Chapter 1: Why is Gen Z criticized for their food choices?
The Wall Street Journal is lambasting Gen Z for wasting all of its money on frivolous luxuries like rotisserie chicken to eat so that they can live. Also, according to a new survey, Gen Z is lambasting Christianity because Jesus has a God complex. The kids, I think we can safely conclude, are not all right. Something's a little wrong.
And for the most part, actually, I don't think it's their fault. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Was Shakespeare a black Jewish woman? No. No, he wasn't.
Chapter 2: What are Gen Z's views on Christianity and Jesus?
I guess I don't need to get to that story. He wasn't. But anyway, someone's claiming that he was. He was a black Jewish woman. We'll get to that momentarily. First, though, I want to tell you about Equip Foods. Go to equipfoods.com slash Michael Knowles. You guys have heard me talk about our sponsor Equip's Prime Bars in the past.
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There was this meme going around of stodgy boomers criticizing millennials. This was before the Zoomers really hit the scene, criticizing millennials back when we was young. And lambasting us for being profligate and wasteful because we would order avocado toast at brunch. And I didn't order avocado toast at brunch, but apparently the millennials were doing this.
So they'd go out and they'd spend 15 bucks on a piece of toast with avocado on it. And at that time, before Joe Biden's inflation, 15 bucks was a lot of money. So the boomers were attacking the millennials because they said that's a waste of money. Now, they weren't attacking the millennials for eating avocados or eating toast, which are relatively basic foods.
Avocado is a little fancier, a little more exotic, but it's relatively basic. The criticism was that they were overpaying for it. You could buy a piece of toast and an avocado and that meal should cost you like 60 cents, not $15. That was the criticism. Now we have an update. And the update is care of the Wall Street Journal still attacking millennials a little bit, but Gen Z is the prime target.
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they're splurging on gut-healthy juices. There is a lot of overpriced juice. I agree that is unnecessary usually. They're splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
Now, the thing about rotisserie chickens is not only are they not particularly expensive, I think they're like six bucks for a whole cooked chicken at the grocery store. They used to be five bucks when I was buying them, but inflation. Still, six bucks is a pretty good deal for a whole chicken. The thing about a rotisserie chicken is not only is it inexpensive to
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Chapter 3: How do rotisserie chickens serve as a loss leader in grocery stores?
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Take part in Hallow's Lent Challenge, Pray 40. The return, it is for you. Democrat Representative Steve Cohen has a very interesting pitch for Democrats as the midterms approach. President Trump is cracking down on illegal immigration because he won the popular vote running on mass deportations against the illegal immigrants in 2024. And Democrat Steve Cohen comes out.
He says, you people are arguing that the worst of the worst criminals in America are illegal aliens. No, no, no. Au contraire, mes freres. The worst of the worst are native born Americans.
We need people working in the front lines of local law enforcement to protect our citizens from the worst of the worst. The worst of the worst are not the immigrants. The worst of the worst records show are native-born Americans, and they are committing crimes that hurt our citizens and our cities. And you're working against it, and thank you for that.
But by trying to get our local law enforcement, where we have an undercount of officers in Memphis to leave Memphis and go to work for ICE to deport people is a wrong priority.
Print it, print it, cut it, print it, run it in every midterm congressional race. Democrats say the worst of the worst are not illegal aliens. The worst of the worst are American citizens, native born Americans. They're the worst. And look, they do believe that. Steve Cohen accidentally admitted this. But what is he saying particularly? What is he even intending to say?
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Chapter 4: What are the socio-economic challenges faced by Gen Z?
You're looking at like 6%, 7%. Then it jumps to 19% by the end of the Reagan era. But then after that Reagan amnesty, oh, it goes way, way down. By the 90s, you're looking at 3%, 2%. Then it kind of hovers around there for a little while, jumps up a little bit again. Best you're getting is right after Trump was elected, you get it up to 21%.
It starts to go back down as he has trouble enforcing the border. And then look at this. He gets reelected in 2024, spikes 28%. So last year, Trump formally removed something like 525,000 illegal aliens, which is much better numbers than certainly than Biden and then Barack Obama even. And they called, they being the liberals, say that Obama was called the deporter in chief.
And that was kind of faking it because Obama was counting the illegals that he just turned away at the border. So he artificially inflated those numbers. In any case, 525,000, you say, all right, that's a good start, but we got something like 20 million illegals in the country. The real story, though, was there were a lot of self-deportations, a lot of people who just chose to leave the country.
And I know some people on the right were skeptical of this. They didn't totally believe it. But we're seeing this come up in numbers in labor numbers. We're seeing this come up out of think tanks. We're now seeing this reported by CBS News. 28% of these detainees just choosing to remove themselves. Those are not counted in the formal deportations. That's pretty good. That's a pretty good number.
So why is this happening? Other people on the right have criticized the White House for putting on a show of deportations, but not really carrying it out. So they put on the show, you know, the cruelty is the point. They have these really cool edits that come out from the social media accounts, DHS and ICE. And it's them, you know, smacking these illegals on the ground, cuffing them up.
You see this big show of force in Minneapolis, which the left tried to fight Trump on. Ultimately, though, I think it was either a draw or Trump kind of won because he got the locals to start handing over the criminals. In any case, some of those people on the right say, I don't want the show. I want the deportations. We all want more deportations. But the show is important.
I mean, look down at Bukele. I mentioned Bukele a lot, the wonderful leader of El Salvador to whom we send a lot of these illegal aliens. When Bukele started rounding up the criminals in his country, face-tattooed gangsters, in some cases, Satan-worshiping gangsters, when he started doing that, He didn't just kind of do it quietly and get the job done quietly.
He made these great videos absolutely humiliating these people. He then made videos destroying the graves of their members and family members, like going in with sledgehammers and smashing up their gravestones and treating these people like cockroaches and then putting them on camera looking like cockroaches and... sending a message.
The message was heard because El Salvador went from being the most dangerous country in the Western Hemisphere, maybe the most dangerous country in the world, to one of the very safest countries in the hemisphere. Very impressive. The flamboyance was the point. Sometimes the libs say the cruelty is the point, as if Republicans are just, you know, sadists or something. No, no, no.
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Chapter 5: How does the political context affect Gen Z's upbringing?
Without anybody paying attention, he cranked this out. And I've only seen four episodes of it, but I am, like, completely blown away by it. That's so interesting. Because I haven't heard anything about it. This is, to me, as good as classic television.
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If you missed the clip, go check out the show yesterday. Anyway, the comment is, he adds an interesting connotation to the term criminal lawyer. Yes, that's true. There are a lot of criminal lawyers, aren't there? A lot of double criminal lawyers. Okay, real quick. Uh, The State Department has just identified Code Pink. Code Pink is an anti-war group. It's been around since I was a kid.
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Chapter 6: What criticisms does Gen Z have about authority and religion?
This has been going on for a long time. Probably the clearest example from recent history is the civil rights movement. There were great aspects to the civil rights movement. There were some bad aspects to the civil rights movement too, but there were some great aspects and motivations to it without question. And also, the Soviet Union was funding the civil rights movement.
I know it's difficult to hold those ideas in tension, but growing up is recognizing that. Growing up is that there are legitimate domestic political concerns that are exploited by our foreign adversaries. And so we need to be a little careful when we talk about those domestic concerns. In fact, the reason that they can be exploited by our adversaries is because they're real concerns.
There's a certain reality to it. Nevertheless, we don't want to inadvertently be promoting the propaganda of people who have ICBMs pointed at us. Okay, last question. Is Shakespeare a Jewish black woman? Here is a recent news report.
What if the Bard wasn't a white man from Stratford at all? What if William Shakespeare was actually a Jewish black woman? Yes, quitely outlandish theory that is all being published in a new book by historian Irene Kozlet, and it's titled The Real Shakespeare.
And in this, Irene argues that Amelia Bassano, a Jewish woman of North African descent, one of the first women to actually publish poetry in the early 1600s, Well, she was actually the man we all refer to as Shakespeare. Some of the most beloved works of all time, some of the most famous, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet. Yes, those were all actually Amelia.
That's according to this new theory that's been put forward by Irene.
What if... What if ifs and buts were candy and nuts? Well, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. The answer to the question, just to wrap it up, the answer to the question, was Shakespeare a black Jewish woman? No, he wasn't. Wouldn't that be wacky if he were? I love this story. And the news anchor here is kind of winking at it because she knows it's totally ridiculous. But I just love it.
It matters politically because so much of the way that we treat literature, philosophy, history, so much of how we treat our education these days, it really just boils down to what if it were opposite day? Yes, yes, yes. I know what thinkers have always thought and what the wisest men of history have always believed and considered. Yes, I know. But what if it were the opposite?
That's modern education. So anyway, what if? What if? What if? Hi, Michael. I have a question for you and Mr. Ben Davies. I'm really interested in pursuing acting as a career, and I know that both of you have had experience in that field.
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