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Cardiff.co/noles One of the top Democrats in Michigan endorses Republican Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul-El-Sayed just two days. Before election day, a new documentary on Matthew Perry forces a reckoning on the sacred, modern myth that drug addiction and alcoholism are a disease. And a lear jet crashes at a 70-degree angle on high-deaf video into a residential neighborhood in Florida. I'm Michael Noles. This is the Michael Noles Show. Welcome back to the show. Another quasi-october surprise. Barack Obama accidentally admitted that Ilhan Omar probably committed immigration fraud. You got to read between the lines a little bit, but the Democrats are really trying to bury this Ilhan Omar scandal and I think Obama made it worse. First though, let's get to the most horrifying story of the day. That is this lear jet crash in a residential neighborhood in Florida. If you were on social media at all last night, you probably saw this. A jet descended at dropping about, I don't know, 70,000 feet a minute or something like that. It is 70-degree angle. Sorry. No, dropping 30,000 feet a minute at a 70-degree angle into a residential neighborhood. The jet just completely obliterated leaves a massive crater. Very awful for the nine people who were on board that jet. Amazingly, no one on the ground was even injured. There were cars all around. There are houses all around, but obviously everyone who was on the airplane died and immediately all these conspiracy theories started popping up because this happened near Palm Beach. Some people were saying, "Oh, maybe it was a missile attack on Mar-a-Lago," or maybe it was an airplane that could have been hijacked, that was shot down by a missile near Mar-a-Lago, or was near the Trump International Airport, and very, very quickly all of those conspiracy theories collapsed because there were reports of audio from air traffic control. You could hear the co-pilot who was, it's really horrifying. I don't encourage you to listen to it. I'm not going to play the footage of the plane going down. I'm not going to play the audio footage from inside the cockpit, but you can hear that the most likely scenario is this jet just went into a major storm system and a series of unfortunate events happened. They couldn't get out of there. The most haunting part of the audio is you hear this co-pilot realizing she's going to die and that everyone on board the plane is going to die. And then seconds later, they're all dead, with not even the faintest hope that any of them survived this crash. As far as I'm concerned, there are only two things to take away from this horrific event, something so unexpected and so horrific. The first one is obviously to pray for them, all the souls on board, all of the family members, everyone around this incident. First thing to do is to pray for them. The second takeaway, and this is the only other takeaway as far as I'm concerned. And I think it's part of the reason that people are so fascinated with this story, beyond the sensational news and video of a giant object plummeting from the sky, is the recognition that this could happen to any of us at any time. Most of us are not taking private jets, but something like this, just sudden death, whether it's a piano falling on your head or a sudden heart attack or a bus hitting you when you're crossing the street, whatever it is, this could happen to us at any time. And indeed, it will. One day it will happen. One day, you're going to get 10 seconds out from your death and realize, oh my goodness, I'm about to die. And so it's horrifying and so vivid when you hear the audio from the cockpit. But part of the reason it's horrifying is because this is a universal human experience. We will all experience this. At some point, you were going to recognize that you were about to die. And so the question that then lingers somewhere in the back of your mind, whether you're conscious of it or not is, am I prepared to die? And for the history of our civilization, this was a really, really important question. If you were living in the Middle Ages, if you were living at times a far greater war than we live in today, war is actually pretty rare today. We talk about the Iran War and the Ukraine War. And obviously, we had the world wars of the 20th century. But in the age that we're living in, war is exceedingly rare. Most of us live in peace all of the time. That is not true for earlier epochs. So if you were living in the Middle Ages, or the early modern era, or antiquity, death was all around you. And if you weren't dying in war, you weren't dying in little feudal disputes. You were dying from disease. You were going to catch a cold and die. You saw death all the time. And we didn't hide death the way that we do today. We hide death by taking people who were about to die and we put them in hospice and we try to forget about them. Then when they do die, we don't have funerals for them anymore. We bury them as quickly as possible or we burn their bodies and scatter their ashes. And then a few months later, maybe we have a celebration of life, a way to remember the person without having to confront the fact of death. This is one of the distinctive features of the modern era. Is we try to put death out of our mind as much as possible. And it's not just because we're sad to have lost someone we loved. It's because we don't want to confront death ourselves. So then we dilute ourselves with all sorts of modern nonsense, like the idea that we can cure death. We're going to have radical life extension. We're going to upload our brains to the cloud. We're going to be the last generation, you know, that is even going to have to deal with this issue of death because we're all going to live forever. And it's total nonsense. Wacky elites have been trying to do this since the time of the pharaohs or earlier. And when our civilization was flourishing, which was the time that we called it chrysendum during that thousand years of the Christian era in the West, we also wanted to live forever, but we dealt with it in a way that was at least plausible and that I think is totally convincing. Namely, God's sense has only been gotten sent to the world such that if you believe in Him, you might not perish, but might have eternal life. That's the question you have to have. The mid-evils were much, much wiser than we are in the sense that every day they were thinking about whether or not they're prepared to die. They knew they were going to die. They didn't fool themselves. And they were thinking about whether or not they were prepared to die. Is my soul in order? Am I right with God? Have I confessed my sins? Am I in a state of grace? Do I have a reasonable hope of ending up in the good place someday with God forever and not in the bad place? Today, though, we try not to think about that. We mock the notion of heaven and hell, and we have this other, I think, far more delusional idea that when we die, we just turn into nothing. We turn into oblivion. The lights go off and that's it. We have no reason to believe that. That is not well-grounded metaphysically. And then these events happen. This family or business man, it's unclear who the people on the plane were. They were flying to the Bahamas. They thought they were going to go have a nice time at the beach. And then, boom, within a matter of about 90 seconds, life is over. Lights out. It's a question for us. Are you prepared to die? Chipper way to start your day in mud. It actually is a chipper way, though, because if you contemplate those questions and you look death right in the face, and you try to come to conclusions about how the world works, and how the soul works, and how life works. And if you arrive at what I believe to be the correct conclusions, you will have a lot more consolation than the modern neurotic era where all we're trying to do is every single day try to deny the fact of death. And then you look up one day and an airplane falls out of the sky. Now, let's turn back to politics. Big, big news in the Michigan Senate race. Haley Stevens, one of the top Democrats in Michigan. She was very nearly the Michigan Senate nominee. She has just come out and rather than back the Democrat party, rather than back to the nominee Abdul Al-Sahed, she is endorsing Republican mic Rogers. Hey, Michigan. As you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Abdul said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign, and that I should stay away. And he's right. And that's why I am endorsing my Rogers for the United States Senate. Today, I don't belong in Abdul's campaign. I do not stand with Hassan Piker, who gets trafficked on our college campuses. A dear friend of mine earlier today was saying that education is on the ballot. And she's absolutely right. And what our students see, what our children see, and who we are as Michiganers is not hate and is not what we are getting out from our Democratic nominee right now. So I am just one person. I love this state. As some of you know, I've, you know, run a campaign saying that it was a love letter to Michigan.
again, and I'm here to declare who we are as Michiganers. This is Phil Hart's seat for the US Senate. This is the conscience of the Senate right now and our Michigan moment. Let's go. Love this. Now Abdul Al-Sayed is trying to minimize the significance of his former opponent, one of the leading Democrats in Michigan, very nearly the nominee, endorsing the Republican. So he's got a press gag going on, very short tempered with the reporters who are obviously asking him about this. This is the biggest political news of the day. He says, doesn't matter. You know what matters, there's a family, you can go like 15 minutes that way, or 15 minutes that way. None of this matters, it doesn't matter that one of the top Democrats in my state who nearly beat me for the nomination, just endorse the Republican because I invite people who say that America deserves 9/11. I invite people who say they wiped their dairy ears with the American flag. I invite those people to campaign with me. None of that matters. It doesn't matter. The Democrat primary in Michigan was 48.45 to 47.55. Abdual al-Sayed beat Hailey Stevens by less than one percentage point. I'm not saying that those 700,000 people are going to go vote for the Republican. I don't know if seven of those people are going to go vote for the Republican, but something tells me that Hailey Stevens is an influential voice and something tells me people don't like what Abdual al-Sayed is selling. Then tells me Abdual al-Sayed is looking at his internal poll numbers and he realizes this election, which should have been in the bag. He's replacing a Democrat in the Senate in a Democrat election cycle with a lot of political wins at the at the backs of the Democrats. Some tells me this guy is worried that he's going to lose this race to Mike Rogers. The fact that he showed up on 60 minutes last night tells me he's feeling especially desperate. His answers, I think, did not help him. We'll get to that in a second. Then we will get to the drunk Democrat, Ohio Senate candidate allegedly. First though, I propose all of this I want to tell you about GOP votes. President Trump secured the border, passed historic tax cuts and ended woke ideology, but if the left wins the midterms, they'll undo all of his hard work. They tried impeaching it. The president is impeached. They tried putting him in prison. They tried everything and they'll do it again. Don't let the radical left win. Take a plan, find your poll, and vote on election. Abdul al-Sahed shows up on 60 minutes last night to make a last minute pitch two days before the midterms. I'm going to say this right off the bat. If Abdul al-Sahed felt that he had a strong lead in the Michigan Senate race, he would not have shown up on 60 minutes. There's a tiny little bit of upside. Maybe it looks, this is a national program. It's not just state-specific. This is a national program. He knows he's going to get hard questions. There's a tiny little bit of upside if he's empirically in Churchill in order, but there's a lot of potential downside because he could be asked about Hassan Piker. He could be asked about his views on political violence, his views on trans kids, his views on foreign policy, all of which are pretty unpopular. He goes on there because he feels that he needs to make a little bit of a difference, pull up some of the gap in order to get over the finish line. His answers are not great. Ross Douthett, former New York Times conservative who is now the 60 minutes conservative, he asks him a very simple question about the defining issue of the 2024 presidential cycle. Hey, Abdul, you're running in this kind of purplish state. Do you think we're now years past the peak of woke? Do you really think we should cast straight little kids? What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right? These are places where rights are in conflict, right? What do you think happens there? I don't know that that's actually true. I think we manufacture these social issues because here's the thing about it. Ross, you have an iPhone in your pocket, probably, or is the iPhone or the Samsung? You have a phone in your pocket, right? You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world, all the world's information in your pocket. The notion, somehow, that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something that you may find disagreeable and that that is going to be because of school is so profoundly outdated, because, of course, you have all the information and they have all the information. So here's the thing about it. I think it's really important for us to recognize that the free flow of information is actually a beautiful thing. It's really important. And the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing. It's about trying to make sure that as you coach your kid through the world, that you are engaging with them and saying, "Here's what I believe. Here's what you may see in the world. You get to make your choices about who you're going to be in the world." But you don't require us to do with the fact that the internet is a real thing. The internet's a real thing. Okay. The question was, should boys go into the girls' bathroom in elementary schools? Well, you know Ross, do you have a phone, do you have a iPhone or a Samsung, or maybe you have a Nokia? Do you have a blackberry? Or are you having a stroke? The question was, do you think little boys should play in the little girls' sports teams and go into their bathrooms in schools? A pretty simple question. Well, but do you know if you heard about the internet? Dude. What? If I'm up to a lsiad, and I'm a deeply dishonest person, I think I would probably just lie about this one, right? I'm not encouraging anyone to lie. This isn't a lie. You should not do that. But if I'm up to a lsiad, and I'm already lying about a bunch of stuff, and you get this simple, simple question, right before, and I know if this were a question in the primary, he would have to play it differently because the Democrats are frothing at the mouth to castrate little kids and to sexualize five-year-olds. But if I'm trying to win a general election in a purple state in Michigan, and I'm asked this question, should boys go into the girls' bathroom or plan their sports teams and schools? One should just say, like, no, of course not, we need to be fair for everyone, and we need to protect girls' sports while respecting the rights. He can't do that because he's a total freak, and he's completely bought in on this radical ideology where he is basic answer is, well, look, I mean, Ross, you have an iPhone, right? You, a middle-aged man, have an iPhone, therefore it follows that five-year-olds have iPhones. First of all, no, it doesn't follow. I'm not giving my five-year-old an iPhone. I haven't given my five-year-old's iPhones. You shouldn't either. That's neglectful parenting to begin with. After that, your answer is kids are going to have phones, and they're going to see a bunch of perverted sex stuff because of the internet. Therefore, what he never even answers the question, do you think boys should go in the girls' bathroom or not? Do you think boys should play in the girls' sports team or not? He can't even answer that question. Disasterous answer from up to a little sciat, and a transparent filibuster. He's asked about foreign policy, which is a little bit more contentious. The trans thing is like an 85, 15, 90, 10 kind of issue. Foreign policy, a little bit different. Israel is very unpopular right now among essentially all voters, other than boomer conservatives, but even young conservatives are fairly anti-Israel now. So okay, here, Abdul Assad is radically pro-Palestine. He is reputed to be radically anti-Israel. Here's a way to alay the fears of pro-Israel voters in Michigan. Hey, Abdul, what do you think about foreign policy? I don't ever get the question of does Palestine have the right to exist? Does Palestine have the right to exist? Yes. Does Israel have the right to exist? Yes. If there is a shared understanding, let me just understand. I believe, and this is the problem with this debate. We start from where we sit rather than start from principles. Oh, that's devastating. It's devastating because Abdul al-Sayed doesn't realize that he's talking to someone who is significantly more intelligent than he is. I really like Rosdout that I admire Ros. I'm not going to speculate on what his IQ is exactly, and I'm not going to speculate exactly on what Abdul's IQ is. Ros is probably about a standard deviation higher than Abdul al-Sayed. Abdul al-Sayed is not, I'm not saying he's a total idiot. I'm not saying he's a total dummy. But he's much less intelligent than he thinks he is. He uses this rhetorical trick. He says, "Everyone keeps asking me about Israel because I campaign with all these terrorists and I hate Israel. But no one ever asks me, do I think Palestine should exist?" Then Ross being an intelligent person, he says, "Okay, do you think Palestine should exist?" Yes. "Okay, do you think Israel should exist?" No, I mean, it kind of depends on, okay, so now we're right back. The reason people keep asking Abdul al-Sayed about his views on Israel and foreign policy is because he seems to have a particular contempt for the state of Israel, and many other people have contempt for the state of Israel, but it matters for U.S. Senator, not just because of Jewish voters, not just because of Zionist Protestant Christians or whatever. It matters because Israel is part of the broader U.S. global alliances and countries like Iran and pseudo-nation states like Palestine are part of alternative alliances that are adversarial to the United States.
This has deep meaning for the work of a United States Senator and he says, this is ridiculous. You people think that I have some particular hatred for Israel, that's totally, you never asked me about Palestine. What do you think about Palestine? No, it's great. What do you think about Israel? I totally hate it. Well, there you go. That's why we ask you the question, Abdul. He just totally proved him. Right. This could move the needle. The endorsement of Haley Stevens, the blundering 60 minutes interview, this could move the needle. Obviously, I haven't seen the internals on these campaigns. I'm only seeing the public polls. The public polls have Abdul al-Sahid up a little bit, but Abdul is not acting like a guy who thinks he's got this election in the bag. He's acting like a guy who thinks he's got to come from behind for a few points. He gives me a little hope going into Tuesday night. Now, one of the races that I'm quite concerned about is the Vekrama Swami versus Amy Acton. 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I take it with a grain of salt, it's October, now it's November, and an election season. You hear people, one, you hear rumors just fabricated out of whole cloth, and sometimes you hear rumors exaggerated, so is Amy Acton really a drunk? The woman who could become the governor of Ohio, tomorrow night, is this woman really a drunk? You judge. Oh, it's so good. Good to be back here at UAW. It's about truth and justice, I just wrote on the word back here. That is, I'm honored to be here. We've been in Toledo a lot, there's a big energy going on here, I can feel it, and, oh my goodness, first of all, I just want to say to you, you know, it has been quite a week this past week, and I just, Eric and I just want to thank everyone, your support and love. And we want to, you, we want to, we just want to, what, our campaign motto has always been, what seems to be the opposite problem? I don't want to, obviously, I don't want Amy Acton to win, I do want Vivek to win, I don't want Democrats to win, I don't want Republicans to win. I was pretty open-minded on the Amy Acton's drunk thing. She sounds obliterated. She sounds like she is plastered, and this is not the only clip that we have to go on. She's literally slurring her words up there. Even if you can parse together the words, they don't make a ton of sense. Yeah, we got it written on the board or the sign or whatever, I got a, we know that this seems to be a pattern. Here's a report from NBC News, not the Daily Wire, not the Blaze, not Fox News, NBC News. Columbus, Ohio, in August 2019, police in Bexley, Ohio responded to a report of a domestic dispute at the home of Dr. Amy Acton, Acton, then the director of the States Department of Health. So this wasn't when she was 20. This wasn't when she was in college or working some other job. She was the director of the Ohio Department of Health, pulled a mirror off the wall, quote, "shattering the glass" when she, quote, "became upset" because she felt her husband, quote, was antagonizing her according to a police report. She told officers she had been drinking, had taken an unknown amount of prescription drugs, pause. Drinking while on prescription drugs is not, that's not a good combo. Drinking to the point that the police get called in your shattering mirrors and your family members are afraid of you, not a good look either. But if you're going to get drunk while taking prescription drugs, you should probably know how many prescription drugs you've taken. Did this woman just pop the cap off and down the bottle, Tennessee Williams style, what? How do you not know how many prescription drugs you've taken? Took an unknown amount of prescription drugs and was about to drive away in her car before her husband who also told police he had been drinking, talked to Radavitt, the report stated. That was while she was director of the Ohio Department of Health. This reminds me of when Biden picked that transgender lunatic, Richard Levine, O big dick Levine, was the assistant secretary of health under Joe Biden. Remember that? And you say, okay, well, the director of health should probably be a relatively healthy person, right? No, this was a guy who was as mentally and physically unhealthy as you could imagine. Similar dynamic playing out here, you say the director of health for the state, for the government is getting hammered at home, engaging in domestic violence, taking untold amounts of prescription pills, and then is about to go drunk drive. Not 20 years ago, not 30 years ago, seven years ago, but that's not the only time. We have a report from the Ohio news, exclusive, police called to Amy Acton's Bexley Home in 2013, daughter worried parents, quote, "We're going to get into some type of altercation." I get those two data points, and then I see Amy Acton slurring her words and on the brink of hiccuping during a campaign event two days ago. I have to conclude, this woman is not well. And so her campaign has made much of the fact that she had a bad childhood and she's had personal struggles in life, and I'm sure she has, and you can feel sorry for her. You can pray for her, you can root for her, and her personal life, but this is obviously not someone who is fit to be governor of Ohio. This is obviously not someone who's fit to be dog catcher of Balookaville. If what we know from these reports is that she's a drunk and a drug addict who's going to go break the law and potentially kill someone by drunk driving, and she can't get it together to remain sober two days before the election, can you imagine the disaster if this woman becomes governor of Ohio? Obviously completely unfit, but it's just, it's political malpractice. We talk about the political malpractice of different campaigns, including in the state of Ohio. There's been all this talk of, well, I didn't like this ad, well, I don't like this campaign platform. Well, I don't like this, I don't like that. This woman is so self-destructive that she's going to show up hammered to a campaign event. With these kinds of headlines in her recent past, this woman is going to be a disaster if she is to be elected, so let's hope that that turns the tide. Now speaking of substance abuse, there's a new documentary out of Matthew Perry, you know, Matthew Perry Chandler from Friends, Beloved, Pop Culture Figure, who infamously was just a drop-down drug addict for the entirety of the filming of Friends and really for the rest of his life. Then he was at three years ago. He came out at this memoir about recovery from addiction and everyone was really rooting for him. It seemed like he'd kind of gotten his life together finally and then he died of a drug overdose shortly thereafter. Matthew Perry became this figurehead for addiction and recovery and substance abuse. Now this new documentary is calling to light some of these old clips of him talking about addiction and it's really sad, again, with so many of these news stories today, we say we pray for these people, we pray for the people around them, you know, we're there but for the race of God go I, but Matthew Perry had a totally wrong under
understanding of addiction. And I think many people who are struggling with addiction, many people who have family members struggling with addiction, they also tell themselves the very lie that Matthew Perry told himself. And unfortunately, I think that lie to which he attributed saving his life, I think that lie probably helped to kill him. Here's the lie. - Just a brief lesson in alcoholism for you guys that don't know, and addiction, of course. It's a disease, that's the first thing I didn't know. In 1956, I think the American Medical Association said it was a disease. And it's a two-pronged disease. Two things happened to me and 10 million other people in the United States. If it's an obsession of your mind. So what that means is you think of a martini and then slowly but surely it's the only thing you can think about. You can't think about anything else. I gotta get a martini. I know I'm supposed to be over here working, but I gotta get another martini. I'm a martini, martini, martini, martini. And then once you take that martini, you break the membrane of sobriety. And once you do that, the obsession is gone but the allergy of your body, which is the second prong of the disease, takes over and says, oh, now we're drinking. I'm gonna make you drink as much as you did last time and more. It's progressive, so I'm gonna make you drink more than you did last time. And you can't stop. I could not stop unless I was locked away somewhere. And at times I would call drug dealers and have drugs brought into the place I was locked up in because I was desperate. Okay, so right off the bat, similar to Amy Acton, in retrospect, at the time when he was doing this press tour, people were saying, well, isn't this so good? Matthew Perry's gotten clean. Now, yeah, all these struggles, but isn't that good for him? In retrospect, you listen to him here, kind of sounds like he's slurring his words, doesn't it? Kind of sound, I don't know for certain if he was drunk or high or whatever here, but he doesn't sound sober. And what he's trying to tell you, his thesis, is that alcoholism is a disease, but it's not. It's just not. I have friends, I have family members who have dealt with alcoholism, addiction, all that kind of stuff. Some of them say it's a disease. Some of them, I think, are a little more grounded about it. It's not a disease. Peter Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens' brother, he got into a big altercation with Matthew Perry years ago on this. They really were fighting on TV about this. Peter Hitchens, having more conservative perspective, said basically the same thing. He said it's not a disease. What are you talking about? A disease. It is, there's no way for me on a brain scan to identify the disease in your brain for alcoholism in the way that I can identify a tumor in your lungs or something like that. It's not a disease. But what's so striking to me, and Hitchens did not make this point in his dispute with Perry, the way that Matthew Perry is talking about the disease of alcoholism is almost exactly the way that St. Thomas Aquinas talks about sin. Matthew Perry says, "Well, I've got this obsession. I've got these thoughts that keep coming to me, these temptations to go get a martini, to go get a drink." But I can basically resist them until I break the membrane. Then once I break the membrane, it's over, and I'm going to keep drinking. I'm going to drink even more than I did last time. That's exactly how Thomas Aquinas talks about sin. Aquinas says that, "Yeah, we have all temptations in this world, "and it's impossible to avoid venial sin for anyone, "even in a state of grace. "But you can avoid mortal sin. "God will give you sufficient grace "to avoid the kind of sin that leads to death." But once you do it, once you, through an act of the will, once you actually commit a mortal sin, once you've broken the membrane of sin, he doesn't use the word membrane, but that's what he's talking about, then it's inevitable that you will continue to commit mortal sins. It's this amazing analogy here that Matthew Perry is almost certainly completely unaware of. Where Matthew Perry says, "No, that's how the disease works." And then I have this allergy in my body to alcohol. Everyone has an allergy to alcohol. It's alcohol is toxic. I shouldn't laugh at it. But what are you talking about? You have a special allergy to alcohol. That's why you get drunk. No, everybody has an allergy to alcohol. That's why people drink alcohol in large part. Oh, you have this special disease where when you start committing mortal sins, you have to keep committing them. Oh, you mean human nature. The only way in which you could say alcoholism and addiction are diseases is in the sense that original sin is a disease. It's a heritable disease. We all inherit it. But there is no special disease about you're born with alcoholism before you ever have your first drink. Some people have inclinations or predilections for certain vices or others, but that's what it is. It's a vice. And so now you might say, well, Michael, you're just being pedantic and you're focusing on semantics. You're a poet and you don't even know it. What's the difference between how Matthew Perry is talking about disease and how you and Thomas Aquinas are talking about sin? I'll tell you the difference. Matthew Perry tells you the difference. It's all about responsibility. - I've seen some kind of spiritual guys office and we talked a little bit. And as we were done talking, he turned me around and said, just remember it's not your fault. And I went, what? He said, it's not your fault. And I went, say that again. It's not your fault. And I said, what do you mean it's not my fault? I'm the one who's doing it. What do you mean? And he explained addiction and alcohol to me and he saved my life. Because I then knew that it wasn't my fault, that it wasn't weaker. It wasn't my will that was screwed up. It was that I have this disease and I need to get help. - Okay, so Matthew Perry says this doctor, he gave me this great advice. He says that my drunkenness and drug use, it's not my fault. He gave me that advice. It is great advice. I know it's great advice because it saved my life. But it's not, and it didn't. You see, there are so many people, there are going to be people listening to this show today who say, no, it isn't disease general. What you're talking about, Michael, you never dealt with addiction. I've never dealt with Lou Garrick's disease or Ebola either, but I know a few things about it and I know that there are things generally to be avoided. And I don't mean to be harsh about this, but I think if some people had told Matthew Perry harsh your truths, maybe he would be alive. The proof that that advice, it's not your fault that you're a drunk, that that's good advice is that it saved his life, but it didn't. He died of drug addiction. It didn't save his life. Because he says, it's not that I have a screwed up will. No, it's entirely that you have a screwed up will. It's, that's the whole thing. You actually can not take the drink. It's harder for some people than others, especially if you've developed habits and patterns of addiction, which is just what vice is. It's just addiction to bad things. Virtue is just addiction to good things. And if you've developed those patterns, it's much harder now. It's way harder for Matthew Perry not to have a drink than for me. But guess what? It was a lot easier for Matthew Perry not to have a drink 30 years ago than it was than it is for me not to have a drink. Maybe there are no, I guess it's still easier for me 30 years ago. But I don't know when Matthew Perry was five years old, he was probably easier for him not to have a drink than for me not to have a drink because I'm an adult and I have wine with dinner sometimes. In other words, this is about how we habituate our wills. And you do bear some responsibility for it. And bad habits compromise your will. And so you feel as though the way we talk about this in our modern therapeutic jargon is we say, well, if I'm addicted to something, whether it's food or booze or sex or drugs or porn or whatever it is, if I'm really addicted to something then I don't bear any responsibility. No, no, no, you do. In many ways, you bear greater responsibility for it because you have performed the actions that led you into this kind of dependency. So you're probably not gonna get out of there on your own. This is one of the insights of alcoholics anonymous is you need to give your life up to a higher power and alcoholics anonymous comes out of Christianity but really we would just say like it's a God, it's God's grace, you need to pray to Christ and ask for his grace and he will help you do that. But you've got to do stuff. You have to do stuff as well. It's one of the most pernicious lies of our time that doing bad stuff and especially when we're talking about addiction that you have no responsibility over it, it's just a disease, just your luck. It's so brutal and it's so evil because it seems nice and it's the sort of thing we tell people to make them feel better. But Matthew Barry doesn't feel better today. I suspect bad, bad advice, very sad, very sorry for him. Okay, we've all heard radio advertisements about owing the IRS money that lean on fear and try to frighten you into calling. Tax relief advocates does things differently. 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eight. That is once more 800 575 4908 text relief advocates real solutions for real people. Speaking of death and actors, famous actors who are dead, the widow of a very famous actor who died says that she still speaks to him every day. Also, Barack Obama admits that Elhan Omar probably committed immigration fraud. You got to read between the lines, but we'll get to that in a second. First though, my favorite comment yesterday is from Genesis McElroy says, my brother told me an onion was the only vegetable that can make you cry. So I hit him in the head with a potato boy, did I prove him wrong? Do you get it? She hit her brother in the head with a potato. Do you get that pretty funny? Okay, folks, if you want all of your election news, do you know where you get it? You get it at the daily wire election hub. You don't get it on MSNBC. I sound like Amy actor because there's the MSLSD, MSCCP, MSDNC. You don't go there. You don't go to CNN. You don't go. You go to daily wires, election hub. It's a minor story, but it's an important one. It actually directly relates to a lot of what we've been talking about, certainly in the Matthew Perry. Then we'll get to Barack Obama and Elhan Omar. Do you remember John Ritter? Do you remember the zoomers in the audience might not remember John Ritter? John Ritter was a legendary TV comedy actor. He was in three's company. He was in, I was the show, seven rules, simple rules for dating my teenage daughter. He's a real Hollywood legend from the 70s through the early 2000s. Then he died relatively young. It's very sad. He was a beloved figure. Now his wife has just come out. She did an interview with the New York Post and she said something striking. She said, "I still talk to John. I check in all the time. I talk to him every day." She says, they all miss him. Whenever there's a young comic actor comes up, they think of him because he was such a great talent. It's all this nice, normal stuff. This is the line that I have to focus on. This is like a day of being a downer for people's comfortable delusions, but I think it's important. I think it's more loving to speak the truth because I hear a lot of people say this, "Oh, I still talk to my late husband, to your late father, or to your this person. I still talk to them every day." You don't. You don't. You don't talk to them every day, probably. Maybe, look, I'm Catholic. I believe in the communion of saints. We just celebrated all saints day yesterday. I do talk to saints. You might not. Your mileage may vary. You might think I'm a total crazy person, but let me at least explain this to you. I believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead and he ascended into heaven and has seen that the right hand of God, the Father Almighty. I believe that he calls his elect to eternal life with him, that whoever believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. I believe in the communion of saints, the mystical body of Christ, that we participate in the life of Christ in some mystical way. And so the saints in heaven are, by definition, the people who are still alive. I believe in the book of Revelation where the saints are holding buckets and those buckets are the prayers of the saints. Those prayers would be for us. So that's why I believe that because of my religion, because of the Christian theology, that's why I believe I can speak to saints. But I don't think I can speak to just like any regular or dead person. There is no real mechanism in my understanding of theology for that to work. Now you might say, well, I'm not Catholic or I'm not Christian or I'm not this or I'm like, okay, fine. But for all these people, there's so many people like this who say, oh, I still talk to my dead husband all the time. How? What's the mechanism? If you think my theology is kind of wacky, what's your theology? I promise you, it's way wackier than mine. I think mine is quite logical, because that's what theology is, is faith through reason, you know, applying reason to faith. It's how, like, really smart guys. The aforementioned Thomas Aquinas can be some of the greatest theologians ever. I don't mean to bring people down. In fact, what I'm trying to do is the opposite. But I think when a lot of people say stuff like this, they're grieving very seriously and a loved one does. And they say, you know, I just, but I talk to him every day. I just know he's still here. No, you don't. And like, you don't even believe that. You're trying to comfort yourself because you're wounded and you're grieving. But I don't think you even believe that. And I think that that provides a very soft consolation. What's he has to do with us would call soft soap and wishful thinking to begin and in the end despair. And I guess the point I'm trying to make is people are so down, man, people are speaking of Amy act and people are taking prescription drugs and depression pills and people are kind of miserable, relative to where they were 50 years ago, even to ages past. And we're in a kind of downer, doomer society at the moment. What I'm saying is you don't have to be. You don't have to be. But you need to grapple with the truth of how things actually work. Not just according to how you wish that they would work. What would be, you know, you wish your loved one didn't die. And so you're just going to kind of will that they're they're alive or something. Maybe you're going to go talk to some medium, some necromancer, some psychic. You're going to go to that John Edwards show that used to air on network TV and pay some charlatan to either lie to you or communicate with a demon or whatever. But like, how do you? What I'm saying is I think that the world actually has a happy ending. I think that there's actually a happy ending to this story. I think this is a comedy. This life of ours, you know, and but the only way that you're going to see that or the only way that that could be true is if you grapple with reality as it is. And I think most people just assume that reality is really sad or dark or we're all just going to die. It's all meaningless and our loves are illusory and whatever. And so either they become just like really hard-nosed atheists or they try to convince them to help themselves have heartedly of these soapy kind of beliefs without any grounding to it. But I don't think that helps anybody. I certainly don't mean to beat up on John Ridder's widow. But what I'm saying is there is a lot of hope. You're not going to find it just like wish casting random random desires. That's not going to happen. Okay. Before we go, really good stuff. I got to get to El Han Omar, Barack Obama since at this post. As El Han Omar faces a month's long investigation into her immigration status, whether or not she committed fraud, whether or not she could be kicked out of Congress and deported. Obama writes this essay. It wasn't just like, uh-huh, uh, Trump thinks he's going to deport El Han Omar. Ain't going to happen. Uh-huh, Obama out. It wasn't one of those. He's clearly taking the seriously. This is like the war in piece of tweets for five paragraphs whatever it is. I'll just read some of it. It's a basic principle. American democracy that the government can't selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say L-O-L from Barack Obama, Barack Obama who infamously wielded government agencies to persecute his enemies. I know I was one of the targets of it. Even at the time, long before I had a show, long before I did my blank book, even at the time I was a member of a conservative group in show business called the Friends of Abe. It was a nonprofit organization and it was just for the conservatives who were being blacklisted in Hollywood to kind of commiserate together. Barack Obama wielded his IRS to go after groups, including that one, but many other groups, the Tea Party movement. He was going and trying to get the the member lists of all of those organizations. At the time, FOA was being run by Jeremy. This was, I guess this was before Daily Wire and overlapped right with the beginning of Daily Wire and Jeremy refused. He wouldn't give it up to the government. But there, I mean, the IRS ultimately had to make an apology. Barack Obama wielded the government against his political enemies more than basically any president possibly ever, certainly in my lifetime. Okay. He keeps going. That's exactly what the Trump administration is doing at Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, Minnesota. To understand why this is so appalling, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's important to know the facts and he goes on about all these supposed facts in her in her life. And he says, Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically. Okay, well, hold on. That's what you're saying. But that's what the investigation is trying to find out. If she were 18, she would have the legitimate citizenship. But there's a lot of evidence that she changed her birthday, that she actually wasn't 18 at the time. That her name actually wasn't even Ilhan Omar. That's the point of the investigation. So what? The investigation is just total nonsense. Listen to this line. Now, the administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, quote, "seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized and therefore is not a citizen." Then he goes on, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a very interesting choice of diction. They're trying to deport her seemingly based to all. And Barack Obama is now one to couch his language. Seemingly based solely on. Oh, no. That's what they're telling you. They're telling you, yeah, it's a bad immigration front. Seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually older than she lied about her birthday. Unsubstantiated theory. So they're investigating her. Isn't that the point of investigations? Is to substantiate or disprove theories? You're objecting to this investigation into Elhan Omar? Because. Because there is a theory that she's actually older than she says she is. And they're trying to figure out if that's true or not, isn't that? By Barack Obama's logic, we would have to put an end to all investigations about anything if you're not allowed to look into unsubstantiated theories. The whole point of an investigation is to substantiate them, okay. This unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 and therefore is not a citizen, okay. So they talk about how they rated her home and this, that, and the other thing. All right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and she says, you know, this probably will end in a stalled kind of investigation. It's not going to go anywhere. But not before Congresswoman Omar's life has been turned upside down. Her legal bills have piled up. She's been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota. Well done. She won't fight unsubstantiated charges. She will fight substantiated charges. They will bring charges if there is substance to them. It's especially rich because not only did Barack Obama persecute Republicans during his presidency, but Joe Biden famously rated imprisoned, prosecuted Donald Trump in a bunch of other Republicans for their political views. And even if they were exonerated, he made them fight all the things that he's accusing Trump of doing right now. And then the real tell in all of this, one, he's catching his language. It's unsubstantiated. Yeah. You don't say. You know, why are you catching your language? But also, it's not just the administration because the rate on Ilhan Omar's house was signed off on by a federal judge. And it's not just coming out of the White House. It's coming out of the DOJ. Not just coming out of the DOJ. It's coming out of DHS. This investigation didn't happen overnight. It's an October surprise. It's been going on for a very, very long time. This is the strongest evidence yet that Ilhan Omar is totally guilty and we can deport her. Okay. We don't have time. But you remember that girl who went viral for mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination at that campus at a pickup your mic toward a TPSA event? She's just issued an apology video. And some people are saying, well, now we just need to forgive her. We need to have grace for her. We need to forgive her. Some are saying they don't buy it at all. Actually both groups are incorrect. We'll have to get to it tomorrow. The rest of the show continues. Now you do not want to miss it. Remember, use codenoles. Can't it be really? For two months, free on all annual plans. They take me out of my bed and they brought me here and they tell me nothing. What have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That's all I know. They have to deal with so many enemies of the state, all of whom claim their innocence, who protest, who cry. There are no answers here. Other than the ones they put in your mouth, you'll break. Today is your opportunity to demonstrate your loyalty to the people. 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