The economy for which, as the mainstream media have been telling me for months and months, Barack Obama is solely responsible and Donald Trump is not in any way responsible has tanked. We’ll analyze why stocks are down and, most importantly, who to blame. Then, Michael interviews Future Michael to celebrate his 100th episode. Amanda Prestigiacomo and Josh Yasmeh join the Panel of Deplorables to discuss Harvard’s banning all single-gender clubs expect the female ones, the English teacher who was fired for telling a lesbian student that God loves her, and satanic yoga. Finally, Ronald Reagan's birthday and doctrine on This Day In History.
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The economy for which, as the mainstream media have been telling me for months and months, Barack Obama is solely responsible and Donald Trump is not in any way responsible, has tanked.
We will analyze why stocks are down and, most importantly, who to blame.
Then, it's our 100th episode.
To celebrate, we'll be using Daily Wire's incredible streaming technology to interview future me, Michael, from the 200th episode.
Boy, that is going to be great.
I can't wait to see how incredible our show looks by the 200th episode.
Marshall, isn't that going to be great?
Yeah.
I can't wait.
Then, Amanda Prestigiacomo and Josh Yasma join the panel of deplorables to discuss Harvard's banning all single-gender clubs except for the female ones.
Equality.
Hashtag equality.
We will also discuss the English teacher who was fired and reported to a counter-terrorism agency for telling a lesbian student that God loves her.
And finally, satanic yoga.
Then, because all nature is but art unknown to thee, this day in history is both Ronald Reagan's birthday and, 73 years later, the day that the Gipper announced the Reagan doctrine.
We will cover it all.
I am Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
There is a lot to get to today, especially me interviewing me from the 200th episode.
That's gonna be pretty wild.
I've never seen something like that before.
I wonder how much bigger our studio gets.
It'd be nice to get out of this broom closet.
We'll probably even be on network television by then.
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Okay.
To celebrate our 100th episode, we are lucky enough to be joined by a no-doubt illustrious guest.
He was not easy to find, but through our state-of-the-art Daily Wire technology, we are going to speak with Michael from the 200th episode.
Do we have him?
Let's have him, let's bring on future Michael.
Michael, Michael, is that you?
Subscribe to michaelnollshow.trash and keep my tumbler filled with grain alcohol.
We'll be right back.
Michael, Michael!
Not again, buddy.
Not again.
I'm not doing that again for less than $20.
Cash!
I don't care.
Is that me?
Yeah, Michael, it's me.
It's me from the 100th episode.
I can't hear you that well.
Holy!
How much covfefe did I smoke?
Am I dead?
Oh, finally.
Oh, finally, yes!
Yes!
Oh, yes!
Thank you, you merciful!
No more of this hell!
This hell I walk through day by day!
Oh, thank you!
Michael.
Michael, you're not dead.
Michael.
Michael, I am you from the 100th episode.
Are you doing some kind of shoot for the 200th episode?
The 200th episode!
Did you think Shapiro would let you get to 200?
I guess I'm not the only one puffing on fifth.
No, you didn't make it to 200 episodes.
200 episodes.
What do you mean I didn't make it to 200 episodes?
Oh, Michael!
Oh, you stupid swarthy lout!
You thought you made it!
Well, here's an idea.
How about you have some your stupid sketches?
You got a podcast about politics!
People wanted to hear about politics and culture and history!
But no!
You wear your stupid sweaters and your stupid bow ties and you're on a little...
Yeah, it looks like the feed is cutting out.
It looks like the feed's cutting out.
Marshall, Marshall, it looks like the feed's cutting out.
All right.
Let's talk about the economy.
Man, does future me have alopecia or something like that?
That's very scary stuff.
Okay.
The Dow fell by 1175 points on Monday.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I said that wrong.
The Obama stock market fell by 1170 points on Monday.
We're just going to get fact, fact, fact here.
This is not looking good for the future.
In the Obama economy.
It's the Obama economy, right?
President Trump has nothing to do with it.
That's what Democrats have been yelling and telling me for a year.
So Obama actually handed over a wonderful economy to Trump.
An administration that has done not very much to contribute to this strong economy.
The economy was in a ditch, and Barack Obama pulled it out the ditch, shined it up, put us back on the road, and took us to another level.
Donald Trump is riding the wave of the success of President Obama.
He has done nothing to contribute to the success of the economy right now.
Works for me.
But if, unlike Democrats, I'm being honest, the story is more complicated.
The Dow fell 1,175 points yesterday.
The market sell-off began last week.
It sped up on Monday, which affected global markets.
Yesterday's drop was the single largest day drop in the Dow's history.
The S&P 500 had its worst day in seven years.
Market volatility has been accelerating in recent months, jumping by more than 100%.
Japan's Nikkei dropped 4.7%.
That was its largest single day drop since Brexit.
Markets in Hong Kong, Europe, and the UK also tanked.
Then this morning, the Dow dropped another 500 points.
$4 trillion was wiped away from global markets yesterday.
Bitcoin is down to around $7,000 after hitting nearly $20,000 in December.
I know it's shocking that a thing that's completely fake and made up has crashed.
So more importantly, whose fault is it?
Well, I am more than happy to follow the lead of Democrat hacks on TV and start calling this the Obama economy, but the situation is much more complicated.
And with any complex system, like the U.S. economy or the global economy for that matter, the president has some influence.
The previous president has some influence, and on many counts, the president has nothing to do with it.
So, of course, President Trump has been touting the record market highs since he's been in office.
This is understandable, but ultimately it's not a great strategy because if you take credit when the market soars, you're going to have a more difficult time explaining why it's not your fault when the market tanks.
I spoke to some friends of mine in the upper echelons of high finance, or as I am told to pronounce it, finance, in high finance.
Their expert analysis of the market drop is that nobody has any idea what's going on.
That's the best they can give me.
Sounds about right, you know, because financial analysts are like sports analysts and political analysts.
They have no idea what's happening and most of their predictions are wrong.
And then they just keep showing up to work and people keep listening to them for some reason.
So...
There is one theory that's interesting.
There's one theory that there are a bunch of short volatility strategies that are driven by algorithms.
So when prices fall abruptly, that actually triggers more selling.
So it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and feeds on itself.
And it gets you crazy drops like we saw yesterday.
So in this sense, we can't really blame Obama or Trump.
Artemis Capital Management explains it like a snake eating its own tail.
So in extreme heat, a snake's metabolism will spike out of control, and in this mania, it will be unable to differentiate between its tail and food, so it starts eating itself until it dies.
Like this, in a market where both stocks and bonds are overvalued, a feedback loop of very, very low interest rates, debt expansion, asset volatility, and financial engineering will cause volatility to reinforce itself both lower and higher.
It's too bad that we don't have one of those precious metal companies right now that's sponsoring the show.
I guess we would be selling precious metals like gangbusters, but sad, missed opportunity.
What can we do?
Donald Trump certainly gets credit for certain aspects of the economy.
He gets credit for consumer confidence.
He gets credit for the repatriation of corporate funds held overseas, for cutting the corporate tax rate to make the U.S. competitive.
He gets credit for economic growth at levels that Barack Obama's own economists said were impossible.
Donald Trump gets credit for those things.
Even the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, admits as much.
A couple of weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal pulled 68 business, financial, and academic economists as to whether Trump gets credit for the strong economy.
The majority of them agreed that he does.
That said, markets correct themselves.
This happens.
Analysts have been predicting this for a long time.
HSBC says the correction is long overdue.
The S&P was up 8% in January.
That doesn't go on forever, I'm sorry to say.
You aren't going to get 8% a month for the next 11 months.
The Dow's fall on Friday was an ominous 666 points.
Probably not a good sign.
Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel actually thinks the correction could be a good thing.
Even up to a 10% fall, we still won't have a bear market in 2018, he says, and that would be good because we need to get through more months, about, what, eight more months now, of at least the appearance of a strong economy, or else the perception will become the reality of electing Democrats.
I promise you that will not be good for the economy.
So let's talk some news with the panel.
That's on the markets.
I wanted to just break that down a little bit because we're going to be hearing a lot of ridiculous partisan nonsense on both sides of the aisle for a little bit, and I at least want you to know...
I want you to have some honest partisan nonsense.
I want you to know where your propaganda comes from, honestly.
So we have the lovely Amanda Prestigiacomo and the decidedly less lovely Josh Yasma.
Thank you both for being here.
The first question.
Harvard University has banned all gender-exclusive clubs on and off campus, except for the female ones.
But all of the other ones, for instance, they have banned the male organizations and they've banned the men's clubs and the guys' groups they've banned and the fellas' lodges.
All of those are banned.
It's just the female ones that aren't.
The move hits fraternities, but really it's directed toward Harvard's final clubs.
This is kind of like the secret societies at Yale, and it's these prestigious clubs.
I actually have some experience of Harvard's final clubs.
I was not allowed into one during my junior year of college.
We were up in Cambridge for the game and I drank a lot of Four Loko when that was still legal.
A lot of caffeine and malt liquor or something.
And I repeatedly blew a vuvuzela into some Harvard guy's face and then they wouldn't let me into their club.
So this is karma, guys.
This is what you get for not letting me in, as far as I'm concerned.
Amanda, women are allowed to keep their clubs, but men are not.
The logic here is that Harvard men have privilege, true, but women enrolled at the oldest university in the United States.
Harvard women somehow do not have privilege.
This seems to tie in a little bit with the narrative here that men are predators who must be castrated and all women are victims.
A poll shows 31% of female Harvard students claim to have been sexually assaulted on campus.
Whatever that means, whatever sexual assault means to say.
What is going on here?
Is Harvard Yard more dangerous for women than downtown Fallujah?
That's what those studies would tell you.
But as we've seen time and again, a lot of those studies are super broad and ambiguous.
Like, for instance, if you had sex and then you regretted it the next day, that would count as you being sexually assaulted or, you know, raped.
So there are endless people.
I know George Will did a really good piece on this, just debunking a lot of those surveys.
So no, that's not the case.
And by the way, if that's the case, then if regret constitutes a sexual assault, then Josh has got to be the most wanted man in the entire country.
I'm sorry, I finished your point, Amanda.
Yeah, so you can't look at those surveys with any objectivity.
And then also, it's just funny to see this.
This is like the status of feminism today.
It's like cafeteria style feminism.
So, you know, we're exactly the same.
You know, there's no difference between men and women.
So, you know, we're going to have all these policies that there is no difference.
So there can't be a man's only club, a woman's only club.
But at the same time, we want the women's club because we want special treatment.
Like, it's like really patronizing and weird how everything's the same.
We still get the good stuff.
Like, We, you know, we're in a lower standard so I can fight in combat, but at the same time, I better not be in the draft.
So it doesn't make any sense.
You kind of just like, cafeteria style, pick what you want.
And that doesn't make any sense.
That's why you have to subscribe to real feminism, which acknowledges that men and women are different, though they can be equal under the law.
Real feminism, which is anti-feminism, and we need equality so that we can treat people with special privileges so that we can have more equality or something.
Josh, Barack Obama's Centers for Disease Control spent a million dollars on a study to reduce rigid masculinity.
Now, I'm not suggesting you're an expert on this, but why does the left...
Why does the left hate men and masculinity?
I'm being very mean to Josh today.
That's not good.
Why does the left hate men and masculinity?
Well, first of all, I really appreciated your beard in that future segment.
I knew it was fake because you don't have the capacity to go that kind of easily.
Real nice.
Here we go.
He's getting me back.
So, as far as rigid masculinity, toxic masculinity, I think we need to acknowledge that sexual assault is a problem.
Who doesn't acknowledge that?
I think we need to acknowledge that murder is bad.
I agree.
It's a problem.
I don't think that downplaying it helps.
I think that while these programs may be misguided...
Do you think 31% of women at Harvard University have been raped on campus?
Does anyone actually believe that?
I can't speak to those stats.
Amanda, do you think 31% of women on Harvard's campus have been raped?
No, and there's harm to playing that stuff up as well.
I mean, there's harm to just, because then we have memos from the Obama administration directing people that you don't really need evidence, right?
If someone comes forward, you don't have to tell that person that they've been accused.
We have these kangaroo courts on campus because we overplay this This rape culture nonsense that's backed up by nothing, by these ambiguous surveys.
So it's actually a danger We need to go with the actual facts.
It's a danger to play this stuff up when it's not really there.
That's right, and this actually isn't the craziest example from campus, even in today's news cycle.
An English teacher, like the country, not like the subject, though she is a subject because she's English.
An English teacher has been fired and reported to a counter-terrorism agency because she had the audacity to answer her students' questions about Christianity.
She's now a radicalization threat.
She told a lesbian student that God loves her.
That's what makes her a terrorist.
Amanda, how has God loves us become hate speech?
I don't know.
I mean, in this report, in this write-up, apparently there's an atheist teacher who discusses his views openly, who has said some pretty crazy things.
Apparently he showed the children, I don't know, high school, I think, I don't know how old these kids are, But he showed them a picture of, like, a naked woman or whatever.
He was suspended for three months, and now he's back to teaching.
And, like, you know, that's just like a slap on the wrist.
But if you have a religious person, so you see the extreme bias here, happen to say that they, you know, hold certain views and then tell somebody that God loves them, which apparently is harmful, you know, they're out of there.
That, you know, that's just, it's another clear bias that That we've seen here in the states over and over.
And of course, it's really strong on college campuses.
We've seen that with Ben all the time.
Right.
And Josh, on this point, does this show the silliness and maybe the ultimate futility of a hard separation of church and state?
Do jihadis and Christian teachers who say God loves you pose an equal threat to the public?
So you're talking about the story from the UK, correct?
Yes.
Where she was at a government-funded school, and she talked about her personal views.
She was asked about Christianity, and she answered.
She was asked about her personal views.
Well, she is Christian, so Christianity is her personal view.
Right.
I come from the camp, maybe, you know, I hate to be a contrarian again, but I come from the camp where...
I don't think that a teacher should talk about her religious views at a government-funded school.
So she can't talk about Christianity?
She can't talk about the religion of the West?
Well, she wasn't teaching a segment on Christianity.
She was asked, what are your personal views on homosexuality?
And she answered, and I don't know if that's appropriate at a government-funded school.
So should she have said, I'm sorry, you've asked a question about the Christian sexual ethic, and even though Christianity is the animating force of the West, even though it is the major world religion, I can't answer that question, because if I answer a question about Christianity, the coppers are going to come in and call me a terrorist.
That's how we should run government schools?
Look, this straw man, I agree.
I don't think that she should have been reported to a counter-terrorism organization.
That's obviously absurd.
But at the same time, if you're teaching math or you're teaching geometry, something else, and someone asks a question about your personal religious beliefs, then I think there's a time and a place for that.
And from what I read, it sounded like she...
She went on a tangent.
She didn't choose to go on a tangent.
She was asked a question.
And she said that very hateful statement that God loves lesbians.
That hateful, bigoted statement.
It's a good thing that we didn't have, that our scientists weren't selected based on their religious views and our teachers weren't excluded for being Christian in the beginning of modernity because then we wouldn't have had Isaac Newton, we wouldn't have had Kepler, we wouldn't have had Bacon, we wouldn't have had Pascal, we wouldn't have discovered the Big Bang because we wouldn't have had Pascal, we wouldn't have discovered the Big Bang because George Lemaître was That's probably pretty bad.
We wouldn't have discovered the human genome on and on and on.
It seems to me a totally false separation between faith and reason, between light and truth, between church and state.
Obviously, England is a Christian country.
There is a Church of England.
The Queen of England is the head of the Church of England.
And must we then pretend that the Queen, the head of England and the head of the Church of England, reigns over a country that is totally separated from the religion that animates it, that animates its laws, that animates its traditions and its institutions?
This seems like pie-in-the-sky leftist utopianism.
Am I wrong, Josh?
I think it's a little bit more complicated than that.
I think that, you know, touting the achievements of Western civilization while accurate, you know, it is...
No, I'm touting the Christianity of the great scientists of the West.
The profound Christianity.
Isaac Newton spent years interpreting scripture.
I think the modern UK is a very different place than the England of years past.
That's a true statement.
Holding up a ceremonial post like the Church of England or the monarchy.
The Church of England isn't a ceremonial post.
It's a church.
But they have no political clout.
It's not the same.
You know, the Anglican Church has no political clout.
It's meaningless.
I do think it's meaningless, but I do think it also has political clout because the Queen runs it.
We have to move on.
That is a good point, though, because it has, in many ways, the UK and the Church of England have become husks of their former selves.
Josh may be celebrating, but I'm a little upset about it, man.
Moving on to this final question.
Our pal Matt Walsh, I think we've all seen this article floating around.
He sent out a tweet and became public enemy number one.
Vox.com started writing hit pieces about him.
He sent out one tweet about how ridiculous yoga is and people lose their minds.
Matt Walsh says that yoga is pagan and that Christians should not do it.
Amanda, he's right, isn't he?
Yoga is pagan.
It relates to Hinduism, it relates to Buddhism and Jainism.
The exercise is thoroughly spiritual.
Some of the mantras that people repeat during yoga are things that say, I am the universal self or the unit, whatever, right?
The whole point of yoga is that you cannot separate the physical from the spiritual.
Why do Christians and even atheists indulge the spiritual ritual for their physical exercise?
Shouldn't we just all do Pilates or something instead?
I pretty much agree with Matt Walsh on everything.
I'm very extreme, just like he is open about it.
You know, I know how hardcore I am.
And I initially saw this because he wrote a full piece on it.
And the comments section on it is lit.
If you need something to do for Friday night, read that.
But I was, at first, I was like, okay, this is a little extreme.
This is like a stretch, you know?
But then I read his arguments and lo and behold, I'm just as extreme as Matt Walsh.
It's definitely rooted in paganism.
And I remember when I was in college, I was on the soccer team and they made us take a yoga class.
And I remember being uncomfortable because it was so spiritual.
It's not like it's totally detached from this.
It's not like things that were pagan in the past that have been transformed into Christian practices.
It's not like that.
It's still a pagan ritual and it still practices that in a lot of these yoga studios or even if you do it on your own.
A lot of the poses and the things you say, like when you echo the yogi or whatever, is pagan.
I think his question is, how does this advance your Christianity?
How does this bring you closer to the kingdom of God?
And if you can't, and if it doesn't, then why not choose a different exercise?
That's right.
He's not saying it's the end of the world, you're going to hell.
And they do have these different poses.
They have the downward dog and the sun salutation and the worship ball.
And some of them seem a little more demonic than others.
Josh, you are a decadent pagan, but at least you're an insightful one.
Why do atheists embrace this sort of thing?
Is the cultural fascination with yoga, to play devil's advocate here, literally devil's advocate in this case, and disagree a bit with Amanda, is it possible that the cultural fascination with yoga is a good, if dangerous, phenomenon, in so much as it shows that self-professed atheists in so much as it shows that self-professed atheists and the spiritual but not religious crowd are indeed themselves longing for the spiritual world?
longing for the metaphysical world, longing for God?
I don't think that it's that complicated.
I think that yoga is just a product of cross-cultural communication and what the yoga that's practiced in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle is not the kind of yoga that's practiced at Hindu temples.
I mean, let's be real.
These are, you know, millennial, you know, kombucha drinking vegetarians going and it's just like it's part of their kind of like It's a secular ritual.
It's stripped of all religious significance.
It's not a religious activity.
And, frankly, Matt Walsh's argument is ridiculous.
Like, this is just a fun little thing that millennials do.
Yeah, no, worshipping Moloch is a fun little thing.
No, it's really fun to, yeah, just kneel down before Baphomet.
It's so fun and little.
I do agree with you.
Most of these people are just doing this sort of silly thing on their way between kombucha breaks.
But...
Nevertheless, the point of yoga is that the physical is spiritual and the spiritual is enfleshed and there is a relation here.
And everybody's got to serve somebody.
I think a lot of people can pretend that they're totally independent.
They're totally liberated.
They're above themselves, above it all, floating in this ethereal world.
It's okay if I do something with my body or if I partake in certain activities.
That has no...
Spiritual significance or metaphorical significance or moral significance.
But they're fooling themselves because culture is insidious, right?
Politics is downstream of culture.
And culture and cult come from the same root.
And there's a relationship between what we do in our culture and the sort of things that we think about the world and the sort of things that we worship as a society.
And that relationship should not be downplayed too much.
But listen, guys.
This has been a lovely panel.
It was even nice having Josh, even having you here.
It was very insightful from both of you.
Thank you for being here.
We have Josh Yasma and Amanda Prestigiacomo.
We have got to get to this day in history.
But first, before we can do any of that...
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I don't know much about feminism, and I certainly don't want to, so I'll call up Amanda Prestigiacomo.
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Okay, I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
Before we get to this day in history, this is a good this day in history.
This is a providential this day in history because it's Ronald Reagan's birthday and the announcement of the Reagan Doctrine for my 100th episode.
But if you are on Facebook and YouTube, I'm sorry, folks.
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You get the conversation, which I'm going to be in.
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It's time for This Day in History.
This day in history.
Because nature is but art unknown to thee, and chance direction which thou canst not see, on our 100th episode on this day in history in 1911, Ronald Reagan was born.
And on this very same day in 1985, Ronald Reagan announced his foreign policy program, the Reagan Doctrine, which has been badly misunderstood by his political descendants.
So Ronald Reagan was born a good American boy.
He grew up And became a star of film and television.
I'm sorry, I've lost my place.
Oh yes, he was called a dunce by the left and self-appointed elite conservatives alike.
He entered the Oval Office in an advanced age.
He was divorced and remarried.
He fought cultural battles from the White House.
He frequently added provocative lines to his speeches that drove his advisors crazy.
He affected tax cuts and deregulation at home and strength abroad.
And he restored America's leadership in the world after a disastrous Democrat administration.
Yeah, that's where I was.
That's what I couldn't find.
That sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it?
That must be deja vu.
I don't know.
On this day in 1985, on his birthday, Reagan articulated the foreign policy strategy that would come to be known as the Reagan Doctrine.
He explained, quote, He went on, These lines have regularly been ridiculed in the wake of September 11th.
As we now fight groups of radical Muslims who appear similar to some of the freedom fighters we once supported.
Even though, really, that point isn't even true.
There's this left-wing suggestion that we funded Osama bin Laden in the 1980s.
That's patently false.
But Reagan's words are entirely true.
Unfortunately, they're usually quoted out of context.
The freedom fighters risked their lives to defy Soviet-supported aggression.
To defy communism, our mortal enemy.
The Reagan doctrine does not exist in the ether, floating above reality, above time and space.
The Reagan doctrine guided the country to its victory in the Cold War.
We won the Cold War.
Ronald Reagan won the Cold War, and now we're here.
And we can long for the days of Ronald Reagan.
The Gipper was a great man and the 1980s were a great time.
In many ways it was more sophisticated and it was more polite and it was more civilized.
But now we're in a different time with different priorities and different challenges and different political leaders.
Applying strategies outside of their time and context can prove disastrous as we've seen in several interventions.
Longing for the good old days is the sign of a decadent culture.
A healthy culture moves forward.
Ronald Reagan didn't try to solve the problems of Chester Arthur or Grover Cleveland.
So, too, we should honor the Reagan legacy by living in our own time and space and applying his guiding principles along with timeless philosophy and enduring tradition to the challenges we face today.
To quote two great men, that's the only way that we'll ever make America great again.
That's our show.
That's our hundredth show.
Thank you for being here.
Thanks for watching for these hundred shows.
I appreciate it.
I haven't been fired yet by Shapiro.
That's really nice.
We'll see what happens before the 200th episode.
Really, it kind of worries me, is it?
Can I affect the space-time continuum or anything?
Well, we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
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This is The Michael Knowles Show.
I am Michael Knowles.
Please come back tomorrow.
We'll do it all again.
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