I disappear for two days in the world falls apart. Pennsylvania,

Attorney General, Josh Shapiro, graphically and meticulously details decades and decades

of sexual abuse by Catholic priests against children and teenagers in a grand jury report.

The scandal has had effects all the way up to the College of Cardinals. This is a once-in-a-century

problem, if not more, and there's going to be a lot more pain. We will analyze why it happened

and what can be done about it. Then, the dumbest article on the internet this week,

Care of Slate, I'm shocked. Totally shocked, it was slate. Then, former Bush administration

Drugs or John Walters stops by to discuss the opioid epidemic, legalized Haitian oregano,

and why libertarians are wrong. Some of my favorite topics. Finally, the mailbag, I'm Michael

Noles, and this is the Michael Noles show. Okay, so if you can notice the bags under the bags,

under the bags, under my eyes. It's because we got in last night pretty late from Phoenix. We were

out in Dallas and Phoenix for the Ben Shapiro live shows, and it was so much fun. It was great. I

got to meet a lot of people in both cities. People were flying down from Canada. They were flying

in from Boston and just all over the place. One guy came from Alaska. It was really cool. It was so

good to meet everybody. One thing that is not surprising, I knew it just from the mailbag and from

meeting other people in different cities, is that the daily wire listeners and viewers are so

much smarter than the average people. Certainly, then, your average New York Times reader or

NBC viewer or CNN viewer or something like that. But they're really smarter. Some of these

questions were extraordinarily erudite. The people that I met are interesting people. They've

got excellent education. They've got interesting jobs. They work in interesting industries.

And they're just really smart. There were questions about Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas and David

Hume. It was really great. I really enjoyed that. Even we go to college campuses and you would

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