The Michael Knowles Show - March 12, 2026


Ep. 1930 - President Trump Endorses Jake Paul


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00:00:00.000 President Trump endorses Jake Paul for public office. The Pentagon and Pete Hegseth are under
00:00:05.560 fire for a completely made up scandal. And a new study tries to get you to pimp out your wife to
00:00:12.180 save your marriage. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:00:30.000 Welcome back to the show. Really more important news than any of that. Buffalo Wild Wings
00:00:38.560 has debuted a buffalo wing flavored protein espresso martini. A proteiny, they call it. And
00:00:47.120 I am now beginning to understand what Bernie Sanders meant when he said we have too much choice
00:00:53.860 in stores, in groceries. And we have too much. We need to seize the means of production. This is
00:01:02.420 too far. This is capitalist decadence. This is late stage capitalism. We need to eat the rich.
00:01:07.180 I got radicalized. I got radicalized by the buffalo protein. Okay. And we will get to it. But first,
00:01:15.580 speaking of our current political order, President Trump broke the internet last night
00:01:20.420 when he endorsed YouTube star slash boxer Jake Paul for public office in Kentucky.
00:01:31.480 Come here, Jake.
00:01:33.740 Yeah, what Mr. Trump has taught me is courage. We never back down from a fight, even if they're
00:01:41.880 much bigger than you, much, much bigger than you. And I feel all the local Kentuckians feel the same
00:01:47.680 way. You guys have that fight. You guys have that swag. There's a lot of young kids in here.
00:01:52.940 The future of America. I grew up just a few hours away from here. My dad taught me to fight.
00:01:59.040 And all of our voices matter in America.
00:02:02.220 He's a great guy. He's a courageous guy and a talented guy. He's a hell of a fighter too, by the way.
00:02:07.880 And I just want to say, I predict, I'm going to make a prediction that you will be
00:02:13.580 in the not too distant future running for political office. And you have my complete and total
00:02:21.500 endorsement. Beautiful, beautiful endorsement here. So President Trump hitting the campaign
00:02:27.620 trail for the midterms. That's the big story here, actually, that is getting lost amid talk about Jake
00:02:32.300 Paul. I just love this, though. He says, you're not yet running for office. And we have no idea what
00:02:38.140 office you would run for or where you would run for it. But I want you to know that whatever the
00:02:43.500 office is, wherever the office is, whenever you run for it, you have my complete and total endorsement.
00:02:50.860 And everyone's freaking out about this. This is crazy. What a clown show. It's ridiculous that Jake
00:02:56.460 Paul would be involved in. What are you talking about? This is totally normal. So much of the news
00:03:03.400 cycle today, especially when we get to this supposedly massive Pentagon spending scandal
00:03:09.120 under Pete Hegseth that we're told is a national shock and disgrace. And we've never said, give me
00:03:15.140 a break. Everyone breathlessly reporting on this. This is totally normal. It's totally normal
00:03:20.380 for politicians to campaign with popular pop culture figures to try to win elections. That's normal.
00:03:28.240 The reason that it seems a little abnormal is that Republicans have trouble doing it
00:03:32.160 because Republicans aren't cool. And Trump is cool. And he is friends with pop culture figures.
00:03:36.620 And he's turned the pop culture a little bit more in our way. And so this is shocking to us.
00:03:41.460 The libs are always campaigning with movie stars and TV stars and athletes and musicians.
00:03:46.620 And the Republicans rarely do it. But there was a time when we did it. And it was the last time that
00:03:52.080 we had a president like Trump. And that was Ronald Reagan, a guy who came out of Hollywood,
00:03:55.540 who was a big pop culture star. And he would pal around all the time with Frank Sinatra,
00:04:00.500 all sorts of people who maybe didn't have the most sophisticated political opinions,
00:04:04.800 maybe did not have degrees in international relations or economics, but who nevertheless
00:04:10.400 are very important because this is a democracy. And so you have to win popular support and you
00:04:15.540 have to pull people and you need to motivate people who maybe aren't even all that ideological.
00:04:19.700 You don't need to pull them to your side so much as you need to inspire them to get out and vote.
00:04:22.920 I think it's great. The strangest thing about this endorsement,
00:04:26.040 can we go back to it for just a second, is Jake Paul's underarms. Jake Paul, you can see,
00:04:32.620 fast forward, you can even see it in the very first frames. Yeah. He is sweating profusely
00:04:38.020 through not only his suit, but through a three-piece suit. So Jake Paul presumably is wearing
00:04:47.100 an undershirt. Most men wear an undershirt underneath a shirt and a jacket. So you got the undershirt,
00:04:52.140 you got the Oxford shirt. You then have the waistcoat, the vest, and then you have a jacket
00:04:57.080 on top of that. This man perspiring through all that. Now I am a greasy, oily, sweaty Italian.
00:05:02.520 So I sympathize. I empathize with this to some degree, but that is very, very impressive. This
00:05:07.000 guy's clearly got his blood up. I don't know if it's because he was particularly nervous or maybe
00:05:10.780 it's just because he's athletic. Either way, this is good news. And the really good news out of all of
00:05:17.380 this is that President Trump is hitting the campaign trail hard in the midterms.
00:05:21.960 I spoke with the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, yesterday. I was down at a Trump property.
00:05:26.360 I was speaking to some members of Congress and I sat down for an interview, an exclusive interview
00:05:30.760 with the House Speaker on all the hot topics. I ran the midterm elections, some of the supposed
00:05:37.780 scandals, the dissent, the right-wing civil war, some of the members of Congress who are opposing
00:05:44.700 Trump and the party. We sit down, we talk about all of it. It's an exclusive interview. It'll be
00:05:48.840 up on the YouTube channel and on Daily Wire momentarily. In any case, I said, hey, we're
00:05:55.580 going to get blown out in the midterms, right? This is pretty bad, isn't it? And Mike Johnson had a
00:05:59.780 different take on it. And he had a different take on it because of the way that President Trump is
00:06:03.640 campaigning. We have not seen in our lifetimes a term-limited, second-term president serving a
00:06:10.360 non-consecutive second term campaigning in the midterms as if he's up for re-election. And that
00:06:14.780 is what you're getting out of Trump here. So remains to be seen. In any case, I love it. Bring
00:06:19.000 on Jake Paul. Bring on Logan Paul. Bring on all the cool pop culture figures that we can bring on
00:06:23.140 and have them run for certain public offices. I love it. That has my complete and total endorsement
00:06:28.560 too. Okay, speaking of debates over what is normal, this one, look, this is a family show.
00:06:36.000 And so I'm going to try to clean this up a little bit. The New York Post posts this yesterday based
00:06:41.860 on a new study, a new survey that's just come out. Could hot wifing save your marriage?
00:06:49.540 71% of kinky couples say loaning their wives out for that thing that only husbands and wives are
00:06:56.920 supposed to do together, quote, strengthened their union. 71%, the overwhelming majority of,
00:07:04.760 nuts, as kinky couples. These are people whose unions are probably not all that strong to begin
00:07:08.640 with. And these are people who are obviously very, very confused about a lot of things.
00:07:13.300 Nevertheless, they say that pimping out their beloved actually strengthened their union.
00:07:20.920 Color me a little bit skeptical. I don't really encourage you to read the article or to read the
00:07:28.320 survey. But this is part of a broader cultural trend, broader cultural normalization of polyamory,
00:07:37.200 of consensual non-monogamy. That's the new gross clinical jargon that they use to euphemize their own
00:07:48.960 perversions. In any case, you hear a lot about this right now. And people are looking at that and
00:07:56.320 they're reacting in the old fuddy-duddy way. These kids today, this is crazy. Can you believe what
00:08:01.960 they're doing now? In olden days, an inch of stocking was looked on as something shocking,
00:08:06.540 but now, you know, anything goes. Anyway, that's the wrong approach because this is not novel.
00:08:14.960 This is not an innovation. There's nothing new about this.
00:08:19.660 This is just paganism. And as our culture, which was the West, we called it the West. Sometimes
00:08:27.600 we describe our nation as a Christian nation. But even what we call the West is really a pale
00:08:33.180 shadow of what we used to call Christendom, which was Christian civilization, which thrived from
00:08:39.780 roughly the age of Constantine up through the Protestant revolution, which then starts to
00:08:46.440 crack it up a little bit. But still, you have a very substantially Christian civilization,
00:08:50.620 albeit amid wars of religion, that finally in the Treaty of Augsburg, the Peace of Westphalia,
00:08:57.880 the age of the Enlightenment, starts to try to preserve Christianity. But without taking religion
00:09:03.400 all that seriously, you get into modernity. Now you're really on the fumes of Christendom.
00:09:08.480 And soon enough, that gives way to overt paganism. Here's what Tertullian, early Christian writer,
00:09:14.860 father of the church, has to say about how the pagans versus the Christians regarded sex.
00:09:23.320 Great line from Tertullian from his apology. All things are common among us, but our wives.
00:09:30.400 We give up our community where it is practiced alone by others who not only take possession of their
00:09:36.720 wives, of the wives of their friends, but most tolerantly also accommodate their friends with
00:09:41.620 theirs. It's a great observation, a fun, almost Chestertonian millennia earlier, where he says,
00:09:48.020 we Christians, we're different from the pagans in that we share everything except for our wives.
00:09:52.400 And the pagans share nothing with each other except for their wives. That's it. They're happy to,
00:09:58.440 they won't share their money, they won't share their food, they won't share their resources.
00:10:01.620 They might not share their time, but you know what? They will share their wives because they're
00:10:06.300 pervs. But we Christians, we're the opposite. We'll give up, we'll give anything to each other
00:10:11.920 except for our wives. St. Jerome has a famous line in his commentary on Hosea, which is,
00:10:18.100 rarely does a heretic love chastity. Every so often there's a heresy that promotes chastity,
00:10:25.900 like the Albigensians. But generally speaking, you'll notice, you see this with modern religion,
00:10:31.840 kind of wacky pastors of the weird breakaway, schismatic churches. You know, they're always
00:10:38.680 promoting weird sex stuff. That's the one common thread between all of the various sects of the
00:10:45.100 weird heretical forms of Christianity today. They all promote weird sex stuff. Rarely, rarely does a
00:10:52.560 heretic love chastity. What this reveals with this new study that's intended to shock, that's why it's
00:10:57.560 a New York Post headline. Can you, 71% of these kinky couples say, actually, it's totally awesome
00:11:03.380 for their marriages when they all cheat on each other. This is supposed to shock us. What are this
00:11:07.920 new discovery, polyamory, non-consensual, non-monogamy? All that reveals is how little we
00:11:18.900 understand paganism. It doesn't reveal a new discovery about the present. It reveals how
00:11:24.140 ignorant we are of the past. This is what paganism was always like. It's amusing when people, they
00:11:30.320 think that they've discovered something new. These people who are promoting orgies and decadence and
00:11:35.160 all sorts of bacchanalia, they think they've discovered something new. You know, in the old
00:11:39.000 days, man, people were all uptight. But now we're free. We got free love. We're doing drugs and we have
00:11:44.860 free love and we're polyamorous. You think, oh, wow, yeah, no one's ever thought of that one before.
00:11:52.600 Doing drugs and behaving like a degenerate? Yeah, that's never happened. Wow. What an amazing
00:11:58.080 innovator you are. It just reveals how little we understand. We pretend that we understand
00:12:05.780 ancient paganism. We pretend that we understand what Christianity replaced. We don't. A great example
00:12:11.560 of this. I remember when I came to this realization myself. In the Bible, in Exodus, the Israelites,
00:12:20.260 they leave Egypt. And Moses goes up onto Mount Sinai. He's receiving the Ten Commandments.
00:12:27.640 And what happens? He goes up and five seconds later, the Israelites abandon the God who led them out of
00:12:32.620 Egypt toward the promised land. And they start worshiping a golden calf. And he comes down and he
00:12:37.560 says, what are you doing? Stop worshiping this golden calf. And then all sorts of trouble ensues.
00:12:45.320 I remember, maybe it's just how kids think. I think this is even how naive adults think these days.
00:12:50.620 What do you think the Israelites were doing? Do you think, in my mind, what the Israelites were doing
00:12:55.340 was just kind of like bowing down and saying, oh, golden calf, we worship you. And that was the great
00:12:59.380 offense. But of course, what they were really doing was just all the stuff that the modern pagans are
00:13:07.420 doing. They were doing a ton of weird sex stuff. They were indulging in food and drink. It's kind
00:13:12.480 of like drugs. And they were just all sorts of revelry and bizarre. It's just this stuff. It's all
00:13:18.940 just this stuff. There is nothing new under the sun. And so as we come to all of these new discoveries
00:13:27.920 about relationships and marriage and free love, man, really all we're doing is rejecting,
00:13:35.380 wittingly or unwittingly, we're rejecting Christianity, reverting to a kind of base,
00:13:39.940 degraded paganism, and pretending that we've come upon some new revelation. It's the opposite of a
00:13:47.200 new revelation. It's the rejection of revelation. Okay, speaking of decadence, dumbest non-traversy in
00:13:54.400 the world, and it is being plastered across every media outlet. Did you know that Pete Hegseth,
00:14:01.140 that wild, decadent Pete Hegseth, he spent millions of dollars on crab legs last September at the
00:14:09.740 Pentagon. The Pentagon spent billions of dollars on furniture and lobster tail and steak. This gluttonous,
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00:15:55.780 the Daily Beast here. Pentagon Pete blew a fortune on crabs in multi-billion dollar spending frenzy.
00:16:06.180 What the shock? Daily Beast says. Figures show the Defense Department took drastic measures
00:16:12.680 to spend its allocated funds. Pentagon spent millions of dollars on luxury crabs and other
00:16:19.740 food items in a single month as part of a frantic end-of-year spending spree. $93 billion in September
00:16:26.500 2025. That's the end of the fiscal year. $2 million on Alaskan king crab in September alone.
00:16:32.600 $6.9 million on lobster tail. A million bucks on salmon. $140,000 on donuts. $124,000 on ice cream
00:16:38.600 machines. $26,000 on sushi preparation tables. And a whopping $15.1 million on ribeye steak.
00:16:46.460 A lot of people reacting negatively to that. I was supposed to go on TMZ, actually, and debate this
00:16:50.500 yesterday, but I was flying back home from Florida. I wasn't able to do it. I wish I could have done it.
00:16:54.820 It would have been great because people, they don't even understand what the scandal is supposed
00:16:59.260 to be. First of all, do you think that Pete Hegseth ate $7 million worth of crabs? Is that
00:17:06.440 what you think the scandal is? That seems to be what the libs think the scandal is. They seem to think
00:17:12.180 the scandal is that Pete is just filling his home with ice cream machine, that he's shoveling 140
00:17:18.520 grand worth of donuts into his face. Pete is a very fit guy. Pete runs with the troops.
00:17:24.700 He's lifting weights. You think he ate $2 million of Alaskan king crab? You think he ate $15 million
00:17:31.420 worth of ribeye? I think this is actually what the libs believe because Paul Begala, who's a real
00:17:37.880 Democrat political consultant, he was an advisor to Bill Clinton. He was on CNN trying to make this
00:17:43.640 point. Scott Jennings was there to shut him down. What was the spending on?
00:17:48.020 He has spent $15 million in one month for ribeye steak, $6.9 million for lobster tail, $225 million
00:17:57.680 for furniture. He spent more in the month of September than most countries on earth spend
00:18:02.140 in their defense. All for himself? Lobster tails? While our troops are eating MREs?
00:18:07.900 No, no, no. Lobster tails?
00:18:09.020 Do you believe the Secretary of Defense is personally eating all the lobster?
00:18:12.560 Well, he can't eat 60.
00:18:14.120 Oh, really? The troops are getting lobster?
00:18:16.020 Frequently in theater.
00:18:16.960 Oh, my God.
00:18:17.440 Troops who are going to work in Great Meal.
00:18:19.320 You know that.
00:18:20.020 They're getting lobster. You are so full of it.
00:18:22.060 You are so full of it.
00:18:22.560 You are so full of it.
00:18:23.620 You're gonna get killed over this.
00:18:24.080 Wow. So he actually doesn't know. You almost pity Paul Begala here. Because he comes out,
00:18:30.520 he says, Pete's spending $15 million on ribeye steak. And Scott Jennings, who's terrific,
00:18:38.780 but even if he weren't as good as he is, even if all Scott Jennings had was a modicum of common
00:18:42.660 sense, he says, wait, wait, you don't seriously think Pete is eating $15 million of steak on his
00:18:48.160 own, do you? And Paul Begala goes, well, our troops are overseas. Pete's eating $15 million of
00:18:54.820 steak. And Scott goes, the steak is for the troops, Paul. It's not a $15 million door dash
00:19:03.560 to the office of the secretary. When the Pentagon spends money, the Pentagon spends money on its
00:19:10.120 personnel. It's steak for the troops. He goes, you think the troops are getting steak? You're
00:19:13.880 crazy. You're out of your mind. Yes. We buy our troops steak sometimes and lobster tail and crab legs.
00:19:24.820 That's a nice indulgence. It's a minor luxury that we afford to our troops, that we have afforded to
00:19:31.940 our troops, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes, for many, many years. There are many
00:19:39.160 photos of this. There are many accounts of this in reporting, in military documents. Yeah, we do that
00:19:45.980 because they don't have many luxuries overseas, obviously. So it's not this debate. This is when
00:19:53.900 political debates are really frustrating. It's not even a debate over first principles or ideology
00:19:59.960 or where we should go. It's actually just one side doesn't know something, and we're trying to tell
00:20:06.420 that side a completely indisputable fact, and the other side just won't believe us. Either pretends not
00:20:15.020 to believe us is just being obtuse, in which case there's no real communication possible,
00:20:20.180 or sincerely doesn't know and won't believe us anyway. Regardless, this is a totally contrived
00:20:27.380 scandal. Now, if you are of the opinion, you say, okay, those are the facts. We bought some steak for
00:20:33.620 the troops. Okay, fine, but we shouldn't buy steak for the troops. Again, I think we should buy steak for
00:20:39.360 the troops. I think the least we can do for the troops is buy them some steak and the occasional
00:20:43.560 crab leg. Okay, they sacrifice a lot for us. It's not like they're being paid millions of dollars a
00:20:49.120 year to do this. They're putting themselves in harm's way. They're serving their nation at a time
00:20:52.640 when patriotism is relatively low. I think we can buy them some ribeye. But if you oppose that,
00:20:59.980 let me then further demonstrate why Pete Hegseth had to do this. Because government agencies
00:21:07.340 operate on a use-it-or-lose-it basis. Congress allocates money to the agencies.
00:21:15.600 The agencies get X billions of dollars per year. All of the agencies, not just the Pentagon,
00:21:22.200 every single agency, has to spend all of that money or else they risk losing their funding the
00:21:29.540 following year. Unlike in the private sector, where if the business comes in ahead of schedule
00:21:35.640 and under budget, that's good, that's rewarded by the market, maybe by the board of directors,
00:21:40.260 in the government and non-profits, it's the opposite. If a government agency or a non-profit
00:21:45.740 comes in under budget, that signals to the people allocating the funds that they don't actually need
00:21:50.940 all those funds. So they cut their budgets the following year. This is why all agencies spend
00:21:55.000 their money at the end. And in this case, the Democrats, I think here they really are just being
00:22:00.820 obtuse. The Democrats are objecting to the most basic way that all government agencies operate,
00:22:07.800 really only because it's Republicans doing it. And specifically what they are objecting to,
00:22:14.200 the actual substance of what they're objecting to, is Pete Hegseth was a little too nice to our
00:22:19.020 soldiers. Are you out of your mind? I can't, are the Democrats here ignorant, stupid, or do they
00:22:29.740 just hate our troops and they don't even want to give them a crab leg every once in a while? Is it,
00:22:33.200 which is it? I don't, what is the most charitable read that I can have on this situation?
00:22:39.580 They're ignorant, they're obtuse, or they are so opposed to our men and women in uniform
00:22:46.760 that they would begrudge them a moderate quality ribeye well done every once in a while.
00:22:54.920 I don't know. You tell me, I want to, I want to have the most charitable read.
00:22:58.860 None of those are great options. This is the scandal. That's the other takeaway. This is the
00:23:03.520 scandal. Every now and then you hear all this commotion, all this kind of background noise,
00:23:08.220 the Trump administration, all these scandals. The proof that there aren't real Trump scandals
00:23:13.580 is that the Dems are pushing nonsense like this. Isn't that crazy? The proof that Trump is not
00:23:20.880 seriously implicated in any of the Epstein stuff is that Joe Biden didn't release anything. And all
00:23:26.160 the while they were trying four times to prosecute him, kick him off the ballot and justify his
00:23:29.800 assassination. That's the proof that there's no smoking gun in the Epstein files on Trump because
00:23:34.960 they obviously would have used it. It's the proof they got nothing. They've been trying to take this
00:23:37.440 guy out for 10 years. And here, right now, present day, 2026, the way you know that there is no
00:23:42.280 serious scandal in the Trump administration is they have to make up nonsense about government
00:23:45.960 agencies spending money as they always do. And in this case, the scandal is the agency was too nice
00:23:52.300 to the troops. You couldn't make it up if you were writing a script about this in Hollywood.
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00:25:57.660 which is placed on the glass as if it were salt on a margarita. Because you actually don't put salt
00:26:07.420 or sugar on the rim of a martini. You would do it on the rim of a martini. So it's actually mixing
00:26:11.980 two classic cocktails with chocolate, coffee, whey protein, and buffalo rub.
00:26:24.400 And capitalism's gone too far. You know me. I mean, I'm not one of these ardent libertarian,
00:26:31.720 laissez-faire people who worships the free market like the depraved Israelites in the desert worship
00:26:38.320 the golden calf. I'm not one of those people. I am, ironically enough, with Irving Kristol,
00:26:43.280 who's the founder of neoconservatism, even though today the paleoconservatives would probably
00:26:48.580 actually embrace the teachings of the first neoconservative. In as much as Irving Kristol
00:26:55.860 said two cheers for the free market. Not three cheers, because it's kind of funny. It's really
00:27:01.180 funny. When you hear all these battles over the neocons versus the paleocons and the populace
00:27:05.240 and this and that, the guy who founded neoconservatism said that conservatism
00:27:09.920 comes down to economic growth, religion, and nationalism. The founder of neoconservatism
00:27:16.620 sounds like the most hardcore populist paleocon in the world today. It's very difficult to keep
00:27:22.420 up with all those political monikers. In any case, it's too much. When Bernie Sanders, he said,
00:27:28.020 why do I go into the drugstore and the grocery store and there are 30 or 40 different types of
00:27:33.380 deodorant? We do not need 40 types of deodorant. We only need one, the state deodorant given to us
00:27:38.780 by our general secretary of the American Communist Party. That's what he was insinuating.
00:27:44.760 Bernie Sanders made this critique of America when he was running for president, and it was the opposite
00:27:50.000 of the old critique people used to make of the Soviet Union, which is there was no variety of
00:27:54.480 products. When the Soviet Union fell and you had Russians coming to the United States in big numbers
00:27:58.280 for the first time, what they were amazed by is how much stuff there was in the grocery store.
00:28:02.280 I think it was Yeltsin, Boris Yeltsin, when he became head of Russia after the fall of the
00:28:07.800 Soviet Union. He marveled at the grocery stores. He said, this is crazy what variety we have.
00:28:13.040 It's kind of funny. Bernie, who's more than half a communist, comes out. He says,
00:28:17.440 we have too much variety. But now I get it. I finally get it. It took me 10 years,
00:28:20.680 but I finally get it. This is too much. This is decadent. We need rules. We need structure.
00:28:26.880 We need propriety. No civilization can long endure if we embrace buffalo wing flavored protein-infused
00:28:39.380 espresso martinis at the chicken restaurant. We can't. We can't. Eat the rich. Workers of the
00:28:46.120 world unite. Tastemakers of the world unite. Speaking of innovations in government,
00:28:50.500 a very disturbing development in the United Kingdom. And a lot of Americans aren't initially,
00:28:58.420 they're not instinctually going to realize how bad this is, but it's really, really bad.
00:29:03.720 The British government just effectively destroyed the House of Lords.
00:29:09.580 So there's the lower house in the British legislature and the British government. There's
00:29:15.440 the parliament. And then there's the upper house, which is the House of Lords.
00:29:19.860 And until the 1950s, the House of Lords was just made up of hereditary aristocrats.
00:29:27.640 You know, Lord, Lord Tweedy, Lord Tweedieth III, you know, the Earl of, you know,
00:29:39.860 Streaky Hamisher or something, right? It was like all these kind of silly aristocrats whose ancestors
00:29:45.240 had held these positions for hundreds and hundreds of years. The House of Lords in this form
00:29:49.820 had existed for 700 years. And then in the 50s, in modernity, after the Second World War,
00:29:55.700 they started instituting these reforms where they have something called life peers.
00:29:59.200 So it's people who were put into the House of Lords who were not really aristocrats. They were just
00:30:02.780 people who had, you know, contributed money to political campaigns or done well in business.
00:30:07.160 And they were brought in there. Then Tony Blair, who pretty much destroyed whatever was left of
00:30:14.100 old Britain. In the 90s, he decided he was going to get rid of the House of Lords. And so he began
00:30:20.740 implementing this plan, took 25 years to take place, but it's finally come to fruition now,
00:30:24.520 which is that virtually all of the hereditary peers in the House of Lords were lost. A lot of
00:30:29.120 Americans are going to say, who cares? You know, we haven't had anything to do with those people
00:30:32.760 since 1776. And a lot of Americans are going to say, I don't want some dusty old aristocrat
00:30:38.440 who's just, you know, some rich kid. What's funny about the aristocrats is a lot of them aren't that
00:30:43.440 rich anymore because they have these beautiful estates, but they're not actually making any
00:30:48.580 money and they have to keep them up. And the government's trying to take away their holdings
00:30:53.400 and privileges and family patrimony for generations now. But in any case, they said, well, what do we
00:30:58.400 care? Why should they sit in the British government when they haven't earned it? Don't we need meritocracy?
00:31:05.240 That's the argument that the prime minister of the UK is making right now. That's the argument
00:31:10.020 that Tony Blair was making. In other words, that's the liberal argument. And when I see
00:31:16.440 conservatives in America exalting meritocracy as the be-all and end-all of social organization,
00:31:25.100 I cringe a little bit. Okay, I'm no aristocrat. I didn't come from money. I went to college on
00:31:31.920 almost a full-ride financial needs scholarship. I was not exactly born with a silver spoon, okay?
00:31:37.900 I am grateful for the ability to prove myself on, I don't know, testing and working and all this stuff
00:31:44.260 to rise up a little bit in society. I'm glad. All Americans are glad for that opportunity.
00:31:49.240 But does this mean that there's no place for, I don't know, privilege? That there's no place for
00:31:58.600 legacy? That there's no place for inheritance? That there's no, I mean, that's what the libs would
00:32:04.040 say. This is why the libs want to tax death. This is why the libs hate, literally hate inheritance
00:32:09.460 and try to tax it away when you die. But don't you want to, if you're the most hardcore meritocrat in
00:32:13.780 the world, don't you want to leave something to your kids? Do you really want, do you want the
00:32:17.380 government taking away all your stuff? When you die, you can't leave anything to your kids.
00:32:21.160 If you work really hard, you get into the good college. Don't, wouldn't you like to help your
00:32:27.140 kid get into that college? Isn't, isn't there actually, I mean, actually college is a good
00:32:32.240 analogy here for this because college has people who get in because their test scores and people
00:32:36.180 who get in because of legacy admissions and people who get in because they're good at sports and for
00:32:39.760 all sorts of reasons they get in. Isn't there something to that? If your family has been going to a
00:32:45.520 certain school for 10 generations, isn't there something to that? Actually don't the, don't the
00:32:50.380 kids who got there on academic merit, don't they actually benefit from being exposed to a portion
00:32:55.640 of society that they didn't previously know? Or furthermore, the kids who got in on academic
00:32:59.340 merit, don't, don't they benefit from being exposed to the athletes who maybe didn't do as well on the
00:33:03.420 SAT, but you know what? The kids who got the perfect score on the SAT, they're probably not the best
00:33:07.400 of football. Exceptions exist, but it's rare. In society, we want all of these different parts.
00:33:14.360 Okay. And so zoom out from the college example back to the house of Lords in the UK and a whole
00:33:19.140 country. Yeah. You want the innovation. You want the entrepreneurial spirit. You want the people who
00:33:24.200 pull themselves up by their bootstraps, really make something of themselves, generate wealth,
00:33:29.160 generate excitement, give the country competitive advantage over rival countries.
00:33:34.160 But don't you also want the continuity? That's what the house of Lords represents.
00:33:39.680 That's what hereditary estates represent. Those great old English country estates that have been
00:33:45.160 around for centuries and centuries. Not if the liberals have their way, will they be around much
00:33:48.680 longer? You need both of those things. This is where actually going right back to that Irving
00:33:53.340 Crystal comment, two cheers for capitalism. I said two cheers for meritocracy. Conservatives
00:33:59.800 cannot be pure meritocrats. What does that even mean, meritocrats? I mean, that smuggles in so many
00:34:07.000 philosophical premises that are dubious. What does it mean to merit something? If I have a nice big
00:34:14.000 estate and I want to leave it to my kids, do my kids not merit that estate? Does a recent immigrant
00:34:21.940 from Timbuktu who made it to this country, who was naturalized into this country and who did well on
00:34:27.480 some academic exam? Does he really merit my patrimony, that inheritance? Does he really merit that?
00:34:36.080 On what grounds does he merit that? And what do we mean when we talk about merit in a country through
00:34:45.580 generations? The House of Lords, the legacy, the continuity, the tradition, that exists not primarily
00:34:56.740 even for the enrichment of a handful of, you know, stuffy old Brits with funny names that actually
00:35:04.060 exists for the good of the country. You want continuity. You want, you know, I remember back in
00:35:12.260 the 2000s, you would have, in 20 teens, you'd have these Republican fundraisers and they were
00:35:17.440 schizophrenic because on the one hand, they would talk about the need for, you know, social norms and
00:35:23.180 tradition and family values. And then on the other hand, they'd talk about the need for creative
00:35:26.720 destruction, the kind of radical individualism and capitalism. You see, those things were at odds.
00:35:35.100 Really, a serious politics balances both. Britain is just determined to destroy. What did they say?
00:35:41.500 They say that the House of Lords, this is according to government minister Nick Thomas Simmons,
00:35:44.860 is an archaic and undemocratic principle. You're damn right it is. You're damn right it is.
00:35:51.480 Hear, hear for archaic and undemocratic principles. Archaic and undemocratic principles,
00:35:57.960 they're some of my very favorite principles. They're crucial in any political society,
00:36:02.800 including democracies, especially in democracies. Our parliament, says Nick Thomas Simmons,
00:36:08.200 should always be a place where talents are recognized and merit counts.
00:36:11.700 It should never be a gallery of old boys networks, nor a place where titles, many of which were
00:36:15.940 handed out centuries ago, hold power over the will of the people. What if the people desire to
00:36:20.480 overthrow parliament entirely? What if the people desire to turn the parliament building,
00:36:24.880 which is an inheritance, it's not something you yourself made, Nick Thomas Simmons, what if they
00:36:29.280 decide to turn it into a gambling hall or a brothel? It's the will of the people, shall we just give in
00:36:33.980 then? By his principles, yes. By the democratic modern principle, yes. By the archaic and undemocratic
00:36:41.700 principle, no. We say that there's actually a deeper kind of democracy, to use the phrase of
00:36:45.820 Chesterton, the democracy of the dead, which enfranchises not only the people who have the
00:36:50.980 seemingly random privilege of currently walking around the earth, but all of the people in a
00:36:56.920 political community, including the dead, including our forebears, and including our posterity,
00:37:01.340 the people who are to come. I made my point. Things are even worse in the UK. The UK is now
00:37:08.520 stigmatizing their own national symbol. Folks, I know that you're getting all of the news and all
00:37:14.740 of the opinion that really matter to you right here on The Michael Knowles Show. But if you want
00:37:19.860 to find out why my colleagues Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and Matt Walsh are totally wrong about
00:37:25.180 basically everything, you have to tune into Friendly Fire live tomorrow. Friendly Fire live
00:37:30.180 tomorrow. No cuts, no edits, no nothing. 2 p.m. Eastern on dailywire.com and the Daily Wire Plus
00:37:38.020 app. My favorite comment yesterday is from Hard Boiled Entertainment, who says,
00:37:43.340 the only reason this war is least popular is because it's the only one currently being fought.
00:37:49.020 I actually disagree with that. I think that's a little bit of a cope. This war, the war in Iran,
00:37:55.020 is the least popular war at launch that we have ever fought in America. It's less popular,
00:38:01.840 well, certainly than World War II, which had 97% support at launch. It's less popular than Iraq
00:38:08.220 and Afghanistan. It's less popular than Libya at launch under Obama at launch. And so someone might
00:38:15.340 say, well, no, it's only unpopular right now because it's currently being fought, but the appreciation of
00:38:19.480 it will grow over time. Maybe, you know, it depends on how the war ends, but that doesn't
00:38:24.780 really hold. Wars usually are very, very popular when they start and they become much less popular
00:38:30.700 over time. The Iraq war was very popular when it started. Now, basically, no one would defend it.
00:38:37.520 So this is a major problem. You know me, I'm not a panic ant. I'm generally a plan truster. I've
00:38:42.440 sat on the Iran war. Had I been on the NSC, I would have argued strenuously against the strike on Iran
00:38:47.340 based on public information. But I trust Trump. He's got a lot of credibility on foreign policy.
00:38:52.260 I'm willing to give him five or six weeks before I start freaking out. However, this is a big
00:38:58.320 political problem. This is a big political problem. And the people who care about the White House and
00:39:03.680 the administration doing well need to be honest about that. The White House needs to message on
00:39:12.380 this properly. The best kind of message will be a victory that allows us to move on from the Iran war,
00:39:16.760 at which point it will be a major foreign policy success if it all works out, and which is why
00:39:22.360 you'll never hear about it again and won't affect the midterms. But it is unusual that a war would
00:39:26.860 be unpopular at this moment. Okay. The UK. Just one point before I move on from the UK. The UK's new
00:39:32.900 social cohesion strategy involves describing the Union Jack, the British flag, as a tool of hate.
00:39:40.300 Do we have that? Yeah, here it is. This is from the Daily Mail. Flying a Union Jack flag is branded as a
00:39:45.800 tool of hate in government's leaked social cohesion strategy. A leaked draft of the proposal suggests
00:39:50.840 national symbols were sometimes used last summer to exclude or intimidate. It warns that the extreme
00:39:57.140 right has tried to turn symbols of pride into tools of hate. The 47-page document reportedly warns
00:40:02.960 that anti-Semitism has become normalized in many corners of society, from schools to universities to
00:40:08.020 workplaces. Some 800 million pounds over 10 years would be put toward 40 areas where social cohesion
00:40:13.440 is deemed to be under pressure. And I guess one of those areas is the flag. So now there's a response,
00:40:22.180 totally predictable and justified, of people who are saying, no, no, you're not going to get us to
00:40:27.080 take down our national flag. This is a big, big problem. But we're seeing it here. This is not just
00:40:34.500 a foreign issue. We're seeing this here. The notion that the flag, the symbol of our country,
00:40:39.400 is bad and should be discouraged. It's totally predictable because the left in the UK, in America,
00:40:48.140 throughout the West, once called Christendom, the left believes that the countries themselves are bad.
00:40:54.980 So of course they're going to conclude that the flags, which are the symbols of those countries,
00:41:00.000 are bad. They could not come to any other conclusion. All these people sharing this news report,
00:41:07.820 oh, can you, this is so, can you believe how crazy the UK has gotten? They're now stigmatizing their
00:41:12.160 own flag. Yes, of course I can believe that. The left in all of these countries says the country is
00:41:16.980 bad. And so if the thing is bad, then the thing that symbolizes the thing is also going to be bad.
00:41:22.260 But we, of course, cannot tolerate that. Not merely from the standpoint of partisans on the right,
00:41:26.720 just we as citizens of these countries, you cannot persist in a political community that hates
00:41:34.340 itself. That political community will be overrun. The citizens of that political community, at the
00:41:39.860 very least the leaders of that political community, will be replaced by people who are willing to stand
00:41:44.380 for something, who believe in something, who are going to make affirmative declarations and take
00:41:52.660 affirmative actions to defend a thing. So in the UK, what that means is that the UK is ceasing to be a
00:41:57.980 Christian British country and is becoming a Muslim country, an Arab country, a South Asian country.
00:42:04.880 In America, what that means is we're just opening our gates to all manner of migrants. And because
00:42:10.880 most of the migrants who are nearby are Christians from Latin America, we're actually in a stronger
00:42:16.520 position than the UK is. The culture that has been invading is not totally alien to us. I mean,
00:42:23.100 it's quite different. The Latin American culture is different from the Anglo culture. The Anglo culture
00:42:26.600 is what built America. In the UK, it's much tougher, but it's the same problem. So the question for the
00:42:31.860 people in these countries, in the UK, in America, in the West is, are we going to stand for our country?
00:42:38.800 Do we think our country is a good thing? Do we have a proper love for our country?
00:42:42.700 And you have some ideologues who say, well, no, no, no. If I have to choose between my country
00:42:48.660 right or wrong, or my country only when right, I choose my country only when right. Yeah, that's
00:42:52.240 the symbol of ideology. That's the symbol of abstraction. That's the evidence of a complete
00:42:56.040 lack of patriotism. It's your country, just like your mom is your mom and your dad is your dad.
00:43:02.380 Your kids are your kids. You don't say, well, I support my child only when he's right. When he's wrong,
00:43:08.140 I disown him. Well, then you're going to disown your kid pretty quick, aren't you?
00:43:11.060 Right. But you can't, that's not how family works. That's not,
00:43:16.260 this is coming here. It's already, this is already in America. Look at the left-wing protests.
00:43:22.600 They very rarely fly the American flag. They fly the flags of other countries.
00:43:26.860 Okay. But as that persists gradually, and then in an accelerated way, you're going to just lose any
00:43:35.200 semblance of your country. And you're going to lose it to whoever's willing to take it.
00:43:38.840 Speaking of these, these politically suicidal liberals, Walter Masterson, who was on my show,
00:43:46.640 he was on Bar Fight a week or two ago, whenever it was. He's the guy who went viral. You show up on
00:43:52.540 Bar Fight, you become the most viral guy on the internet. Some weeks later, he went viral because
00:43:57.180 he was protesting. He was protesting protesters in New York. There were his protesters who said,
00:44:03.680 you know, New York is becoming Islamified. We don't like that. 25th anniversary of 9-11. We don't
00:44:09.300 like that. This guy, Walter comes out with a bullhorn. He says, no, we love Islam and we open
00:44:14.420 America to all the illegals and we want more Islam here. And as he's saying it, you couldn't have scripted
00:44:20.180 it better. An Islamist comes running over, jumps on him, throws a bomb, throws an IED at the
00:44:27.440 conservatives, then goes running off, yelling Allahu Akbar and pledging allegiance to ISIS.
00:44:33.000 And Walter didn't know what to make of it. Well, now Walter has broken his silence.
00:44:37.480 Has this Islamic terrorist who threw a bomb while he was talking about how open he is to Islamic
00:44:43.240 migrants? Has that guy changed his mind? Jake Lang was holding this rally saying things like this.
00:44:51.160 America is a white Christian country. If you're saying America is for white Christian men,
00:44:57.240 you're a white supremacist. Now, I really want to be clear that I made a huge mistake in not taking
00:45:02.240 cover after this explosive device was thrown. We were counter protesting, making Jake Lang look like
00:45:09.540 the idiot that he is when these two idiots came along and committed an act of terrorism. They
00:45:14.920 could not have done more to legitimize Jake Lang's white supremacist talking points. I could have been
00:45:21.680 killed and that weighs very heavy on both me and my family. And all that being said, I'm not going to
00:45:27.860 use this as an excuse to be a xenophobic. Elon Musk and all of right-wing media are having a field day
00:45:35.440 right now because I am choosing inclusion and not bigotry. I still stand by my original point.
00:45:42.140 New York City is for everyone. So Jake Lang, whoever this guy who was holding the protest,
00:45:49.260 Jake Lang comes out. He says, all these Islamic migrants are a danger to New Yorkers. And then this
00:45:57.340 guy Walter comes out. He says, these Islamic migrants are not a danger to New Yorkers. As he's saying
00:46:02.500 this, Islamic migrants jump on his back, throw a bomb, could have killed everyone there or seriously
00:46:10.420 maimed everyone there. Luckily, they were too incompetent. The bombs didn't go off. So they're
00:46:15.700 arrested after running off to endorse ISIS. And Walter says, he acknowledges, he says, look,
00:46:21.700 this is pretty bad because these guys really seem to undermine the point that I was making.
00:46:26.760 And I recognize that I easily could have been killed. And that really is weighing heavily on me.
00:46:32.880 And it's traumatized me. But I want to assure all of you, I will learn nothing from this.
00:46:38.920 I want to promise you that nothing about the facts that we have learned is going to change my opinion,
00:46:45.680 which was disproven with the shouts and bombs of a Muslim terrorist. I will not change my mind.
00:46:52.680 A total vindication of Robert Frost's observation that a liberal is a man too broad-minded to take
00:47:01.540 his own side in a quarrel. So much more to get to. I want to get to the Save America Act because the
00:47:07.040 Senate's getting a little funny. They don't want to bring up the voter ID bill, even though it's
00:47:10.160 widely popular with both Republicans and Democrats. I want to get to, oh, so much more.
00:47:15.320 The Vatican's take on plastic surgery. We'll get, I want to get to the BBLs. I want it, but we,
00:47:23.360 not yet. Tomorrow. Today is Speaking of the Vatican. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show
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