The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles Reads His Reddit Hater Threads

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00:00:57.700 To Michael Knowles from Your Haters.

00:01:24.080 I'm told that I am on Reddit.

00:01:30.860 Not like I do Reddit, like post Reddit stuff, but I'm apparently a subject of Reddit.

00:01:35.920 You can tell I'm not a Reddit poster because I don't have the fedora and I'm not a cringe atheist.

00:01:40.440 But I have apparently made it to the big leagues, folks.

00:01:44.180 So my producers thought it would be amusing if I read some of the fan mail from one of the sewers of the internet.

00:01:51.600 Okay, here we go.

00:01:52.400 Michael Knowles is classified as a level three domestic terrorist.

00:01:57.200 You must avoid domestic terrorists at all costs.

00:02:03.500 Do I want to be a level one?

00:02:06.060 What is level one higher than level three, like in terms of importance?

00:02:11.100 Or is level three, does it ascend?

00:02:13.320 And then how high does it go?

00:02:14.860 Is level three the highest?

00:02:16.220 I would be honored by such a classification.

00:02:18.760 No explanation of what terrorism I've engaged in.

00:02:23.340 But what if it goes to 10 and I'm just a level three one?

00:02:27.520 Like I don't even make the big leagues as a domestic terrorist.

00:02:32.480 You know, terrorism does have a definition.

00:02:34.060 Which is when you target civilians with violence to achieve political ends.

00:02:40.020 Which to my knowledge, I don't think I've ever done.

00:02:42.520 It's very strange because the kind of people who would say this would also sympathize with actual terrorists.

00:02:48.380 It's kind of funny.

00:02:48.960 Okay.

00:02:49.900 All right.

00:02:50.400 That was a little unsatisfying.

00:02:51.640 Because I just don't know where the numbers are supposed to go.

00:02:55.200 Bro literally looks like an edgy middle schooler.

00:03:02.200 Was that so bad?

00:03:03.120 They're telling me I aged gracefully.

00:03:05.440 They're telling me that I'm a little fountain of youth.

00:03:07.640 Because the other knock that I get a lot is people think I'm older than I am.

00:03:11.740 Because maturity ages you.

00:03:13.800 You know, wisdom really ages you.

00:03:15.400 You know, a lady never tells, but I will. 1.00

00:03:16.980 I'm 35.

00:03:18.420 People sometimes think I'm 40 or something or older.

00:03:20.760 Now they're saying I look like an edgy middle schooler.

00:03:23.260 That's cool.

00:03:23.960 Am I just a youthful sex symbol?

00:03:26.020 Or am I a mature, wizened example of, I don't know, elder statesmanship?

00:03:35.140 This is from peppercorn666.

00:03:37.380 Number of the beast.

00:03:38.280 Okay.

00:03:38.820 Michael, you ever consider self-immolation as a show of your support?

00:03:44.460 This is in response to a tweet.

00:03:46.960 Because I tweeted out, I said, I voted for Trump in 2016.

00:03:49.040 I actually had a typo.

00:03:50.260 But I said, I voted for Trump in 2016.

00:03:52.200 I voted for Trump with even greater enthusiasm in 2020.

00:03:55.000 I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump in 2024.

00:03:57.400 Oh, that was last year before the election.

00:03:59.700 He says, Michael, you ever consider self-immolation?

00:04:01.660 That's kind of clever.

00:04:03.040 You know, like sometimes a monk, like a Buddhist monk will light himself on fire. 0.97

00:04:07.720 Or other, sometimes other unhinged people will just.

00:04:09.900 That's good. 0.98

00:04:13.640 He's telling me, in case you didn't hear, he's telling me to kill myself. 0.90

00:04:18.000 I'm not going to do it. 0.78

00:04:19.060 Because that's a grave mortal sin.

00:04:21.200 And so I'm not going to do it.

00:04:22.420 Too bad on you, peppercorn666.

00:04:24.200 Nice try.

00:04:25.160 Not going to work, Buster.

00:04:26.560 They've got to give me better stuff than this.

00:04:29.140 This isn't spicy.

00:04:30.180 That was mild peppercorn.

00:04:32.900 So this is in response to some post, some tweet I had made.

00:04:36.220 Corpus Christi, an important feast that dates back over 750 years.

00:04:40.300 Not a federal holiday.

00:04:42.460 Juneteenth, a fake thing the libs invented five minutes ago.

00:04:45.080 Federal holiday.

00:04:45.820 Weird.

00:04:47.060 Just an observation I made on the tweets.

00:04:50.320 Response to that was, I know two things are for certain about Michael. 1.00

00:04:54.700 He too is a religious fascist and he hates black people. 0.99

00:04:57.700 This is a point to clarify. 0.99

00:05:02.320 This is a good teachable opportunity for the user is deleted.

00:05:06.160 Which, unless that's some kind of esoteric thing, I guess doesn't exist anymore.

00:05:10.720 Fascism is a political philosophy, ideology, that was developed by a number of people.

00:05:15.820 But notably, Mussolini, Giovanni Gentile, other people.

00:05:21.060 The ideology of fascism is grounded on making an idol of the state.

00:05:26.240 Ideologies tend to exalt one thing over another.

00:05:30.120 Nazism exalts the race. 0.52

00:05:32.240 Communism exalts the class.

00:05:34.040 Those of us who want a more religious kind of political order, we would be exalting God.

00:05:39.420 We would be exalting religion. 1.00

00:05:40.820 Those are just different things.

00:05:42.720 A little point of clarification. 0.99

00:05:44.240 And then I hate black people because I don't want Juneteenth. 1.00

00:05:47.320 Juneteenth is fake. 0.99

00:05:49.540 There are like five black people who had ever heard of Juneteenth before five years ago.

00:05:54.160 It's not a real thing.

00:05:55.380 Do you know what Juneteenth celebrates? 0.98

00:05:58.240 Doesn't celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation because that was put out by an evil white man. 0.97

00:06:02.280 So it can't be that. 0.96

00:06:03.340 It doesn't celebrate the 13th Amendment, which was ratified by those evil white men, which actually freed the slaves. 0.85

00:06:08.060 Juneteenth celebrates the day. 0.53

00:06:10.120 I think I'm right about this.

00:06:11.260 It celebrates the day that the mailman made it to Texas and told some town in Texas that the Civil War was over and the slaves were free.

00:06:17.740 It's like, that is it.

00:06:20.840 It's the, it's mailman day.

00:06:23.200 Mailman in Texas day.

00:06:24.180 Why is that a federal holiday?

00:06:27.020 Would make much more sense for a feast like Corpus Christi or any other number of religious feasts.

00:06:31.980 Get rid of Juneteenth. 1.00

00:06:33.160 Okay, next one.

00:06:34.660 Go to hillsdale.edu slash Knowles.

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00:07:40.220 You know, this is a hobby horse of mine.

00:07:41.460 I talk about the Mayflower a lot.

00:07:42.900 Mayflower, great cigar brand.

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00:08:04.940 Stipulation says 100%. 1.00

00:08:07.060 Of all the Daily Wire folks, Matt Walsh is a dumb ASS, and Shapiro has stupid religious beliefs and his audience captured to hell. 1.00

00:08:16.560 But Knowles, I swear to our Lord, killed squirrels in his backyard as a kid. 1.00

00:08:25.240 You know, wow, man, that's funny.

00:08:26.680 Because usually, whenever people are throwing stones at DW, they'll hit Ben for something he believes or for his voice or something.

00:08:35.840 And then they'll, or for some issue he got wrong, like Trump or something.

00:08:39.680 And then they'll hit Matt for, I don't know, sure, they could insult his intelligence or they'll insult his look or so.

00:08:48.520 But they, usually the way they attack me is they say, oh, Michael's nice, you know, he's like, he's too nice. 0.97

00:08:55.420 He's like a wimp. 0.68

00:08:56.880 He's not, he needs to be meaner. 0.99

00:08:58.540 Like, he's got to be like brutal, like mad, or, you know, just like slicing his backs like Ben or something. 0.83

00:09:05.200 Like, they'll compare me unfavorably to my colleagues. 0.56

00:09:10.220 But it's always like, I'm too nice.

00:09:12.980 This one, they're saying I'm a sociopath.

00:09:14.840 And they're saying Ben and Matt are the nice ones, which I guess I should be honored about.

00:09:20.840 Because maybe that's true.

00:09:23.780 You ever think about that?

00:09:26.600 Try getting a reservation at Dorsey now.

00:09:28.660 Okay.

00:09:29.300 All right.

00:09:29.660 Well, that's, I kind of like that one.

00:09:30.820 That's kind of fun.

00:09:31.860 Saying I'm a killer, man. 1.00

00:09:33.560 I'm a psycho. 0.99

00:09:35.820 And we're coming down to the end of these.

00:09:38.040 From is from deleted.

00:09:39.260 Michael Knowles has no authority on telling who is and who isn't a white supremacist.

00:09:42.320 He literally advocated Arbeit macht frei talking points in the political compass video on the question about inflation versus unemployment.

00:09:50.780 Arbeit macht frei means work makes you free, which was over Auschwitz. 0.90

00:09:56.920 And I said, I'm trying to, I don't want to be fair to this person.

00:10:00.760 I don't think I said Arbeit macht frei.

00:10:02.240 But my view of freedom is that freedom involves doing things.

00:10:06.100 And freedom is for something.

00:10:07.220 And it's not just, you know, like loafing around.

00:10:10.780 So I guess, I don't know.

00:10:11.960 I sort of, he's wrong in as much as I'm not a Nazi.

00:10:16.120 I didn't, you know, I wasn't rejected from art school.

00:10:18.840 But he probably is like getting onto something about how I understand freedom.

00:10:22.500 Anyway, fascists do sure love trying to dictate who is and isn't fascist.

00:10:26.500 I know he said white supremacist, but the point still remains.

00:10:29.560 Also, there's not, those aren't the same thing.

00:10:31.660 I'm not, I'm, I'm not, not a skinhead, not a fascist.

00:10:36.480 I bet my life savings on all my organs that Michael Knowles is a racial essentialist of some kind.

00:10:41.960 Racial essentialist. 0.86

00:10:43.420 What does that even mean?

00:10:44.500 A racial, like the races are pure, pure essence.

00:10:48.180 Like a body.

00:10:50.860 I am a swarthy Southern Italian.

00:10:54.740 You ever see True Romance?

00:10:55.720 That'll tell you something.

00:10:56.540 Southern Italian, Anglo-Irish American, whose forebears go back to the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company, by the way.

00:11:05.660 Does he mean that like race exists?

00:11:08.820 That there is a variety among the races?

00:11:11.080 I guess, I suppose I believe that.

00:11:13.800 I don't know anyone who would seriously dispute that.

00:11:17.420 Including the Libs.

00:11:18.240 That's the Libs are all about like, we got to protect the race. 0.98

00:11:20.060 They have a group called La Raza.

00:11:22.200 Anyway.

00:11:26.300 So the, this, so I posted this picture from AI.

00:11:31.560 It's AI slot.

00:11:32.460 But it was, remember Chris Van Hollen is this Maryland Democrat senator?

00:11:35.560 And he got all upset because of this illegal gangster that got deported to El Salvador.

00:11:40.540 And he was so upset.

00:11:41.920 Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

00:11:44.200 And this Kilmar, you know, he goes down as this like lunch with Kilmar.

00:11:48.440 It's like he ignores all of his constituents.

00:11:50.160 He's just got this, his heart beating out of his chest for a face tattooed gangster.

00:11:55.120 And so I tweeted, I said, Senator Van Hollen's heart wants what his heart wants.

00:11:58.420 It's a nice little picnic, romantic picnic, some flowers, some wine.

00:12:02.700 And Kestrel Quill Penn says, 0.93

00:12:04.540 Personally, I'd much rather be gay than be Michael Knowles. 0.96

00:12:08.300 Oh wait, I am gay. 0.98

00:12:09.460 Wait, never mind. 1.00

00:12:10.480 Okay, I'd rather take part in a gay T4T sex pile. 1.00

00:12:15.780 What's a T4T? 1.00

00:12:16.900 I don't want to know.

00:12:18.300 Whatever T4T is, I don't want to know. 1.00

00:12:22.140 And be Michael, well, obviously I would.

00:12:25.440 Why is that even a question?

00:12:27.480 Okay, forget the witticisms.

00:12:29.100 Too long, didn't read. 0.90

00:12:29.800 I'm gay AF and Michael is a total see you next Tuesday as usual. 0.92

00:12:34.580 Okay. 0.95

00:12:35.380 It's funny because often my beloved fans like this, usually they'll call me gay. 0.52

00:12:42.580 Like Michael, you know, he drinks the martini, tap dances on the desk.

00:12:46.660 He wears his, his sweaters and jackets are a little too nice.

00:12:50.340 He's a fanook. 1.00

00:12:50.900 You are gay. 1.00

00:12:53.940 And so that's Yoshi. 1.00

00:12:54.940 Ugh, I need coffee.

00:12:56.520 Utility bill, $145.

00:12:59.080 Okay, let's check the needs for traffic.

00:13:00.900 Gas, $95.

00:13:02.440 Sorry, your account has insufficient funds.

00:13:05.280 Farber Debt Solutions, licensed insolvency trustees.

00:13:08.580 Get the truth about debt. 0.92

00:13:10.000 But this one, he's saying, no, the guy says, I'd rather be gay than be Michael.

00:13:15.120 So he's calling me, so I don't actually, these letters aren't that bad. 0.99

00:13:17.940 They're saying I'm like a psycho killer. 0.67

00:13:21.780 I'm too straight. 0.74

00:13:25.260 I'm, I don't know.

00:13:26.660 I'll take it, man.

00:13:28.300 It's weird.

00:13:29.060 I go on Twitter and it's, I just get pummeled all day.

00:13:32.860 Or it depends on if I'm featured on someone else's YouTube channel.

00:13:36.040 I just get pummeled. 0.61

00:13:36.860 Or I get these nasty emails, sometimes threatening to kill me. 0.93

00:13:39.880 I go on Reddit.

00:13:41.020 It's all kind of nice.

00:13:42.200 But they think they're being mean, but they're actually being nice.

00:13:45.420 Forget about YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and TV.

00:13:50.140 I'm going to be a Reddit man now, my lady.

00:13:53.020 My lady.

00:13:53.280 Get me a, get me a fedora.

00:13:55.160 See you next time.

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The Michael Knowles Show - November 29, 2025

Michael Knowles Reads His Reddit Hater Threads

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