When Did the Michael Knowles Show Become a Catholic Apologetics Channel? (Michael Knowles) | Ep. 540
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
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ποΈ 10 September 2025
β±οΈ 99 minutes
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In this episode, Matt visits Michael Knowles in his Nashville studio to smoke cigars (and talk about cigars), discuss how absolutely CATHOLIC Knowles' show has become, the state of the world and young people today, plus details around his new documentary on Hitler and Pope Pius XII.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I want to know when the Michael Knowl Show became a Catholic Apologetics and Evangelization podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | You know, I appreciate, I'm flattered by that description. |
| 0:12.0 | When you and Jeremy and Clavin and Ben were starting this, |
| 0:17.0 | did you ever think that you could get to a point where your podcast could be as on the nose about Catholicism as it's become? |
| 0:23.6 | No. |
| 0:24.6 | Because, not because of even our view of political media necessarily. |
| 0:30.6 | I don't know that anybody anticipated that Catholicism would come roaring back into vogue as it has. I mean, it's... |
| 0:42.3 | Gooday, everybody. Matt Frad here. I am here today in not my studio, but Michael Knowles' studio. |
| 0:48.0 | I happened to be in Nashville, so we thought we would sit down and record an interview with him for the Pines with Aquinas Channel. |
| 0:55.0 | Enjoy. Michael Knowles. |
| 0:56.0 | Marvelous to see you, sir. |
| 0:58.0 | What a pleasure. Thank you for coming to my studio. |
| 1:01.0 | This is the best way to be on Pines with Aquinas. You come to me, you bring me a cigar, |
| 1:07.0 | and then we get to just hang out of my studio. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. I'm thrilled to have done it. |
| 1:12.3 | So I want to know when the Michael Knoll Show |
| 1:15.1 | Yes. |
| 1:16.3 | Became a Catholic apologetics and evangelization podcast. |
| 1:20.9 | You know, I appreciate. I'm flattered by that description. |
| 1:25.3 | It's a political show. It's a show about daily politics. It's a daily |
| 1:29.1 | show. We hit the news. But I try, I've thought about it this way for a very long time. |
| 1:34.8 | The, the politics is the sugar that makes the medicine go down. Also because all politics |
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