Ep. 1882 - MASSIVE Somali Daycare Fraud Scheme Exposed In Viral Video

Summary

The Michael Knowles Show

Episode 1882 – MASSIVE Somali Daycare Fraud Scheme Exposed In Viral Video
Date: January 2, 2026
Host: Michael Knowles (The Daily Wire)

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Overview

In this post-holiday episode, Michael Knowles unpacks several high-profile stories shaping American politics and culture. The main focus is an investigative exposé revealing a massive Somali-run daycare fraud scheme operating across Minnesota and other states. Knowles also touches on viral internet trends, the waxing and waning of Christmas traditions, controversies regarding religion in the public square, recent pop culture moments, and listener mail. The tone is sarcastic, combative, and steeped in cultural and political references.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Somali Daycare Fraud Exposed

• Main Story: Independent journalist Nick Shirley uncovers that Somali individuals and networks are allegedly creating fake daycare centers to defraud state welfare programs, especially in Minnesota.

• Details: Daycares supposedly registered for dozens of children often appear completely empty, with workers unable to account for children or refusing service to non-Somali families.

• Political Reaction: Left-leaning media and politicians—specifically, Politico analyst Josh Gerstein—responded with veiled threats about journalists supposedly risking being shot under stand-your-ground laws while investigating.

• Quote (Michael Knowles, 29:40):
  "An independent journalist goes in and breaks a story that these people should have been on for years ... And Josh Gerstein of Politico comes out and says at some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand your ground laws."

• Implications: Knowles frames the reaction as evidence that the left protects mass migration and welfare fraud for political and demographic advantage.

  Notable Segment:

  • [28:21] – [29:20]: Nick Shirley confronts supposed daycare workers, exposing the scam by showing empty facilities and non-responsive staff.

2. Looksmaxing, Viral Interviews, and Youth Culture Online

• Clavicular Interview: Knowles recounts his viral interview with “Clavicular,” a young ‘looksmaxer’ who engages in extreme body modification to improve his appearance.

  • Exchange highlight:
    [05:05] – [07:00]:
    Knowles (paraphrased): “Are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the head with a hammer?”
    Clavicular: “No.”

• Political Absurdity: Clavicular, described as a young right-winger, claimed he preferred Gavin Newsom over J.D. Vance for president purely due to Newsom’s looks, not his policies.

  • Quote:
    "Regardless, you’re going to pick the pro mass migrant, pro trans, pro burn the cities to the ground Democrat because he’s skinnier than the conservative vice president? … I can’t argue with that."
    (Knowles, 08:18)

• Internet Subcultures: Knowles draws parallels between looksmaxing and left-wing trans ideology as body-dysmorphic internet phenomena influencing youth.

3. Christmas Traditions vs. Secular Pushback

• Liturgical vs. Commercial Christmas: Knowles describes himself as a “Christmas maxer,” criticizing those who put up decorations early or take them down prematurely, and championing traditional observance.

  • Quote:
    "Old religion says, first you have the fast and then the feast ... Modern religion says, first the feast and then the hangover."
    (Knowles, 02:40)

• Controversy over Public Christianity: The Trump administration is criticized by The Washington Post for “sectarian” Christmas messaging.

  • Quote:
    "Celebrating the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ is the opposite of a sectarian message. That’s something all the flavors of Christianity can agree on. WaPo, just ignorant, frothing, absolutely full of wrath."
    (Knowles, 18:53)

• Left’s Hypocrisy on Religion: Knowles highlights historical letters from FDR and longstanding American Christian traditions as a rebuke to the modern left’s calls for government secularism.

4. Pop Culture – “Stranger Things” Finale and Gay Representation

• Critique of Netflix: Knowles criticizes “Stranger Things” for ending with a main character coming out as gay, calling it formulaic and propagandistic.

  • Quote:
    "It’s so weird. A Netflix show where one of the young characters is gay. Wow, speaking of prejudice and things you always expect."
    (Knowles, 33:40)

• Cultural Thesis: Asserts that homosexuality is linked to childhood trauma and that promoting it as a superpower is a manipulative message to children.

  • Memorable quote:
    "Now, look, man, I’m from New York, I lived in LA, I went to the gayest university in the world ... do we really now have to say it’s a superpower? It’s a positively good thing?"
    (Knowles, 36:07)

5. Immigration, Prejudice, and the “Pirate” Analogy

• Controversial Take on Somalis: Knowles characterizes Somalis as a people defined by piracy and crime, using it as the central justification against mass migration from Somalia.

  • Quote:
    "That is maybe the thing that defines Somalis as Somalis. And now we all have to be shocked … Can you believe we imported the pirate people to America and they did pirate stuff?"
    (Knowles, 31:30)

• Defense of Prejudice: Argues that certain prejudices are rational and useful, particularly in questions of immigration and demographic shifts.

6. Listener Mailbag – Charity, Marriage, and Christianity in Politics

• Mr. Beast Charity Videos: One listener asks why his viral YouTube charity giveaways feel undignified. Knowles attributes this to a lack of real charity, since the acts are monetized and publicized for entertainment.

  • Quote:
    "When you give to alms, you shouldn’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Ideally, it’s better to give anonymously ... So it can do some good in the world, but ... it would cease to be charity."
    (Knowles, 41:21)

• Dog Ownership Marital Dispute: Offers practical, tongue-in-cheek advice to a listener whose wife wants a new dog.

• Christianity and Political Leadership: Responds to skepticism about the value of religious leaders in politics, distinguishing between a government animated by Christianity and a literal theocracy.

  • Quote:
    "Theocracy is government by religious clerics ... I’m not suggesting that we need to turn our governments over to religious clerics ... What I’m saying is we just have to acknowledge that ... the civilization must be animated by Christianity, or it will be animated by some foreign thing."
    (Knowles, 45:06)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Looksmaxing & Viral Interview (05:15):
  “Are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the head with a hammer?”
  —Michael Knowles to Clavicular
  “No.”
  —Clavicular

• Confronting Daycare Fraud (28:21):
  “You work here? ... Where are the kids? ... Can my kid go there? No.”
  —Michael Knowles & Nick Shirley’s field report

• On Prejudice (31:30):
  “Can you believe we imported the pirate people to America and they did pirate stuff? What are the odds?”

• On Politico's Reaction (29:40):
  “When are those Somalis gonna start shooting those right wing journalists?”

• On Netflix Representation (36:00):
  “Being who you are is where our power comes from. It’s really powerful. And I’m very moved and touched by that.”
  —Stranger Things Cast Interview

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:00–03:30] – Christmas traditions, decoration timing, Knowles as “Christmas maxer”
• [04:15–09:00] – Looksmaxing, viral Clavicular interview
• [09:30–12:30] – Political implications of the viral meme surrounding Gavin Newsom’s looks
• [17:00–22:00] – Secular vs. traditional Christmas in America, WaPo controversy, FDR letter
• [27:00–32:00] – Somali Daycare Fraud: Audio from Nick Shirley, Politico’s contentious response
• [33:00–37:00] – “Stranger Things” finale critique, homosexuality as a “superpower”
• [40:23–45:06] – Listener mailbag: Mr. Beast’s charity, dog marital dispute, and Christianity in politics

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Summary Flow & Context

This episode features Knowles at his most polemical, using stories both viral and underreported to suggest a cultural, moral, and demographic crisis facing America. He frames the Somali daycare fraud as a predictable outcome of mass migration and “political correctness,” lambastes the left for “hostility to Christianity,” and sardonically dissects modern pop culture and youth obsessions. Recurring themes include suspicion of the left, defense of prejudice as practical wisdom, media double standards, and the tension between religious tradition and secular modernity.

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Transcript

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Well, the holidays have come and gone once again. But if you've forgotten to get that special someone in your life a gift. Well, Mint Mobile is extending their holiday offer of half off unlimited wireless. So here's the idea. You get it now, you call it an early present for next year. What do you have to lose? Give it a [e-mail] Switch limited time, 50% off regular price for new customers. Upfront payment required $45 for three months, $90 for six month or $180 for a 12 month plan. Taxes and fees. Extra speeds may slow after 50 gigabytes per month when network is busy. See terms. I was gonna wait until Monday. I was going to respect the official daily wire policy and let everyone stay home until Monday. But then a look smacking meth taking mogger told me that right wingers should vote for Gavin Newsom. I was gonna just give us all the weekend off. But then a Politico analyst proposed shooting right wing journalists who exposed Somali fraud in Minnesota. I was gonna sit back and relax, but then stranger things made the 80s gayer than they already were, which was considerable. So now we're back. It is the ninth day of Christmas and I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Somalis are perpetrating even more fraud than you previously thought. An incredible expose by an independent journalist, Nick Shirley shows that Somalis are running these fake daycares all over, not just Minnesota, but apparently in other states as well. So that when people go, they show up to the daycare. It's just some like sloppily dressed Somali man who doesn't have any kids, happily doesn't have any kids around him. And it's all. Anyway, it's all just fake. So we'll get into how deep the fraud goes first, though. Merry Christmas, everybody. This is always one of my favorite days of the year when we put up the Christmas decorations on the Michael Knowles show set. Actually it was supposed to be Professor Jacob who put up the Christmas decorations. Professor Jacob, despite his family origins as a member of a certain ancient nomadic tribe, he was going to have the task of putting up the Christmas decorations. And then he didn't. He just didn't at all. And I texted last night, I said, hey, we put up the Christmas decorations, right? And he texted back. And he's like in another state right now just mogging and mewing with his girlfriend. And doesn't he said no. So poor Mr. Davies had to show up here at the crack of dawn with his personal Christmas decorations. But they have to go up because it's Christmas. It's Christmas now. And I thought it was very, very strange that there were a number of broadcasters, podcasters, TV hosts, radio hosts who put up Christmas decorations before Christmas. It doesn't make a lot of sense. They put it up during Advent. Some of them put it up right after Thanksgiving. Some people were selling Christmas decorations after Halloween. That doesn't make sense to me because Advent is a penitential season when we contemplate the four last things. Death, judgment, heaven and hell. Christmas begins on the feast of the Nativity. And what's even weirder is that some people will take down their Christmas decorations immediately following the feast of the Nativity as if Christmas were only one day. If Christmas were only one day. Let me ask you something. When would the drummer's drum. When would you have the five golden rings? Christmas can refer to the day of the feast of the Nativity. Then it can also refer to the octave, the liturgical season, the octave of Christmas, 8 days. Then it can refer to 12 days ending with the epiphany, like Twelfth Night. But I am a Christmas maxer, okay? I am a season maxing Christmas pilled jingle cell. We'll get to that kind of lingo in a moment. I want as much Christmas as possible. Modern religion is very different from old religion. Old religion says, first you have the fast and then the feast. You have Advent and then you have Christmas. Modern religion says, first the feast and then the hangover. Uh, we are not Christmas disrespecters on this show. We're not Advent disrespectors. We put everything in their proper place. And so these decorations will be up until February 2nd at least. @ least. Now, speaking of the pills and the cells and the maxing, one of the news stories that happened over our little Christmas break here was that I interviewed this guy, clavicular. I ended up somehow I was the cause of one of these big news stories. There's this guy, clavicular. I was very excited to sit down with him. He is a 19 year old now. I think he turned 20. Looks maxer, meaning that since the age of 14, this guy had been shooting up testosterone and taking hormones and steroids. And he's gone to extreme lengths to improve his looks. He's talked about lengthening his, like breaking his legs even though he was a pretty tall guy already breaking his legs to get taller and smashing his face and getting jaw surgery and all this. And he's just really focused on maxing out his Looks. So I sit down with this young man and the interview goes viral, in part because of looks maxing specific exchanges such as this. Are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the head with a hammer? No. He looks at me like I'm the stupidest person on earth. He's describing taking a hammer, smashing himself in the head. And I said, well, are there any negative side effects to that? He says, you know, you do it, it breaks some of your bones down and then they grow back bigger and then you look better. I said, are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the head with the hammer? Like I have three heads. He looks, he goes, no, dummy, what are you talking about? So anyway, fascinating. It was a delight to sit down with him. He is a very, very good communicator. He's very funny, he knows what he's doing, he's self aware, but he also really does this stuff. So I really am concerned about this guy because he really, since he was a kid, he got sucked into this vortex on the Internet. And basically everything from his ideology comes from the Internet. In many ways it's similar to the trans ideology on the left, which is a body dysmorphic ideology that comes from the Internet. This is kind of a right wing version. So really I'm concerned for the kid and I hope things work out for him and I hope he doesn't continue to go way too far off the rails and only prioritize looks and all the rest. But I really enjoyed sitting down with him. The other part that went viral though, had nothing to do with looksmaxing per se. It was because he, an ostensibly young right wing Trump supporter, endorsed Gavin Newsom. And he endorsed Gavin Newsom because he says that Gavin Newsom is sexier than Vice President J.D. vance. It's 2028. I'm voting for Gavin Newsom. You're voting for Gavin Newsom? You can't be that subhuman. So hold on, you got. All right, well this actually is of a thread with the whole conversation because you look at these two candidates, you have Gavin Newsom, worst governor in the country, I think we would all agree. Destroyed his state, let its main city burn to the ground, cuz of his incompetence is a personal complete derelict, liar, degenerate. But he is good looking, I'll grant you that. He's good and kind of looks like Patrick Bateman, American Psycho. And then you have this vice president to President Trump, the transformative right wing president in our lifetimes. Who do you support, Trump or no? Yeah, okay. And you got this vice president handpicked by Trump, who is extremely intelligent, very right wing. I think he's a pretty good looking guy. I don't know, maybe I guess you disagree, but he has all these things, checks all these boxes, would have all these great policies. And regardless, you're gonna pick the pro mass migrant, pro trans, pro murder the babies, pro burn the cities to the ground, pro BLM Democrat because he's skinnier than the conservative vice president 100 times over. Yeah, all right. I can't argue with that. I guess it just goes to show who you are as a.

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Person. And.

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That'S. I think it does. Okay. So he says not only do I predict Gavin Newsom will win, which I don't think is backed up by anything, but he says, I would vote for. Even though I'm on the right, I support Trump. I wish Trump were more right wing. He even explains in the interview, even though I'm on the right, I think that the only thing that matters in the world, the thing that certainly matters more than anything else in the world, is how you look. And because he thinks that Gavin Newsom is at least slightly sexier than the conservative vice president, he would vote for him. Which is totally of a piece with the ideology. If the ideology of looksmaxing really says the only thing that matters in life is not virtue, it's not flourishing, it's not any institutions, family, law and order, it's nothing, it's merely aesthetics, then if someone is like a pretty boy, then you have to support that person. I get how that is of a piece of. So this clip went viral and what's amazing is Gavin Newsom leaned into it, which I think ultimately is a huge miscalculation. Newsom and his press team leans into the clavicular interview and they try to make Newsom look really sexy and everything. I think this is a big mistake, though, because one, there's been so much hand wringing in recent weeks over this problem that the right has with its extreme young trollish fringe. Does it have a groiper problem? Does it have a reactionary problem? Does it have all this stu, you know, and calling the right wingers Nazis and demanding that they disavow. Now you're in a situation where one of, if not the single leading candidate for the Democrat nomination in 2028 now has the support of this group that we were told was causing all these problems for the right. And he's actually courting that group. He's leaning into their memes. So I think this Creates the opportunity for right wing journalists to now ask Gavin Newsom, do you disavow. Do you disavow the support coming from these quarters that you supposedly find objectionable? That's the first reason. The second reason issue, though, the reason I think this meme is a huge miscalculation for Gavin Newsom is a little piece of insight that I once got from Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sitting with George Bush, explaining one of the real secret advantages that both of those guys have had in politics. President Bush in different ways from me, but both of us. Me, because I tend to look like I'm real nice, and him because he used to make fun of himself. You always want to be underestimated by your adversaries. He consistently benefited by being underestimated and so did I for totally different reasons. So I love it. I think the whole meme is really smart. Huge miscalculation from Newsom, who's made miscalculations before because he doesn't know which way he wants to run. Is he gonna be the moderate who's friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon? Is he going to be the radical who calls Stephen Miller a fascist and who says he wants to see more trans kids and all the rest of. But what he's leaning into right now is that he's a real pretty boy. I think that this meme really redounds to the benefit of the Vice President. This is why JD has leaned into the goofy JD Meme, I think you know, the one where it makes him look kind of short with this big crazy round head and the curly hair and all. Even though JD Is a relatively pretty slim, very tall guy. Why does he lean into the meme? Because it creates a low expectation which is then surpassed by reality. In this case, Newsom is creating a very high expectation that he can never live up to. And when you look at people who win the presidency, just in recent years, you got. Trump was underestimated as a political novice. There was this ridiculous idea that he didn't know anything about politics. It's preposterous in retrospect, but that really helped him. I think in 16 Barack Obama, he was black in a country that was supposedly racist. That allowed him to be underestimated. George Bush was supposed to be stupid. He wasn't really smart guy. George Bush, even if you disagree with him, but he was supposed to be stupid. It allowed him to win. Al Gore was better looking than George Bush. He mogged George Bush, for instance. But George Bush was underestimated. Go back further though Bill Clinton was Bubba. Real nice guy. Bill Clinton's not a nice guy. That allowed him to be underestimated. Bill Clinton was a B movie actor. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer from Georgia. Richard Nixon was a loser whose political career was over a decade prior. I don't know. It's hard to point to a winner who is not underestimated. So if Newsom wants to lean into it, be my guest. I think that's terrific. Now, speaking of the Trump administration, the establishment left, the media, the politicians are absolutely furious. 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December 26th, the second day of Christmas, says officials in President Trump's administration posted overtly sectarian messages for Christmas, such as a day to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The messages sharply diverged from a tradition of secular holiday Messages. Put a pause right here. The most scandalous part of that post from the Washington Post is that these top journalists in America don't even know the meaning of the word sectarian. The word sectarian, though, they want to make it about just diversity of religion. Sectarian refers specifically to disagreements within the religion. So a sectarian conflict would be a conflict between, say, Presbyterians and Methodists or Catholics and Episcopalians. It's a disagreement from within a broadly similar secular framework. Broadly similar religious framework. Sorry. What's so funny is that the message celebrating the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ is the opposite of a sectarian message. That's something that all the various flavors of Christianity can agree on. So, wapo, just ignorant, frothing, absolutely full of wrath. What are some of the messages? Here's the Department of Labor. She posts a nice little picture. Joy to the World. Looks like a Thomas Kinkade poem. Let earth receive her king. That's very nice. And there's a journalist from the Free Press, which is supposed to be more reasonable than the Washington Post and the New York Times, but it's the Free Press, which is this kind of center left, libertarian, ish outlet. This guy Peter Savodnik, who tweets out, this is grotesque. Which coincidentally is also the response that Herod had to the Nativity, Let earth receive her king. This is grotesque. We need to kill all of the children in Judea. Okay, Bizarre. This is grotesque. The message is joy to the world. Let earth receive her king. And that's. That's a nice message. Not only is that not grotesque, that is one of the most beautiful things that is ever. That is the most beautiful thing that's ever happened. Taken together with the passion and the resurrection. But even if you don't believe in the religion, isn't it a nice idea? You know, a savior comes down, born as a little baby in swaddling clothes to save the whole world. Even if you don't believe in it, though, you should. Isn't that a nice idea? What about that is grotesque? Well, I suspect what he thinks is that our government saying anything about religion is grotesque. But as Nick Solheim pointed out. Great. A great note. Just to inject some actual history into. Into the narrative about American history. Presidents have been celebrating Christmas for a very, very long time. Have been promoting Christianity for a very, very long time. He posts an image of a letter from Franklin Roosevelt to the armed forces. This is January 26, 1941. This is from Roosevelt, who's a huge lib, and he says, as commander in Chief. I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men in many faiths and diverse origins have found in the sacred book words of Wis counsel and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength and now as always, an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human soul. Very sincerely yours, Franklin Roosevelt. Is that grotesque? Is that shocking and horrible? And grotesque is the fact that Christmas is a federal holiday. Does that suggest that maybe it's okay for the federal government to acknowledge and celebrate Christmas Christ Mass? It's religious, that's true, but it's our religion because we're a Christian country. America, which was founded to be a model of Christian charity, founded by people who called themselves pilgrims, who gave thanks to God, who put in God we trust in our currency. On and on and on. It wasn't just the journals who were upset. Eric Swalwell, maybe the future governor of California. It might somehow get worse. After Newsom, Eric Swalwell tweets out, may this be the last Christmas we live this nightmare. And it's an image of graffiti on concrete and it's an ICE helicopter with lights over the Nativity scene. Ooh, wow, wow, that's man Swalwell. That's deep. Keep spitting that slam poetry. You see, it's the Nativity scene. The Kressh our Lord being born in the manger with ICE coming in as if to say that the Holy Family were illegal immigrants, you know, avoiding law and order. And now this is especially ironic because the opposite is true. The Holy Family was in Bethlehem in order to comply with a government order to register with the government. It's amazing with the libs when they get this impulse, they feel they verbally ejaculate some nonsense and then it turns out to completely subvert the argument they were trying to make. This is just like ICE and the illegal immigrants and no, it's actually the opposite. The Holy Family was there to comply with a government order to register with the government. And then what happens after the Nativity? The wise men warn them. They say, you know, Herod is going to try to kill the baby. And so they flee into Egypt. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was not immigration enforcement. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was infanticide. Immigration enforcement. That's the right wing policy that Eric Swalwell has problems with. Infanticide is a left wing policy. Infanticide is one of the most sacred policies to the political left. They consider it a right, the so called right to Abortion. That's what the holy family actually fled from. Just a per. An amazing. If Eric Swalwell didn't exist, we would have to invent him. Speaking of Christmas derangement, it wasn't confined to our own country. Politico Europe reports far right parties are claiming the festive season as their own. It's Christmas recasting. I promise you, I swear this is verbatim recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile secular left. Where would the right get that idea? Where would the right get the idea that the secular left, the supposedly hostile secular left, would oppose Christmas and Christianity? Politico Europe accusing far right parties of recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization. It's in the name. It's like that old clip of Ben. You remember that clip of Ben from 10 years ago when he's at some school and says, you know the Boy Scouts. You know the Boy Scouts, listen, gang, the Boy Scouts shouldn't have girls in it. And then some chick says, well, where do you get that idea from? Where does it say that? And he's like, it's in the name. Boy Scouts gang. This is just. This is just that. Where do you. It's the Politico Europe, you know, where do you get the idea that Christmas is a Christian holiday, gang? It's in the name Christmas. It's in the name Christmas. The far right. If you think Christmas is Christian, you are now a member of the welcome to the far right Welcome. I hope you like it. Now, before we get to anything else, because I have more from from Politico. Not just this nonsense about Christmas not being Christian, but a little even darker in a way. A Politico senior analyst suggesting that Somalis shoot journalists who try to investigate their fraud. We'll get to that. First, wanna tell you about Cowboy colostrum. Go to cowboycolostrum.com knowles if you finally want to fix your disgusting gut and make your hair healthier and stronger and add some glow to your skin in 2026. If you want a glow max, you need to add Colostrum to your daily routine. 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And Josh Gerstein of Politico comes out and says at some point, the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand your ground laws. Stand your ground laws, meaning when people try to invade your home, you can shoot them and you won't be prosecuted for that. So he says this amateur effort to knock on the doors of home daycares. But when they say home daycares, by the way, they're just talking about fraud. There are Somalis who register daycare centers to get state money in their homes, but they don't actually take care of anybody. There is such a thing as home daycare. I actually, when I was a kid, my mother worked and I was at a home daycare. I'd go to a lovely woman's apartment and she watched some kids and probably wasn't the most totally illicit thing, you know, by the tax code, but we would do that that can exist. That is not even happening here. What we're looking at is Somalis just lying. They say we're running a daycare. There is no daycare. You go, you show up at some random Somali guy's apartment and they don't wanna let you in. And so this massive fraud is exposed. And the Politico journalist, a senior reporter, says, actually, when are those Somalis gonna start shooting those right wing journalists? Why is he doing this? Why? It's very easy to say, you reporters, you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing. You're not even doing your job. You're not really investigating the facts. Why would you support this? The reason that the left is very nervous and threatened by right wing independent journalists showing up and exposing this fraud is because this fraud serves the left's goals. The left's goals of mass migration, to reduce social solidarity, to increase anarchy, which gives a pretext for more onerous government regulations that destroy subsidiarity. Importing people specifically are much more likely to side with the left and then giving them money in real, hard, concrete politics. Not abstract ideological politics, but hard, concrete stuff. I give you money. You vote for me, I give you more money. This is a reciprocal arrangement between the left and the Somalis, who in many ways understand the nuts and bolts of ordinary politics much better than the ideologues and the libertarians and the think tankers. That's why. And because there are no real, neutral, objective, independent journalists. There are independent journalists who don't work for major outlets, but there are no journalists who don't have some preconceived notions that they bring to their stories, because that is totally fake and in many ways an invention of the post World War II era. What you're really looking at here is a guy, Josh Gerstein, who is a left wing operative working for Politico, which is a left wing communications outlet, propaganda outlet, upset that other political operatives have exposed a story that damages the political left. That's what you're seeing. You're just seeing a partisan fight playing out. Say, I thought you opposed stand your ground laws. I thought you opposed Americans owning guns. I thought you. What happened to your principles? Their principle is to win. Their principle is for their guys to get more political power to do stuff, to help them. That's their principle. And if you remain confused about this and you think they're really concerned with some abstract ideology, some evenly applied rule, you're not gonna make it. I'm sorry, you're not gonna make it. So anyway, what did they all uncover? CBS is reporting potentially $9 billion of fraud by Somalis in Minnesota. Here is Nick Shirley, this independent journalist on YouTube, just going up and talking to the supposed daycare workers. They seem to be closed. No one's opening the doors. You work here? I was.

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Yeah. What's happened? Where are the kids? Yeah, it says it's licensed for 74 children. Right here, state of Minnesota. Where are the kids? They got paid $1.26 million in fiscal year 2025. It says they have a capacity for 74.

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Children.

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When?

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When? Where are the kids? Right here, state of Minnesota website. You work here and you don't.

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Know? I don't know. I was there before. I don't know what's going.

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On. Were there any kids when you worked.

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Here? It's there kids.

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There. How many? I don't.

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Know. You don't.

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Know?

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Yeah. You worked here? Okay, well then you're not of any.

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Help. Can I put my son in a daycare here? Can I speak to someone? No, I don't know. No. Yeah, I would like to see if I can put my son Joey here. Here. Who's your son Joey? My son Joey. Can I check out daycare center? No, I'm the owner. Do you put your kid here in the state. No, no, you cannot. No, no. This is not the droids you're looking for. Oh no. And look at Gucci Gotchi Gucci Han Sol. So he got him dead to rights. This is really great stuff. It's. It's obviously a massive fraud. Not only will they not allow the white kid, not only will they not allow the native born American kid into the daycare. There aren't even kids in there. They asked the first guy. Hey, you worked at the daycare? Yeah, yeah, I worked at the daycare. Ah, yeah. Okay, well, how many kids were there? I don't know. You don't know how many kids were there? Can my kid go there? No. So it's just all, it's all fraud. And by the way, it's not only this guy Nick Shirley broke the story, but then Cam Higby goes out in, in Ohio, same thing happening. Hi, is this Tawakal Daycare? Yes. I was wondering if I could get an application for my son. Would that be possible? Closes the door. Well, can I get. No, you can't. I mention this story because, you know, I frequently say it's always the ones you most expect. One aspect of the Somali fraud, daycare, learning center, welfare scam story that people seem to have Forgotten is these people are pirates. They are known for being pirates. That is not only the main things Somalis are known for. The only thing they're known for is being pirates. Theft, fraud, deceit, crime. That is maybe the thing that defines Somalis as Somalis. And now we all have to be shocked and clutch our pearls. Oh, my goodness. Can you believe we imported the pirate people to America and they did pirate stuff? What are the odds? If only we had known before we imported the nation of pirates into Minnesota. If only we had known, we never would have done it. Well, we could have known, but you're not allowed to know, because the way that we would have known is through something called prejudice. Prejudice, which can be unjust, but it also can be a very good thing and a necessary aid to human reason, because we don't have enough time and we don't have enough rational faculty to logically think through every single thing in the world. We gotta go on our gut. We gotta go based on precedent. And so we're do it again and again and again. But the Somalis, I think, are the clearest example of it. So what are we gonna do? Are we gonna say, hey, no more Somalis. Hey, no more. And we're gonna get rid of the ones who keep committing all these crimes. We're just getting rid of them. Go send them back to Somalia. They could set up daycares there. Probably not. Probably not. Because of the ideological shifts that would be required. You'd have to acknowledge that. Like, yeah, maybe it was never a good idea to import the pirate country in. Okay, speaking of strange things. That's quite strange, isn't it? I have to get to Stranger Things. Stranger Things is finally over, and it is real gay, man. It's real gay. I mean, very literally. The character who starts out as the real inciting character of the whole show, the guy who gets sucked into the underground, upside down, whatever. I don't know. I haven't watched it in a few seasons. I started out watching it and it was kind of interesting. It was a fun riff on 1980s sci fi. And then it just became too much and it stopped. It made even less sense than it previously had, and it just got tiresome, and so I stopped watching. I haven't watched this season, by the way, but I have watched these clips, and in it, this kid who kind of starts out the whole show comes out as.

[D]

Gay. I haven't told any of you this because. Because I don't want you to see me differently. I'm like you in almost every way we like playing DD late into the night, and we like that old person smell in Mike's basement, and we, like, bike into Mel vaults for malted.

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Milkshakes. Literally all the same.

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Things. I just, I just, I just, I, I, I, I don't like.

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Girls. Okay. He's gay. Wow, it's so weird. A Netflix show where one of the young characters is gay. Wow, speaking of prejudice and things you always expect. So some have pointed out that this is very unrealistic because in the 80s, if you came out as gay, at least one of your buddies would call you a slur, right? At least one. I mean, they wouldn't all be immediately accepting, right? In the 80s, however, I have a totally different take, which is this makes perfect sense to me. Not only because Netflix needs to make everything gay and Disney needs to make everything gay and all of the liberal executives need to make everything gay, but because homosexuality is linked to childhood trauma. Not in all cases, but I'm not saying every gay guy had some childhood trauma, but it is strongly linked to childhood trauma. And so childhood trauma can come in many awful forms. But certainly I think if you're sucked into hell by some tentacle monster and held prisoner, and you frequently vomit up ash, like demon ash, and all that would constitute a childhood trauma. And so I'm not surprised that he's gay does that. Actually, that is one of the most coherent plot lines of Stranger Things. There are a lot of plot lines that don't make any sense at all. In fact, there's a great article here. There are a bunch of them. This one's from Pop Rant on how there are just too many plot holes for a decade long. Farewell, Stranger Things season 5 finale outrage intensifies over rushed and unresolved fates. It's kind of like Lost. You remember lost 20 years ago? Lost. It was a good first season, and then it just stopped making sense. And there were all these unresolved plot lines, and it was just so by the final episode, I wanted to throw a hammer at the tv. It was just so stupid. And so I gave up on Stranger Things. Apparently, it's the same problem here, but what they really want you to know is it doesn't matter about any of the plot holes being resolved because Will is gay. As the actor points out in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Aetna thought Will's secret was his weakness, but it's his.

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Superpower. Wow. One of the best queer characters we've ever had. What a powerful message to send to kids. Like, no, this isn't your weakness. This is your superpower. This is how you defeat the big, bad evil monster. The whole show is accepting what you thought was your.

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Weakness. Being who you are is where our power comes from. It's really powerful. And I'm very moved and touched by that.

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Yeah. Even though I play the villain. Yeah, it's your superpower, actually. Now, look, man, I'm pretty. I'm from New York, I lived in la. I went to the gayest university in the world. You know, I really, I don't have anything, any irrational animus toward anyone who's a little light and low for his. Not at all. Not at all. But do we really now we have to say it's a superpower. It's a positively good thing. I mean, this is what we're accusing when we call Netflix groomers. This is what we're accusing them of. Netflix not only tolerating sexual deviancy or recognizing that there is some sexual deviancy, sometimes more, sometimes less, throughout history and the world, but going out and saying this is actively a good thing. In other words, hey, kids, be gay. You want to be like Superman, be gay. If you want to be just like a normal person, then don't be gay. But if you want to be awesome, be gay. That's what they're saying to them. They say, well, no, it is obviously a deviation. It moves away from the norm. There are lots of downsides to it, like you don't get to have kids, or if you do have kids, you have to buy them from a baby store and commit all sorts of hideous sins by intentionally depriving kids of their natural mothers. And I mean, it's really bad. But there's. You can say, look, viva la difference. This is a kind of a strange world and eccentricities can be tolerated. And it's like that, you know. Yeah, isn't Cole Porter great? There's that version of it. But to say it's actively good. More plot holes even than the Stranger Things finale, which again, people, they just imbue these series with too much meaning. They do it with Star wars too. Stranger Things is supposed to be a fun send up of cheesy 80s sci fi. That's what it's. It's supposed to be nostalgia porn for Gen X. And inasmuch as it was that, it was pretty fun. And then it tried to take itself too seriously and it lost me. I like Star Wars. Star wars is just like a fun, campy, weird movie based on, you know, comic strips from the 1930s, film strips. And that's Great. But when you try to make it into something super duper serious, it doesn't. Sorry. Doesn't work. Anyway, though that one plot line, I think it actually holds up. And speaking of homosexuality as a superpower, Zoran Mumdani is appointed a new head of the New York City Fire Department. Someone who's never been a fireman, but who is a lesbian. So I guess she has superpowers and she can win. Another story. I want to get to one of the porn ladies who slept with a thousand guys in a day. Lily Phillips. Not to be confused with the other one, Bonnie Blue, or I think her name is Bonnie Blue. Well, anyway, there's two of them who slept with a thousand guys in a day, and one of them has apparently been baptized or re. Baptized or. Ah, there's. Okay, there's more to this story. We'll have to get to it tomorrow, though. My favorite comment yesterday. Was it from yesterday or is it from a week and a half ago? It's from Margaret Mayer, 2475, who says, doesn't anyone remember Black Hawk Down? Why would anyone let these people in? No one remembers Black Hawk down. And we are letting these people in because we cannot be so prejudicial as to suggest that the pirate country might commit piracy. Finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week. This is another reason I couldn't miss the Friday show. I gotta get to the mailbag. Sponsored by Pure [e-mail] KnowlesKennet W L E S switch to my wireless company today. Take it.

[E]

Away. Hi, Michael. I've been listening to your show pretty regularly since 2019, where I found it during my senior year at Berkeley, where apparently I was a classmate of Reed Choi, which I didn't know until your yes or no episode. My question is on this motif you have of explaining why things we know are bad are bad, which we have forgotten why they're bad. And I have this gut feeling that this thing is bad. And I'm Talking about these Mr. Beast style YouTube giveaway videos where someone will give away $10,000 or some Lexus or some inordinate amount of money or things to an unsuspecting person and go through this weird sort of perverse gratitude ritual. And I know it's just morally undignified in my gut, but I have trouble expressing exactly why. You know, I think it is true that it is false charity, but I think it's actually more than that. So I'd love to hear your.

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Take. Thanks. Bye. Sure. Much like I don't Watch Stranger Things. I also don't watch Mr. Beast. I know he had that transvestite, the sidekick who abandoned his family to go be a transvestite. And so that raised my eyebrow. But Mr. Beast got rid of him, so maybe that's a mark in his favor. Anyway, I know that he does these things. He's gonna give away a zillion dollars to whoever. Inasmuch as the Mr. Beast money. Giveaways are a game show, that's fine. It's just a game show. It's typical entertainment and Mr. Beast is a great entertainer. In as much as this is supposed to be real charity, I share your concern that it's probably lacking a little bit. When you give to alms, you shouldn't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Ideally, it's better to give anonymously. Almost all cases. I could see some exceptions, but generally it's better to give anonymously. And part of the reason you do this and you don't sound a trumpet before you as you give alms is because charity is supposed to be love of the other person for that person's own sake, ultimately impelled by the love of God. And so if you look at the Mr. Beast stuff, he is obviously benefiting immensely. Not only is pride or vanity, you know, his reputation, but also he's making a ton of money on these videos. He's a very, very smart content creator. So it can do some good in the world. But yeah, it would cease to be charity. And I think that's what you're recognizing. There's just something a little off about it. Yeah, it's a different thing. Okay, next.

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Question. Hello, Michael, how are you doing today? I was reaching out cause my wife and I are having issues. We had a dog for about 15 years. We had to put them down a couple Julys ago. And she's at the point to where she wants another dog. I do not want another dog. And I'm afraid that if I get a dog that she wants, that I will start resenting her and the dog. But if I don't get the dog, she will start to resent me. Can you please give me some helpful marriage advice, since you always do so good. And I ordered your book, Reasons to Vote Democrat. I understand the joke, but kind of upset that I got a blank book. Thank you so much, Michael, for everything you do. And your advice is very warranted. Thank you for your help. I'm sorry, it was over 30.

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Seconds. You're clearly very scholarly and intellectual. Not merely because you're reading my book, but because you're asking me the question about the dog and what this means. The reason you're asking me this question is because you know that I don't really like dogs. I don't. It's not that I like cats. I'm a people person. I'm not a dog person. I'm not a cat person. I'm not a fish person. I'm a people person. Okay, and so you're saying, hey, my wife doesn't want to get a dog or wants to get a dog and I don't want to get a dog. What do you think, Michael? Yeah, if it were me, I wouldn't get a dog. But the problem is, if I were in your shoes, I could tell my wife, no, we're not getting. I don't want a dog. I don't want the thing in my house. I don't want to take it out and walk it and do all this stuff. I want him ripping up my stuff. I don't want it. But I have a long record of not having a dog, whereas you had a dog for 15 years. So I really don't get why you don't want to get another dog. What changed? Is it that you only grudgingly had that dog for 15 years? Well, that shows you the real peril of just not being clear with your spouse and not allowing these problems to fester with that. Now you've got a 15 year precedent of, well, I liked the dog, you liked the dog, then why don't you like the dog now? Or is it just you're sick of walking the dog? I totally would get that. Sick of feeding the dog, Sick of ripping up your couch. Well, okay, if that's the case, what you might do is speak to your wife like you would speak to your child and say, like, well, we can get the dog, but you have to walk the dog and you have to take care of. Maybe you could do that. I guess that's one way. Is it. Okay, do we have time to get. Can we get to at least one more. Can we get to at least one more mailbag question? I know I'm running late, but give me one.

[G]

More. Michael, you said in the past that you would tell European leaders to turn to Christianity in the wake of the immigration crisis that they're having in Europe. But you look at these religious leaders in America and they are putting out that wonderful little video that the Catholic bishops decided to put out. Or you're looking at this news report of all these religious leaders coming together to condemn Trump in the wake of his comments about Somali community in many, you know, with these Jewish, Muslim, and Christianity, Christian leaders coming together to condemn Trump, it seems that Christian leaders and religious leaders are some of the worst liberals of all in America. I don't see how you can tell these European leaders to turn to them for solutions. What is your response to.

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This? Thank you. Maybe I've been misunderstood. In fact, I'm sure I have. And this is in part because of a narrative constructed by the left. To say, I want our government to recognize true religion and its traditional religion, namely Christianity, is not to say I want a theocracy. The left conflates the two. The left thinks that if the government in any way acknowledges Christmas, which is a federal holiday, that somehow we're in a theocracy. Theocracy has a definition. The libs, just like they redefine everything. Theocracy has a definition. Theocracy is government by religious clerics. It's like what you have in Iran. It's what some people advocated for in the Middle Ages, but many people did not. Hierocrats, the religious hierarchy of clerics running the government. But in the Middle Ages, at the height of Christendom, you would have the Holy Roman Emperor fighting with the Pope. They would be at odds. Sometimes they would come to blows. Okay? They would have armies. It's not that one of them was Christian and the other wasn't. They were both Christian and they were fighting over how best to apply Christianity to the government. In some cases, they were fighting over literal territories. So I'm not suggesting that we need to turn our governments over to religious clerics. Some of them would be good rulers. Some of them would be very bad rulers. What I'm saying is we just have to acknowledge that whoever is running our government, the civilization must be animated by Christianity, anima, spirit, soul. Or it will be animated by some foreign thing and it will become a totally different thing. But it has to be animated by something. Part of the reason I say if you want our civilization to survive, it has to be Christian, is what's the alternative? Secular liberalism, Atheist materialism? Those things haven't worked. They've led to our civilization literally dying like we don't have babies anymore. What's the alternative? Islam. That will make us into a different civilization. That's what's happening right now in Europe. What's the alternative? Shintoism? Buddhism? What are we going to do? There's nothing. So it has to be Christianity in order for it to be our civilization, or we'll die out or we'll become a different civilization. Okay, on that chipper note, Merry Christmas. Today's fake headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Noel Skinner. WLAS check out for 2 months free on all annual plans. All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died. And soon that echo will.

[B]

Cease. They say that Merlin is mad. They say he was a king in Dovid. The son of a princess of lost Atlantis. They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind tell him their secrets. That the magic of the hill folk and druids come forth at at his easy command. They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds. Do you hear that? The world burned and trembled at his wrath. The Merlin died long before you and I were born, Merlin. Emrys has returned to the land of the.

[A]

Living. Vortigern is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is.

[B]

Here. Saxon. Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the island of the Mighty. And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne. And he will have it if we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him. Here is your hope. A king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand. A high king who will be the wonder of the.

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World.

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You to a future of.

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Peace. There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all.

[A]

Dust. Men of the island of the Mighty, you stand together. You stand as Britons. You stand as.

[B]

One. Great darkness is falling upon this land. These brothers are our only hope to stand against.

[A]

It. Not our only.

[B]

Hope. They say Mirthen slew 70 men with his own hands. I, Cathay, he slew.

[A]

500. No man is capable of such a thing.

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Thing? Immortal.