The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1916 - They Just Made Elmo Muslim

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

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admits that assisted suicide is mostly for killing white people. Democrats pretend to be Christian for the midterm elections. And Elmo goes Muslim for Lent. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to the show. A priestess of some heretical denomination is going viral right now, wearing a planned parenthood stole explaining how life in the womb is sacred and how abortion is sacred too. We'll get to some theological confusion. First, though, at the level of nature, I want to tell you about balance of nature.

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Really, really sad story out of Canada. Before I get to an expert testifying to the Canadian government about how the medical assistance in dying, also called euthanasia, which is a euphemism, means a good death. It's actually the worst kind of death. It's just assisted suicide. It's the government sanctioning and even encouraging people to kill themselves. Even before the debate that's gone viral in which an expert admits that assisted suicide is mostly about killing white people in Canada. Here's an example of that. It's just so awful. Reported in the Daily Mail, distraught family blasts Canada for a euthanizing son, 26 years old, who suffered from seasonal depression. 26-year-old guy, basically healthy, has seasonal.

depression, the government encourages this kid and, in fact, helps him to carry out suicide. This is the slippery slope. Remember, when they started talking about assisted suicide decades ago, what did the lib say? Oh, it's only for the people who are in extraordinary physical pain, who are 155 years old, who are nearing the end of their lives anyway, and this is to help them avoid pain, to take greater control over their suffering. And we said, you know, what's going to happen? first of all, it's not acceptable even in those cases, that fundamentally misunderstands the point of life. That's going to encourage people who are elderly, who do have serious illnesses. That's going to encourage them to fall into despair, a grave sin, to consider themselves a burden on their families or a burden on society.

So even in that case, it's really awful. But what it's going to do is it's going to slip on down that slide and all of a sudden you're going to get people with less grievous illnesses. all of a sudden you're going to get people who are much younger who are killing themselves and doing so with the sanction and encouragement of the state. That's exactly what's happened here. Just a little bit from the story. This kid, he's not a kid, a young man, Keanu Vafan, a 26-year-old guy who had some problems. He was blind.

He had diabetes, type 1 diabetes. These are not fatal illnesses. There's serious problems. You know, it's tough. cross to bear, but a lot of people suffer from those ailments. He was killed. He killed himself and doctors helped him kill himself and the government encouraged him to kill himself. How did this guy whose worst medical problems were blindness and diabetes, how did he qualify for medical assistance in dying, which we were told is only for the most grievous terminal illnesses? Well,

according to the poor guy's mother, apparently this guy's doctor, Dr. Webe, was coaching her son on how to qualify as a track two patient, which is for the people whose natural deaths are not deemed reasonably imminent. So the people who aren't going to die anytime soon, but they want to kill themselves anyway. And these psycho doctors and this psycho government of America's psycho neighbor, the evil top hat of America, Canada, are encouraged. them, encouraging them by discouraging them, by taking away their courage, by taking away their heart, by leading them into despair. According to the mother, we believe that she was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for. Okay, so it's really, really sad. And this is a really clear example of something that an expert on assisted suicide in Canada, who is even a Trudeau fellow, there have been two Prime Minister Trudeau's in Canadian history, Pierre and Justin. Justin, who's now hanging around with Katie Perry, and we don't have to get into that.

But superlib prime ministers, this is a Trudeau fellow explaining the real purpose of assisted suicide, which is to kill white people. Allow promote supports and services for people with mental disorders, all the various things that bring about socioeconomic vulnerability. We, Parliament has an obligation to do those two things at the same time. Don't hold individuals, rights, hostage to Parliament's failure to promote mental health, sports and services, disability sports and services. Do them both. I think that's your responsibility, is to do both at the same time. And to know, and when you're answering back to your constituents, is to be able to tell them that these are not the drivers of made.

People who are getting made are actually very, very privileged. They're white. They're well-off. they're highly educated, they're not in institutions, they have families. So the picture of it is one of privilege. And so it doesn't mean we don't want to look after the people who are vulnerable. Sorry. Yeah, thank you. I just, I just got a couple of minutes left. Sorry about that. It's a stunning admission. And I know that this lady thought she was making a good point in defense of assisted suicide, but this is a stunning and horrifying admission. It says, no, no, I understand.

There's this fear that marginalized people, vulnerable people, minority. are going to be killed through maid. But don't worry, it's just rich white people. Don't worry, we're just killing the white people. And who needs them? Who likes them? None of us. We want to kill them all.

So don't worry. You can rest easy at night. Oh, we would never try to kill vulnerable minorities. No, no, no. We're killing white people and rich white people at that. Doesn't that make you feel better? That doesn't make me feel better. We shouldn't be killing the vulnerable people or the minorities or the handicapped or the elderly for that matter.

But the fact that her defense here is to say, yeah, and we're killing a lot of people, but don't worry, we're only killing white people. Somehow makes it even more sinister because it's a confession. On the one end, we're told this is really good. Assisted suicide is really good. It's wonderful. It's something we should want for everybody. But don't worry. We're not doing it to the minority.

We're just doing it to the white people, mostly. So it's kind of a confession by pointing out this one group, the only group that not only can legally be discriminated against, but is culturally encouraged to be discriminated against. In confessing that assisted suicide targets that really awful group that everybody hates, it's a kind of a tacit admission, an implicit admission, that assisted suicide maybe isn't great. If you need to protect the vulnerable communities from it,

then it's not a great thing in the first place, right? What it really is is just a way for the socialist healthcare system in Canada to control costs and to not have to deal with people who are a nuisance. You know, poor people, they cause problems. The reality is poor people are being killed by assisted suicide and people who are vulnerable, who are sick, or they are being killed by assisted suicide. But the reason that the health care system is encouraging them to kill themselves, is because they're a nuisance. They are kind of a nuisance, right? We have to pay for them.

They have problems. We're all kind of a nuisance sometimes, you know, because we all have problems. And so we could either do what Christian civilization tells us to do. Christian civilization, which says that suicide is a grave mortal sin, that homicide and suicide are grave mortal sins, not to be permitted to be outlawed everywhere. Christian civilization says, you know, people, we're all a nuisance sometimes, and we're going to try to help each other and we're going to work through those problems and we're not going to take what seems like the easy way out, which is a fast track to hell. We're not going to do that. Or we can do the liberal thing, which says that virtue and the moral order are not to be followed, at least when they conflict

with personal autonomy, and the fullest expression of personal autonomy is killing yourself. It's how you know that the modern liberal conception of freedom is, in fact, satanic and luciferian. But there's that ideological component to be fair to them. And then there's this practical component, which is, these people are a nuisance and we don't want to pay for them. And we don't want to listen to them and we don't want to deal with them. And can you just kill yourself, please? Can you, I'll tell you what, we'll help you. Can you just kill yourself so I don't have to listen to you anymore? And I certainly don't have to pay for you. That's the practical argument for assisted suicide. And so when you point out that that's extremely evil, they say, no, don't worry, we're protecting

vulnerable populations from assisted suicide. Wait, wait, wait, five seconds ago, you were telling me, did suicide was a good thing. Now we have to protect people from it, which is it? We know what it is. Now, speaking of morality, there are lives here in America who are trying to convince us that after years and years of the left denigrating religion, mocking those Bible clinging, bitter clinging, Bible thumper, awful, regressive conservative Christians, what we're now being told is actually the Democrats not only like Christianity, but they're the real true Christians. Quite a shift in messaging ahead of the midterms. We'll get to that because it just took place on Stephen Colbert's stupid show, which can't be canceled fast enough.

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Big update to the Democrat messaging. I don't know if the various robots and automatons that are projecting the Democrat message ahead of the midterms. I don't know if they've all received the update yet. But the old messaging said Christianity bad, Bible thumpers bad, people who believe in Christ or just a bunch of rubs, basically. All the smart people are atheists, secularists. They move past that retrogate religion. Now the upgrade

says, no, no, no. Christianity good, actually. But conservatives, not real Christians. No, no, we are the real Christians. Here is James Tala Rico. He's running for Senate in Texas. He goes on Stephen Colbert's show.

Stephen Colbert made a big point to highlight this interview. In fact, Colbert claimed that CBS, his current employer was trying to kill the interview because he said the FCC was threatening CBS and CBS tried to threaten Colbert and kill the interview. And then CBS came out and said, that's totally bogus, Stephen, you made that up. And Colbert is not backing down from it. It's big hullabaloo to bring a lot of attention because Colbert thinks this is a really important message for Democrats in November. Here's the message. Well, for 50 years, the religious right

a political movement. That is the perfect description for it. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage. Two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I and every one of our fellow believers how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger. Nothing about going to church, nothing about voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people. Don't, don't, I've said before, don't tell me what you believe.

Show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe. And I think in our faith, We've got to get back to those fundamentals. My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas. Oh, I can tell. I can tell. You got that slick tongue, that silver tongue devil, Tala Rico. He doesn't have the morality to back it up.

He doesn't have the serious biblical exegesis to back it up. But he is a silver tongue devil, isn't he? You know, listen, no, guys, no, Christianity is great, but we're the real Christians. If you were really a Christian. Jesus never said you had to vote Republican. He said you had to vote Democrat. That's the new message. Okay, all right.

I guess hypocrisy is the tribute vice-paste of virtue, as La Rochevoucault tells us. So if the Democrats used to say Christianity is bad, ignore Christianity, let's make fun of the Bible, if they used to do that. And now they're saying Christianity is good. I guess that could be an upgrade. But I want to be really clear on this point. I want all the Democrats to assent to this. or at least to answer the question. Is Christianity good or bad?

Because right now, the Democrat messaging is a little confused. People like Tala Rico and Colbert are trying to shift it. But some of the Democrats make it seem like Christianity is awful. And Christianity is this terribly oppressive religion and it's false and we shouldn't follow it. And the followers of Christ are idiots and bigots and racists and it's not real. And maybe God's not even real. And so I'm getting a lot of that from the Democrats. But then I'm also hearing this Talarico guy who says, really, we need to truly be Christian.

It's so wonderful to be Christian. Let me tell you why I'm the most Christian guy in the world. Which is it? Because if you're going to say the Christianity is good and true even and should be followed, then at least we can have a conversation. You're saying Christianity is true and we should believe what the Bible says and we should believe what Christ says and we should do what Christ tells us to do. can have a conversation. Do you really believe that? I don't think they do. Because Tala Rico says that there's no mention of abortion in the Bible. Christ doesn't say any,

he specifically says Jesus doesn't say anything about this. Now, of course, our Lord says, let the little children come to me, which would seem to preclude the notion that we should let the little children be sucked up by a vacuum cleaner and shredded up by blades, right? Our Lord tells us that he doesn't abolish a jodder tittle of the law. Well, the law says, thou shalt not commit murder. So I think the Bible's teaching and our Lord's teaching on abortion is pretty clear. It's funny that he says our Lord doesn't say anything about marriage. Marriage is one of the very few hyper-specific things that our Lord does speak about. First of all, his first public miracle is at the wedding at Cana. Pretty important. And then he describes what marriage is. He says a man and a

woman leave their families and come together and become one flesh and what God has joined, no man can separate. So he actually quite explicitly raises marriage from a natural bond to a sacramental bond and it doesn't involve two fellas and it doesn't involve two chicks. So he's wrong on the points. But let's say he weren't wrong on the points. He obviously comes from some tradition that really emphasizes personal exegesis and personal interpretation, private interpretation of the Bible rather than an authoritative interpretation. Okay, well, let's just, let's just go back then. If we're going to be a little more open-minded about this, let's see what other people had to say. Even just, this is a great reference from Church Father's website.

On abortion, on abortion specifically, we have the DEDAQA, the first catechism, which comes from the apostolic age, the first century. The DEDAke says, the second commandment of the teaching, you shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not seduce boys, you shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure an abortion, nor destroy a newborn child. Where else do we see proscriptions against abortion? From AD 74, the letter of Barnabas, from AD 137, the Apocalypse of Peter, from Trutallion, from, I'm skipping over people, just to names you might have heard, Hippolytus, Basil the Great, St. Jerome, St. John Chrysostom, the Apostolic Constitutions, more even. We don't,

we don't have totally total time to go through. So I mention all of that to say, if the Democrats want to change their messaging from we hate Christianity to we actually, we like Christianity and we're the real Christians and you're not, that can be good for Republicans. You have to get them here, though, to the point. You have them to say, okay, so you're saying Christianity is good and we should follow what Jesus teaches and we should, okay, great, then let's talk about it. And they're not going to really want to talk about that because the entire leftist project began is by definition an attack on the church. That's where it begins in the French Revolution. The notion that a Christian could support abortion or this crazy new

definition of marriage or whatever is insane. No Christian has ever seriously believed that until at most very, very recently and even there, I have my doubts. So that's fine. Great, but let's establish it off the front. Is Christianity good or bad? The funny thing is you won't get to that point with most Democrats because they'll tell you, no, it's bad. You know, it's just this meme. There's this, like, really smug-guy meme where it says, well, look, I think your religion is completely stupid, and I don't believe any of it. But here, let me try to use your religion.

Let me tell you what your religion believes and try to use it against you. You know, it's this smug, disingenuous nonsense, which I think is the best descriptor of everything James Tallerico has ever said. Now, you are seeing some people who pretend to be Christian doing this. There's a lady who just went viral. She presents herself as a priestess, which does not exist in Christianity. It exists in pagan cults, but it doesn't exist in Christianity. This priestess puts a collar on to pretend to be a priest, and she puts a stole on,

and to make the whole thing even more satanic, she has the planned parenthood logo on the priestly stole. Here is her defense of the left's highest sacrament abortion. In the abortion imaginary, all people of faith are against abortion. This imaginary has colonized our minds, traumatizing many people with its toxic theology, and shaping a culture of stigma and shame that has silenced millions of women and people who have had abortions, erasing their voices, their stories, and their witness from the public sphere. As a child of God, I can certainly appreciate it. the lyrical beauty of this text, as well as the descriptions in Jeremiah and Job, of their certain knowledge that God was with them in the womb. I too feel that I am known by God in these ways. As a woman who has born two children, I can affirm that I felt something sacred happening in my gestating body during those pregnancies. I can also attest that I felt God's presence with me as I made the decision to end two pregnancies.

And I felt no guilt, no shame, no sin. Okay, it's horrifying. But you have to give this murderous woman, this truly sacrilegious heretic. You have to give her some credit for honesty here. Because she's acknowledging something that most pro-abortion Christians will not, which is, now, something sacred was going on in my womb when that baby was being knit in there. and you know, Jeremiah and Job, they describe being knit in the womb, and yeah, that's all real. I totally grant that. And I felt it. I know, I personally know it's real. But I chose to kill my kids,

and I felt that that was cool too. So, of course, the difference between Christianity, real Christianity, and some woo-woo religions and a lot of pagan cults, is that Christianity is a definitive religion. Like, our Lord is a real person who lives in real time and space and picks real people to build his church with and upon, like St. Peter, to whom he gives the keys to the kingdom of heaven and the power to bind and to loose. So this is definitive. This is a religion that has real authority, visible authority in the world throughout history. During that history in which our Lord says, I will send the helper, I will send the Holy Spirit to you, and I will be with you always even until the end of the age because our Lord is the bridegroom and the church is the bride.

So it's a real definitive religion. We can definitively say Christianity, outlaws abortion, Christianity has a real view of marriage and it doesn't change. So we can really say all that. But this woman kind of admits that, which is where you have to give her honesty points. What she says is, I felt a divine thing happening when babies were being created in my womb. But I killed them anyway. because my autonomy trumped even the spark of the divine.

In other words, my autonomy trumps even God himself. And it's nuts when you hear it that way from a liberal lady who's being forthright. But that is the premise of liberalism. The premise of liberalism. Certainly today, but the seeds were there from the earliest moments of liberalism, the premise is,

nothing is more important than my autonomy. I will make of myself the highest God. You saw this in the Biden administration. When Biden could be a liberal and plausibly be a Christian, he was happy to do it and call himself the most devout Catholic in the world. However, when his liberalism conflicted with his Christianity, he always chose liberalism. And this is what liberalism tells us to do.

We can believe any wide number of things. We can engage in any wide number of behaviors we like. We can even join many political parties. But the highest good is my autonomy. It's numero uno. I'm really number one. I will make a god of myself. I mean, it's a fulfillment of what the serpent promises to our first ancestors in the garden.

You will be as gods. You will be like gods. Okay. Surely you will not die. You'll be like gods. You don't have to listen to him. And that's what she's saying. It's all the more satanic because she admits.

He says, yeah, Jeremiah and Job talk about that divine spark in the womb. I felt it too. And I killed it. Press them on that. Press the Democrats. Press the libs on that. But you're a Christian. Okay.

What about when the Christianity contradicts your liberalism? Which side do you pick? Now, speaking of religion, Elmo has decided on a very interesting religious course as we embark from Ash Wednesday into the penitential season of Lent. Elmo's going Muslim. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Shopify. Go to Shopify.com slash Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S. Starting something new can be scary. I've launched a number of new things over the years, political campaigns, the Michael Knowles, show, obviously, Mayflower, my candles, my sweaters, and you always have the fears. Is this going to flop? Are people going to take to this? I don't, you know, is this business going to succeed?

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to all of Elmo's friends. Elmo loves you. Ramadan Mubarak. Hold on. So it looks like, hold on. It went up at 12.37 p.m. on February 19th. So it's a little after. you've had one full day of Lent to Nash Wednesday.

Now we're in the season of Lent before. And I guess this is a weird thing this year, Ramadan, the Muslim holiday, began at the same time as Lent. And yet, a scoured Elmo's timeline, there was no posting about Lent. The beginning of the most important liturgical season in the church. This is it. We're looking ahead to Easter, which is the commemoration of the resurrection. Why would Elmo a product of the mainstream liberal pop culture? Why would Elmo choose to celebrate the Muslim thing and not the Christian thing?

Elmo has bought his Kalashnikov and wants you to know not to be friends with the Jews or the Christians because they are each other's friends. Elmo wants you to hack at their necks where they pray. Okay. All right. That's enough, Elmo. Enough Elmo. I know he's got the zeal of a convert. Have you ever noticed the Libs celebrate all sorts of things that most of us have never even heard of? Like do you think of this stuff Google celebrates every day? Every day there's some new holiday you never heard about that Google celebrates. But have you noticed that all of the liberal celebrations are really anti-celebrations? Have you noticed? Google is actually the perfect place to see this. Because it could be Easter Sunday and you. You go to Google, and Google has a little cartoon, a little animation celebrating something, and they're going to be celebrating the half-birthday of some Polynesian tap dancer that no one has ever once heard of, ever.

They'll find the most obscure, bizarre thing to celebrate, but they won't celebrate Easter. But they won't celebrate, I don't know, some other normal holiday, Thanksgiving, whatever. It's always an anti-selebration. Elmo's going to celebrate Ramadan. Elmo was not conceived in Dubai. Elmo was not conceived in Tehran. Elmo is a product of the civilization that succeeded Christendom. We call it the West.

Why would he celebrate the Muslim religion, at the very same time that there is a Christian holiday? Is it because Elmo really loves Islam? I don't think so. I don't think Elmo is joining any jihadi groups anytime soon. It's really about Lent. He's really celebrating about Lent. Same reason Elmo just went out and celebrated Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl.

And he said, Elmo loves Bad Bunny, you're a good bunny or whatever. And you think about Bad Bunny. What did Bad Bunny do at the end? At the big celebratory moment at the end of his bit at the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny comes out and he says, God bless America. And then he names every single country in the world. Western Hemisphere. He names every country in the Western Hemisphere, weirdly, other than Greenland, which is about to become America. And he shoves America in there, but he intentionally downplays

the importance of actual America, like the United States. So even there, even in that celebration of America, God bless America, one of the most traditional, simple statements of patriotism we could have, it was God bless America, by which I mean Argentina and Chile and Cuba, in Colombia, and Puerto Rico, which is supposed to be part of America. When it's convenient, they say they're American, but when it's not convenient, they say they're not American. And even that was an anti-selebration. Because liberalism is just perversion.

I don't know. I'm feeling a little slap-happy today, so I'll be a little more blunt. It's just perversion. It's fighting against something. It's a revolt against good manners, your dad, society, family, truth, justice, and ultimately against God. But it's oppositional. That's really what it's about.

It's you against the world. That's liberalism. It's an opposition to human nature and all the things that we cherish in our society. That's why conservatives try to conserve things and the liberals try to liberate themselves from everything, including from our own bodies. So it makes sense that their celebrations are kind of anti-celebrations. If I were a Muslim, I might actually be a little offensive. by Elmo's celebration of Ramadan because it's not it's not about Ramadan it's about not celebrating Christianity even Bad Bunny he doesn't care about Chile or Argentina or

whatever he I guess he probably cares about Puerto Rico because he's from there he doesn't care about half the countries he named his celebration of those countries was a way to oppose the United States so he's it's always anti it's always oppositional kind of like how evil is the privation of the good okay uh before we go Speaking of little fictional characters, we turn from Elmo to aliens. President Trump was just asked on Air Force One about Barack Obama's declaration, admission, announcement that aliens are real. Barack Obama said that aliens are real.

Have you seen any evidence of non-human visitors to Earth? Well, he gave class of right information. He's not supposed to be doing that. So aliens are real. Well, I don't know if they're real or not. I can tell you he gave classified information. He's not supposed to be doing that. He made a big mistake.

He took it out of classified information. No, I don't have an opinion on it. I never talk about it. A lot of people do. A lot of people believe it. Do you believe it, Peter? Well, the president can declassify anything that he wants to. Well, if you want to make an announcement.

I may get him out of trouble by declassified. What? Hold on. What? Am I going to, I've had a longstanding, sort of a bet, I guess, a long kind of abstract wager with Matt Walsh at this company. Matt is very pro-aliens. I'm quite convinced there is no such thing as E.T. The only aliens that we have to deal with are from Venezuela.

Did Trump just, so Obama comes out, he goes, aliens are real? And Trump says he gave out classified information. You say, wait, what? Are aliens real? Now, the other thing that could be the classified information is when Obama said, you know, the aliens, aren't at Area 51 or they're not at Roswell or whatever. You know, he said other things in that statement. And then Obama came out and clarified and said, well, no, I actually, I don't have any direct

knowledge of aliens. I just believe the universe is so big. So maybe was that the classified information that we don't know? Or is Trump just having fun? Because they went after Trump. Remember, the Biden administration, which was the third term of Obama, raided the guy's home because they said that Trump was illegal. storing classified information?

Was he just trying to needle Obama, say it was classified information? Maybe I'll get him off the hook by declassifying. And then tantal... I don't... I don't know what to make of it. He could be saying aliens are real. He could be just needling Obama. He could be just taunting the press and getting them to talk about that.

It could be any one of those three things. I don't know what's in Trump's hat. I'm not a mind reader here. I just want to say, I'm planting my flag here. I'm saying this for the record. I am as convinced as a person can be that aliens are not real. They're not real. They're not real.

Maybe you disagree with me. You can tell me why in the comments, but I don't, even this. This has shaken my confidence as much as anything can that aliens are not real. And yet I am still more or less 100% convinced. E.T. is fake. and it's either a bunch of people with overactive imaginations or deception on the part of our government maybe to mess with our adversaries

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Hey, Michael. Now, while I know you're not Gen Z, I was wondering if you had any advice for a Gen Z man in the dating world. How are we supposed to properly court a Gen Z woman? Thanks. Very good question. I was actually, I was gathering Intel from Zoomers. Because Zoomer men come to me, you know, I don't know if I'm on the street, especially at church because they want to meet girls at church.

They'll come to me and they'll say, Michael, your advice isn't working. You know, you told me go to Latin Mass. I go to Latin Mass. I still haven't met a chick. We still aren't dating. And Michael, you told me to do this, that it isn't working. You're out of touch. Boomer, millennial.

Moomer? that the millennial? Whatever it is. They say you don't know. So I've talked. I was asking, I spoke to some Gen Z women, and here's what I'm hearing. What they want is for you to not smell. I'm not joking. I actually, a Zoomer lady told me this. Said, you know, one thing, the guy, he can take you to the nice restaurant, he can dress nicely. If he smells, that's a deal breaker. And I agree. I don't think that's just particular to Zoomer women. I think that's true of all women all time. You don't want the guy to smell, really. So you need to clean yourself. You need to practice. You need to practice basic hygiene first. We need to dress well. Then, this is a very interesting insight that

totally backs up what I would imagine. One zoomer gal I talked to said, look, I want the guy to be confident, so I want him to come ask me out in person. But I don't want him to text me all the time. Take it a little slow. Be not aggressive. Be commanding, confident when you go ask the, Hey, you want to go get a drink? You want to be serious. Look the girl in the eye. Great. But then don't be texting her all the time.

I mean, I basically text nobody ever. But don't be texting all the time. Don't be needy. Don't be womanish. Okay. That's good. And then three, this is the last piece of advice that this one Zoomer gal gave me that is very, very good. And this backs up advice that I've given to Zoomer guys.

Soomers guys, you're taking a little too seriously. And maybe it's because you're nervous. Maybe it's because the culture is so arrayed against you. Maybe it's because me too, you know, makes you think that if you make any slightly wrong move or get a little too flirty, you're going to be thrown in jail or something. But whatever it is, they're too serious about it. You hear some of these conservative guys talk about dating. It's like they're going on a job interview or, you know, waiting in the doctor's office

for a prostate exam or something. I mean, just sounds really kind of dreadful. Dating is fun. Women are fun. They're pretty, you know? It's fun to, like, chase them. It's marriage is great. Kids are great.

So I said, okay, well, you want the guys to take it lighter? And she said, no. Yes and no. I don't want to waste time. So I want to know off the bat that we're kind of aligned. Yeah, I believe this. I kind of want to do this. This is how I see my future life.

You want to establish that and then move on and then have fun. Yeah, don't ignore the serious stuff. Yeah, hey, yeah, I don't know. Here's what I want to do. I see myself kind of living here. This is what I do for work. this is how one raise the kids and what, okay. Now let's talk about something else.

The other thing, she said, activities. And I talked to clavicular about this. I said, Mr. Icular, why are you so kind of gun shy on dating? I forget the exact context we were talking about. And he said, you know, going on dates, that's gesture maxing because then, you know, I have to be an activity cell. I said, what? An activity cell.

He said, yeah, I got to take her bowling or something. I said, well, you don't have to take a girl bowling. Why don't you take her to dinner or drinks or something? But then the zoom, clavicular, you got to hand it to him. He was right about the zoomer girls. I talked to this girl. She says, yeah, I want to go like miniature golfing or something. I want to.

So anyway, yeah, maybe you have to activity max. And maybe that will make you adjust your cell. And I don't know. But that's, I've done deep research on this. Because I talked to a handful of guys and like one chick who are zoomers. And anyway, that's my, do with that what you will. But that is my empirically. obtained advice on how to date as a Zoomer, even though I'm a millennial.

Next question. Hey, Michael, love the show. I've been listening nonstop for the last three years, and you've definitely been helping on my conversion to Catholicism, so thanks. The reason for my question today is that earlier this week I did a little new story on the Canadian school shooting. I talked about how we need to help transgender people to prevent stuff like this from happening in the future, and me and the teacher end up getting a little debate about

is it a mental illness? He kind of pointed out, you know, you can't label a whole group like this for just one incident, even though there's a lot, and that you can't, even though that the UK and there's been a malpractice suit have kind of said that it's not good for kids, that, you know, that doesn't mean it's not good for adults, and you can't talk about how it's bad and stuff like that, and there's nothing to back it up, and it's not a mental illness, and nobody talks like that. I was really hoping you could help give me a really good and articulate argument for this to talk about why it is a mental illness, even though people say it's not. Evidence for why they're more violent and stuff like that. Because it's really hard for me to find anything like this on the Internet because they hate anything that goes in the narrative. Thank you so much for what you do, and I'm looking forward to your response.

Okay, great question. There's just a misunderstanding at the premise, and maybe your teacher misunderstands this. transgenderism is obviously a mental illness, not because they sometimes shoot people, but because they think they're the opposite sex. They have a severe impairment of their perception and judgment such that they think that reality is other than it is. That's the most basic definition of a mental illness that there is. And so a comparison to get this through people's thick skulls, it would be to forms of body dysmorphia, where the anorexic is very thin, but she thinks that she's very fat. The problem there is not that anorexics are going to shoot people sometimes.

I don't think they generally do. That's not what makes it a mental illness. What makes it a mental illness is that there is a severe defect of that person's perception and judgment. That person perceives the world in a way that is radically different than it actually is. that's the problem with transgenderism. And if you can't even agree that men aren't really women, then the problem that you have is much more basic than some clinical definition in a textbook.

The problem that you have is epistemological, anthropological. You guys simply are not speaking the same language. You can't even agree. You can't agree on the definition of mental illness. because you can't agree on even more basic definitions of the words that are required to build up to such a definition. Okay, next question. Hey, Michael, the debates over saving Western culture,

if there even is a Western culture, have been intensifying as of late. One of the major challenges to doing this is that Westerners are using contraception at an extreme rate. Is there still time to reverse this demographic collapse in order to save Western culture? you know, the birth rates keep trending down and it's starting to look like we might be in a mathematical checkmate. Is there still time for the West to change course? Thank you very much. Love the show.

Yes, there certainly is. You know, it's not like the birth rate problem is really bad, especially in Europe, but people are at least beginning to recognize it. It's really bad, and they're recognizing that their band-aid to fix that problem, namely mass migration from the third world, is not really working out very well. So people are coming to it slowly, and it's not like the Europeans are going to go extinct overnight, or the Americans are going to go extinct overnight. But it's pretty dire. So how do you fix it? Well, you point out, a contraception's a big problem. However, it's worth observing that it's not an inevitable problem. You know, contraception was introduced 100 years ago or more, and there have been different forms of kind of contraception for all of human history. It only really became a problem. in the 70s. Same thing with abortion. There have been forms of abortion for all of human history

and advances in surgical abortion took place long before it became a major widespread political problem in the country. That only really happened once again in the 70s. Why? Because the Supreme Court

created a fake right to contraception twice, initially only for married people and then next for unmarried people through two Supreme Court decisions. And then they created a fake right, to abortion with Roe v. Waite. And that's what spread

the use of contraception and the killing of babies through abortion. Now, we can overturn those things. If we like, I don't know that we have the political will to do that, but we could in principle. We did, and we did overturn Roe v. Wade. Though now we have an additional problem, which is the abortion

pill, which is the development of which coincided with overturning the protections for surgical abortion. It's satanically coincidental. But in any case, you could do it if you wanted to. The reason I mentioned those court cases is we're kind of doomers on the right. And the libs want to be historical determinists who just insist that their conception of progress is the end of history.

And we will get there eventually. Because that's a perversion of the Christian view of history, which is that we know how history ends with the second coming and eschatology. And that we will get there eventually. Well, progressivism is like the perverted humanist version of that. In any case, no. Progressivism is not written in stone. The thing that drove the problem was not the development of a technology as much as it was real political decisions in this case made by judges. So just as judges can make a decision to pervert the law, the law which is a teacher and teaches bad things in that case, so too the law, the judges could make a different decision.

And then the law could teach good things again. You can do it. All hope is not lost. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Okay, today's fake headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use Code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

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Princess Garris, savior 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. A god who sacrifices what he loves for us. We are each given only one life singer.

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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 cling to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up. That's all again. You know what you must do. Great life, forgive me. The time has come. To be reborn.