The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 1892 - BREAKING: France Prepares For WAR If Trump Invades Greenland

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be sending French troops to the Arctic island to participate in joint military exercises with Denmark. Now, as longtime viewers of this show know, I am something of a Francophile, and not just when it comes to Francisco. France has magnificent art, architecture, literature, food, but one of the first of the francophile. But one area where for at least a century now, France has not particularly excelled is military conflict. I actually keep the flag of the French army in my desk in case my nose starts running during the show. This is why it is absolutely fitting that one day after France offered Denmark military help,

Danish leaders met with the White House to discuss how and when they would just hand over Greenland. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. Welcome back to this show. Leftists in Minneapolis are now harassing normal-looking white guys like middle-aged white dads to prove that they're not ice. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, I want to tell you about Armra. Go to Armora.com slash Knowles, KNAW-LAS. True self-reliance begins with taking control of your health this year. Our sponsor, Armora Colostrum harnesses nature's original blueprint for resilience. Pact with over 400 bioactive nutrients. Colostrum fortifies your gut and strengthens your immune system from the cellular level up. you invest in your health, you invest in your ability to show up fully, think clearly, and stay in control, no matter what comes your way. Our bodies are under constant assault, toxins, processed foods, relentless stress. Your gut is your first line of defense, and most supplements only address part of the problem. Armour of colostrum is different. This is not just another supplement. It's a bioactive whole food, a pure concentrated bovine colostrum that is sustainably sourced with a commitment to

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And so Trump says, we want Greenland. Denmark says you'll get it over our cold, dead Scandinavian bodies. We're keeping our colony. We're keeping our overseas territory of Greenland. There's no way you're going to take it from us. We're going to defend it. We have friends, Trump. We have friends and we're going to defend Greenland.

And then they're waiting for their friends to come. and all they get is Emmanuel Macron. Stombe goes, Do not worry, Denmark. Do not worry, we are here. You have the entire might of the French army behind you. And then Denmark says, All right, on second thought, Trump, what are your terms?

How much you're going to give us? It's yours. Don't worry, it's yours. What exactly happened here? Well, we're not quite sure. The New York Times is confused as ever. What did the White House in Denmark agree to on, agreed to on Greenland, it depends whom you ask. The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in

public about what they had agreed to this week as President Trump continued to demand U.S. ownership of Greenland. What Trump says is, look, we don't want it so that we can open up McDonald's there. There are like no inhabitants. We want it because it's strategically important in the Arctic with regard to Arctic shipping lanes, with regard to some resources, but also just as a way to secure the Western Hemisphere as part of our broader retrenchment in the Western Hemisphere. Because Russia and China are aggressing on Greenland. They want to get a strategic foothold. We don't want that to happen.

And so, sorry, Denmark. You're not able to protect Greenland. We have to do it. Denmark says, yes, we can protect Greenland. Here's Trump's response. We're not, you know, I can't rely on Denmark being able to fend themselves off. You know, they were talking about they put an extra dog. And they were serious about this.

They put an extra dog sled there last month. they added a second dog sled. That's not going to do the trick. So we all listen to this. We all laugh. Oh, ha, ha, ha. What does it mean? What is Denmark defending Greenland?

It means they're going to add a dog sled, right? But then something tuned me in. He said, I'm serious. And sometimes when he says he's serious, he's joking. And when he says he's serious, it just doubles the joke. But I googled this one. It turns out he's right. The Danish defense of Greenland is based.

in no small part on dog sled teams with, you know, apparently very well-trained troops and look, it's the Arctic, so I guess dog sled. Look, people have been using dog sleds around the Arctic for a long time, but that's it. The serious S-I-U-S, and very, very serious S-E-R-I-O-U-S, dog sled team is the Danish idea of defending Greenland. Trump is being serious about it when he says,

guys, we can't rely on the dog sleds. Okay, we are the United States. The way that this is being spun up by Europe, which doesn't want to lose Greenland, and spun up by the enemies of the administration and the left broadly is that, you know, this is a violation of NATO. Denmark is a NATO ally and Trump is threatening to take their territory. First, he's trying to buy their territory. He's working a deal out here. But second, this is a violation of NATO. What do you think NATO is?

What do you think NATO is? NATO is the American Empire. NATO sprung up after the Second World War for one reason, because of the Cold War. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization sprung up as the American Empire in opposition to the Warsaw Pact, which was the Soviet Empire. that's NATO's meaning comes from the Cold War the Cold War the Cold War has been over for over 30 years so what is NATO now NATO is just a the military holdover part of the American Empire so we like our NATO allies we we defend them we are their military you're welcome but let's not pretend this is something other than it is this is an outgrowth of the American Empire and I could even

understand the criticism if the United States was saying, you know what, Denmark, we're going to invade your country, we're going to take your stuff, we're going to bring over your beautiful Danish Scandinavian ladies, but we want them. This is going to be like, you know, the Romans with the Sabine women. We're just going to plunder your resources. That's not what's going on in Denmark. If Denmark were seriously able to secure Greenland against major powers, not minor little powers, like Denmark, which, you know, hasn't been all that strong since Hamlet died, if they could really secure Greenland and the Western Hemisphere against Russia and China. That would be one thing. But they can't. So we're saying, hey, we don't want it. No offense,

but you guys have dog sleds. We have the only military on Earth that can seriously project force anywhere. So we're good job. Thanks. Hey, no hard feelings. But we're going to kind of take over now. Cool, cool. Okay, cool. Now, as a matter of, of American policy, as I said, we've wanted this for like 150 years, and we've viewed it as strategically important for 150 years. If we acquire Greenland in a real way, it's like, you know, snow Puerto Rico or something, that would expand the size of the United States by 22%. This would be a major expansion. This would be similar to the acquisition of Alaska, similar to the growth of American territories after the Spanish-American war,

but bigger really. I mean, it's a 22% expansion. It's quite a legacy for Trump. And some people are accusing Trump. They're saying Trump just wants to be a really important guy. He just wants to go down in the history books. Yeah, I'm sure he does want that. But why does he want that?

He wants that because he wants to make America great again. He wants America to be stronger. And this is another one of these instances that could confound this, I think, false dichotomy between the isolationists and the neocons or whatever, where Trump is going to say, no, no, we're not going to engage in ideological abstract wars overseas to make Afghanistan a democracy or something. But also, we're not just going to retreat and surrender and get weak and small. You know what? We're going to grow. We're going to expand. When was the last time we expanded the territory of the United States?

It's probably 1959, right? Hawaii and Alaska? that would be big and it would be a signal to people that America is on the move again. We're strong again. We're growing. Not in like crazy, abstract, ideological, liberal, bushy kind of ways, but in hardcore like, hey, Russia, China, get out. We're going to, don't test us. You think we're an empire on the decline. You want to test that theory? Okay. Now, at home, it seems like we're on the decline because we have domestic chaos. One of the strange. facts about the second Trump administration is it's proving that it's easier to depose

foreign dictators than it is to depose domestic insurrectionists like Tim Walls in Minnesota or Jacob Frye, the mayor of Minneapolis. It's actually easier to make huge moves overseas because there all that is required at least in the short term is presidential authority. Whereas at home, the rot runs very deep and it's much. much harder to make sweeping change. So now, because of this anarchy that has been allowed to and encouraged to fester by the left, you have, you have libs walking around Minneapolis, stopping random nice, like white dads and demanding that they prove that they're not ice.

Like you said, I don't have to do this. I'm happy to do this. That's all. So we've just got to stop this. So he's got a lot of cameras. Yeah, I'm not. I tried to tell him. The first lady regime, nobody believes me.

That's all I can do is tell you. I already shut, listen, first of all, I don't have, and I'm doing that, but I'm kind. I, you know, I respect you are arguing. Yeah, no, no, no, there's, no, there's, I really appreciate what you guys are doing. I just don't, just have to drop, and I don't know how to do. My name is pathetic. Yeah. Yes, he was here yesterday.

Thank you. No, I didn't recognize when you're talking about. Oh, my goodness. I'm not here to help you. No, this is. in a vehicle like this. I get it. With all due respect, everybody,

this is so pathetic. Well, you can't. You'll rent something else. I mean, if you're part of me, that's not how worse. This is that scene from Breaking Bad. This is Walter

trying to negotiating with the drug dealers who are about to kill his brother-in-law. This is, he thinks he can reason with them. Brother-in-law says, what are you talk about? They made up their mind 10 minutes ago. this, two TV scenes came to mind, actually. I was thinking of that scene from Breaking Bad after watching this viral clip out of Minnesota.

And then I thought of the scene from Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Frank says, he goes, yeah, they started coming up to me and I didn't know what they wanted, so I started blasting. I just started, and which I certainly don't encourage, but two different approaches to this situation, this guy thinks that these people are being reasonable. This band of leftists, they say, and they're not, you know, black masked Antifa terrorist. They just look like dopey, annoying. What's the word I'm looking for?

The word escapes me. Just awful kind of white 20-somethings. They walk up, insolent, that's the word I'm looking for. They're insolent white 20-somethings. Walk up and say, prove that you're not ice. He says, okay. all right, I'll show you the back of my SUV, but I don't have to do this,

but I just, and I support you guys. I support you going around to random middle-aged white guys and demanding that they prove they're not law enforcement, which, by the way, if they were law enforcement, they would have no right to do that. If they were law enforcement, law enforcement should arrest these kids, even for asking this question,

because they're obviously obstructing law enforcement and criminal investigations. But this is, this is what you get when ice doesn't enforce the law. This is what you get when state and local authorities don't enforce the law. But this is what you get. All of a sudden you get these bands of vigilantes going around, singling out this guy. Why are they singling him out?

Because they seriously think he's law enforcement. Maybe they do. They're singling him out on the basis of his race, sex, and age because they don't like middle-aged white guys. That's what they're doing. Okay. And this dope is just going around saying, oh, well, All right. Now, listen, I respect what you're doing. Okay, and I don't need to do this, but I respect it and please don't, please don't gag up on me. And luckily, the gang that's doing it here is just as dopey as the guy. So, you know, they don't really seem to pose as much of a threat, maybe. But we've seen these kinds of left-wing gangs commit lots of violence. And we've seen even the bourgeois middle-class white liberals justify that violence and express that in a lot of social scientific surveys. That's what you get. You want to see it get a little. more violent, look at the high school protest, organized by the Minnesota schools,

protest at the Minnesota Capitol. So first of all, if you went back 15, 20 years and said, hey, this is Minnesota, no one would believe you. Seeing a lot of headscarves. I'm seeing ice out. Here we go. I'm seeing a lot. It doesn't look like Minnesota 20, 25 years ago. Looks more like Mogadishu, which is why they're calling Minneapolis now Snogadishu. This is Snogadishu, but you're getting a bunch of high school kids encouraged to go to this by their teachers, by their schools, just beating each other up, just getting into a playground scrap or a gang war somewhere in the middle of those two things. all because why? What are those two scenes have in common? All because people oppose law enforcement.

So you really have two options here. What the left wants you to believe is you can either have law enforcement or paradise. You can either have these cops who are sometimes they got to beat people up. Sometimes they got to arrest people. Sometimes they have to deport people, these awful cops. And if we didn't have the cops, we'd have paradise. We'd all live together in harmony, singing, Kumbaya.

I know the left is nuts, but there are squishes who believe this. There are centrists who believe this, at least implicitly. And what I'm telling you is that's not the alternative. The alternative to ICE is that. The alternative to ICE, best case scenario, is super annoying white 20-something liberals,

harassing middle-aged white guys saying, show me your truck, let me prove you're not an ICE. That's best-case scenario. Worst case scenario is Snogadishu Gang War. melees, brawls, vigilante violence, those are the options. Anybody who has even a modicum of reason would have to conclude the most just, most conducive to the common good solution here is for ICE to bring the hammer down. And for local law enforcement, which Minnesota won't

allow them to do, but for local law enforcement to arrest the criminals and stop the chaos. Instead, they want to promote it. So the feds are going to come in and they're doing a bang-up job of. We have a delightful video of a leftist being pepper spray. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Halo. Go to hallow.com slash Knowles, K-N-N-W-L-E-S. I love the Hallow app. I've been a fan from the very beginning.

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And law enforcement showing great restraint did not just shoot the guy. Instead, he pepper sprayed him. And here's the reaction. We got it. We're good. It's good. It's good. Water, water, water, water.

All right. Maybe I shouldn't laugh, but maybe I should. You know, part of the reason I'm laughing is because that guy's not dead. That guy could be dead, too. when you obstruct law enforcement, when you get up in the face of cops, when you threaten cops, you could end up dead and he would deserve it. So the fact that all that happened is he got pepper sprayed and then just seemed shocked by it, that is actually delightful.

That's good for him. That just taught him a lesson that could save his life someday. That could help his soul. Because it's the same reaction in a much funnier way than the tragic reaction we saw after René Good was shot. Renee Good runs her car into a cop, the cop shoots her, and then the lesbian partner says, why did the guns have real bullets? She didn't know. They didn't know.

They think this is pretend. They think this is all playtime. They thought they could get away with this stuff. They thought you can hit a cop without consequences, or obstruct law enforcement, or protect criminals without consequences. Why did the guns have real bullets? Why does the pepper spray sting? That's what that guy is implicitly screaming.

He's there. He's getting in the cup's face. Caps him with pepper spray. Why does the pepper spray sting? Why does the pepper spray sting? Why do the guns have bullets? Why do men have testicles? These are the questions the left is asking.

Why do elections have consequences? Why do nations have borders? Basic quack. Why does the United States have a military? Why have we had relative world peace? These are the questions the left is asking. They're asking, wait a second, why is reality the way it is? Because they didn't know it, because they've divorced themselves from reality.

At very visceral levels, like I didn't know guns have bullets, all the way to the more fundamental stuff. Why are men and women different? They don't know. And we have to teach them. We have to teach them. affirming the left in their delusions that you can just break the law without consequence, that guns don't have bullets, that men don't have anatomical features, whatever it is.

The nations don't have borders. It only makes things worse. This is good stuff. Be thankful for the pepper spray. The next thing you're getting hit with is going to be a lot worse. By the way, ICE has shown massive restraint. This is Huffington Post guy. What's his name?

Philip Lewis, he's posting, he says, ICE is terrorizing neighborhoods. And he used the sauciest pictures he could find, look at ice terrorizing neighborhoods. And what are the pictures? It's of an ice agent scanning some Hispanic-looking guy's face, frame your face, just trying to figure out if he isn't illegal, if he is a criminal record, whatever. The guy's totally calm. The ice agent is totally calm. The guy's totally calm.

Does that guy look terrorized to you? Look at it. If you're only listening, I'll just describe it. He's just a Hispanic-looking guy who's just mouth is flat, eyebrows flat, just, okay, hey, whatever, cop, just totally fine. We have another one. Even this one's a little more feisty. The cop uses the window breaker. I guess the guy was resisting.

And even here, this is supposed to be ICE terrorizing civilians, the guy in the car looks totally unfazed. as if he expected it, as if he's looking for an altercation. And even here, even with shattered glass, he doesn't seem to be terrorizing anybody. That guy doesn't look terrorized. The Huffington Post used these pictures as an own, as a, oh, look at the bat, terrible optics for the Trump administration.

I don't know. This is what people voted for as far as I'm concerned. This is what we didn't vote for, you know, the Gestapo to go slaughter people or something. voted for that. But that's not what we're getting. What we've, what I voted for is mass deportations. And you know what? That's what most people voted for too. Trump won the popular vote, campaigning on mass deportations. And we want to be orderly about it and we don't want to be needlessly cruel about it. But we want these people out. They have no right to be here. They're causing a lot of problems.

They're undermining the rule of law in myriad other ways. And they got to go. That's what. most people voted for. The Hispanic guy sitting in the car having his face scanned by the cop in a perfectly polite interaction. That is exactly what people voted for. The lives want to publicize this stuff. Be my guest, man. Be my guest. You're only going to make the numbers go up. Now, I want to move away from the ICE and the immigration for a second. I want to get to an economic issue because even some conservatives, they're missing the boat. They're missing the point the squishes and the more established types, they're missing the point on

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against any new wars. Why did he take out Maduro? Why did he bomb Iran? I thought he was running on America first. Why do we care about foreign affairs? He's, he is offering a third option. When it comes to foreign policy, he's offering a third option between this conservative isolationism, libertarian isolationism, really, and liberal internationalism, interventionism, you know, bombing the whole world for Madisonian democracy. He offers this third option. which is conservative imperialism. Yeah, we are the empire. We've been an empire for a real long time now.

And depending on how you count it for like 220 years and an undisputed empire since the Second World War. And so, you know what we're going to do, though? Instead of just overextending ourselves and bungling things, we're going to focus on targets that are closer to home, that have cascading effects throughout the rest of the world that are based on more realistic political principles and resources in geography. it's a third option. Well, same thing here with the economics. You have the libertarian or alternately kind of big business chamber of commerce types who say, we just need to let the free market operate and, you know, come what may, and we just need to let corporations do whatever they want. And then you have the leftists who say, we need to abolish private property. And, you know,

you got that lady in New York under Mom Dani now saying, we especially need to steal homes from white people. And we're going to embrace the warmth of collectivism against rugged individuals. you have those two things and we think those are the only two options that's a false dichotomy because there is a third option which is an authentically conservative dare i say even authentically christian kind of economics which is we recognize the good of private property we recognize even largely the right of private property there's a lot to say about people mean different things when they say the right to private property but it is within the christian tradition to discuss the right to private property, but also within the framework of recognizing that we are a social creature,

we have political society in order to conduce to the common good, and we have obligations to the poor, and we are a society that has an economy. We are not a society that serves the economy. We like free markets, but we do not worship free markets. We do not make an idol out of free markets. We do not put the cart, in other words, before the horse. We do not put the dog sled before the dogs in Greenland, you understand. We recognize what these things are for. And so when you look at the housing market, they say, okay, what's it for? What's the single family home housing market for? It's for getting people homes. It's for helping to create families. It's for a flourishing. society. And when the institutional investors come in and they corner certain markets and they come in

with a lot more power and a lot more capital in some ways seemingly monopolistic, and then they corner the market and they jack up the rent prices, that's not really good. And frankly, you know, speaking of this third way, here's a way to reconcile the left. And even a libertarian like Barry Goldwater, who in conscience of a conservative points out, our enemy is not only monopolistic government power, It's monopolies of any kind. That's what Trump's looking at. And he's saying, look, why am I doing this? Because people, especially young people, need to be able to have homes because that helps them to start families, which we need.

You need families or your country dies. This also follows politically after President Trump got in a little hot water because he said, he was asked about fixing the housing problem for young people, and he said he couldn't do it because it might hurt the housing values of. of old homeowners. On housing, you talked in your address last night about housing. Yeah. Are you still considering a national emergency over housing? I'm looking at it.

What would that mobile? You know, I have two, there's two thoughts on housing. You have a lot of people have housing that because we have such a strong time and such a strong market there, houses are very valuable. It's a big part of their net worth, their house. I don't want to knock those numbers down because I want them to continue to continue. I want them to continue to have a big value for their house. At the same time, I want to make it possible for young people out there and other people to buy housing.

In a way, they're at conflict. In other words, you create a lot of housing all of a sudden and it drives the housing prices down. So I want to take care of the people that have houses that have a value to, you know, to the house that they never thought possible, that have sort of made them wealthy and happy. and especially in their later years. Gotta be careful with that. I want to keep them up. At the same time, I want to make it possible

for people to go buy houses. Yeah, look, he said it beautifully, actually. He's telling you exactly what the issue is. He's not even just using rhetoric to advance one point or another. He's saying, look, yeah, I want to make it easier for young people to buy houses, but it's kind of hard because there's just a conflict here. If I flood the market with housing,

then I'm going to destroy. the values of the boomers. So there's this conflict here between the boomers and the millennials and the zoomers. That's a real conflict. And some would just say, well, screw the zoomers, you know, we just want to keep our housing values up. We boomers. But actually, forget about the justice of that. Just look at the politics. Millennials and zoomers were almost half of all eligible voters in 2024. 2008, you can't just write off the millennials and the zoomers. You've done it for a long enough time. You can't just do that. Now, the Democrats still have a youth advantage. They still have an advantage with young voters.

So what do we do? You don't want to throw the boomers overboard either or the Gen X overboard either, because they're your more reliable voters. So what do you do? You're in this real pickle, and you just have to manage it. And this is why bringing it back to the broader economic point. ideologues want these pure abstract economic ideologies to govern the country. Either, you know, I don't know, just Austrian school libertarianism or communism or something in New York. That's not how it works. Even when it comes to economic matters, this is not a pure science. This is more in art, frankly, than a science. Because government, politics is the art of the real, the art of the possible, the art of the second best, the art of making deals.

That's what it's about. That's why when Trump does these things, he talks about tariffs, but then he also, you know, gives tax cuts. He sounds in some ways like a real populist. In some ways, he sounds like a regular old Reagan or Bush Republican. Why is he doing these two things? Because he's trying to dance a very difficult dance, walk a very fine line and govern with prudence, which is the chief political virtue. On that point, though, I should point out, despite what you're hearing from the Dumers on the right and, of course, the critics on the left, The economy is doing very well right now.

Economic growth was the strongest in two years in Q3, 4.3%. GDP, IMF is looking ahead at the U.S. economy this year, thinks that it's looking very good. The unemployment is low. It's actually ticked down a little bit since November. I think it's like 4.4%. Real wage growth is beating inflation by at least a point, maybe more. Stock markets hit all-time highs, 15.3% growth in Trump's first year. The economy is looking good.

It doesn't mean there aren't particular challenges for particular. people. Trump has to address those. I'm glad he is doing it. But overall, it's looking pretty good. Meanwhile, the murder rate fell by 20% in 25. That's the largest single year drop ever. Why did that happen? Why did the murder rate fall by 20% largest single year drop ever? Why did rents, why did rental prices go down four months in a row year over year? Why is that happening? Might it have something to do with the singular policy of this administration? which is the mass deportations. Might it have something to do with that?

Most social problems. The squishes need to hear this. The hardcore get it, but squishes need to understand this. The mass deportations are not just about cruelty or because we don't like brown people or something. Most social problems relate to mass migration. Inflation, wage suppression, drugs, low trust in institutions, not having enough housing, crime, on and on and on and on.

It relates to NAS migration. One last point I want to make. Oh, well, I want to make... You know what? Maybe I'll get to it next week. Do you know Kai Senat? Mr. Davies, am I pronouncing that correctly?

Mr. Davies? That means he's asleep in the chair. He's gone. Is he gone? Hello? Fuehler? Where's Davees? Where's Mr. Davies?

I'm reviewing the bar fight episode for tomorrow. Here he is. Finally. That's how I pronounce it. Kai Senat. Senat. Sanat. See, that's why I wanted you.

But you said, oh, no, I got to do other work for the other show that we're producing. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know what? Just because of that, I don't care if we run late today. I'm getting to this. I love this clip because it actually relates to what I just did. The question is, how do you pronounce certain words? And he's gone viral because this guy who's, I guess he's a streamer.

I don't know. What do I know? I'm an old man now. He was looking up, and he's reading and he finds a word he doesn't know, and then he looks it up. Spontinent. How do I pronounce that? Spontinity? Spontity. Spontid.

Oftentimes when I don't know what a word is pronounced, I get to look at how it's pronounced and what it even means. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. The condition of being spontaneous. Spontaneity. Spontaneity. Spontaneity.

I love this clip. He goes on. He does this with more words. And then people are making fun of him. They're saying, this guy. Oh, he's trying to read books, but he doesn't know what the words mean. And this dumb idiot, he is looking up words. When he runs into a word he doesn't know, ha, ha, ha, ha.

You know what that's called? That's called learning. That's called being smart. That's called using your head. I love that clip. And I love that this guy had the courage to just admit when he doesn't know a word. I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I have no false modesty, true humility.

I probably have a larger than average vocabulary. I love words. I love language. I wrote a book about language. I regularly look up words that I don't know. I looked up one the other day. I was reading a poem by W.H. Auden. I looked up the word cerebrotonic.

I like that word. Cerebrotonic. It's a beautiful word. Maybe we'll talk about it in a work from home Wednesday. We'll talk about it because it comes from a poem or it was used in a poem. We'll talk about what that word means. I had to look it up. I didn't know what that word meant.

I had an idea based on it, but I looked it up. I do it all the time. that's how you get a larger than average vocabulary. Oh, it's so beautiful. We live in an age that is so prideful that is so, I don't know, so anxious, so we don't want to admit when we don't know something. The only way you're going to learn things is when you admit you don't know anything. This is great, man.

I got to start watching Kaisenat's stuff. And I won't be doing so spontaneously. I will be doing so very intentionally. I'll plan it out because of that great clip. That was a good advertisement for a show. Okay. Finally, finally, we arrive at my favorite time of the week when I get to, from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by Pure Talk.

Go to Pure Talk.com slash NoleskanaWLAS. Make the switch today in as little as 10 minutes. We hear? Is it like a mailbag? I had a discussion with a friend of mine. She doesn't exactly have stable relationships, and I, well, don't really have relationships. She argues that it is healthy for girls to go out on girls' nights and have their boyfriends pick them up. I argue that cannot end well and is a recipe for disaster.

She argues it's a trust and insecurity thing. I argue explicitly going out without your significant other is not trustworthy behavior, nor is that wife material. Can you give me some Noel's knowledge from your experience as a man in a healthy relationship? Regards, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds available on Amazon. Yeah, that's not wife material. That's not, well, she might be wife material, but that behavior's not good. What good comes out of that? What good comes out of girls night? Girls night. We're just going to go to the bar, go to the club, see you later, chump. Why would they do that? I get girls going over to some girl's house and having pillow fights or whatever they do, or, you know, sitting around and drinking

Sheppley and gossiping or what, you know, I don't know, I get that. I get girls, I sort of even get girls going out to brunch together, sort of. Not saying I would encourage it, but I get that girls brunch, maybe. No boys allowed. but girls going out to de club or the bar alone when they have boyfriends, what's, what is that for? You know what a thing is, in large part by what it is for. You know, the leftist ears tumbler is for drinking the leftist ears. The cigar is for smoking.

What is that for? What are clubs for? What is going out to bars late at night for? It's not for, you know, discussing Proust, is it? No, it's for guys and girls meet in each other. So it's really weird. I would just explain it to her that way. And why do you...

Also, girls... Like, when guys hang out, how much is this? This is going to get me in trouble. But it's just a fact. Men and women have very friendships in very different ways. And girls often don't have real friends. They don't, they don't, okay?

And I know that's going to be controversial. Women are more social than men. They have more relationships and acquaintances. but all women hate each other. And any man who's ever spent any time around them knows this. Whereas men can beat each other up and they probably have fewer friends, but they tend to have deeper friendships.

So like the guys go and hang out and they, I don't know, they sit around, they drink and they smoke and they talk about the Roman Empire or something. And so I get got, but even now, I wouldn't say that guys should ditch their girlfriends and they all go out to de club, you know, on a Saturday night either. It's just, what's that,

That's for when you don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Okay. Next question. Michael, Libtar Democrats keep saying that President Trump bombed Venezuela illegally. So what are they going to do next? They're going to go up to him and do their Barney Fife impersonation and yell, Citizens Arrest! Citizens Arrest!

Of all the people who ever write in or especially call into the show, you are one of my favorites. And you're right. That's what they think they're going to do. Good luck. They're going to get a little pepper spray if they're lucky. Next question. Hi, Mr. Knowles. First off, just want to say thank you for delivering the truth every day. It really means a lot to me. I'm actually from the younger side of your audience and I was hoping you can answer a question for a project of mine. My question is, if you could give two pieces of advice to your 16-year-old self, what would they be and why? Thank you so much. Have a good day. And God bless you. you? I would give one piece of advice and it would be keep the faith. That's what I would do. I would have called myself an atheist at age 13 and that persisted in some form for about 10 years. I was 23 years old when I reverted to the faith, really. I started to at least acknowledge that God probably exists around 18 or 19, but that was it. And all my problems and all my wayward youth, you know, boys will be boys

kind of, you know, staying up too late, chasing too many girls, not being all that diligent, having kind of... All of that really stems from that error. So that's what I would tell myself. It's one piece of advice. That's it. Okay. It's fake headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss it.

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