The David Knight Show - Canadians Suggest Stopping a HUGE Export to USA: Porn
Aired: 2025-03-17
Duration: 07:43


=== Ethical Bot Pornhub (06:11) ===

[00:00:07]  It's a proposal from some Canadians, and they've actually started a petition saying, Canada has a nuclear weapon in the trade war.
[00:00:18]  Pornhub.
[00:00:19]  So I guess, you know, if you're talking about a bomb, I guess we could have some blonde bombshells that they want to withhold from us.
[00:00:28]  I didn't realize that Pornhub was Canadian.
[00:00:32]  And actually, it began in Montreal.
[00:00:36]  It was bought in 2023 by a company that goes by the name of Ethical Capital Partners.
[00:00:44]  They bought Ethical Bot Pornhub.
[00:00:49]  And it turns out, why do they call it Ethical?
[00:00:52]  Well, it turns out it's owned by an Orthodox rabbi, Solomon Friedman.
[00:00:59]  Oh, it gets even more interesting.
[00:01:00]  This is far more interesting, actually, than the fact that you've got some people saying, hey, let's cut off Pornhub to America.
[00:01:08]  By the way, in between all of this stuff is MindGeek.
[00:01:12]  So MindGeek was the owner of Pornhub.
[00:01:15]  And then I think there was another holding company above it that had a whole bunch of porn sites.
[00:01:25]  That all got that company, that holding company, was bought by ethical capital partners.
[00:01:31]  Business Insider headline for March of 2023, the fund that just bought Pornhub owner MindGeek won't say who's running the company due to, quote, unfortunate stigma, unquote, says the report.
[00:01:46]  The unfortunate stigma of being a pornographer?
[00:01:50]  This rabbi.
[00:01:53]  It was profiled in the Jewish Independent.
[00:01:57]  A rabbi who, they said the headline was, the rabbi who owns Pornhub.
[00:02:04]  Said he was ordained an Orthodox rabbi, but his day job is a lawyer, and his passion is making pornography.
[00:02:13]  Hmm.
[00:02:14]  Well, hence the name, I guess.
[00:02:18]  Ethical.
[00:02:20]  So, yeah, it's...
[00:02:23]  It's kind of interesting.
[00:02:23]  You know, Oliver Anthony was on the Joe Rogan program a couple of months ago.
[00:02:28]  And they had a discussion about that very thing.
[00:02:31]  In that business.
[00:02:32]  I believe it's one-third of internet traffic worldwide or something bonkers like that.
[00:02:37]  Yeah.
[00:02:37]  Isn't it something like that?
[00:02:38]  It should be more.
[00:02:40]  Let's find out what it is.
[00:02:41]  What's the percentage?
[00:02:42]  And everybody's like, I don't know where it's coming from.
[00:02:45]  It's not me.
[00:02:46]  I've never even seen one of these films.
[00:02:49]  That stuff's terrible for people.
[00:02:52]  It's terrible for some people.
[00:02:53]  I gave that up.
[00:02:54]  I think it's like Adderall.
[00:02:55]  Some people can handle it.
[00:02:57]  That is one thing I had to give up.
[00:02:59]  Some people think they can.
[00:03:01]  Yeah, because it's...
[00:03:01]  I don't know.
[00:03:02]  It does disconnect you from reality in many ways.
[00:03:06]  I think a lot of the weird perversion we see coming out...
[00:03:11]  Now at this point you read about...
[00:03:12]  I mean, I even reference some of it in the song, of course, but you read about a lot of the weird things that people are doing that maybe wouldn't have been accepted 100 years ago.
[00:03:19]  I think...
[00:03:20]  People go down these rabbit holes with porn, and they start off with the video with the milkman, and by the end of it, it's like, where did I end?
[00:03:29]  It's almost like a drug.
[00:03:30]  People have to keep chasing that thrill, and it takes them down very destructive rabbit holes, if you will.
[00:03:35]  It definitely can for some people.
[00:03:37]  I have no issue with anybody watching it, but I hate to read about some of the things that it does to people.
[00:03:43]  It ruins marriages and that kind of thing.
[00:03:45]  I don't know.
[00:03:47]  I think a lot of things ruin people.
[00:03:49]  I think they also should be legal.
[00:03:52]  Sure, yeah.
[00:03:53]  Like, alcohol ruins people.
[00:03:54]  I like the fact that bars are legal.
[00:03:56]  Shit, I own a bar.
[00:03:58]  Alcohol is legal.
[00:03:59]  I like it.
[00:04:00]  It's not good for everybody, though.
[00:04:02]  Some people drink alcohol and they lose their fucking mind.
[00:04:05]  And it's not good for them, whether it's genetically or whatever it is.
[00:04:08]  They can't have a drink.
[00:04:10]  I like a drink.
[00:04:11]  You know, and I support your right to do whatever you want.
[00:04:14]  Like, you know, I think...
[00:04:18]  If cocaine was legal, the same amount of people would probably do it, and it would be real.
[00:04:23]  You'd get pure cocaine.
[00:04:25]  It'd probably be better.
[00:04:26]  We'd probably have better music.
[00:04:30]  Yeah.
[00:04:31]  I don't know.
[00:04:32]  Maybe we could have better podcasts if Spotify wasn't so focused on having somebody who is promoting destructive behavior to people, which is what he's doing.
[00:04:44]  Look, I don't believe that prohibition, as I've said over and over again, prohibition doesn't solve anything.
[00:04:50]  It certainly doesn't solve addiction issues.
[00:04:53]  It doesn't solve sin issues and everything.
[00:04:55]  But just from your own personal standpoint, do you want to be enslaved to something?
[00:04:59]  That's what addiction is.
[00:05:01]  Why don't we just start, instead of calling it addiction, Let's call it slavery.
[00:05:05]  Slavery to sex.
[00:05:07]  Slavery to drugs.
[00:05:09]  Slavery to alcohol.
[00:05:10]  Which is what Joe Rogan is selling.
[00:05:12]  Which is why they pay him something like $25 million a year.
[00:05:16]  And they won't even let me on Spotify.
[00:05:19]  Because he's selling this slavery to you.
[00:05:24]  Slavery of your mind.
[00:05:25]  Slavery of your spirit, of your soul.
[00:05:28]  All kinds of slavery.
[00:05:30]  Oh yeah, some people can't handle it.
[00:05:32]  I can see these people in the gutter.
[00:05:35]  I'm not one of them.
[00:05:36]  Oh, I can handle it.
[00:05:37]  Those are the lies that you tell yourself.
[00:05:40]  Those are the lies that the demons tell you.
[00:05:45]  But they're not true.
[00:05:46]  They're absolutely not true.
[00:05:47]  So Pornhub is the most visited site in the U.S. with more than 3 million views a month.
[00:05:54]  And so, again...
[00:05:57]  That was Oliver Anthony.
[00:05:59]  That was about the time, I guess, that he had his, you know, had everything with it.

=== Ilo's X-Rated Empire (01:39) ===

[00:06:03]  I don't know, how long ago was that?
[00:06:04]  Was that last summer even, maybe?
[00:06:07]  Richmond, north of Richmond.
[00:06:09]  A petition has since been launched urging Canadian authorities to block Pornhub as a peaceful yet powerful response to the trade dispute.
[00:06:18]  Please do.
[00:06:18]  Please do.
[00:06:20]  New Yorkers, meanwhile, were aghast of the prospect of losing Pornhub, whose parent company is Montreal-based entertainment conglomerate ILO.
[00:06:28]  They don't mention the fact that ILO is owned by Ethical.
[00:06:32]  And who owns Ethical?
[00:06:35]  ILO owns a dozen popular X-rated sites.
[00:06:38]  If they take away my access to Pornhub, I'm moving out of the U.S., said one person to the Post.
[00:06:43]  I think this is jokes.
[00:06:45]  Canadians wouldn't do that to us, would they?
[00:06:47]  said another.
[00:06:48]  I thought they were supposed to be nice.
[00:06:49]  I thought we were supposed to be friends until we had Trump in anyway.
[00:06:54]  Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
[00:06:56]  I'm so tired of wearing these same T-shirts everywhere for years.
[00:07:00]  You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
[00:07:06]  And I could...
[00:07:07]  If only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
[00:07:16]  But he told me to get lost.
[00:07:18]  Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com.
[00:07:23]  And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025.
[00:07:29]  At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred.
[00:07:32]  Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
[00:07:37]  I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.