The Michael Knowles Show
Ep. 1917 - USA DESTROYS Its Evil Tophat In Olympic Hockey Match
23 Feb 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Another assassin tries to kill President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Canada keeps killing its own citizens. The U.S. hockey team, the Olympic hockey team, kills the gold medal hopes of America's evil top hat. And cartels are trying to kill everyone in Mexico right now. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Lot of killing going on in the Western hemisphere, but we will also turn our attention overseas because Tucker and Mike Huckabee have squared off in Israel on Israel. It was a fascinating conversation. I happen to know both those guys and quite like both of those guys.
Actually, I've gotten along with both of them over the years and now they're obviously very much at odds over this issue that really seems to have split at the very least, the chattering class on the American right. And I think the interview is a great service in that it shows us where the conversation is going wrong. And I think it gives a good view on where the pro-Israel side should go.
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Chapter 2: What led to the U.S. Olympic hockey team's victory over Canada?
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Download the Catholic Match app or head to catholicmatch.com and find your forever. So much to get to, so much killing, so many threats. However, I want to start with an uncharacteristically happy story. There's just no negative side to this story at all. It was great, and it came out of the Olympics, which I don't even like, and I certainly would never choose to watch.
But there was a clip that even I had to watch, which is when For the first time in how many decades since the Miracle on Ice team in the 80s, the US Olympic hockey team took the gold and they did it specifically by destroying America's evil top hat, Canada.
Here is Jack Hughes, who had been hit with a stick earlier in the game, gets one and a half of his front teeth knocked out of his face, bleeding from his face, keeps playing the game. And here he is scoring the winning goal.
Now Jack Hughes tries to slow him down. Puck points up behind the net. And it's Wierenski.
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Chapter 3: How did Tucker Carlson and Mike Huckabee's debate highlight divisions in American politics?
Now Jack Hughes puts it around the clock. United States with numbers. Block across it comes. Jack Hughes wins it! The golden goal for the United States!
Take that, Canada. Take that, Justin Trudeau. You think you can just take Katy Perry like that without any consequences? No, sir. We're coming back for the first time in 50 years. 40 years? How many years? Anyway, we're going to take the gold. Even after you try to smack out our boys' teeth. Now, this is a young team, obviously. It's always a young team.
And this Zoomer guy who scores the winning goal He comes out afterward and you'd expect from a Zoomer, especially on this Olympics team where all they ever do is whine and complain. You'd expect some whiny, crying, lamenting, woe is me. Is that what Jack Hughes said? No, sir. Here's what he had to say afterward.
I'm lucky I'm from the best country in the world. We got great dentists there too. So I'm lucky I'm American and they're gonna fix me right up. Standing there listening to the anthem, what's going through your head? Just so proud. I'm so proud to be American. I'm so proud of this group. I'm so happy that we could win. We have so many people here supporting us.
We have so many people back home supporting us. We're so thrilled with how this whole tournament played out. Just an unbelievable moment for USA Hockey.
I'm from the greatest country in the world, and we have great dentists there too. And he posts on social media afterward, I love my country. And it was great, great pictures. This kid gets his teeth knocked out, grinning, takes the gold, pro-America. It's so refreshing. And here's the little, I don't know, storm cloud in this otherwise sunny sky. It's sad that this is surprising to us.
Not winning the gold, but this reaction. It's sad that it is surprising to us when our Olympic athletes like the country. That's kind of sad. It's sad that our standards have fallen so low that an Olympic athlete winning the gold and saying nice things about our country is surprising to us. That's kind of sad for our country. However, the whole story is great. And this kid is so American.
The conversation that we've all been having, especially as we look ahead at the 250th anniversary, is what is an American? What does it mean to be an American? Can some Somali fraudster pirate who landed in America five minutes ago, can that person be an American? Is that person actually more American than the guy whose family has been here for 12 generations?
This is the conversation about identity. And I would respectfully submit this guy's interview. There's just this guy as a great piece of evidence about what an American is. This kind of a good attitude is distinctly American. Smiling is not uniquely American, but it is distinctly American. You travel around the rest of the world, people don't really smile.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of healthcare discussions in the context of the episode?
Ian Hamilton said, Elmo has been forcefully converted.
Oh, yes, because Elmo is celebrating Ramadan.
Elmo has been forcefully converted. Elmo is sad inside. This is the song, La La Hu Akbar, Elmo's song.
I added that part at the end. But yeah, that was pretty weird. It was weird with Elmo going, making the hajj. Now, speaking of jihads and fights, we had a great bar fight that came out on Saturday. This is with the Jolly Good Ginger and Walter Masterson. Here's a clip.
I forgot to bring my Epstein files with me. I'm sorry, we talked about your favorite pedophile. You pedophile apologists. I am glad that after Joe Biden- Why do I give a about Joe Biden? What about Biden? You guys wanna lose every election going forward? Boom, boom.
Go check out the full episode only on Daily Wire+. You have to be a member to see the whole episode. Okay, back to Zionism. Back to the Huckabee-Tucker showdown. The whole question hinges on the meaning of the word right. Some people say, look, I think God gave this land to the Jews. Then the traditional Christian perspective is that the church is the fulfillment.
The New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. And the church is the new Israel, the spiritual Israel. And so these kind of specific ethnic claims that come out of the
The Old Testament, which we view as a figure, a type of the New Testament, they don't really hold true because we believe that there is neither Jew nor Gentile, nor slave nor bond, nor male nor female, but all are one in Christ Jesus. So that's the Christian view. There is a kind of innovation that comes about in the 19th century, which...
is focused on returning the Jews specifically to the Holy Land. And we don't really need to get into that because it's a little bit of a distraction. And to the point on defending Israel or opposing Israel, a lot of people will say, well, no, no, no, don't focus on this novel theological innovation. Just observe that Zionism means you believe that Israel has a right to exist.
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Chapter 5: What was the Supreme Court's ruling regarding Trump's tariffs?
Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light. Great Light? Great Darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, mistress of lies? You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield? So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do. Great Light, forgive me. The time has come to be reborn.