Ep. 1828 - GROSS: The NFL And Harvard Hire Bad Bunny And LaWhore Vagistan

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Michael Knowles Show

Episode 1828 – GROSS: The NFL And Harvard Hire Bad Bunny And LaWhore Vagistan
Date: October 3, 2025
Host: Michael Knowles (The Daily Wire)

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Brief Overview

In this episode, Michael Knowles dissects recent events he sees as signaling the degradation of American culture and institutions: Bad Bunny’s selection as Super Bowl halftime performer, Harvard’s new drag professor (“LaWhore Vagistan”), and a series of left-leaning developments in culture and politics, including Netflix’s purportedly progressive agenda and policies espoused by political figures like Zoran Mamdani. Knowles aims to connect these stories to broader trends of woke ideologies dominating mainstream culture and institutions, and the implications for the “common culture” and political power in America.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Super Bowl Halftime: Bad Bunny’s Selection

• [02:40] Who is Bad Bunny?
  • Knowles expresses surprise at Bad Bunny being chosen for the Super Bowl, initially confusing him with “Bhad Bhabie.” He describes Bad Bunny as a “Puerto Rican crossdresser…but not trans” and “very anti-ICE, very anti-Trump.”
• [03:38] Why the NFL Chose Bad Bunny
  • “This is the last best shot to turn something of the common culture against Trump. 124 million people watched the Super Bowl last year…that’s a lot.”
  • Knowles argues that the Super Bowl is one of the last “common culture” institutions and liberals are using it for anti-Trump messaging.
  • He views the NFL as “super woke,” referencing Colin Kaepernick and the Black National Anthem as signs of this wokeness.
  • Ultimately, he says, the halftime pick is about “trying to ram it down their throats because they think people love the Super Bowl enough to watch it.”

2. Harvard Hires Drag Professor LaWhore Vagistan

• [06:45] Introduction to LaWhore Vagistan
  • Knowles, speaking from Harvard after a speech at the law school, notes the hiring of “a guy who dresses as a lady” as a professor, who will teach “Queer Ethnography” and “Rupolitics (Drag Race and Desire).”
• [07:06] Clip: LaWhore Vagistan on Drag and Colonialism
  • Vagistan discusses dismantling gender binaries solidified by colonialism and finding drag expressions everywhere (not just crossdressing).
    • “Dismantling colonial binaries can help us see drag in more places, give more people credit for their artistry.” – LaWhore Vagistan
• [08:18] Knowles’ Reaction
  • He critiques Harvard (and universities in general) for being consumed by “deconstructing binaries” and spouting “buzzy liberal words: colonialism, race, deconstruct binaries, sex, gender…”
  • "It's just the same as every other class in the sociology department, or increasingly in the history department, the American studies department. Deconstructing the binary…which is everything." – [08:18]
  • Applies the "paradox of tolerance," stating that tolerating aberrant ideas necessarily leads to intolerance of “normal” ideas, referencing gender bathroom policies.

3. Zoran Mamdani & “Violence as a Social Construct”

• [12:35] Clip: Zoran Mamdani on Crime
  • Mamdani claims “violence is an artificial construction” and criticizes DAs labeling crimes as violent.
    • “Violence is an artificial construction. We have to be very clear…what is happening here with these district attorneys, that is violence. That is violence of the highest degree.” – Zoran Mamdani [12:35]
• [13:03] Knowles’ Response
  • Mocks Mamdani’s rhetoric as postmodern and detached from reality—“Hey, man, what does it even mean?”
  • Argues that “violence is on the rise in certain places,” and that leftists are refusing to enforce basic law and order.
• [15:37] Zoran Mamdani on “Social Housing”
  • Mamdani describes plans to transition to “social housing,” moving beyond the market and buying up private housing for community ownership.
    • “We’re not going to decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do, and we have history to guide us.” – Zoran Mamdani [15:37]
• [16:12] Knowles’ Take
  • Lampoons Mamdani’s vision as a rebranded form of communism and references failed “projects” of the past.

4. Democrats’ Approach to Political Power

• [18:00] Dick Blumenthal’s Implicit Threat
  • Knowles highlights Sen. Blumenthal’s warnings about Republicans degrading democracy and promises that Democrats will use power aggressively when they return, interpreting it as a threat.
• [19:45] Jon Ossoff’s Admission
  • Ossoff admits Democrats downplayed Biden’s cognitive decline to avoid weakening him against Trump.
    • “It’s understandable that you’re not going to be inclined to do or say things that might weaken that presumptive nominee against Trump…” – Jon Ossoff

5. Netflix’s “Woke” Children’s Programming

• [24:30] Introduction to Netflix Clips
  • Knowles addresses why Elon Musk is calling on people to cancel Netflix for “sneaking weird LGBT stuff into its programming, even its kids programming.”
• [25:11] Clip: The Babysitter’s Club
  • A child corrects doctors for “misgendering” a character, asserting Bailey is not a boy.
    • “If you just showed me that without any context… I would have assumed that was an AI generated clip made by some right winger to make fun of the stuff the left creates.” – Michael Knowles [26:12]
• [27:38] Clip: Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast of Barry Bog
  • Features holiday self-expression and non-scary costumes, which Knowles interprets as subtle messaging on gender/identity.
• [28:50] Unknown Netflix Show
  • A trans character shares positive feelings about self-acceptance.
  • “There’s bad messaging here, which is you need to live your life without apology, which is like the worst advice ever…” – Michael Knowles [29:17]
• [29:44] Clip: Ada Twist, Scientist
  • A same-sex wedding on a children’s show.
    • “They had to include the kiss, too, because people naturally have a revulsion to fellas kissing…They have to get you over that hump because they’re trying to say that the revulsion is not natural. It’s socially conditioned.” – Michael Knowles [30:12]
• [32:07] Clip: Jurassic World (Bonus)
  • Depicts a lesbian romantic moment in a Jurassic Park cartoon.

6. Listener Mailbag Highlight

• [33:44] Concerned Parent on Preventing Radicalization
  • A listener asks what Catholic parents can do to prevent children from being radicalized towards violence.
    • Knowles emphasizes limiting smartphone/internet use as practical advice:
    • “This thing in your pocket that we have all day long, that’s a portal to hell. And in the hands of kids, you’re greatly increasing your risks that a kid is going to go south.” – [34:31]
• [35:43] Hypothetical on Supreme Court Assassination
  • Listener questions whether an assassinated justice should be replaced by someone ideologically similar.
    • Knowles replies: “It’s a nice thought…but it won’t happen…game theory and the prisoner’s dilemma,” and recalls threats against conservative justices.
• [37:48] Italian vs. “Eye-talian” Pronunciation
  • Knowles humorously discusses the Italian-American tendency to say “Eye-talian,” referencing American assimilation.

7. Advice and Rhetorical Techniques

• [39:13] Improving Public Speaking
  • Knowles recommends: “Speak a lot. Practice yourself in the mirror. Memorize poems…When you practice them, use exaggerated mouth movements…”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Super Bowl and Culture:
  “The Super Bowl might be the last common culture artifact… other than Trump.” – Michael Knowles [03:58]

• On Harvard & Academia:
  “It’s just the same as every other class in the sociology department… deconstructing the binary of drag, which is everything.” – Michael Knowles [08:18]

• On Leftist Rhetoric:
  “Violence, man, it’s like, what does it even mean? … But when you look out and you see everything is drag. And also everything is violence, man, which means nothing's violence, you know? You dig?” – Michael Knowles [13:03]

• On Netflix Children’s Programming:
  "This is the inevitable consequence of Obergefell, right? This is why it matters." – Michael Knowles [30:12]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:30–02:40: Introduction of episode themes—Bad Bunny, Harvard’s drag professor
• 03:38–07:06: Super Bowl/Bad Bunny as a cultural flashpoint
• 06:45–08:18: Harvard hires LaWhore Vagistan; commentary on academia and drag
• 12:35–13:03: Zoran Mamdani on violence as a social construct; Knowles' critique
• 15:37–16:12: Mamdani’s “social housing” proposal; Knowles' rebuttal
• 18:00–19:45: Blumenthal and Ossoff on wielding political power, admissions of lying about Biden
• 24:30–32:07: Compilation of Netflix children’s programming with progressive/LGBT messages; Knowles reacts
• 33:44–35:43: Mailbag—preventing child radicalization
• 37:48–39:52: Listener questions on language and public speaking

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Overall Tone & Language

Knowles adopts a sarcastic, incredulous tone throughout, especially when discussing progressive or left-wing developments in culture and politics. He frequently punctuates his commentary with exasperation, humor, and mockery—directed both at public figures and at institutions he believes have lost their way.

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Conclusion

This episode is a sweeping critique of contemporary American culture and politics from a socially conservative perspective. Knowles connects disparate examples—Super Bowl performers, university professors, city legislators, children’s programming—as evidence of an ideological shift away from traditional norms, with cultural elites enforcing conformity to progressive values, often at the expense of what was once viewed as common culture. The episode is a clear articulation of the conservative “counter-narrative” regarding modern institutions and media, laced with cultural references, irreverent humor, and recurring calls for cultural and political vigilance.

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Transcript

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But.

But that's not the only reason that they picked Mr. Bunny to play the Super Bowl. The reason is this is the last best shot to turn something of the common culture against Trump. 124 million people watched the super bowl last year. That's a lot of people. Well, we say, you know, the ratings for the Oscars are down and the ratings for network TV are down. The ratings for this, all the ratings are down. Except. Except for the Super Bowl. 124 million people is still really, really impressive. And so the libs who still run the media, they need to turn some part of the common culture against Trump. I think for the younger people in the audience, the real takeaway here is this is what TV just used to be. This is what all TV used to be. This is what the movies used to be. There used to be a common culture. Everyone used to watch the same shows. Everyone used to go see the same movies. That started to fragment in the 2000s, 2000 teens. Then you get independent media, podcast culture, social media, all this stuff. And all of a sudden people aren't watching this stuff. And I don't even know who Bad Bunny is, but I know what the super bowl is. So back in those days when we could just trust the man on the news, everything was super led. And so if you could control like five people. You could control the political narrative in the country. That doesn't work anymore. With this one exception, the common culture. The super bowl might be the last common culture artifact other than Trump, though. Trump is still polarizing. He won the popular vote, but he's still polarizing. So that's really what this is about. They have to do this. And it doesn't matter if the people watching at home want to see a cross dressing Puerto Rican who hates immigration and immigration raids and ICE and deportations, it doesn't matter. They're going to try to ram it down their throats because they think people love the super bowl enough to watch it. And maybe that's true. I don't love the super bowl enough. I don't care about professional football at all. So I probably won't watch it. But who knows? You know what? I probably will have to because it's part of the common culture. I'll have to talk about it on the show. So they get away with it. Now turning to cross dressers closer to home, I am at Harvard right now. I gave a speech at Harvard Law School last night for yaff. Weirdly, Harvard does not let you live stream. So speeches, it's like the only school that doesn't let you live stream. So it was great time last night. We got the video. Hopefully we can try to air that soon. But I'm still here, still here in Cambridge. And it was an amazing day to go to Harvard because hours earlier Harvard announced that it had hired a new professor. And the professor's name is Lahore Vajastan. It's a guy, he dresses up like a lady and his name is Lahore Vajastan. Harvard costs $90,000 a year to attend and that's one of the professors they can expect. Professor Vagistan was not at my speech last night at Harvard Law School. Professor Vagistan probably was preparing his two classes that he will be teaching. The first one is Queer Ethnography in the fall, and the other one is rupolitics. Rupolitics. Get it. Drag race, drag race. Get drag race and desire in the spring. Here is Professor Vajasthan describing his pedagogy.

[Lahore Vajastan]

Education that happens through drag. I was seeing these other places. So that's what I ended up writing about in the book. Even though I wasn't writing about drag. I'm finishing another book called Decolonize Drag that is thinking about how colonialism has solidified gender binaries in such a way that we only think of drag as one thing. We Think drag is CIS people of one of one gender dressing as the quote unquote, opposite gender. Right? And that formula, once we start breaking that apart, we start seeing drag everywhere and we start seeing that dragon drag is limited by class and race, or what we think as that excellent form of expensive drag is limited by class and race and caste and geography. Really, dismantling colonial binaries can help us see drag in more places, give more people credit for their artistry. The last thing I'll mention is that Lahore of Rajasthan sometimes shows up to teach my classes instead of me.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, so Harvard kids, you can expect Lahore to show up. You don't know when Lahore is going to show up, but he or she will be there. What's most depressing about this class is not even that he's a sex freak and he talks about being a sex freak. It's more all the other stuff he talks about. Because this is basically every Harvard class, this is basically every university class. Now you go in, you say, okay, this particular subject, this hyper specialized subject that I've devoted my life to because I can't be a generalist and I want to read a ton of books. So you can pick some really niche thing. This really specific thing is actually everything. That's the first part. So you say people think drag is when one sex dresses as the other, but actually it's everything. Okay, that's the first part. Then the second part is you just say a bunch of buzzy liberal words. Colonialism, race, deconstruct binaries, sex, gender. Colonialism. Did I say colonialism yet? Colonialism. You just say that for anything. It doesn't have to be drag. Deconstructing the colonial sexual binary of drag. Mathematics. They could teach that in the math department and it would be just like every other modern university class. That's what's most depressing to me about this. If it were actually about the aesthetics of drag shows or, I don't know, the history of drag shows, it might be. It's not worth teaching at Harvard, but it might be slightly interesting. But it's just the same as every other class in the sociology department, or increasingly in the history department, the American studies department. It's the deconstructing the binary of drag, which is everything. And it just reminds me of the paradox of tolerance. The paradox of tolerance, which I talk about in my speech whenever we put it up. The paradox of tolerance is that as a society comes to tolerate increasingly aberrant ideas and behaviors, it necessarily stops tolerating normal ideas and behaviors and vice versa. As a society is more tolerant of normal ideas and behaviors, it stops tolerating the aberrant ones. So a really relevant example of this is as the society tolerates men in the women's bathroom, it stops tolerating separate bathrooms for women, because you can't have both of those things simultaneously. And so this message is that Harvard is just gonna keep going in this direction, which means Trump is gonna keep pummeling them into the ground and making an example, because they're the first, first school in America. Okay, now, speaking of lunatics with funny names, Zoran Mamdani has a bunch of postmodern gobbledygook to say about deconstructing violence. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Armra. Go to armra.comknowles we are living in a world that our bodies were not built for. EMFs, artificial light, seed oils, microplastics, endocrine disruptors, chronic stress. These modern threats are disrupting our cellular signaling, damaging our gut health and accelerating aging from the inside out. But what if there were a way to revive your body's natural defenses? Armor Colostrum is nature's first whole food packed with over 400 bioactive nutrients that work at the cellular level to reactivate your body's innate capacity to regenerate and thrive. Unlike probiotics that only address one part of your gut wall, Amara Colostrum fortifies your entire gut wall system, Strengthens immune barriers throughout your mouth, sinuses, lungs, gut and reproductive tract, while optimizing your microbiome and combating bloating. Plus, it ignites your metabolism by guarding against toxins that drive inflammation and slow you down. Are you ready to reclaim your health? You know, Mr. Davies swears by this stuff. Are you ready to look like a gigachad like him? We've worked out a special offer for our audience. 30% off your first subscription order. You go to armward.com knowles or enter knowles K n w l e s to get 30% off at checkout. A r m r a.com knowles k-n o w l e s the future mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, a Muslim socialist in favor of queer liberation, now has come out on the trail to declare that violence is merely a social construct.

[Zoran Mamdani]

Oftentimes, we've even found as legislators when we go into these courts, the term violent crime is even used when people are stealing packages. Violent crime is even used when people are accused of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same Dwelling. So violence is an artificial construction. We have to be very clear, clear that what is happening here with these district attorneys, that is violence. That is violence of the highest degree.

[Michael Knowles]

Violence you see, is an artificial construction. It's amazing that he could declare this amid this spike in violence around the country, crime in cities, and then particularly left wing violence, left wing political violence that has become so pronounced that that even the Atlantic magazine, as liberal a magazine as ever there was, has to point to the left wing terrorism being on the rise. One of the kids at Harvard last night asked me what I would do to restore order. This has been a theme that we've been talking about in recent weeks. It was a theme of my speech. How do you restore order to your society as we seem to be fraying, coming apart at the seams? And the first thing you would do is you would arrest the criminals, you would enforce the criminal law. Because that's the basic function of government. It's why it's so preposterous when the Democrats come out and say they want to abolish the police or abolish prisons. That is the basic function of government is to be the authority that maintains the peace by punishing the bad guys to protect the good guys. That is what government does. If a government does not do that because it's incompetent or because it just doesn't want to, that government is simply not legitimate. And you need a legitimate government to step in. And Zoran here, he says, no, but violence, man, it's like, hey, Mr. Davis, can you pass that bong for just one violence, man? It's like, what does it even mean? You know, it's like, what is drag? You know, it's like when we think drag is just one sex dressing up like the other, you get locked in a colonial binary, man. But when you look out and you see everything is drag. And also everything is violence, man, which means nothing's violence, you know? You dig? You dig, Slim? No, I don't know. I think most people realize there is such a thing as violence. And it's on the rise in certain places. And it's made our cities unlivable. And it got pretty bad in New York there for a while. And we want a mayor who can stop it. I think maybe not. Maybe I'm wrong because I think he's going to be mayor. What else is he going to do besides ignore violent crime? So run. Mamdani wants to buy up housing and make New York City communist. I don't know how else to say it.

[Zoran Mamdani]

Go further toward the Vienna model. We'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership. We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale. And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, high quality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone. We won't decommodify housing overnight, but we know what we have to do. And we have history to guide us.

[Michael Knowles]

We have the science of history marching on to guide us. Yes, that's right. We will liquidate the kulaks. Yes, we're going to have to liquidate them. And we're going to have a cultural revolution that brings us into a new era of social housing. What is social housing? Can you tell me what social housing is? How is social housing different from any other kind of housing? Isn't housing a social thing in itself? It's the smallest society. It's the family. Be curious to hear Zoran Mamdani's thoughts on the family. It houses the smallest social unit, and then it exists within a broader society. So what is the difference between housing and social housing? Social housing is socialist at least, or it just seems kind of communist. Yes, we need to go beyond the market. We need to go beyond the market. Yes. And we're going to buy up all the houses and we're going to pack all the people into the project. He even calls it a project. Crazy that people can vote for this guy. You know what New York needs more of? Projects. Yeah. Oh, just beautiful projects. Yes, that's right. I'm driving through the South Bronx. I just love looking at all those beautiful projects. And it's going to be a new era of social housing. And the new era is going to be called the 1970s. That's what it's going to be. Okay, all right. So he is what he is. You got to give him credit for being honest. He is super radical. He is a commie, and New York might vote for him. Okay, all right. I can't stop him. I'm not a New Yorker anymore. I'm not a New York citizen. New York resident. Okay, now turning to slightly more normal Democrats. Slightly more normal, equally threatening Dick Blumenthal, senator from Connecticut, just goes on MSNBC to complain about the Republicans wielding political power in ways they don't like and to make a threat. The old saying, what comes around goes around, you know, today it's a Republican president, but degrading the democracy and ruining, literally perverting the great ethos and tradition of the Department of Justice, where I was in awe when I walked through those halls as a federal prosecutor. I think it's time for Republican colleagues to say, enough is enough, and we are going to push them and do it hard. Okay, so do you hear the implicit threat here? He speaks like a normal, boring politician, but he's all upset that the DOJ indicted James Comey. He says, you know, these Republicans, they better think long and hard. They better think long and hard about what they're doing right now, because just wait until we're back in power. Oh, we're gonna indict all of them. And this is the fear that's raised by the libertarians and some of the more squishy Republicans. They say, well, Trump really had better not wield political power in a just way, because in the future, if Democrats come back to office, they're gonna do that against us. I just think, not only does that argument fail, because the Democrats have been doing that against us for a long time, and they tried to prosecute Trump four times and throw him off the ballot and justify his assassination. They not only have they already been doing that, but they're promising to do it again in the future. So the squish response to that is, well, see, they're serious. They're super serious. They're gonna do it again in the future if we don't surrender right now. So we should surrender. Right? And then they'll be nice to us. And to me, I would draw the opposite conclusion. I would say, hold on. They're already promising to wield political power in likely an unjust way in the future. So that's all the more reason for us to exercise just political power. Now. They're telegraphing to you what they're going to do. They're going to come out and they're going to beat you up, and they're going to. So don't let them do it. You got to try to weaken them now so that they don't do it in the future. I'm not saying to do that in an extralegal or unjust way. I'm just saying just enforce the law. Prosecute the people who should be prosecuted. They're promising you that they're gonna hurt you the second they're able to get back up. Don't let them get back up. This is like Schoolyard 101, isn't it? Now, speaking of Democrat senators. Jon Ossoff. Remember Jon Ossoff? He's that senator from Georgia. Jon Ossoff just went on some podcast and he actually admitted the Democrat perfidy. Democrats are saying all the quiet parts out loud now. Yeah, we are gonna wield the law against you. Yeah, we are gonna prosecute our enemies. And, yeah, we are going to do this. Well, Ossoff is admitting now that he lied about Joe Biden's dementia to stop Trump. We just didn't listen to the mounds and mounds of data that was out there. I think that, like, the most brutally honest answer to that question is, you know, when you're facing the specter of Donald Trump potentially being reelected to the presidency and you have in the sitting president the presumptive nominee, it's understandable that you're not gonna be inclined to do or say things that might weaken that presumptive nominee against Trump, given the threat that he posed and poses. But. So I totally lied to you. Yeah, we all did, actually. We all. And let me explain to you why. Because the reality of our situation was very bad. But we wanted to trick you into voting for us, so we lied to you. And that's understandable, isn't it? That's all he's saying. That's all he's saying. Yeah. But I'm gonna say it in like, that kind of millennial, a Democrat way, you know, like where we're all just trying to be Barack Obama. Yeah. It's understandable that we would lie to the voters to trick them because of how bad we were. So we wanted to trick them into electing us and making them think we were good and competent and alive. So you understand that, right? That's why you should trust me now, because I'm admitting that I lied to you. Very important story. Netflix is being canceled and my producers are going to tell me why. First, though, I have to tell you about Stop box. Go to stopboxusa.com and use code Michael Knowles. All one word at checkout. You know the dilemma every responsible gun owner faces. Your handgun is either locked away, safe, but completely useless in an emergency, or it is rather accessible, but unsecured and vulnerable. It is super frustrating and it's a choice no one should have to make. That is why Stopbox USA created their game changing Stopbox Pro. This ingenious system gives you lightning fast access through a simple push button mechanism. No keys to fumble around with in the dark. 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And we will together bring to bear our powers of cultural analysis to see if this merits canceling Netflix. What is the first one? Do we have Michaela May or someone in the control room to tell me what these are? Oh, no. Okay. They gave it to. They gave me a whole sheet. Okay, so the first one is from some show called the Babysitters Club. Never heard of it. Never seen it. Take it away.

Took a while, but we finally found a file for a Bailey Del Vecchio. Is 32 Burnhill Road still the current address? Yeah. Have you been giving him fluids? If he's dehydrated, we'll need to place an iv. Have him change into this.

I hear someone's not Feeling well? Let's take a look at the little man.

Can I please talk to you two outside?

I actually think I have seen this.

You guys are busy. But as. As you would see if you looked at her and not her chart. Bailey is not a boy. And by treating her like one, you are completely ignoring who she is. You're making her feel insignificant and humiliated. And that's not going to help her feel good or safe or calm. So from here on out, please recognize her for who she is. And if at all possible, could you find me a non blue hospital gown?

My bonus. Marianne.

Dad.

Marianne. My favorite response is the doctors. Yes, of course, you crazy little brat. Of course I'll go listen to what you said. Why did I even go to medical school? I could have just listened to a delusional child and then I would have. I would have been able to behave in such a more appropriate manner. Okay, I think I have seen that clip before, but it's a reminder. I mean, it gets to what we were talking about at the top of the show, that there's no common culture anymore. If you just showed me that without any context, without knowing it's on Netflix, I would have assumed that was an AI generated clip made by some right winger to make fun of the stuff the left creates. I didn't know they actually do that. Certainly that merits canceling Netflix, but it also. It merits some introspection because I. This is my job. My job is to, like, watch this stuff. My job is to follow the culture and it's hard for me to believe that exists. Oh, man, that's so funny. It's like, funny and dark. All right, the next one is. This is a scene from a movie on Netflix called Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast of Barry Bog. Sounds wholesome. How are they gonna put weird gay stuff in that? Take it away.

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Movie Breakfast at Mulberry's.

It's perfect.

It's flawless.

It's me.

That'S really, really insidious. Because at least with the babysitter's club, you can say, maybe this is a show for adults. I don't think it's for adults, but okay, it's live action. This is just a cartoon. This is a cartoon for kids that could not be More on the nose if it involved a bullhorn screaming at 5 year olds. Hey, do weird sex stuff. Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast from Berry Bog. Very, very beastly. Okay, the next one. I don't think we have the name of this show. They're telling me this is just another new Netflix show. Take it away.

It's not the park. It's. It's me. I'm Trans Norma. And everyone at school knows and everyone at home knows. And being here, it's like a whole new place. I can just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell.

[Zoran Mamdani]

People I've never been happier.

[Michael Knowles]

You don't need my permission. I just wouldn't want Courtney as a roommate. We'll be the best of friends.

There's bad messaging here, which is you need to live your life without apology, which is like the worst advice ever. You should ask forgiveness all the time. You try to live your life without apology. That one, though the messaging is more subtle there, which maybe makes it worse. I certainly wouldn't let my kid watch it. Okay, final one. This is from Ada Twist scientist on Netflix. Take it away.

Okay, I've got eyes on the cake. Flowers are inbound. People, where's my glitter? This is Cherry Chip. Reporting from the wedding of the year, everyone's favorite karate instructor, Sensei Dave, will be marrying mixed martial arts champion Jiu Jitsu Joe.

I do.

I definitely do. I now pronounce you husband and husband. You may kiss me, the groom.

Oh, man, that's just so intentional. And they. They had to include the kiss, too, because people naturally have a revulsion to. To fellas kissing. No, no. Knock on guys who are a little light in the loafers out there. But, you know, it's just people have a natural revulsion to that. And so I think the argument here is they have to show it because they want to lessen that stigma. They have to get you over that hump because they're trying to say that the revulsion is not natural. It's socially conditioned. And so they have to get you at a very young age to think that there's such a thing as same sex marriage and not to think twice if two fellas are kissing or whatever. And I kind of get it. I get their argument. This is the inevitable consequence of Obergefell, right? This is why it matters. They say, why does it matter? Why does it matter if two people want to get married? Or how does it affect you? It's like, because of this. Because this show put on the biggest platform for kids is the Inevitable consequence of that. If we say from the highest court in the land that marriage really can be a union of two men, then, yeah, we need that throughout our popular culture. And if we say that that's true then and good, then we have to put that not just in adult programming, but also in children's programming. This is true and good. There's nothing obscene about it. There's nothing scandalous about it. It's just true and good. Yeah, we should be playing clips from this in the womb right now. We all know that isn't true. But if you conclude that that isn't true, then you also have to conclude that there's something wrong with Obergefell. You have to conclude that there's something wrong with the notion of gay marriage. Okay, I'm being told by Mr. Davies we have a bonus clip. This is from a new Jurassic park cartoon. Take it away, Mr. Sammy.

I've fallen for you. Like, hard. Real hard.

Oh, my gosh. Look at this. Look at this. Jurassic World. Guys, protect the kids. And we sent our kids to bed just before this happened. We didn't even know this was gonna happen. I mean, it's definitely less revolting than the two fellas and everything. But no lesbian kissing. No lesbian kissing in our children's shows, okay? The Daily Wire is growing. New talent, new shows, big things in the works. And to keep up, we're hiring producers and writers. If you can take a show from idea to execution, manage crews, write sharp segments, and deliver content that kills it on YouTube, podcasts and social, this is your shot. Join us for the next decade of the Daily Wire. Apply [e-mail] careers what if I told you 911 could have been prevented? The warning shot came a year earlier when Al Qaeda suicide bombers ripped open the USS Cole in Yemen. Seventeen American sailors were killed. Dozens were wounded. Washington called it a criminal act. In reality, it was Al Qaeda's declaration of war and America ignored it. On October 10th, Daily Wire plus premieres USS Cole. Al Qaeda's strike before 9 11. The untold story of ignored intelligence. The blast itself and the investigation that exposed Al Qaeda's network. Less than a year later, the tower is fell. Do not miss the premiere. Get 40% off a new Daily Wire plus annual membership with code [e-mail] finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by PureTalk. Go to peertalk.com knowles knes today. Take it away.

[Listener]

Hi, Michael, this is Kyle C. My wife and I have been deeply mourning Charlie's murder. And one aspect of it all that has been really hard for both of us, but especially for her, is that the shooter came from a conservative family, but still was radicalized into a left wing monster just like you. We are Catholic and have three kids, five and under, and hopefully more. And we're homeschooling. But we both have been wrestling with the fear and the lack of control and the possibility of something like this happening to one of our kids. What do we do about these feelings? What should I be telling my wife and what else should I be doing as the head of my household? God bless you, Michael.

[Michael Knowles]

Okay, great question. First of all, you don't want servile fear. You don't want to just be anxious all the time. Oh no. What if this happened? You know, we all have all sorts of fears about our kids, and so you gotta try to tamp that down and you want to be prudent. So it's scary when someone seems to come from a good family and they just go totally nuts. Part of that is people are hardwired differently. There's a piece of that. You know, I got two boys, they're 18 months apart and they are like night and day, raised by the same people, but one looks like me, one looks like my wife, and they're different and they behave that way. So there's a little bit of that. But we're not merely determined by our genetics. Of all of the coverage I've seen of Charlie's assassin, the piece that seems to give a lot of it away to me is there was some video or something that was going around of the shooter as a young kid or social media post or something, constantly online. Just living constantly online and knowing what we now know about him, namely that he was obsessed in all these bizarre Internet subcultures, like weird sex subcultures, weird politics subcultures, trans furry, weird stuff. It makes sense if you were that chronically online from the age of 10 or 11, that's going to happen. So what I would do, just as a very practical matter, no smartphones, severely limit the Internet time. Really keep an eye on that. Because this is a portal to hell, right? This thing in your pocket that we have all day long, that's a portal to hell. And in the hands of kids, you're greatly increasing your risks that a kid is going to go south. Okay, next question. Good morning, Michael, this is Arun. So since political assassinations are becoming alarmingly common, I have an Important question for you. Let's say hypothetically, and God forbid that some deranged conservative assassinated a liberal Supreme Court justice, or reverse it. Let's say under Joe Biden, a liberal had murdered a conservative justice. Do you think that it is incumbent on the president to. To appoint a replacement justice who is of a similar ideological bent to the victim of the assassination in order to prevent assassinations for political purposes from becoming incentivized? Thank you, as always, for your wisdom. It's a nice thought. Well, it's a terrible thought that a Supreme Court justice would be assassinated. But the left has tried. I mean, they got pretty close with Brett Gavinh. They apparently were considering trying for other Supreme Court justices. Alito had to move out of his home, I think. So it's a real possibility, and it's a nice thought. It's a nice thought that, you know, if one of the conservative justices were killed, that a Democrat president would appoint a conservative vice versa. But it won't happen. You know, the problem is game theory and the prisoner's dilemma and just knowing how these things work. It's a nice thought. Would that it were so simple. Not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. Sorry. Next question. Hey, Michael, longtime listener.

[Listener]

Over the past year or so, I've.

[Michael Knowles]

Heard you pronounce Italian as Italian. A handful of times Lumonte says Italian.

[Listener]

In his song Lazy Mary, and my whole family used to say Italian, but now only my parents say it that way.

[Michael Knowles]

Where did the difference in pronunciation come from?

[Listener]

Also, as a side note, earlier this week you said that you put tapatio on your eggs. So I looked it up, thinking it'd be a cool new sauce, just to realize you meant tapatio.

[Michael Knowles]

Thanks. Yeah, I meant to patio. I put to patio on. I'm an Italian. I put to patio on. Also, just a slight correction, you referred to the song Lazy Mary, but the song, properly understood, is called Che na Luna Luna mezzumare Mama Miami Maridare. That's a way. It's a great one. It's a great one by the singer behind Dominic the Donkey, which we'll be getting to in December. Why do we call it the Italian language? Because we're assimilated here, you see? Capiche? We're assimilated here. So we pronounce it in the English way. The I Italian language. Really draw it out all nice. Kind of has a Southern twang to it, doesn't it? You know, a lot of Italians went to the South. The south of America. They went. I think my grandfather's family ended up in New Orleans or in Baton Rouge. Then my grandmother's family, they were in West Virginia. Italian, you understand? We got those Italians walking around. Okay, next. Next question.

[Lahore Vajastan]

Dear ecclesiastical maestronals, I have come seeking advice. I wondered if you could suggest any methods for improving public speaking.

[Michael Knowles]

I've always been a vocal person, but it takes sophisticated speech and ordered thinking to speak publicly. How would you suggest practicing to work on that skill? And also, I'd like to try a hypothesis. Speechless.

[Zoran Mamdani]

Speechless. Speechless.

[Michael Knowles]

Speechless. Speechless. Speechless. Not when I'm on the road. What's gonna happen? Not gonna make my flight. That was. Wow. Have we ever done it on the road before? That's a lot.

Wow.

Yes. I'll tell you how to improve at public speaking. You just speak a lot. Speak a lot. Practice yourself in the mirror. Memorize things, memorize poems, Memorize other speeches. When you practice them, use very exaggerated mouth movements so that you kick in some muscle memory. If you're trying to write speeches, you should use the. What is it, like the five canons of rhetoric? Invencio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and actio. I think I got those right. Like, that's pretty good. Digging my old, old ancient rhetoric courses. These are just different aspects, you know, the idea and the pronunciation of it. And you want to include a logical element, an element of appeal to emotion, establishing your credibility. You want to do that also. But the way to get started is just walking around your house reciting poetry, feeling it out, hearing it. That's how you're going to get better at it. Okay, no Membrum segmentum today because I have to go catch my flight. I will see you back in the studio on Monday. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.