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Ep. 2076 - Russian "Bubonic Plague" Lab Leak Sparks International Panic

The Michael Knowles Show

October 7, 2026

A lab leak has reportedly caused a plague in Russia, doctors offer to murder older women if they can’t cook, and AOC makes a strong argument that she could be president. Ep.

Speakers Michael Knowles, Caleb Flynn

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Welcome back to the show. Sorry, I forgot one. Austrian painter just won some big horse race. Austrian painter is the name of the horse. So we got plague, we got doctors killing women because they won't cook dinner anymore, President AOC, and Hitler winning horse races. I'm starting to think Peter Thiel is now very famously doing his Antichrist Lecture Series in this city, in Nashville, starting to feel like it's a little more of a news conference than it is an academic discussion of theology. We'll get into all of it. First, I want to tell you about Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com/knowles, Canada, WLAS. Here's a simple question. Do you actually like your wireless company? Because Americans have this remarkable habit of complaining about their carrier for 10 years straight. And then faithfully, every single month, they send that carrier money. That's crazy. You know that your cell phone company, it's not like your wife. You're not in a marriage. You are allowed to leave. I use and love Pure Talk. I've been telling you about Pure Talk for years. I make calls, I can send texts, I watch video, I use unlimited data. The coverage is superb. Pure Talk uses the best towers out there. Don't hear that as they use very good towers or comparable towers to the other. They use the best ones out there. I love it and I'm not an outlier. In a recent industry survey, more than 120,000 wireless customers, Pure Talk was the only wireless company to earn five out of five stars in every category. Coverage, support, value, data. If you're paying more and complaining about the service anyway, perhaps loyalty has gone too far. You gotta switch to Pure Talk. Go to puretalk.com/knowles, get 50% off your first month. After that, unlimited high-speed data for $34.99 a month. That is puretalk.com/knowles, Canada WLAS, $34.99 a month. At that point, continuing to overpay becomes a personal decision and mistake. Switch to Pure Talk right now. Let's start with the AOC one. It's the scariest one of all. I know doctors are now murdering people and I know the bubonic plague is bad, like the Black Death is bad and everything. But all of that pales in comparison to President AOC. And AOC is actually on the surface making an argument about something else. She's making an argument about something even closer to us than the 2028 cycle. That is the midterm elections. AOC is very, very focused on helping the Democrats win. Democrats right now are looking very strong going into the midterms, which is why you need to get out and vote. You need to vote early, maybe vote often. She's focusing specifically on the Michigan Senate race. That is Abdul El-Sayed, alternately a jihadi and a homosexual. We don't know which he's doing.

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