The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles DESTROYS Woke Commercials... They Keep Getting Worse

Episode Date: November 15, 2025

Michael Knowles takes on the most disturbing woke commercials the internet has to offer — from unhinged corporate virtue signaling to bizarre progressive messaging that completely misses the mark. Watch as Michael reacts, roasts, and reveals the deeper agenda behind modern advertising gone mad. Which commercial was the worst? Comment below! Don’t forget to subscribe for more weekly reactions and cultural breakdowns. - - - Today's Sponsor: Hallow - Put your relationship with God first. Head over to https://hallow.com/knowles for three months free today! - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I have terrible news for you, folks. We all thought that woke had been exterminated. And it largely has been. However, little traces linger on. Little hints of liberalism linger on. And there's a silver lining to that. It means that there are, in fact, more woke commercials for us to see. My producers have assembled them.

We will find them. We will find the libness. We will identify it. We will quash it forever. Take it away. More importantly, we agreed that our role as his parents was not to change him, but to love him. Hey, um, it's fine. I wanted to.

Okay. Hey, Sam. Yeah? Here. Have fun tonight. Listening brings us closer. Audible. So, okay, it used to be the commercials just led with all the woke.

So you couldn't even identify what the company was. That was the game. Okay, now you don't have to do that. Now, at the very least, we can say that in the woke commercials, they are leading with the product. That's an improvement. And there's even something to, like, you know, the kid is like, I'm having, you know, strange thoughts and desires about sex. And maybe the dad says, okay, buddy, well, you know, you try to be like. kind of nice about it. It's the part at the end that's a little much. He's, he's gay,

but he has a special connection to classical music. He's there with the guy. It's like son with the guy and he like pull their hands away. And then the dad's like, hey, say kid, here's a, here's a six bag of Miller, some poppers, and keys to my car. You go get crazy, kids. Ah, ha, ha, what? Audible. Jane Austen novels. Okay, all right. Next one. Yeah, I was a kid growing up, so everyone's looking at her freckles. Didn't really like it. I mean, we're used to about coming.

I looked at it as something that only motivated me to go harder. I used to get upset by it, but then I realized none of it really matters. And my passion, I, I do you say my love you in saying? I... It doesn't matter whether it's... It doesn't matter what the people say. Everyone's entitled to their opinion for sure. Only bucks down.

It's easy. It's love. Love is all you and me. Love is all to me. That's right. Want a Sprite cranberry? All right. I take it back.

I thought the new commercials were at least leading with the product. Do you want a Sprite? But I, if you said, Michael, list 1,500 products that that ad could be selling. I would not have guessed Sprite. McDonald's Sprite, boy. When did that ad come out? There's no way that's a 2025 ad. That ad has very strong 2022 energy. I don't believe that that's a new ad. We'll look it up later. Later.

There was seven summers ago. Next one. Your journey. Your road. To the Kennedy Center. You're dry. Whoever you meet along the way, we're You go, whoever you become. We're with you, along for the ride. They led with the product.

It was like, hey, Nissan, no one's buying our cars anymore. Maybe we can pander to the gaze. Did it work for those people? No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... But it might work for us. Our company is in serious distress. maybe if we pander to the gays, especially, I don't know when that commercial came at.

I'm gay. In a way, that would make sense that that were a new commercial because Nissan's having serious problems. And so maybe they're saying like, all right, this is a last ditch effort. You know, this is, all right, let's see. No one's doing woke anymore. Maybe we could do woke and maybe that'll help prop up our sales. Right now go to hallow.com slash knolls. Believe it or not, the Christmas season is right around the corner.

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You got a great Canada on a curve. I don't, I would never make the claim that woke is dead in Canada or whatever, America's evil top hat. That's fine. There are any like Smiths? You know, like, in the league of this?

I don't know. O'Shea, I guess, is close, but the Irish. I don't know. Okay, that's fine. I don't care. Canada, Canada can do what it likes. Until it's the 51st state,

they can do what they like. I do feel it's much better for Canada. Next one. Procter & Gamble is always procter. I experience racism and presidents every day. I see the eye line of someone who's afraid of one who looks like me. When we see black faces on television, they are mostly negative. When I see stereotypes in TV and movies and film, it's disappointing.

It makes me sad. They only want to see us either as slaves or thugs. I noticed I was always getting thug roles. something that warranted aggression. Growing up and seeing certain caricatures of black people in commercials, in films, and that being a direct line to racism. So beautiful when you see stories of everyday people and how showing the family dynamic in reality would be a great thing.

Proctor and Gamble. Okay, again, they led with it, but what's the thesis of the commercial is that you know, all prejudice with prejudice, which is something that all human beings constantly necessarily engage in because we don't have the time or the resources to rationally analyze every single thing we do all day. So we all engage in some kind of prejudice. Some of it's unjust. Some of it is totally justified. They're saying the reason that people have prejudice, especially racial prejudice, is because of the media. First of all, the media are all making ads like Procter and Gamble. That was last year. This year I'm trying to earn a living.

What are you talking about? The media are, are doing the exact opposite of what you're suggesting. But it reminds me of a Chris Rock bit, where Chris Rock said, it was like, yeah, people are always blaming the media for racism, whatever. It's like, I'll tell you what, when I go to the money machine later tonight,

I'm not looking over my shoulder for the media. That's for sure. Oh, no, the media's coming to get me. It's like, oh, no, Walter Cronkite. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm, I'm sorry, he's ruined, he's butchering it. I'm, could you just let me, every time, every time black people

want to have a good time, Some ignorant ass. So anyway, that's not the worst one. The most egregious one, I guess, is... It's between Sprite and the gay. Like, hey, kids, take the car out tonight. Get wild. Hey, kids.

Never hang around the gymnasium. Go hit the bathhouse. Get crazy. Here's some drugs. I'm accepting. Audible. Probably the audible. The audible.

one. This is probably the weird. Strike is coming up on the inside. Oh my goodness. Sprite is a close runner up though. Okay. And hey, maybe this will be the last woke commercials we ever put up. Maybe they'll all be gone after this. Only time will tell. I'm Michael and all

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