REAL Drinks And TOUGH Questions: YES or NO with Lauren Southern And Michael Knowles artwork

REAL Drinks And TOUGH Questions: YES or NO with Lauren Southern And Michael Knowles

The Michael Knowles Show

July 18, 2026

Will Lauren Southern survive the YES or NO hot seat? Michael Knowles puts political commentator and documentary filmmaker Lauren Southern through a rapid-fire gauntlet of controversial questions. No long explanations, no dodging—just straight YES or NO answers.
Speakers: Michael Knowles, Lauren Southern
**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
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**Michael Knowles** (1:43)
You know what's crazy about this? I did this game with Mr. Destiny.

**Lauren Southern** (1:47)
You never published it.

**Michael Knowles** (1:48)
No, we were going to release it three days later or something, Trump gets shot. We're going to release it a day after that, and he comes out and like defends Trump being murdered.

**Lauren Southern** (1:58)
I was with him that day. It was the first time I had seen him in a year, and then I see his tweet come up, and I'm like, I got to go get an Uber. He's tweeting on the couch, and I open the door, and I'm like, what are you doing? Like, you're ruining your life right now. We get into a physical fight over this man's phone. I managed to delete a absolutely caustic tweet towards Matt Walsh that no one saw.

**Michael Knowles** (2:14)
What was the tweet? I kind of want to know the tweet.
Welcome to Yes or No, the biblous battle to discover who knows whom better. My guest today is Lauren Southern. How do we play? Lauren will ask me a yes or no question. I will select my answer away from her prying eyes. Then she will guess how I answered. If she guesses correctly, she gets a point. If she guesses incorrectly, she loses a point. Then it's my turn. No matter what, I will probably end up drinking. Neither of us has seen the questions beforehand. Whoever has the most points at the end wins. The stakes could be higher.
Lauren, delightful to see you, as always.

**Lauren Southern** (3:06)
Thanks for having me.

**Michael Knowles** (3:07)
Shall we make a wager?

**Lauren Southern** (3:09)
All right, let's do it.

**Michael Knowles** (3:10)
What do you want to bet?

**Lauren Southern** (3:11)
What do I want to bet? I don't know. Not money, tweeting something terrible.
Hmm.

**Michael Knowles** (3:19)
Yeah. You don't smoke cigars, so I can't even bet you have not.

**Lauren Southern** (3:21)
I do smoke cigars.

**Michael Knowles** (3:22)
Well, there you go.
Okay. I bet you a fistful of delicious Mayflower cigars.
If you win, what do I get?

**Lauren Southern** (3:29)
What do you get? Well, we got some Elbows Up chocolate that I brought from Canada.

**Michael Knowles** (3:35)
Nice. Yeah. Okay.

**Lauren Southern** (3:37)
No, we don't want that.

**Michael Knowles** (3:38)
We don't want that.

**Lauren Southern** (3:38)
No, the Marconi.

**Michael Knowles** (3:39)
What else?

**Lauren Southern** (3:41)
Cuban cigars. I'll get you some Cuban cigars from Canada.

**Michael Knowles** (3:43)
In Canada, that sounds good.

**Lauren Southern** (3:44)
Yeah.

**Michael Knowles** (3:44)
What else do you get in Canada? You can get Islam, you can be killed by your government, you can, or Cubans.

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