Experian Advertiser (11:10)

Federal government is raining down upon our communities. Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked under trained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live.

Michael Knowles (11:29)

Wow. Wow. I would never accuse Tim Walls of intelligence. Most people would not. But this isn't him just being a knucklehead. He says that ICE agents are deployed to go hunt down neighbors of color. This is an overt effort to create a race war from old, nice, happy Tim Walls. That's not what ICE does. ICE goes and arrests illegal aliens who shouldn't be in this country, who, even 20 years ago, both parties uniformly agreed need to be deported. Now he's saying, no, no, no. It's because these. He's implying it's white supremacist cops going to round up neighbors of color. Hey, if you're a black guy whose family's been American for a long time, ICE ain't coming for you. If you're a Hispanic who speaks English well, who doesn't live in these sorts of enclaves with illegal aliens, who I say coming for you. This is really bad. Tim Walls was presented to the nation in this role that he was cast for, which was to be the running mate to this woman of color running for president. And so his role was to be the dopey white guy. I'm the dopey white guy who doesn't. I don't season my chicken. And then, you know, Kamala Harris says, where did flavor come from? It was an actual exchange between Kamala Harris and Tim was, howdy, where's the flavor? Where do you get the flavor? I actually don't like any flavor at all. I only eat tuna sandwiches for every single meal. And that was his role was to just be this big, dopey white idiot to play Homer Simpson on the national stage. But he's much worse than that. That was actually deceitful. I'm not saying the guy's a Rhodes scholar. He certainly is not. But he knows what he's doing here. This is very subversive stuff. This after Tim Walls called for an insurrection. This after Tim Walls gave a press conference in which he said that he was bringing up the Minnesota National Guard to oppose federal troops, which is literally insurrection. Ironic. After the Democrats mouthed off about the January 6th supposed insurrection. For years in any case, I think the federal government needs to bring the hammer down on this guy too. You know, it's not just the antifa people stealing the rifles and it's not just the women in their SUV is trying to run over law enforcement. It's not even just the illegal aliens. They gotta bring the hammer down on this guy too. We need to restore order. I said it after the leftists celebrated the assassination of Charlie. I said it after the survey showed that the left increasingly supported political violence. A lot of people said we just need to restore the free marketplace of ideas and double down. I said no, no. Before you can have that, you need to restore order. Marketplaces requ. Order. Flourishing cities like Minneapolis once was, or Minnesota states or polities. Nations need order. You're not gonna get order with Tim Walsh walking around. You need that guy. If he's gonna be walking around, he needs to be walking around in a orange jumpsuit is what he needs. He should not be walking around the governor's mansion. Now. There's actually been an injection of reason and common sense in all of this. And then we can get. We'll move on to Capitol Hill and maybe even to New Minnesota over in Greenland, which we might acquire soon. But. But the most reasonable voice to come out of Minnesota recently is actually the father in law of the woman who was killed by the ice officer. We'll get to that momentarily. First though, I wanna tell you about Doeze. Go to dosedaily co Knowles. We're all trying to feel healthy. Drinking more water, getting steps in, taking vitamins. Here's what most people miss. Your liver. Health. It affects everything. Your energy, your digestion, your skin, even your metabolism. Time to show it some love with our sponsor Dose. Your liver is your body's ultimate Multitrasker. Handling over 500 daily functions. Energy production, digestion, fat metabolism. 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Shopify/Experian Advertiser (17:11)

Nothing about charges or anything that. Just an investigation into what happened in terms of the ICE agent's actions. But they were, according to the prosecutors, resigning today, pressuring them to investigate Rene's actions and Becca, her wife's actions. How do you feel about all that?

Renee Goode's Father-in-law (17:31)

Well, you know, I'm not blaming anybody. I mean, it's a hard situation all the way around. It's, it's, it's hard for the, you know, for everybody involved. I mean, the US agent, you know, at first I didn't see the footage where, you know, he was actually, you know, he was actually been ran. I mean, I seen the bump of the car hitting, you know, hitting his legs and so in, in a, you know, in a flash like that. It's, it's hard to say how you would react. From my understanding that he had been through that before, maybe dragged or something. And so, you know, like I said, it's just, it's just a hard situation for everybody. You know, Becca, you know, it's, it's. She's a great person as well. I mean, you know, I don't have any. Many enemies. I love everybody. And, and that's what the Bible tells us. Love our neighbors as we love ourselves. But you know, I think there's some bad choices and the word says, for the wrath of God will come up on eternal disobedience. And, you know, it's. It's. I don't blame us. I don't blame Rebecca. I don't blame Renee. I just, you know, I just wish that if we're walking the spirit of God, I don't think she would have been there.

Michael Knowles (18:35)

Unbelievably, beautifully put. So gracious, so charitable and spot on. He says, look, I don't blame Rebecca. Rebecca, who's the lesbian partner who blames herself. It's my fault. It's my fault. I told her to come down here. Drive, baby, drive, drive. He says, I don't blame Rebecca. I don't blame Renee. I don't blame law enforcement. He says, I just think that there were some bad choices and if they had been following the spirit of God, she wouldn't have been down there. There you have it. There you have it. She wouldn't have been down there. That's the problem. You don't have a right to block traffic. You certainly don't have a right to obstruct law enforcement. You definitely shouldn't defy orders from law enforcement when you yourself are breaking the law. And you definitely shouldn't drive your SUV into a cop. She would be alive if not for that. That is a beautifully way to put. Beautiful way to put it. And it really clarifies everything. You have the left wing narrative, which is completely insane. You. The left wing narrative is she was doing nothing wrong. She had every right to. Either she didn't hit the cop, or she had every right to hit the cop, or she wasn't just the cops are the Nazis and the Venezuelan criminals and the Somali criminals are, I don't know, innocent little doves. So the left wing narrative is totally crazy. The right wing narrative is sometimes overstated. Generally, the right wing narrative is right, which is that she broke the law, she nearly killed a cop, and he shot her in the face. Cause he rightly perceived an imminent threat to his life. But sometimes it's overstated. If we were to say she's a terrorist or something, I don't think she was a terrorist. She might have kind of functioned as a terrorist, but I don't think she was intentionally a terrorist. That can be overstated. He gives the Christian view. Yeah, this is a pity. This is real sad. And people made bad choices, and they were sometimes led into those bad choices by smaller bad choices. But if we were following, if we're all being honest, if we're all being honest, if you were following the spirit of God. You wouldn't have been there. You wouldn't have been there. So, so true. Okay. Now, speaking of ignoring the spirit of God, we turn to Capitol Hill. The libs. I mentioned this yesterday. I said over at the Supreme Court, I said, if the libs just can't let the trans topic go away, they can't. They got clobbered on it last November. They've been clobbered on it for years. The right, including us in particular, have been hammering them on it. We totally won on the issue. And the libs just can't let it go. So they're bringing this case to the Supreme Court to defend boys in girls sports. And now there was this hearing on Capitol Hill over the abortion drug. This is amid the Supreme Court hearing the transgender case. And Josh Hawley, one of the best ever to do it. Josh Hawley grilling one of these witnesses, Dr. Verma, on the question that has dominated our politics for the past five years.

Senator Josh Hawley (21:52)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Since you bring it up, why don't we just start there? Dr. Verma, I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get pregnant?

Dr. Verma (22:04)

I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women. I take care of people with different identities.

Michael Knowles (22:16)

Put a pause. So this. Can men get pregnant? This is a version of what is a woman. This is a version of define a woman. This is a version of can men become women? This should be a layup. This should be a layup for the left right now. They should just say, get away from. No, men cannot become pregnant. Just say that. And they could even try to weasel their way out of it and say, well, it's actually trans women who get pregnant or trans men or what this or that. But they could just try to weasel their way out because this issue is the biggest loser that they have had in my lifetime. It's a bigger loser even than flood the country with foreign criminals. This is the biggest loser they've had in my lifetime. Any reasonable liberal operative, any lib on Capitol Hill testifying or in this would just. Would get out of it. But they can't keep going.

Dr. Verma (23:14)

So that's where I paused. I think. I wasn't sure where you were going with that.

Senator Josh Hawley (23:19)

Well, the goal is it's the truth. So can men get pregnant?

Dr. Verma (23:23)

Again, the reason I paused there is. I'm not really sure. What the goal of the question is.

Senator Josh Hawley (23:28)

The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that science and evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition. Can men get pregnant?

Dr. Verma (23:39)

I take care of people with many identities, but can men get pregnant? Many women that can get pregnant, I do take care of people that don't identify as women.

Senator Josh Hawley (23:49)

Can men get pregnant?

Dr. Verma (23:52)

Again, as I'm saying, let me just.

Senator Josh Hawley (23:54)

Remind you, you testified to a moment ago, science and evidence should control, not politics. So can men get pregnant? You're a doctor.

Dr. Verma (24:03)

I say science and evidence should guide medicine.

Senator Josh Hawley (24:06)

Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men, can they get pregnant?

Dr. Verma (24:11)

I also think, yes, no questions like this are a political tool.

Senator Josh Hawley (24:15)

No, yes, no questions are about the truth. Doctor, let's not make a mockery of this proceeding. This is about science and evidence.

Michael Knowles (24:21)

Oh, it's so beautiful. It's beautiful in a number of ways. One, Hawley is just so good at this. He's so good. Oh, let me. You know, he's got the serious face on. And then he asks just a crystal clear question that he knows is going to grind his opponent into the ground. He's so good at it. But it's. It's a layup, too. This is a layup. We've all done. We've all done some version of this for years. I said five years. It's actually been longer than five years. It's been at least six or seven years. And the libs haven't learned anything. They can't. They can't give it up. You know why they can't give it up? Because even though they know that the trans issue is just absolute political poison, for them, it is the inescapable conclusion of their whole political project. Sometimes we're a little too modest about what we think of transgenderism. Sometimes we're a little too modest and we say, well, this is just the natural outgrowth of gay marriage or the natural outgrowth of gay rights or the natural outgrowth of feminism, all of which say that men and women are basically the same. But the reason that Republicans keep hammering, conservatives keep hammering this, and the left can't give it up goes deeper. It's not just because it's a weird issue and kind of titillating as a cultural matter. It's because it goes down to the whole liberal project of maximizing individual autonomy. That's the whole liberal project. Going back to classical liberalism, going back centuries, the seed of liberalism says, I am primarily an individual and I will have control over everything. I will control everything. My own destiny. I will control my own polity, my traditions. I will control religion, I will control morality. I will control everything. I will have so much control that I will liberate myself from my very body. That's the culmination of took centuries to get here. First we had to liberate ourselves from the king. Then we had to liberate ourselves from the Church. Then we had to liberate ourselves from our families. Liberalization of divorce laws. Then we had to liberate ourselves from the facts of history. We have massive revision to history. Then we had to liberate ourselves from our country. You see this collapse of patriotism. Then we had to liberate ourselves from the traditional moral order. You see that especially in the sex stuff. And now we have to liberate ourselves from our own bodies. You have to do it. Liberalism isn't complete until you do that. And it's interesting, it wouldn't be an episode without mentioning St. Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Aquinas points out that the heresy particular to transgenderism, namely that the body has nothing to do with what we really are. That the body is even bad, which is intrinsic to transgenderism. The idea that I'm born a man, but I'm really a woman, and so the maleness of my body is actually evil. That matter is evil. This is an ancient heresy. It goes back to the beginning. It goes under the name of Docetism or Gnosticism, Albigensianism. There are all lots of versions of this kind of heresy. Curious that St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the most intelligent people to ever live, says that these kinds of heresies are the very worst of all the heresies. Because the central fact of Christianity, the turning point of history, is the incarnation. It's that the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And so it's no surprise that liberalism, which is in many ways an inversion or perversion of Christianity, would take as its apotheosis the very worst heresy. Liberalism, which is in many ways just a kind of collection of heresies, the culmination of liberalism, is actually the very worst heresy. 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Oprah used to be fat, and then she'd be fat, then she'd be skinny, then she'd be fat again. She had big body problems. And she says that now in her later years, she's come to discover the real cause of her fatness. It is not that she became fat because she ate too much. No, no, no. She ate too much because even when she was skinny, she was fat.

Oprah Winfrey (30:29)

All these years, I thought I was overeating. I was standing there with all the food noise. What I ate, what I should eat, how many calories was that? How long is it going to take? I thought that that was because of me and my fault. Now I understand that if you carry the obesity gene, if that is what you have, that is what makes you overeat. You don't overeat and become obese. Obesity causes you to overeat. Obesity causes you to have all of that food noise. And what the GLP1s have done for me and I know a number of other other people is to quiet that noise.

Michael Knowles (31:06)

Food noise. What is food? One of the great tasks of living in the modern world is to Just try to translate this new jargon into common sense terms that we've all known forever. Food noise. What is food noise? Do you know what it is? It's appetite. It's food. You know, gosh, my food noise is really up right now, honey. When are the steaks done? So she says that she has an appetite because she has obesity. She has genetic obesity or something like that. I looked this up. I was curious. I said, maybe she's right. Looked up. I said, who are the fattest people on Earth? When you just close your eyes, you think of the fattest people as a people, not individuals, but people. Polynesians, right? It's like you picture the big fat Samoan or like Israel kama hooka, waka wale. I'm mispronouncing that a little bit. You know, the ukulele player. These are famously giant people. And I said, are they just genetically fat? I looked into it, and they do have certain genetic features that store fat more efficiently or burn energy, you know, in a more efficient way. And so they do have a predisposition to obesity. But even they, the fattest peoples on Earth, cannot blame genetics for the majority of their fatness. Genetics plays a minor role. You know why they're fat? Cause they eat a lot. That's what it is. And because people have appetites, and your appetite can grow sometimes when you habituate yourself to eating a lot, that's called gluttony. Or your appetite can be held in check when you cultivate the virtue of keeping it in check. That's called temperance. And we can try to. We can make up new euphemisms like food noise, and obesity actually makes you fat and this and that. But it's not gonna change the fact what Oprah's doing here is trying to defend taking these new drugs, the Ozempic and the related drugs. Oh, look, I just had a young man come on the show Clavicular and talk about why he takes these kinds of drugs. And they have really negative effects. And I think they're all symptoms of body dysmorphia at best, or of just trying to cheat and take shortcuts and perpetuate vice at worst. But if you're going to do it, which I don't recommend, then at least be honest about why you're doing it, because Oprah doesn't want to control her appetites, so you have to externalize everything. It's never about me. It's never about my own habits. It's never about something that I can do. It's always external. And it's a kind of an irony because this goes hand in hand with liberalism as well. On the one hand, we want to assume more and more control for ourselves, so much so that we can control when we give birth, we can control when we die. We can control what sex we are. We can control these characteristics, you know, even that we're born with. We can control all of that. On the one hand, we make ourselves into gods, but then on the other hand, we deny that we have any control over anything, including whether or not we pick up the third cupcake. It's this amazing paradox. When it's convenient for us, we have so much control that we are practically God. But when it's inconvenient for us, we have no control over all. Over anything at all. We just have food, noise, and invisible obesity that's gonna make us fat. Oh, no. If only I could stop my hand from picking up that pork chop. It's a little incoherent. It's a little contradictory, isn't it? Speaking of women politics, this video going viral, I just. I love it. Some people are getting really angry about it. I'm not angry. I love it. I think it's great. It's a harpy screeching at an ICE officer. Take it away. Did you just pick them up, put them in a truck? Is that what you do? Are you. Are you proud of yourself for doing this? Are you absolutely proud? Thank you for calling. Thank you for calling my. Are you proud of this? Are you proud? So it's this awful woman who's screeching at the ICE agent. And finally, this goes on for a while. I only showed you a short bit of it. And then finally, his partner gets out of the car and says, thank you for calling the ICE hotline. Thank you. And then they get back in the truck. These should be campaign ads. These are really good. The libs right now think that the ICE raids are good for them, that they're gonna play these raids and it's gonna help them in the midterms. I'm not so sure. Especially as the left continues to now try to run over law enforcement, Especially as you see these foreign criminals who are stealing rifles and causing riots. I don't know that that helps them, but this in particular, I'm just gonna assume that's a white lady. I don't know. She sounds white. And if I'm right about that, this is the perfect campaign ad. Because no one likes these kinds of ladies, these harpies. And specifically, fair or unfair, they don't like the white harpies. Do you know why the right doesn't like them? Because these women hector. And hectoring is really annoying. They're just nagging, hectoring, very annoying creatures that need to improve. They need to be educated and husbanded and improved. But as they are, they're very annoying. But the left doesn't like him either. Because even though the left has no problem with ladies hectoring men, they don't like white ladies. That's the one racial slur that everyone feels that we can use is the slur Karen. Karen refers specifically to white women. White women who we don't like. So you find this. Say it's fair, say it's unfair, say it's racist, say it's just. It is what it is. Nagging, hectoring, white harpies are probably the least sympathetic figure in the country and they're the star of the Minnesota riots. It's not the Venezuelans. It's not the Somalis. It's not even ice. It's this type of woman. It's not gonna work. That's why this incident with Renee Goode. That's why the left tried to make this into George Floyd 2.0. There are riots and some unrest in Minneapolis, but it's not really happening. You're not really seeing those nationwide riots. That's why. So the libs want to give us more of these videos. Great. Run them as campaign ads on network TV and social media, which is where most people are watching anyway. I don't think that helps the Dems in November. Okay. Speaking of unpleasant white women, actually the same group. We turn back to New York where Sia Weaver, the tenant director for Zoran Mamdani, just gives us even more material to work with. The wait is almost over. Episodes one and two of the Pendragon cycle, Rise of the Merlin begin streaming on Dailywire. Plus in one week. A Legend 1500 Years in the making, brought to life as a full scale cinematic epic. After three years of production across two continents. Set before King Arthur, before Camelot, before the Legends, you Think youk Know, it is terrific. You are going to love it. I strongly recommend you check it out. Episodes 1 and 2 premiere January 22nd exclusively on DailyWire. Be among the first to experience the Pendragon cycle Rise of the Merlin. Join now DailyWire.com Pendragon My favorite comment yesterday from Noahu6200 who says, is the Civil Rights act becoming based? Yes, it is. It is. This is my point. The Trump administration comes out, says, hey, we have the Civil Rights act on the books. If you have been fired on the basis of your race, if you've been discriminated against on the basis of your race, please file a complaint. Now, we've heard that for decades, but it was always, if you're black and you didn't get a job and you think it's because you're black, or even if you don't think it's cause you're black, but you can pretend you think it's because you're black and maybe you get the job, file a complaint, or if you're Hispanic, or if you're this or that, but don't do it if you're a white person. Because the Civil Rights act is supposed to end unjust racial discrimination, but what it really does is just discriminate against white people and to some degree, Asian people. And so the Trump administration called the bluff and said, we'll use it the way it says it's supposed to be used, not the way it's practically used. That's what we gotta do. That's the thesis. We live in a political order. And so rather than just whine about pie in the sky, we're gonna repeal the Civil Rights Act. That's not gonna happen. Just use it in a just way. Use it as it perhaps is supposed to be used. We're not gonna get rid of the administrative state. We've been building the administrative state since the early days of the 20th century. It went into effect under Franklin roosevelt in the 1930s. We're not getting rid of it. So let's just use it to our advantage. Let's wield. That's what we gotta do. You gotta engage in political reality. Okay, back to those unpleasant women. Here's CIA Weaver describing the big problem for rent justice.

Sia Weaver (39:58)

I think that United States public policy has done a really, really, really good job of pitting cash poor homeowners and working class homeowners and middle class homeowners against renters. And we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers. It's really quite difficult, right, because yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings. But Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 Buildings, still kind of sucks and has a lot more stability than renters. And there's more of them than there are of the Blackstones. And so it's just like this challenging dynamic that white middle class homeowners are a huge problem for our renter justice movement.

Michael Knowles (40:46)

Print it, print it. Put it on tv. Love this, love her. Put her on the payroll. I don't care. The Michael Knowles show payroll, The Daily Wire payroll. The Republican Party payroll. I love her. I love her. If she didn't exist we'd have to invent her ourselves. She's straight outta central casting. White middle class homeowners are the problem. I want that to be the Democrats slogan for the midterms. White middle class homeowners are the problem. And I want it to come from her. A hectoring, unsympathetic white woman. Because again, I like white women. I don't use the slur, Karen. I find that unfair. I think white women are great some of the time. Maybe not that one, but that's just a cultural fact. That's the least sympathetic group. She proves it because she says, you know, and these landlords, these people who own apartments, they're awful. I mean Mrs. Smith, she sucks. Notice she says Mrs. Smith. That's a white name. She doesn't say Mrs. Laquisha. She doesn't say Mrs. Gonzalez. She doesn't, she says Mrs. Smith. It's funny cuz we're talking about New York now. New York Rentals. Well, the Attorney General of New York is under a fraud investigation because she owns an apartment building and she lied about it. She defrauded a financial institution cuz she is running an apartment building like a scummy fraudster. Her name's Letitia James. She ain't Mrs. Smith. But it doesn't matter because the villain in this narrative for the left and to some degree the right are these white harpies. And so that's just a political reality. And if you think, if a political party thinks that they're going to win on telling the majority of the population that we need to take their houses away, sign me up, man, sign me. Where do I donate to the See a Weaver campaign? Now, speaking of homes, President Trump, this is a story from a few days ago, but I have to get to it because it's very important. President Trump says he's going to ban institutional investors from buying single family homes. This is President Trump posting to Truth Social. For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American dream. It was the reward for working hard and doing the right thing. But now, because of the record high inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American dream is at a reach for far too many young people. I'm immediately taking steps to ban large institutional investors from buying more single family homes. And I will be calling on Congress to codify it. People live in homes, not corporations. I love this. And the establishment Republicans and maybe some of the libertarians, they're gonna hate this, but I love this. This is smart populist economics. And you're gonna hear, oh, are you gonna hear from the squishy side? They're gonna say, ah, actually, this is. Corporations are people to some degree, that's true. And actually BlackRock has every right to buy up all the single family homes. And actually this could be really bad for the housing market. Actually, actually, actually, actually, actually. And we conservatives, we on our principles need to let BlackRock scoop up all the homes. No, my friend, no. All we care about as conservatives is just stopping the government from doing things. No, no, no. This is actually a beautiful kind of issue because it unites the more populist types, the more, say, traditional conservatives like me with some of the most prominent libertarians. Who was it who said that we conservatives do not merely oppose monopoly in government, but monopoly, unaccountable power of all kinds. That was Barry Goldwater in Conscience of a Conservative. That was the libertarian presidential candidate par excellence. This is the kind of thing that can actually unite the party. It's where most conservatives are, I think, and it's a big issue. At the height of COVID almost 5% of homes were purchased by these large institutional investors. If you look at certain cities, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Charlotte and elsewhere, 15% or more of rental homes are owned by these large institutional investors. The institutional investors are not the biggest driver of the housing costs. They're really not. It's a smaller portion, but they drive it a little bit. You know what the bigger portion is? Mass migration. That's what does it. Mass migration is accountable for 60% of rental increases around the country and 100% in New York and California. Rents went down four months in a row after Trump began implementing the deportations. Coincidence? I think. Not really important that we should applaud. This is it. This is sensitive, accountable government. I love it so much more. Oh, man. What are you talking. They say I'm over time for my show today. I have so much more to get to. I want to get to great news about the economy. I want to get to New Minnesota. I want to get to our conquest of Greenland. Dick Cheney, don Rumsfeld flying F35s dropping freedom seeds over Greenland. The Danish colonists will greet us as liberators. I want to get to all that. That's my tease. We got to get to it tomorrow. Today's theology Thursday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member, use Code Knowles, Canada WLAS at checkout for two months FREE on all annual plan.

Pendragon Cycle Character (46:37)

What was it like, Marlon? To be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with?

Michael Knowles (46:52)

Martin? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was.

Pendragon Cycle Character (46:56)

Not of this world. All men know of the great Taliesin.

Michael Knowles (47:03)

You are my father.

Pendragon Cycle Character (47:04)

That the gods should war for my soul. Princess Garrus, savior of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new pirate work in the world.

Michael Knowles (47:21)

I've seen it.

Pendragon Cycle Character (47:23)

A God who sacrifices what he loves for us.

Michael Knowles (47:25)

We are each given only one life. Singer. No.

Pendragon Cycle Character (47:29)

And we're given another. I learnt of Yazu the Christ. And I have become his follower.

Michael Knowles (47:37)

He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him one.

Pendragon Cycle Character (47:41)

Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us. Hate To Bristol never rests in the hands of the great light. Great light, Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now? Mistress of lies. You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? Still clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do. Great life, forgive me. The time has come to be reborn.