D.C. Council Lady Brianne Nadeau to explain.
So it's been said, but it's worth reiterating, that the governors of Texas and Arizona have created this crisis.
And the federal government has not stepped up to assist the District of Columbia, so we, along with our regional partners, will do what we've always done.
We'll rise to the occasion.
We've learned from border towns, like El Paso and Brownsville, that And in many ways, the governors of Texas and Arizona have turned us into a border town.
We don't know how long this will take to resolve.
We don't know how long they will continue busing.
You hear that?
Those awful red state governors have turned liberal Washington, D.C. into a border town.
Could you imagine the horror?
Even though...
Wait a minute.
Haven't liberal politicians in Washington, D.C. been telling us that there's nothing bad at all going on in the border towns?
Because illegal immigration is our strength?
What's so bad about becoming a border town?
I thought it was perfectly fine to be.
Oh, now you're experiencing it.
And you're realizing it's not so great when it's in your backyard.
Just a few years ago, this very same lady, this council lady, who is complaining about illegal aliens showing up in D.C., tweeted out, quote, The district is a sanctuary city, which means our law enforcement does not cooperate with ICE. As council member, I have called for an abolition of ICE and wrote D.C.'s law to establish a permanent immigrant legal services fund.
But you see, you see, that was back when illegal immigrants were not really showing up to Washington, D.C. Back when illegal immigration was a problem created by Washington politicians for red states to deal with.
Now that D.C. is getting a taste of its own medicine, the lies and the disingenuous narratives are falling apart.
And even the libs themselves are tacitly admitting that the only reason they consider illegal immigration to be our strength...
Is that it allows them to weaken their political opponents.
Namely, us.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is The Michael Knowles Show.
Welcome back to the show.
My favorite comment yesterday is from Alan921, who says, I think if it were at all possible, the video about the life of Queen Elizabeth II would have been a great eulogy.
We didn't just lose an amazing woman.
We have lost what little remains of the traditional Western culture.
God save the Queen.
Thanks so much.
I really appreciate that.
You know, I did my show yesterday, and then there was news that the Queen was ailing, and then she died not long after the show, a few hours after the show.
And I knew I had the show today, but I just felt the moment was so important, and it was eliciting, rightly, justifiably, I think, a very strong reaction from people.
I said, I've just got to go live.
I've got to do an extra show today.
And so that's up on YouTube.
I think we put it on the RSS feed as well.
That's where most of my thoughts on the passing of Queen Elizabeth will be.
But I've been really surprised.
Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised because I know that she was so beloved.
But I've been really pleased to see the positive response that that video has gotten.
I've gotten a lot of messages, in particular from the UK and from overseas.
But I appreciate that.
If you want to hear that, you can go to the RSS feed or elsewhere on the YouTube channel.
Because the woman was really important.
She was described as a golden thread uniting the entire United Kingdom.
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The big story, of course, right now is the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
And it's taken the whole focus of the world because people feel as though...
A great age is gone now.
Our last connection to this great age when Western civilization seemed to flourish more, seemed to make more sense, is finally gone.
And we knew it was going to come.
The woman was 96 years old, but it doesn't make it any less sad.
There have been some really off-key moments.
I've noticed this especially from people on the left who, while they may actually have liked the woman and while they may be trying to be polite on her passing, they don't like monarchy, they don't like tradition, they don't like Western civilization, so they don't really like anything that the woman stood for.
And so it's created a real challenge in the way that they respond to this.
Yesterday, before the news came that the Queen had died, the White House was asked about her ailing, the fact that all of her family members were traveling to her, the fact that it seemed like time was short.
The response from Corrine Jean-Pierre, I think, tells you everything you need to know about how the left stands at this moment in history.
Queen Elizabeth, she served for nearly a third of American history.
So how does President Biden view this special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K. if there were to be a transition in the British monarchy?
So don't want to, you know, we feel like it's inappropriate to talk about hypotheticals here.
But what I will say about the relationship with the United Kingdom, as the President said in celebration of Queen's Platinum Jubilee, which is not too long ago, and this is quote, under her reign, the relationship between the United Kingdom and And the United States has grown stronger and closer than ever.
The President, as you all know, has known the Queen for over three decades.
He's met her personally three times.
Once was in June of 2021.
Over the years, including, as I said, twice last year.
Again, we see this relationship is stronger, grows stronger, every close, stronger and closer.
And again, our hearts, the president's, as he said, our thoughts and our hearts are with the queen, her family, and also the people of the United Kingdom.
Okay, perfectly nice thing to say.
I'm not criticizing the sentiment at all.
I am criticizing the language.
Did you hear what she said?
She said, and she apparently was quoting the president here.
Our thoughts and our hearts are with the Queen.
That's a strange phrase.
You don't hear that.
Our thoughts and hearts are with you.
That phrase is a substitute for our thoughts and prayers are with you.
But the White House can't bring itself to say prayers.
The left has made a point in recent years of mocking the phrase thoughts and prayers.
And they mock thoughts and prayers because they believe that prayers are not efficacious because they don't believe in God.
And the White House, as the chief representative of the American left, can't bring itself to use that phrase either.
I promise you that was intentional, the omission of the word prayers.
And maybe some of them do believe in prayers, but they feel like the base is so atheistic that they can't use the phrase.
Or maybe, as I suspect, the administration is just not particularly Christian, not particularly religious, kind of mocks all of those things.
Unfortunately, I think it's the latter.
Really sad because Queen Elizabeth, from the earliest days of her reign, was a defender of religion.
And public religion.
Private religion, too.
And private faith.
And she viewed herself as serving God.
And I think she did serve God.
And she said, look, people in this modern world, they're trying to toss out all the ageless truths and the ageless ideals.
Namely, religion.
The first on the list was religion.
And she said, we really shouldn't do that.
When we lose that, we're really lost.
And when I heard that statement from the White House, it deepened my sense of dread that we were going to lose the Queen.
Because I thought, man, you guys just don't get it.
No one seems to get it.
Or maybe they do get it and they're happy.
Not that the woman has passed, but that that age has passed and that sense of tradition and dignity and the notion that one serves one's family and community and country and ultimately one serves one's God.
So many people at funerals think, after they finish thinking about the person who has died, they turn their thoughts onto themselves.
Sometimes people cry at funerals because they're thinking of their own mortality.
It's a natural reaction.
I think a lot of people are thinking that way with the passing of Queen Elizabeth.
We're thinking about ourselves.
What does this mean for the world that we're living in?
I had this thought last year.
I went to my friend's wedding in France.
And took sweet little Elisa and the babies, and we made a whole family trip out of it.
And we're walking around Paris, and sweet little Elisa, out of nowhere, she's looking at the building, she goes, Man!
That's obviously Elisa's voice.
Man, Mac, why can't we have these beautiful things?
How come the French get beautiful things?
Why don't we get beautiful things?
So that's a great question.
Because there are beautiful buildings in America.
There's obviously a lot of beautiful geography.
But there's some beautiful art, some beautiful buildings.
But not a lot.
They're kind of few and far between.
And most of the buildings that have been built in the last century have just been these kind of glass and steel monstrosities.
Or this brutalist, hideous sort of architecture.
And you walk around a city that's from another age.
Older cities.
And you think, this is so beautiful.
Why can't we have that?
And that is the point of the monarchy.
That is the point of the royal family.
And the last really prominent one is in the United Kingdom, is to give the nation something to look up to.
And it's a service role.
These are people whose job it is to serve the country.
They happen to wear tiaras, but their job is to go out and open up grocery stores and help encourage the country.
But it's to give them a sense of dignity.
Not just efficiency, not just ticking up the GDP a little further, but a sense of dignity, a sense of tradition, a sense of culture, a sense of art.
And the question that we have is, why can't we have that here?
We have a different political tradition.
I think we could cast our eyes up a little bit, but we've really got to dig in deep and not just cast away all of the past.
When...
When the Queen died, there were rainbows that appeared over Buckingham Palace and over Windsor Castle.
When the Queen died, there was a double rainbow over Buckingham Palace, and then when they lowered the flag to half-mast, very briefly, a giant rainbow appeared over Windsor Castle.
And it's not lost on me either that the Queen died on Merrimus, on the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, Queen of Heaven and Earth.
I don't think that's just a coincidence.
I believe in providence.
I think providence is when God kind of peeks out from behind the curtain and winks at you.
And it is a great consolation because it's a reminder that no matter...
How useless our good works seem to be, no matter how pointless it seems to be to live a good life in a culture that doesn't really seem to reward that all that much.
There is an order to things.
There is an overarching providence.
And we can see it peak out every now and again.
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Speaking of rainbows, great news out of Utah and Boise.
A Utah-based bank has just pulled a sponsorship from an upcoming Boise Pride Festival.
In backlash to a drag kids show where children as young as 11 were set to perform.
They say, over the years, Zion's Bank has supported a variety of pride events because they are an important part of our support for LGBTQ employees and allies and are representative of our efforts to foster an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace and community.
This support for all of our employees and communities remains unchanged.
But, they said, we can't do the kids stuff, okay?
We're really open-minded.
We'll even support kind of weird sexual parades in the streets, but just leave the kids out of it, please.
And the Boise Pride response was, we can't.
We can't.
Boise says, minors have participated in the Boise Pride Festival both on and off stage for many years.
Pride and inclusivity do not begin at age 18.
You know, this story was just going around yesterday.
I assume it has to date back to Pride Month.
Although, who knows?
Actually, now, not only is Pride Month in June, there's another version of Pride Month in October, which is the LGBTQ History Month.
So a full sixth of the year is now dedicated to...
Eccentric sexual behavior is pretty soon it's probably gonna be the whole year.
Regardless of whether this was June or October, the point remains the same.
The important takeaway here is the libs have to push this on kids.
They have to.
I know a lot of people who are kind of moderate or in the center, they'll say, wow, this is just so crazy.
The left, the sexual revolutionaries, they can get away with all the pride stuff they want and put it in public and probably march the parade around City Hall.
They can get some of the Biden administration officials who go to satanic leather fetish parties and they could probably get them to give a keynote speech.
They could get away with all of it.
If they would just leave the kids out of it, why are these people so stupid?
Why are they so stubborn that they have to involve the kids?
But they have to involve the kids because if they don't, then they are admitting that the events are obscene.
The reason to exclude the kids is because this is sexually explicit, obscene behavior.
But if it's sexually explicit, obscene behavior, why would we have it in the public square at all?
This is why they have to trans the kids, too.
There are people who are in the middle and centrists who say, come on, look, if an adult wants to chop his genitals off, that's fine.
Just don't make the kids do it.
But they have to make the kids do it.
Because if they don't have the kids do it, then they are admitting that it doesn't really make a lot of sense, and it's actually probably disordered and wrong, and you've at least got to wait for, if a kid's going to do something so destructive as chopping his own genitals off, he shouldn't do it when he's 12.
He should at least wait until he's 18 or 21 or something.
But if it's very likely disordered and destructive and all those things, then the adult shouldn't be doing it either.
What the libs are doing here is just taking their own premises to their logical conclusions.
Men can really be women.
Women can really be men.
If a man or woman is sexually confused, they should chop off their genitals.
If that's the premise, then absolutely, you've got to take it all the way, and kids should do it too.
Frankly, kids especially should do it, because once puberty sets in, it's going to be a lot harder to, through plastic surgery, make yourself look like the opposite sex.
And that's the argument that the honest libs are making right now.
And it makes sense.
The problem with it is that the premise is wrong.
The problem with it is that the premise that boys can really be girls, that's a wrong premise.
The problem with the Pride Parade here is that the premise that the Pride Parade is wholesome family fun is just wrong.
It's not.
It's a sexual show.
So you might say, okay, if you don't want to ban it, if you don't want to pass a law against these weird sex shows, fine.
They should be in the back, dark, dingy nightclubs, in back, dark, dingy alleys of the neighborhoods that the wholesome people don't go to.
And there have been shows in those neighborhoods forever, but there have been weird things on the fringes of society since time immemorial.
But you really get into trouble when you take those things that are on the fringes of society and put them right into the center, right into the middle of the town square.
That's just absurd.
That goes way beyond tolerance.
That takes tolerance into the realm, truly into the realm of the absurd.
So the libs have to double down on all this stuff.
And they're doubling down, speaking of our friends in the United Kingdom, they're doubling down by turning a beloved British children's cartoon into Gay as well.
Peppa Pig.
I've never watched Peppa Pig.
I guess I could have started to watch it with my children soon, but I now have no intention of doing that.
Peppa Pig.
Has gone gay.
Everything else is gay, so Peppa Pig has gone gay too.
Critics have apparently taken issue with Peppa Pig because it glorifies the family.
And by the family, I mean what is now called the traditional family.
I just call it the family, but it's the traditional family.
You know, mommy and daddy and the kids, and they live together, and they are educated together, and they have dinners together, and they function as a family.
Well, some critics have taken issue with that.
Because on the left, they want to destroy the family.
Because the family is a great impediment to their cultural and political revolutions.
So, in 2019, they started a petition that demanded that the series creators add a same-sex couple.
Not just a same-sex couple, by the way.
A same-sex couple with adopted or surrogate children.
I don't know how they got children, but with children.
They want to create this kind of mimicry, this...
This imitation of a family with all the kind of sexual revolution stuff built in.
And so they start this petition.
It obviously has nothing to do with the plot line of the show.
They just demand it because it will make them feel better about their own sort of sexual ideologies and delusions.
The petition has garnered over 23,000 signatures.
And now Peppa Pig has given in.
They introduced a lesbian couple and then the little...
The little baby Peppa Pig says, quote, I live with my mummy and my other mummy.
So the reaction from this that you're going to hear from not just the conservatives, but from the centrist people and the independent people and the ones who maybe even their center left and they say, why does everything have to be so political?
Why does everything have to be so woke?
Come on!
Can't you leave the cartoons alone?
This is a very common refrain that you hear from very reasonable people.
But there's an answer to it.
Why does everything have to be woke?
Because you won't stop it.
That's why.
Because in politics, the people who want something are always going to win against the people who are indifferent.
That's why.
Because the people who, for whatever ideological or sexual or appetitive reasons, want there to be a couple of lesbians on this kid's cartoon, they're willing to just go out there and whine and whine and complain and beg and shout and boycott and do whatever.
And the people who don't want that very often are not even willing to make an argument against it.
Why should there not be a lesbian couple with kids on the children's cartoon?
The answer is because it's disordered.
It's very disordered, and two ladies cannot create a child together.
And so the only way to do that is by reordering our adoption system or creating all sorts of new bioethical concerns through surrogacy and in vitro fertilization and buying a man's sperm and renting a woman's womb and all the rest of it.
And it's all disordered, and it's wrong, and it's morally unacceptable.
And that's why it shouldn't be there.
Very few conservatives are willing to say that because they don't want to be called phobic or bigoted or intolerant or whatever.
And so they don't want to say that.
All the conservatives are going to say is, come on, don't you think, why has it got to be so woke?
It's got to be so woke because you won't articulate the argument against it and you won't sign any petitions and you won't demand it.
And so the people who are motivated and who are eager and who do have a plan and a vision for society, they're the ones who are going to win.
And these kind of pathetic platitudes for neutrality or just, come on, let's slow things down or, hey, let's leave the kids alone.
It's not going to go anywhere.
Everything has to be so woke because the woke people can get away with it.
That's why.
They can get away with it because you let them get it.
We got a story from social media that's just, once again, the woke people getting away with it.
Headline here on Axios.
Sort of a center-left outlet.
Scoop snaps, Snapchat, snaps political data slip.
Okay, here's how they describe it.
A slip-up by social media giant Snap allowed leading Democratic campaigns and party committees to unwittingly tap into a vast repository of Republican voter data to hone their midterm ads.
Oops.
Ah, darn.
Oh, I just, those darn slip-ups.
Those darn slip-ups, they're so frustrating because they're always made so unwittingly, aren't they?
And it's just such a weird, unwitting coincidence that the slip-ups always benefit the Democrats, and they never benefit the Republicans.
Oops.
Oopsie-daisy.
Yeah, the FBI got the FISA warrant wrong, and they actually didn't.
Yeah, they didn't have any reason to spy on the Trump campaign.
That was a big mistake.
Our bad.
Yeah, our bad.
We totally won't do this again.
Whoopsie-daisy.
Oops.
Hillary Clinton had a private email server where she had classified information, and at the same time, she was raising a ton of money from foreign governments for her own personal charity.
Charity, quote-unquote, to pay her own bills.
Oops.
Oopsie-daisy.
No big deal.
Whoops, what a slip-up.
We won't let that happen again.
Oh, by the way, oops, former President Trump took some documents from the White House, as lots of presidents have done.
Yeah, we're going to kick in his door.
We're not letting that slip-up go through.
Uh-uh.
No siree.
We caught that mistake.
We just don't catch it when social media companies give Democrats a major advantage in the elections.
Oopsie.
I think those slip-ups are going to keep happening.
They're going to keep unwittingly happening unless we stop them.
Unless we, on the happy occasions that we can get any political power, and it's always going to be an uphill battle, because let's say the Republicans retake the House.
Maybe there's a shout we retake the Senate.
We're still not going to have the bureaucracy.
We're not going to have the presidency.
We sort of have the Supreme Court, but it's marginal.
We don't have the media.
We don't have big tech.
We don't have the universities.
We don't have really any of the other power centers.
But, okay, we can get a little bit of the government.
We have to wield that power.
We have to wield the force of big government.
I know this will make certain American conservatives feel uneasy, but we have to wield the force of big government against our political adversaries in a just way, in a moral way, in an appropriate way.
But we have to do it because these slip-ups are not just.
These slip-ups are not appropriate.
These slip-ups are not moral.
You can't have a good system with these slip-ups.
The slip-ups aren't slip-ups.
They're just Democrats taking advantage because they know they can get away with it.
Speaking of slip-ups, you might recall, what was this, a week or two ago?
There was a trade show, trade conference for podcasting called Podcast Movement that held its convention.
And since The Daily Wire is the sixth largest publishing network in the world, and since Ben Shapiro in particular is always in one of the very tippy-top ranked podcasts, but all of our shows consistently chart very, very high up in podcasting.
Among all shows, not just among political shows or conservative shows.
Because of that, the Daily Wire had a booth there, and Ben showed up and took some pictures with some fans who were at the podcast movement, and then he walked out.
That was it.
And podcast movement issued this long condemnation of Ben and Daily Wire and said it's unacceptable, and people felt unsafe, and it was really, really bizarre kind of behavior and really wrong behavior.
Well, I've got some good news on that front.
A podcast movement then posted.
They said, we're listening to the podcast movement community.
We're putting in place policies to guide our social media with inclusivity and diversity and respect.
It's a journey, right?
That was part of their condemnation of Ben.
But then they just yesterday tweeted out, quote, as we stated, we're continuing to evaluate our policies guiding social media and events with inclusivity, diversity, and respect for all.
We have to start by sincerely apologizing to Mr.
Shapiro for our reaction when he visited a booth we sold to his company.
That wasn't right.
And that's all true.
That's good.
And I also know that the president of podcast movement did call Jeremy and made very, very clear that the behavior of podcast movement was unacceptable.
And he, you know, he took it like a man, the president of podcast movement, and he called and he did the right thing.
And he apologized and he said what they did was just totally wrong.
And so my reaction here, I know that some people would like to, you know...
Double down and keep hitting podcast movement.
But I think we live in an age that is so graceless and where no one ever gets to hear a sincere apology or no one usually accepts a sincere apology.
So I think it's good.
I'm glad podcast movement apologized.
We accept the apology.
Good.
That's good.
They did the right thing.
I appreciate that they did the right thing.
So people very rarely do the right thing anymore.
They just double down when they're so obviously wrong.
And so that's good.
I appreciate that.
I think it's very big of podcast movement to do that.
And I'm pleased to see it.
Not just for us, but for what it means for conservatives in the podcasting space and in the culture and in the public square.
So good stuff.
Appreciate that.
Good job, podcast movement.
Speaking of double standards, this is a really crazy story.
A Democrat public official has just been arrested on suspicion of murdering a reporter.
And you probably haven't heard anything about this story.
There was a story, I saw the headlines the other day, in maybe some conservative outlets, that a reporter from Nevada, who some said had been doing a report on that shooting in Las Vegas, but I'm not sure that that was necessarily the key.
The reporter just generally had been investigating crime and corruption.
This guy ended up murdered.
And now the chief suspect is this Clark County Democrat official whose DNA was found at the scene.
The guy is the Clark County Public Administrator, Robert Telles.
He was just booked.
I mention the story because...
We talked about the double standards yesterday on racism.
You know, the libs, when they use this phrase, racism, it doesn't mean anything.
Whatever racism could possibly mean, they're much more guilty of it than the Republicans.
And the Republicans sort of fecklessly say, no, no, you're the real racist, and it doesn't matter.
You're the hypocrites.
Yeah, okay, they know that.
They don't care, okay?
They're going to do it anyway because they can get an advantage over you.
Same thing with political violence.
The libs decry political violence.
They commit much, much more political violence than the conservatives have, even just in the last few years.
Again, we point out the double standard.
Nobody really cares.
Well, I would like to point it out, just again, only for the conservatives to realize this.
It's true on journalism, too.
The libs attack journalists much more than the conservatives do.
The Obama administration was very, very tough on journalists.
We remember really bizarre political pressure on reporters like James Rosen or Sheryl Atkinson.
But now we're seeing this, a Democrat official murdering an investigative reporter for looking into corruption.
I mention it not because I think that pointing out the double standard is finally going to shift the narrative.
No, I don't think it will.
I mention it just as a little encouragement to conservatives and to people in the center.
When the libs start getting on their soapbox about how the Republicans are threatening a free press, just remember, it's completely bogus.
It's a pointless argument.
It's not true.
Anything that they are saying about the Republicans, they are projecting.
They are confessing what they themselves are doing.
So just ignore it.
I'm not encouraging people to just, you know, go out and point out the hypocrisy and that's how we're going to win the argument.
No, that's not going to happen.
They don't care.
They know about the hypocrisy.
They just want to get one over on us.
But I'm saying this as a word of encouragement to the Republicans.
Just ignore it.
It means nothing.
It's just a cheap political lie.
Move on, okay?
These guys are just trying to take advantage of you.
Now, I'm very, very excited that we will get to my absolute favorite time of the week when I get to hear from all of you in the mailbag.
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Let's take it away with the voice mailbag.
Hello, Michael.
I'll save you the backstory, but my wife and I were recently discussing what we would like to happen with our bodies after we die, be it burial, cremation, or something else.
I'm curious about what option you think is best.
I'd assume you're a proponent of traditional burials.
Maybe there's a Catholic teaching behind that I'm unaware of.
Anyway, if my assumption is correct, I'd like to know why you think that way, and what reasons there are behind Being against cremation, for example.
And if I'm wrong, I'd be surprised, but if you do think differently, then please elaborate.
Thanks, Michael.
Yes, I'm very much against cremation.
I am for burial or a mausoleum, if you want to get fancy.
But I'm very much against cremation.
The church traditionally opposed cremation and forbade it.
In recent years, they've gone softer on cremation, but I still oppose it.
And the reason I oppose it is because it makes a mockery of the resurrection of the body.
If you are a Christian...
You believe in the resurrection of the body.
Not just that we're going to go to heaven, not just that our souls will be at peace, and that we will behold the face of our creator in the beatific vision.
You believe in the actual resurrection of the body.
And this is very important to the way that we, well, the way that we view our bodies and our own behaviors and the way that we view creation in the world.
That we're not just disembodied spirits, but the body really matters too.
And the body and soul and spirit are united inextricably during our lives.
They are separated at the moment of our death, but that our bodies will be resurrected.
And so, I'm not making any eschatological claims about what it means if one is cremated in the resurrection of the body.
I am just pointing out as a matter of symbolism and ritual and...
The way that we treat our bodies in the creative world, the way that we interact with the physical things of this world, to cremate oneself is to mock the resurrection of the body.
And so I would strongly advise against it.
Next question.
Mr.
Nostradamus, this is Smiling Sam Alvey.
I was listening to your show while driving my kids to their private school because we are done with the public school system.
My little girl, nine years old, she was listening to you as we do most mornings and you started talking about eating bugs and how, you know, delicious they're supposed to be and stuff like that.
That got her interested.
That piqued her interest.
And so she asked Eddie, They want us to eat bugs?
And I said, oh yes they do.
And that turned into a whole conversation about how cows fart and causes global warming and how everything they do is just to try and find a way to control us, similar to the masks.
They know they don't taste good, but they're going to force us to eat it just so they can say that they forced us to do it.
And she looked up and said, well daddy...
Joe Biden's not going to eat bugs, is he?
And I could not have been more proud.
It was a moment of, oh, she connected the dots.
She knows that those in charge aren't going to eat bugs.
They're just going to make us eat bugs, or try to anyways.
I guess I always knew I was going to have that time where I had to talk about the birds and the bees with my daughter.
But I guess it was today, but not the birds and the bees.
It was the bugs and the bees.
Thank you for your work, and we'll keep listening.
Smiling Sam Alvey.
All right.
Your daughter is very insightful, obviously.
Yes, the elites who want to get us all to eat bugs, they will be eating filet mignon.
That is true.
As a general rule, that is true.
And there's a caveat to this.
I don't think that the elites regularly will eat bugs, but I do think that they will eat But temporarily or infrequently or even as a matter of initiation, eat the bugs.
I think they will do it.
You think of that actress.
What is her name?
The one who was married to Tom Cruise.
I forget.
She just did a whole video where she came out and ate a bunch of bugs and it was disgusting.
You sometimes see Bill Gates came out and I think it was he drank a glass of water that came out of...
Fecal matter.
All of these gross things.
Eating the bugs.
Living in excrement.
All of this gross stuff.
Sometimes the elites themselves do it.
And they do it in order to shatter a taboo.
They do it for the same reason that fraternities haze their pledges.
They do it because it is a way to express and actually reinforce one's commitment to a group.
Or to a secret society or to a cult, which is probably more like it.
So that is the reason.
Why are they forcing us to eat the bugs?
It's not that they're thinking, look, we need new sources of protein, and yes, the bugs are gross, but that's what we have to do in order to get the protein.
It's actually the other way around.
They're saying, man, we have a taboo in our culture against eating bugs.
So if we want to upend the culture, we have to eat the bugs.
We have to do it because it is so gross.
That will break the taboos, because taboos and standards define cultures.
And so when you chatter them and you reorder them, you are reordering the culture in a very, very profound way.
That's a lot of what's going on with the bug-eating.
And the protein and the efficiency and getting all the poor masses to eat cheaper sources of protein and creating even greater inequality between the poor and the elites.
That goes along with it, but I think the taboos are really central to it.
Okay, next question.
Hey, Knowles.
Pete calling from Nova Scotia, Canada.
I work outdoors at night in utter darkness at a golf course, watering mostly, not that you ask, but...
I do have a request.
Hey, let's cool it on the demons are everywhere all the time and out to get you rhetoric.
Okay, I'm getting a little freaked out out here.
I'm pretty sure I just saw Belphegor and three lesser demons teeing off on four here.
Let's cool it down a shade.
Thanks a lot, my friend.
You're doing a great job.
Always enjoy listening to you.
Bye-bye now.
An understandable objection, but I actually have a different take on it.
When I was a teenager in my atheist, debauched, degenerate years, I was much more superstitious than I am now.
I was much more spooked by the demons that I didn't think existed than I am now when I am convinced that demons really do exist and are surrounding us all the time because we are surrounded by a battlefield.
We are actually in a battlefield of spiritual combat.
The reason is because I believe that Christ conquers death and sin on the cross, and St.
Michael just stabs that dragon with the sword, and Our Lady crushes the serpent underneath her heel, and I think the game is won, and Christ harrows hell, and so we're going to win.
I'm on the winning team, so I don't worry about those stupid little demons.
I think of St.
John Vianney, who was tormented by the devil, and he used to make fun of the devil.
He's the patron of parish priests and he was in this little town, Ars, in France.
And he was tormented by the devil.
And he would just make fun of him.
He'd call him this little stupid guy, this little grappin.
There he is again.
Here we go.
Ignore him.
No big deal.
Oh, he set my bed on fire.
Okay, no big deal.
And I think that's the right attitude.
I think when people want to deny dangers and realities, whether they're physical or metaphysical, they tend to get much more freaked out by it.
It kind of gets back to that old saying, if you believe in nothing, you'll fall for anything.
But if you believe in something, especially if you believe in something true, then you'll be much more grounded.
I just find that the atheists tend to be the most superstitious people on earth.
And they'll fall for any kind of weird new age manifesting, sending vibes, playing with my crystals, man, kind of stuff.
And it's the Christians, especially the Christians who take the religion seriously, who are much more grounded.
And you might expect it to be the opposite.
You might expect Christians who believe in God and incarnation and choirs of angels and demons trying to attack us and take our soul.
You might expect them to be really, really out there, but they're not.
I mean, if you've just ever spoken to Hi, Michael.
Thank you so much for your advice on volunteering for a political campaign.
My uncle is in the gun business and has connections with Andrew Clyde, who is campaigning for my district, so I'm going to volunteer with his campaign.
I have kind of a weird...
Question today that involves singing in Mass.
So I'm Catholic, I go to Mass every Sunday with my family, and I sing at every Mass along with my mom, my grandmother, and my sister, because we believe it is another almost higher form of prayer.
However, most of the people who attend Mass do not sing, including my brothers.
I've been trying to encourage my one brother to sing for a while now, but I think he's just too embarrassed since so many people in the church don't sing.
I was wondering what's your opinion on singing in Mass, and do you have any advice on how I can convince him to sing?
Thanks.
Love the show.
Thank you so much.
Great question.
Great to hear that you're on that campaign.
And I have many thoughts on this question that you've just raised.
I think it was St.
Augustine who says that to sing well is to pray twice.
So it's good to sing.
It's good to sing in praise.
But you're right.
People in...
What's called the New Mass or the Mass of Pope Paul VI, that's the Mass that started in 1970 and has replaced, in most places, the traditional Latin Mass that had endured for almost two millennia.
At that Mass, people don't really sing that much, which is ironic because the point of that New Mass was to increase participation, and yet participation in many ways decreased.
I think the reason for that, it's not just your brother's fault, and it's not just the fault of the people in the congregation.
It's because the Mass is really—the new form of that liturgy is much more shallow and much more effeminate.
And the hymns that replaced the traditional chanting and the traditional hymns in the Mass are really sappy, effeminate, 1970s pop songs— That make some references to God and are often heretical.
And so to me, it's perfectly understandable that a young man would not want to sing some shallow song about, I will raise you up on eagle's wings.
And first of all, I won't raise anybody up on eagle's wings because I'm not God.
So The songs have theological problems, and they're just so lame and sappy.
They weren't even cool in the 70s.
And so I'm not surprised at all.
I'm not surprised that people don't want to participate in that really shallow kind of liturgy.
And so what I would recommend, well, I frequently recommend that people, if you are Catholic, I would recommend you attend the traditional Latin Mass, if you can find one, is But if you can't, let's say you want to just keep going to your church and go to the Mass of Paul VI, okay, fine.
You might want to encourage the musical director there to bring back some sturdier, more masculine, more serious hymns than the kind of Silly stuff that came out of the 70s.
I get it.
If I went to those masses, I wouldn't want to sing it either.
I don't want to offend our Lord with bad music.
Insipid twaddle, as a priest friend of mine described a lot of those songs.
St.
Augustine says to sing well is to pray twice.
But to sing poorly, I don't know.
I don't know what that comes down to.
Okay, one written question before we get into the member block.
Michael, I only just started watching your show in the past few weeks.
You've quickly become my favorite host by far, though.
Thank you very much.
That's very kind.
Here's a question.
Should I engage in any sexual acts with my girlfriend before marriage?
All right, we're really jumping right to it.
We've been dating for a little over five months.
I love her.
She's never asked for anything, and I don't plan on doing anything until we get married, if that happens.
Frankly, I feel that anything more than making out is too much for dating.
Yeah, you're right.
You're right.
You should not.
You should refrain from sexual activity until you're married.
Most people do not do that, especially people who were kind of atheists for a lot of their youth.
But I will say...
Some of those people, I think, regret their behaviors when they go too fast, too far with the number of women.
And I think it's a very special, wonderful thing if you can refrain from that kind of behavior until you get married.
And the bonus of that is it will encourage you to get married sooner, which usually, almost all the time, will be to your benefit.
