The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1901 - BOMBSHELL VIDEO: Alex Pretti Caused Chaos Before Being Killed

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

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New video emerges of Mr. Preti spitting on cops and smashing their vehicles weeks before he was killed after starting another altercation with law enforcement, which leads to a conclusion that I haven't seen anyone else point out yet, but it's a crucial point. If the cops had just arrested him and locked him up for the crimes that he was committing two weeks ago, Alex Prattie would be alive today. I'm Michael Knowles. It's the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to this show. A candidate in Ohio for Attorney General, a Democrat, is running on the platform of killing Donald Trump, of literally killing Donald Trump. We will get to what that means for all of us. In a moment, first of all, I want to tell you about Hallow. Go to hallow.com slash knolls. We are here. Can you believe it? Almost at Lent. I still have my Christmas decorations up because we're not quite at Candlemas yet, but then right around the corner is going to be Lent. Beginning this Ash Wednesday, our sponsor, Hallow, is invited. you to take Lent seriously with Pray 40, the return, a 40-day journey of daily prayer leading up to Easter, featuring Jonathan Rumi, Father Mike Schmitz, Sister Miriam James, Jeff Kavens, Mark Wahlberg, Chris Pratt, and others. Lent is the church's annual reminder that self-mastery matters, that virtue requires discipline, and that becoming who God intends us to be means removing the

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Just want to take a moment. We're back in the studio. I'm very happy to be back in the studio. I am still not exactly back to normal because half of Nashville just about still has their power out. However, I'm very glad at least we got power. at the Daily Wire offices. It's good to be back. It's nice to finally be back around my Christmas decorations. Wild to think that my Christmas decorations will only be up for another three or four

days. It's amazing how fast the Christmas season flies by. It's good. Nature is healing. Nashville is still Mad Max, but nature is healing. And I guess that's of a piece with what's going on around the country. Nature is enacting here in Nashville what lunatics are enacting on the streets of Minneapolis. So there's a video going around. After one of these incidents that the left wants to make a cause-celeb, especially officer-involved killings, officer-involved shootings, you analyze all the footage. Did Renee Goods tire turn exactly eight micrometers to the left?

Was she driving this way? Was she, when did she hit the accelerator? Did Alex Brady? Was his gun in his waistband or was it slightly out of his waistband? Well, here is a much more relevant video, frankly, than any. of those Monday morning quarterbacks going over all the footage to see exactly frame by frame when the cop could have shot, which is frankly irrelevant to the actual case. Here's a video from a couple weeks earlier, reportedly, purportedly of Alex Prettie harassing federal agents, screaming at them, spitting on them and smashing in one of their car rear lights. This is a moment the news movement filmed on January 13th in Minneapolis.

showing a man who appears to be Alex Pretti interacting with federal immigration agents 11 days before Border Patrol shot and killed him. Our footage was analyzed by the BBC, whose facial recognition technology confirmed his identity to a 97% degree of accuracy. On the morning of January 13th, our team received a tip that federal agents were blocking a street at the corner of East 36th and Park Avenue in Minneapolis. We arrived around 10.15 a.m. We saw observers shouting at the agents as they walked back to their vehicles. When they started driving away, the man kicked their taillight. An agent then got out of the vehicle, grabbed him, and pushed him to the ground. Okay, so we don't know for certain if this is him.

I guess it's being reported that it's him. This is from the news movement, I think, is the source here. Now in the age of AI, you can never trust any video at all anymore. But we do know that Alex Prattie had been going. out and harassing law enforcement before this. We know he had a conversation with his parents about this. His parents warned him to be careful, not to become aggressive to the agents. So let's just say this is him. Let's just say the reporting is accurate. This is him. And he was, in fact, doing the same sort of stuff he was doing the day he was shot a couple of weeks prior, spitting on federal officers,

kicking in the rear light of their car, just behaving like a general nuisance anarchist lunatic. tick. Let's say that were the case, and then he's taken down. What's amazing, and I haven't seen a lot of people point out, had Alex Preti just been arrested and locked up for those multiple criminal actions that are in that videotape, he would be alive today. And this is the lesson from all these kinds of riots, not just after Renee Good or before Renee Good, because of the ice raids, not even just George Floyd, all of them. All of them. All of them. All of the, these kinds of riots, if the law were enforced on the smaller matters, the bigger tragedies, the greater sad incidents would never come about. That's the key here. This is why I mentioned,

I think it was on the show yesterday, I said, the most charitable thing we can do for these people is to lock them up. The most charitable thing we can do for these people who are engaging in such disordered behaviors, blocking traffic, endangering their children, in order to protect face tattooed rapists from Venezuela in the middle of Minneapolis. The most charitable thing we can do for these people is to arrest them and lock them up. They are a danger to society. They are certainly a danger to themselves. They don't seem to have a particularly strong grasp on reality.

And they're breaking a lot of laws. And when you don't enforce the law on the smaller matters, by the way, I don't think spitting on federal officers and then kicking in their taillights, I don't think that's exactly a small matter. but it's a relatively small matter compared to, I don't know, taking a swing at a cop, pulling a gun on a cop, driving an SUV into a cop. If the law were enforced on the small matters, you wouldn't have to get into those provocative situations on the big matters. That's the point. I've pointed out since the Renee Good shooting and obviously Alex Pretty.

It's sad, makes me sad that these people put themselves in this position. I'm not happy that they're dead. Both of those cases were completely justified. There's no question. In both cases, the cops were totally in the right. These people were totally in the wrong. They made a thousand bad decisions in the lead-up to putting themselves in that position, where the main thing they could have expected was to be shot in the face.

All of that is completely true. If you are on the side of losing sleep every night because these people who were either threatening or driving their SUVs into federal agents were shot, if you're one of these people who's really upset about this, there was only one thing that could have happened that would have stopped them from being killed. And that is if the federal agents were able to enforce the law, if local police were allowed to enforce the law in a more rigorous way early on. Had Renee Good not been allowed to park a car in the middle of the street, had these mobs not been allowed to just sit around

and try to protect face tattooed gangsters, you wouldn't have been in this situation in the first place. Now, this is not stopping the libs from trying to make these two people, Renee Good and Alex Prady, the cause-seleb, the George Floyd of 26. Bruce Springsteen can always count on him as lib as they come, as quick as they come to capitalize on major news events. Bruce Springsteen, he came out with that album, The Rising, right after 9-11. Now he's got a protest song, Streets of Minneapolis, about the two lefties who were shot.

Through the winter's ice and cold I'm not going to make you down Nicolet Avenue A city of flame fought fire and ice Neath an occupier's boots An occupier's boots King Trump's private army from the DHS Guns belted to their coats Came to Minneapolis

To enforce the law They weren't enforcing the law. What is he saying? What is he suggesting? In the dawn's early light, citizens stood for justice. By protecting face tattooed foreign rapists. And there were bloody footprints. We got to protect MS-13.

Somalis deserve all your taxpayer dollars to send to al-Shabaab. Okay, so sorry, I know you didn't get to hear those words here at the end. The final verse is, and two dead left to die on Snowfield Streets, Alex Preti and Renee Good. Just want to get to the lyrics here. No one should be paying this song as much attention as I am paying it, but I don't know, I can't resist. The thing about Springsteen is when it comes to the 60s folk protest character, He's a fraud. He's not really that guy. He hit the scene too late. I kind of like Springsteen. Thunder Road's a great song. He's a decent songwriter. But he showed up too late. So his debut album was

1973. It was after Woodstock. It was after the 60s. But he really, he wants to be Bob Dylan. And so he writes this ridiculous song. Let's just get to two stanzas. Through the winters ice and cold. Ice get ice. It's a double entendre. It's a play on words. He's practically the bard, Bruce Springsteen. Down Nicolette Avenue, a city of flame fought fire and ice. Nathan Occupier's Boots. And Occupier's Boots.

That's an interesting phrase. Because what he's referring to is federal officers. So the first thing that's really funny is right off the bat, the way he's framing this, this could be a Confederate song. I mean, I guess maybe not with the winter's ice. maybe some parts of the South get pretty chilly, including Nashville. He's launching it from the beginning from the perspective of a Confederate who's seceded from the Union. I mean, this could be, this could just as easily be a song about the War of Northern Aggression and the tyrant Abraham

Lincoln. What do you mean in occupier's boots? To call the federal agents occupiers is to say that the federal government has no place in Minnesota, which is to say that Minnesota has seceded or is leading an insurrection against the United States, which they are. I agree with that. But it's amazing that Bruce Springsteen would admit it. Then he says, King Trump's, that's like so boomer, the no king's protest is the boomiest, cringiest political movement, if you can call it that, in my lifetime.

And he, oh, that's bad. That's not his best songwriting. King Trump's private army, private army from the DHS. Hold on. The DHS stands for the Department of Homeland. Homeland Security, the department being a department of the federal government. So say what you will. You might not, look, I guess Bruce Springsteen doesn't like the federal

government. Now he liked the federal government a year ago when it was being run by his party, but now he doesn't like the federal government. Whatever you think about it, though, you can't call it a private army. It's a public army. You can't have a private army from the DHS. You can have a private army from Marilago. You can't have a private army from the DHS. So again, Bruce Springsteen, you know, not a ton of brain cells banging around in there between the ears. Guns belted to their coats, came to Minneapolis to enforce the law, or so their story goes. What were they doing? What else were they doing? Or so their story goes. What is the insinuation here? What else are they doing? Are they there to rob people? Are they there to, I don't know, commit insider trading?

Are they there to get an ice cream cone? What do you think they're there? to do. Yeah, they're going to enforce the law or so their story. Are you saying that the law is not the law? Are you saying that removing illegal aliens from the country is not part of the law? What is your argument? I mean, it's so confused. And I think this is part of the narrative confusion over Minneapolis for the left broadly. Is that, are the federal agents occupiers from a distant government or are they a private army? You're mixing your metaphors. It doesn't work. Then, all right, just one more, Just one more stands, I promise. Again, smoke and rubber bullets and dawns early lights, citizens stood for justice.

What do you mean by justice? Federal agents have come in to remove foreign criminals who have no right to be in this country. Is your argument, is Bruce Springsteen's argument actually that the face tattooed gangsters do have a right to be in the country? Or that it is just, the people that DHS is arresting, by the way, are like wife beaters, murderers, rapists. Is the argument, forget the fact that they're foreign. Is the argument that murderers and rapists and drug dealers and wife beaters shouldn't even be arrested?

They shouldn't even be brought to trial? Is that the argument? Citizens stood for justice. By what, driving their SUVs into cops and kicking in their taillights? Their voices ringing through the night and there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood. Mercy should have stood? Mercy.

Is his argument that it would have been merciful to let, Renee Good run over the cop? Is his argument that it would have been merciful to let that lunatic Alex Prattie pull a gun out? A gun with two magazines, a gun that he apparently never carried before as he was picking fights with cops? That's mercy. How was that mercy? And two dead left to die in the Snowfield streets, Alex Pruddy and Renee Good. Yes. And part of the reason they died is because of propaganda like this that poisoned their brains and convinced them that reality is not what it is. What does he mean? They're trying, as I said, they're trying so, so hard because they knew that the Summer of Love worked for them in 2020.

They knew that in the year of our Floyd, they knew that those BLM riots worked for them politically. So they're doing everything they can to bring it about again. That's why you had Tim Walls there from behind his iron gate. Yeah, go out there. Go out. Hey, make sure you guys go out there and pick fights with federal agents. Some of you're probably going to get shot in the face, but it'll help me politically. And then I won't have to worry as much about my fraud scandal.

Thank you. Go get them. So you have Tim Walls doing that from the governor's mansion, Jacob Fry from the mayor's office, and then Bruce Springsteen from the pop culture. Okay. But, you know, it doesn't take a PhD and literary criticism to go through these words and realize,

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how did that go? What are your thoughts on it? Well, Tom Holman's a professional, which is a lot more than Bovino and Christy Knoam. But look, I think the thing we said is we're very clear about this that we need these folks out of Minnesota, and we need justice for Renee Good and for Alex. And those were things that we came with. Yeah, so we, yeah. Well, I shut down with Tom Holman, who's the, is that, I don't know, it's not a perfect timul's,

but I think it does capture something about the man. So, yeah, I shut down with him and he, yeah, he's a professional. Hold on, you're telling me the face of Trump's deportations. He's a professional. I can work with this guy. Yeah. He's much better than Greg Bovino. So they're trying to make this guy,

Greg Bovino, who was the commander at large at Border Patrol. They're trying to make him the fall guy for all of this. That's what Walls is desperate to make seem like the big concession. But it's kind of silly to say

that's the big concession that Wals won something here because, okay, you reassigned Greg Bovino and you bring in the guy who is even more closely associated with mass deportations. That doesn't make a lot of sense.

He says, yeah, and Holman is a lot better than Christy Gnome. All right, Christy Nome is still the head of DHS. So you're still dealing with her too. Yeah. We've been clear we need ICE to leave Minneapolis. Yeah, well, it's not going to. Actually, like, the face of it just showed up.

Just came to Minneapolis. That was the end of your bargain. At the end of all of your wheeling and dealing, you had the face of ice travel to Minneapolis to keep it up. And we need them out of here. And we need show they got to leave, right? I don't know what Trump said to this guy. I don't know what Trump said.

This guy was 1863 posting like a week and a half ago. This guy was threatening to call up Minnesota National Guard to fight federal agents. He explicitly invoked the American Civil War. And now all of a sudden, oh, I really like Tom Homan. Yeah, he's really great. And, yeah, I want, I mean, I don't, obviously, I don't want any of the deportations. But it's okay. I can work with that guy.

Anyway, please let me go home now. I don't know. What Trump said to that guy, I don't know if it pertained to the Insurrection Act. I don't know if it pertained to the financial fraud and crimes that Tim Wals allegedly seems to have apparently been involved in. Whatever it is, though, scared that guy straight. And it is real hard to scare Tim Wals straight. Scareing Tim Wall straight is a real tough thing to do.

But it looks like Trump did it. Okay. So how is Trump playing with the rest of the country? According to Rasmussen, we're all waiting because you hear the left and then the panic hands. they say, oh no, this is really bad. This is really bad. Trump needs to, he doesn't, we need to think about the optics in Minnesota.

And Americans support Trump's deportations by plus 10 points. It's great. Trump's support among Hispanics is going up right now. Looks like majority support right now. And then among Americans broadly, support for deportations is now plus 10. Now what's a little weird about these numbers is, okay, you got plus 10.

we love the mass deportations, and yet 55% of voters favor removing ice agents from Minnesota. 34% want to keep the ice agents in Minnesota. Trump's base wants to keep the ice agents in Minnesota, 68 to 29. But the traditional GOP, whatever that is, I guess like Mitt Romney types, they favor withdrawing ice, 47 to 39. Obviously, Democrats want to withdraw ice. So what does that mean? What it means is, Americans love the mass deportations in the abstract, but they get the feels sometimes when they see the pictures. So they love the idea of it. They want to get rid of these people, mass deportations, including abuela, but especially the face tattooed gangsters. But they don't like seeing nasty pictures. And so it's a war of pictures. It's a picture war. And how do you fix that? Well, Trump has already dipped his toe into this, more than dipped his toe into this, but it bears repeating because it is an important part of the strategy. In order to, because you don't have to win Americans over on the point of mass deportations right now,

you're in a better position. What you have to do is just present good pictures to people to make them feel good about the thing that they already agree with with their intellect. You just got to go bouquetel. You got to go full bouqueton. This is why Buckele, when he was rounding up all of the gangsters, he didn't just round them up and say, okay, you know, I've put them into prison now and they're going to, you know, have their due process. No, no, he made these videos of them with all their crazy tattoos looking like a bunch of demon bugs

and he was running them around and like whipping them. I mean, it was hard core, man. These were scary videos. If you were a guy with face tattoos, you would have been. Do we have it? Yeah, here. Let me see a bouquet le video. That's the good stuff.

There we go. That's what I want to see. Yeah. Just running around. Basically being humiliated. And for a purpose. No one's going to feel bad for the, the guys with the face tattoos.

And again, listen, I'm not knocking all guys with face tattoos, but no one's feeling bad for these guys. That's just what we have to do. The Bruce Springsteins of the world are going to pretend that ICE is showing up in Minneapolis to slaughter. That wonderful nurse, Alex Prettie, never had a harsh word to say about anybody.

Definitely never spit on federal agents and kicked in their taillights. Definitely never put himself in a bad situation, took his gun to town to pick fights with cops. No, no, no. they just went to shoot that Renee Good. That woman who, she wasn't even mad. She drove a car into a cop, but she wasn't even mad.

Just a sweet little dove. That's not what happened. Both of those guys, I'm not even saying Alex Priddy and Renee Gooder are like the worst of the worst. They were deeply confused to people who made tons of bad decisions. But they should not be the face of this. You know who should be the face of this? Jorge the rapist. You know who should be the face?

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Switching gears a little bit to an economic policy that I love, President Trump announced his Trump accounts policy, family policy, great new social program that is designed to give kids a head start, teach financial literacy. and who shows up to announce it with him, Nikki Minaj. Well, I don't know what to say, but I will say that I am probably the president's number one fan, and that's not going to change. And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all. It actually motivates me to support him more. And it's going to motivate all of us to support him more. We're not going to let them get away with bullying him and, you know, the smear campaigns.

It's not going to work. Okay? He has a lot of force behind him. And God is protecting him. Amen. Love her. Love her. This lady went from, you know, the occasional supportive tweet.

to on the stage at America Fest with Erica Kirk to now announcing this great new economic policy with the president, says I'm his biggest fan. Barb's vindicated yet again. What is the Trump account? I was hoping to make it to Washington, D.C. for the announcement of the Trump accounts. Nature had other plans. The Trump accounts mean that every kid born between last year and the end of 2028, every kid gets a thousand bucks in a federal account.

A thousand bucks in a federal account. You can deposit up to $5,000 per year if you want to maximize growth. That is after taxes. Employers can contribute tax-free up to $2,500 per year, if they want to as an employee benefit. By age 18, what does this mean? If you, unfortunately, I don't qualify. My kids are just outside the age range. I should have gotten some lobbyists

into just to move the date a little bit on that. That's okay, I just have to have more kids. This means that by age 18, a kid who just gets the Trump accounts, $1,000, they would have $5,800 in their account. Now, that's what the parents contributing nothing. If the parents contributed $250 per year, they would have almost $21,000 by the time they turn $18,

just for $250,000 a year. If the parents contributed the federal max $5,000 per year, this kid would have $304,000 estimated by the time he turned 18. This is just a wonderful idea. It was kicked off with support from the Dell family. The Dell family made like a billion dollar, multi-billion dollar donation to get this all started. They brought in lots of other companies.

Visa, BlackRock financial institutions have come in. Everybody supports this thing. So why am I mentioning it? it's great if you're having kids now or in the near future, sign up, get the account. It's going to be terrific. I think it's really good. I strongly support family policy. I think it's an existential matter for the country to encourage people to have kids, to support young families. I think politically, it's very, very important. When it comes to the electoral stuff, though, here's the reason I bring up the story is, hey, Democrats, find something bad to say about this. What's wrong with this? Tell me

what's wrong with this. You know. I mean, you know, you have these friends, you have these relatives. Anytime Trump does anything. Mr. Trump, would you like chocolate ice cream or vanilla? I'll have chocolate. I had chocolate. Yeah, of course he did. I hate chocolate. Huh? What? Mr. Trump? Yes. Your tax policy is going to give everybody more money. Yes, that's right. I hate having more money. They just find something negative to say about anything. What's bad about this? Can you find anything bad to say about this policy?

This is my challenge to the Democrats in the comments. We're watching this right now. Find me one bad thing to say about this policy. I don't think you'll be able to. And that should give you pause. That should give you pause on all the other Trump policies, which are overwhelmingly popular. Ask yourself, why are they popular?

When Bruce Springsteen says, It's the occupiers boot. Hey, guess who elected the occupiers? Most Americans. Hey, Bruce, most people voted for this. For this. Well, for the Trump accounts, maybe. But for the mass deportations.

They voted for Trump specifically for this. Who's the vigilante? Who's the insurrectionist? Who's the occupier in this case? It would be the left. Okay. Speaking of kids, very, very. gross story.

An IVF company is now letting couples pick the best baby that they have and discard the rest. So this is from Nucleus IVF. Do we have it here? Yeah. Nucleus IVF

they post, they say, every parent wants to give their children more than they had. For the first time in human history, Nucleus adds a new tool to that commitment. Welcome to Nucleus Embrya. And it shows, you all of your embryos that you make through IVF, and the way you do that is the woman undergoes

a very invasive, painful, dangerous procedure, and then gets the eggs out. And then the man commits a disgusting and gravely disorder and sinful action in a little room with a nurse outside. And then some scientists in a laboratory mix the two up. And sometimes they get it wrong and they accidentally create kids whose parents have never even met each other. Whoopsie Daisy. They can just throw them out, though. And anyway, then they create these embryos. And then what this IVF company does is it puts all the embryos in a nice app. And it says, all right, this kid is going to probably, it's all probabilities, but it's probably going to be a boy, probably going to have brown eyes and blonde hair. And then this other baby is going to be a girl, might have a little bit of a higher IQ,

going to have maybe blue eyes. And anyway, now you get to pick. And you. And you're going to be a girl. And You can pick the embryo you want, and then you can discard the rest, which means you can give your children more than you had dead siblings. The thing that this IVF company is allowing you to give to your children is dead siblings. So I don't know, if you had dead siblings, then you're not giving your children more than you had. But if you did not have dead siblings, then you are, in fact, giving them something more than you had. According to the reporting here from LifeSight News, couples who signed.

up with nucleus IVF plus are presented with an electronic menu of up to 20 embryos they had conceived, allowing them to view the sex of each baby their anticipated hair and eye color, and predictions about the height and IQ of each, as well as their risk for various diseases. The company notes that all these characteristics are only framed in terms of probabilities. They can't make any guarantees. Okay. So what does this really come down to? Nothing new.

What it's probably going to be used for is just to kill retarded people. to kill people who might have a chance of being retarded. It's really probably about that more than it's about the blonde hair and the blue eyes. Is my baby going to have a likelihood of a genetic anomaly? Is my kid going to be retarded? Well, I don't want a retarded kid, so I'm going to kill my retarded kid. That's basically what it comes down to. And the libs will see this and they'll say, Michael, it's so offensive that you said retarded.

And I say, well, you know, I find it pretty offensive that you kill retarded people. That you cheer for that. That you would create whole companies for that. but people already do that. Iceland famously said that they had exterminated Down syndrome, but there's no cure for Down syndrome. What they meant is they had exterminated all the Down syndrome people by killing them in the womb.

So we already do that. That's what a lot of abortion entails. It's just killing retarded people. Actually, the irony of it is in many cases, probably most cases, that people wouldn't have even been retarded, but nevertheless, the doctors convince them of that. and then it's about, you know, picking the kid that we want to be, I don't know, the tallest, the most good-looking, whatever.

Again, we do that to some degree already in IVF. The people who use IVF, they're already paying doctors to say, I think this embryo looks the healthiest, so we're going to try this one, and then we're going to freeze or discard all the other siblings. The main point here is none of this is all that interesting. It's very evil. It's really horrifying, but it's also pretty boring. We already do all this stuff. Humans have been killing retarded people since antiquity all over the world. Humans have been selecting for sex in their births forever, not just in modern IVF, but in ancient pagan cultures.

They would leave girls, little girl babies often out to just be exposed or throw them off a mountain or something. There's nothing all that new. It reminds me of what a priest once said. It was in a homily, though. It might have been in a private conversation. He said, you know, it's funny. As people, they think their sins are really interesting. Your sins are not interesting.

He said, I hear confessions hours a day, and I've heard it all. It's all the same stuff. It's like the same four things, basically. Your sins are very boring. Virtue is interesting. Charity is interesting. Love, grace. Those are interesting.

Sin? It's all, they're like, you hurt someone, you're self-indulgent, you're prideful, you do. You know, it's like, I don't want to get too graphic on it, but it's like the same four acts that basically you just do all that. That's not that interesting. We have an amazing new product that will allow you to kill your retarded kids and try to make your other kids look better. And if their siblings are uglier, you can kill them too. Wow. Wow, boy, never heard of that before.

Speaking of making babies, the New York Times had a piece. I really want to get to it. I let my wife have an affair. Do I have to console her now that it's over? This is a piece in The Ethicist. Folks, a lot of people have been bundled up all cozy indoors. What have you been doing? Well, if you have not been watching the Penn Dragon cycle, Rise of the Merlin,

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My favorite comment. Oh, you know what? I did not pick this comment. So we're going to see if I actually really like it. It's from Kevin Smile. It says Michael looks particularly Italian in this video. Is this from the show yesterday? You know, it's very funny.

I can't help but notice when I'm on the road, I get all these compliments. I see, Michael, the lighting looks really good. I'm in some studio somewhere else. Or even yesterday, so once I was in my buddy's makeshift studio, I said, Michael, the lighting looks really good, so much better than usual. You're looking really good here.

I think, hold on, how come in the cardboard studios that I end up using on the side of the road when I'm traveling, how come we get all the compliments for that? But then here, in my main studio, do I not look as good in my main studio? You tell me, you let me know. Okay, I let my wife, no, I'm not saying this. I want to be very clear before this gets clipped out. Kwame Anthony Appiah, the New York Times ethicist, is responding to a note that he got.

I let my wife have an affair, do I have to console her now that it's over. Okay, and I'll just read a little bit of it. This guy teaches philosophy at NYU. I've been married for many years. I still love and care deeply about my partner. Gay. No, loving and caring is good. but calling your wife, your partner is definitely gay.

Over the past year, she had an affair, and I knew about it from the beginning. She said that she needed it, and then it gave her vitality, that she enjoyed a sexual freedom she had longed for, and then she felt it was wrong to do this in secret without my consent. I agreed what she said and made sense to me. She convincingly assured me this was no threat to our relationship.

At the same time, I always suffered when she was away with her affair partner and could not find a way to take this easily. She recently decided to break it off because of the overall emotional burden for both of us. While she was grieving about it, I feel relieved. And then he says, basically, should I feel bad for my wife that she broke up with her boyfriend? Here is from the ethicist.

Now, if I were the ethicist at the New York Times, my response would be, no, what is wrong with you? Seek help from maybe a therapist, certainly like a priest or an exorcist, seek help. You should not feel bad. You should feel bad about your wife's affair, but not that you don't need to help her grieve. Okay. He says, we don't have voluntary control over our emotional responses, at least not in any straightforward way. You're glad she's sad. Neither of you can simply choose to feel otherwise. And from what you say, it sounds as if she gave up the affair for you and for her relationship with you,

just as you consented to it for her and for your relationship with her. You most likely felt you had little choice in acquiescing to what she wanted, and in time she may have felt that she had little choice about acquiescing to what you clearly wanted. Your partnership would not have gone well, you perhaps thought, if you had withheld your consent. It would not have gone well. She perhaps thought if she had persisted. Beneath the velvet of sweet reasonableness lurked the edge steel of unspoken ultimatums.

Okay, that one line. That's the only reasonable part of this entire response. But while your sense of relief is unsurprising, maybe you could help her deal with her loss out of gratitude for her belated acknowledgement of your needs. Salas is one of the gifts of marital love. Consoling someone you love when they're in pain doesn't require that you share in the pain. Okay. He's like, go to a counselor. So he actually got that part right too. Notice what's missing. Notice what's missing in all of this. any sense of objective reality. Do you notice that in the question to the ethicist and in the ethicist's response,

there is not even the pretense that there is any such thing as an objective moral order, much less an objective moral order that is actually conducive to our happiness, which is why it's all so preposterous. This guy is supposed to be the ethicist. This guy is supposed to be giving advice,

on good living, on right and wrong. He doesn't even believe in right and wrong. From what I'm reading, I see no evidence that he really believes in right and wrong. The guy writing in, the cuckled, says, you know, my wife wanted this, and I just, it made sense to me. I mean, it's all about consent. And then the ethicist says, yes, you did consent, and you consented. and you felt that you had to consent, and she felt that she had to consent,

and you consented, and now you can be consensual. This is the state of modern ethics. This is the state of modern morality and philosophy and public life and newspapers. It's also kind of tawdry. You can tell the New York Times clearly just wants to become like a tabloid, but they'd have to make it seem really smart and thoughtful and everything. This is all pretty easily resolved.

Hey, my wife wants to have an affair, So I told her no. And I told her to seek help and I explained to her why that question itself is deeply disordered and how she clearly has profound spiritual and psychological problems. And she needs to work through those. The end, that would be how that would go in real life if this were a serious advice. Or, hey, yeah, I let my wife have an affair. What do you think about that? Oh, you did something wrong.

That was a bad idea. You chose wrong. You chose the wrong thing, not the right thing. There's a right thing to do and a wrong thing to do, but we're not allowed to say that. Because modern liberalism has infected our minds and our consciences, and we just think that consent is all that matters. Even on the right, many people think that. Well, you know, as long as the guys are consensual, as long as it's consent and adults, what do I care? That is a right-wing reaction that you hear pretty frequently.

And with a right like that, who needs a left? If the ethicist can't acknowledge that there is right and wrong, what's the point of having an ethicist? What is the ethicist for? Just encouraging cuckolds down the road to further humiliation. It's not that complicated, guys. You know, it's amazing. Like, you read these people.

You read this ethicist, and then you read like Socrates in Plato. And you think, like, wow, the Socrates in Plato seems just like a normal guy with common sense. And then you read like a professional ethicist philosopher and they read like absolute inscrutable, jargony lunatics. You think, you know, I think I'm sticking with Socrates. I think I'm sticking with Aristotle. Before we go, before we go, oh, there are two things I want to get to. But I'll pick one. I want to get to Michelle Obama talking about how black women never articulate their pain,

but I'm going to get to the Democrat candidate for Ohio Attorney General. This would be Elliott Forehand, who is running on this platform. Hi. This is Elliot Forehand, candidate for Ohio Attorney General. I want to tell you what I mean when I say that I am going to kill Donald Trump. I mean I'm going to obtain a conviction rendered by a jury of his peers at a standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt based on evidence presented at a trial conducted in accordance with the requirements of due process resulting in a sentence duly executed of capital punishment.

That is what I mean when I say that I'm going to kill Donald Trump. Okay, Mr. Reddit. Okay, you're a big tough guy. I get it, Mr. Flannel Reddit. Okay, with the hair parted. I can't help but notice the hair's parted on this side. that might imply something. But okay, you're a big tough guy.

Elliot Forehand for Attorney General. It's a Democrat for Attorney General. He's being all cute. I'm going to kill him. I want him dead. I want his blood running into the sewer. But I'm going to do it legally. What capital offense is Trump committed?

I couldn't possibly say. But I want to kill him. This, of course, after Democrats nearly did succeed at killing him. Came within one-twent-of-an-inch of blowing his brains out on national television. other assassination attempts, of course, as well. Is this guy just an attention-seeking lunatic? He certainly is that, but is he just that, or is he representative of a broader trend on the left?

You tell me, September 2024, Rasmussen poll, 28% of Democrats said we would be better off if Trump had been assassinated. 24% said they weren't sure. So you have 52%. 52% of Democrats, according to a Rasmussen poll, not that long ago. Most Democrats said we would be better off if Trump were assassinated. Manhattan Institute, July 2024, 33% of Democrats agreed with the statement, I wish Trump's assassin had not missed. NCR survey, April 2025, 48% of left-leaning respondents said it would be at least

somewhat justified to assassinate Trump. This guy, you know, he's a big jerk and a joke and all the rest of it. Though he served in the Ohio House of Representatives. He's not just a total lunatic, fake AG candidate. He's like a real politician in Ohio who's won elections. But more importantly, he's not just an aberration here. Many, if not most Democrats, agree with that. They want Trump dead. Why do they want Trump dead? I don't know. They don't like giving a thousand bucks to American kids every year. They don't like enforcing the basics of immigration law. They don't. The people who would celebrate Trump's death would celebrate your death too if they knew what you really believed. That's one of the conclusions of Charlie's assassination. These people,

your co-worker, that girl you went to school with, that maybe some distant family member, maybe a not-so-distant family member. The ones who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination, many of them, the ones who would celebrate Trump's assassination, many of them, they would celebrate your assassination too if they knew what you really believed and if you had a shot to actually achieve political change. This is a little different from what we've been dealing with in the past. This is not just all shucks, you know, Reagan and Tip O'Neill fight it out during the day and then they have a drink at six. For the Dumeers and the people who say we need to disengage from the political order and Trump's not doing it off or whatever, if those people come back into power,

what do you think is going to happen? They want you dead. They have told you repeatedly they want you dead. They continue to tell you they want you dead. I hope that motivates you for the midterms. Okay, today's Theology Thursday, the rest of the show continues. Now, you do not want to miss it. Become a member use code, Noles Canada, W. L.A. So check out for two months free on all annual plans. What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?

Is that who you think I was alone with? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin. Who am I, father? That the gods should war for my soul. Princess Garris, saviour of our people. I know what the bull God offered you.

I was offered the same. And? There is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. God who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life singer. No. We're given another.

I learned of Yazoo the Christ. And I have become his follower. He's waiting on miracle. And I think you can give him one. Trust him. He is who? He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great life. Great light, great darkness.

Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, mistress of lies? You, nephew. The sword of the high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power? You were born to wield. So clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. abandoned you.

I cannot take up their sword again. You know what you must do. Great life, forgive me. The time has come. To be reborn.