The Michael Knowles Show - YES or NO ｜ Real Answers and Real Drinks with FREEDOMTOONS

00:00:00.000 it's 10 o'clock in the morning my friend Seamus Coughlin from Freedom Tunes is here he doesn't

00:00:17.560 have a lot of time everybody's busy so I said I I need Seamus to be able to play the game here at

00:00:24.260 Daily Wire Studios we're not changing the rules he's going to have a big pint of Guinness I'm

00:00:28.920 going to have my standard martini yeah I hadn't anticipated throwing back at 10 in the morning

00:00:34.000 you know the benefit of that though is it gets the shakes to go away yeah exactly a nice way to

00:00:38.560 open the eyes up I honestly I was I was trying to hide my embarrassment here this is any other

00:00:43.640 Wednesday for me brother yeah I'm glad that I can enter into you exactly I'm like I'm gonna bring

00:00:49.940 him to my turf and I'm gonna beat him there now you're familiar with the rules of the game yes

00:00:53.420 so there's very simple we're gonna read the prompt we'll go back and forth and you have to

00:00:58.800 answer how you think the other person yes would answer would answer okay should we get started

00:01:04.340 yeah absolutely should we have a little toast just yeah yeah kick it off but uh you know pour

00:01:08.980 some out for the five o'clock somewhere can I pour some out that people can't pour right out yeah just

00:01:15.120 right on this especially since the PA I'll be good at the PA I don't want to make the PA's life more

00:01:21.020 difficult I was actually gonna pour it out for them I was hoping they could lap it up yeah that's

00:01:24.820 their pay soccer sucks I'm assuming you have to use so I'm gonna give the kind of standard answer

00:01:33.400 the only reason that I even hesitated is because you're a Catholic man yeah Catholics tend to favor

00:01:42.360 poverty ball I've noticed around the world I've heard this yes but I'm glad you know I'm an American

00:01:47.680 you're an American so we answered yes so we drink we drink if you get it wrong or right or kind of

00:01:54.320 whatever okay cool mm-hmm yeah my kind of game well okay so now you you read the prompt all right

00:02:00.680 um the Michael Knowles show is at best the third best show at the Daily Wire oh wow you know I'm

00:02:08.560 actually so I'm answering yours yes um I'm just gonna you know I mean because I have I have due

00:02:17.460 humility you're a humble human I'm a humble man that's what I was thinking as a Catholic you brought

00:02:21.680 my last answer to my faith I'm bringing yours to your faith I think I'm now I think you're wrong

00:02:25.240 you think I got this wrong about you no no you're correct I'm right I think you have the best show

00:02:30.060 oh thank you I appreciate yeah this was a gimme though because I was thinking I was like okay

00:02:34.680 third best so now you're telling me that a devout Catholic named a practicing Catholic I always prefer

00:02:44.540 that term because I'm gonna keep on practicing until I get it right well and also what does devout mean

00:02:48.340 what does it mean that's not a technical term practicing Catholic actually means something it's

00:02:51.440 not a subjective grounded in reality yes yeah there are requirements you have to fulfill it's

00:02:55.680 like there's no way you've got Clavin he's an Anglican exactly exactly thank you you got Ben I

00:03:02.340 I'm beginning to think he's not a Catholic yeah I'm pretty sure okay yeah so then it's just I'm 1.00

00:03:06.440 competing against Walsh and but that still puts me in the top three yeah I mean only one of the

00:03:11.100 other podcasters here submits to Rome so gotta pick you so I'm gonna take a drink like sure yeah why not

00:03:17.700 yeah it's 10 in the morning 10 in the morning that's the game okay comic book fans have a deep

00:03:26.760 understanding of culture this is I'm answering for you yeah do we do it at the same time comic book

00:03:34.980 fans have a well you mean generally I mean I assume some of them generally okay as a whole

00:03:41.460 yeah you you were correct okay that's how you feel to be honest I I haven't really given that

00:03:51.280 question much thought so I don't have an answer but I thought no would be an unpopular response

00:03:55.040 so that's the one I gave you yes try to get you in trouble here because I guess comic book I hate

00:03:59.860 the comic book movies I can't watch them with the exception of like Logan which is not a comic book

00:04:05.240 movie it's a western what about the Dark Knight or the Dark Knight is another one right it's like

00:04:08.440 not really a comic book movie I hate the movies I guess in the pop culture the comic book fans are

00:04:16.160 much more cultured than I am because I don't know anything about it but generally there there is

00:04:21.140 more to life than like invincible people smashing buildings there actually is more yes you can

00:04:27.100 here's the thing actually my answer probably would be yes so that my friend Eric July wouldn't come

00:04:31.360 in here and smack me there you go there you go so you were wrong which means I have to drink yes

00:04:36.460 and I and you have to drink yeah all right there we go eat this game it's horrible all right this

00:04:43.680 next one is mine this is you okay cartoons are the lowest form of art so you have to answer for me

00:04:53.000 I have to answer for you and of course I know what your answer is no I'm trying to figure out

00:05:02.520 your humility here you know you might but I'm gonna say no here's the thing Knowles humility

00:05:06.520 is knowing your place and taking it not necessarily denigrating what you do it's not a humiliation

00:05:11.080 exactly uh and it's obvious look I can't I I don't put cartoons on a very high level in terms of the

00:05:18.300 hierarchy of art but based on some of the liturgical art that I have seen like bad liturgical art yes

00:05:24.660 abstract modernist art that's trying to pass itself off as Catholic is probably the lowest form of art 1.00

00:05:30.340 you know compared to first of all cartoons can be very very beautifully artistic I'm not saying

00:05:35.300 that yours are no I'm just saying you know that they can be yes

00:05:37.800 compared to other forms of art let's say slam poetry then which is how we met that we were

00:05:50.580 yeah we were giving a slam poem on how we're spiritual but not religious we both had the exact

00:05:54.960 same time it was really great like why don't people get that why don't people understand that I'm

00:05:58.900 unique and quirky yeah that's that's the thing it's like why don't they understand I'm really

00:06:02.480 interested in me maybe not in God but you know in me in me I'm very fascinated yeah my favorite

00:06:07.880 response to that is you have to be more specific because the devil's a spirit boom oh I mean owned

00:06:13.560 yeah I owned that person who isn't here who was just sincere about their beliefs and then got

00:06:18.700 dumb now I'm feeling bad it's like how to own every freshman philosophy major with facts and logic

00:06:24.860 oh man I'm almost starting to feel bad we should be more we should be more kind charitable okay we

00:06:29.220 should have a drink but I should have a drink yeah that'll help me

00:06:31.840 given the mass movement of voters from blue states to red states traditionally republican voting states

00:06:38.980 will soon flip for democrats all at once yeah

00:06:44.280 you are right yeah I think they will soon flip to democrats yeah was I wrong I'm not exactly so

00:06:53.960 this is another one where I wouldn't say that I'm on the fence here entirely I lean towards yes but I

00:07:00.480 have some hope that there could be a significant backlash no you're saying okay yeah okay that's fair

00:07:06.160 enough because here's my I I don't think that the people moving to Tennessee with the daily wire are

00:07:14.140 going to flip this state no blue no I mean they're all conservative mostly conservatives I would hope

00:07:19.340 so you would hope so you know some were ecumenical yeah we're very open we're just if anyone's watching

00:07:24.060 from the NLRB we are not discriminating against people and I don't know like when I was when I was

00:07:28.140 in the waiting room people were like walking up to me and whispering their left-wing opinions into my

00:07:31.540 ear like don't tell NOLS I poisoned NOLS's drink exactly I was like sweet I'll make sure we I was

00:07:37.640 like I'll encourage him to drink regardless of what the answer yes he takes that in here you are

00:07:41.260 you've walked right into my trap but do you see the problem here is even if all the conservatives

00:07:45.060 move to these states frankly daily wire is going to make Nashville more red than it was

00:07:49.440 there's just the fact of urbanization as cities grow things get more dim yeah that's just what

00:07:58.480 happens I've said this this is sort of a line I've taken about progressivism it's basically just a

00:08:03.060 label that we've given to social decay and unless our country embraces Christ and starts living the 0.99

00:08:08.200 natural law even without embracing Christ in its supernatural sense then we're going to continue

00:08:11.900 to fall apart yeah and so it seems from my perspective we'll keep going to the left and a

00:08:17.280 lot of these red states will flip blue but part of the reason I was hesitant to give myself a specific

00:08:21.280 answer is because I'm wary of making predictions because any prediction I would have made five years ago

00:08:26.000 would have turned out to be completely wrong it's been an insane couple years true but

00:08:29.640 Seamus hold on are you telling me that what people do in their totally private personal lives

00:08:35.000 might have some effect on the public yes hold on I know it's gonna blow your mind it's insane

00:08:40.380 are you saying we live in in uh like a country in a society I think that when you live with people

00:08:45.280 sometimes things that people do affect you what yeah isn't that crazy I'm gonna have to think

00:08:49.560 about yeah I know I'm sorry I hope I haven't shocked you too much is this mine is it my

00:08:53.960 like degenerates who drink at 10 in the morning everything in their private life oh we have to

00:08:59.440 yeah we need it more virtue you know this video this is horrible libertarians are the best hope

00:09:05.680 for bringing liberals to a less radical more conservative political belief system well let's

00:09:12.340 answer this one I was trying to think of the other side of the argument but no it's just it's not

00:09:19.900 I was thinking of moving a ts just to embarrass you yeah yeah no there's absolutely no way we have 0.99

00:09:24.100 to be honest about what we believe I don't like this idea that there's a more pragmatic approach

00:09:27.460 and you want to bring people to something close to the truth or closer to the truth but not quite

00:09:31.700 there just have them stay because that's the best they can handle again I believe leftism is

00:09:36.220 fundamentally just social decay embodied but we have to have respect for individual human beings and

00:09:43.080 say if I'm gonna engage with you in dialogue to try to persuade you of something clearly I have

00:09:47.780 faith in the idea that you can recognize the truth yeah so why would I only try to bring you

00:09:52.200 halfway that's stupid and not just halfway also halfway is the wrong way of looking like it's 0.77

00:09:56.820 either true or it's not true yeah so why would I try to lead you to untruth to make you a little

00:10:01.080 bit less terrible than you are right now and in some ways by the way the left has I'm not saying

00:10:06.420 they're more correct they have better intuitions than some of the the lullbertarian types you know I

00:10:11.940 hesitate even to call them libertarian you know that this idea of just do whatever you want

00:10:16.820 sexually and bomb the Middle East I mean I think that is kind of what it comes down to you know 0.99

00:10:21.520 abortion or birth control or whatever the fact is the left I think understands something like

00:10:27.560 free speech better than the libertarians do I think that can be the case part of my thing with

00:10:33.300 libertarianism here is that I think it would be as obviously significant improvement from my

00:10:37.860 perspective if a lot of these left-wing people became libertarians they wouldn't be as a power

00:10:41.580 obsessed they wouldn't be trying to silence us quite as often and I know some libertarians who

00:10:45.400 really are crazy consistent and even though I don't agree with them anymore I admire their

00:10:50.720 consistency and I think they have a good take on things every now and again just like the madman

00:10:55.600 in the asylum who says he's Henry VIII you say I admire his consistency yeah well no but there are

00:10:59.920 also some libertarians who I think do a fantastic job speaking about the disaster that the United

00:11:03.600 States foreign policy has been over the past several decades like they're fantastic on that

00:11:07.200 and over the past several years the Republican Party has adopted the worst parts of libertarianism

00:11:13.020 and basically none of the good stuff so that they've adopted all of the social libertarianism

00:11:17.680 but they don't critique American foreign policy the way they should they don't really care that much

00:11:22.360 about the Federal Reserve as a banking system or the fact that we're essentially a command economy

00:11:26.160 and everything's been centralized it's just I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal which is

00:11:31.400 this really melt-toast not even quite libertarian position yeah right no that's it's actually why I mean I

00:11:36.980 knock the libertarians a lot but I'm I'm not really knocking Ron Paul yes exactly I will also

00:11:43.020 criticize Ron Paul for specific reasons but that's that's actually not the phenomenon that we're really

00:11:47.320 talking about here yeah and it just doesn't it doesn't work I think that the left recognizes

00:11:53.680 the radical left even recognizes that there is such a thing as like an aim of society they recognize that

00:12:01.860 individuals have something to do with one another when we are living in society they recognize that

00:12:07.640 not only is it legitimate to legislate morality but you of course necessarily legislate morality

00:12:13.640 all laws do that and and they they recognize that all speech regimes have limits and standards and

00:12:19.540 taboos and they're basically trying to pervert it to their own ends I can talk to that guy it's it's

00:12:24.520 kind of like the the ardent atheist right I can kind of talk to the ardent atheist because he's

00:12:31.060 thinking about religion yes instead of the milquetoast guy who's just like yeah whatever yeah or the

00:12:36.040 person who was raised religious you know I went to 12 years of Catholic school yeah talking about

00:12:39.520 I'm basically I yeah I can I'm the pope now because I I went to 12 years of Catholic yeah so there are a

00:12:44.420 lot of people who have stepped out of their faith or don't take it very seriously but don't really

00:12:48.280 identify as atheistic or non-religious and it's more difficult to have a conversation with them

00:12:52.060 because they haven't staked out a position so I agree with you on that all right in a world where

00:12:57.520 I am single this is about you this is about you so you're interpreting it to yourself okay I'm

00:13:03.560 answering for you answering for me yeah that's what's happening here it's like yeah what's the

00:13:06.920 name of the guy on first base is what okay yes yeah who who that's what I'm asking yeah yeah who's

00:13:11.780 on first uh-huh yes let's put these back to the middle I think you need a drink I need a drink

00:13:15.660 I need a drink to understand this question I'm very confused so okay I'm gonna make this I'm gonna

00:13:20.620 make this statement and you're gonna answer the way that you think that I would answer that

00:13:26.000 statement for me yeah and I will answer the way that I think you would answer that statement for

00:13:29.440 you in a world where I am single if a female fan asked me out through a super chat or a mailbag

00:13:36.140 question I would consider the invitation would Knowles consider the invitation let me think about

00:13:42.760 this of course yeah of course and I'm not saying I'm not saying it's a prudent thing yeah I'm not

00:13:54.680 saying we would end up together together I'm just saying you're a guy you're single I am you've got

00:14:03.460 ladies if you're watching you actually are single chat in you're there it's just a descriptive 1.00

00:14:09.140 statement you would have to consider yeah of course of course yeah uh I guess when I was

00:14:13.840 struggling to answer the question I was more thinking is Knowles a long distance guy but then

00:14:17.420 again maybe the woman is in his town yeah I know I I have been I've I've I've done long distance I've

00:14:23.440 I've done close distance now my wife and I are we're even considering moving into the same house

00:14:28.680 that's fantastic good for you that would be a really big you should probably talk about that with

00:14:31.900 the spiritual director first big step it was like a huge step all right here we go Kamala Harris is

00:14:39.120 worse than Joe Biden okay Kamala Harris is worse than Joe Biden I'm actually going to need to think

00:14:45.900 for a second about my own answer why not first of all did I get it right yeah I think so it's

00:14:59.800 complicated but yes um I the reason I answered is the reason I would assume you would answer no to

00:15:05.780 the question which is basically that we have seen Joe Biden acting politically with a high degree of

00:15:11.800 executive power he was the vice president for years and so we know what the values of the Obama

00:15:16.720 administration were we also know that Kamala Harris is a slimy character and has done some really awful 1.00

00:15:20.780 things but for every horrible thing she's done Joe Biden has also done many horrible things plus he

00:15:24.960 pretty much came close to destroying America under the Obama administration so he's worse and he's

00:15:30.820 more effective he's a more you know Kamala would you say so yeah because she's very unlikable 1.00

00:15:37.040 she was you don't like her her laugh she doesn't you don't hear that if she wants to win in her 1.00

00:15:44.960 own right she needs to ditch the cauldron and the broomstick I think I mean it's really not attractive 1.00

00:15:48.940 she was one of if not the first person out in the 2016 Democrat primaries that's fair they don't

00:15:55.180 like her good point but old uncle Joe who wakes up in the morning licks his finger puts it in the wind

00:16:00.380 and says which way is politics blowing today okay I'll agree with that he is a snake that guy yeah I

00:16:05.940 mean he and and it's even particularly insidious for a couple mackerel snapping papists such as yeah 0.94

00:16:11.060 exactly for you and he because he he's really so scandalous in the way that he's uh transforming

00:16:17.640 people's understanding of Catholicism well I've heard he's devout though he's devout yeah I've

00:16:21.520 heard him described maybe not practicing but devout well it's funny because we were touching on this

00:16:25.620 earlier in order to be a practicing Catholic there are a certain set of standards you actually have

00:16:30.840 to meet so you have to fulfill the six precepts of the church you have to get full assent to Catholic 0.71

00:16:35.000 teaching you have to abide by the Ten Commandments and attempt attempt to repair your life when you

00:16:39.020 violate one of them Joe Biden very explicitly does not give full assent to Catholic teaching and yet

00:16:45.840 he's described as a practicing Catholic and he's referred to as one by left-wing media as if

00:16:52.780 they're not contradicting the facts because they actually think it's just a subjective label label

00:16:57.140 of identification no but Seamus they went to 12 years of Catholic school they went to Catholic school

00:17:00.960 exactly they know they're basically the prefect for the congregation exactly what am I thinking due to

00:17:05.780 the current state of policing in America abolishing the police is a discussion that should be had I'm

00:17:11.440 trying to think if there's like a trick to this question yeah like oh I know that you like yeah I

00:17:17.280 do yeah I yes I guess it's a yes I'm do you know do you know why this is a confusing question I know

00:17:22.900 exactly why it's a confusing question for me as well um part of the reason is because the police are

00:17:28.000 sort of equally enforcing the law but then as it happens conservatives are selectively prosecuted

00:17:34.540 after the police arrest them so they're not really helping the people who have been standing up for

00:17:39.060 them they're the they're the police are because of bad DAs many of whom were installed by radical

00:17:44.600 leftists I know you're not allowed to call out people like George Soros who it's a hate I don't

00:17:48.840 know that name it's easy I've never heard that name where who talking about uh they are in many ways

00:17:54.700 the enforcement wing of the liberal establishment yeah yeah and so so did we get it right I mean like I

00:18:00.360 would still I still come down on the side of you the left is using abolish the police like I think 0.77

00:18:07.040 I would still say no in the sense that the left is is infiltrating the police just like they're

00:18:12.260 infiltrating the yes intelligence community and the and the military yes with all these woke 0.98

00:18:16.440 commercials exactly we want to hollow it out from within so we take over all the institutions

00:18:20.020 would you did I get it right or no and I'm not actually sure that they want to hollow out the

00:18:24.060 police force I just think they want to use the police force for their own goals because all they

00:18:27.240 care about is power they don't have actual principles so when you look at how militarized the

00:18:30.180 police have come over the past several decades and the fact that the department of education and

00:18:33.700 department of fish and wildlife have swat teams yeah I think like I don't think that anyone on the

00:18:38.100 left would really in the long run walk any of those back if they could use it to advance their own

00:18:43.120 agenda yeah that's right so I'm not I'm not even entirely convinced that they wanted to fund the

00:18:47.560 police no no they they want a robust police force made up of people who agree with them or who are

00:18:54.680 cowered into into going along with their agenda absolutely and are capable of doing social work

00:19:00.380 ideally yeah yeah right and social workers yeah exactly social workers okay I think we're both

00:19:04.880 gonna have to drink on that I think we are I don't even know who was right and wrong but we

00:19:09.340 certainly have to drink we both have to drink it's I remember these rules I watched the episode with

00:19:14.460 Walsh this is what happened all right I think you're up doodling a three-dimensional cube is

00:19:23.240 more impressive than writing a blank book I'm answering for you and you're answering for me

00:19:31.040 doodling a three-dimensional cube is more impressive than writing a blank book you flatter yourself

00:19:38.540 no no you're actually correct I thank you yes thank you you're a man of discernment and of course

00:19:45.560 yeah exactly well and part of the reason I have sympathy for this when I'm making cartoons

00:19:49.580 it's much easier to animate something short but you don't get ideas for short cartoons quite as

00:19:55.600 often it's actually more difficult to write something really short so it stands to reason

00:19:59.040 that it's extremely difficult to write the shortest possible thing which is nothing no in all honesty

00:20:02.540 it's a really funny idea to write this book where you say reasons to vote for Democrats and

00:20:07.180 there's nothing in it I know so that's a funny idea that came to you and that's not as straightforward

00:20:13.720 or entertaining an idea is just drawing a cube so I actually think it requires more creative

00:20:18.100 intelligence thank you very much you're you're totally right on this yeah I mean we all know

00:20:22.620 brevity is the soul of wit yes but so then stop just stop talking but I want to explain you know I

00:20:28.960 mean look you're a you're a comedian right cartoonist and a comedy writer comedy writer so you know that

00:20:34.720 the funniest thing is to explain a joke yes it's hilarious there's nothing funny yeah exactly

00:20:39.400 it's like an improv I try to do it as often as I possibly can when you improvise you always want

00:20:42.320 to say no but no but no but and then explain why the thing the last guy said was funny yeah

00:20:48.260 it works really well now I am okay okay brother a Guinness to an Irishman is the I don't even want to 1.00

00:20:57.200 hear this this is this is a microaggression it's a macroaggression a Guinness to an Irishman is the

00:21:03.740 equivalent of a pumpkin spice latte to a white girl 0.80

00:21:06.600 without question yeah do you know what you know I think that's kind of a degrading way of putting

00:21:14.040 it do you know the only the only difference is a Guinness is less caloric yeah that's everyone

00:21:18.440 thinks a Guinness is a very caloric drink it's not it's it's got the same calories as like a bud

00:21:23.860 light no there there is a difference what's the difference I don't drink my pumpkin spice lattes

00:21:27.240 at 10 a.m. Michael all right very good point all right here we go the host of the Michael

00:21:37.720 Knowles show does a better impression of Dr. Fauci than Tim Poole I'm answering for you yeah I actually

00:21:44.220 I don't know that I've heard Tim's impression are you kidding me I did a cartoon where Tim

00:21:48.640 voices Fauci oh oh really had you see so here's the thing you said you haven't seen it so maybe

00:21:54.020 I'm going here but had yeah yeah I know absolutely be here yeah I'm sorry no offense to your Fauci

00:21:59.180 impression you think Tim does a better Fauci than me yeah he does he does the droplets Andrew the

00:22:04.280 droplets are going to get all over your grandmother when I do my Fauci my Dr. Fauci yes is a sort of he

00:22:12.280 goes up and down like this you sheep yes when I'm doing Dr. Fauci I'm actually doing an impression

00:22:19.860 of a Jewish woman that I know from Queens seriously I am and but it sounds to me there's a similar kind

00:22:28.100 of joke about it what does Tim get that I don't get oh man where do I begin yeah I know I mean this

00:22:36.680 we could be here for hours well when I was recording with him I'll be honest and part maybe it's

00:22:42.160 difficult for me to discern because I have never been in studio with you while you have recorded

00:22:46.340 Dr. Fauci for a cartoon about Dr. Fauci but Tim knocked out of the park man and we have behind

00:22:52.740 the scenes footage uploaded to my Patreon if people want to support it patreon.com slash freedom

00:22:57.000 tunes little plug but he crushed it and people listening had no idea it was Tim they're like oh

00:23:01.680 wow Tim did that Dr. Fauci he he crushed it he's actually really good all right acting I'm gonna I'm

00:23:07.000 sorry you know and I thought you knew that because I thought you watched my videos but

00:23:09.820 definitely not so I'm I am just invite me over for drinks at 10 in the morning and don't watch

00:23:14.500 my cartoons that's okay I'm I'm going to see Tim tonight and I I want to battle have a Fauci

00:23:20.360 off Fauci on his show yeah that'll be it's everyone loses in that game I think okay I'm up

00:23:25.960 I've seen Tim Poole without a beanie so we're answering for the other person has Noel seen Tim

00:23:33.820 people without a beanie I'm actually gonna say I mean you're you know you're tighter with the

00:23:38.620 guy than I am but I still he's pretty protective with the beanie thing he wears that beanie all

00:23:44.580 the time yeah what was I right or was I pretty good friends oh wow oh my gosh I've seen him

00:23:50.920 without the beanie does he have is there like a second head under there what I am I cannot confirm

00:23:55.540 or deny that there is a second head under Tim Poole's hat well maybe I'll try later on tonight

00:24:01.700 I'll try it's just it's a gigantic exposed brain yeah it's just like that cartoon it's just exactly

00:24:06.720 okay I'll take a drink because I got it wrong sip yeah once the left's boogeyman of white 0.99

00:24:13.360 supremacy exhausts itself the church will become the left's primary focus of blame and animosity

00:24:17.240 I mean it already is yeah exactly that's well that's why I answered no because it already is

00:24:22.880 oh okay that's fair okay that's fair enough yeah it always I mean the the church by which by which I

00:24:28.220 mean the catholic church of course is always the object of the left's always utmost animosity always

00:24:34.360 I mean this is I talk about this quite a lot when people try to say that catholics can support

00:24:39.400 leftism or agree with it or that they're somehow fellow travelers on issues of helping the poor

00:24:43.120 the left came to exist during the french revolution this is where we get the term and

00:24:46.920 their entire purpose was to counter the catholic church and its interests was to was to chop off 0.95

00:24:51.160 the heads of priests and it's not it's not as if they started being nice to catholics in the 20th

00:24:56.100 century I mean leftism has always been aggressively anti-logos it's also worth pointing out because they

00:25:02.380 hate god because they yeah right they hate god and and and they hate those of us made in the image of

00:25:07.400 god namely people yes exactly they're entirely misanthropic yes but we have to remember you

00:25:14.660 think of pope leo the 13th when we hear the catholic church is actually very pro-socialism no

00:25:20.000 leo leo the 13th he said socialists are a pest a plague a wicked confederacy that seeks to steal

00:25:26.640 the very gospel itself you heard the same thing from blessed pious the ninth saint pious the 10th

00:25:31.400 pious the 11th pious the 12th even john the 20th saint john the 23rd yes who was actually sort of a

00:25:37.080 liberal pope he was a church liberal for sure he was a church liberal he said no catholic could

00:25:41.640 subscribe even to a moderate form of socialism yes and this is this is something i was talking about

00:25:47.620 i did matt frad's show yesterday and we got a super chat would you rather live in an economically

00:25:51.600 left-wing society but with cultural conservatism where people are virtuous or a liberal open economy

00:25:58.720 where people are completely degenerate and my answer was i just have to reject the framing

00:26:04.180 obviously i'd rather live in a virtuous society but the headship of the father in the household

00:26:08.660 is almost entirely contingent upon property rights it just doesn't happen in your society the father

00:26:12.520 has to provide for the family he has to be free to do so yeah right he isn't if the government is

00:26:16.680 providing for the family for him it undermines the entire structure so you cannot have a socially

00:26:19.840 conservative and that is most embodied when you have a complete command economy where workers own the

00:26:25.760 means of production then dad has no property to provide with the family for it's up to somebody

00:26:29.400 else's whim some bureaucrat thousands of miles away is making the decisions for the family rather

00:26:33.400 than the father yeah how to allocate resources uh but even though we know that as catholics we cannot 0.91

00:26:40.140 embrace a full-on total uh seizure of the means of production because it's beneath the dignity of man

00:26:45.320 to not own property it's not as if once you're not at that position things are great for families

00:26:50.520 it's just the closer you get to it the worse everything is yeah i'm so glad you're because

00:26:55.340 there are some people today i think who are reacting against this kind of insane very what

00:27:02.860 would you call it neoconservative libertarian or something idea that of the radical individual

00:27:09.280 autonomy that we're all free-floating atoms and they're reacting against that and they're saying

00:27:13.300 socialism sign me up that ain't it chief that ain't it either actually and it's for precisely the

00:27:19.240 reason you've described the relationship between these economic matters and our social cultural

00:27:25.540 matters of virtue you can't just separate them you can't just compartmentalize and they kind of all

00:27:30.900 speak to the same thing yeah no so what is the answer is the answer the d word distributism oh no i

00:27:40.440 see i i'm still a market guy yes it's still a market guy entirely i don't know i mean i'm open-minded

00:27:45.380 i'd like to learn more about distributivism a lot of people who i respect buy into it so i'm sure even

00:27:50.360 if i don't end up agreeing with it there's got to be some merit there something to take away but i am

00:27:54.220 a free market guy because i mean for those for those who are at the mackerel and yeah yeah those who are

00:27:58.820 not like the crazy sort of totally in the weeds catholics out there distributism is this economic 0.97

00:28:04.760 idea that was advanced really in the early 20th century advice it was thought to come from catholic

00:28:09.200 social teaching and it's it's a little hard to pin down exactly you know what it what it is but it would be a

00:28:14.480 sort of alternative to what we would call capitalism or to socialism but you're saying give me some

00:28:21.760 markets yeah so i believe in the market economy and i understand that there can be a time and place

00:28:25.660 for regulation so f.a hayek put the austrian school on the map and he believed in antitrust laws

00:28:29.840 i believe the austrian school of economics provides a beautiful descriptive model of how economies work

00:28:35.760 even though i don't even though i don't necessarily agree with all of the prescriptive claims

00:28:39.340 i'm not completely libertarian on economic issues of course sometimes there's a role for the

00:28:43.940 government to step in but i would say that if you look at an economy even if as a catholic you're

00:28:49.460 looking at the economy and saying x y and z about capitalism absolutely has to be regulated as a

00:28:53.860 matter of faith if you can pick out some specific non-negotiables from catholic teaching with respect

00:28:58.500 to what economic regulation should be it doesn't get you to this this hardline distributivist position

00:29:03.440 you can just have a sort of modified capitalism at worst if you do have to change the system all that

00:29:08.160 much plus we have pope saint john paul the great who says yes in chintesi musanus that free markets

00:29:14.000 are the most efficient way to allocate resources in an economy yeah yeah absolutely coming back from

00:29:20.340 rerum navarum yeah yes have we is the entire audience catholic by this point they better be if

00:29:26.300 they haven't converted now if they haven't converted seeing us drink at 10 in the morning i know we're

00:29:30.300 being good examples of virtue first of all please don't drink at 10 in the morning at home if you

00:29:35.120 don't have a reason to yeah and don't do it on five hours of sleep i'm on five hours of sleep

00:29:39.620 here oh you've got five hours are you bragging are you bragging by how much sleep is this is are we

00:29:44.000 doing the college thing where we brag about how much sleep we don't have to one up each other i got

00:29:47.380 three hours all right nulls oh okay this is actually an important important question in america

00:29:54.080 the italians have historically been more persecuted than the irish it's not even close it's not even

00:30:02.740 wow i agree that's that's that's big of you oh wait no no yeah oh yeah you believe the italians

00:30:12.160 were more persecuted there's no question largest mass lynching in american history was it of the

00:30:16.920 irish here's the thing though there there are a lot of parts of irish history that we don't discuss

00:30:22.120 because it's not considered politically correct because only certain groups are allowed to have

00:30:25.600 victim status so when you look at indentured service the fact that most indentured servants are irish

00:30:30.560 they were often treated worse than slaves because you had to buy a new slave if they died if an

00:30:34.540 indentured servant died you just didn't have to pay him good yep that's not that's a fair point i

00:30:39.280 actually i don't look at i have a quarter irish to me i don't i a little more the swarthy side the

00:30:44.380 italians because when they came glad there's something good in this cocktail in this human cocktail

00:30:49.820 when that works when the italians came here there was some question in parts of the country

00:30:55.420 are they white or are they black one simply doesn't you know same with the irish same with

00:31:01.140 not exactly white white or black but irish were the irish were not considered white yeah they were

00:31:05.160 yeah right i mean yeah i i remember once i was talking to my english grandfather and my irish

00:31:11.980 grandmother and they were my grandfather was very into ancestry and genealogy and he discovered

00:31:17.140 there are actually some irish in his line too thank goodness that's some note them some of the

00:31:21.300 knowles's went over to ireland and my grandmother said see i told you i knew there were some irish

00:31:26.020 there and my grandfather i believe the line was someone had to tame the savages oh my gosh okay english

00:31:33.880 well first of all he's absolutely wrong but now i understand where you get your brains

00:31:37.460 i believe you're up yes it's just good you have some irish dna in there something my life has

00:31:47.280 been shaped by the immense amount of catholic guilt i feel on a daily basis clearly

00:31:50.680 she'd be a much better person michael i'm just i'm worn down um the thing about shame

00:31:58.120 just a plug for shame at the moment because you know shame is very unpopular now you know you

00:32:04.420 get fat shame or slut shame or shame shame shame shame shame is shame shame is all the time

00:32:11.540 every day this rots constantly the thing about shame is it's usually right

00:32:18.060 usually it's it's kind of on to something you know it's called your moral conscience yep you

00:32:24.280 don't want to hate yourself you want to have an appropriate love of yourself and you know you

00:32:27.080 can't love your neighbor you're made in god's image and likeness there's something worthy of

00:32:29.800 love there so there's something worthy of love you ought to know like when you do something wrong

00:32:33.920 you should you'll know that and you should just uh instead of embracing it and being like really

00:32:38.440 happy about it and like dancing around for it you should maybe repent of that feel kind of bad

00:32:43.680 the what was the line it was from nieber who said that today religion is a god without wrath leading

00:32:50.240 a people without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a christ without a

00:32:54.980 cross oh man that is beautiful and it's true i'll say this i would define shame and guilt differently

00:33:01.840 though i agree with you that as a social mechanism shame is absolutely indispensable yeah so shame is when

00:33:07.360 your primary concern is what other people think of you so guilt is actually better yeah because guilt

00:33:11.840 is your own conscience bothering you you coming to terms with that and ideally rectifying your life

00:33:17.140 yeah shame's a little bit different but of course guilt has gotten this really bad rap there's this

00:33:22.560 idea of catholic guilt and how horrible is it first of all there are some things you should feel guilty

00:33:26.420 about would you rather have a person would you rather have to deal with a person who feels too guilty

00:33:29.740 or not guilty enough like that's an it's an easy question to answer you have to moderate too i'm not

00:33:34.840 saying the answer is to feel too guilty but what our culture considers too guilty is is unbelievable

00:33:41.500 it's like you're feeling bad about anything you do ever no matter how horrible it was it's like you're

00:33:46.320 being too hard on you come on you deserve it yeah yes whatever hey it's like i deserve to burn in hell 0.93

00:33:51.620 forever and i accept jesus christ so that won't happen seriously yes like we've all sinned we've all

00:33:56.800 sinned and we deserve to go to hell and like here god has given me an incredible life so the answer 0.84

00:34:01.540 isn't necessarily shame it's it's gratitude yeah but and we should feel guilt when we've done wrong

00:34:06.420 i'm glad you're making this sort of public distinction here with shame versus guilt because

00:34:11.040 the the thing about shame is all cultures shame it's like just how all cultures have standards

00:34:18.000 all cultures will shame the question is what are you being shamed for bingo like we we should be

00:34:23.280 shamed for drinking for drinking at 10 in the morning but what we would be we would be celebrated for

00:34:28.120 that we would be shamed for i don't know like diligently doing our work if we were to ever

00:34:34.580 like pray if either of us ever could do that i mean like but no it's doing something very solid

00:34:39.100 and worthwhile praying outside of an abortion clinic trying to convince you to choose life you would be

00:34:43.560 shamed for that absolutely yeah of course yeah and then so they understand it's a social mechanism

00:34:47.180 they just don't want it directed towards behaviors that they consider to be positive or more cynically

00:34:52.760 behaviors which they know are going to destroy society so they can reconstruct something new 0.55

00:34:56.240 yeah all right all right enough shame enough shame okay so this listen to the entire prompt

00:35:05.620 before you react in any way excuse me am i accused of being emotional this is very

00:35:10.640 this is important we could this could end the whole thing okay all right

00:35:14.660 some people with information that could lead to the rest the arrest of hillary clinton

00:35:22.160 were most likely indirectly or directly killed by hillary clinton due to youtube rules you have

00:35:31.540 to make your guess but do not verbally confirm if the other person guessed correctly give only an

00:35:38.300 ambiguous non-verbal confirmation so i'll read that prompt again some people with information

00:35:46.020 that could lead to the arrest of hillary clinton were most likely indirectly or directly

00:35:51.560 killed by hillary clinton wearing a mustache at the manhattan correctional facility

00:35:59.240 now i would never say anything that could get anyone demonetized

00:36:03.320 yeah um how do we say this without saying it i'm not going to say anything i'm not going to say

00:36:11.360 anything i just i just and then i'm the guard i'm the cell guard

00:36:18.700 i think we answered the question yeah i think i think we deserve a drink for that one i think

00:36:26.660 pour one out man pour one out for that guy oh no i i think i'll just drink that i think i'll think

00:36:34.080 i'll say it for myself before waste it on him yeah ben shapiro is the only host at the daily wire

00:36:40.940 who deserves to have a freedom to sketch well i mean the answer for you is uh apparently just

00:36:50.060 descriptive oh okay i just i'm saying no i don't know a little bit salty and those you voiced

00:36:57.160 characters i've put you in cartoons i literally put you in a cartoon reference about the question

00:37:02.400 we just answered you were in a cartoon about the gentleman who we were just discussing you're right

00:37:08.380 oh that global sex trafficker who committed suicide before he could tell us which of the most

00:37:12.440 powerful humans on the planet were pedophiles if you ask me the whole thing is pretty suspicious

00:37:16.700 if you're some kind of crazy conspiracy theorist that is but i guess i guess it wasn't about you

00:37:23.320 oh i'm sorry michael yeah it was really what was spending hours of my time animating your face

00:37:29.020 not enough for you did it have to be all about you knolls unbelievable take a drink i'll take a

00:37:34.920 drink you're being shamed i should i should be shamed yeah this is the last one is this the last 0.62

00:37:40.200 question this is my question okay well no no it's not this is the second last one oh beautiful

00:37:44.780 okay well i actually i guess i have the answer for you on this drawing cartoons is a great way to

00:37:53.240 meet single catholic women i'm gonna have to i i thought you were smarter than that knolls i thought 0.93

00:38:00.960 you're you're still single i am yeah i am right i guess you got me there yeah exactly exactly look

00:38:07.900 knolls all right right now currently i am single that is correct incidentally i am single i'm making

00:38:13.480 cartoons on the internet you know it's it's a great way for catholic girls to know who you are

00:38:17.320 and you know what who does look at it who does every girl want to date an animator man it's a

00:38:22.860 whole thing ask any girl who's your dream guy walt disney no i know you ask 10 out of 10 times

00:38:27.180 even when girls are in you know they're in elementary school and they're saying you know

00:38:30.280 you're what do you want to be with who do you want to be with i want to be with bro an animator

00:38:34.340 i can't tell you how jealous the football stars they always worry yeah when you were just giving

00:38:38.480 them swirlies you're like yeah take that chad doesn't even want to do a motion tween bro yeah

00:38:43.760 yeah well let's you know another great way to meet single catholic women show up on the michael 0.97

00:38:47.980 mall show oh yeah ladies you're gonna make me blush knolls you're making me blush right now 1.00

00:38:54.860 because you're irish you've got that exactly it's true i'm gonna be insulted 0.62

00:38:59.720 reasons to vote for democrats a comprehensive guide is more informative than speechless controlling

00:39:06.820 words and controlling minds i'm answering for you i suppose so um

00:39:12.500 i'm gonna say no to it may be more profound it may be pithier may contain more wisdom of course

00:39:29.580 but there's just more stuff in the other book yeah exactly there's literally just more information

00:39:35.280 i i've said it once and i've said it again i don't i don't think you have to to read the book

00:39:40.080 but no one would appreciate it if you bought it yes that's the main thing i really don't i said

00:39:43.800 as long as you buy it i said this to a friend of mine a friend of mine had bought multiple copies

00:39:48.740 actually for your relatives and things and said but you know i just haven't had time to read it

00:39:53.220 what you're like in fact you don't have to have to read every copy you don't even have to read one

00:39:59.840 of the copies just it just gave me the money done the thing you know what i really it's not even the

00:40:05.060 money because i you know the way yeah i'm sure the way no the way the way the money has nothing to do

00:40:09.380 with it the way publishing works you get an advance and then the publishers always just like make up a

00:40:14.000 bunch of accounting and then you never get any money afterward but maybe you get like a little touch

00:40:18.800 a little taste you know but you know what i really want i actually seriously more than the money

00:40:22.820 i i want people to think you're cool when they read this book i want them to think i'm a cool guy

00:40:27.720 and i want the new york times editors oh i want them to sit down at their little meeting i don't know

00:40:33.740 what they what they usually meet for they talk about you know how trump is leading an insurrection

00:40:39.120 and they talk about this and i want them in the midst of this to say michael knowles's book

00:40:44.180 about us libs has to be on the list that's what i want that's all i want it's pretty good out of

00:40:50.300 this and that's so he wants to make the new york times bestseller list has nothing to do with

00:40:58.440 wanting money no i never i just want to show everyone at home nothing to do no money he doesn't

00:41:02.140 like money no money is the root of all actually money is not the root of all evil love of money

00:41:06.960 love of money is the root of all evil we should not be attached to anything but our lord and savior

00:41:10.220 jesus christ and to that i will drink cheers

00:41:12.620 weren't we finishing i thought we were finishing i thought that was the thing we finished the game

00:41:23.540 all right well now i'm just embarrassed now i just look like a hoodlum absolute degenerate

00:41:30.800 it's 10 in the morning michael what are we doing

00:41:40.220 you

The Michael Knowles Show - July 24, 2021

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