The Michael Knowles Show

00:00:00.000 Kanye West turns the MAGA up to 11. Our conservative Republican president has made

00:00:06.640 even the socialist president of France love us, and a new study shows global warming alarmism

00:00:13.380 is largely nonsense. Then, Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp, comes on the show to discuss trolling

00:00:20.640 white liberals at Starbucks. The too-long-didn't-read is the conservatives are finally winning

00:00:26.040 the culture. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:00:30.000 I can't take it. I can't take it. Elizabeth, I'm coming. I'm coming, Elizabeth. There is too much

00:00:41.540 winning. Mr. President, I wish I had believed you. I'm sorry I didn't believe you when you said that

00:00:47.820 we would get sick and tired of winning. I don't know how much more my body can take. I'm going

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00:03:23.380 What did I tell you? I, you know, yesterday was all death and destruction and old people dying and

00:03:28.660 that poor baby Alfie being murdered by the UK government and the socialist bureaucrats of the UK

00:03:35.600 healthcare system. Then genocide. That's how we rounded out the show yesterday. A little depressing.

00:03:40.360 But today, oh, today is the exact opposite of yesterday. Kanye West is sounding like a rock

00:03:47.420 ribbed conservative. This guy is not just throwing out hints. I can't wait to tell you about it. I'm

00:03:54.420 going to save that. I'm going to save that toward the middle of the show. That's going to be like the

00:03:57.840 real delicious part of the show. But also let's not forget, Donald Trump has made French socialists

00:04:04.280 love America. And also just a little extra bit here. Doctors are advising men to stare at boobs

00:04:10.260 to improve their health. This is an actual news story going around today. Then science deals another

00:04:16.540 crushing blow to lefties global warming alarmism. And if that last one weren't a sign against the

00:04:22.840 apocalypse, I would think that this is the apocalypse, right? If it weren't, if that last great news item

00:04:28.580 didn't say explicitly that the world is not ending right now, I would think the world is ending.

00:04:33.000 The French like us for some reason. They love Trump. The biggest pop culture star in the entire

00:04:39.320 world just loves Trump and wears MAGA hats and things like that. Too good. Let's start with

00:04:45.260 global warming. This is the easiest way to dive into it. Let's just dip our toes into that not very

00:04:50.480 warm water. So a new study in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate has

00:04:56.160 concluded, quote, future warming is likely to be substantially lower than the central computer

00:05:03.880 model simulated level projected by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,

00:05:09.620 and highly unlikely to exceed that level. For comment, we turn now to former Vice President Al Gore.

00:05:15.000 ManBearPig is in there, and we have to kill him while we all have the chance. I'm serial!

00:05:20.500 And I'm saying it, I'm totally serial, but everyone just keeps digging!

00:05:24.220 Attack my ManBearPig, and ManBearPig leaves nobody alive! I'm super serial!

00:05:28.660 Nobody will listen to me with serial!

00:05:34.000 And someday, when the world is rid of ManBearPig, everyone will say,

00:05:39.700 Thank you, Al Gore! You're super awesome! The end.

00:05:45.240 Interesting. I hadn't considered that perspective. I don't know that that day is going to be coming

00:05:48.760 anytime soon. Because, you know, there are, of course, there are lots of studies,

00:05:53.940 the alarmists' studies, and these studies show how the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow

00:05:59.680 proves that global warming is going to kill us all in the next five minutes. The trouble is,

00:06:05.340 if you're going to predict the end of the world, you have to be right.

00:06:07.920 If you keep predicting the end of the world, it doesn't happen. You're going to look foolish.

00:06:12.980 Not coincidentally, or providentially, perhaps. Earth Day was just on Sunday, April 22nd.

00:06:19.900 Earth Day has been around now for 48 years, almost half a century.

00:06:23.940 So it's kind of fun to look back in 1970, the first Earth Day ever. Let's see some of the

00:06:28.940 predictions they made. Let's see if they came true. 48 years ago, on the very first Earth Day,

00:06:35.880 Harvard biologist George Wald said, quote,

00:06:40.220 civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against the problems

00:06:46.520 facing mankind. And by the way, when they say immediate action, they try to put it in this

00:06:51.260 language that it's, this is, look, this is just science. This is just science. This isn't partisan.

00:06:56.200 This isn't conservative or liberal or Republican or Democrat. It's just science. As though,

00:07:00.340 as though there were scientific politics, right? There isn't a scientific politics.

00:07:04.720 As though scientists have anything to do with politics. As though they have any expertise.

00:07:10.920 They don't. Maybe they have some expertise in one field. Apparently, this guy didn't have much

00:07:14.720 expertise in his own field. But that doesn't mean you have expertise in any field. We talked about

00:07:18.640 that yesterday and about what G.K. Chesterton said about the problem of expertise. So 15 to 30

00:07:25.500 years, unless immediate action is taken, which really means unless we do all the public policies

00:07:30.780 that the left has wanted for a hundred years. But okay, so that, that action wasn't taken and

00:07:36.280 it looks like we're okay. Looks like we made it. The New York Times though, in 1970, that first Earth

00:07:42.080 Day, predicted the extinction of the human race. That's a modest, a modest prediction. Did it happen?

00:07:48.960 No. The thing is, if you predict death, eventually you'll be right. You know, it's actually a safe bet

00:07:54.840 in the long run. As John Maynard Cain said, in the long run, we're all dead, but they haven't been

00:07:59.660 right so far. They're still holding out hope. The biologist, Paul Ehrlich, predicted in 1970 that

00:08:06.620 100 to 200 million people per year would starve to death from overpopulation during the 1970s.

00:08:15.020 100 to 200 million people per year did that. A lot of terrible things happened in the 70s,

00:08:19.240 but I don't think that was one of them. He predicted that 4 billion people would die in what he called

00:08:24.800 the great die-off of the 1980s. Didn't happen. Actually, everyone had a lot more food and had

00:08:31.220 a much better life and the economy around the world soared. It was really nice. Dennis Hayes,

00:08:35.820 a co-organizer of Earth Day, said in 1970, it was already too late to avoid mass starvation.

00:08:42.560 Probably the greatest public health crisis in America right now is obesity.

00:08:47.380 But he said in 1970, it's too late. We're all going to starve. The trouble around the world is that

00:08:51.740 everybody is too fat. He could not have been more wrong. Peter Gunter said by the year 2000,

00:08:58.880 the entire world outside the West would be in starvation. And I guess the entire world outside

00:09:04.520 the West is now trying to enter the West for other reasons, not for starvation. So maybe that

00:09:09.160 complicates things, but it is not the case. That's not true at all. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of

00:09:13.520 people have been lifted out of poverty just in China alone over the last 30 years. Just did not

00:09:18.660 happen. Life Magazine reported that scientists would now know in 1970 that by 1980, city dwellers

00:09:28.880 would have to wear gas masks. They would have to, they couldn't, the pollution would be so awful,

00:09:33.200 they'd have to wear gas masks everywhere. Not just those things that certain people wear on airplanes,

00:09:38.300 you know, the little filter, but just actual gas masks. Don't remember that happening. They said by

00:09:43.620 1985, all around the world, air pollution would have reduced the sunlight to the earth by 50%,

00:09:49.220 by a full half. The ecologist, Kenneth Watt, predicted that we would run out of oil by 2000.

00:09:56.400 Not only have we not run out of oil, we're going to start drilling for even more oil in all those

00:10:00.260 places that Democrats won't let us drill. We're going to Anwar. We're going to drill, baby drill.

00:10:05.220 We're going to get that delicious dinosaur juice out of the ground and we're going to keep driving our

00:10:09.040 cars and it'll be just great. Uh, they also predicted, uh, this was Kenneth Watt, the ecologist

00:10:13.240 in 1970 predicted an impending ice age, how quickly things change. Uh, and what it's all based on by

00:10:19.960 the way is they say, if, if present trends continue, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah. If trends continue, dah, dah,

00:10:27.280 dah, dah, dah. But the trouble is none of these models are ever right. Very few of them predict

00:10:33.020 anything at all. And in the long run, none of them have predicted much, much at all. If trends

00:10:38.640 continue, but the trends don't continue. We're in, we're in a dynamic space. Politics is dynamic.

00:10:44.300 The climate is a chaotic environment that, you know, you could say this with presidential elections.

00:10:49.040 You see this all the time. Some party wins an election and they say, Oh my, the, the other

00:10:53.080 party is over the other party. It's over. They should just, they should just forget about their

00:10:57.600 party. They should dissolve because it's over. If the present trends continue, their party's over,

00:11:02.940 but trends don't continue because we're people politics as the affairs of men and it changes all the

00:11:07.400 time. And it's in the present and it can change on a dime in ways that we can't predict you. There

00:11:11.920 are, as Donald Rumsfeld said, there are no knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, you know,

00:11:18.860 things that you know, you know, and things that you know that you don't know and things that you just

00:11:23.440 don't know. And that's, that's a much truer view of the world. You can't, we just can't predict

00:11:29.660 these things. The egghead experts want to say that I can tell you what the velocity of the

00:11:35.240 unladen swallow will be in 2078. They don't, they just don't know. We have to get to even

00:11:41.920 better scientific news. And then of course to Kanye. But before we get to that, I want to welcome

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00:14:50.300 way, this is a perfect segue. Speaking of the boudoir, in other scientific news, according

00:14:57.620 to scientists published in the archives of internal medicine, the British medical journal

00:15:02.540 and how men age, scientists have concluded there are about six proven ways to live longer,

00:15:11.900 to have better health. And some of the top ways to do that are stare at boobs, have a lot

00:15:18.340 of sex, and don't worry about working out too much. I, I, I, I have known this intuitively

00:15:26.020 my whole life. I feel like maybe I'm some sort of savant, some like rain man of men's health,

00:15:32.640 because I tell you from, I didn't have to read that in a scientific study, but it's a, this is

00:15:37.740 true now because apparently, uh, staring at boobs, if you're a man makes you happier. And that's the

00:15:44.100 power of positive thinking. People live longer. They report a lower levels of stress, all these

00:15:49.160 sort of things. And, uh, having lots of sex, I guess is, uh, is, uh, I don't think I need to

00:15:54.760 convince anybody that that's going to put you into better health. You know, have you feeling very

00:15:58.340 good. And, uh, and what, what was the final one? Oh, I'm sorry. I was thinking about boobs and I

00:16:06.720 totally forgot. Oh yeah. And not working out too much. That's the other one. So you get to stare at

00:16:11.960 boobs, have a lot of sex and don't work out because there's something so not conservative about

00:16:17.480 working out a lot about going to the gym and really, and you're like a man and you're worrying

00:16:22.020 about, you're checking out your abs in the mirror and you're like a little soy boy. I don't know how

00:16:27.040 else to put it. Real men don't care about that that much. They want to sit around and not have

00:16:31.760 to go preen and like go jogging. No man should ever jog. And like, they would just want to smoke

00:16:36.800 cigars and eat pizza and like hang out and read and be a cool guy. So all excellent news. I've really,

00:16:42.880 I was skeptical of science when they said that the world was going to end in the 1970s,

00:16:47.460 but I think science is getting much, much better because they're telling us that Al Gore is a dummy

00:16:51.180 and everything that we know about what makes us happy is true. A good day for science. Way, way,

00:16:58.260 way too much winning. And the real winning here or the real hashtag winning is cultural. I like the

00:17:03.880 science stuff too. It's all culture. Conservatives are finally winning the culture. This brings us to

00:17:10.720 Yeezy, Kanye West. So Kanye West has been tweeting these great things that it sounds like he's a

00:17:15.500 conservative Republican. He starts out and he just tweets, decentralized. Okay. All right. Yeah, I agree.

00:17:24.220 We should decentralize. We should have more local government, more local control. Then he tweets,

00:17:29.420 you don't have to agree with Trump, but the mob can't make me not love him. We are both dragon energy.

00:17:36.000 He is my brother. I love everyone. I don't agree with everything anyone does. That's what makes us

00:17:41.180 individuals. And we have the right to independent thought. So at this point, I am, I'm actually just

00:17:49.060 a Kanye West fan. I don't really like his music that much, but I'm, I've become a Kanye West fan.

00:17:54.400 So at this point now, the media are saying he's insane. They say, oh, he's crazy. Oh, he's this,

00:17:59.780 he's that. Then he tweets out a picture of him wearing the MAGA hat because he's just playing around,

00:18:04.900 right? He's just like giving you a little hint. So yeah, I like Trump personally. Then he's wearing

00:18:08.480 that MAGA hat and the media go crazy. And they say they're actually reporting that Kanye West is

00:18:14.500 mentally ill. That is how they, because they're so in their own silo. They're so in their own little

00:18:19.280 bubble. They don't realize that half the country voted for Donald Trump, but they don't know any

00:18:23.680 of those people. They don't know anyone who voted for Donald Trump. So the only thing that this could

00:18:27.820 mean is that Kanye West has lost his mind. Kim Kardashian, to her credit, tweeted out and said,

00:18:32.640 you can't, mental health is a serious issue and you shouldn't be bandying around these smears and

00:18:39.340 allegations so carelessly. My husband isn't crazy, you know, basically, or he's no crazier than he

00:18:44.560 ever was. He's no crazier than he used to be. This has been building for a few days. Kanye West tweeted

00:18:49.400 out a video of Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, who's, he's not a right winger or a left winger, but he's,

00:18:56.400 he likes Trump and he kind of understands Trump. So Kanye West tweets out not just a video of Scott

00:19:03.680 Adams, but a video of him watching Scott Adams. And this is really important because it's, it's

00:19:12.260 involving you in his realization. It's involving you in his participation in something conservative.

00:19:19.740 It's not just a random tweet and you'd say, oh, he didn't do that. It's bringing you right into his

00:19:23.440 living room, right onto his computer. And this was really shocking. I mean, this is so good.

00:19:30.220 He's, this all started when he said that he likes the way Candace Owens thinks, friend of the show,

00:19:34.620 red pill, black Candace Owens. So how should conservatives react to this? I know Ben has

00:19:40.980 been urging caution. He says, don't, we shouldn't embrace these celebrities. We don't let, we're not

00:19:46.460 fans of Kanye West. We're not, yeah, you know, and he's, he says crazy things. We shouldn't embrace him.

00:19:51.320 Um, I don't, I don't disagree with the premises here that we don't always agree with Kanye West

00:19:57.640 and we don't really like his music that much. And we don't have to pretend that he's some great

00:20:02.280 political savant or philosopher, but we should embrace what Kanye West is doing right now.

00:20:07.580 We have to do it. We have to take the wins when we can get them. We should not be borrowing problems

00:20:13.440 from tomorrow. Look, this is what the culture is. Politics happens now. It happens now in time and

00:20:18.780 space. A lot of times conservatives won't take yes for an answer. Say, no, I don't think so.

00:20:23.580 Do I, do I like Kanye West's music? No. Do I have to like Kanye West's music? No, but he's doing

00:20:29.540 something good. Give him credit for it. Absolutely. This is the biggest pop culture figure in the world

00:20:35.360 of maybe other than Donald Trump. And he's embracing Donald Trump. He's wearing the MAGA hat. That's a big

00:20:41.220 win. Take it. Don't say, no, he didn't do it on my terms. We're not winning the culture on my terms.

00:20:47.000 Who cares? Doesn't matter. We're winning. This is a wonderful thing because politics is downstream

00:20:52.120 of culture, as Andrew Breitbart was fond of saying. And politics is about people. Aristotle said the

00:20:57.560 thing that makes human beings human beings is politics. Man is the political animal. Politics

00:21:02.760 is the affairs of men. And all the good politicians are people people. You got to be a people person.

00:21:08.880 You got to like people. And you see this in all of our presidents, all of our successful presidents,

00:21:14.960 certainly. They, they really like people. They like being around people. You see that with like

00:21:18.580 Bill Clinton, like, Hey honey, I really likes people probably a little too much, but everyone

00:21:24.300 is a people person. I got in trouble on Twitter when that little dog was killed on United Airlines.

00:21:30.880 Someone said, you're not a people person or you're not a dog person. Are you, Michael? I said,

00:21:34.120 no, I'm a people person. Donald Trump is a people person. Kanye West, same thing.

00:21:39.000 This brings us to the president of France. Before I can get to that, we got to talk about ring

00:21:42.320 because you know, I'm a people person. I like a lot of people, but I don't like people who try

00:21:47.060 to rob my house or hurt my family. Those are people I don't like, which is why ring is a great

00:21:51.860 product. Uh, ring is so helpful. Uh, ring has this video doorbell. I've talked to you about them

00:21:57.800 before. They connect right to your cell phone. These guys have totally changed the home security

00:22:01.500 game with a doorbell. Who would have thought? So I'm, I'm going to play a little clip that they sent

00:22:07.120 over, but you know, this is like the Jetsons kind of technology. You go, all your cool friends have

00:22:12.760 this now. It's, it installs very easily. You click and you can just see whoever is at the door right

00:22:19.340 from your phone, anywhere you are at work or on the beach or wherever. And you can talk to them back

00:22:24.580 and forth. Uh, it uploads everything to the cloud. Uh, all right, I'm going to play this clip. Then we'll

00:22:29.460 talk about it a little bit more. So a crazy looking guy walks up to a home. The first thing you hear

00:22:34.200 is him kicking in the door and then the homeowner catches him. Hello?

00:22:44.700 Hey, stop. Are you okay? Leave my house or I'm calling the police. Okay. What you need to do.

00:22:51.980 Hey, leave my house. Stop now or I'm calling the police. Why would you tell me that? Because

00:22:58.660 you're trying to push my door in. Leave now. I'm about to smash what's in there. I'm calling the

00:23:07.720 police. Okay. I am the police. Something tells me that guy's not the police. I don't know what it is

00:23:15.480 about him. So ring in the old days, there was neighborhood watch, which isn't very effective.

00:23:21.040 And you know, you'd go, you could get into a very dangerous situation. Ring makes this very easy. It is

00:23:25.880 the 21st century. It is unbelievably inexpensive. And it, when you get that crazy guy, come up to

00:23:31.900 your door, you can upload that video. It goes straight to the cloud. You can share it with your

00:23:36.780 neighbors. So you say, watch out for this crazy person. I don't think he's with the police. Uh,

00:23:41.140 it's really, really good. And, uh, even if, if they steal your ring, if they say, I'm going to steal

00:23:45.720 that doorbell, then, then I'll get away with it. Won't happen. It's already in the cloud. Save up to

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00:24:06.920 slash Knowles, K-N-O-W-L-E-S. I use mine because, you know, sometimes Democrats who purchased copies of

00:24:15.440 reasons to vote for Democrats and were very upset that it was entirely blank. Sometimes they try to

00:24:19.140 knock down my door, you know, so I need, I really need a good home security so I can lock them out.

00:24:24.560 Okay. Back to people, people. Donald Trump is a people person. That's a, that's a great thing for

00:24:30.000 the conservative movement. It's a great thing for the culture. Sometimes conservatives are a little

00:24:33.560 detached from people. Trump doesn't have that. And look how it's paying off. Here he is with the

00:24:38.160 president of France. Mr. President, they're all saying what a great relationship we have.

00:24:43.580 And they're actually correct. It's not fake news. Finally, it's not fake news. So it's a great honor,

00:24:51.000 great honor that you're here. But we do have a very special relationship. In fact, I'll get that

00:24:55.900 little piece of paper. We have to make him perfect. He is perfect. So it is really, it is really great to

00:25:04.460 be with you and you are a special president. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

00:25:13.580 I like him a lot. I can tell you're a people person, Donald and people like him. Everyone's

00:25:21.260 trying to figure out, they say, why does Emmanuel macaroon, that delicious French cookie, why does he

00:25:26.280 like Donald Trump so much? And I think he just likes him basically. I think, I guess it's advantageous

00:25:31.880 in a way. I don't know that it's terribly politically advantageous for him to be nice to

00:25:36.280 Trump. I think they just like each other. They get along. That's a good thing. Americans hate the

00:25:40.300 French and the French hate the Americans, but we're getting along. That's a great thing. It's the,

00:25:44.900 it is the power of culture. And speaking of winning the culture, how important this is.

00:25:49.260 I sat down yesterday with Brian Sharp, who goes by Hotep Jesus, because Hotep trolled white liberals at

00:25:56.740 Starbucks. Talk about getting in there and subverting the culture. Um, I, you know, okay,

00:26:02.700 I really want to play this, but unfortunately I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.

00:26:07.500 Oh, it's really good though. You go to dailywire.com right now and sign up just so you can see this

00:26:11.640 interview. So, uh, if you go to dailywire.com right now, what do you get? You get me, you get

00:26:15.780 the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show. You get to ask questions in the mailbag. That's

00:26:19.820 tomorrow. Get your questions in. Uh, only subscribers can ask questions though. Everybody can

00:26:24.540 listen to them. Many are called, but few are chosen. You can also ask questions in the

00:26:28.700 conversation. The next one up will be little old me. And so make sure you sign up before then.

00:26:34.000 Again, none of that matters. Kanye West is wearing a MAGA hat. Kanye West is tweeting Republican

00:26:43.480 propaganda for the last three days. Get the leftist here's Tumblr as soon as possible. I won't even keep

00:26:50.840 talking. Go do it right now or else you're going to drown. We'll be right back.

00:26:54.540 Okay. I sat down with Hotep yesterday. He offered excellent insight on this exact question on this

00:27:09.980 exact question of the culture. It's absolutely hilarious. Here's Hotep. Brian Sharp, Hotep Jesus.

00:27:16.620 Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. Hotep. I got to tell you, I had to pay every single

00:27:23.080 penny for this delicious Starbucks. You have managed to find a way through that system and

00:27:30.560 collect your reparations for Starbucks. I should say before we talk about it, I don't think anyone

00:27:36.580 who's watching has not seen this video, but just in case some, someone missed it somehow, this is

00:27:42.640 the greatest troll of the year. At least here is Hotep Jesus getting Starbucks reparations justice.

00:27:51.120 We about to go inside, get my free coffee. Y'all ready? Y'all ready? How you doing?

00:27:59.980 Good. How are you? All right. I heard y'all was racist. So I came to get my own free coffee.

00:28:04.960 I saw that. Yeah. I heard you guys don't like black people. So I wanted to get my Starbucks

00:28:10.180 reparations voucher. What's that? It's not a real thing. It's a real thing. I mean, I'll give it to

00:28:16.460 you. I, yeah, I saw that on my Twitter last night. I was like, yeah, I need, I need a free coffee.

00:28:23.240 That's what I'm talking about. This is justice.

00:28:25.540 Where was Oklahoma? Where was it? Philly. Philly? What? Are you serious? Reparations, man.

00:28:31.360 Got to get my reparations for being black in America. Black lives matter.

00:28:35.780 Black lives matter. Do you have any flavors in it? We got caramel, hazelnut. I'll take caramel.

00:28:40.840 Caramel? Sure. What's your name? I appreciate you. Amanda? Amanda, you are a great.

00:28:45.500 This is my last day here until the fall. Is it? I wish you the best. Thank you.

00:28:49.720 Yeah. You know what I'm saying? You got to get your free coffee out here, man. You got to get

00:28:53.900 your Starbucks reparations, man. Huh? Yeah. This is how we do, man. Black lives matter,

00:29:01.020 baby. All right. All right. Hotep, to begin, what gave you this brilliant idea?

00:29:10.260 Man, I don't know. It was like a gift from God. As soon as the whole Starbucks thing happened,

00:29:16.420 you know, I had this idea. I was like, if I go anywhere near a Starbucks, I'm going to claim

00:29:21.000 a free coffee and I'm going to live stream it while I do it. And I just happened to be there

00:29:26.300 with the fam and I look up and it's a Starbucks and I'm like, should I do it? Should I not do it?

00:29:31.600 I'm like, you know how we get down. So I just went ahead and did it, man. Had to make it happen.

00:29:37.480 You know, if you identify as black, you can go in there and you should be able to get your drinks

00:29:44.340 for free. Well, that's kind of what I wonder because I am of Sicilian descent, which is fairly

00:29:49.240 swarthy. Like, I don't know if it quite qualifies, but I got to say, man, from one troll to another,

00:29:54.940 it was just brilliant. It was so good. And it gets to a very important point, which is I try not to

00:30:01.800 delve too much into identity politics or demographics or whatever. But if there is one demographic group

00:30:08.700 that really just drives me up a wall, it is the white liberal because they are the most moralizing,

00:30:15.120 preening, usually privileged group of people in the entire country. And you totally turn them on

00:30:22.500 their head. You totally mock them just perfectly. Did you expect that reaction when you went in there?

00:30:29.060 Absolutely. When I first had the idea, I knew I knew the reaction I was going to get and I knew I was

00:30:33.700 going to get people in the right upset too. So I was like, that was more reason to do it, you know?

00:30:39.580 But you're right. Like liberals, like they complain about everything. And I'm like, you guys literally

00:30:45.280 have the most power. Like you guys have all the media outlets. Like I can't get a job unless I'm a

00:30:53.160 liberal. You know what I mean? Like, like conservatives are blocked out of everything. And these people

00:30:58.000 are complaining. Like, what are you complaining about people silencing you when you guys own all the

00:31:02.160 media networks? You guys are literally the journalists typing the article about being

00:31:07.540 silenced on a mainstream outlet. And I'm like, I can't even get on there.

00:31:11.820 That's right. I mean, obviously in America, the, the privileged culture is the left-wing culture.

00:31:17.340 They run popular culture in Hollywood and New York. They run the corporate culture. They run the

00:31:22.060 campuses. They run education really from kindergarten all the way up through graduate school. And,

00:31:27.620 and yet they, they always pretend that they're fighting against the man, you know, as though the

00:31:33.120 man were conservative. And that obviously isn't the case. We know Barack Obama's IRS targeted

00:31:38.180 conservative groups. We know Hollywood regularly blackballs conservative groups. Now it's funny

00:31:44.260 because when I saw the video, I just saw clips of it. And we've now reached this period in politics,

00:31:50.400 which is described by Poe's law where you, you can no longer tell what is satire and what is reality.

00:31:57.260 Like the American left has become a parody of itself. Are you catching flack from conservatives who

00:32:04.660 don't get the joke? Oh yeah. Um, I, I tricked, uh, Alex Jones. Alex Jones was immediately upset.

00:32:12.960 Um, but he gets upset. Yeah. I mean, it's really easy to make that guy upset. Um, but yeah, I mean,

00:32:20.000 my mentions, my, uh, Instagram, Facebook had people cursing me out like, Oh, you, you N words need

00:32:28.760 free coffee. And what is this? You're, you couldn't get your welfare check and all this type of stuff.

00:32:36.700 And it's just funny to me, but you know, I kind of laugh it off, but I expected that.

00:32:40.820 Well, this is, this is one aspect where we have to criticize conservatives in the culture

00:32:46.320 is that, that, you know, it's true that we get shut out of Hollywood and New York and all that,

00:32:51.360 but it's also because conservatives sometimes are a little bit Philistine, like they don't, uh,

00:32:57.420 grasp performance art or aspects of the culture. And they just like, they don't get the joke

00:33:03.080 sometimes, you know, and that that's no good. I mean, the, I think Norm Macdonald described Twitter

00:33:07.960 as a great place to tell people that you don't like them very much. You know, there is a lot of

00:33:12.540 anger on Twitter there, but would you call this performance art? Is this, is this part of any

00:33:17.400 broader project that you're working on? You know, I never considered a performance art,

00:33:23.340 uh, Laura Ingham referred it, referred to it as that. I don't know, maybe it is, you know, I've,

00:33:29.400 I've got several clips where I've done, you know, short comedy sketches on my Instagram,

00:33:34.460 but I didn't look at this as performance art. I really looked at this, like, I just want to make

00:33:39.340 fun of people. I just want to make fun of cry baby liberals. And I want to troll people, um,

00:33:45.720 because it's ridiculous that it's come to this, that, that we're at a place where we're talking

00:33:52.040 about racism and Starbucks. And then when you go look at the guys, right, the guys who were actually

00:33:56.780 arrested and they spoke out, they go, this isn't even about race. So I'm like all these people made

00:34:02.840 all this fuss and the main people involved say, it's not about race. So we brought all this up

00:34:08.600 for nothing as racial bias training for nothing. So I'm glad I did it and made fun of the situation.

00:34:13.440 Well, that's the, that's the really funny part because I think everybody knows that does anybody

00:34:19.800 actually think that Starbucks is racist? Starbucks is one of the most like bleeding heart companies on

00:34:26.500 planet earth. They're always virtue signaling. They're always trying to do that, you know, and your

00:34:31.360 video totally mocks that you go in and you, uh, the words you use, you know, this is Starbucks

00:34:37.140 reparations. This is justice in 2018. It is mocking that culture where everybody can be so happy that

00:34:44.700 there is such little racial discrimination that we, you know, you can kind of worry about these

00:34:50.320 ridiculous things like, you know, uh, coffee cups or something like that. That that's a wonderful

00:34:55.260 thing. Now, do you, do you see, obviously in the video, this comes up, the left doesn't seem to have

00:35:02.100 much of a sense of humor anymore. And, uh, conservatives seem to have more of a sense of

00:35:06.780 humor. They still get angry on Twitter, but they seem to get the joke a little bit more. Why do you

00:35:10.460 think that is? I think that conservatives are more down to earth, you know, liberals are pretentious,

00:35:19.160 you know, they stay in their lofts in midtown Manhattan latte sipping and they're, yeah. And

00:35:27.120 they're completely detached from society. Um, all they know is, you know, like it's so easy to troll

00:35:35.180 them. Like they were getting trolled by, you know, memes during the entire election and, and 4chan

00:35:41.260 it's trolls them like monthly and they always fall for it. I'm like, you know, like, how are you guys

00:35:47.520 falling for this stuff? Like it just shows that they're not internet savvy. They're not political

00:35:52.100 savvy. They're, they're not people, people, you know what I mean? That's the key. I think they're

00:35:57.260 not people, people, because a lot of studies from the election, they showed it wasn't that

00:36:02.200 education level predicted who you were going to vote for. It was the education level of people.

00:36:08.140 You knew if you interacted with different kinds of people and you were around guys who work blue

00:36:13.060 collar jobs and people who were in management and educated people in this, if you knew a lot of

00:36:18.140 different people, you were a little more relaxed about the election. Maybe you like Trump a little

00:36:22.620 bit more. And if you were isolated and you were totally siloed and all you did is sip lattes on the

00:36:28.340 Upper East side or Upper West side, then you, you couldn't imagine somebody not voting for Hillary

00:36:34.160 Clinton. It's really detached from society. I have to ask one more question in response to the

00:36:41.320 flare up in Philadelphia, where the guys were arrested at Starbucks. Starbucks has now closed

00:36:48.100 thousands of stores for mandatory sensitivity training or, or unconscious bias training, which

00:36:55.480 I've never really understood. If it's an unconscious bias, I don't, how are you going to solve that?

00:37:00.280 That's unconscious, right? How are you going to actually constantly be conscious of that? That's a

00:37:04.640 separate point. Is it enough or should they close all of their stores worldwide and just go out of

00:37:10.380 business and leave it to Pete's coffee and Dunkin' Donuts to take over the rest?

00:37:15.120 If they're going to have racial bias training, they should just shut down the entire company

00:37:19.200 because that's just ridiculous and it's stupid. And then the people that they chose to be in charge of

00:37:25.360 racial bias training, you know, Eric Holder, NAACP and ADL, like these people know nothing about

00:37:31.900 black people. If we're going to have racial bias training, I would say that you'd have to have

00:37:37.740 the locals in every city of every Starbucks come in and just kick it with the staff,

00:37:46.040 you know, like throw a party, throw a block party and have just the locals be invited and just let

00:37:52.400 people interact and get to know each other. So when you show up at the Starbucks, you know,

00:37:56.680 Jessica behind the counter, you know, Amanda behind the counter and Amanda knows you,

00:38:00.560 you know what I mean? Like you can't train people to not be racially biased, but you can bring them

00:38:06.020 together in the same room and share coffee and share pizza and then people will work out those

00:38:11.740 things themselves. But you can't train people to not be, everybody is racially biased. I'm racially

00:38:18.340 biased towards black people and white people. I treat them completely different. I treat different

00:38:24.320 economic levels of black people different. I don't talk to my hood friends the same as I do my more

00:38:29.920 affluent black friends and they don't enjoy the same type of entertainment. You can't train that,

00:38:34.760 right? Like you, you have to just learn that from being around a diverse group of people and liberals

00:38:40.760 just aren't around a diverse group of people. Like I had an old boss, liberals help. I couldn't stand

00:38:45.940 her. She wouldn't take the subway. Of course, of course. Like I'm like, she's like, Oh my God,

00:38:52.080 you went down there. I'm like, yeah, it's just the subway. But these are the people that'll try and

00:38:57.820 dictate what's right and wrong in society and tell me I'm wrong for my views, but you don't want to come

00:39:02.600 down in the subway and hang out with the common folk. Well, it's because they love humanity,

00:39:06.040 but they hate humans. They don't really like people that much. And so it's such, it's such a

00:39:11.060 good point about the localism of it all. If you want to solve, if there, if there is some problem

00:39:16.420 between groups of people in a community, the way you solve that is you get the groups of people

00:39:21.240 talking together and spending time together and get to know each other. You don't get some corrupt

00:39:26.560 crony like Eric Holder to come in and lecture you on some academic talk about racial biases or

00:39:33.520 whatever. That isn't going to solve anything. It's so pointless. It's just virtue signaling.

00:39:38.840 Yeah, I'm with you. They have to shut the company down. They're moving money around.

00:39:42.620 That's right. They're moving money around. Let's be honest. They're taking Starbucks liberal dollars

00:39:47.380 and they're moving it into political pockets. Eric Holder is going to get a check for that. The NAACP is

00:39:53.420 going to get a check for that and say, oh, this was for black people because the NAACP got a check,

00:39:58.680 but NAACP doesn't do anything for black people. And then the ADL gets their check. So it's just

00:40:02.940 take liberals saying, hey, here's some money. We're going to come together and we're going to

00:40:06.600 brainwash these people with more liberal politics. They're probably going to give them LGBT pamphlets.

00:40:13.120 Oh, they have to. It's intersectional.

00:40:15.440 Yeah. And gender, binary, cis, whatever vocabulary and dictionary they're out of.

00:40:22.560 You're describing my identity. Thank you very much.

00:40:26.260 This is what they're going to do to these people. They're going to just brainwash them

00:40:29.520 with a whole bunch of nonsense. And they're actually going to create

00:40:32.660 more people that are more retarded than usual. I can't even use the word retarded.

00:40:36.720 That's very not allowed anymore. Yeah. Even though it just means slow,

00:40:39.880 but you're not allowed to say that it's very, you're going to probably get arrested by the thought

00:40:44.020 police for that, but it's true. It's going to sow more rancor and more division. That's all it does.

00:40:47.820 It literally just keeps dividing people by different categories. Speaking of giving money

00:40:53.340 to worthy causes, because though, you know, giving money to Eric Holder is a very unworthy cause,

00:40:58.120 but, uh, but your videos are extremely entertaining. So where can people find you?

00:41:03.520 Booksbybryan.com, B-R-Y-A-N is the best way. You can get my Twitter marketing book,

00:41:08.060 shows you how I got on TV, how I got here on this lovely show. Um,

00:41:13.000 and, uh, hotepnation.com to follow the movement. Hotepnation.com. Hotep Jesus, Brian Sharp. Thank

00:41:20.100 you for being here. Very good to talk to you. Very funny. And some very good points you made.

00:41:24.600 Thank you. Appreciate it, man. Have a good one. A much needed day. A much, that was really good. I

00:41:30.160 was, uh, while we were watching that interview that I had done yesterday, I was just going through the

00:41:34.600 Twitter feed and it, you know, we just have the Republican president and the biggest, uh,

00:41:38.480 pop star in the entire world. They're just like tweeting love letters to each other right now.

00:41:42.160 Ah, that's pretty good. Pretty good stuff. Get your mailbag questions in. I'm just going to be

00:41:47.720 floating on a cloud for the rest of the day. I think I'm no more work. I'm just going to,

00:41:51.660 not that I was planning on doing it anyway, just going to spark up a stogie, have a nice drink,

00:41:55.940 this put on my MAGA hat. Ah, good stuff. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.

00:42:00.940 Get the mailbag questions in. I'll see you tomorrow.

00:42:07.700 The Michael Knowles show is a daily wire forward publishing production,

00:42:10.960 executive producer, Jeremy Boring, senior producer, Jonathan Hay, supervising producer,

00:42:16.740 Mathis Glover. Our technical producer is Austin Stevens. Edited by Alex Zingaro. Audio is mixed by

00:42:22.660 Mike Coromina. Hair and makeup is by Jesua Olvera. Copyright Forward Publishing 2018.

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