The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1976 - The ＂Chud the Builder＂ Arrest & Viral Content Explained

00:00:00.000 A live streamer best known for walking up to black people on the street and calling them the

00:00:05.140 N-word is now facing 56 years in prison after he shot one of his subjects. We will get to what

00:00:13.320 this totally predictable outcome means for late stage political commentary. Then AOC gets more

00:00:19.720 basic history wrong as she calls for civil war against the South. And Gavin Newsom reassures

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00:02:42.060 We have to start with Chud the Builder.

00:02:44.720 Do you know who Chud the Builder is?

00:02:46.040 I did not either until about two days ago.

00:02:48.900 My friend, I was having lunch, and he said, Michael, how have you not followed the latest hot trend of political commentary? 0.90

00:02:56.480 There's this guy, Chud the Builder.

00:02:58.320 I think he's based in Nashville. 0.98

00:03:00.180 And his whole shtick is that he goes up to black people on the street and calls them the N-word. 0.95

00:03:05.900 Chud the Builder was apparently arrested for shooting someone in the totally 100% predictable outcome of his antics. 0.95

00:03:17.920 Here is Chud the Builder in court.

00:03:19.980 official bond at 1.25 million based upon the fact of how many people were in the courtyard

00:03:28.560 were here at the courthouse and the seriousness of all these felonies and his bond status

00:03:34.960 okay so 1.25 million dollar bond potentially facing 56 years in prison for shooting somebody

00:03:43.140 outside of a courthouse of all places or a bunch of other people around apparently for those who

00:03:48.860 are not familiar with Mr. The Builder's oeuvre, here is basically every single video that

00:03:56.420 this guy posts. We got 18 rounds for you. We ain't got nothing else. Don't follow me

00:04:01.740 in my truck. I mean, you're pandering to the niggas, bro. We already know that's what 1.00

00:04:05.680 you're doing. Yeah, you too. Go chimp out. Or what? You wanna get maced right now or

00:04:15.560 what? Come on. Come chimp out. Come chimp out. Come on. Follow us over here away from 0.94

00:04:23.620 the kids. Come on. Come chimp out. That's what I thought. Come chimp out. Right here.

00:04:35.400 look he didn't he wanted to start chimping out

00:04:38.960 or what that's what i thought so that that's every single video every single video is he goes 0.97

00:04:52.080 up to black people and calls them the n-word to their face and then tries to get them to attack 0.92

00:04:59.580 him. And then he he says, even if they're not doing anything, he says they're they're chimping 1.00

00:05:05.280 out. So he compares them to monkeys. And then when white people come up and say, hey, man,

00:05:09.680 you probably shouldn't do that. He calls them. He calls the white people a slur for homosexuals. 0.50

00:05:15.260 And that's that's the whole thing. Now, on top of all of this, Chud the Builder apparently posted 0.99

00:05:22.300 on Twitter, he said series finale of the show that he does series finale is dead chimp on the

00:05:29.400 pavement. When you monkeys rioting, when I walk free, stay tuned. So we now have here a pretty

00:05:37.240 explicit threat to shoot the black people after he calls them the N-word. And what happens? What 1.00

00:05:45.640 do you know? He shot a black guy. Now he faces 56 years in prison. The guy's a 28-year-old. His 0.99

00:05:53.920 name is Dalton Aetherly. And what interests me most about this is what it says about political

00:06:02.600 commentary. Because I was told this guy is like a political commentator. He's a live streamer.

00:06:08.420 He's a political live streamer. And I guess technically he is. But the whole thing

00:06:13.280 is just calling black people a racial slur. And it made me realize that we are now in this

00:06:22.120 hyper real, totally abstracted version of political commentary in which the commentary

00:06:29.020 has really nothing to do about basic politics, which is a trend you will notice that I have

00:06:34.120 been observing for months and even years. I mentioned this about the podcast wars.

00:06:40.860 I guess it's technically political commentary, but none of it has to do with actual politics.

00:06:46.020 You go up to someone, you say, hey, have you seen Chud the Builder? He's the latest

00:06:50.280 political live streamer. You say, oh, really? What policies does he talk about? What candidates

00:06:54.880 does he advocate for? You say, policies? Candidates? What are you talking? This is

00:06:59.880 political commentary. It has nothing to do with policies or candidates. This is just the perfectly

00:07:05.140 hyper real, baudrillardin, distilled version of political commentary. So far removed from anything

00:07:12.080 tangible or electoral that it's almost unrecognizable. Just as, to quote our old

00:07:17.060 friend, local distance. The strawberry Jolly Rancher slushie has basically nothing to do

00:07:22.920 with strawberries. And so on the right, I guess this guy's on the right. This is the right wing

00:07:28.700 version of that. You go around and yell racial epithets at people. But it's not just the right

00:07:33.120 that does this. There's a left wing version too. I think the left wing version is Hassan Piker

00:07:38.380 torturing his dog. The left wing version of the decadent, extreme, abstracted, concentrate,

00:07:44.560 strawberry Jolly Rancher slushy political commentary is Hassan Piker live streaming

00:07:49.880 for hours a day, torturing his dog. And you say, what does that have to do with politics?

00:07:54.580 What does that have to do with candidates? What does that have to do with policies? You say,

00:07:57.780 nothing. It's just the extreme version. Because for the left, the growing theme,

00:08:05.820 which becomes abstracted from anything tangible, is just this rage, the kind of rage,

00:08:10.860 violent wrath that you see reflected in the opinion polls after Charlie Kirk was assassinated,

00:08:16.140 where a huge number of leftists say they would murder their political adversaries no matter

00:08:20.160 how moderate or centrist they are. Same thing goes for this guy on the right, where some people

00:08:27.080 on the right might point out that there are problems of mass migration, say, or not enforcing

00:08:31.520 the law and therefore having crime on the streets. The most abstracted, unjust, crazy version of that

00:08:39.500 is just going up to random black people on the street and calling them the N-word.

00:08:44.220 So you have to trace it throughout history. Originally, there was not really much of any

00:08:51.180 such thing as political commentary per se. You think about early America, who were the

00:08:55.800 political commentators? Who were the live streamers of their day? It was John Jay and

00:09:02.740 James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. It was the Federalist. You had these guys who were writing

00:09:07.900 op-eds in the newspaper defending the Constitution. But these were the guys who were framing the

00:09:11.980 Constitution. These were the statesmen who were building the government. These were politicians.

00:09:16.280 These were guys who'd fought in the Revolutionary War. And then as time went on, you saw, I don't

00:09:22.580 know, some debates, again, between politicians, Lincoln and Douglas debates. That was the political

00:09:26.580 commentary of the middle 19th century. And then as it goes on, it develops more into a journalism

00:09:32.740 that is a little bit separated from the actual politicians. So in the early to mid 20th century,

00:09:38.340 you had these journalists who were, maybe they would purport to be neutral. They would say,

00:09:43.800 well, we're reporters reporting on the news, but we're also offering some commentary on what it

00:09:48.480 means. Then this developed into the AM radio era where the commentators really weren't reporting

00:09:53.760 on the news. They were giving mostly their opinion. Same thing goes for cable news.

00:09:57.280 That developed into podcasts where the podcasters all of a sudden became

00:10:01.440 their own personalities. People would start to follow the podcasters even more than the

00:10:06.200 politicians. What kind of conservative are you? Oh, I'm a Ben Shapiro conservative. I'm a

00:10:10.960 Tucker Carlson conservative. Neither of those guys actually holds public office. Neither of

00:10:15.120 them actually passes policies. But nevertheless, it was still grounded in something kind of like

00:10:20.060 the political. Then you get into live streamers. You say, what kind of conservative are you? I'm

00:10:24.100 a clavicular conservative. Wait, wait, what? That guy doesn't even care about electoral politics.

00:10:28.180 And now the extreme version is Chud the Builder. It's so decadent. It's so extreme. It's pure

00:10:35.660 entertainment. There's always some entertainment in politics, but this is just pure entertainment,

00:10:39.700 pure provocation, pure wrath or shock or scandal or what have you. And the end of it is,

00:10:46.380 in both cases, violence. The end of it is Chud the Builder shoots a guy in the courthouse,

00:10:50.720 or Hassan Piker tortures his dog. Or Stephen Bonnell, Destiny, calls for the murder of

00:10:57.520 ordinary conservatives in the streets. That's the extreme of it. It is a kind of political

00:11:02.700 commentary that has burst through thanks to the impetus of liberalization and thanks to the

00:11:09.660 decadence of our culture. It has totally superseded all the limits of actual politics.

00:11:14.800 So now, ironically, the people chimping out are the pundits themselves. They're the live streamers.

00:11:23.920 they're the commentators who are not commenting on anything real. And probably they should all

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00:14:00.040 She would not succeed at yes or no. She is getting basic facts about American history wrong

00:14:06.520 as she calls for civil war. It is time for the North to pull up to the South. 0.76

00:14:15.160 It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama. It is time for all of us to come to Georgia, 0.59

00:14:23.620 to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, and let them know exactly what they have on court

00:14:31.440 with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant

00:14:39.140 that they just awakened. Because it is not a coincidence, and our whole country must understand

00:14:47.360 that it was not until voting rights were ratified in this country that we got the great society.

00:14:55.120 Because when black Americans have the right to vote and that vote is protected,

00:15:00.040 our schools get funded. When voting rights are protected, healthcare gets expanded.

00:15:07.560 When voting rights are protected, our country moves forward.

00:15:12.720 So the only problem with AOC's historical thesis here is it's totally wrong.

00:15:18.540 You know when AOC says, Americans need to understand, you know you're about to hear

00:15:24.000 something that is completely contrary to reality and that people don't understand because it isn't

00:15:29.440 real. AOC says, she begins by pointing out that all this great stuff started to happen only when

00:15:36.040 black people got the right to vote, which she says was in the 1960s.

00:15:40.320 Now, of course, black people got the right to vote in about 1870. And not only did they get

00:15:45.940 the right to vote in 1870, many of them also served in Congress, notably as Republicans.

00:15:51.940 But then she makes a very specific claim. She says, Americans need to understand that we only

00:15:58.600 got the Great Society. The Great Society is the signature legislation of President Johnson,

00:16:03.240 Lyndon Johnson. She says, we only got the Great Society. It's no coincidence. We only got the

00:16:07.900 Great Society after the Voting Rights Act. I say, okay, well, hold on. I'm not an academic historian, 0.62

00:16:14.980 but if memory serves, President Johnson became president in 1963. And then he began to enact

00:16:23.480 the Great Society programs. The very first Great Society program was ratified in 1964.

00:16:30.180 And then the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965. So her premise is entirely wrong,

00:16:40.860 entirely wrong, demonstrably false. It wasn't even that long ago. There's no historical debate over

00:16:46.520 this whatsoever. If AOC's thesis is, you need to believe me because I know, I'm telling you,

00:16:53.480 that we only got this one specific program after this one specific law was passed.

00:17:00.040 And you say, well, actually, you got it reversed. It's totally reversed.

00:17:03.740 And based on that premise, she is calling for civil war. She says, we need the North to roll

00:17:10.260 up to the South. We need to head on down there and take over all these states. Why? 1.00

00:17:18.080 Why? Because in some states, the people have elected Republicans who drew congressional

00:17:26.060 districts that were favorable to Republicans. Why? Because the U.S. Supreme Court shot down

00:17:35.040 racial gerrymandering, and the strongest opinion in that case was written, I will note, by a black

00:17:40.500 guy, Clarence Thomas. Why? Because in a purple commonwealth, Virginia, the state Supreme Court

00:17:48.340 just shot down the illegal gerrymandering that took place after Democrats deceived voters

00:17:55.980 in a fraudulent ballot referendum. Is that why? In other words, our constitutional system

00:18:03.800 of our democratic republic did something that AOC doesn't like. And as a consequence of that,

00:18:12.260 she is, I can't say lying about American history because she's probably just ignorant. 0.97

00:18:16.700 She probably just doesn't know, but telling a falsehood about American history and then calling 0.97

00:18:21.260 for civil war. Ironic because this is what the Democrats accuse Trump of doing. They say Trump

00:18:26.280 won't give up power. Trump's trying to overturn our constitutional system. I just had that debate

00:18:30.200 at Dartmouth with Mehdi Hassan, the left-wing commentator on whether or not Trump is upholding

00:18:35.320 the constitution. I'm on one of the most liberal campuses in the country, a liberal Ivy League

00:18:39.440 campus. And yet when we just presented the facts, guess which side won? I won that debate and Mehdi

00:18:46.540 Hassan lost that debate. And really the resolution is what won that debate, the resolution that Trump

00:18:51.660 is upholding the constitution. Because even at a super lib campus like Dartmouth in the Ivy League,

00:18:56.040 when you simply present the facts, they're pretty much undeniable.

00:19:01.240 So not only do you have hypocrisy from the Democrats here, not only do you have historical 0.73

00:19:06.540 ignorance from the Democrats, you have something very, very dangerous. They're calling to 0.97

00:19:09.680 overturn the Constitution and declare a civil war. And it's not just AOC. 0.79

00:19:14.020 Gavin Newsom was just asked about what would happen if in California's gubernatorial election

00:19:20.700 process. If we got to the end of that process and the Republican won, what would happen?

00:19:27.440 Could you imagine a Republican governor of California? We haven't seen that in a long time.

00:19:31.720 Gavin Newsom says, don't worry. If the people elect a Republican, we just won't give up power.

00:19:38.920 We all have agencies. We can shape the future. There's still a lot. Look, I've said this before,

00:19:45.300 so I'll repeat it. I don't anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a break the glass

00:19:49.840 scenario. And there's many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if

00:19:55.520 Democrats were locked out. And we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.

00:19:59.580 I'll leave it there. Yeah, yeah. Don't worry. There's a break the glass scenario. What does

00:20:04.060 break the glass mean? That's an emergency scenario in which all the ordinary procedures

00:20:10.100 and rules of engagement are suspended and in which Gavin Newsom says he will get his way.

00:20:17.420 Don't worry. Don't worry. A Democrat's probably going to win governor of California.

00:20:22.160 But if somehow a Republican wins, that is, if the people elect a Republican, don't worry.

00:20:27.260 We're going to keep controlling all the agencies. We have a break the glass

00:20:30.320 fallback plan, and we're not going to give up power. So it's fine. The people can have their

00:20:35.460 stupid, petty little election, but it doesn't matter. If the people want Republicans, we just, 1.00

00:20:39.780 we're going to effectively remain in office. That's what he's saying.

00:20:43.500 Ironic, of course, because this is exactly what the Democrats accused Trump of doing. Trump,

00:20:47.200 who left office, who voluntarily left office even after a rather dubious election in 2020.

00:20:53.620 Every Democrat projection, sorry, every Democrat confession is a projection.

00:20:58.020 Projection is a confession, sorry. And what they're saying is that elections in which

00:21:05.220 Republicans win are illegitimate. These are the kinds of people that we're up against.

00:21:10.960 And it's why the Republicans who are a little complacent or who are blackpilled and who say,

00:21:17.200 whatever, it doesn't really matter. We only got 700,000 formal deportations last year. I wanted

00:21:22.840 800,000. These Republicans, I don't know, I don't really like this war in Iran or whatever. I get

00:21:28.980 it. It was some legitimate complaints about the administration. These people who think that we

00:21:34.600 ought to let this group back into power, this group, which openly, brazenly says they will

00:21:40.640 shred the constitution and do their very best to undermine elections, even when we do win them,

00:21:45.080 they cannot be permitted back into power. And it's not just one weirdo. It's not just Hassan

00:21:51.500 Piker torturing his dog on live stream. It's all the Democrat candidates campaigning with

00:21:55.200 Hassan Piker. And it's AOC, who's the most prominent Democrat in Congress, who is today

00:21:59.500 the leading presidential candidate for the Dems in 2028. And it's also Gavin Newsom,

00:22:03.820 the governor of California, who's the number two presidential candidate for the Democrats in 2028.

00:22:08.100 this the the hyperbole the abstraction the radicalism that you're seeing from the pundit

00:22:15.440 class is also being reflected in the actual elected political class too and we cannot allow

00:22:20.360 those people to get back into power so what is the future of the democrat party we have

00:22:25.000 the democrat candidate for senate in texas james tallarico who some of us have called the gay pete

00:22:31.900 Buttigieg. James Tallarico, who positions himself as the true Christian in the race.

00:22:39.580 He's a Christian white male, but he's a liberal Democrat. And it just so happens

00:22:43.400 that he contradicts basic aspects of Christian teaching. Well, there's a big announcement from

00:22:50.180 him. We've called him the gay Pete Buttigieg. Big announcement, James Tallarico has a girlfriend. 0.98

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00:24:19.160 in many years. It has nothing to do with policies. It has everything to do with the fact that the

00:24:25.140 Democrats, candidate for Senate in Texas, has a girlfriend, apparently.

00:24:30.740 The biggest question, not even close, the most popular question that we got asked is,

00:24:37.260 are you single? Are you single? So you have a girlfriend of many years.

00:24:44.880 I do. And she is my rock. She is my best friend. I don't know if I could have gotten

00:24:54.920 through the last six months of this crazy race 1.00

00:24:57.600 if she hadn't been by my side.

00:25:01.200 So yeah, thanks for asking about her as well.

00:25:04.820 Do you want kids one day?

00:25:06.320 What can you share with us about all that?

00:25:09.120 Well, now you sound like my mom

00:25:10.280 asking when I'm going to give her another grandbaby.

00:25:13.300 I definitely do. 0.99

00:25:14.840 I definitely do want to have kids one day.

00:25:18.080 It's kind of hard in the middle of this campaign

00:25:20.340 to think the next week ahead.

00:25:24.480 Yeah, it's not hard at all.

00:25:25.900 It's certainly hard to think that far in advance,

00:25:27.980 but it's definitely something that I want to do one day.

00:25:31.280 Oh, yes.

00:25:32.420 Oh, yes.

00:25:33.820 Notice he tries to shut the line of questioning down immediately.

00:25:37.100 Do I have a girlfriend?

00:25:39.420 Oh, yeah.

00:25:40.700 Oh, yes. 1.00

00:25:41.780 I love my girlfriend, especially her anatomical features. 0.96

00:25:46.180 Those are really attractive to me.

00:25:49.540 I love them.

00:25:50.940 What's her name? 0.96

00:25:51.920 Oh, her name is Penelope Microphone. 0.99

00:25:57.920 Yeah, no, that's, she goes to a different school. 0.99

00:26:01.320 So that's why you haven't met her before.

00:26:02.960 My girlfriend, who I'm really attracted to, by the way,

00:26:06.500 she goes to a different school in Canada,

00:26:10.980 which is why you've never met her.

00:26:13.780 So anyway, thank you for asking.

00:26:15.540 Please move on now.

00:26:17.500 But the podcaster won't move on because she,

00:26:19.920 i don't know she she doesn't get it she doesn't get what he's putting out she says oh well do

00:26:24.580 you want to have kids oh yeah yeah you just imagine instead of james tallarico just imagine

00:26:31.940 this woman is interviewing oscar wilde cole porter nol coward and paul lind say you want to have kids

00:26:40.660 someday oh yes yes i very much do with my longtime girlfriend hold on guy running for senate says

00:26:49.300 longtime girlfriend. Red flag. Do we have a red flag on the play? Hold on.

00:26:54.620 You're an adult, man. You're running for Senate. You're not in high school. You're not in college.

00:26:59.580 You're not even just like some single guy bumming around an American city working a job.

00:27:05.780 You're running for Senate. Why do you have a longtime girlfriend? You're no spring chicken.

00:27:11.940 You got gray in your hair. Why aren't you getting married? Oh, someday. My mom keeps asking, 1.00

00:27:16.400 but I just, just a little longer. I want to wait. And do you want to have kids with your

00:27:21.300 girlfriend? Sorry. No, it's just really, it's really hard to think about that disgusting act

00:27:28.620 that would lead to my having children. So it's just really hard. I mean, I can't, but someday,

00:27:34.620 someday I will have children with my very longtime girlfriend who goes to a different school in

00:27:41.620 Canada? Hmm. Not a great answer. Not a great answer. I don't, I don't know. I still, I have

00:27:48.640 questions. I still, far be it for me to speculate, but I, I would like to meet this girlfriend of

00:27:58.060 Talarico. I have quite, why is he not married and with the kids and why? I don't know. I don't,

00:28:03.340 can we go back to Talarico for a second? Can you just put, put him on screen for a second?

00:28:07.860 Yeah, he parts his hair on the right side of his head.

00:28:11.520 Hmm, yeah, one of the signs, one of the,

00:28:14.760 anyway, I'm not going to speculate on anything.

00:28:16.460 Let's get to another Texas politician,

00:28:19.320 a much better Texas politician.

00:28:20.580 That'd be Brandon Gill, our pal Brandon Gill,

00:28:24.200 one of the rising superstars in Congress.

00:28:28.860 Brandon Gill was just questioning a high school student

00:28:32.620 who was testifying before Congress

00:28:34.580 On a very strange fact at his school in Texas, the school library has a Quran in the library, but not a Bible.

00:28:44.800 Is it true that your school's libraries offer Islamic literature, like the Quran and other things?

00:28:52.500 Yes, so McMillan Junior High in Wiley ISD offers a Quran, but no Bible available.

00:28:57.900 But no Bible. So there's a Quran, but the Bible's not allowed.

00:29:02.040 Correct.

00:29:02.740 Is that true in multiple libraries?

00:29:05.300 From what I know, confirmed it's McMillan Junior High

00:29:07.900 is one that I know of.

00:29:09.360 Wow, Junior High, not even high school.

00:29:10.820 I can submit them to you if I find any other findings.

00:29:13.080 Okay, have you talked to the school

00:29:14.900 about why they would allow a Quran but not a Bible?

00:29:18.700 So I don't, I haven't,

00:29:19.900 the principals actually run away from me and hide

00:29:23.180 so I can't have a discussion with my principals

00:29:24.660 because I act like an adult and they act like children.

00:29:27.740 Yeah, well, you very much are acting like an adult.

00:29:30.980 They probably don't want to be on the record with that policy, given how egregious it is.

00:29:38.220 So first of all, first comment, Brandon Gill is so good at this.

00:29:42.500 The other one I've noticed who's really, really good at this, I noticed it in my own Senate testimony six months ago, is Josh Hawley.

00:29:50.120 He's just got it nailed down, the straight face, the perfectly probing leading questions, the great little zingers at the end of it.

00:29:59.020 And yes, you absolutely are acting like an adult, given how absolutely egregious their policy is.

00:30:03.980 Just perfect, very well done, straight out of Central Casting, Brandon Gill is killing it.

00:30:08.020 And on the substance here, I'm really glad that Congressman Gill is calling this to our attention.

00:30:14.180 Why would a school library, a middle school library, have a Quran in Texas, have a Quran, but not a Bible?

00:30:24.400 I'm trying to think of the most steel man charitable argument.

00:30:27.360 And you can say, well, you know, in the Bible, there's a lot of violence.

00:30:30.360 Have you ever read the Quran? 0.82

00:30:32.540 Yeah, there's a little bit of violence. 0.99

00:30:34.300 I read the Quran at age 14. 0.97

00:30:35.800 And the reason I read the Quran, I don't think I made it all the way through,

00:30:38.020 but I read a lot of the Quran at age 14.

00:30:39.820 And the reason I did it, I went to my library.

00:30:42.420 I got the Quran, probably ended up on a list.

00:30:44.340 I read the Quran because my teachers and the news were telling me

00:30:48.080 that Islam was a religion of peace.

00:30:50.660 And even at 13, 14, I remember 9-11 pretty well.

00:30:54.740 Grew up in New York.

00:30:56.220 I remember thinking, that doesn't seem right. I'm a little skeptical. Color me skeptical.

00:31:02.780 So I read it, and it's not all that peaceful. I mean, there are some peaceful passages,

00:31:05.740 but it's kind of a fever dream of contradictions and shallow religion. And so there are lines

00:31:12.320 about hacking at the necks of the Jews and the Christians and things like that while they pray. 0.98

00:31:16.260 And so it can't be that the violence, is it that the Bible includes weird sex stuff? 0.99

00:31:22.160 which it does. It condemns the weird sex stuff, but there's still some weird sex stuff. There's

00:31:25.600 like incest and stuff that happens. But again, if you're talking about weird sex stuff,

00:31:32.000 Islam not only expresses a lot of that and depicts a lot of that in the Quran, 0.97

00:31:37.440 but Islam is a particularly carnal religion in which even the conception of paradise

00:31:42.700 is not spiritual, it's carnal. The Christian conception of paradise is that we will go up 0.58

00:31:49.060 to see the beatific vision face to face with our Lord as spirit. The Islamic conception of 0.91

00:31:58.120 paradise is you go and have sex with a bunch of virgins. So even that is very carnal. So I don't 1.00

00:32:02.860 see any excuse other than the current political order is anti-Christian. It pretends to be

00:32:09.980 indifferent to religion. It pretends to be neutral and secular, but it is not in fact

00:32:16.000 neutral, or indifferent. It is specifically hostile to Christianity, and it is encouraging 1.00

00:32:22.380 of every other kind of religion. And that's how political orders really work. Because there's no 0.98

00:32:29.100 such thing as a neutral political order, because politics has to encourage some things and

00:32:33.380 discourage other things, because the basic charge of politics is that good is to be pursued and evil

00:32:41.980 is to be avoided. That's what it comes down to, because politics is about the common good.

00:32:49.020 A civil law is an ordinance of reason for the common good by him who has care of the community

00:32:54.460 and promulgated. That's what it is. So you can't avoid conclusions and enforcement of what is good

00:33:02.800 and what is bad. And neutrality, supposed neutrality in a Christian society, means nothing 0.98

00:33:09.300 other than discouraging our religion, Christianity, and thereby encouraging all of the others. 1.00

00:33:16.860 That's what it means. Racial neutrality and affirmative action was just about punishing 0.97

00:33:22.240 the majority population, the white people, and promoting all the other people, 0.89

00:33:28.320 with the weird exception of Asians sometimes, and sometimes Jews. That's all this can possibly 0.96

00:33:33.580 he means. So really good depiction from Brandon Gill here. Really shocking testimony from the

00:33:39.700 student. Great student. You can see that the administrator's running away from him.

00:33:43.880 Total role reversal. The grownups acting like children, the children acting like grownups.

00:33:50.300 And it's in Texas. So for the people who say, it can't happen here. Oh, come on. This is still,

00:33:56.100 this is a Christian nation. We're not, don't worry about the fears of rising other religions,

00:34:01.520 notably Islam. Nah, it can't happen. Maybe it happens in Europe. Maybe it happens in the UK, 0.99

00:34:05.700 but it can't happen here. Guys, we're talking about not just the promotion of Islam, 0.99

00:34:11.920 the suppression of Christianity in a middle school in America. It's happening in Texas. 0.70

00:34:15.660 Okay. Speaking of schools, what seems like good news, but might actually be kind of bad news.

00:34:21.840 After we reached peak college admittance, after we reached peak college cost,

00:34:30.640 You know, colleges now cost, what, about $100,000 per year to attend.

00:34:34.940 The year after I graduated high school, you had the highest number of students going on to college.

00:34:39.800 I think it was 70% or something.

00:34:41.120 And the colleges who are indoctrinating people largely into radically false, not to say anti-American sort of teaching.

00:34:50.020 The colleges are collapsing right now.

00:34:52.220 UVM is noting a 15% drop in its freshman class.

00:34:55.980 So part of me wants to say, awesome, great, don't threaten me with a good time.

00:34:59.040 but the reason that's happening is quite scary for our country. We'll get to that in a second.

00:35:04.160 First, I did not pick the comment today. I told Mr. Davies to do so. We'll see if he picked a good

00:35:08.820 one. This is from Edwin J5205 who says, Trump, you want to screw up the universities? Me. Yes,

00:35:15.060 more than almost anything. Wow. Oh my goodness. That was, was that providential? That was an

00:35:19.020 amazingly picked comment, given the story we're about to talk about. Big story. UVM projects 15%

00:35:26.160 drop in freshman class, and therefore faces a $12 million deficit. Because the schools

00:35:31.400 are spending, based on their projections of the class at least remaining the same, if not growing,

00:35:37.660 the costs of going to these schools, even the state schools, are really, really high right now.

00:35:42.000 So when 15% fewer students show up, you're going to face a major deficit.

00:35:48.240 A big drop in enrollment, University of Vermont is causing financial concerns with undergraduate

00:35:52.420 enrollment down 7%, and the incoming first-year students for next fall projected to come up

00:35:56.080 15% short of last year. Okay. So you say, this is great, right? Finally, these schools,

00:36:03.040 people are waking up. They're not going to send their kids to get indoctrinated.

00:36:08.080 And they've spent 18 years raising their kids to be good children and citizens and grow in virtue

00:36:15.840 and morality. And then they go to these schools for four years, it screws them up and turns them

00:36:18.800 all into liberal lesbian trannies. Good. Let's stick it to the schools. They're not going to 1.00

00:36:23.900 show up anymore. I don't think that's actually what's going on. I think the reason that this

00:36:28.020 is happening right now is much more simply explained by the fact that people stopped

00:36:34.280 having babies after 2007. That's what really happened. We've had a below replacement birth

00:36:43.960 rate since, or roughly about a below replacement birth rate since 1971. So this is a 50-year trend,

00:36:50.560 55-year trend now. But 2007 was the last peak since 1971. You can see the effects of decadence

00:37:00.820 and prosperous societies. 2007, right before the global financial crisis, you had the peak.

00:37:05.180 And the peak there was 2.12. That was the birth rate. Replacement is 2.1. So you got just a

00:37:11.100 little hair above replacement. Very, very briefly, it was a blip. And then it started to crater

00:37:15.480 afterwards. By 2020, the birth rate was 1.64. So, couples certainly not replacing themselves.

00:37:22.260 Now, it ticked up a little bit again, but it's at 1.79, still safely below replacement.

00:37:27.680 That's why. 2007, now we're fast forwarding to 2026. And the fact that people stopped having

00:37:37.160 kids, the birth rate went way, way down, means that there are going to be fewer kids who can

00:37:41.540 go to these universities. So, that's a bad indicator. It'd be one thing if all of the people

00:37:45.280 with a stable birth rate or a growing birth rate just decided, you know, we're going to pursue

00:37:49.140 alternative education opportunities. We're going to send our kids to Hillsdale and Ave Maria and

00:37:54.720 Franciscan and Liberty and Thomas Aquinas College. And, you know, they're going to pick

00:37:59.460 the schools that are really solid. But that's not what's going on. It's just that we're not

00:38:05.400 having kids. And so that fiscal crisis that you're seeing at the schools, $15 million, sorry, $12

00:38:10.760 million deficit, you're going to see that throughout the society. And we don't want to

00:38:14.240 only measure society by money. You're going to see this coming up all sorts of places in terms

00:38:19.460 of skills, in terms of national defense, in terms of social solidarity. It's crumbling.

00:38:26.540 The key, this is a Pyrrhic victory. Yes, yes, we've damaged the universities only because

00:38:32.940 we're going extinct. It's the point I made last week that celebrating that there was a steep

00:38:38.680 decline in peanut allergies in Nagasaki in 1945. Technically, true. Technically, it's true.

00:38:45.700 But the cost was not worth the benefit. Now, speaking of the good old days, a feel-good story.

00:38:52.020 There is an entrepreneur in middle America who is buying up Pizza Hut franchises, 0.99

00:38:58.520 Pizza Hut franchises which are now clinical and sterile with that millennial, drab,

00:39:03.820 gray prison architecture where you just go in and out, get your pizza. You don't sit down. You

00:39:08.980 don't enjoy anything. You wouldn't want to, even if you could. He's replacing them with

00:39:14.040 the glorious Pizza Hut scheme of the thriving 90s. In the hills of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania,

00:39:23.780 a familiar red roof catches the eye. Inside, the vinyl booths, Tiffany-style lamps, and yes,

00:39:30.540 the salad bar you may remember from decades ago. I mean it's amazing the comments we have about

00:39:36.900 they have the red cups. Yes we do. Tim Sparks got his start working at a pizza hut that looked like

00:39:43.180 this. He's now president of Dayland Corporation which owns this franchise and more than 80 others

00:39:48.680 around the country. They've redecorated many restaurants to rewind the clock. It looks exactly

00:39:54.380 like the one that I remember from when I was a kid. Yeah that's what we were after. Some pizza hut

00:39:59.600 classics are now top performing locations. Customers show up for a piece of their childhood.

00:40:05.420 People come from two and three hours away and I'm not making that up. If we can get them in here

00:40:09.420 as a family, they do tend to put their phones down and actually have conversations and speak

00:40:13.700 with each other. I'm not going to tell you I know how to fix the world, but I do think that

00:40:17.400 family is a good place to start. I love this and not just for the nostalgia. People are going to

00:40:24.120 look at this and say, yeah, well, it's because the millennials are middle-aged now, so they're

00:40:28.700 nostalgic for their childhood. And this guy is basically playing into their nostalgia by

00:40:33.340 remaking chain pizza places to look like they remember when they were kids.

00:40:37.940 And everyone thinks that the era in which they were raised was great because childhood is a time

00:40:42.820 of innocence and play and a lack of responsibility. And so as we get older, people die. You take on

00:40:49.100 more responsibilities. So we say nostalgia is history after a few drinks. If this were just

00:40:54.740 about nostalgia, I wouldn't care about it. It's not like Pizza Hut pizza is the pinnacle of pizza.

00:41:00.360 No, I'll tell you, back in the day, it was all right. As far as chain pizza goes, it was all right.

00:41:04.000 And I'm a New Yorker, okay? So I take my pizza very seriously. But for chain pizza, it was pretty

00:41:08.680 good. But more than that, you get to what the old Pizza Hut meant, which was you could go out,

00:41:15.380 you could take your family out for a dinner at a place that was pretty nice, that had those nice,

00:41:20.080 cool lamps, and they had a very good salad bar. You could go and take your family out to dinner

00:41:25.080 for not very much money, and it was pleasant. And the point wasn't even the food, the food which

00:41:30.800 was perfectly fine, but the point was to go out to dinner, to break bread. This is the central

00:41:36.300 social act in human society, is breaking bread together. This is indeed the blessed sacrament

00:41:43.780 in Christianity is a representation of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary that is instituted

00:41:52.060 at the Last Supper. So this is a central act. And the fact that we don't have dinner together

00:41:58.700 anymore is a sign of and a great predictor of social decay and collapse. You can't have a

00:42:05.980 society if people aren't having dinner together. But where do you take your family out to dinner

00:42:10.180 now. I was lamenting this a few weeks ago. My kids have never been to a McDonald's.

00:42:15.580 They've been to Chick-fil-A. They've been to, what's the one in California?

00:42:20.300 Not Shake Shack. Well, I can't believe I'm free. In-N-Out. They've been to In-N-Out,

00:42:23.120 which just came to Tennessee, which are kind of pleasant in-store dining experiences. But

00:42:27.360 McDonald's is not the same McDonald's of 30 years ago. McDonald's used to be kind of nice. You'd

00:42:30.880 sit there. There was a little play court and a little ball pit and all that. Now it's just

00:42:35.560 homeless people and illegal aliens when you can even sit inside because there are very few people 0.81

00:42:40.700 even working inside because we just put our orders in at robots and take them out. And so what this 1.00

00:42:44.980 guy is offering is he's saying, hey, we can go back, not just for nostalgic purposes, but because

00:42:51.200 there was a key aspect of society that has broken down. And I'm going to do my small part into

00:42:57.380 restoring that, which is getting people to put the phones down, go out, be able to afford dinner

00:43:01.660 together, actually sit down, converse, grow as a family, that's crucial. And what I love about this

00:43:06.700 is you can do that. You can do that. It's possible. We don't need to just throw our hands up

00:43:13.640 in doom and gloom and despair, despair, which is a sin, and say, well, that's gone, and we'll never

00:43:18.720 get it back again, and it's all over, so I might as well just doom scroll, plug my head into the

00:43:22.380 matrix, and play video games for the rest of my life. We were talking last week about how teen

00:43:27.580 drinking is down, and that's actually bad. It's not down because of the rise of temperance. It's

00:43:32.640 down because teens aren't socializing anymore, and that's bad. But you can do things to change

00:43:38.980 that. We are not, like the left, prisoners to our ideology of the inevitable science and progress

00:43:46.300 of history. We can recognize that some things used to be worse, and now they're better, and that's

00:43:50.140 good. But some things used to be better, and now they're worse, and we should go back to the good

00:43:53.180 thing. You can do it. You can go out and buy the lamps at Pizza Hut. You can go to Pizza Hut,

00:43:58.580 at least if you live in Pennsylvania. Okay, before we go, talk about providence,

00:44:03.720 talk about the existence of God. It's funny, I've mentioned Clavicular on the show now like twice

00:44:08.660 in the last month, but it was a big interview when we, I wasn't totally certain it would be

00:44:14.160 a big interview, but it ended up being a big interview when we sat down with Clavicular,

00:44:17.100 the looks-maxing then teenager, now he's a 20-year-old, who has appeared in court

00:44:22.460 because he live-streamed himself shooting an alligator in the head,

00:44:26.200 and that's a crime in Florida.

00:44:27.620 So he gets dragged into court for this,

00:44:29.900 and that actually has nothing to do with the meaning of the story.

00:44:33.840 The judge who was presiding was a total giga-chad looks-maxer

00:44:41.500 who ironically mogged clavicular.

00:44:45.960 Two social media streamers accused of firing a gun in the Everglades

00:44:50.360 During a live stream, they have now pleaded no contest to the charges.

00:44:53.820 Andrew Morales, known online as Cuban Tarzan, and Brayden Peters, who goes by Clavicular,

00:44:59.080 they were each charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm.

00:45:01.960 It's totally nuts.

00:45:03.460 If you're only listening to this show right now, you just have to take my word for it.

00:45:07.260 Most judges, especially these lower level kind of judges for these offenses like shooting an alligator in Florida,

00:45:13.440 most of these judges, they're not supermodels, okay? 0.98

00:45:15.800 a lot of them are like middle-aged women who don't they haven't you know they don't totally 0.98

00:45:21.980 have their act together this judge could be an abercrombie and fitch model this judge total

00:45:28.240 i don't think he smashed himself in the head with hammers during law school because you know he's

00:45:33.400 kept up the iq he obviously passed the bar became a judge but this guy he looks good okay got a

00:45:40.360 little bit, a little scruff, a little. And the reason that it matters is because if you're one

00:45:46.100 of these people who doubts the existence of God, if you're one of these people who doubts the

00:45:49.760 providential unfolding of history, how do you explain that? How do you explain that clavicular,

00:45:55.580 whose whole shtick is that you need to look really, really good so that you can mog people

00:45:59.720 because looks are really all that matters. And so you can ignore your schoolwork, you can commit

00:46:07.320 crimes. You can be kind of a jerk sometimes to people. It doesn't matter if you really, 1.00

00:46:11.140 really look good. That's all that matters. What are the odds that this guy would walk

00:46:17.820 into the courtroom of the one giga Chad judge in the entire country? Probably, I don't want to

00:46:24.100 sound like gay about this, but this is probably the best looking judge that has ever passed the 0.80

00:46:30.720 bar in the United States. What are the odds? The odds are infinitesimal. It's like when people 0.94

00:46:36.080 make the argument for God based on the cosmological argument, fine-tuning the idea that if any one of

00:46:41.380 the single measures of the cosmos were just slightly off, the earth or maybe the whole

00:46:48.540 cosmos would be uninhabitable, totally hostile to life. But because every single thing is fine-tuned

00:46:55.200 so perfectly, we get to live and think and dream and argue and converse and interpret the world.

00:47:01.920 if you're not persuaded by thomas aquinas's five ways if you're not persuaded by the ontological

00:47:07.500 argument of anselm of canterbury if you're not persuaded by any of the arguments that have come

00:47:10.720 since explain to me the giga chad judge who is handing down the sentence to the looks maxing

00:47:18.100 clavicular explain that to me you cannot and so you should go to church the rest of the show

00:47:23.500 continues now it's music monday you do not want to miss it become a member use code noles canada

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The Michael Knowles Show - May 18, 2026

Ep. 1976 - The ＂Chud the Builder＂ Arrest & Viral Content Explained

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