Real ANSWERS & Real DRINKS With Nick Freitas | YES or NO
In this episode of YES or NO, Michael Knowles is joined by veteran, delegate, and unapologetic straight-shooter Nick Freitas for a no-fluff, high-proof round of rapid-fire questions. From politics and patriotism to parenting and pop culture, nothing is off-limits—and the drinks don’t help.
Can Nick handle the pressure of the buzzer and the bourbon? Will Michael be able to read him, or will the former Green Beret keep him guessing?
Real answers. Real drinks. Zero apologies.
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Protestants and Catholics need to stop bickering and focus on the real enemy.
The Jews!
No, no, that's the Jehovah's Witness.
The Jehovah's Witness.
Thank you.
Welcome to Yes or No, the Bibulous Battle.
To discover who knows whom better.
My guest today is Nick Freitas, a former U.S. Army Green Beret, current Virginia State delegate.
How do we play?
I will ask Nick a yes or no question.
He will select his answer away from my prying eyes.
Then I'll guess how he answered.
If I guess correctly, I get a point.
If I guess incorrectly, I lose a point.
No matter what, I will probably drink.
Then it's Nick's turn.
Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand.
Whoever has the most points at the end wins.
The stakes could be higher.
Let's get started.
Nick, thank you for being here.
Pleasure, Michael.
Pleasure.
I often have a wager at the top of this show, but I'm going to let the audience in on this.
Yeah.
It's early in the morning.
I was out late last night.
We're drinking.
Martinis, and what is it?
Just bourbon on the rocks.
Burra, Tennessee Mimosa.
Yeah.
At about 8.30 in the morning.
Yeah, allegedly.
So, I don't know.
The only thing I can even think to wager, and it's something I think you'll appreciate, is a box of my beautiful Mayflower cigars.
Oh, gosh.
You're too kind.
Now, I don't know.
Do you have a wager?
I'll tell you what.
So, you have revealed, and I'm now going to reveal to the world, you don't own a pistol.
I don't own a pistol.
That's embarrassing.
You will get a pistol of my choosing.
Wow, alright.
Now, it may have some bling on it.
I don't know.
It could be something embarrassing.
Or you could get something really cool and tactical.
But I think that's unfair.
I would feel bad if I left you.
Wow, I'm honored.
And listen, if you feel gypped or anything at the end, you always give me a cap gun or something.
I didn't say what kind.
This could get really bad for you.
Alright, so if you were a lady, I would say you go first.
We're men.
But you're the ladies.
If I don't own a pistol, certainly.
Okay.
Is Jasmine Crockett more dangerous than AOC?
I need to guess how you will answer.
Is Jasmine Crockett more dangerous than AOC?
Let's say you would say no.
Correct.
That's correct.
Why not?
AOC is actually Jasmine Crockett is very loud, but she also is far easier to caricature, which is saying something because AOC is incredibly easy to caricature, but I actually think she's much more charismatic and she's much more politically savvy than Jasmine Crockett.
Yeah, yeah.
AOC, this is not 2018 anymore.
AOC has grown.
She's gotten better at this.
She's also obviously running for president.
Yes.
Yeah, she's running to be the last president of the Soviet Socialist Republic of the United States.
Absolutely.
So now we both have to drink?
Yes, we both get to drink.
That sounds good.
Breakfast of champions.
You're up.
Okay.
The clearest sign that we live in a new political paradigm is that conservatives are now the ones who love electric cars.
Who would I answer?
I need to figure out how I would answer first before you can guess how I would answer.
I was about to guess.
I was like, he hasn't pushed a button yet.
I'm not doing this crap.
He's gonna change his mind.
Yeah, I think you would say no to that.
You got me.
You got me.
It's close, but I would say the clearest sign for me that we're in a new political paradigm, the clearest sign is that A Kennedy is serving in the Republican administration.
Two Democrat presidential candidates are actually in this administration.
But the second clear is the cultural sign.
All the weird, crunchy, hippie moms are on the right.
They used to be very firmly on the left, but the hippies are on the right.
If you are free-range educating your children while making sourdough, it's like you are hardcore.
You're a fascist.
You are a Francisco Franco following.
Black shirt haven't passed.
Yes, that's true.
So, yes, I agree.
The electric cars, that's definitely not something I saw coming.
I still make fun of my friends who possess them, but you're not the weirdest.
Right, okay.
All right.
Before I state this prompt, we have to watch a video.
Okay.
You said Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide.
People don't believe it.
You know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was.
He killed himself.
Again, you want me to get...
He killed himself.
I don't care what these feds say, Epstein definitely didn't kill himself.
I have to guess how you would answer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's actually phrased.
In a difficult way, because you say, yes, I don't care what these feds say, Epstein killed himself, or no.
I can't tell if it's like a double negative.
I would say that a yes would be agreeing with the statement, a no would be disagreeing with the statement.
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Thank you.
I could use every episode.
I need it.
You don't think Epstein killed himself.
I absolutely do not think he killed himself.
Here's my hang-up.
I don't know Kash Patel personally.
I've heard good things.
I just don't know him.
I do know Dan Bongino.
I've known Dan Bongino for years.
I don't think Dan would lie.
Now, it's possible he got it wrong.
He read a report.
Maybe he's insinuating that Epstein was allowed to kill himself.
So I don't know what to think.
I'm confident Dan would not lie.
I just don't know Cash.
But it is kind of crazy.
Because I was pretty certain he didn't kill himself.
So what's going on?
Again, I don't claim to be drinking buddies with either one of them.
I've met Cash.
I've never met Dan.
I think both of them have always struck me as trustworthy guys and willing to say unpopular things when they believe it is true.
So I'm not accusing either one of them of lying.
But lying implies intention.
Yes.
They could have just gotten it wrong.
Yes.
When cash goes through this whole thing of as a public defender, as a prosecutor, as this.
Well, as a guy that know that politicians love to cover their own ass, there's no way that dude killed himself, right?
Or even if it was one of those things.
Because here's the deal.
You can't technically, at least in my world, kill yourself under duress.
So if it's one of those issues, killing yourself and the way I kind of, the pure It's, I don't want to necessarily do, or I want to die and so I'm killing myself.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
I don't think Epstein wanted to die.
And even if he's the one, let's say he physically caused himself to die, I don't think that was because that's what Jeff had planned that afternoon.
That is a very intimidating analysis coming from a green bread.
Like, Michael, I want to make a distinction here.
You can't really kill yourself under duress.
Alright, you're up.
I think we get to drink now.
Yes, absolutely.
Jeff didn't freaking kill himself.
Alright.
Oh, here we go.
We also have a video prompt first for this.
I can't believe this crap.
22 years of marriage, three kids, two combat deployments, and my wife sits down today and tells me she doesn't love me anymore.
That's not what I said.
What'd you say?
I said I think it's time to shave the beard.
It's the same damn thing.
Okay, with one year of fully committed facial hair cultivation, you, Michael Knowles, could grow a beard.
Okay, with one year.
One year.
Committed.
Yes.
Committed.
There may be ointments.
Just for men, jail.
No shaving on Sundays?
Okay.
I don't think you even believe that.
Wow.
Little faith that we have.
So, what could happen?
I've got a sweet little baby face here.
I can grow a mustache in about 45 minutes.
The mustache I've had since I was like 11 or something.
But the beard, I've always struggled.
So, over the decades, the huge patches, they've shrunk down, but then I still get, even today, I'm 35 years old, I have three boys.
I still get the little patch here, I get the little patch here, whatever.
So what it really comes down to, not to sound like Bill Clinton, Because if you're saying, could I have a beard without a single patch anywhere?
No.
Well, Michael, let me help you.
The definition of a beard, you have before you.
I know.
That's a glorious...
And this is lower scale.
So the funniest thing...
All the razors used to break, until I used Jeremy.
When I was in Iraq, because in Afghanistan a lot of guys grew beards.
In Iraq we grew big mustaches because it was cultural differences.
You wanted the full Saddam.
I had a massive mustache.
This thing was so far out of rigs it wasn't funny.
You know, Portuguese jeans means I also have, like, two huge eyebrows that are constantly trying to fuse.
And so my joke was, it's like, oh, no, no, I don't have one mustache.
I have my eyebrows.
I have three.
Are actually backup mustaches in case we ever got to go to war on three continents.
You're welcome.
That seems like a better post then.
If you're thinking about the global war on terror, and you're strictly judging it by the facial hair.
Yeah.
Less itchy.
Way cooler.
You feel like Tom Selleck in the 80s.
Or Saddam, who had drip.
For all his flaws, the guy had drip.
My nickname to the Iraqis was Abu Schwab, which is father of mustache.
Because I'm telling you, this thing was massive.
My wife, my beautiful bright teen, it is not Mayan facial hair.
When she saw a picture of that, she's like, baby.
That doesn't come home with you.
That's too much.
That does not come home with you.
You're going to end up on Dateline with that thing.
Luckily, you didn't have to shave at all, though, because I assume you had Saddam here, and then it was like Uday Hussain.
I'm keeping these, at least.
Yeah, I got to keep those.
Those even got trimmed down a little bit.
Just like Uday Hussain.
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Now that censorship has been lifted, can we finally admit the 2020 election was rigged?
And I'm not talking about Trump versus Biden.
I mean Freitas versus Spanberger.
Wow.
What would you say?
I think you would say no.
No.
Because, you know why?
Because no politician ever Would publicly say the election was rigged, even though every single election is rigged because of all the shenanigans that go on.
We're talking party committees.
We're talking up to the general.
There's always shenanigans.
This was the advice FDR gave to LBJ when LBJ lost his first big race.
He said, oh, buddy, you forgot to sit on the ballot box.
You blew it.
So you would say, no, it wasn't rigged.
What people generally mean when they say rigged is illegal voting.
Yes.
That's what they mean.
Now, if you want to go through the whole idea that the, and I was there when they did it, where they changed all of the election laws in Virginia during a special election, which legally they should not have done.
Yeah.
If you want to talk about all of the other, you know, crazy, there's one thing, there's one thing that always gives me pause in my particular election.
And that was, we were winning on election night.
We're winning election morning.
I can't remember when exactly it was, day of or day before.
A thumb drive.
An unmarked thumb drive shows up in the bluest county in the district with 15,000 votes.
Now, the voter ID numbers matched up.
Okay.
But some chain of custody issues there.
Yeah, yeah, that's curious.
I once had a reporter sit down and talk about, you know, was the election rigged and whatnot.
I said, look, there's a lot of shady stuff that went on.
We were talking about Trump.
And she goes, well, I just think this is irresponsible.
I said, can I ask you a question?
Yeah.
If Nick Freitas...
Was behind in the polls on election night.
Was behind in the tally on election night.
Behind the next day.
Behind in the afternoon.
And then all of a sudden, a thumb drive shows up that, golly gee willikers, we just missed Mark.
In my home district that is 64% Trump.
And all of a sudden I won.
Would you have written an article on that?
No, that's different.
Yeah, yeah, I probably would have.
But you won't on this one, will you?
And that's why you're a fraud, right?
So, yeah.
That whole thing, it was so amazing.
because the Democrats had to keep up the ruse that there was no question about First of all, they shouldn't exist in the first place.
But second of all, moving them in some cases illegally far away from county clerks with money that came from big tech and Mark Zuckerberg through these left-wing orgs.
I mean, point after point.
Opening yourself up to fraud.
I'm going to say this.
I'm not saying it's not possible that I lost due to fraud.
I'm saying that until I have definitive evidence on something like that, I'm not a sore loser.
It's not even a sore loser.
It's just I don't like...
I can point to all the things that, hey, we could have done this better, we could have done this better, we could have done that better.
So I'm going to focus on things I can control.
It was like Nixon.
I think it's the respectable, manly thing to do.
But Nixon, who very possibly had a presidential election stolen from him, and then had the presidency stolen from him by dirty, rotten, deep state actors.
And this guy never complained about it.
He just kind of took his lumps.
He stepped down.
I wouldn't say he never complained.
I'm sure he privately complained.
I mean, he never went out there, this was a rigged election in 1960, or, you know, these guys threw me out.
He did his one big interview with Frost and just...
And he's like, that guy.
That was like the trial run for 2020.
All right.
All right.
Protestants and Catholics need to stop bickering and focus on the real enemy.
The Jews.
The Amish.
Oh, the Amish.
Hold on.
So we're still targeting Germans.
Yeah, that's good.
Okay, yeah, all right.
The Amish.
Wow.
Really, I have strong feelings in both directions on this.
So I don't want you to think I'm just trying to cheat you out of a point and get a sweet pistol.
Though I'd like that too.
This is a reluctant answer.
The reason I almost said yes is the Amish are Anabaptists.
Yeah.
I mean, second baptism.
And I was once debating this with a Protestant friend of mine, and he said, Michael, we're talking about infant baptism, and some people don't like infant baptism, and I think you should be even baptized again as an adult.
And he said, well, I'm a Protestant, but I don't think that, because the Holy Spirit acts in baptism, and I think, to take it far, to be provocative, I think it could be a blaspheming of the Holy Spirit to be baptized a second time, because you're denying the efficacy of the first.
WE CONFESS ONE BAPTISM FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
I SAID, WOW, THAT IS SOME HARSH, You know, that is some anti-Anabaptist rhetoric.
But the reason that the Amish are not the true enemies of Western civilization is because they are showing an example of a kind of trad life.
The horses and buggies, the great wooden furniture, they raise a barn in like three seconds, big families.
Oh, that's my biggest thing.
It's awesome.
No, the best thing about the Amish is they have demonstrated what an absolute sham...
I mean, like, a barn goes down in Amish country.
It's up the next day.
Why?
No unions, no permits.
It's like Jedediah just comes over with all his buddies.
Boom, that thing's back up.
I mean, look, there's a lot of reasons to appreciate the Amish, even though I might not agree with them theologically.
But are they the primary enemy?
No.
No, that's the Jehovah's Witness.
It's like every time I want to celebrate a birthday party.
Right?
They come in there and tell me I can't.
Never once have I had two Amish people just show up to my door and want to talk to me in the middle of the game.
They never want to talk to me.
No.
It's like you can have a family.
You can have nice things.
You can dress like a respectable person.
It can happen.
Yeah.
And my daughter's like, and they have horses.
Right.
She was sold there.
Yeah, yeah.
She was sold there.
Am I being drawn to Amishism?
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It is time now.
Should I warn them that Nick does not come with the game?
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I come with the erotic one.
Nick, are you ready for the rapid-fire round?
All right, let's do this thing.
See that?
We even changed the lights.
That's how you know it's serious.
What about the stakes?
There are three questions, 30 seconds, no time to outthink each other.
So I read that prompt.
You're going to throw down your answer.
I'm going to guess.
OK.
Is it true what they say about the Navy?
You would say yes, for sure.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
No one should put their kids in public school.
You would say yes?
Yeah, okay.
All right.
I didn't know if there was something like, well, actually, in this one county, Obviously yes.
Yeah.
Yeah, without question.
Alright.
Alright.
It's probably not, it's not easier for the first, like, three and a half years of life.
But then every day after that, it's got to be much harder, right?
Here's the crazy part.
Like, my girls were easy the whole way.
The thing is, is that for a dad, what constitutes harder is what we worry about more.
Yes.
And with my son, like, it was just like, oh, you got hurt?
Try not being a wuss.
What do you want?
Be more competent.
With my girls, I'm like, oh no, sweet pea, are you okay?
And then you have to worry about the boys out there that you might have to kill.
Wow, that seems, I don't know.
It's kind of like the drinks, though.
When you say the boys out there you might have to kill as a father of daughters.
Isn't it more like the guys out there you might get to kill?
One of my more famous coffee mugs is the hardest part about having daughters is having to bury the bodies.
And then it's like, just kidding, it's not that hard.
I kind of feel like you've got some really easy ones there.
Here we go.
Can you be a trad wife?
If you're actively on social media.
I actually think you would say yes.
No!
Let's go!
Michael would last more than three days in green beret training Michael would last more than three days in green beret training I feel like I can answer this authoritatively on whether or not you could.
I think you're going to try to be humble and say no, but I honestly think it's yes.
Do you think I could?
Yes.
I'm happy that I lost that point.
Yeah.
Because the first three days are more like orientation and paperwork.
Just check into your locker.
Fluff your pillow.
Oh, that's cute.
You think we could pillows.
This isn't the Navy, Michael.
Congressmen should have to smoke a blunt at least once before voting on weed decriminalization.
I'm going to say you'd say no on that.
I would say no.
They should be forced to smoke Mayflower cigars every day at their own cost, regardless of legislation.
Wow.
Well, I got crushed in that.
You did, but the questions were easier for me.
Oh, yeah, I figured.
Wow.
I really wanted a pistol.
I, and you think that I could survive the first throw.
That's great.
That's day one.
That's good.
All right.
That's great.
Now, Nick, it is time for the final round.
Okay.
Now it's time.
The prompt will be read.
We will both lock in our answers.
And then we will move our glasses, the opposite glass, to yes or no, based on how we think the other person would answer.
This round is worth double points.
It could change everything.
Who's winning?
You.
I am.
Let's go.
Let's go!
Oh, man.
I'm going to get the nicest cap gun that Walmart has to offer.
This is great.
The war in Gaza will end before the war in Ukraine.
We have to answer how we would individually answer, then move our cups.
Okay.
Now hold on.
Set up the cups here.
Right here on the center?
You would say...
I know, that's more embarrassing than not having a fistful.
But I don't know if you know this, I could survive the first three days of Green Beret training.
I heard that somewhere.
This is, I just want to show, this is, I am humiliated.
Yeah.
Nick has actually done the job and had most of the Tennessee mimosa.
And me, at this rate, I'm never going to get to my olives, which is the breakfast.
So yeah, so we both said, I believe now and I think you would say.
For sure.
The war in Gaza is going to go on until the apocalypse.
Yes.
And the war in Ukraine, it'll go on for a while.
You know, people have been fighting over Ukraine for like 1,100 years.
Sure.
But there are periods of peace, I'm sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
Gaza's not ending until Jesus comes back to tell us all that the Protestants were right.
That the Amish were right.
Like, wow, the Mennonites, huh?
I didn't have that on my card.
The Anabaptists.
All right, now you're up.
Okay, all right.
Come on, this isn't even a question.
If you have sons, you have an obligation to show them a father who is strong both mentally and physically.
Shut up, Davies.
I'm sick of this.
Every time on this show, Davies makes something.
What a freaking, like, here we go.
There we go.
Yes, you do.
And my kids are going to get that because I almost beat my associate producer in an arm wrestle on the air the other day.
So take that, Davies.
And could potentially survive three days of green break.
Three days!
That's the bus ride.
I mean, not consecutive.
Like the first day, the last day of graduation.
Yeah, yeah.
And maybe you could cobble together 24 hours in the middle.
Mostly sleeping.
I would say maybe eating.
I gotta say, I think it's with the way things are going right now, because you know, every time...
I think eventually, Hollywood will agree with that statement.
And the bizarre, unique thing for an actress to do in Hollywood will be to walk out their bold and beautiful heteronormative cisgender child with no mental health issues.
It's like, we named him John with a J. He's neurotypical.
He's so brave.
We support him.
It's true.
Everything old is new again.
Nick, I am really pleased.
I'm really pleased.
I don't want to be a sore winner here, and one might wonder if it was rigged, some of those questions, but I would say my request, I would like a fully Semi-automatic assault weapon that is being produced by every public school in America, handed out to children with their chocolate milk for lunch.
The Democrats told me that's the coolest gun to have.
I promise you, you will have a weapon of war with a grenade launcher, a flamethrower.
I can't wait.
Thank you.
Nick, good to see you.
You as well.
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The penalty for having lint in your pockets at an airport security checkpoint is an incredibly thorough and hands-on investigation of anything close to your pockets.
Yeah, and say what you want about the tactics.
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On the bright side, as soon as I get home back to the wife, we're going to play TSA.
