The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1955 - This Is the Most Horrifying Video Michael Knowles Has Ever Seen

00:00:00.000 Young men are returning to religion en masse. We've heard this anecdotally for years. That

00:00:07.120 slogan is no surprise. But for years, it did not show up in the polls. So a lot of people said,

00:00:14.360 oh, it's not real. You're imagining it. This is anecdotal. Now, the results are in and the social

00:00:22.260 consequences are huge. Then, speaking of the difference between men and women, a new study

00:00:27.060 out of the UK shows that the war between the sexes is also real. And it is the women who are

00:00:33.560 the aggressors. Finally, a homosexual couple goes viral with a little baby for the most horrifying

00:00:40.620 video I have ever seen in my entire life. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

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00:02:30.840 A lot of bad stuff in the news today.

00:02:33.080 I frequently mention weird sex stuff as one of the defining features of our decadent time.

00:02:39.880 This is weird, sure, but this is real bad sex stuff.

00:02:44.100 This shows you the very close relationship between weird and bad.

00:02:48.240 it's dark, man. And I hope I'm a glass half full kind of guy. I hope that the silver lining in

00:02:55.140 that storm cloud is that seeing just how bad the weird stuff gets and how quickly will maybe spark

00:03:02.340 a conversion. The best news story of the day, speaking of conversion, is that young people

00:03:08.680 generally are returning to religion, to all religion, especially traditional religion,

00:03:14.680 especially Christianity, and actually, especially Catholicism.

00:03:18.880 This shift is most obvious in young men, but it is, at this point, undeniable. The atheists can

00:03:27.500 cope. The secularists can cope. They can bury their head in the sand all they want. This is

00:03:31.640 real stuff. Coming out of Gallup, really great news. Importance of religion among US men and

00:03:38.240 women by age. So you look not at the boomers, not at the Gen X, not even really the millennials.

00:03:44.380 It's the Zoomers that are doing this, women and men.

00:03:48.960 For the women, okay, you know, the numbers are not great.

00:03:53.540 It's okay.

00:03:54.240 But the men have shot up in the last two years, two, three years.

00:04:03.800 42% of men aged 18 to 29 now say that religion is very important in their lives.

00:04:10.440 in 2022 to 2023, that number was just 28%. So this is totally undeniable. A 14 percentage point

00:04:18.860 increase. A 14 percentage point increase, meaning a 50% increase among young men who in just two,

00:04:28.100 three years say that religion is very, very important in their lives. Now, are they actually

00:04:33.440 doing it? They could say that. There's the expressed preference, but is this coming up

00:04:39.220 in the revealed preference of their actual behaviors? Yes. Monthly religious attendance

00:04:43.800 among young men has jumped up to 40%. That's up from 33%. This is the highest level in over

00:04:53.900 a decade. And it splits based on party affiliation. So for Republican men, the number is way up.

00:05:03.340 Among Republican women, the number is up too. For Democrat men, it's not up. For Democrat women,

00:05:10.840 same thing. So this really does split. And you can't map parties exactly onto religion because,

00:05:17.440 as I've mentioned before, the very idea of the left and the right comes from the French Revolution

00:05:22.300 when the religious people were all on the right and the irreligious, the anti-religious people

00:05:27.120 were all on the left. So I think it is fair to say, if you are a religious person,

00:05:33.440 you should be on the right. It doesn't map perfectly, but you should be on the right

00:05:36.980 at a very practical level. If you are a religious person, today in the year of our Lord, 2026,

00:05:43.160 you should be voting Republican. It's not that the Republican Party is perfect.

00:05:47.320 The Republican Party is the worst party in the United States, other than the Democrat Party.

00:05:51.760 You know, politics is imperfect, but there's really no excuse on the non-negotiable issues.

00:05:59.140 Things like murdering little babies, things like marriage, the fundamental building block,

00:06:04.680 things like recognizing a moral order. You got to be a Republican. And that's coming up in the

00:06:11.100 data. This is not just me as a partisan trying to rally people to vote. This is just a fact.

00:06:16.140 The religious surge is among Republicans, and specifically Republican men.

00:06:22.960 So you say, well, what about the women?

00:06:25.680 Well, the women are going up a little bit too, not quite as much as the men.

00:06:30.120 But this is fine to me.

00:06:31.780 This makes perfect sense because men lead trends.

00:06:35.840 Men lead.

00:06:38.440 One out of a thousand women is Margaret Thatcher.

00:06:40.880 I'm not saying women can't lead things.

00:06:42.300 I'm not saying they can't be involved in public life.

00:06:44.000 I'm not saying they can't change public opinion.

00:06:45.380 They certainly can.

00:06:46.800 There's the Joan of Arc exception.

00:06:48.460 There's the Margaret Thatcher exception.

00:06:49.920 But generally speaking, 999 times out of 1,000, it is men who lead at the individual level,

00:06:55.620 at the family level, and at the political level, the polity being an extension of the family.

00:07:01.000 And so if men are leading, just like men led the way out of religion,

00:07:04.140 so too men are leading the way back into religion.

00:07:06.600 This is a great trend.

00:07:09.060 It tells us two things.

00:07:10.820 One thing about the polls, one thing about religion.

00:07:13.740 For years now, we've heard this cope from the libs and the secularists, which is that, oh yeah, you keep saying, you guys on the right, you keep saying that religion's coming back up.

00:07:22.340 Not really.

00:07:22.880 Religion's been in decline for decades.

00:07:24.680 At best, maybe it's plateaued off.

00:07:26.280 There is no surge in religion.

00:07:28.060 We don't see it in the polls.

00:07:29.880 Yeah, sometimes polls lag what's actually happening.

00:07:33.940 Because polls reflect social phenomena that have already happened.

00:07:40.000 there's really two levels here one is people will say yeah you're only seeing a surge in religion

00:07:47.320 among people in prominent fields in politics in media you're only seeing it in certain cities

00:07:54.420 you're only seeing it among people who are very online very plugged in very but that's not

00:07:59.080 reflected broadly yeah okay that can be true for a while but all political movements are led all

00:08:04.220 By political, I mean lowercase p, social, things happening in public.

00:08:08.840 They're always led by a determined small group, but that group influences other people.

00:08:17.860 So yeah, the return to religion might have been led by some nerdy guys in Washington,

00:08:24.760 D.C. or New York or whatever, but that has downstream effects because of influence.

00:08:30.380 And now that is showing up in society, and therefore now it is showing up in the polls.

00:08:34.620 We talked about this, what was it, yesterday or two days ago, on the Israel issue, which is related because it's the Holy Land.

00:08:41.500 We said, for years we've been seeing this crop up online in certain influential circles that there's a turning against the nation state of Israel.

00:08:50.860 But people said, oh, it's not a big deal.

00:08:52.180 It's not really showing up in the polls.

00:08:54.440 Now it is showing up in the polls.

00:08:55.860 You had Harry Anton on CNN just a few days ago saying that support for Israel has collapsed.

00:09:01.520 It had already substantially collapsed on the left.

00:09:04.440 Now it's showing up as collapsing among moderate and non-liberal Democrats.

00:09:08.860 They said, well, the Republicans, the right wing, that's the holdout for massive support

00:09:12.280 for Israel.

00:09:12.940 That has collapsed too, especially among young people.

00:09:15.900 I'm not even making any normative judgment about that.

00:09:17.900 I'm just making a point about the polls.

00:09:20.960 You can, in fact, believe your eyes when you're seeing things happening around society.

00:09:25.860 It won't always be reflected en masse until a little bit later, but it often is reflected.

00:09:32.860 So that's the first point on the polls.

00:09:34.900 And so regardless of what you think about Israel or Palestine or whatever,

00:09:38.080 on this separate issue, on the return to religion,

00:09:40.300 I think anybody of goodwill would have to say this is a good thing.

00:09:44.460 But some people don't believe it.

00:09:46.960 They don't want to believe it.

00:09:48.320 How can it be possible?

00:09:49.740 We're in this enlightened age.

00:09:51.060 How can people still follow their sky daddy and this old book that was written 2,000 years ago

00:09:57.020 or more? How could they possibly believe this? Folks, religion survived the French Revolution.

00:10:06.920 The French Revolution was a revolution against the king. Obviously, they killed the king and

00:10:11.480 the queen, but it was a religion against the ultimate king, the king of kings. It was a

00:10:17.560 revolution, rather, against the King of Kings. They went in and they desecrated churches.

00:10:22.740 They took out statues of the Blessed Mother. They put in statues of the goddess Reason.

00:10:27.660 They tried to prohibit Christianity. They persecuted priests.

00:10:31.880 It was an all-out assault on religion. And guess who won? Who won, the Jacobins or God?

00:10:37.520 God won. Religion survived the communist revolutions, not just the revolution in Russia,

00:10:43.580 which 100 years after the Bolshevik revolution is building cathedrals again.

00:10:48.600 It survived all the other communist revolutions. Religion survived Darwinism. Darwinism,

00:10:56.080 which said that there really is no fixed human nature. Darwinism, which was interpreted to mean

00:11:04.100 that there is no such thing as sin. There's no such thing as providence. There's certainly no

00:11:09.460 such thing as an active God, pure act sustaining all being. He said that's just made up. Guess who

00:11:18.040 won? Darwin or God? Guess who won? God won. Two world wars, the disillusionment that came out of

00:11:24.720 two world wars. Surely that would have finished off religion, right? How could a good God permit

00:11:29.160 such suffering? Who won? Gavrillo Principes, who killed the Archduke Fran Ferdinand, kicked off

00:11:38.440 World War I or God? God won. Who won? Hitler or God? God won.

00:11:46.760 Fast forward to today, the liberal decadence that we're in and another challenge to religion.

00:11:51.500 We got it so good. We've got maximum individual autonomy. We've got iPhones. We got money.

00:11:57.440 We got more food than could be imagined. We have technological innovation

00:12:01.180 beyond the wildest dreams of our grandparents. Who won? Liberalism or God?

00:12:08.440 God won. Are you noticing a trend? Even if you're not that religious, though odds are you're

00:12:16.620 becoming more religious. I'm just reading the polls. But even if you're not, if you were just

00:12:21.260 a gambling man, you should not bet against God. I've made this point before. Betting against the

00:12:29.800 Holy Spirit is a very, very bad idea. Why is religion surging? I think I know. Right now,

00:12:38.340 there are different reasons why religion would surge after different conflicts,

00:12:41.840 after the French Revolution or the Communist Revolution or the World Wars or what have you.

00:12:45.920 But I think the reason that religion is surging right now, especially among young men,

00:12:50.380 is a realization and a recognition that the world does in fact have meaning.

00:12:56.140 I think the defining feature of decadent liberalism in our age is the claim that the

00:13:03.540 world has no intrinsic meaning. Your life has no intrinsic meaning, but the meaning that you give

00:13:10.240 it. So it is incumbent upon us to create our own meaning. We are self-owning, self-actualizing

00:13:17.040 individuals. And if our life is to have meaning at all, it is we who imbue the world with meaning.

00:13:24.020 That's the claim of our present stage of modern decadent liberalism.

00:13:28.340 And the reason religion is surging right now is because we all know that isn't true.

00:13:34.940 We all know that things have meaning beyond our feeble capacities of reason, beyond our feeble control.

00:13:44.080 We know that the world itself does in fact have meaning.

00:13:47.980 We are recognizing that there is a kind of a divine logic to the universe.

00:13:52.260 which is indeed the very first verses of the gospel of saint john in the beginning was the

00:13:59.100 logos translated by saint jerome as verbum in latin translated into english as the word which

00:14:05.680 is a fine translation but it doesn't encapsulate the the the fullness of the the original word

00:14:11.380 logos, which is divine reason, rationality, meaning. In the beginning was reason, order,

00:14:22.140 logic, meaning. And the logos was with God and the logos was God. We recognize that.

00:14:29.940 And so the attempts to recreate our understanding of the world, the attempts by Karl Marx,

00:14:37.220 the attempts by Nietzsche, the attempts by Hitler, the attempts by decadent liberal moderns,

00:14:43.480 the attempts by whomever, are less persuasive. They ultimately don't fulfill the longings of

00:14:49.880 our heart, and they don't fulfill the understanding of our intellect.

00:14:54.700 So people are saying, oh, I guess that didn't really work out. You know what? Maybe I'll go

00:14:58.620 back to that one institution, the only one that has survived in our civilization from modernity,

00:15:06.960 from antiquity through modernity. Maybe every smart person for all of human history

00:15:15.620 statistically was right. Okay. Speaking of our decadent age, a video went viral yesterday

00:15:25.560 that is, and I say this without one iota of hyperbole, the most horrifying video I have

00:15:33.320 ever seen in my life. It's not graphic exactly. It's not pornographic. It's not violent,

00:15:41.280 obviously. It is a kind of a violence, but it's not visually violent.

00:15:47.540 And it encapsulates in less than 60 seconds the horror of the supposedly enlightened,

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00:17:14.520 quite an addictive chemical. A video has gone viral. I won't say viewer discretion advised

00:17:19.880 just yet. I'll just tell you what happens in the video. You can determine if you have the

00:17:23.840 fortitude to watch this. It's two guys, two homosexuals who apparently went out to the

00:17:31.180 baby store, custom ordered a baby, picked an egg from one woman, bought it, picked a womb from

00:17:36.800 another woman, rented it, went to a perverse, unethical doctor, scientist, and said, okay,

00:17:43.120 here's my money. Give me a baby now. I want to order a baby with the intent to deprive that child

00:17:49.220 of his mother. The two fellas get the baby, and then you'd say, well, that's horrifying,

00:17:55.360 but we know that that happens a lot. Then the guys film one of the guys bouncing the baby

00:18:02.700 when the baby calls out for mama. And then the homosexuals mock the baby

00:18:12.200 for wanting his mama, mock the baby who then begins to cry. With that preface,

00:18:20.020 if you want to just fast forward for a minute, close your ears, close your eyes if you can't

00:18:24.680 take it. I think it's important to watch this kind of thing because I think it's important to see.

00:18:31.540 We can argue all day. We can read essays all day. I'm reminded of Joseph Conrad in the

00:18:36.780 introduction to Negro of Narcissus, who says that the scientist deals in facts and the thinker deals

00:18:41.740 and ideas, but the artist wants you to see something, and art can be very persuasive,

00:18:46.820 if you can stomach it, you should see this video.

00:19:11.740 Dada or Pop?

00:19:17.120 Nope. Do you want Dada? You want Pop?

00:19:22.740 No way, Jose!

00:19:27.100 I think...

00:19:29.100 There is no mama.

00:19:32.320 I'm so sorry. You have Dada or Pop?

00:19:36.780 Two choices.

00:19:37.360 No mama.

00:19:38.420 If I said what I really think watching this video,

00:20:00.940 if I said what I really felt watching this video,

00:20:03.540 I would probably lose my show,

00:20:05.880 and I might be prosecuted and I would certainly have to go to confession if I said what I really

00:20:12.520 think, what I really feel watching that video. And I suspect many of you feel the same way.

00:20:19.600 So we don't want to give total vent to maybe the deeper and darker reactions that we have

00:20:31.440 to that kind of video. However, it is perfectly right to feel angry looking at that video.

00:20:38.560 In fact, it would express and reflect a defect in our character if we did not feel angry looking at

00:20:46.980 that video. A little baby wants his mama. And a couple of men mock the baby, laugh at the baby,

00:20:58.100 and said, you don't get a mama. If the baby had lost his mama because the mama sadly died,

00:21:08.840 as happens, it's a fallen world and sin and death pervade the world. If the baby had lost

00:21:15.140 his mama through accident, chance, the brokenness of this world, we would feel really sad.

00:21:23.040 we wouldn't necessarily feel angry we feel really sad though but this is different because these two

00:21:31.660 men did that to the baby they abused the baby in that way there is no other way to describe this

00:21:39.620 it is child abuse i'm not saying that those men beat the baby i'm not saying that those men want

00:21:44.780 to harm the baby those men might be motivated by what is at least in its kernel a very good instinct

00:21:52.400 which is we want to have children. We want to procreate. We want to raise children. We want

00:21:55.800 to educate them. But the perversions of their desires and their own selfishness have led them

00:22:03.260 nevertheless to abuse that baby, which is now fully expressed in their mockery of the baby

00:22:10.740 and their filming of the baby while the baby is crying out for the mother that those men have

00:22:14.820 intentionally deprived the baby of having. And I don't know why the men are doing it.

00:22:19.180 maybe it's a kind of defense mechanism. Maybe it's because deep down, they know they've done

00:22:25.120 something wrong. Deep down, they know something is really disordered here.

00:22:29.660 Regardless, this should obviously be illegal. Obviously. The only person who can be said to

00:22:40.320 have rights in the matter of procreation, it's not the homosexual guy who really wants a kid,

00:22:48.120 but he finds women icky. It's not even the single parent who doesn't want to go out and get married

00:22:55.300 or was not able to go out and get married, so then goes to the store to buy a baby anyway to

00:22:58.640 deprive the baby of the mother or the father. It's wrong to deprive the baby of a father too.

00:23:05.100 Especially though for a little baby, it's really, really wrong to deprive the baby of a mother.

00:23:09.960 Notice while that man is mocking that baby, crying out for his mother,

00:23:13.360 at no point does he take the baby and hold the baby next to him on his chest rub the bill that'll

00:23:19.600 be okay goochie goochie it's okay because that's what mothers do fathers don't always do that

00:23:26.480 even heterosexual married fathers don't always do that we don't we relate to babies differently

00:23:31.460 than mothers do that's why babies need mothers and fathers and especially little babies especially

00:23:36.720 you need money. And this is very, very wrong. Horrifying. I've seen, I said, this is the most

00:23:44.160 horrifying video I've ever seen. I said, the most horrifying, Michael? Yeah, the most horrifying.

00:23:50.240 Well, Michael, have you ever seen a video of war? I have. I've seen a lot of videos of war. I've

00:23:54.020 seen videos of people getting killed. Yup. I've seen videos of violence and crime, graphic,

00:24:01.420 like horrible, terrible videos. This is worse because this represents a kind of a perversion

00:24:10.080 of the will, a degree of selfishness and blithe cruelty that boggles the mind and certainly the

00:24:18.960 heart. And we have arrived here because of lots of social errors. It's not entirely the fault of

00:24:27.840 those two men. This is a social phenomenon. Those two men were told growing up that men and women

00:24:33.900 are basically the same. They were told that by feminism, and then they were later told that by

00:24:37.520 the gay rights movement. Those two men were told by liberalism that the most important thing in

00:24:43.840 the world is not reason or charity, but our own individual autonomy. Those two people were told

00:24:51.500 by capitalism that markets are the be-all and end-all, that we ought to serve the invisible

00:24:59.040 hand of the free market. Those two men were told by communism that the family doesn't really matter,

00:25:08.480 that really we're all just one big kind of amorphous blob in a national polity.

00:25:12.280 There is a lot of blame to go around. I'm not blaming those two guys. Those two guys might

00:25:16.300 have gone out and bought that baby and intentionally deprived him of his mother

00:25:19.040 for what in their minds were very good reasons.

00:25:24.040 It's vomit-inducing.

00:25:26.860 It's horrifying.

00:25:29.600 It makes any even reasonable person

00:25:33.740 feel at least a little bit tempted to violence.

00:25:37.420 And you have to resist that.

00:25:38.960 You don't want vigilante violence.

00:25:41.540 But it's that bad.

00:25:43.240 It's that bad.

00:25:44.440 And it needs to be illegal immediately.

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00:27:28.280 giving a little light into the surrogacy industry. Because what I think most people think of when

00:27:33.460 they think of IVF and the surrogacy industry is this is a way to help infertile couples achieve

00:27:39.440 their dreams of having a family. And isn't that good? What could be wrong about this? It's more

00:27:43.640 babies. Isn't that pro-life? Where are you pro-lifers? Why would you oppose this? This is great,

00:27:49.620 right? Now, a lot of the time that the IVF stuff, it goes to homosexual guys and you see those,

00:27:56.280 or lesbian women or single parents, and you see those videos that we just saw. You say,

00:28:01.980 well, okay, that's pretty bad. But what about, you know, come on, what about the ordinary,

00:28:05.280 you know, just married couples, they're infertile, doesn't work. What's wrong with them going out

00:28:10.200 and buying an egg, renting a womb, and creating a child? Well, here's one of the legal problems

00:28:17.380 that comes about as a result. In the surrogacy contrast, it's just normal to have abortion

00:28:24.400 causes. So the commissioning parents have the choice, if they wish, to demand an abortion

00:28:30.480 from to the servant so there was this case where a surya mother was pregnant she was in her third

00:28:36.180 trimester and the baby after the ulcer cell was found for missing two fingers and the commissioning

00:28:42.740 carrots did not want a child missing two fingers so they asked the surya mother to perform an

00:28:49.160 abortion she was in her third trimester i have to say full-grown baby and indeed and so she refused

00:28:56.200 she wanted to keep the baby she refused she said no unfortunately she received a letter from lawyers

00:29:02.680 of the commissioning parents saying that the contract had to be enforced and that she had to

00:29:07.380 get a divorce or else she would not receive the money and imposed that she would be sued

00:29:13.860 so she was forced to abort this baby just because he was missing two fingers

00:29:18.820 yes okay so question you got to ask yourself try to try to prioritize your reason and your

00:29:27.040 intellect here beyond your visceral reaction which is probably one of anger listening to that story

00:29:32.800 and you see cases like this litigated all around the country all around the world this is not a

00:29:39.060 one-off event but you have to ask yourself why shouldn't the commissioning couple be allowed to

00:29:45.840 Sue. Why not? If the baby is a commodity that customers have purchased and the product comes

00:29:56.240 out defective, again, I know you might say missing a couple of fingers, that's a pretty modest

00:30:00.760 defect. It's like you go out and you buy a coat and a couple of stitches are off. That happened

00:30:06.340 to me. I bought a nice coat and a couple of stitches were off. I thought about returning

00:30:10.160 it. I said, nah, it's okay. I'll just wear it. It's no big deal. But some people would say,

00:30:13.880 I don't want the stitches off. I'm going to go exchange it. I'm going to go. They'll destroy

00:30:17.120 that coat. They can't sell it. And I'll buy another coat. So if the baby is a commodity,

00:30:22.660 why shouldn't the commissioning couple, like you commission a painting, you commission a car.

00:30:28.960 Why shouldn't, it's expensive too. It's more expensive than most cars to buy a baby.

00:30:33.320 Why shouldn't the couple be allowed to say, we don't want it, destroy that product and sell me

00:30:40.360 a new one. Why not? I can't come up with a reason if the baby were a commodity. But we all know

00:30:50.060 the baby's not a commodity. No human being can be said to be a commodity. A human being is a

00:30:59.120 rational creature made in the image and likeness of God, which itself bears rights. The very rights

00:31:06.200 that we claim when we talk about the commodities that we buy and own. So then you get to the

00:31:13.420 inescapable conclusion. If the baby is not in fact a commodity, then you should not be able

00:31:19.720 to commission and buy and return the baby. And I know I have sympathy. I have less and less

00:31:29.400 sympathy over time, but I have sympathy for people who didn't think through this all that well.

00:31:36.200 for people who say, well, if not for IVF and surrogacy, I wouldn't have my niece or my nephew

00:31:40.920 or my kid for that matter. You're telling me I shouldn't have my kid. I'm not telling you that

00:31:44.300 at all. Kids are great. Kids are goods in themselves. But not every means to produce a

00:31:50.600 child is morally justifiable because the ends don't justify the means. Good ends do not justify

00:31:57.040 immoral means. You can make a kid through rape, and the kid who is conceived as a result of rape

00:32:03.500 is good. It's good that you have your kid. I know people who were conceived as a result of rape.

00:32:08.900 I certainly don't think they should be killed. I certainly think they have exactly as much moral

00:32:13.400 worth as any other person. That does not therefore justify rape, doesn't justify the immoral ends.

00:32:20.080 With the IVF and surrogacy industry, it's a little more abstract because there are markets

00:32:24.940 and there are vendors and there are scientists and lab coats. And so it's easier to convince

00:32:29.000 ourselves that this is somehow not immoral. But the couple gets to sue to kill the kid if the kid

00:32:37.200 doesn't come out the right way, because the customer's always right in markets, because the

00:32:40.840 kid has been defined wrongly, enormously wrongly, as a commodity, which he is not. And if the kid's

00:32:49.640 not a commodity, then we shouldn't have a market for kids. We shouldn't have stores for kids.

00:32:54.160 we shouldn't have custom order catalogs for kids. That's the inescapable conclusion. That's

00:32:59.840 going to be a hard conclusion for some people. Show me the flaw in my reasoning. You can't.

00:33:05.320 You can't. So you can't write an essay showing me the flaw in my reasoning. You can't produce

00:33:10.920 a logical syllogism showing me the flaw in my reasoning. And crucially, you can't watch those

00:33:15.180 two videos. You definitely can't watch those two videos and show me the flaw in my reasoning.

00:33:19.360 so do we have the political courage to do what we all know is right that's the question speaking

00:33:25.300 of men and women there's a new study out of the uk this is being reported in the new statesman

00:33:31.140 where is it where's my study it shows that women and men are in fact at loggerheads we are real

00:33:40.680 confused about the sexes. Obviously, a theme of the show today. But for years, we've been told

00:33:49.160 that this war between the sexes is being driven by angry young men, misogynistic, angry young

00:33:55.300 incel men who hate women. And what this has found is that it's exactly the opposite.

00:34:02.700 This is a story published called Angry Young Women by Emily Lawford and Scarlett Magg,

00:34:09.040 published in the New Statesman. I'll just read you a little bit because I know we have to get to

00:34:12.680 the mailbag. The literary conversation was winding down. They're describing this event

00:34:19.720 at a feminist society. The literary conversation was winding down. I asked the table how they felt

00:34:24.340 about the young men they knew. I don't care for them, said a girl named Ruby imperiously.

00:34:29.480 She had red hair and lots of silver jewelry. They're not bad people, but they refuse to call

00:34:33.080 out their friends who make other girls uncomfortable. They'll laugh at jokes that

00:34:36.260 are sexist, racist, homophobic. They don't care about political issues. I don't think they like

00:34:40.480 women a lot. If a man is attracted to you, she said, he might talk about things like toxic

00:34:45.540 misogyny. If he doesn't fancy you, he won't bother. I feel like a lot of it is quite sexually

00:34:51.720 motivated with men. I don't like these men. So then the author writes, I asked if they'd consider

00:34:57.160 dating a man with different politics. They all immediately said no. I don't think I'd even be

00:35:01.040 friends with one, said one girl. They don't see you as human. No, I don't know. I'm a man with

00:35:05.600 different politics or quite distinctly different politics than these feminist women. I think women

00:35:10.600 are human. In fact, I think I view them as much more human than they view themselves,

00:35:15.400 much more accurately human than they view themselves. Only one woman, Evelyn, admitted

00:35:19.740 to having male friends, though she was worried this made her a pick-me, trying too hard for

00:35:22.900 male attention. It also didn't feel like students just trying on radicalism for funds. This didn't

00:35:27.800 feel like just a passing fad. There is a real set stratification of different groups under 30.

00:35:33.060 the internet has pushed young men and women further apart, and the people they interact

00:35:36.620 with on the internet reinforce their beliefs. In a vicious cycle, the femisphere, not the

00:35:41.220 manosphere, the femisphere, both reflects young women's dissatisfaction and perpetuates it

00:35:46.880 radicalizing them further. So first of all, we all should have realized this. Yes, there's tension

00:35:52.440 between the sexes. We used to say there wouldn't be a war between the sexes because everyone's

00:35:56.180 sleeping with the enemy. Then when they stopped sleeping with each other, that should have been

00:35:59.920 our first clue. Okay, maybe there is a war between the sexes. Ancient wisdom, the gods of the copy

00:36:04.420 book headings coming back. But we should have realized that it was the women who were angry at

00:36:09.000 the men more than the men angry at the women. Because for decades, the media told us the

00:36:14.620 opposite. And whatever the liberal media say is wrong, not just a little bit wrong, but usually

00:36:19.120 perfectly wrong. And so they've told us about these angry young men for a decade. The opposite

00:36:23.800 was true. I'll tell you why. It's very simple. I'm not saying there's no misogyny. I'm not saying

00:36:31.640 that men don't make jokes about women, or in some limited cases, men genuinely don't like women.

00:36:37.360 But here are the numbers. It was published in the study. Overall, do you have a positive or

00:36:40.620 negative view of the opposite gender? Men, 72% say positive because we like ladies. They're great.

00:36:47.500 They're a little frustrating sometimes, but we like them. They're one of the top things that

00:36:51.900 we like? Cigars, ladies, sitting. I don't know. I'm just describing myself here. The Yankees.

00:36:59.860 I don't know. But ladies are higher than all of them. I don't know. The cigar, even more than

00:37:04.740 cigars, I would say. 72% positive. 21% neutral, 7% negative. For women, only 50% say they have

00:37:11.580 a positive view of men. 29% say neutral. So a little higher in the neutrality than men.

00:37:19.120 and then 21% say negative. Women are three times as likely to view men in a negative light than

00:37:26.580 men are likely to view women in a negative light. Why? What is it? What's up with the girls? I'll

00:37:33.880 tell you exactly what it is. For decades now, women have been told to compete with men.

00:37:40.680 that's what changed for all of human history until 57 seconds ago men and women were told

00:37:50.040 that they're complementary they go together like a yin and a yang they're great

00:37:54.580 what's how's the song go man needs a girl and girl must have his mate no i'm screwing up the

00:38:03.100 lyrics but that's the idea we're made for each other but then feminism came in and said no no

00:38:08.120 you're not made for each other. Women and men, you're actually the same. You're basically the

00:38:12.480 same. You look a little different sometimes, but you're practically speaking entirely the same.

00:38:16.580 Therefore, you need to compete with men. You need to go in there, get that job from that man.

00:38:20.480 You need to go in there, take that spot at the university from that man. You need to go in there,

00:38:24.900 get what's your, get those legal licenses and rights, so-called, from men. You got to compete

00:38:33.040 with them. Men were not really told that about women in as much as they were told that they

00:38:38.360 didn't believe it. Because men don't have to compete with men. Men and women compete in a

00:38:42.460 race. Guess who wins? The man. Men and women compete in the job market. Guess who wins?

00:38:47.160 Generally, the men. Because women have kids. Because women are more nurturing and they want

00:38:56.240 to stay home with their kids. They're biologically different. Because women are a little more

00:39:01.340 emotional sometimes, I think we would say. Couldn't we say that? I'm like, will I get in

00:39:04.800 trouble for saying that? Probably. But it's true. Men just have certain advantages in professional

00:39:11.340 life, in political life, in business life that women don't have. But women have advantages that

00:39:18.480 men don't have as well. Bringing us all the way back to the top, women are much more nurturing.

00:39:26.460 Women are necessary. Women are the hand that rocks the cradle as the hand that rules the world.

00:39:31.720 So anyway, women are told they must compete with men.

00:39:36.960 And therefore, they view men as rivals.

00:39:40.320 And therefore, they don't like them at a much higher rate than men don't like women.

00:39:45.280 No surprise here.

00:39:47.380 This is, you pay your ticket and you take your seat.

00:39:49.600 But it hasn't worked.

00:39:50.540 And it's made people very unhappy.

00:39:51.960 A related story.

00:39:52.800 I know I'm running late.

00:39:53.660 I don't care.

00:39:54.940 Here's a story coming out of Pew Research.

00:39:58.480 Couples who share a surname most likely have lower divorce rates overall.

00:40:04.060 Gee, you don't say.

00:40:05.900 When women take the name of their husband and there's one name for the whole family,

00:40:11.200 that family is less likely to break up than when women insist on keeping their father's name.

00:40:16.200 They're always going to have a man's name, but they want to have their father's name instead of their husband's name.

00:40:20.580 The women who keep their last name are more likely to break up.

00:40:23.400 spouses who don't share a surname divorce at about a 50% higher rate than those who do share

00:40:28.420 a surname and their divorces come about 30% earlier in their marriages. Yes, of course.

00:40:35.040 But it's not just the surname. There are a few instances where women keep their surname for

00:40:40.720 professional reasons or whatever. Again, I don't think it's great, but I'm not saying there's

00:40:45.340 never a reason, but generally 999 times out of a thousand, women should take their husband's

00:40:49.620 last name because they're part of a family now. And if they don't do that, then they're hedging

00:40:56.580 their bets on the family. I feel this way about shared bank accounts. One out of 1,000, maybe the

00:41:02.600 husband has a gambling problem. Maybe the wife has a drug addiction. Maybe there's some reason

00:41:06.080 to keep bank accounts separate. But 999 times out of 1,000, when couples don't have shared bank

00:41:11.480 accounts, they're hedging, aren't they? It's a hedge to say, well, if I want to get out of this

00:41:17.320 marriage, at least it'll be easier to do so. Prenuptial agreements are the same thing. The

00:41:21.180 church, the Catholic church does not allow prenuptial agreements. You cannot have a prenuptial

00:41:25.220 agreement getting married because it's a hedge. And they say, well, the sacrament is for life.

00:41:30.280 If you get a prenuptial agreement, you're hedging. You are acting as though you might leave the

00:41:37.120 marriage. Therefore, you're not buying into what the sacrament really is. And guess what? They're

00:41:43.000 more likely to get divorced. I don't recommend it. If you're going to do it, do it. This is what

00:41:50.380 our Lord tells us about being lukewarm. Be vomited out of the mouth. If you're going to do it,

00:41:55.240 if you want to get married, get married. But we've redefined marriage to be not just a lifelong

00:42:00.620 union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation and the education of children,

00:42:04.780 a good of which then is also the mutual support of the spouses. Now it's just two people who live

00:42:08.900 together or don't live together. Of any sex, could be two fellas, could be two women,

00:42:14.100 leads to a lot of social confusion, leads to a lot of dissatisfaction, and that should change too.

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00:42:47.740 and you'll be getting everything breaking. Now, finally, finally, we get to the mailbag.

00:42:53.300 My favorite comment yesterday from Diane C9456, who says, thanks for defining mogging, Michael.

00:42:59.340 I guess I'm old. Yeah, you're not, you know, look, you're not a hip, young, cool zoomer like me.

00:43:03.220 You know, kid, sup?

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00:43:14.120 Take it away.

00:43:15.380 Hey, Michael.

00:43:16.480 This is Daily Listener, McDonald's employee Abel from Hungary.

00:43:20.660 And I really liked your coverage of the Hungarian elections on Monday.

00:43:25.840 And I very much agree with your takes.

00:43:29.400 I also want to add that on a personal level,

00:43:33.220 Peter Magyar is even more terrible.

00:43:35.740 He's an absolute degenerate half-gay sex freak sociopath

00:43:39.580 who lies about everything.

00:43:42.700 And the good Hungarians will fight and not give up.

00:43:47.820 Also, we love America and we love Trump.

00:43:51.800 So please pray for us.

00:43:53.940 God bless.

00:43:55.440 Well, thanks for writing in.

00:43:56.780 I'm always so happy when I get notes and hear voicemails

00:44:01.320 from people who are listening all around the world, and especially this week from Hungary.

00:44:05.700 Because there's this huge op underway to say, actually, the guy who kicked out the most

00:44:11.220 conservative leader in Europe, the last stand against mass migration and the predations of

00:44:15.260 the European Union, actually, it's fine that that guy lost. And the new guy is even better.

00:44:20.440 The guy that the EU and Alex Soros and Hillary Clinton and Gavin Newsom were all thrilled won

00:44:25.360 the election, he's actually secretly way more based than Orban. And I thought, I don't really

00:44:30.040 buy that. And I have traveled to Hungary a few times in the last, for different reasons in the

00:44:33.880 last few years. And that was not the impression that I got. It seemed to me pretty clear that

00:44:39.060 the European Union knew, the libs, the globalists, call them what you will. They knew they couldn't

00:44:44.900 win with a leftist in Hungary, in post-Soviet Hungary. They knew that wasn't going to fly.

00:44:50.460 So they needed a guy who was plausibly right-wing, but just not Orban. And they got their guy.

00:44:56.780 Obviously, he won in a pretty big election, but yeah, I didn't buy it.

00:45:03.420 Just for me, a rule of politics, pretty simple.

00:45:06.560 If Hillary Clinton and van der Leyen and Gavin Newsom and Alex Soros and all those people are on one side of an election, I'm probably going to be on the other.

00:45:16.220 So glad to hear that affirmed by a Hungarian.

00:45:19.240 Okay, next mailbag.

00:45:22.180 Good morning, Michael.

00:45:22.840 This is Arun.

00:45:23.440 So I am a practitioner of the Second Amendment for personal safety reasons, but the principal

00:45:29.440 objective of 2A is not personal safety. Rather, it is corporate safety. The idea is that the

00:45:35.660 government should fear its armed citizenry and should therefore avoid tyranny. Yet in 2020,

00:45:41.640 we saw that that didn't seem to be effective. The government enacted harsh lockdowns,

00:45:47.020 preventing people from so much as going out to eat at their favorite restaurant or having a

00:45:51.740 bunch of friends over for a party. And you didn't see any citizens with AR-15s rushing the local

00:45:58.760 McDonald's demanding to dine in. So my question is, why did the Second Amendment fail when we

00:46:05.420 needed it most? Thank you, as always, for your insight. Good question, Arun, as always. Why

00:46:12.240 didn't people take up arms and start shooting cops during COVID is basically the question that

00:46:16.060 you're asking. And the reason I think comes from the Declaration of Independence. Declaration of

00:46:21.660 Independence reads, after it describes the predicate for the war, before it describes

00:46:30.660 all of the offenses. Don't forget, most of the declaration is specific offenses

00:46:34.560 that the king has committed, really meaning parliament has committed against the American

00:46:38.800 colonists. But in the first draft written by Jefferson and in the final draft of the declaration,

00:46:45.660 they do take on the argument against revolution. And they say, prudence indeed will dictate the

00:46:51.060 governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes.

00:46:55.040 And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils

00:46:58.800 are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

00:47:03.180 But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object events as

00:47:08.100 a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off

00:47:12.780 such government and to provide new guards for their future security. So in the case of COVID,

00:47:17.200 It was very, very heavy-handed, but it lasted for a relatively short period of time.

00:47:22.160 Don't forget, revolutionary sentiment in the colonies had been building for a decade.

00:47:26.280 COVID happily lasted two, three years.

00:47:29.680 If we were still under the COVID regime today, there would be a stronger argument for a political revolution.

00:47:36.420 But I think Jefferson is right.

00:47:38.780 Jefferson, who's drawing on wisdom from Protestant sources, who themselves were reading Jesuit

00:47:45.660 sources, who themselves were reading St. Thomas Aquinas, who himself was reading the long

00:47:49.840 tradition of political revolution, thoughts on the regime, God's providence in ordaining the

00:47:56.960 regime versus the rights of the people to overthrow bad rulers. And he says, look,

00:48:02.000 you need to be really cautious here. And it is better to suffer evils of a regime in most cases

00:48:08.140 than it is to actually engage in a political revolution,

00:48:10.140 which might leave you worse off than you were when you started.

00:48:12.520 But when things just go on, look like they're going to go on forever,

00:48:15.180 and it's intolerable, then you have,

00:48:18.540 Jefferson would say you have a right to revolution.

00:48:20.620 At the very least, you might say you have a license to it.

00:48:23.180 Okay, next question.

00:48:27.180 Hi, Michael.

00:48:28.000 So we seem to be on a similar life path at the moment.

00:48:31.400 We both have three boys.

00:48:33.880 I have a four-year-old, almost three-year-old, and almost one-year-old.

00:48:38.140 And we were pregnant with our fourth and just found out it's a little girl.

00:48:41.700 So I'm not sure if you're having a girl or not, but I am curious to hear your thoughts.

00:48:46.040 What do you think would be the differences in parenting rambunctious, very aggressive, active little boys versus potentially very sensitive but super sweet and sassy little girl?

00:48:58.900 I just don't know what to expect and would love to hear your thoughts.

00:49:01.900 Thanks so much.

00:49:02.580 I've thought about this question quite a lot.

00:49:05.080 Some of you, I haven't made a big announcement about it,

00:49:06.880 but some of you know sweet little Elisa is indeed pregnant.

00:49:09.380 So we appreciate your prayers.

00:49:11.120 This became public because I was at CPAC and Matt Schlapp decided to tell everybody in the room

00:49:15.380 and in the world who was watching.

00:49:17.760 And so anyway, I am very excited about that.

00:49:19.860 And we did, in fact, just find out.

00:49:21.400 I thought for now many years that I was incapable of producing a daughter

00:49:26.160 because I'm simply too virile.

00:49:27.880 So I just kept producing sons because of my, I don't know, my high T levels,

00:49:32.740 my kind of metaphysical masculinity. I don't know what it was, but I'm very pleased to say

00:49:39.500 that the new one is a girl. So I'm very, very excited about that. And I've thought, okay,

00:49:44.560 well, how will this be different? And of course, the most obvious difference is that I will now

00:49:49.960 be able to do favors for criminals on the day of her wedding. So I can't, you know, you don't do

00:49:55.920 that on your son's wedding day, but on your daughter's wedding day, you can have big fat

00:50:00.040 Italian criminals come up to your office in your home, which is hosting the wedding,

00:50:04.640 and you can promise to do crimes on their behalf to then incur their favor and win their loyalty

00:50:13.200 and then force them to commit crimes on your behalf down the road.

00:50:17.140 So that to me is the biggest difference, of course.

00:50:19.640 And then beyond that, it remains to be seen.

00:50:24.080 Though I will say, Drew Clayton gave me this advice when our first kid was born.

00:50:29.220 Kids are born with their entire personality

00:50:31.100 and they basically never change,

00:50:32.400 which is a real mark in favor of nature

00:50:35.880 because I have three boys.

00:50:38.520 They're all completely different

00:50:40.020 and they've all been completely different

00:50:41.680 from the moment that they were born, at least.

00:50:44.440 And it's just how it is.

00:50:45.360 And I'm increasingly persuaded by the power of genetics,

00:50:48.360 at the very least by the power of providence.

00:50:50.060 So remains to be seen.

00:50:51.800 But congrats on the new kid.

00:50:52.800 That's great.

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The Michael Knowles Show - April 17, 2026

Ep. 1955 - This Is the Most Horrifying Video Michael Knowles Has Ever Seen

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