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The Michael Knowles Show

Friendly Fire: Rising Prices, Rising AI, and Rise of the Merlin World Premiere Trailer

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

News Commentary, News

4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles and Andrew Klavan torch the biggest headlines of the week, from AI salvation or doom, to whether government can fix the cost-of-living crisis. Turn off the tabloids and get the truth, the actual facts, and the world premiere of The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin trailer, plus the kickoff to our biggest sale of the year. - - - Today’s Sponsors: Express VPN - Go to https://expressvpn.com/friendlyfire and find out how you can get 4 extra months of ExpressVPN’s Privacy Protection. Helix Sleep - Go to https://helixsleep.com/friendlyfire for 27% OFF site wide. Balance of Nature - Go to https://balanceofnature.com and use promo code ‘FRIENDLYFIRE’ for 35% OFF your first order as a preferred customer, PLUS get a FREE bottle of Fiber and Spice PreBorn! - Help save babies from abortion at https://preborn.com/FIRE or dial #250 and say keyword ‘BABY’ - - - Daily Wire + Once a year, every year, we give you our best deal of the year. And it’s happening right now. DailyWire+ memberships are 50% off. https://dailywire.com/blackfriday Jeremy’s Razors Black Friday Sale - Up to 30% off at https://jeremysrazors.com Watch the official trailer for The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of Merlin available now exclusively at DailyWire+ - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is why you guys need me here as a community college dropout with all you Ivy League nerd. You were just making fun of me because I brought that up. And now you're bringing that up. Well, I'm bringing it back to the real world. No, no, no, you're reading the study totally wrong. That's not what the study says. Okay, now I really want to move on because Matt's offering a moderate opinion and Ben is agreeing with him. Friends like these, coo-deeemies,

0:21.6

and friends like these, goonies enemies.

0:25.6

Everybody, welcome to Friendly Fire.

0:27.6

All DailyWire Plus subscriptions are 50% off right now.

0:32.6

Get them right now.

0:34.6

DailyWire.com slash subscribe. Also, stick around because we have the world premiere of the trailer of Pen Dragon, the Pendragon cycle, The Rise of the Merlin, that is coming up at the end of the show. But before we get to any of that, speaking of wizardry, I want to talk about AI and whether AI is really good, like everyone seems to think it is, like all the financial

0:56.1

speculators have thought, which is why it boosted the MAG7 stocks until recently before our

1:01.0

impending stock market collapse, or whether AI is probably mostly bad for all of us. To kick it off,

1:07.8

the most optimistic person on the panel, Mr. Walsh.

1:12.6

I'm very, I become more anti-AI with each passing day.

1:17.1

I hate AI if I could, I said before, if I could commit some sort of anti-AI genocide, I would

1:23.3

totally do it.

1:25.1

I think that, and here's what, here's what blows my mind about it, is that we can all,

1:29.1

most of us anyway, can see, even people who are behind AI like Elon Musk can see coming

1:35.5

this like potential civilizational level catastrophe and basically nothing is being done about it at all

1:43.9

because what is absolutely going to happen as far as I can tell is

1:48.0

AI at a minimum is going to wipe out many millions of jobs over the next five to ten years.

1:53.0

How many millions? There's no way to say for sure.

1:56.0

I did ask, by the way, chat GPT before we went on, I asked chat to estimate how many jobs it will take and AI will take from us in the next 10 years. And I think the answer I got was 15 million or something like that. 15 to 25 million. So who knows? It's millions of jobs are going out the window. We know that because of AI. And they're not going to be replaced by anything. they're just, they're going away, they're not coming back. That's going to happen. We're going to be, we're already, we're almost there now, but we will soon be in a situation online where you just simply cannot tell reality from fiction at all, where the AI videos are going to be so good that if anybody wants to smear any of us here, I can't imagine anyone

2:35.7

would want to smear any of us because we're all so beloved. But if anyone want to do that,

2:40.3

I could just make a video of any of us doing or saying something horrible and there'd be no way

2:43.6

for us to prove it. That cat video radicalized me. I don't know if you guys saw the cat playing

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