The Michael Knowles Show

The winning won’t stop. Can’t stop, won’t stop. Following up on shredding the Iran nuclear deal and freeing American hostages held in North Korea, the Trump admin captured five of the top commanders of ISIS. Plus, we’re winning the culture bigly. Then, James O’Keefe talks about his latest sting to take down teacher unions! Finally, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

1/5 of Americans and 1/3 of adults under 30 describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious,” which is to say, they don’t care very much about God, but they find themselves very interesting. We will discuss this postmodern theology with Tyler Blanski, author of “An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance.” Then, President Trump secures the release of three American hostages from North Korea, our National Guard protects our border, and last night’s GOP Senate primaries show good signs for Republicans in November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S. is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, torching the sole foreign policy achievement of Barack Obama and relegating Mr. Obama’s entire legacy to the dustbin of history. Then, Antipope Rihanna shows up in a bedazzled cassock and mitre to last night’s Met Gala, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” We’ll discuss the danger this poses to the culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emmy-, Grammy-, and Golden Globe Award-winning millionaire actor, comedian, writer, director, producer, singer, songwriter, rapper, and DJ Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino has a new song out about how terrible America is. What incredible luck. Ta Nehisi Coates slams Kanye West for pushing "white freedom", just a week after TMZ producer Van Lathan slams Kanye for “morphing into something that is not real.” But who’s really keepin’ it real in 2018? Then, lots in the news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this National Day of Prayer, Michelle Obama refers to herself as our “Forever First Lady.” Thankfully, she’s actually the Never-Ever-Again First Lady. Israeli PM Netanyahu reveals Obama practically gave Iran nuclear weapons and threatened the world order. Thankfully he’s not president anymore. Finally, we rejoice in the media fallout of Kanye West’s newfound conservatism. A lot to be grateful for this National Prayer Day—plus, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kanye West has said the only slavery in America 400 years on is mental imprisonment. He's entirely correct. Who knew that in an age of sexless Boy Scouts, senseless Democrats, and Californians banning Christian books, a frequently incoherent rapper named Kanye Omari West would be the voice of one crying out in the wilderness? Then, on This Day In History, J. Edgar Hooker and the all-powerful FBI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today’s show will be all about sex, hedonism, and free love because I’ve got a month left of bachelorhood and I need tips on how to live it up. Speaking of hippie communes, today is May Day, which is celebrated by pagans and communists alike. Lucky for us, in the United States, we celebrate a very different holiday today, which we’ll get to in This Day In History. Finally, on cults and culture, new studies reveal an epidemic of hatred and loneliness in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michelle Wolf is not a comedienne. We'll explain why her schtick bombed, the difference between comedy and Important Comedy™, and why the Left can't tell jokes. Then, my latest video on leftist abuse of language for PragerU! (How do we get it to Kanye?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pope Francis praises exorcism as demand for casting out demons skyrockets. Meanwhile, a new archeological dig has uncovered the largest mass child sacrifice in the history in Peru. These days, governments rely primarily on socialism to murder their citizens’ children, but the UK has promised to study the pagan bloodbath for helpful tips. At Yale, scientists have resurrected a decapitated pig. At a NC prison, a transgender inmate sues to practice witchcraft. We cast out cultural demons, ancient and modern. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kanye West turns his conservative Republican talk up to 11; our conservative Republican president has made even the socialist president of France love us; and a new study shows global warming alarmism is largely nonsense. Then, Hotep Jesus comes on the show to discuss trolling white liberals at Starbucks. TL;DR: Conservatives are finally winning the culture! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

George Bush has received an outpouring of prayers, affection, and support as he recovers in a Houston hospital from a blood infection. Meanwhile, British bureaucrats are trying to kill a two year old baby. We analyze the modern West’s bizarre take on life, death, and expertise. Then, is there a terrorism double standard when it comes to reporting on attacks by Muslim radicals versus lunatic non-Muslims? Finally, on this day in history: the Armenian Genocide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Groundhog Kanye has seen Red Pill Black Candace Owens’s shadow, which means we can expect six more years of Trump. Political pundits in the mainstream media can discern the face of the sky, but they cannot discern the signs of the times. We will discuss why with Salena Zito, author of the new book “The Great Revolt: Inside The Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics.” Then, what Kanye West, Shania Twain, and Coachella can tell us about 2018 and 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I am joined today for the full show by monster Owen Benjamin. A man so terrible that he suggested we shouldn't shoot toddlers full of hormones and try to change their biological gender. We talk about that and more on today's special episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I’ve been drinking since 6 this morning. You know why: it’s Tax Day. It’s the Fourth of July for Democrats. But for Americans who work it’s terrible. The greatest shame of all is that it was actually Republicans who gave us the income tax. We will analyze why and how that happened. Then, what ever happened to libertarianism? We’ll discuss with former Marine, foreign currency trader, and libertarian broadcaster extraordinaire Jason Stapleton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hypocritical Left and excitable Right are losing their minds over President Trump’s successful order to attack Syria on Friday. We will analyze the case for the strikes, how bombing the Middle East is an American tradition, and why everybody should just keep calm and covfefe. Then, despite the constant negative press, Trump’s approval rating tops 50%. Finally, on This Day In History, the inauguration of George Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new survey by Claims Conference finds that many Americans are forgetting. 31% of Americans and 41% of Millennials believe fewer than two million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, when the actual number is around 6 million. 41% of Americans and 66% of Millennials have no idea what Auschwitz was. And 61% of all Americans don’t know that Hitler was democratically elected. We will take a moment today to recall not just the history of that terrible event but the 2,000-year record of Germany being the worst country in the history of the world. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An explosive new report by a Broward County student details dollar-for-dollar, failure-by-failure the corrupt decisions by Superintendent Robert Runcie and the Broward County School Board that led to the shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in February. Then, Paul Ryan quits Congress, the Feds raid Trump’s lawyer, and we might go to war with Syria. there is simply too much news for one man to cover, plus I missed the girls, so we’re bringing on Liz Wheeler, Roaming Millennial, and John Hirschauer for an expert Panel of Deplorables. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg will spend two days on Capitol Hill getting grilled over why he had the audacity not to rig social media against conservatives. We’ll analyze why conservatives are so much better at the Internet. Then, Dan DiSalvo joins to talk about the upcoming Supreme Court threat to government unions. Hooray! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Politicians from both parties harp on the opioid epidemic. But America’s drug problem goes far deeper than prescription painkillers. We’ll analyze how and why the U.S. became a nation of drug addicts. Then, Frank J. Flemming joins to talk about his new novel Sidequest: In Realms Ungoogled. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Planned Parenthood branch in Pennsylvania has demanded that Disney start giving its princesses abortions, meanwhile our friend Jordan Peterson seems to think that nobody would ever consider abortion a good thing. We’ll discuss with Faith Moore why everything not forbidden is compulsory. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did Christians shift pop music shift from sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll to themes of faith and devotion? We’ll discuss with Mark Joseph, author of “Rock Gets Religion: The Battle for the Soul of the Devil's Music.” Then, a caravan of over 1,000 illegal aliens want to invade our country, as the MSM steadfastly deny any problem. China strikes back at U.S. tariffs, and finally, hope for the future! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The majority of college students oppose free speech, according to recent polls. Yet left-wing commentators want to gaslight us all and insist that the campus free speech crisis is nothing more than a myth. We’ll analyze the facts and discuss what can be done about it with North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a driving force behind the “Restore Campus Free Speech Act.” Then, a history of Free Speech Movement, and why leftist activism relies on lies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Easter! To celebrate, Michael sits down with American Orthodox theologian and scholar David Bentley Hart to discuss his new translation of the New Testament. Then, after all that Good News, a bunch of politically bad news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The smash-hit return of Roseanne to television, which blew away ratings expectations this week, is great news for Donald Trump and the most important political opinion poll in years. We will analyze what Roseanne’s return means for Trump, “nostalgia TV,” and the American people. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are race relations getting better or worse under Donald Trump? The inimitable Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson joins to discuss race and sex in the Trump Era: all 56 genders and every race, from white to black to orange. Then, a word on Cambridge Analytica and the media blackout of Trump’s possibly denuclearizing North Korea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has called for the repeal of the Second Amendment, and conservatives keep defending their Second Amendment rights on the Left’s terms. But even a cursory review of the numbers show America does not have a gun problem. Then, on this day in history in 1973, Marlon Brando ruins Hollywood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A $1.3 billion omnibus budget that preserves and expands Obama era initiatives has conservatives wondering: with Republicans like this, who needs Democrats? Is it time to turn on Trump? We analyze the budget and the state of conservative policy alongside Howie Carr, author of “What Really Happened: How Donald J. Trump Saved America From Hillary Clinton.” Then, three cheers for John Bolton! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the Umayyad invasion of Tours in 732 through the ISIS bombing of Paris just a few years ago, the West has faced a lot of violence from the Religion of Peace. We’re joined today by Brigitte Gabriel, author of “They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It.” She discuss her firsthand account growing up in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War and the devastation that religious ideology has wrought on her own life and those of her family and friends. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lefties, desperate to point to a non-Muslim terrorist, are calling the Austin bomber a terrorist. But there's no evidence he was one. We discuss why and why the distinction matters. Then, Frank Furedi, author of “Populism and the European Culture Wars: The Conflict of Values Between Hungary and the EU,” joins the show to discuss another terribly abused “ism,” populism and what it means for the democracies of the West. Finally, some news, and one of the great poems ever written, by Rudyard Kipling, on “World Poetry Day.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An atheist, a vegan, and a CrossFitter walk into a bar. I only know that because they told everyone within two minutes. Bestselling author Anthony DeStefano joins to discuss his latest, “Inside the Atheist Mind: Unmasking the Religion of Those Who Say There Is No God.” Then, why people are killing themselves on International Day of Happiness, Facebook is in trouble because conservatives used it better than Democrats, and Google is trying to shut down right-leaning news sites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” That’s the title of Jordan Peterson’s new book, and we’re lucky to have him on to cure the ample chaos on this show, which is an antidote to order. It’s a runaway bestseller. We will discuss why as well as how you can find order and meaning in this chaotic, desiccated, soy-boy culture of ours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’ve been talking a lot about China and of course about Russia. What about the Middle East, that place we've fought the longest war in U.S. history for the entirety of this century? We’ll be joined by Major Scott Huesing, a retired U.S. Marine infantry officer and author of “Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of U.S. Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City.” He'll explain why he’s glad Tillerson is fired and more broadly America’s future in that God-forsaken sandbox between Europe and Asia. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Students across the country are cutting class today, and the mainstream media couldn’t be happier! We will discuss the national student walkout to infringe on our civil rights in the broader context of the ignoble legacy of student activism in America. Then the most important takeaways from the special election last night in Pennsylvania and why I’m happy the Democrat won. Finally, I defend United Airlines after a puppy died on one of their flights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Little Rocket is burning out his fuse out there alone. Sanctions, missile defense, and a CIA director as the nation’s new top diplomat. We will discuss President Trump’s eagerly awaited meeting with Kim Jong-un, Rex Tillerson’s dismissal, and how China fits into all of this with Steven Mosher, author of the upcoming book Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order. Then, some thoughts on Islam and Hillary Clinton. Which poses the greater threat to Western civilization? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh away. Big tech giants are clamping down on conservatives, with catastrophic results. We’ll discuss with Austin Petersen, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri who was just banned from Facebook for running an AR-15 campaign giveaway. That’s my kind of campaign. Then, my grand theory of Trump headlines, tariffs, the UK deporting that vicious terrorist Lauren Southern, and we come full circle with FDR’s fireside chats on This Day In History! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy National Women for Trump Day! We’re going to be joined by a wonderful national woman for Trump, Tana Goertz. Tana is a business woman, television star on The Apprentice, and Senior Advisor and Spokesman for the Trump 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Tana led President Trump’s campaign efforts in Iowa, which he won despite the state going twice in a row for Barack Obama. We’ll discuss the campaign, staff shakeups, and Republican chances in the next election. Then, my favorite international women, and finally the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How did the Parkland shooter slip through the cracks of the Broward County school district? We’ll discuss with Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden and then take on education policy more broadly. Finally, the news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Juanita Broaddrick joins the show to discuss her firsthand experiences, outlined in her new book, “You’d Better Put Some Ice On That: How I Survived Being Raped By Bill Clinton.” The Clintons, the #MeToo movement, feminist hypocrisy, and more. Then, the news! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The South African parliament voted last week to steal white farmers’ land and redistribute it to black South Africans. The motion was brought by the radical leftist EFF party, whose leader promises to “cut the throat of whiteness.” The land theft was supported by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress party, leaving just one question: has South Africa just destroyed itself? We will discuss with Lauren Southern, the filmmaker behind a new documentary "Farmlands." Then the Boston Massacre on This Day In History! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We’re joined today for the full half hour by Professor Alvin Felzenberg. Professor Felzenberg is the author of “A Man And His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. We will discuss the founder of the modern conservative movement 10 years after his death, what WFB might have thought of President Covfefe one year in, and what the conservatives of today can learn from our forebears. And if he won’t talk about all that, I’ll smash him in his damn face, and he’ll stay plastered…then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students return to school today, two weeks after the horrific shooting. We will talk with one of them, Kyle Kashuv, not about guns, not about his thoughts on public policy, but rather about his experience of media outlets like CNN and Hollywood celebrities preying on his community. Then, we expose the real forces behind gun control efforts in Parkland and why they’re doing it. Finally, CNN analyst Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling clarifies his comments on full semi-auto weapons. We will clarify his clarification, which is really an obfuscation, because CNN belongs to its father and when it lies it speaks its native language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Shall not be infringed." Seems simple enough, but nevertheless Democrats persisted in trying to rob words on their meaning. Fortunately we’re joined today by Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA to discuss what the Second Amendment means. Then, CNN invents a new class of firearms, Sheriff Scott Israel vindicates Jeff Sessions, and the Heritage Foundation says Trump is outpacing Reagan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cynical Democrat politicians who failed at every level to prevent the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are now excusing everybody who had anything to do with preventing the shooting and placing all of the blame on the NRA, a civil rights organization that had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting. This is par for the course for Democrats, who have long pushed gun control to oppress blacks and other minorities. We will analyze the racist history of gun control and the purpose of the Second Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN and mean girl Jake Tapper last night pimped out traumatized kids to hurl vile and dishonest insults at Republicans and supporters of the U.S. Constitution for a fact-free hour on national television. Meanwhile, Republicans and conservatives resort to their evil facts and data and logic to point out that there is no gun homicide crisis in America. Those monsters. We will discuss the current state of gun demagoguery with senior editor of National Review Ramesh Ponnuru. Then, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What should conservatives want in the age of Trump? We will discuss with the great Mike Franc, research fellow and Director of D.C. programs at the Hoover Institution, former policy director and counsel for House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and from 1997 to 2013 VP of government relations for the Heritage Foundation, where he managed all of the think-tank’s outreach with Capitol Hill and the White House. Then, Democrats use traumatized kids as human shields to infringe upon our civil rights, a Catholic’s take on Billy Graham, and the greatest Olympian since Orsippus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Michael Moore colluded with the Russians! Or at least he was a useful idiot exploited by them. And we have photographic evidence. None of this should surprise us, however, as the American Left has been working with Moscow for over a century to undermine American institutions and culture. We will analyze this latest episode and the long history of Democrats’ colluding with Russia. Then, on This Day In History, what we conservatives can learn from American colonists’ adopting the Indians’ practice of scalping to fight against them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Statue-toppling, shrieking girls, white supremacists, safe spaces, trigger warning, and English degrees without Shakespeare. Somehow one institution has become a focus point for all of these atrocities. We ask: is the Ivy League destroying America? Then, Washington's Birthday on This Day In History! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mitt Romney is running for office again in some other state he moved to five minutes ago. In other news, the sky will appear blue today, and water will remain wet. We will analyze the many, many faces of Mitt Romney, what the inevitable Senator Romney means for the Trump administration, and why Republicans need more conviction politicians and fewer squishes dynastic liberals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Demagogic leftists have wasted no time in pouncing on the horrific massacre in Florida to demonize conservatives while offering not one single solution that would have prevented the violence. Lefties insist we need to ban gun; conservatives say we need to lock up lunatics. We will analyze the nuts and bolts of the gun control debate point by hollow point. Then, our youth culture correspondent Andy Millennial joins the show to give a young person’s perspective on the violence, policy proposals, and the future of conservatism broadly. Finally, the Mailbag! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices