The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 2009 - Libs Hate This： My Ancestor Gets A Statue In D.C.

00:00:00.000 Happy 4th of July. Actually, it's the 6th of July. I hope you're all having a very good day

00:00:05.720 three in the octave of American independence. I know that I am because I'm not even here right

00:00:12.040 now. I know it seems like I'm here, but I'm not. I'm on vacation with my family. I'm going to be

00:00:16.940 on vacation this week. We have a lot of really, really great stuff that I've been dying to show

00:00:21.560 to all of you that will be coming out all week because I just can't stay away. We'll be back

00:00:26.540 with the regular show next Monday. But I had to come on for this one because, one, we have to

00:00:32.920 celebrate our great country. Two, I was just in Washington, D.C. for a number of great events

00:00:38.460 celebrating our country, including the launch, the debut of a statue of my ancestor, Simon Knowles,

00:00:44.620 who fought in the revolution as a boy at age 15, as well as the America 250, a big, great American

00:00:51.380 State Fair on the National Mall. But the real reason I had to pipe in is because over this

00:00:58.060 event, I was the victim of one of the most egregious, totally made up fake left-wing

00:01:04.760 news stories I have ever seen. We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:21.380 Welcome back to The Michael Knowles Show.

00:01:29.640 We will get to all the great festivities to celebrate our country

00:01:33.200 while the libs are trying to downplay all of that,

00:01:35.020 or they're going to celebrate Somali Independence Day or whatever.

00:01:38.060 But we're at that great statue unveiling for the new Freedom Plaza,

00:01:41.820 Spirit of 76.

00:01:42.800 I was there with Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary Brooke Rollins,

00:01:47.040 Vince Haley from the White House,

00:01:48.520 who really deserves the credit for this beautiful display.

00:01:51.980 Oh, the great sculptor, all that kind of stuff.

00:01:54.080 There's a lot more to say.

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00:03:05.480 code Knowles, cowboycolostrum.com slash Knowles. I was over the 250 celebrations. I was the victim

00:03:13.980 of one of the most egregious bits of fake news I've seen in a while. I go to DC. I'm there to

00:03:20.840 interview Vice President J.D. Vance. That interview came out last week, obviously made a lot of news.

00:03:26.520 Then I go straight from that. I said, you know what? I got a little bit of time. I'll swing by

00:03:30.880 the Great American State Fair. And they asked me if I would hop up for just a little bit and play

00:03:35.720 the yes or no game for the people who are walking by or coming through. This is, I don't know what,

00:03:40.260 at six o'clock, 6.30 PM, something like that. So I go up, I say, okay, anybody who's walking by,

00:03:44.600 anybody who's in the crowd, if you want to come up, play the yes or no game, let's do it. And

00:03:47.700 we'll show you some clips. We've got some great people, got a Democrat came up. I got heckled by

00:03:51.320 some Democrat who then the minute I called him out, he just ran away. There was a Democrat-shaped

00:03:55.020 hole in the wall when he was just running away from me. It was big, intimidating me. But we had

00:03:59.260 some really good exchanges and the best exchange. I said, okay, anybody else, I got to go, but

00:04:03.860 anybody else want to come up, play the yes or no game? And this little girl, this sweet little girl,

00:04:07.620 10 years old, says, I want to play the game. So I said, okay, great. So she comes on up

00:04:11.660 and we're pulling the cards for the game. And what was so funny is this girl was better at the game.

00:04:18.900 She had better political insight than anybody else who was playing it. Maybe better than anyone

00:04:23.200 else I've ever played it with. And so one of the cards, the prompt was the Salem witch trials did

00:04:28.760 not go far enough. And I'm playing as this little 10 year old girl. And I say, okay, guess what I

00:04:33.100 would say and she doesn't miss a beat she goes you would say yes and i said you're right why would 0.62

00:04:38.620 i say yes and she goes wait for it because there are witches i go can this girl be my co-host from

00:04:47.260 now on i mean this girl is saying she goes oh yes i could i yeah i'd love to and she was just so

00:04:51.640 great and so then we were talking about this kind of explaining the whole thing and it's a little

00:04:55.600 bit tongue-in-cheek but we're we're describing what the salem witch trials were and how there

00:04:59.880 are all these like witchy women. You know, they go on TikTok and say, I'm a witch and I worship 1.00

00:05:03.740 the moon and I, whatever. So we were kind of joking about this, going back and forth on that.

00:05:07.420 And that was that. Then I said, okay, I got to go. This is fun. Nice to see everybody. I leave.

00:05:11.680 The New Republic, which I think it was because Media Matters did a hit on this first,

00:05:17.080 but then The New Republic picked it up. New Republic used to be a somewhat prestigious

00:05:22.420 magazine on the left. And then it basically went out of business like 10 years ago.

00:05:27.040 and these guys took it over.

00:05:29.240 It's a husk of its former self.

00:05:30.260 No one reads it.

00:05:30.920 But anyway, it still exists as a brand.

00:05:33.000 They come out and they write,

00:05:35.860 far right host at Trump State Fair

00:05:39.380 debates kid on the Salem witch trials.

00:05:44.400 Debates kid.

00:05:45.240 And I thought, first of all,

00:05:48.400 I didn't debate the kid.

00:05:51.780 I agreed with the kid.

00:05:53.660 I mean, it was a little,

00:05:54.260 it was like a tongue in cheek exchange in a game.

00:05:56.760 But I said, what's crazy is they couldn't even get the basic fact right, which is that we weren't debating at all.

00:06:04.640 I agreed with her entirely.

00:06:07.800 So I think, I don't know, one of our press agents writes to New Republic says that wasn't, you just got it totally wrong.

00:06:16.380 And then it was so bad.

00:06:18.680 I don't know, maybe they didn't want to get sued or something.

00:06:20.240 They did change the headline.

00:06:21.960 Not that anyone saw it.

00:06:22.760 I mean, many, many more people will see this because I'm talking about it on the show than ever read The New Republic.

00:06:26.980 But then they changed it to far right.

00:06:30.200 First of all, am I far right?

00:06:32.160 I think I'm pretty in the mainstream, but it's always far right.

00:06:37.100 An Antifa guy can go blow up a school, and they'll say, well, you know, just a regular old Democrat.

00:06:44.500 And then a conservative says, hey, I kind of like Trump or whatever. 0.81

00:06:47.640 They say, far right extremist Nazi.

00:06:49.520 But anyway, it's a far right host at Trump State Fair lectures kid on the Salem Witch Trials,

00:06:56.040 which is also not true. In fact, the kid lectured me and then we talked about it and then I spoke

00:07:04.360 about it a little bit too. But it's so funny because they even in their correction got it

00:07:08.120 totally wrong. It was this very sweet, very smart little girl who made the point. She was the one

00:07:15.500 who advanced the thesis, there are witches. And then we talked about what that means and what

00:07:20.080 witchcraft is and what these kinds of identities that crop up in history, what they talk about.

00:07:25.860 So it's just completely, totally wrong. Not surprising, but it really took me back because

00:07:32.020 the liberal media, since President Trump's re-election, especially since the re-election

00:07:36.460 with the popular vote, they've been a little bit on their heels. They realized, shoot, we don't have

00:07:41.160 any credibility anymore. They lost a ton of credibility after they lied about Trump in 2016.

00:07:45.500 they lost all the rest of their credibility after they lied about COVID. I think that was what

00:07:50.980 really did it for them, coupled with the George Floyd riots, where they'll be standing in front

00:07:56.140 of a burning building saying, these are fiery, but mostly peaceful protests. I mean, they just,

00:08:00.000 their credibility collapsed. And so they've been playing it a little more cautiously recently,

00:08:04.380 but this to me, this was a throwback to 2016. I mean, you remember they were just making up

00:08:09.180 stories about Trump. Trump is colluding with the Russians. Trump called Nazis fine people

00:08:14.800 at Charlottesville. They would run these headlines that were the opposite of the truth. Trump was

00:08:19.960 harder on Russia than his Democrat predecessors. And Trump explicitly said at Charlottesville,

00:08:24.560 I'm not talking about Nazis. They're not fine people. They should be disavowed totally.

00:08:28.500 And anyway, it was just, it was a real throwback. In some ways it was nostalgic

00:08:31.200 that they totally lied. To this day, they totally lied about me and that event. No surprise there.

00:08:38.080 I take it as a badge of honor. But in any case, I don't want to harp too much on the libs because

00:08:41.440 this is 4th of July week. So I want to get to some of American history. The reason this statue

00:08:47.680 came about for my ancestor, but a bunch of other people too, is because they wanted to do an

00:08:55.400 installation for the ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution. Most people can name George

00:09:00.380 Washington, maybe Lafayette. If you're a real history buff, you could name Nathaniel Green,

00:09:05.480 John Stark. But we just think of a handful of these heroes of the revolution, the big officers,

00:09:10.100 the big figures. What about the ordinary soldiers? There were a little over, I think it was 230,000

00:09:17.400 men enlisted in the Continental Army. 48,000 of them served at any given time. And these are the

00:09:22.360 guys who signed up often as kids. They made no money. Even if they were promised pay, the pay

00:09:28.180 rarely came. They were starving throughout the whole war. My ancestor, Simon, he was there from

00:09:32.220 Bunker Hill to Newburgh. So he was there through the whole war, 1775 to 1783. These guys barely

00:09:38.340 to get paid. They leave afterward. He was discharged by Washington. He went back and

00:09:42.620 became a farmer, as did most of these guys. And then finally, in 1832, Congress decided to try

00:09:49.680 to give him a little bit of money shortly before they died. A lot of these guys had already died

00:09:53.040 at that point. And they didn't do it for the money. They didn't do it for glory. They didn't

00:09:58.520 do it for fame. Because they didn't get any of those things. Now, there are a handful of statues

00:10:03.460 in DC, thanks to the Trump administration, to honor these kinds of men. But there were so many

00:10:07.860 other men who don't have statues. And this, I think, is really important because statistically

00:10:14.880 none of us is going to be George Washington, okay? Statistically none of us is going to be

00:10:18.540 Alexander Hamilton or John Stark, even John Stark or Nathaniel Green who are lesser known.

00:10:24.000 But we all can be those ordinary men, those ordinary men who did extraordinary things in

00:10:31.420 the American Revolution. We can do that with a spirit of service, with a care for the common

00:10:36.420 good with a patriotism and a love of country that recognizes that there is something greater than

00:10:41.480 ourselves that we have an obligation to. And that by so doing, we really can earn, maybe in 250

00:10:51.700 years, we'll get statues, but it's not for the statue. What we can do is we can earn a place

00:10:57.060 next to them in virtue and in giving to the country. So anyway, here is that delightful

00:11:04.580 event with the statues right by the White House in D.C. Thank you so much. It's a superlative

00:11:17.720 honor and pleasure to be here with all of you. And on behalf of the Knowles family, I'd just

00:11:22.720 like to thank all of you so very much from the bottom of my heart, especially, of course, Vince,

00:11:27.980 Matthew, Secretary Rollins, Secretary Burgum. I can't forget Brittany and Lily

00:11:34.200 and everybody else who's been involved in this. My father Tim is here today. My

00:11:38.960 late-grandfather George is largely responsible for discovering the

00:11:44.100 documentation around our great-great-great-great-great-grandpa

00:11:48.120 Simon's service in the war. Simon signed up at 15 years old. He fought at the

00:11:53.480 Battle of Bunker Hill with his father John and Simon went on to serve

00:11:57.740 throughout the entire war. He was discharged with Washington in 1783 and

00:12:02.240 until this morning there there was no monument to Simon's service. There was a

00:12:07.300 small epitaph on a headstone in the middle of nowhere Maine that said four

00:12:13.440 words, Soldier of the Revolution. That's all it said. Simon Knowles, Soldier of the

00:12:19.200 Revolution. The only reason we know anything about his service is because

00:12:23.000 Congress, decades and decades after the war, after many of them had died, they came around to giving

00:12:29.960 those brave patriots a small pension. And from the pension application written in many of their own

00:12:35.800 hands, we can learn a little bit about their service, who they served under, where they were.

00:12:40.040 We learn about the sword that Simon inherited from his father who died after Bunker Hill. And

00:12:45.560 that's about all we know. These were unsung heroes. These were ordinary soldiers. And these are the

00:12:52.200 men who built our country alongside the handful of great glorious names that we know and it brings

00:12:58.520 me all back to a line that president trump whom i also have to thank for for everything he's doing

00:13:03.880 for our country especially restoring uh a recognition of the glories of our past with a

00:13:09.880 look toward our future there's a line from president trump on the campaign trail last time

00:13:15.000 that really stuck out with me it may have been when he was serving fries at that mcdonald's it

00:13:20.120 it was one of the stops, someone came up to him and said,

00:13:23.760 well, thank you so much, Mr. President.

00:13:25.840 It's such an honor that you're talking to me.

00:13:27.840 I'm just an ordinary person.

00:13:30.000 And the president said, no, you're not.

00:13:32.240 You're not an ordinary person.

00:13:34.080 You're extraordinary.

00:13:36.200 And I think we see that in an exemplary fashion today

00:13:41.000 with all of these patriots,

00:13:42.940 most of whose names no one has really ever heard of.

00:13:46.340 These were not ordinary men.

00:13:48.440 These are extraordinary men.

00:13:50.120 and these are the men who built our country and they might have been unsung for hundreds of years,

00:13:54.680 most of them will be unsung for hundreds of years more, but it's a reflection for all of us I think

00:13:59.880 today to look around at these men and their example and to recognize that there's no such

00:14:05.800 thing as an ordinary person, there's no such thing as an ordinary American, and we need to look to

00:14:11.640 their example to do our part to fulfill whatever role it is that we have in life, whether we're

00:14:17.720 working at the White House, whether we're working a job that doesn't get a lot of attention or a lot

00:14:22.160 of praise, to do our part, to contribute to our country such that we can live an extraordinary

00:14:28.900 life. And maybe 250 years from now, we can merit the same kind of recognition. Maybe we could merit

00:14:35.800 a statue alongside these brave patriots. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be with all of you.

00:14:41.000 God bless and God bless America. Wonderful event. I really, really am deeply grateful to the Trump

00:14:45.700 administration and everyone who was there, Vince Haley and the cabinet secretaries and everyone

00:14:52.800 who made this happen, Brittany Baldwin and Lilly and all the other people who made that happen.

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00:16:16.180 I do, I guess we got to get to the yes or no game that caused so much consternation on the left,

00:16:23.560 so much so that they ran a completely fake headline in the New Republic about it.

00:16:27.240 Here we have my quick little visit to the great American state fair, including my now infamous

00:16:34.900 exchange about witchcraft with the smartest little 10-year-old girl I think I've ever met.

00:16:43.540 It's wonderful to be with all of you. I also have a bunch of merch. Can I give anybody merch? Okay.

00:16:54.440 We have a Democrat.

00:16:55.420 Oh, hey, I see we have another Democrat.

00:17:03.400 He didn't have a microphone on, but he yelled out, 0.99

00:17:06.580 you're a disgrace, and he flipped, he waved to me. 0.97

00:17:11.000 But it was a one-finger wave, and then like a lot of 0.99

00:17:14.720 Democrat critics I've found, he immediately ran in the other direction.

00:17:18.840 There was like a that-guy-shaped hole in the wall on the proscenium.

00:17:22.040 Okay, here we have, hey, what's going on, man?

00:17:23.660 Hi, nice to meet you.

00:17:24.280 What's your name?

00:17:24.820 Vasilis.

00:17:25.360 Vasilis, nice to see you.

00:17:27.200 Okay.

00:17:28.840 I'm going to pull a card.

00:17:30.780 You're going to guess how I would answer.

00:17:32.420 Then I bet you're going to tell me why I'm wrong.

00:17:34.800 I won't do that.

00:17:38.080 It's kind of a weird one.

00:17:41.020 Freemasons founded the country.

00:17:44.260 It's based off what you think, right? 0.98

00:17:45.820 Based off what I think.

00:17:46.760 But you can tell me your opinion, too.

00:17:48.720 I think you'd say yeah.

00:17:50.300 I think you'd say yes.

00:17:51.880 I said no.

00:17:52.380 Now, some of them were Freemasons in the 1770s, that's true, though the number is kind of overstated.

00:17:58.740 George Washington was famously a Freemason.

00:18:00.380 That's who I was thinking of, yeah.

00:18:01.520 But I would go further back, and I would say the country was founded, really, by radical Calvinists.

00:18:07.440 There we go. We now have your microphone.

00:18:09.320 Thanks.

00:18:09.840 There we go.

00:18:11.020 You want me to lean back on this?

00:18:12.620 The answer, no, that's great. 0.63

00:18:14.340 The answer you gave was that the country was founded by Freemasons.

00:18:18.040 You'd think I would say that.

00:18:19.060 But I say no.

00:18:19.760 It goes back a lot further.

00:18:20.780 It was founded by, you know, pilgrims on the Mayflower.

00:18:23.600 It was founded by merchants at Jamestown.

00:18:25.840 And a lot of these, there were even a couple of Catholics in there, not that many.

00:18:29.420 But it was a kind of a rich and varied religious background of the country.

00:18:34.280 And it was explicitly Christian, for sure.

00:18:37.000 But it had all sorts of varieties, from, you know, Catholics all the way up to these Freemasonic deists.

00:18:44.280 Yeah, I think Thomas Jefferson was a deist, as I remember it.

00:18:47.560 He was kind of a deist.

00:18:49.080 Now, are you religious?

00:18:51.680 Yeah.

00:18:52.620 What kind of?

00:18:53.340 Orthodox Christian.

00:18:54.900 Eastern Orthodox?

00:18:55.900 Yes.

00:18:56.300 Oh, cool.

00:18:57.120 As is my sister out there, who's a big fan of yours.

00:18:59.480 Hey, all right.

00:19:00.340 Hey, nice to see you.

00:19:01.360 That's great. 0.99

00:19:02.020 The reason I can't be Eastern Orthodox, and you can? 0.93

00:19:05.420 You're Catholic, correct?

00:19:06.460 I am, but it's because I can't grow a beard.

00:19:08.980 That'll never work for me.

00:19:10.880 And are you from D.C.?

00:19:12.540 I'm from New Jersey.

00:19:13.740 Jersey, where at?

00:19:15.180 I'm from the Pennsylvania border.

00:19:17.940 So I'm crossing in and out between New Jersey and Pennsylvania quite frequently.

00:19:21.660 Do you want to hear too much information?

00:19:23.360 Sure.

00:19:23.860 I was conceived in New Jersey.

00:19:25.640 Now, I shouldn't know that probably, but I found out I was conceived at the Jersey Shore, as were many of us.

00:19:31.620 There were many out there.

00:19:34.680 So you mentioned you were the one Democrat, other than the guy who yelled at me,

00:19:38.800 you were the one who stood up and said, I'll come on the stage.

00:19:40.880 Sure.

00:19:41.460 Because you're clearly a very patriotic Democrat.

00:19:43.480 Yes, I am.

00:19:44.040 What do you think about the state of the party?

00:19:46.220 The Democratic Party?

00:19:47.040 I think that currently a lot of the Democratic officials, especially the ones in Congress, they're too focused on trying to oppose Trump performatively as opposed to doing large-scale social action.

00:20:05.240 And I also think that our current Democratic Party is too, like, reluctant and hesitant to take on the issues that a lot of the base supports much more to the party elites from New York.

00:20:18.740 I totally agree with you. What do you think the issues are?

00:20:22.300 I think the biggest issue is, like, as you know, Zoran Mabdani is the mayor of New York City.

00:20:30.000 I've heard of him.

00:20:31.020 Yeah. He's my favorite.

00:20:33.160 He is very popular, especially with his social issues.

00:20:37.120 But a lot of those mainstream Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries were just so hesitant to endorse him,

00:20:43.580 even though the party base in the state of New York wanted him to win a lot more than Andrew Cuomo or obviously Curtis Slewell because he's a Republican.

00:20:53.140 But they're just way too hesitant to take on, you know, a positive stance, at least in my view, of like racial issues,

00:21:00.800 like the issues of gender and like uh gay rights issues i thought you were gonna say the opposite

00:21:07.600 i mean i'm not surprised you like mom donnie and some of the more populous yeah he's for like young

00:21:11.880 people and i'm a college student myself i thought you were gonna say that the problem with the dems

00:21:16.600 right now is they're not focusing on like meat and potatoes labor issues you know wages health

00:21:22.620 care i think that too i think that like i said i'm sorry i'm so sorry to interrupt by the way

00:21:26.440 I think that we're too single-minded on trying to oppose Trump, which is what the opposition party in any country should do, is oppose the current party in power.

00:21:38.160 But we're doing it in such a manner where there's not any feasible action, as opposed to just, we're going to put out a strongly worded letter, we're going to put this on Instagram.

00:21:46.280 So on the issues you talked about, racial issues, gender issues, what legislation do you want to see from the Dems?

00:21:54.320 Are we talking about reparations?

00:21:56.520 Are we talking about transgender surgeries for kids or something?

00:22:00.620 What are you looking at?

00:22:01.620 I don't necessarily think reparations.

00:22:04.100 Like, if you look at the Respect for Marriage Act, for instance,

00:22:06.620 I think that was a large milestone in recognizing the validity of same-sex marriages

00:22:11.080 and people of the LGBTQ plus community.

00:22:14.920 But I think that we should use more defining action,

00:22:19.660 especially with, like, prejudice in schools and the workplace

00:22:22.940 and in public and that like especially on gender issues with women with the wage

00:22:29.720 gap and potentially being I'm sorry I'm stumbling over my words a little bit

00:22:34.580 you know potentially being harassed in school or the workplace I think we need

00:22:38.180 more recognizable action for that do you think that your party the Democrat

00:22:42.940 Party will do better in elections if they focus more on racial issues and on

00:22:50.060 the gender ideology? I don't think so, no. I agree. I don't think so. You know, it's sort of a pipe

00:22:56.600 dream for me to want that, but I don't think so. I think if we focus more on, like, the cost of

00:23:02.200 how much it takes to take care of your families or, like, gasoline prices, you know, electricity

00:23:10.840 bills, I think the biggest things that we have right now are affordability and making sure that

00:23:16.360 people are able to keep or get a job yeah if I were a Democrat which is very

00:23:20.240 hard to imagine but if I were a Democrat I would advise the campaigns if they

00:23:25.360 want to win to focus on that and and not maybe play it a little cooler on the 0.94

00:23:29.960 trans issues and that kind of stuff yeah that's what tends to turn especially

00:23:33.520 like older Democrats off from that sort of thing because they're just not you

00:23:37.500 know as accustomed to seeing or hearing about the trans issues and it's sort of 0.62

00:23:42.160 hard for them to accept those people yeah yeah and I I agree with that they're 0.96

00:23:47.440 not as hip to trans stuff as young people like me and you yeah okay all

00:23:51.700 right let's get to at least one more okay oh here's one the CIA is a force

00:23:57.700 for good what would I say see that's a toughie because that one's kind of

00:24:05.140 nuanced. I have a feeling that you would say no. I'm totally cleaning up. Mr. Davies, do I win

00:24:20.700 anything if I keep getting all these points? No. Do you want my credit card? Nothing. Will you buy

00:24:25.400 me a drink later? Maybe. Okay. You want my credit card? Could I get your credit card? I have an

00:24:30.600 affordability crisis at the hotel bar. I actually think this is a very unpopular view on the right

00:24:36.000 right now. I think generally speaking, the CIA actually is a force for good. And they've done

00:24:42.080 plenty of bad things. And there have been a lot of bad apples. And they did like drug people in

00:24:46.440 the 70s. They like, I guess, kidnapped people and forced them to get diseases. That was early on.

00:24:53.180 And like Guatemala, I think. Yeah, when they kidnapped the Guatemalan communists, that's

00:24:57.120 actually one of my favorite things they did so I don't count that one against them but you know

00:25:00.760 drugging American citizens on the homeland that stuff's not great but overall yeah I do think

00:25:06.520 there is a little a tad bit too much conspiracy theorizing on the right and I think the reason

00:25:12.620 why we got a lot of that in recent years is because all of our public officials lied to us

00:25:16.980 during COVID so I think that the conspiracy theories are kind of justified but the idea

00:25:22.020 that the CIA is full of a bunch of lizard people who are like secretly controlling the entire world

00:25:26.780 Like Illuminati, New World Order stuff? 0.58

00:25:29.280 Yeah, gets back to our Freemason question.

00:25:31.360 I don't really buy that, because having met some of these people,

00:25:34.620 I don't think they're competent enough to actually do that.

00:25:37.440 I take the Coen brothers' burn after reading,

00:25:39.680 like every fourth thing they do just goes horribly wrong.

00:25:42.840 Okay, should we do one more?

00:25:44.140 Why not, yeah.

00:25:44.980 Okay.

00:25:45.320 If I get one out of three, I can make the Baseball Hall of Fame.

00:25:47.760 You can.

00:25:48.600 There's a lot more to say.

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00:27:01.700 This one is clearly written by my producer. The Protestant work ethic is the reason for 0.72

00:27:06.720 American prosperity. Can I ask a question? Yes. Could you describe the Protestant work ethic?

00:27:15.060 I can't, no, but probably my producer can. It's the idea, there's a long tradition of this,

00:27:21.560 That those lazy Mediterranean Catholics are good for nothing and they just nap all day and drink wine 0.99

00:27:27.260 Whereas the Protestants from the cold northern countries actually get up for work and they're really capitalist and Calvinist 1.00

00:27:34.740 Predestination somehow plays into that and anyway, that's why they build great industries in America

00:27:39.500 That's the theory and what would it would my answer be I would say

00:27:51.560 again since you're catholic i feel like you would say no because that kind of digs at your religion

00:27:58.980 yeah but look i i dig it the catholics a lot too i would i would say no but the only i think the

00:28:05.860 protestant work ethic did actually contribute a ton to american prosperity i think so too

00:28:10.160 especially because like we were kind of a protestant nation to begin with especially with

00:28:14.280 our leaders some say but i i know i think it does because the protestants are kind of more

00:28:20.880 get up and go when it comes to capitalism. They are. There's no doubt about it. The only reason

00:28:25.140 I would hesitate is that I think that the real reason for American prosperity is because the

00:28:30.560 founding fathers, they gave us this brilliant revolution that was not really a revolution.

00:28:35.900 Even at the time of the revolution, you have guys like Edmund Burke, the founder of Anglo-American

00:28:40.180 conservatism. Edmund Burke arguing in parliament, saying, guys, the Americans, they're not radicals,

00:28:46.080 they're not revolutionaries,

00:28:47.460 they just want their rights as Englishmen.

00:28:50.140 They're asserting themselves in their traditions,

00:28:52.400 they wanna maintain their way of life.

00:28:53.780 So in a way, the American Revolution

00:28:55.480 is kind of like the anti-revolution,

00:28:57.360 it's like a counter-revolution.

00:28:58.840 And then when you look at the roadmap,

00:29:00.500 the DNA of the country and the Constitution,

00:29:02.880 it's this beautiful separation of powers,

00:29:05.560 this balancing of the judiciary and the executive

00:29:08.120 and the legislature in a way that I think

00:29:10.540 is actually in accord more with Catholic teaching

00:29:13.440 and natural law.

00:29:14.440 So I don't want to kind of be guilty of historical revisionism, you know, like we was the founders or whatever.

00:29:21.360 But like in a weird way, the American blueprint is deeply Catholic, even though a lot of the founders were not totally aware of it.

00:29:31.060 Am I trying too hard? 0.73

00:29:32.600 Not really. I kind of get you, too.

00:29:34.880 OK.

00:29:35.560 I think that like a lot of the like, especially since the American Revolution was not your typical revolution,

00:29:40.680 a lot of the revolutions that you end up seeing

00:29:42.920 throughout history are more like class revolutions.

00:29:45.600 Yeah.

00:29:46.300 Whereas the American Revolution wasn't a class revolution.

00:29:49.260 I mean, it was, but the founding fathers

00:29:51.780 were already in kind of entrenched aristocracy.

00:29:54.440 Yeah, right.

00:29:55.640 But they weren't nobility.

00:29:59.140 They were entrenched aristocracy,

00:30:01.000 whereas in like the Russian Revolution, 0.69

00:30:02.540 it was the local workers and the peasants

00:30:04.740 going up against what was the nobility and the aristocracy. 0.98

00:30:08.020 Totally right. 1.00

00:30:08.420 So if you're a Mamdani guy, that means you probably want that other kind of revolution. 1.00

00:30:13.140 You're not as much... 1.00

00:30:14.280 I think that if we wanted a revolution in this country, we should do it bloodlessly

00:30:20.080 because everyone in this country deserves a fair America.

00:30:24.900 That's all right.

00:30:25.540 Well, I'm glad I'm not going to spill any blood.

00:30:27.120 Thank you very much.

00:30:28.080 Good to see you.

00:30:28.920 Could I get a photo, please?

00:30:30.000 Happily.

00:30:30.480 Let's do it.

00:30:31.340 Oh, my phone's...

00:30:31.840 Do we have any other volunteer?

00:30:33.280 I'm sorry, Mr. Knowles.

00:30:34.060 My phone's dead.

00:30:34.840 Yes.

00:30:34.980 Come find me later.

00:30:35.920 Yes, all right.

00:30:36.320 Now that you told me you're not going to kill me,

00:30:38.240 then it'll be a bloodless photo.

00:30:40.320 Come find me afterward.

00:30:41.480 Yes, bye, Mr. Knowles.

00:30:43.060 I love, one of my absolute favorite things

00:30:45.600 is when I go to an event

00:30:46.780 and someone who's like 10 years old walks up to me

00:30:49.400 and says, like, you know, I love watching the show.

00:30:51.300 And I say, this is indoctrination of the best kind.

00:30:54.180 So do we have our guest?

00:31:04.780 Hello.

00:31:06.320 What's your name?

00:31:07.320 Elizabeth.

00:31:08.320 Elizabeth.

00:31:09.320 All right.

00:31:10.320 Have a seat.

00:31:11.320 Elizabeth.

00:31:12.320 I love your hat.

00:31:15.320 Thank you.

00:31:16.320 Elizabeth, I know a lady never tells her age, but how old are you?

00:31:19.320 Ten.

00:31:20.320 Ten.

00:31:21.320 I called it.

00:31:22.320 Wow.

00:31:23.320 That's crazy.

00:31:24.320 That was like Babe Ruth calling his shot.

00:31:25.320 I totally called it.

00:31:26.320 Okay.

00:31:27.320 Do you know how to play?

00:31:28.320 Yes.

00:31:29.320 Okay.

00:31:30.320 I'm going to pull a card.

00:31:31.320 You have your game piece there.

00:31:32.320 Yes. 0.95

00:31:33.320 America should take over Mexico to restore law and order. 1.00

00:31:38.320 What does a 10-year-old girl in a MAGA hat 1.00

00:31:40.920 think that I would say about that? 0.76

00:31:45.720 No. 0.81

00:31:48.720 Totally nailed it.

00:31:50.420 Absolutely.

00:31:52.120 It's like all of the wisdom of the crowd is just in you.

00:31:55.520 Why not?

00:31:57.320 Because Mexico is not really the sort of thing that you kind of want. 1.00

00:32:07.040 I agree. I totally agree. 1.00

00:32:09.240 And it's not really in the USA.

00:32:11.460 Yeah. It's like below us. 0.56

00:32:14.040 And what a beautifully articulate way to put it. 0.99

00:32:17.200 Mexico is just not the sort of thing that I want. 1.00

00:32:20.380 You're so right.

00:32:21.160 I don't even really like Mexican food.

00:32:23.780 Okay. Do you study history?

00:32:26.620 No.

00:32:27.640 No.

00:32:28.520 And yet you have a better sense of history and politics than most university graduates.

00:32:32.900 That's great.

00:32:33.420 Okay, next one.

00:32:35.480 Baseball is America's pastime.

00:32:40.320 Yes.

00:32:41.520 Yes.

00:32:42.100 Ah, unbelievable.

00:32:44.640 Brilliance.

00:32:45.820 Why?

00:32:47.340 Because, well, I think it was Babe Ruth or Jackie Robinson that said baseball,

00:32:55.620 is life or baseball is america it it was a really famous sport that time um and it was one of the

00:33:05.780 first ones and they really liked it so so true i yes it is unfortunately today now that we're

00:33:14.180 a big decade in empire people like uh football and stuff more than and like gladiatorial combat

00:33:19.700 some of which we saw on the white house well not that long ago they like that more than baseball

00:33:24.100 Because baseball takes a long time, and it's kind of boring, and it's more cerebral.

00:33:27.520 But baseball is a way better sport.

00:33:29.720 And it's America's pastime, maybe in the past.

00:33:33.280 But I think to restore America to greatness, we need more baseball.

00:33:36.900 Should we do one more?

00:33:37.800 Yeah.

00:33:38.140 Okay.

00:33:41.060 Okay.

00:33:41.760 Well, this one providentially pertains to young women.

00:33:45.340 The Salem witch trials did not go far enough.

00:33:48.980 What would I say?

00:33:50.260 The Salem witch trials did not go far enough.

00:33:54.100 yes oh you're so smart it's crazy why why would you say that the salem witch trials did not go 0.91

00:34:10.260 far enough because they're witches

00:34:13.920 preach can you are you available monday through friday to be the co-host on my show

00:34:22.720 Yes.

00:34:23.140 You are. Good.

00:34:24.600 Because we've brought a lot of people onto the show in the past.

00:34:28.640 They get some things right. They don't go far enough.

00:34:30.340 But the actual answer as to why they didn't go far enough is there really are witches.

00:34:34.420 You're right.

00:34:34.680 And now the one area, not to sound like a big liberal,

00:34:38.340 but the one area where the Salem witch trials went a little far is, I would say,

00:34:44.360 they weren't organized enough. 1.00

00:34:46.440 So you had these, like, random judges, you know, kind of burning these ladies. 1.00

00:34:50.820 I don't know if they were guilty or not.

00:34:52.520 But I think more, if it were more formalized, built up a little bit more, maybe with like a Grand Inquisitor or something, that would have been a better way to do it.

00:35:00.020 I am so impressed.

00:35:02.260 I could not possibly be more impressed.

00:35:04.220 I don't have any prizes to give you.

00:35:06.120 And you probably, do you smoke cigars?

00:35:07.620 No.

00:35:08.060 You don't.

00:35:08.560 Okay.

00:35:09.080 I'll get to you in a few years.

00:35:10.440 We can get you some Mayflower cigars.

00:35:11.860 Thank you so much for coming on.

00:35:14.600 Very impressive.

00:35:16.000 Very impressive.

00:35:18.620 Do we have, I think we have time for one more.

00:35:20.520 No.

00:35:22.520 The game.

00:35:24.960 Oh, hey, great.

00:35:26.000 Hey, before you go, can I give you this game?

00:35:29.220 Sure.

00:35:30.080 My mind went straight to giving you tobacco.

00:35:32.160 But no, the game is better.

00:35:33.320 Thank you.

00:35:34.060 You won.

00:35:34.700 You totally won.

00:35:36.000 Do we have time for any more?

00:35:37.040 No, we don't.

00:35:37.720 I've got to run, guys.

00:35:38.740 Wonderful to be with all of you.

00:35:40.160 I'm so glad someone could win before we go.

00:35:42.420 I hope everyone enjoys the 250th.

00:35:44.820 Looking forward to fireworks and drinks and hot dogs.

00:35:47.820 See you next time.

00:35:48.440 Thanks.

00:35:49.220 All right, that's it.

00:35:50.340 Nobody practice any witchcraft.

00:35:51.620 I hope you're all having a very good 4th of July week.

00:35:53.780 I certainly am at the beach, not here right now,

00:35:56.740 only here virtually.

00:35:58.060 And I will be here virtually again tomorrow.

00:36:00.460 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:36:01.060 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:36:01.680 See you then.

The Michael Knowles Show - July 06, 2026

Ep. 2009 - Libs Hate This： My Ancestor Gets A Statue In D.C.

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