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The Michael Knowles Show

"Debunking Black History Month" YES or NO: John Doyle

01 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the myths surrounding Black History Month?

0.031 - 14.985 John Doyle

I actually dated a girl one time who was liberal, and we got into it about the trans stuff, and I told her what I thought, and she started laughing at me. And she produced a photo of herself as a toddler, and it looked exactly like a little boy. And I have never genuinely been more scared in my life. I thought I was gonna have to kill you.

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25.917 - 49.478 Michael Knowles

Welcome to Yes or No, the bibulous battle to discover who knows whom better. My guest today is John Doyle. How do we play? I will ask John 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 what, I will probably end up drinking. Then it's John's turn.

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49.458 - 62.458 Michael Knowles

Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand. Whoever has the most points at the end wins. The stakes could be higher. Are we going to make a little wager, Mr. Doyle? Thank you for being here. I'll make a wager, thank you for having me. All right, what's your wager?

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64.461 - 73.255 John Doyle

If I have more points than you by the end of this, you have to drink two of those martinis within a 10 minute time period. Wow.

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75.142 - 83.355 Michael Knowles

That's brutal. That's taken me. What do you want to do? You want a half measure? No, I haven't drunk that heavily in days. So, okay. All right.

Chapter 2: How do John Doyle and Michael Knowles view the significance of Black History Month?

83.436 - 104.297 Michael Knowles

All right. Fine. Fair enough. Maybe we'll even film it when I do it. I think we should. Maybe I'll do it before my show tomorrow. I think we should. And then if you lose, if I win. You, all right, well, you know what, we'll make it even. Then you have to slam two of those fruity little things that you got right there. That's not a martini.

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104.317 - 109.628 John Doyle

It's not a martini. I was told, actually, because of the fruity implication, I was not allowed to join you in having a gin martini.

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109.648 - 117.043 Michael Knowles

That's crazy. People have this misunderstanding. They think that the martini is like a girly drink or something. Yeah. This is the stiffest drink you can have.

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117.083 - 117.484 Unknown

Yeah.

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117.464 - 124.362 Michael Knowles

Properly made, there's like a hint of a whisper of an essence of vermouth, and it's just cold gin with some olives in it.

124.382 - 142.904 John Doyle

Oftentimes when I'm in public and I hear people accusing you of being fruity because of your drink choice, I always refer them instead to things like your intro. Yeah, my intro, my intro. Yes, yeah. It's not even in the top 20. Right. Now, what are you drinking? This is a Tom Collins. So that's just gin, I think some club soda, some lemon. Tom Collins is a nice, good old wasp drink. Right.

Chapter 3: What is the impact of historical narratives on contemporary society?

142.965 - 147.775 John Doyle

I love a good Tom Collins. That's me, a white Anglo-Saxon papist. Yes, a wasp, like Bill Buckley.

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147.795 - 154.214 Michael Knowles

Yes. Speaking of who knows whom better, do you remember where we met? Yes, I do.

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154.355 - 169.557 John Doyle

Do you? Yes, I do. Where did we meet? That was at Matt Walsh's pro-life rally outside of the Planned Parenthood in Pennsylvania. That's right. And that was May, perhaps 2019. And I was wearing the Brett Kavanaugh still like beer shirt. He remembers. Oh, yeah.

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169.577 - 187.243 Michael Knowles

I remember this because I go, the Walsh's, it wasn't just Matt. I think Alyssa was involved in putting this on too. They were going to do a big protest because of this lunatic state representative or something at a Planned Parenthood. And I said, I'll go out for that. That's good. And I'm walking around and I see this kid there. You were then kind of unknown. Yeah.

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187.263 - 200.245 Michael Knowles

And now you got your show at The Blaze, you're a big deal. That's right. But at the time you were kind of, and I looked and I said, you have, I have that shirt. Yeah. And it was just Brett Kavanaugh at his confirmation hearing. Yeah. And the three words are still like beer.

Chapter 4: How do the hosts address misconceptions about famous Black figures?

200.786 - 202.028 Michael Knowles

I said, I like this guy.

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202.008 - 219.89 John Doyle

Yeah, I remember you got into a Twitter spat with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And to add insult to injury, you had a photo taken of you and you were wearing just like college Republican like pajama pants. You had a glass of red wine and you were wearing the Brett Kavanaugh still like beard shirt. I was like, this is what I aspired to be. Yes, I was. So I ordered it.

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220.011 - 241.996 Michael Knowles

I was on vacation with me and my wife, good buddy and his wife. And I was like, I think AOC is picking a fight with me right now as we're sort of having our nice little aperitif. Okay, you understand the rules? I believe so. All right, that's one of us. Find out. I will go first. Do you consider yourself an expert on black people? And this is, I got to answer.

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242.156 - 266.68 Michael Knowles

You put your answer, what you would say about yourself. And now I have to answer how you would answer. Cheers. Cheers. We can just drink now. Chin, chin. You do. You do. And I noticed this because You have an amazing series. That's right. For Black History Month, where you decided you were going to debunk what is known as black history. That's right. Yeah.

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Chapter 5: What role does AI play in the discussion of societal issues?

266.7 - 267.241 Michael Knowles

What did you find?

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267.902 - 283.064 John Doyle

Well, not a whole lot there, I guess. I mean, there's just a lot of stuff that's just plainly untrue about certain inventions that they claim, periods of history that even many conservatives think are things to admire or revere. which are just false, and so yeah, we thought we'd go through the entire gauntlet, and I think we're on day 14 or 15 right now.

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283.084 - 290.533 John Doyle

We're a couple days behind, again, being culturally respectful. We didn't want to be completely punctual in our releasing of these videos.

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290.553 - 304.729 John Doyle

And yeah, I do claim myself to be a sort of expert on the black people whom I love dearly, and it's because I grew up in Detroit around them, and I just understand kind of how their culture functions in a way that many white liberals who accuse me of racism simply don't. Because there's a thing.

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304.709 - 324.431 Michael Knowles

It's not even the history of black people or the history that involves black people, of which many histories partake. There is this thing, capital B, capital H, it gets shoved down your throat by all the liberals in February. Black history, as though it's this alien thing from the rest of history.

324.451 - 334.682 Michael Knowles

And it's made up of these very secular saints, the supposed innocence of Rosa Parks or something like that. And a lot of it is just contrived.

334.662 - 353.124 John Doyle

Yeah. Yeah. It's your Rosa Parks's, your Harriet Tubman's. I mean, literally all of these people are, they exist as these kind of, like you said, this mythological figure. Legendary sort of figures. Yes. And that is entirely just a creation of propaganda, which serves to uproot American history and divide people and lead us into accepting what is referred to on Twitter as gay race communism.

353.144 - 366.202 Michael Knowles

Yeah, right. Well, in this, for the, a lot of the black history stuff, it actually was promoted by like literal communists. Yes. In the 60s and so, yeah. Okay. All right. I don't want to jump any other questions. You go. I'll clear my answer.

369.529 - 375.742 John Doyle

In the current legal system, would you advise all young men to get married without any additional prenuptial agreements?

Chapter 6: How do the hosts critique the current political landscape?

376.644 - 377.967 John Doyle

I gotta give my answer.

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384.899 - 406.271 Michael Knowles

You got it correct, but there's a big but. Yeah. So, yes, I'm anti-prenup. Even though the system is horrifically stacked against marriage now because of no-fault divorce and feminism and all the rest of it. I don't like the prenups because I think it undermines the sacrament of marriage. You're signing up for an exit ramp, basically.

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407.132 - 434.905 Michael Knowles

However, if one were forced, gun to one's head, to have a prenup, I have the Knowles prenup. Null's prenup is simple. One line. Whoever dissolves the marriage forfeits everything. Whoever moves for the divorce first forfeits everything. I think that would be the kind of prenup that it's like the anti-prenup in that the prenups exist to undermine the marriage.

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434.965 - 443.512 Michael Knowles

This one, it's like a prisoner's dilemma or something, right? It's like whoever moves first loses it all. Right.

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443.992 - 455.667 John Doyle

Yeah, no, I think that's a good way to counter the incentive to move in that direction if you want half of somebody's nest egg or what have you. I have to agree with you because I am Catholic. However, I always try to keep in mind which audience I'm speaking to.

455.707 - 469.925 John Doyle

And so if I'm speaking to an audience of just like every man in America, my advice is going to be a little bit less applicable than if I'm speaking to my audience where it's like I'm probably selecting just by nature of the content that we're making, the things we talk about for a higher quality of young man who's pursuing a higher quality of young woman.

469.985 - 487.182 John Doyle

So in that instance, I can understand why he may be viewing like red pill content and getting himself, you know, all worked up and paranoid. But it is probably the case that if you're being very careful about who it is you choose to marry, that those concerns are going to be less what they would be for the general population marrying, you know, general population women.

487.702 - 496.971 John Doyle

Not to say that, you know, conservative women are angels by any stretch of the imagination. However, I would agree with you. There have been some high-profile incidents that have created problems.

497.171 - 501.515 Michael Knowles

That is a diplomatic way to put it. Yes. Now, there's two sides to this.

Chapter 7: What are the implications of immigration on cultural values?

501.695 - 525.278 Michael Knowles

One, yeah, okay, so you're saying, to my audience, which gets it, I give some advice, but that might not be totally applicable to... However, I would say I would not encourage any man to sign a prenup because I think that that action is wrong per se. Yeah. And so I would never encourage a... a bad thing for people. I wouldn't make some moral concession or equivocation for one group.

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525.298 - 539.532 Michael Knowles

I would say, no, no, no, you just have to, obviously, you have to order your marriage toward the right thing. Part of that is picking the right girl, sure. Part of that is leading your wife in a way so that you're moving forward together in a good way.

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539.712 - 551.163 John Doyle

I totally agree with that. The only reason I bring that up is to say that when I say this sometimes, I get yelled at by people who are like, how could you say this? Haven't you seen what Andrew Tate has said? I'm like, I am not talking to guys who are watching. You would never agree with what I'm saying anyway.

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551.183 - 562.734 John Doyle

And at a certain point, I try not to be the catcher in the rye where I'm standing out in the rye trying to prevent stupid people from like sprinting off a cliff. Like I would prefer to talk to people who I think are maybe a little bit smarter, a little bit more moral. And so I totally agree.

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562.754 - 572.222 John Doyle

I would not advise any guy to get into that kind of situation where you are conceding the possibility of it not working out. At which point, why would you even- But there is this tough thing now.

572.623 - 596.295 Michael Knowles

I mean, you even hear about, it's very rare, but even with the most hardcore, traditionalists, TLM attending, Catholic, you know, even their marriages dissolve. Or you think of the groups that have much higher marriage rates, like Orthodox Jews, Mormons, you know, depends on how you cut it because there's so many flavors of Protestantism, but some are much more likely to

596.275 - 616.544 Michael Knowles

be hardcore about marriage and others. But you still have this political fact of a legal system that creates all these inducements to dissolve a marriage. And you think, well, okay, you do have to grapple with that. I guess the men going their own way answer is individualist, liberal in its own way, which is, well, I'm out.

617.265 - 630.059 Michael Knowles

But I guess my answer being a proper, I guess they would say authoritarian or something is, well, you need a political solution. A lot of people don't know this. Divorce as we know it is very novel within the last half century or so.

Chapter 8: How do the hosts suggest addressing the issues discussed?

630.58 - 648.584 Michael Knowles

New York didn't legalize no-fault divorce until like 2011 or something. It's very, very recent. But You know, good luck talking to the national Republican platform that says, we're going to run against divorce. We're going to tighten up the divorce laws. Even the hardcore GOP politicians, they won't openly run on that.

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649.005 - 657.417 John Doyle

Yeah, I mean, insofar as the conversation occurs at scale, we hear a lot of talk about men needing to marry up and get married from these kind of maybe more feminist type conservatives.

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657.397 - 672.526 John Doyle

Very little attention is paid to doing away with the privileges, I guess you would say, that women have gotten from these kinds of, these feminist movements, which have enabled them to have more freedom to maneuver within relationships. So they want to have their cake and eat it too, where it's like, men must marry up and, men up and marry me.

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672.566 - 676.333 John Doyle

However, also, if I decide I don't like this, I am free to leave at any point.

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676.313 - 696.742 Michael Knowles

Yeah, yeah. And the irony of it is you say it's a privilege for women, but it ends up ruining their lives and they end up being all miserable. It's that kind of thing of like, you know, a feminist will say, you don't like abortion because you want to control women's bodies. And then the kind of squishy guy, maybe feminist sounding conservative says, I don't want to control your bodies.

696.883 - 717.156 Michael Knowles

And I guess my answer is, I'm willing to control your body. In the sense that that's not what I'm chiefly after. I just don't want you to kill your kid, and I don't want us to slaughter babies. But I'll be blunt about it. I'm willing to have the law control people's bodies. The law controls all of our bodies. I can't shoot heroin right now in most states. I can't.

717.577 - 736.026 Michael Knowles

I can't drive 100 miles an hour on the road home. Yes, the law imposes restrictions on our bodies. It especially does that to women in this case of abortion, but it's just... you can't kill your kid. Like, yes, I guess that's a restriction on you, but biology and reality and the law impose restrictions on us.

736.166 - 751.109 John Doyle

Yeah. Yeah. And that's the nature of it. And it is such a dishonest framing too, because they're trying to gotcha. Like, so you're saying you want to, it's like, that's going to make me look bad for saying that. But I mean, why don't you look bad for suggesting that you should have like this kind of political autonomy? So it's just totally like distorted and disordered.

751.129 - 760.162 Michael Knowles

I have to go to work to pay my mortgage. That controls my body. Okay. I'm clearing my answer. Before I say this prompt, we have to watch this video.

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