Comedian Ari Shaffir Drinks & Answers Tough Questions: YES or NO
Comedian Ari Shaffir steps into the hot seat with Michael Knowles for a wild, no-holds-barred game of YES or NO—with stiff drinks on the line! From the toughest moral dilemmas to the most outrageous questions, nothing is off-limits.
Will Ari take the easy way out, or will he face the hardest questions head-on? Watch as the conversation takes unexpected turns, filled with brutal honesty, laughs, and a few drinks along the way.
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Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better.
My guest today is comedian Ari Shafir, whose new Netflix comedy special, America's Sweetheart, is out now.
We'll get to see a teaser later.
How do we play?
I will ask Ari a yes or no question.
He will select his answer.
Away from my prying eyes.
Then I will guess how he answered.
If I guess correctly, I get a point.
If I guess incorrectly, I lose a point.
No matter how I guess, I will probably drink.
Then it's Ari's turn.
Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand.
The questions cover various and sundry topics, from the philosophical to the anatomical and everything in between.
Whoever has the most points wins.
The stakes could be higher.
Let's get started.
Ari, thank you for being here.
That was great.
That was great.
That's a fancy looking drink.
It's a godfather.
It's the Padron in South America.
I've got a martini, though.
I don't know.
I think someone slipped a Mickey in it.
It's kind of fizzy.
Yeah, I don't know.
I rarely see a bubbly martini.
Okay, I always say chin-chin to your health.
You can't really cheers them.
Okay, that's good.
I always say if you...
If you win, you get to drink.
If you lose, you have to drink.
Okay.
I want to stumble out of here.
Do you believe that to be a real comic, you cannot be offended by anything?
Do you believe that to be a real comic, you cannot be offended by anything?
They're good and shuffled?
Yeah.
Okay, so that's your guess.
Okay.
To be a comic, I think you're going to say...
It's tough, you know?
To really understand the question.
You have to figure out double negatives.
What the other guy's going to do.
I think you say...
No.
A comedian can be offended by some things.
No, okay.
The answer's no.
You're correct.
So there are some limits.
Yeah, who says you can't be offended?
This is, sometimes you hear this, oh, pure, beautiful comedy.
Someone can walk up and call your mother a whore and you have to applaud them for it or whatever.
Oh, we just prefer people not be offended, but you can get offended just like leave.
Yeah.
It's alright.
You can be offended.
Yeah, my friend made a joke about 9-11 and there was somebody in the audience and he goes, my brother died 9-11.
And he was like, oh.
This is never going to be for you.
You've got to get out of here.
We're all going to be enjoying this.
You're not going to enjoy this.
You can't tailor that joke to that guy.
Comics get offended too.
Like lame jokes.
Comics get offended because of how lame they are?
Yeah, sometimes it's like, you see a roast, that's the best.
You see a roast, somebody makes fun of you, but they'll do something bad, but then you know you're on camera, so you're going to go, ha ha ha.
Yeah, that's offensive when it includes you two.
You know, you're part of it.
You're sullied by it.
I don't mind bad jokes as long as I don't have to be part of it.
Alright, now you're up.
Okay.
Take your game piece away.
Damn, nice.
Okay, production value on this is wild.
You guys can't see it.
I thought these were going to be printed on here.
That's brand name Scotch paper.
It's not even a full tape.
They really narrowed it.
Jews and Palestinians could solve their differences by bonding over their mutual love of digging tunnels.
This is a comparison I have made a lot of times.
And by the way, Mexicans, you're invited to the table.
Jews and Palestinians could solve their differences by bonding over their mutual love.
Of digging tunnels.
Yes or no?
Could Jews and Palestinians solve their differences?
bonding over their mutual love of digging.
Almost.
Yeah, that's a lot to the question.
Could they solve those differences?
Do they both love digging tunnels?
What if they both don't?
Still, I guess they could.
Okay, I've got my answer.
You either think that they could solve their differences through that.
I think you're...
I don't know enough about you.
I think you're the kind of guy who says, get them to the table, we can work anything out.
So I'm going to say that you say, yes, they could solve those differences.
There it is.
We got a game!
They could, because the other thing is, right now, we're thinking two-dimensionally.
You know, we're thinking...
But really, what if you change the direction of the tunnels?
So, like, for instance, the Palestinians are digging tunnels into Israel.
What if they dug them into Egypt or something?
The Palestinians get their tunnels.
The Israelis get rid of the Palestinians.
Everyone's happy.
Everyone's happy.
And then they can have, like, a guest speaker, like someone from Vietnam.
Yeah, like let me show you about some barbecues we had down there.
You can really doll it up.
You guys are just using it for transport.
You can live in these things.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow, that's beautiful.
Yeah.
Okay.
A homeless person started the LA fires.
The only way I could really know is if I'm the one who started them.
And then it would be, am I homeless or not?
Really Cartesian, yeah.
Okay, let's see.
The homeless person started the LA.
Put these here.
These are the actual ones.
Okay.
Yes.
Oh, I don't know.
but I believe it was PG&E. - You do, yeah. - With our constant lack of safety measures.
Did you think it was PG&E or even like Newsom himself?
Oh, Newsom went in there and just started.
Yeah, basically, yeah.
Burn it all down.
It could also have been a fat chick who's learned to be okay with her body weight, having her thighs go together so fast that eventually it will start.
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
With jorts or something.
It just creates a friction.
Yeah.
But she could have a home.
She could be housed.
Oh, right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I really don't know.
I don't know.
Yeah, it's funny, though.
Everybody went right to, like, who did it.
Like, hey, go help them, though, first.
First time I ever went to LA, I went up.
I said, I want to see the Hollywood sign.
I love cigars.
So I go up.
I went up there for the first time.
Did you?
I lived there for 12 years, been back for 10, and I never was up there.
It's like New Yorkers with the Empire State Building.
If you're there a lot, you don't go.
But I went up.
And I said, that's really cool.
And you know what?
I'm going to smoke a cigar.
And all these, they're screaming at me.
I said, what's the matter?
They hate smoking?
I was like Steve Martin in The Jerker.
This guy hates cans, you know?
And I'm smoking my cigar.
And then I realized it's because it can...
Burn the whole city.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can't even smoke cigarettes in your car on the way up.
The windows up.
Yeah, they're like real strict about it.
Yeah, yeah.
Do they find out who actually started it or is it just a bunch of theories?
No, it's going to be like Notre Dame Cathedral.
They're going to be like, wasn't it the Muslims?
And they'll be like, no, it was just a random cigarette or something.
No one's going to ever find out ever, but it was probably the homeless.
I will say, it might not have been PG&A, but PG&A has started over 1,000 fires.
California.
So, why would you think it's not?
Yeah.
You're right.
That's called a lead, boys.
The world would be better if everyone had at least one psychedelic trip.
Now, what do I know about Michael Knowles?
Is he straight edge?
Michael, before you answer, I'm going to tell you something.
Okay.
Do you believe in God?
Do?
I do.
God makes things for reasons.
We can't know them all, but he makes things for a reason.
Yes.
Why would he make mushrooms if he didn't want us to take it?
Answer your question.
Wow.
That's a lot to think about.
It's kind of leading the witness, you know?
The world would be better if everyone had at least one psychedelic trip.
I gotta say yes.
It'd be crazy not to think that.
It would obviously be better.
There's only one acceptable answer, Noles.
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
How would it not be better?
How wouldn't it be improved?
You talk to God.
He said, pick up the phone.
I want to talk to you.
But he also created, like, you know, I don't know.
Avocados doesn't mean I want to eat them.
They're no good.
But if everyone had access to avocados, it wouldn't be better.
Yeah, but now they won't because Trump is slapping tariffs on.
You think it wouldn't be better, though?
No, because I'm going to quote Paul McCartney here.
Paul McCartney gave this story.
He said, John said, if you have some LSD, then it'll rewire your brain.
And I thought, well, my brain's all I got.
I don't want to lose my brain, man.
And that's kind of how I feel.
I was really tempted by psychedelics.
Because listen, back in my wayward youth, man, I had a few puffs of the devil's lettuce every so often.
A couple of jazz cigarettes.
But I had a bunch of friends that got really into acid.
And mushrooms.
This is the thing, though.
All it takes is one, man.
And then I take some tab of acid, and then I think I'm a banana and start peeling my skin off.
Only for like 10 hours.
It's not forever.
What's it like?
You just remove yourself from your ego.
You get to view the whole world without connection to it.
And so you can look at yourself with like, oh, that's a guy who's just going through this.
And you're not trying to defend your own actions.
So you're like, oh, that guy should tell his friends he loves them more.
That guy meaning you.
You, yeah.
You know everything about that guy.
You know a little bit about lots of people, but you know the most about yourself.
Yeah.
But because you're, like, trying to defend your actions all the time, I don't know if that's the ego or whatever, but, like, then you don't, you know, improve.
But if you can, like, even play golf?
Yeah.
Play best ball?
I don't know.
Well, do you hit a shot and then you decide which shot to hit from there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everyone ends up, there's some point in the golf course where you hit one here in the sand close and I hit one further away in the fairway.
And we both argue about which one's ball is better.
And you're both defending your own ball.
But if you looked at it with like, I don't know, here's two balls, we'd agree.
Would you agree?
Yeah, you'd agree.
That one's better or that one's better.
But because you're like looking at your own thing, you want yours to be better.
So with mushrooms, it takes away the ability.
Did you find, this is my big objection, mushrooms.
I've had friends who got into psychedelics, and one thing they tell me...
One, though.
One.
One time.
Psychedelic.
Yeah, okay.
One thing they tell me is, you know, man...
I've heard this from multiple people.
I mean, I'll talk the same way.
They'll be like, you know, man.
They'll say, I just felt so much more at peace with myself.
I wasn't so worried about sin and guilt and shame.
But, man, I think...
Guilt and shame are great.
I'm very pro-guilt and shame.
My superpower, I don't like superpower reading not to be able to feel shame.
It's good for a comedian.
Yeah, exactly.
Karen, you got it.
Alright.
Is this racist?
Now we're going to watch a video.
This is, hold on.
I need help to build a deck.
Yes.
They think they're coming over to my house to fix my death.
What they don't know is that we're not going to my house.
We're going somewhere else.
I'm not going to ruin the surprise, but we'll be there in a minute.
I remember this video.
Yeah, it was earlier pre-YouTube.
Oh boy.
Was this like E-Bound World or something?
- I am...
That was a long time ago.
I didn't realize I was in the presence of royalty.
Yeah, thanks.
This is every 14-year-old boy's, like, first foray into the internet.
That was an amazing bit.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was pretty funny.
It was out there.
We did it for National Lampoons, and then it was, like, right at the beginning of, like, E-Bounce World.
Yeah.
And somebody ripped it to the internet.
YouTube.
It was early, early YouTube.
So people with no context, people are like, what the F is this?
That was a great bit.
Yeah, thanks.
Thanks.
Okay, I think you'll say it's racist.
And here's why.
Not what you're thinking.
Here's why it's racist.
It was just a racial joke.
Those people all got, you know, gave them all 50 bucks.
That wasn't actually a...
A sting operation?
Yeah.
It was a library in Van Nuys.
It's because...
I still have that shirt.
That was over 20 years ago.
And I'm a Jew who still has an article of clothing from 20 years ago.
And that is racist.
Not against the Mexicans.
Not against the Mexicans.
In the last place you'd look.
Anti-Semitism.
Yes.
I remember watching that the first time.
I thought, this is a very anti-Semitic video.
It's so obvious.
Wow.
Amazing.
That one got me a lot of death threats.
Did it really?
Oh, yeah.
My friend Duncan Dressel put up...
It was like early internet, man.
It was so fun.
And he just put in...
Artistic terrorism was his website.
He put in like, hey, prank call my friend Ari Shaffir.
This was before that came out.
Prank call my friend Ari Shaffir.
Best one.
You record it.
I'll give you 20 bucks.
And so then that came out.
Everyone started Googling me.
I used my real name.
Dumb.
And then the first thing would come up was like, Ari Shaffir with phone number.
So I would just start getting phone calls.
Like, I'll build a deck in your ass, Holmes.
It was so great.
I'm like, what is this?
Wow.
Fast forward to the Trump era, you know?
You're on the winning side now.
It's got new life.
You're right.
Nice kids like it.
Oh, here we go.
Oh, this is great.
Is this gay?
- Wow. - Buddy, there's only one right answer. there's only one right answer.
Yeah.
Now, hold on.
I got to guess.
I know.
I got to guess.
Be a man.
Own up to what you did.
Own up to your crimes.
Own up to your crimes.
And the production value.
All of you were part of that.
It's obviously gay.
It's so freaking gay.
It's gay.
Oh, my God.
It's not straight.
Wow.
Now...
Wow.
How did you not get deported from a...
From a music town for that.
I'm going to tell you though, I am fine with that being gay.
Yeah.
Because I want to reclaim the word.
You know, gay means happy and delightful.
And right now, like for instance, have you heard this term, the woke?
No, it means lame and retarded.
And that's what that was.
Well, but even...
I was thinking about this the other day.
I was thinking about this.
So, gay is like happy and delightful.
I can't even look at you.
No, and listen, I don't...
My shoes are brown.
I'm not even wearing the suede ones now.
You're not wearing socks!
Yeah, well, I'm still not wearing socks.
And I can do a little pas de bourree.
So, you ever heard of the woke, right?
Have you heard of this new phrase, the woke, right?
I love it.
It's like the fascist.
It's Karen's on the other side.
But if it means that the extreme, edgy, hip, that means that woke is the new based.
Woke is the new base.
Woke is the new base, which means straight is the new gay.
And then I was even thinking the etymology of the word.
Can I use a naughty word?
There's a lot of dancing around an apology.
Can I say it?
Maybe they can bleep it out.
The word, etymologically, it's related to fascist, like a bundle of sticks.
But it means something different now.
Well, that's what I'm saying.
Can we reclaim the word?
Instead of being based, straight, patriotic, should we be...
Is it now cool to be woke, gay?
No.
Sexual.
That had nothing to do with that.
That whole thing was gay.
The production value was gay.
The little wink thing was gay.
The thinking you're awesome, that was gay.
That was from start to finish gay.
I can see someone goes, hey, how about we do a take where you get on the table?
It's gay!
They're gay for suggesting it.
You're gay for doing it.
That's gay.
I'm out of here.
Here's my only defense.
My only other defense.
Throw yourself at the court and the mercy of them.
They initially wanted me to wear a turtleneck, too.
So that's a little straighter than that.
Yeah, thanks for fighting back.
Alright, well, I take my licks.
And by the way, I'm not gay, even though my boyfriend is.
Alright?
Don't forget that.
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Okay, I've got one for you.
I mean, did Ben Shapiro see that?
He directed that, actually.
He wrote it.
We've overcomplicated cancel culture.
It's not about the left or right.
It's really just Kobe Bryant fans.
Wow, what's your answer?
I say...
Should I get one of those martinis?
I kind of want a godfather.
Yeah, let's swap these.
I'd get a godfather.
I'd get a little backup godfather.
I gotta catch up.
I say you say yes.
No, there is no cancel culture.
It's a geezer term.
That's about five years ago.
Literally nobody's talking about it anymore.
Why did it end?
Because it's like every word.
You guys expanded it so much.
It's expanded so much so it has no meaning anymore.
Nazi, fascist.
It doesn't mean the same thing.
So you have different people arguing about different meanings.
So like, is this guy a Nazi?
I'm going, clearly yes.
A Holocaust survivor's son.
I was like, clearly no.
And we'll never communicate.
We're talking about different things.
And that's what happened here.
You'll never have an ability to work again.
Some people say that.
Other people are like, are you losing work over it?
Other people are like, is it just mean you got in trouble?
So we're all talking about different stuff, so they just kind of went away.
Just do your work.
Yeah.
Yeah, I agree.
I think 15 years ago, people would be like, you're a racist.
No, I'm not.
No, I'm not, man.
Seriously.
But now, you're a racist.
Sure.
Who even cares?
Whatever.
It's the dumbest issue in America, and we're constantly talking about it.
Okay.
I'm giving you that.
I'll admit when I'm wrong.
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Being a female comedian isn't hard.
Oh boy, this is going to go somewhere.
They're like, why would you not go to...
And they offer me this.
They're like, are you sure?
I'm like, what do you mean?
Yeah, why not?
What would they make me say on camera?
Being a female comedian is not hard.
You just need to be hefty, dikey, or Jewish.
Wow.
Wow.
Oof.
Hefty?
You didn't shy away from dikey, but you shied away from fat?
By the way, the twist of orange in here, whoever made this, that's a solid, that's great.
A lot of people missed that.
That's an impressive drink.
Okay, I've got my answer now.
I'm going to say, what would you say?
That's not what I'd say.
Not what you'd say.
You have no ownership of this opinion.
How well do you know stand-up?
I heard you didn't know who Nate Bargazzi was until a week ago.
I heard the name.
He's the number one grossing comedian in the world.
So you don't know anything about comedy.
I know the beginning and end of comedy.
Yeah.
Norm Macdonald.
That's all I know about comedy.
I'm hoping you're going to say, ah, man, yeah.
I don't know.
I think you're going to say yes, but I don't know.
Hold on.
I'm not saying this yet.
It is.
Oh, there's more to it than that.
Because what if you say yes, and then I say no, and then you look like you think it.
So you don't watch any stand-up?
I watch some stand-up.
Just Norm?
Just Norm.
Clips on Reap.
Yeah.
No, some other guy.
sometimes so there's definitely more to it I think you're going to say yes, but there's definitely more to it.
It's just my opinion.
It's just your opinion.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and you say no.
Come on.
You knew the answer.
There's so much more to it.
It's not that easy.
You don't have to write good jokes.
You don't think I know fat, lesbian, Jew comics?
There's so much more to it.
You still got to be able to write a joke.
Would you say at least that is the minimum condition required?
No, you can be hot now, too.
Everything's different.
Dane Cook changed everything.
It's not for dorks anymore.
There's, like, attractive people come into this.
I hate it!
I think it's gross.
I think it's gross.
This was the calling card.
And now it's all different.
These people, like, have nice hair.
They look like you!
It's so much harder than that.
That's another old one.
That's another old one.
That's not my opinion.
10 years ago term.
Actually, the guy whose opinion that was, he wrote an essay in Vanity Fair.
He's been dead for like 10 years.
Michael Hutchins?
Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens.
His view was that they have to be hefty dyke.
It was a long time ago.
After that started, so let me just tell you what happened.
After that started, a bunch of women who hadn't even started yet got into stand-up.
Not because of that, but it.
So, these 15-year comics that are now running the world were post that.
Who?
Because I could name some exceptions to the rule, but exceptions prove the rule.
Who are the female comedians who are funny, who are actually funny?
And they can even be TV comedians, they don't have to be just standing, who don't fit one of those three categories.
Hefty, Adrian's fat.
Michelle Wolfe?
Michelle Wolfe?
And you would say she's funny?
Oh yeah, she's great.
Really?
Yeah, she was like the best female comic in the world at some point.
She was definitely famous.
No, you see her Netflix stuff.
Really?
Okay, I'll take your word for it.
She goes like the white chick so hard.
Really?
She speaks for all of us.
Because we can, you know how they're like, well, you can't say that about black people or the military.
You're not in there.
She's the white chick going, you have to calm down.
She was all of us.
Yeah.
She's a great example.
Okay.
Yeah.
There's so many.
I was human.
There's just like a ton in New York.
It's like...
All right.
When I used to work at the comedy store, people would call in, I'd work the phones, they'd be like, is Jim Carrey going to be there?
I'm like, no.
They're like, how about Eddie Murphy?
I'm like, no.
And then it was like, how about this?
And it was like, hey, listen, anyone you've heard of is bad now.
It is not a current stand-up comic.
The real stand-ups are in it now.
Yeah, of course.
But I also know a lot of lesbo comics that are really funny.
But that's not the requirement.
But no Jewish.
That's a geezer take.
I get it.
You're just not around stand-up.
I should have known that would be the take.
I'll take the points.
That's fine by me.
There is a video to be played.
It is absolutely wild times.
It really, really is.
I was there for this.
Really?
I was.
It's the only Trump writer.
It's rare that you will play a homosexual comedian on this network.
There's literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now.
Yeah.
I think it's called Puerto Rico.
Okay.
All right.
Tony rules.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's one of my best friends.
Technically speaking...
Is Puerto Rico, in fact, a floating pile of garbage?
I have to guess how you would guess.
Is technically so.
So we're talking geology here.
Dude, I'm already Jewish.
You don't have to try to educate me.
So the answer you would say is yes.
No, it doesn't float.
What?
That's crazy.
Do you think, oh my god, that's so sad.
Buddy, do you think islands float?
Oh, I'm really sorry.
No, it goes all the way down.
It's just garbage to the seabed.
It was the only Trump riot.
How was it?
So, the way they played it, you'd think he was doing a buddy routine with Trump on stage.
That was like six hours before Trump got there.
So he goes, he gets there, and he does this whole 30 minute thing about it.
And he gets there and he goes, hey, I'm here.
I have these notes I wrote on this tiny piece of paper because I can't let the lady next to me see what I'm writing on the plane.
And he goes, do you have the teleprompter?
And they go, no, it's too late for that.
He goes, oh, all right.
Well, I got to memorize these jokes real quick.
And they go, when am I going?
They're like, you're going first.
And he goes, oh, that's no way.
I'm a dirty comedian.
He goes, I don't go first at night.
It's like nude.
It's nude.
What a terrible order.
He said he saw afterwards everyone coming in with all the tweets were coming in, like, how dare this guy?
And then he looks up and there's a magician on stage.
He goes, why is that guy not before me?
He's doing, like, paintings.
So how did it go?
So I had just gotten there.
You've got to figure out, he's playing at this point.
It's Madison Square Garden.
80% is empty because people aren't getting there for four more hours.
So I'm there at this point.
I mean, there are still a lot of people.
I don't know, 2,000, 3,000 people.
Yeah, but in a 25,000 theater.
By the way, the last time he was there, he performed for his sold-out match.
For his show, yeah.
So it's like, he's going into this jarring thing, but I thought it was so great.
Did you watch any of it, or were you kind of glancing at it?
Yeah, I mean, I was there, I was like getting my, whatever, hot dog for a drink.
But I was listening to it, and I was like, oh, this is different.
And it reminded me...
I remember Jon Stewart reacted to Clint Eastwood doing the empty chair bit at the RNC. And everyone was piling on Eastwood.
And Jon Stewart said, oh man, I loved it.
It was so refreshing.
It was so different than anything you hear at these.
Yeah, try something.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was so funny.
I had friends there.
They'd go like, no, you did well.
Yeah.
And they're just not really mic'd for...
Yeah, yeah.
No, in terms of just the people sitting around me in a largely empty stadium.
Yeah.
They loved it.
That was a straight send-up job.
Political people suck.
They were just like, let's just offer this guy up.
Who cares if it's true or not?
Let's just misrepresent what happened for our own personal game.
It's all Game of Thrones, right and left.
You guys are all doing Game of Thrones stuff.
Also, though, that joke.
Do you know any Puerto Ricans who were offended by that joke?
No, well, I make a point to not be around.
No, no, any Puerto Ricans.
I do know what.
His father was stabbed.
Forget that stereotype.
Luis Gomez.
But no, no, none.
Also, there's almost no undecided voters at that time.
And they try to broaden it from Puerto Ricans to all Latinos.
And other Latinos are like, you know, a lot of us hate each other.
Most of us, actually.
You guys are acting like one unit that's all going to be offended by humor.
It was so dumb.
It really made me hate all politicians that they'll do this to my industry.
Take it out of context and intention.
Offer someone's whole life up.
Yeah, of course.
Because you've got to figure, at that point, it was two weeks before the election, so the Dems were like, well, whatever.
We're going to treat that guy like he's Trump's vice president.
He's the running mate.
Exactly.
It's funny.
Some comedians got upset about it.
Really?
And I tried to reach out to them compassionately.
Not publicly.
They got upset by the joke or the fact that he did a gig for Trump?
Yeah, that's what it came down to.
They're like, it's racist.
I'm like, it's not.
It means this and this.
And also, Tony's obsessed with the...
Refuse problem in Puerto Rico.
They actually have abandoned the nation state.
I don't know what you call it even.
I'm also living in a very liberal area in Manhattan.
And when Trump said that Puerto Rico is not part of America, and everyone's like, all the liberals are like, is that wrong?
It's crazy!
How dare you?
They were just coming out right then.
It's a protectorate?
Is it a principality?
But they see him as Hitler.
As Adolf Hitler.
And it doesn't matter what the joke meant to them.
You're trying to get Hitler back in charge of the United States of America.
Right.
So to them, it's like, joke work?
Joke not work?
What does that have to do with it?
So you can't get through it.
Same thing, they're speaking different languages.
He could have gone up and said why the chicken crossed the road, and you would have had half the country furious at him for it.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, exactly.
Why are you even there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can't even hold the door open for that.
I mean, and imagine if they really believe that.
It's like the guy who shot up the...
We brought a shotgun to the pizza gate place.
Yeah, right.
He really thought he was trying to free kids.
Yeah, right.
Like, you're doing the right thing, morally.
Yeah.
You were just misinformed.
Yeah, the premise might have been a little askew.
And when they told everybody, this guy's a racist, he's trying to get Hitler elected.
They're kind of doing the right thing.
If I had to be compassionate.
Yeah.
They're like, oh yeah, that's bad.
Yeah, they're like the guy who shot up the pizza gate place.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
That's a compliment, I think.
Yeah, I don't know.
People who shoot up abortion clinics do.
They really think it's murder, so it's like, I get it, but don't.
Yeah, you may.
I want to, yeah, here we go.
Ooh, snacking olives?
Are those luchies?
Yeah, okay.
Thank you, sir.
This is good stuff.
Wow.
So I had that.
I traveled all over.
I was in Ecuador for like six months during the pandemic.
The industry was done.
Yeah, why not?
Yeah, gathering was over.
And Padrones is huge in South America.
Are they really?
Yeah, named after the Godfather.
A lot of Italians, you know, made it that way after a certain global conflict down to Argentina and those areas.
Oh, wow.
Oh, maybe.
That might be it.
Okay, Europe.
I'm feeling the tension now.
Now I'm going to play the game.
This network is great.
Was this a tad transphobic?
Play it.
If it is false, and for the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.
The whole preposterous ideology at every level.
Transphobism should be...
Trans...
Transgenderism.
Transgenderism should be eradicated.
Transgenderism.
Was this word tad?
Was it a tad?
Tad.
Was this a tad transphobic?
Okay, I'm gonna...
And I'll put my answer...
A tad.
I know as Yost, you want to be like, not at all.
But was it a tad transphobic?
Okay, I've got my answer, dude.
It's gotta be us.
It's gotta be a minimum a tad.
Not even a smidgen.
Not even a smidgen.
You wouldn't even get a tad?
Because to be phobic, to be phobic, it has to be an irrational fear.
But that was a very rational statement.
Wait, phobic is irrational?
An irrational, like arachnophobia is the irrational fear of spiders.
So it's just a fear of spiders.
I believe it has to be irrational.
Like, I can't be lion-eat-my-face phobic, because a lion might eat my face, you know?
I think it's got to be an irrational.
What can you be phobic of?
You can be phobic.
Well, of spiders.
So what would that be?
Phobic of like dangerous spiders.
That would be reasonable, I guess.
Common sense.
Okay.
So I think.
Got me on the phobic.
Because.
Got me on the phobic.
Yeah, right.
I say it's got to be reasonable.
But it's definitely not.
It's not pro.
Phobic is not a fear of gays.
It's a rational fear of gays.
Now, I have a very rational fear of gays.
Like that they might, you know, make my style better or, you know, decorate my neighborhood.
Thank you.
Well, you saw the video earlier.
I should have known how you were going to ask.
There was no way you would have said that.
Okay.
You're up.
Phobic is irrational.
Is that true?
Can we look that up?
Yeah.
I want to recount on this.
This is a rapid fire round.
I will read three questions, one after the other.
You will have 30 seconds to answer all three.
The clock starts.
Now, are some religions better than others?
Yes.
Do ghosts or other supernatural entities reveal themselves at cemeteries?
Yes, sometimes.
For RFK Jr. to make America healthy again, he needs fat shaming to come back.
To make America...
Does he need that in order to make America healthy again?
You know, obviously.
That's obviously he does.
Obviously.
He can do it another way, too.
It would help.
It would help.
He could, yeah.
Wow.
All right.
This godfather.
He can do it other ways.
Rapid fire.
Boy, buddy.
Please don't put me in trouble.
Is Louis C.K. overrated?
No, he's not.
No, he's not.
He's not overrated.
Do you think Diddy killed Tupac?
No.
It's more than likely, yes.
Yeah, probably.
I thought he had him killed.
I don't think he did enough.
Yes.
Republicans should forgive Bud Light.
No, Transizer Bush needs to be made an example.
I should not.
I'm answering my own answers.
Wait, so hold it.
I need a napkin.
Look at this disaster.
How are you supposed to move fast with a martini glass?
It's the least functional glass in the world.
That was so great for the back half of the game.
Final question.
Both answer.
Mm-hmm.
Went on to rush, right?
We're not in a rush.
Do you think President Trump will make it to the end of his term?
I mean, this asks a lot of questions.
One, about the state of health care for elderly people in the United States.
Also...
What happened to American marksmanship?
It's been on the downturn.
So that's another extenuating circumstance.
And Iranian marksmanship.
Yeah, and access to golf courses seemed pretty easy.
Maybe they should have more security on those.
So you're thinking, or will he just be like, actually, this sucks.
You guys suck.
I'm out.
Also possible.
At the inauguration, I could have easily said, I'm going, nope, not doing it.
Fight it out.
I'm done.
Give me that pension.
So, Will, do I think you think, and do you think I think, that President Trump will make it to the end of his term?
What does Daily Wire think?
Specifically me?
There might be different opinions of the Daily Wire.
You're Italian.
I'm Italian.
Can I ask a second true or false question?
You may.
For not points?
No.
Were you ready to tell the American public that your original name was Cannolis?
It was anglicized at Ellis Island.
It was initially Michael Chocolate Sprinkle Cannolis.
Yeah.
And you just changed the spelling.
I did.
I did.
But it is Cannolis.
If you look in the old parish register in Sicily, it's Chocolate Sprinkle Cannolis.
Okay.
K-postrophe-N-O-W-L-E-S. Cannolis.
Yeah.
Okay, so will Donald Trump make it to the end of his term?
What do we think that you'll say, and what do I think that you'll say?
You got your answer.
All right.
Yeah.
Wait, wait, wait.
This is for game.
This is for the game.
Do I think you think Donald Trump can make it to the end of this term?
I mean, they're coming after him hard.
Got an extra game left.
Mm-hmm.
You think that guy, he's dead now, right?
But do you think that guy is, like, in heaven or whatever, in hell?
Which one?
Jimmy Carter?
The first one.
Biden got his ear.
Biden?
Oh, that guy.
Yeah, that guy.
He's like, oh wait, I got him votes?
Yeah.
I'm dead and I got him votes.
The most meritorious thing that guy ever did.
Okay.
I think you're going to say yes.
We're both right.
Okay.
Wait.
So we tie.
It's a tie.
It's a tie at zero.
It's a tie at zero.
Which is really what politics is all about.
When you don't get anywhere ahead by engulfing yourself in this negative...
Yeah.
You're all time zero.
Both right and left.
Go outside.
Talk to your friends.
Call your mom.
Do something of merit.
Certain roses smell well.
Other roses smell terrible.
Yeah.
What roses smell terrible?
Well, none smell terrible.
This is such a good metaphor for politics.
Yeah.
We've been here for like an hour.
Everyone loses.
Nothing has been accomplished.
Nothing was accomplished.
Nothing happened.
I know somebody who was setting up a provisional government in Afghanistan in the army.
It's been a year.
He was there, stationed there for one year.
Yeah.
And they had to negotiate on what's the percentage of Shiites, percentage of Sunnis, or percentage of, there's another group.
What are like the, I don't know.
Yeah, I think it was the Orthodox Jewish Muslims.
And they had to like, no, no, we should have a higher percentage.
We should have a higher percentage.
No, that should be lower.
And then finally, finally, after almost 11 and a half months, agreed, all right, these are the percentages.
Like, fine.
Okay.
Have a weekend.
On Monday, we're all going to meet.
It'll be our first meeting.
And they go, I'm not sitting in the room with a Shiite.
And you're like, oh.
And then his tour was over and nothing was accomplished.
And we're getting there.
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People are going to get killed.
So, who better than a child?
They don't contribute to the GDP, like, at all.
Guys, I'm joking.
I hope you understand that.
But when you couldn't kill Asian people for three months, four years ago?
I've been having so much fun.
I've been shoplifting, like, a lot.
Black people, you gotta be white someday.
It rules so fucking hard.
It's the best.
Black people, honestly, I hope you get white privilege someday soon.
But until that happens, man, you make excellent decoys.
If I'm at CVS and three brothers walk in, I'm like, it's go time.
Nice.
Nice.
Thanks.
Good promo.
Nobody plays this stuff.
Having not won or lost this game, I was feeling totally neutral, but now I feel actually a lot better.
I can't wait for that special.
Watch it.
It's fun.
It's about ignoring politics.
Good.
Finding better things to focus on.
Blessed you to be avoiding all the nonsense.
That's great.
Ari, thank you, sir.
Thanks, Michael.
It was a pleasure.
It was cool.
Yeah.
It's a great piece.
And guys, everyone in the audience, you're going home with a yes or no card game.
