March 24, 2025 - The David Knight Show
05:40
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| They're going to give them a $24,000 bonus, but they've got to break this down so the 18- to 24-year-olds can understand it. | |
| Something that they want. | |
| So what they do is they talk about it in terms of McDonald's cheeseburgers. | |
| I'll translate it. | |
| How many cheeseburgers can be bought for $24,000? | |
| Yes, this is definitely the question from the Ministry of Defense. | |
| Let's go figure it out, he said. | |
| A single cheeseburger is only $1.55 in Ukraine. | |
| So you can get $15,625? | |
| I propose you something else. | |
| To earn a million dollars? | |
| To you from 18 to 24 years? | |
| You want to protect Ukraine and become the military army? | |
| If you want to become a soldier and defend Ukraine, hey, it comes with a bonus of a cheeseburger. | |
| I love the way he says cheeseburger. | |
| Reminds me very much of... | |
| Of what we had with Saturday Night Live. | |
| And that was the guys, remember, they had, and it was actually a real place. | |
| I've actually been there. | |
| Karen and I were in Chicago, and we went to the place where they take your orders and it's, Cheat Burger, Cheat Burger! | |
| That's why he says that as well. | |
| No Coke, Pepsi. | |
| And just barking orders at people and hurrying them up. | |
| Hurry up, hurry up! | |
| Give me your order right now. | |
| That's the way that place really is. | |
| It's kind of legendary there in Chicago. | |
| But yeah, you can get a lot of cheeseburgers there as well. | |
| So the military is trying to recruit people by giving them a bonus and explaining to them what that bonus is worth in cheeseburgers. | |
| Because maybe, since they're connected to the U.S. government, maybe they have a currency that is declining in value as well. | |
| Immense controversy and backlash unleashed in Ukraine after the country's defense ministry decided to make a fresh recruitment video on TikTok, bizarrely using the lure of McDonald's. | |
| Desperately seeking to gain more young recruits in the army's depleting ranks. | |
| Also at a moment, the disturbing video showed conscription officers yanking Ukrainian men off the streets and shoving them into vans. | |
| Remember that? | |
| I played clips of that. | |
| The Great Escape. | |
| You know, they caught these guys. | |
| Going to recruit them. | |
| They're now telling Ukrainians how many cheeseburgers they can get at a McDonald's for fighting Russia. | |
| Isn't that a great idea? | |
| One person said, Getting yourself shot in the trenches for a happy meal. | |
| And yet, here we are in America. | |
| You want to talk about cheeseburgers? | |
| As I said at the beginning of the program, we have DoorDash now doing microloans to people to buy hamburgers and tacos and that type of thing. | |
| One person responded to that and said, well, why stop with just the hamburgers? | |
| And doing microloans. | |
| Hear me out. | |
| A single contract for a burrito is incredibly risky. | |
| Anyone willing to pay for a burrito in installments can't be trusted to pay their debt. | |
| But what if we pooled the payments together? | |
| The risk would go away entirely. | |
| Which is basically what they did with the... | |
| I'm going to invest in some subprime prime rib. | |
| That's good. | |
| Subprime prime rib, yeah. | |
| That's what they do with subprime mortgages. | |
| So, you know, if you've got a whole bunch of really untrustworthy people who can't pay back their loan for their hamburger, you know, like Wimpy or something, if you put all the Wimpies together into some kind of a financial instrument, now suddenly all the risk goes away. | |
| And as DoorDash is selling this, DoorDash and Klarna have signed a deal where customers can choose to pay for food deliveries with interest-free installments. | |
| Or you can pay for it in a long installment with interest. | |
| So when they push this out, DoorDash is using words like empower, freedom, flexibility. | |
| That's how they're selling this to people. | |
| Yeah, it's really empowering to go into debt, isn't it? | |
| Isn't it? | |
| You feel the freedom of debt slavery? | |
| It's everywhere there. | |
| Well, anyway, this campaign is also trying to sell them things like mortgage subsidies and free college education. | |
| But I imagine people who think that far ahead are probably not interested in laying their life down for this war. | |
| So they go for the hamburger approach. | |
| McDonald's has got to get these people to sign up. | |
| Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky. | |
| I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. | |
| You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better. | |
| And I could 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. | |
| But he told me to get lost. | |
| Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com. | |
| And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. | |
| At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred. | |
| Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. | |
| I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events. |
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