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

Episode Date: July 10, 2021

Will Witt sits down with Michael Knowles to see how well they think they know each other. They must choose "Yes" or "No" when it comes to hair, libertarians, and so much more. Check it out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When I fled California and New Salini's failed state, I didn't, I look, the weather, I miss it, whatever. I didn't miss the politics, obviously, didn't miss the homelessness everywhere. But I did miss a few people. I did, particularly my friends at Prager, you. So I've shipped one of them all the way out here to Nashville so that we can play the most important game at the Daily Wire, the drinking game, where the rules are made up and the points don't matter. I am joined by my friend, Will Will Will. Will Witt, a well-known Prager You personality and the author of the upcoming book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies. What a title that is, my friend.

Thank you. Thank you for being here. Michael just brought me out here so he could have someone to drink with, finally. That's true. It was too sad to Skype you in. It still feels like drinking alone, you know? So Will, do you know the rules? Because I don't.

I don't really know the rules. I watched the one with Dave Rubin, and everyone's confused the whole time. I think that kind of adds to the character of the game. It does. So broadly speaking, I'm going to read a prompt, then you'll read a prompt. You read the prompt, and you answer as you think the other person would answer by moving the other person's drink. And then you just, you drink. Now, before we start speaking in cursive, I should point out that this video is brought to you by Ring.

More from Ring later for now. Shall we get started? Yes. Okay. By drinking. Start it off. Okay. I would audition.

for the new Twilight movie. So I'm answering for you. You're answering for me. Did I get it right? You got it right. Yeah. You obviously got, of course. Yeah.

I think you've tired out of the politics game a little bit. I'm done with politics. And your skin is already kind of sparkling a little bit. That's true. Yeah. And by the way, after this book tour that I've just had where I haven't slept for a week, I do look like a vampire. I am so, yes.

So I think we drink. Fine by me. Good. Chin chin. Mm. Okay. I opted for no ice cubes. That's aggressive?

Yeah. And by the way, we should point out, you have appearances to make after this one. I do, but I usually only do my appearances if I've been drinking. That makes sense. Stables the hands out. Exactly. The shakes to go out. Okay.

In 2021, wearing glasses is a choice. Yes. You're wrong. I'm wrong. For me, you're wrong. Okay. Yes. So I have a chronic eye illness.

Okay. Not to get two. Yeah, okay. This is bringing it down, making it very personal. Okay. So wearing glasses is what I have to do, because if I don't, then my eye is this mucus that starts producing on my contact. It's very gross.

Very personal. So I have to point something out right now. I have a contact in now. Okay. Yeah, because you were not wearing glasses at the moment. Right. But I have to wear glasses most of the other time. But I chose because of this show.

I said, I want to look my best. So you're saying you chose not to wear glasses? Yes. I should wear glasses. I'm near-sighted, so I see... Rachel Maddo look is good on you. This was the problem. I kept getting recognized.

They'd say, Rachel, Rachel. No, it was because... Yeah, I saw you a Politicon, right? Yes, I did. I was at the Rachel booth. Shapiro actually comes up to me one time, and he goes, Nolz, this is hard for me to say, but you got to lose the glasses.

I said, what do you mean? I need the glasses to see. He goes, I don't care. Conservatives don't wear glasses on TV. I said, no, that's not true. He goes, to name people who wear glasses on TV. I said, well, you know, Rachel Maddow, Chris Mathis, Lawrence O'Donnell, Chris Hayes, oh, this is not good. It's all the libs that do.

So I stopped wearing. But now everything's just blurry. Yeah. When I don't wear my glasses, I look more like Ellen DeGeneres. So Ellen DeGeneres and Rachel Maddo go actually pretty well together. I do. All right. Putting up George Floyd statues is worse than making Juneteenth a national holiday.

I'm going to say yes for you. you're going to say no for me. I'm going to say no for you. I think based on you, I think you would think Juneteenth is a waste of time. This is a hard. Yeah, I'm very anti-Juneteenth. Yes. But this is a hard one because, yeah, you know, making Juneteenth the new National Independence Day is terrible and it's a bunch of broader.

But I'm going to have to actually move this. I'm going to have to move it to you. Because George Floyd was a career criminal who robbed a pregnant woman at gun point and died while committing a crime. And I'm not even saying that justifies it, or I know now the cop was convicted of murder, even though I think that was a ridiculous conviction. But there's a way to do Juneteenth that would make it a good holiday. There is no way to put up a statue of George Floyd. Right. No, did I get it right for you? Did I think so? I mean, I think, well, actually, I don't know, because I think the significance of having maybe one statue in some little town of people put up,

There's already the George Floyd Square, and that doesn't affect, you know, the entire federal calendar now just by having a square. So if they put a statue in there, too, it would probably be fine. But having the Juneteenth holiday and all the stuff that goes along with that, I mean, just as a virtue signal for the woke left. Yeah. I would say that that's probably. No, yeah, you make a good argument because it, you don't really get rid of holidays. It's very hard to get rid of, you can topple statues as the libs have shown us for a long time now. But, yeah, it's a good point. Okay. I shockingly, I'm going to remain indecisive on this. I think we've persuaded one another we should drink. I'm fine with that.

The war on drugs did more good than harm. I'm answering for you. You are answering for me. I think we're on the same page. Well, we guessed in the same way. But I don't know if we're on the same page here. Okay, explain. I am almost with Anne Coulter when she says that smoking a dubie should be a capital offense.

I'm not quite there, but I like the war on drugs. I mean, the arguments against the war on drugs are either the libertarian argument that we should be able to use drugs, which I don't agree with. I don't agree with that either. Or the sort of, you know, it destroys families and in particular the black family, which maybe it does. That was the most convincing to me. But, you know, here's the answer. Stop dealing drugs. By the way, no one goes to prison for having a dime bag of pot.

Right. People plead down from distribution, deal, right? These are poison peddlers. So I think that throw them in the can. I bet just don't sell drugs, you know, and then we're good. I agree. Like, I'm from Colorado, and they thought that legalizing marijuana was going to make everything better, and there wasn't drug. It's like it got worse. There were more DUIs and everything because of the drugs. So it's not like it does really any good.

You know, the other thing is I have in my life experimented with the Peruvian parsley. Okay. I've taken a couple toks of sin spinach, all right? However, I would say that the people for whom legalization of pot is the most important issue, I want them to be unhappy. I agree. I really enjoy that. And so out of a purely vindictive spirit, I think we got to keep it illegal. I agree.

I don't want any of the stuff later. All right. All right. We'll put the yes there. We'll take a little sip. So I mean we drink still? No, sure. Well, because we can't smoke.

Yeah, we can't tote. We can't smoke in here? Well, not if we keep illegalizing. Wait, is it legal here in Tennessee or illegal? You know, I actually... I would assume it's illegal, right? It's got to be illegal here in Tennessee. Yeah, what a good state.

I'm so glad I'm here. I know. I'm in Los Angeles where you get off the plane and all you smell is marijuana. Yeah. As soon as you get off. And on the plane. Yeah.

And on the plane, too. Generally speaking, people you... Generally speaking, people you meet on the street are awful. Are these, like, people I mean in my interviews? Is that what they're talking? Well, I don't know. You are a man on the street kind of guy. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so they're awful. People you meet on the street. It might be people I meet. It might be people. It might be both people that one meets on the street, but also, you know, the people, the slice of the people on the street that you talk to. Answering for you, I'm going to say. No.

No. Many of the people who I talk to are great, amazing people who just don't know anything, who I've never heard a Prager U video or subscribe to the Daily Wire, anything like that. Yeah. Like, they're smart people. Like, the number one question. that I get asked from people about my videos is how do you not just laugh at these idiots? And that's the wrong thing to ask. Because these people are smart. They've just been so brainwashed by so many

different people to think this way. Ignorance is not idiocy. Right. Right. It's, you got to, you hopefully will correct the ignorance by telling people true things. But yeah, people are perfectly intelligent. And if they've been completely failed by their education system, that's a, that's a cause for pity. Exactly. And the compassion of sending them a Prager You video or a podcast or something Don't get me wrong. There are awful people. I've met some terrible people. She takes it as empowering like this event is and of course I call her a slut like... You would call your daughter a slut if it was empowering, right? Exactly.

I mean you go out on the street and I'll meet people who want to kick me off campus, call the police on me. Hi, there are two people on our campus right here. We're with a conservative group who are here to try to fearmonger students. Are they threatening you specifically in any way? Not specifically. They're threatening me with their language, with their idea. with their ideals. There are definitely awful people out there, but the vast majority of people are...

I agree. I agree. It's a cause of celebration to take a drink, I think. Do we get more, or is this it? I think you get more. I think, yeah, I got to catch up. I'm not doing it. I'll take another step.

Sorry. I'll drink slower. All right, you're up. In America, the current Protestant community is doing a better job of pushing against the progressive takeover than the Catholic community. I'm actually trying to think of what I think about that myself.

We used to do at the same time. We should do it at the same time. Okay. All right. I'm going to answer for you. Actually, wait, wait. I mean to say yes. You should have kept your first answer.

This was a close one because the evangelicals for most of the last 50, 60 years had been doing a better job than most Catholics. Though notably, some of the most important conservative leaders were Catholics. I'm thinking of Buckley, Russell Kirk, Phyllis Schlafly, especially. Brent Bozell, like a bunch of them. But the Catholics broadly, the people who identify as Catholic, like Joe Biden, who they don't actually believe in Catholicism, but they identify. They, you know, they kind of gave us all a bad name, whereas the evangelicals were kind of all on the same page. But recently I find the evangelicals are getting a little squishy in some cases, and mainline Protestantism

just is progressivism, right? I mean, that's why the church is kind of crumbled. I just see the, I mean, I'll talk to people in Los Angeles all the time, and they talk, about sending their kids to Catholic school. Catholic schools in LA, Southern California, they're not Catholic schools. They're not Catholic schools at all. They're leftist institutions that say that they are Catholic and then they're pro-choice. They don't believe in men and women in the homes or even that a man is a man. Yeah, no. And it's like maybe there are things within the leadership of the church that are still more conservative, but you go to any of these Catholic schools, they've totally abandoned the principals. There's a lot. It's very hard.

If you go, I mean, depending on the city, let's say they have 10 Catholic schools, maybe you get a couple, that are really strong on orthodoxy. But yeah, it's part of that long march through the institutions that the left has engaged in. You know what I will find? When I go to the very liberal Catholic parishes, the median age is like 82. It's all, you know, old people and no kids.

And then I go to the really conservative parishes. The median age is like 19 and they all have 10 kids. I don't even know how biologically that's possible. And all the kids are crying. But you know what? If it ain't crying, it's dying. That's my view. I don't know too much about Catholicism, or I've never been to a...

Mass, we've got to take you to a good Latin Mass. I would like to. There's a Chichi now. It's a Chichi? There's a Chichi so you can, you know, I don't, my Latin's not great. So, what, you're Christian now? Yeah, I got baptized about four months ago. Yeah, hey, man, that's great.

Jack Hibbs. This is... Wow, oh, tremendous. Wow, welcome. Liberal atheist, my whole life. We're going to have to pull you across the tiber, you know, and the kids. All in God's due time. That's wonderful, that's wonderful news.

It is. Best day in my life, amazing thing. Drink to that. Excellent. to that. You know, in moderation, one can drink. Our Lord's first miracle, as you know, turning water into wine for people who had been celebrating for many days. Right. Oh, wow. In Providence has perhaps given us this question. Or the producers wrote it. They know. If either alcohol or the sin spinach, that's actually the phrase they use. If either alcohol

or the sin spinach were to be banned in America, it would be better to ban the greater evil alcohol. I kind of gave away my answer. I love drinking. I love it. It's the best. First thing in the morning. No. Yeah, we're drinking at three.

This is kind of late for me. People often, they make this argument where they'll be like, you know, you know, you know, man, pot's way better for you than alcohol. It's a plant. It's a plant. It's from the grass. It's like, yeah, plenty of poisons are plants. Coca-leaf is a plant.

It's exactly. A lot of tar, but even beyond that. alcohol has been in our culture forever. We just referenced the first miracle of our Lord. It goes back, and it goes back much further than that. Marijuana is relatively newly introduced to Western civilization. And so I just think, well, let's say you're right, and alcohol's bad, certainly in excess.

One, why is marijuana better? And two, if it's sort of just as bad or a little bit, why would you introduce this new thing into Western civilization if you think it's so bad. I mean, we tried banning alcohol before, and we saw how well that went. It did not work. So I don't think it would ever work again. No, I agree.

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crypto is most likely good for the future of this country. Wait. Yeah. Trying to understand the question. Crypto is most likely good for the future of this country. Okay, we're answering on that. Put it on the blockchain, baby. 100%.

100%. Do it with social media. Yeah. Do it with investing. You know who says this? Reagan's favorite economist, George Gilder, wrote a whole book about this, life after Google. He says, blockchain's the future.

It is. Get on board. I know. 100%. I know. I should have, I have dreams about going back. in time and investing in all of these different things. I know.

As a 12-year-old kid with my $10, investing in it. I know. Buy an apple stock in 97. I know. I know. Things we cannot do over. It's more important to exercise the mind

than it is to exercise the body. Okay. I now know my answer. I'm trying to think of your answer. I've been working out. I could tell. You can tell? Shoulder?

Should it's getting wider? Yeah. So I got this. right, you're telling me. Or no? Okay. I don't know why, I think they're both actually equally important. That's what I'm saying. I think that you need both. Because if you're a fat whale, but your mind is, like that affects your mind too. If you're putting horrible things into your body, it also affects your mind. If you're eating McDonald's every day, that's bad for your thinking. Yes. No, I, well, yeah, I mean, it's, it's delicious, but it's probably not great for your thinking.

And this, I mean, I say this is someone who hasn't worked out, you know, since the Clinton administration. I'll take you to work out. I would be great. I've got to broaden my shoulders. The thing about it is, the human person is actually tripartite, right? There's body and mind and soul, body, soul and spirit, rather, I'll say. So it's important to discipline your mind. It's important to discipline your body.

I care very greatly about spiritual things, though I suppose that's another question. But yeah, you've got to work out, man. It's good to be a Chad. Maybe I'll, you know, I'll work on that. Yeah. Yeah, well, you get a good spirit, body, and mind with creatine and pre-workouts. That's how you do it. It's in some book of the Bible, I assume.

Yeah, Nietzsche wrote about it, thus spoke to Sarathustra. The Uber Mench, you know, all about creatine. Are this for me? You're up. Dropping out of college because you disagree with their views is actually just an excuse to hide the fact that you could handle it. This one's a personal attack. It seems a little bit of direct. Wait a second. Okay, so well, no, that gives me a pretty good, a pretty good answer for you,

but then you got an answer for me. Yeah. I'm going to say no. Yeah, I think, I think any real conservative person would say that. You're giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to an institution that hates your values. Yeah. Because it's not even, it's not even just like you're leaving because we have different preferences or something. What I'm saying, I actually love liberal education. I'm a big supporter of, not even, forget STEM. I'm talking about reading poetry and history and stuff. But if you're not getting that, if you're not getting a real liberal education at a college and you're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to do it, get out of there, man. What are you doing? Either transfer to another school or just like read books and go get a job. I mean, that's what I did. I mean, I went through two years of school and I learned almost nothing.

The only classes, I failed all my classes, except for creative writing. Creative writing were the only classes, my English classes. Because that was something that I actually enjoyed and wanted to do. But the other classes, I mean, the sociology 101, and then the biology even getting into gender stuff. It doesn't make any sense. The biology class where you learn that a man is a woman. Yeah, the men menstruate. Yeah. There were live performances on stage showing us exactly how that is.

Oh man, that's the time to check out. Yeah. You're up. No, I just wrote that one. Oh, that's right, I'm up. I got to catch up. Yeah. I've never been physically attacked while asking people questions for a piece of content.

I kind of spoiled this one before. I've been physically attacked many times. by ex-girlfriends Dennis. What kind of content are we talking about? Yeah. No, I did one where I dressed up as a Native American.

Is that a threat? You're endangering me. Because of you, there's a Indian... I'm not endangering. Where? They snatched on my headdress. We got the Black Pilgrim here.

They snatched it off this entire class. They were stalking us. And they ripped off my stuff. It's not your campus. It's not your campus. It's a public campus. It's not your campus. One time speaking at University of Northern Colorado, Black Lives Matter, came flipping tables physically trying to assault the people there.

So it happens all the time. Yeah, I was only attacked one time on a campus at the University of Missouri. The thesis legitimately was men or not women. So they're all screaming and it's all big hubbub. And then some Looney Tune busts in the fire exit behind my podium and squirts me with some unknown substance that I'd prefer not to think about. And thankfully, he only ruined my blazer and the cop got him. on really quickly. But who knew? I've said genuinely outrageous things, but that was the most outrageous.

Sorry about that, Michael. I've moved on, and I got a new blazer. I can tell. Good. Tactically speaking, conservatives should allow transgender athletes to compete in male sports because the inevitable outcome will be the best weapon to defeat the leftist idea. You mean the absurdity of it is is... Tactically speaking, Conservatives should allow transgender athletes.

So basically, we should allow them so that we can get on within... Like it's wrong, but it'll show how kooky the left is and that'll red pill a lot of people. Okay.

I'll say no. No, it's just wrong. It's just unjust to do it. You don't do something to show how bad it is. You don't murder someone to say, oh, murder's really bad and then show people that.

You don't need to show people that. They should be able to figure this out with common sense. Sometimes, yes. And this is a bad idea that conservatives often have. And they'll say this. They'll be like, you know, we need to elect a socialist. Yeah, let's vote for Bernie Sanders because that'll show people how bad it is. First of all, they're not going to admit it. And second of all, let's avoid, you know, years and years of misery and poverty. Exactly. Evil and just not do that. But I mean, do you see California? You go in California, Gavin Newsom is running the state into the ground. And everyone says it's conservative's fault. I mean, you talk to liberals on this. the street and they say, oh, it's because of the conservatives and the Republicans.

Yeah. It's like how brain did it? There were about four conservatives left in California. I know. It works out pretty well. All right. I probably take a drink. Three drinks to Dennis. Since the entire Democrat apparatus is pushing against election audits and voting integrity laws, we can assume with relative certainty that any election in 2020 was dot, dot, dot,

not super legit. Hold on. This is written here. Due to YouTube rules, make your guess what the other person would think, but But do not verbally confirm if the other person guessed correctly. Give only an ambiguous nonverbal confirmation. So just to remind you of what the prompt is. Yes, kind of law. Because the whole Democrat apparatus is pushing against election audits. And also, I'll just add, changed all the voter laws and took away all the election

integrity measures just about. And in some cases, violated the state constitution to give certain groups advantages in certain political parties advantages in there. We can say with relative certainty that any election. in 2020 was just uh not super legit so you make your guess but no verbal I won't promise I won't say anything I think I'm answering it the right way just take a drink that was the best drink yeah we have to deal with this with Prager U all the time I mean we can't say anything can't well yeah you can say but you can't say you know you gotta you can't I mean we can't

even say we don't do charades anything no no it's horrible pull three syllables yeah exactly CBD oil. There's a lot of questions about weed today. Yeah, wait a second. What are we saying about Mr. Witt? You guys, hold on. I am from Colorado. Yeah, it's true. Smoking the gongerman. CBD oil is more effective at treating, insert any and all claims than the masks are at stopping the spread of COVID-19. Oh, yeah, for sure. It's not even close. I mean, I would, I give my dog CBD. Doggy CBD. He's got social anxiety. So it helps him. And I think that that's more effective than the masks. I tried putting a mask on my dog too, and it didn't do it.

If it does anything that is either neutral or positive, it is definitely more effective than the mask. Yeah, if it doesn't do anything, it's more helpful. Okay, we're getting down to the final ones. John McAfee did not kill himself. Pretty clear answer. Yes. That dude. He said repeatedly.

Tatted it on his arm. Yeah. Yeah. Isn't that weird, though, that we're just all like, ha-ha, you know, John McAfee obviously was murdered by his enemies in prison, just like Jeffrey Epstein obviously was, and we're just like, ha, ha, ha, ha, you know, that's the way it works, I am contemplating getting a I did not kill myself across the forehead. Because it's getting to a point where you can't be trusted. Well, McAfee actually wrote, he said that he was getting messages from various people, and who know, maybe it was just a big troll, but I don't think it was, where he said, we're going to kill

yourself. We're going to kill yourself. Oh, man. That dude was always kind of a loose can. He was, he was. He was crazy dude. But. No way, no way. All right, here we go.

I like this one. The producers know me very well. Man on the street journalism is similar to being a model on Instagram. You know what? Listen, me being attractive helps the views for the man on the street, okay? Me having great hair makes people want to talk to me. Yeah, yeah. No, I, yes. Like, I'm not, I'm not disputing that. And also, being an Instagram model is often fairly lucrative. Like, it's like a, it's a very effective way of communicating. Yes. If I was born hot with double D's and a woman, I would be a billionaire. I mean, the things you can do on Instagram. These days, these days, you could well claim to have been born hot with double D's and a woman. Yeah, don't, don't, don't, uh, stereotype me, okay? Don't, don't, uh, stereotype me, okay? Don't, don't a stereotype. Don't, don't Yeah, don't assume. Don't assume. They're underneath this jacket.

Before you show me, I suppose we should. We'll take a ticket, right? Yeah, great. Behind the scenes.