The Michael Knowles Show - June 07, 2025


The WORST Pride Month Commercials ... So Far


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12 minutes

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Word count

1,991

Sentence count

219

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Misogyny

6

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Hate speech

20

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It's Pride Month, which means it's time for all of us to be proud of who we are and what we stand for. And what better way to celebrate than to celebrate Pride Month with a baseball team and a team that are gay.

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00:00:18.500 Pride, which goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall.
00:00:22.080 Pride is much weaker this year than it has been in pride months prior. However,
00:00:27.800 it's not dead yet. It's still around. There's still companies and teams and all sorts of people
00:00:34.840 posting their pride. Mr. Davies, give me the roundup.
00:00:42.500 Nah, that's the worst one. You started with the worst one.
00:00:50.960 I would get it if it were soccer
00:00:52.780 or like the WNBA, but baseball, ah, all of baseball's LGBT fans. How many LGBT fans watch 0.98
00:01:03.720 baseball? Baseball is the most conservative sport. Don't do it. Don't do it.
00:01:09.740 You know what's funny? You would expect them to use all sorts of different colored string, but
00:01:17.520 because a baseball is stitched up by one string, if they actually did that, you would realize that
00:01:24.620 baseball is about unity, not diversity and not all the weird sex stuff. So they had to just find a
00:01:30.440 string that artificially had all these different colors in it. That's funny.
00:01:37.160 When everyone can be who they are,
00:01:39.400 then it'll all be great.
00:01:44.880 Unless they're a man who thinks he's a woman, 0.99
00:01:46.660 in which case they shouldn't be who they are. They should pretend to be someone else.
00:01:49.780 Okay.
00:01:53.880 The Seattle Mariners. Okay.
00:01:55.260 At first, I was afraid it was just going to be an MLB ad generally. All right.
00:02:01.120 The Seattle Mariners are
00:02:03.180 gay. That's fine by me 0.97
00:02:05.100 because I'm a lifelong Yankee fan, so it doesn't
00:02:07.260 bother me at all. Next one.
00:02:08.660 Football is gay. 1.00
00:02:10.920 Lesbian? Okay. Do they mean like football 1.00
00:02:12.940 or are they talking about like real
00:02:14.400 American football?
00:02:17.100 This is NFL, huh?
00:02:18.280 Yeah!
00:02:22.280 Yeah!
00:02:22.760 I don't think football
00:02:26.680 is gay, but I don't like football.
00:02:29.200 It's not my sport.
00:02:30.560 I only like one sport, and it's baseball.
00:02:32.380 I keep throwing heat.
00:02:34.160 Heat, shmeet. 1.00
00:02:34.980 Which is a little bit gay, apparently, too.
00:02:36.800 But football, okay, football.
00:02:38.720 Look, football already disrespects
00:02:40.620 the American flag and promotes
00:02:42.520 black power Marxist organizations.
00:02:45.100 And so I don't, whatever.
00:02:47.260 Being gay is like the 1.00
00:02:48.840 eighth problem that the NFL has right now.
00:02:51.320 Next one. Oh, this is bad.
00:02:53.420 On our street, everyone is welcome.
00:02:55.400 That's more of like a Mickey Mouse.
00:02:56.740 That's not, I can't really do a good Sesame Street.
00:02:59.580 I haven't watched it in about
00:03:00.680 32 years.
00:03:03.080 On our street, everyone's welcome.
00:03:04.620 Together, let's build a world where
00:03:06.040 every person and family feels loved and respected
00:03:08.100 for who they are.
00:03:09.020 Happy Pride Month, and it's a gay thing. 0.97
00:03:10.540 So, in case you
00:03:12.880 haven't processed this,
00:03:15.100 a publicly funded
00:03:16.520 children's puppet show
00:03:18.180 is promoting
00:03:19.660 extremely weird,
00:03:21.880 deviant,
00:03:22.520 aberrant sex stuff
00:03:23.680 to an audience
00:03:25.340 of primarily
00:03:26.620 two- to five-year-olds
00:03:27.800 on your taxpayer dime.
00:03:30.040 Do you want your taxes
00:03:30.880 going to puppets
00:03:31.780 trying to turn your kids
00:03:33.580 like gay and trans?
00:03:35.460 I don't
00:03:36.120 I don't want that.
00:03:39.100 We need to defund
00:03:39.960 Big Bird.
00:03:40.620 That's what we need to do.
00:03:43.480 Can you try reading it
00:03:44.660 in like a Cookie Monster voice?
00:03:46.240 I can try that.
00:03:48.460 On our street,
00:03:49.920 everyone is welcome.
00:03:51.620 Together,
00:03:52.160 let's build a world
00:03:53.280 where every person
00:03:54.380 and family
00:03:55.000 is loved and respected
00:03:56.220 for who they are
00:03:57.240 and where all you little
00:03:58.420 kids are gay. 0.98
00:03:59.880 Gay. 0.98
00:04:00.480 Be gay, gay, gay. 1.00
00:04:01.660 Is that how
00:04:03.280 Cookie Monster sounds?
00:04:04.500 I don't
00:04:04.780 I hope not.
00:04:06.340 Yeah, I know.
00:04:06.680 They never
00:04:06.960 that's why they never
00:04:07.700 cast me as Cookie Monster.
00:04:10.200 Ah, no.
00:04:10.960 Come on.
00:04:12.840 Come on.
00:04:13.480 I knew that was coming
00:04:14.480 because I already saw it.
00:04:17.440 Like on Twitter,
00:04:18.180 I already saw it
00:04:18.880 days ago.
00:04:21.060 But they did it.
00:04:22.020 Now, look,
00:04:22.500 they didn't change
00:04:23.200 their profile picture.
00:04:25.420 They moved on immediately
00:04:26.740 to like Lou Gehrig
00:04:28.140 commemoration day.
00:04:29.640 So they didn't have
00:04:30.380 gay stuff on their uniforms. 0.95
00:04:31.500 They just put the
00:04:32.400 number four
00:04:33.700 in their uniform.
00:04:34.780 But the Seattle Mariners
00:04:36.820 are gay.
00:04:38.340 That's fine by me
00:04:39.340 because I'm a lifelong
00:04:40.300 Yankee fan.
00:04:41.020 So it doesn't bother me
00:04:41.820 at all.
00:04:42.180 Next one.
00:04:43.560 George Steinbrenner
00:04:44.480 is rolling in his grave
00:04:45.780 over this, okay?
00:04:49.640 I don't really know
00:04:50.480 what the hell
00:04:50.780 is going on here.
00:04:52.040 George would never
00:04:53.100 have let this happen.
00:04:54.460 He never would have let
00:04:55.300 players have beards
00:04:56.540 and he never would have
00:04:57.380 let the team go gay. 0.97
00:04:58.840 You can delete the post.
00:05:00.020 You should delete the post.
00:05:01.500 iPhone.
00:05:14.700 Chuttony iPhone.
00:05:16.340 Chuttony phone.
00:05:17.180 Notice though,
00:05:18.080 notice how much Apple
00:05:18.980 is hedging its bets here.
00:05:20.500 They don't post
00:05:21.280 any rainbows.
00:05:22.440 They don't post
00:05:22.960 any dudes
00:05:24.020 or ladies 0.98
00:05:24.500 doing weird stuff.
00:05:25.560 It's very subtle.
00:05:26.960 They mostly just post
00:05:27.900 Indians
00:05:28.420 looking kind of Indian.
00:05:30.300 And then it's just
00:05:30.940 very black and white
00:05:31.760 celebrating Pride.
00:05:32.500 Chuttony iPhone.
00:05:33.420 They know.
00:05:34.240 They know.
00:05:34.940 Apple is a smart corporation
00:05:36.160 and they know that Pride
00:05:37.140 is not cool anymore.
00:05:38.240 They just say they do
00:05:38.940 the perfunctory,
00:05:39.780 yeah, do you guys
00:05:40.460 still like Pride?
00:05:41.040 Okay, we do a sort
00:05:41.660 of Pride thing,
00:05:42.140 but no.
00:05:42.560 That's the straightest
00:05:43.580 Pride ad I've ever seen.
00:05:45.580 Next one.
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00:07:00.060 That's like the opposite
00:07:20.660 of the Apple ad.
00:07:21.620 That is a pretty
00:07:23.020 overtly,
00:07:24.340 grossly
00:07:25.200 sexual ad. 0.97
00:07:26.780 I don't like the movement.
00:07:27.900 I don't like the implication.
00:07:29.720 What company was that?
00:07:31.160 It's a headphone company.
00:07:32.280 Okay.
00:07:32.700 Well,
00:07:34.200 no need to buy that.
00:07:36.220 The World Health Organization.
00:07:38.820 Oh, no.
00:07:42.060 Come on, man.
00:07:43.120 I don't,
00:07:44.180 let's just take the trans thing. 0.57
00:07:45.840 If you engage
00:07:46.900 in the trans ideology,
00:07:48.360 you are much,
00:07:49.540 much more likely
00:07:50.200 to,
00:07:51.420 especially if you have
00:07:52.060 the procedures,
00:07:53.040 you're much,
00:07:53.760 much more likely
00:07:54.360 to have bone problems,
00:07:56.480 to have early death,
00:07:58.080 to have anxiety,
00:07:59.220 depression,
00:07:59.640 to be suicidal.
00:08:00.960 You are much,
00:08:02.320 much more likely,
00:08:03.400 dramatically more likely
00:08:04.880 to have all sorts
00:08:06.320 of serious health problems.
00:08:07.340 And everyone has known that
00:08:09.000 since at least the 80s.
00:08:10.720 And you got the
00:08:11.340 World Health Organization.
00:08:14.480 Love is healthy.
00:08:15.340 Love is healthy.
00:08:16.900 LGBT,
00:08:17.620 LMNOP stuff
00:08:18.320 is not healthy.
00:08:19.540 Whatever you want to say,
00:08:20.280 you can even say,
00:08:20.780 I like the LGBT stuff
00:08:22.000 or I support it anyway.
00:08:23.420 You certainly can't say
00:08:24.460 it's healthy.
00:08:25.320 I'm very glad
00:08:26.160 Trump voted to
00:08:27.180 pull our funding
00:08:27.960 from the World Health Organization.
00:08:29.420 It's like the
00:08:30.180 anti-obesity campaign
00:08:32.460 promoting,
00:08:34.000 you know,
00:08:34.620 jars of Crisco
00:08:35.560 and tubs of Big Macs.
00:08:37.220 Totally ridiculous.
00:08:42.940 Nashville Predators.
00:08:44.940 Happy Pride Month.
00:08:45.920 Well, that actually makes sense.
00:08:47.860 Not because of the Nashville
00:08:49.260 or because of the team,
00:08:50.840 but because
00:08:51.740 the biggest LGBT ideologues
00:08:55.080 and pride activists
00:08:56.100 are definitely predators.
00:08:58.300 So that is a,
00:08:59.880 that's what we call
00:09:00.660 brand synergy.
00:09:02.600 That kind of works.
00:09:03.440 So I'm very sorry
00:09:04.680 for the team's fans.
00:09:06.240 Canada.
00:09:06.920 Yeah.
00:09:07.220 OK.
00:09:07.680 Whatever this Canadian thing is,
00:09:09.200 definitely makes sense
00:09:10.080 that it would promote pride.
00:09:11.020 There was a bit of a range
00:09:11.900 of emotions this morning
00:09:13.040 coming here
00:09:13.720 and getting dressed
00:09:14.360 for this flight.
00:09:15.500 We are doing
00:09:16.600 the first ever,
00:09:18.440 now let me get that one straight
00:09:19.340 because a few letters
00:09:20.020 have been added to this one,
00:09:21.680 2SLGBTQIA plus flight
00:09:25.060 ever in Canada.
00:09:26.300 I do identify
00:09:27.080 with the progress flag.
00:09:28.400 There is something in there
00:09:29.580 that represents me as well.
00:09:31.920 So it was a bit of joy
00:09:32.800 having the opportunity
00:09:33.660 to do this flight today.
00:09:34.860 And want to celebrate
00:09:39.220 not just our community,
00:09:40.820 but our freedom
00:09:41.460 to be who we are
00:09:42.620 both at work
00:09:43.380 and in society.
00:09:44.820 Shantae, you all stay. 0.75
00:09:49.540 Air Canada wants to show
00:09:51.160 that they value everyone equally,
00:09:53.460 which is why
00:09:54.480 only gays 0.60
00:09:56.320 are allowed
00:09:56.880 on this flight.
00:09:57.560 We value everyone equally,
00:10:00.400 but if you are
00:10:02.000 sexually normal,
00:10:03.920 you're not allowed on.
00:10:05.240 We hate you.
00:10:06.280 You're excluded.
00:10:07.680 Is that legal?
00:10:08.600 Can they legally do that?
00:10:10.180 Not that I would be
00:10:10.940 the most eager
00:10:11.480 to be on the flight,
00:10:12.240 but we value everyone.
00:10:13.520 We include everyone.
00:10:14.560 Unless you do
00:10:15.340 like normal stuff,
00:10:16.160 in which case,
00:10:16.860 get up.
00:10:17.720 Get up.
00:10:18.900 It's not that,
00:10:19.760 that's not this kind
00:10:20.780 of airplane, okay?
00:10:21.540 We don't take to your kind 1.00
00:10:22.920 around here.
00:10:23.620 If you're not a member
00:10:24.760 of the 2SQLGBTLMNOP
00:10:27.360 plus community,
00:10:30.060 we don't want you
00:10:30.920 on our airplane.
00:10:32.920 Enchanté.
00:10:33.800 Je ne suis pas
00:10:35.060 enchanté.
00:10:36.020 Au revoir.
00:10:37.820 Okay.
00:10:38.340 I'm not buying
00:10:39.140 any of this stuff,
00:10:40.440 but I was curious
00:10:41.540 as to what Target
00:10:42.620 was going to do
00:10:43.240 for their pride line
00:10:44.340 this year,
00:10:44.840 given that they've
00:10:45.380 rolled back so much
00:10:46.120 of their DEI
00:10:46.840 and have lost
00:10:47.540 literally millions
00:10:48.860 of dollars in sales
00:10:49.880 on account of that decision.
00:10:50.940 And boy, howdy! 0.75
00:10:52.700 Was I surprised
00:10:53.380 to see what they're
00:10:54.020 offering this year.
00:10:55.060 Kicking it off
00:10:55.480 in their home decor,
00:10:56.240 they have a series
00:10:56.720 of these birds
00:10:57.380 that my sister
00:10:57.940 used to collect,
00:10:58.980 and they have
00:10:59.940 a bunch of like
00:11:00.520 drag queenie birds.
00:11:02.240 There's like a
00:11:02.740 Marie Antoinette bird,
00:11:04.520 which is sort of interesting.
00:11:06.280 And then there's
00:11:06.760 this here,
00:11:07.760 perhaps the most
00:11:08.420 homophobic of them all,
00:11:10.300 mini bird figurines,
00:11:12.040 gal and pal.
00:11:13.960 And they do come
00:11:15.200 with the optional
00:11:15.960 upgrade of purchasing
00:11:17.000 the U-Haul moving van.
00:11:18.920 Just gal and her pal 1.00
00:11:21.240 and their U-Haul.
00:11:23.480 You're not going
00:11:23.860 to find anything
00:11:24.420 in stores that says
00:11:25.280 queer or gay on it. 0.75
00:11:26.480 It will say
00:11:27.000 authentic or proud.
00:11:28.780 Anything that says
00:11:29.340 gay or queer on it 0.64
00:11:30.440 seems to be
00:11:31.120 for online only.
00:11:32.440 You don't get to
00:11:32.920 make jokes about us
00:11:33.820 when you're not
00:11:34.480 laughing with us.
00:11:36.800 Yes, you do.
00:11:38.720 Right?
00:11:39.280 I mean, don't...
00:11:40.300 Look, you know
00:11:40.980 what I say about Target?
00:11:41.960 That's a good start.
00:11:43.660 I'm glad they're not
00:11:44.820 like actively trying
00:11:46.320 to propagandize the kids
00:11:47.420 into weird sex stuff,
00:11:48.380 but it's only a good start.
00:11:49.560 I don't want any
00:11:50.220 of that stuff in Target.
00:11:51.280 Target's a big company
00:11:52.280 and it is part
00:11:53.500 of the broader
00:11:53.900 public square.
00:11:55.360 And I don't want
00:11:56.340 any of that weird
00:11:57.260 stuff in Target.
00:11:59.040 I don't want any of it.
00:11:59.940 The dolls can maybe
00:12:00.800 stay because they're
00:12:01.340 kind of funny,
00:12:01.900 but the other stuff,
00:12:03.500 the rainbow stuff
00:12:04.560 and the authentic
00:12:05.660 and the proud,
00:12:06.720 I don't want that.
00:12:07.640 I don't want even that.
00:12:09.900 My heart goes out to you.
00:12:12.240 Good start.
00:12:13.040 Clearly, look,
00:12:14.140 the momentum
00:12:14.860 has moved against
00:12:16.880 the pride,
00:12:17.860 which is good
00:12:18.560 because of how pride
00:12:19.900 goes before destruction
00:12:20.740 and a haughty spirit
00:12:21.320 before a fall.
00:12:21.880 Okay.
00:12:22.720 What was my favorite one?
00:12:24.940 That's the one.
00:12:25.640 That was my favorite.
00:12:26.040 You saved the best for last.
00:12:27.840 Things are moving
00:12:28.440 in the right direction.
00:12:29.260 Also, I kind of want
00:12:30.220 the gal and pal dolls
00:12:31.420 with the U-Haul.
00:12:32.700 It's funny.
00:12:34.180 It's kind of funny.
00:12:36.300 See you next time.
00:12:37.020 Gal and pal.
00:12:43.800 Gal and pal.
00:12:43.840 Ah
00:12:46.180 Ah