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<p><em>The following is an edited transcript from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1938-sub?elementPosition=1&;row=0&;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Michael Knowles Show</a>.</em></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Lego has just <a href="https://tribune.com.pk/story/2598968/legos-biggest-set-yet-leaks-with-12000-pieces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> its largest Lego set ever. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">And in our culture, what would you expect that Lego set to be? The pride progress flag? What would you expect it to be — some big lib thing? </span><span style="font-weight:400">Maybe even the “Kamala Sitting Under a Coconut Tree” set?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Do you know what it is? It’s a Catholic church.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The largest Lego set ever — some 12,060 bricks priced around $600 — is The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">This is good news for the culture. We’re not done yet.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">The hottest toy that’s coming out this year is of a Catholic church that has been under construction for — what — 140 years now? They started building this thing in March of 1882. It’s not even completed yet. It’s expected to be completed in 2034.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mks-ep-1938-sub?elementPosition=1&;row=0&;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-large wp-image-1054531 aligncenter" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg" alt="DailyWire+" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1024x171.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-768x128.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1-1536x256.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/MK-watch-now-1.jpg 1800w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">This is such good news, in the abstract, that I’m willing to overlook the fact that this church is one of the ugliest buildings ever constructed. </span><span style="font-weight:400">It is so bad. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">I had the privilege of visiting Spain once and got to see The Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona — and it’s pretty ugly. It looks like a melted anthill or some kind of weird distorted honeycomb.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">It’s supposed to be kind of like a neo-Gothic church, like all those great Gothic churches of Europe. But it’s weird because it’s modern. Construction started in the late 19th century, and then continued for a long time — these cathedrals can take centuries — and as other people took over, it somehow got even worse.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_1065731" style="width:874px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1065731" class="size-large wp-image-1065731" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-1236701325-864x576.jpg" alt="BARCELONA, CATALONIA, SPAIN - 2021/11/20: A lego reproduction of the temple of the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí is seen inside the new store.The Danish construction toy company LEGO has opened a new store on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona inspired by the work of the modernist architect Antoni Gaudi. The 800 m2 makes it the brand's third largest store after New York and China. (Photo by Paco Freire/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-1236701325-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-1236701325-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-1236701325-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2026/03/GettyImages-1236701325.jpg 1024w" sizes=" (max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px"/></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight:400">Now, when you go inside, however, it’s quite stunning. It’s still a little too weird for me to say it’s beautiful, but it is stunning — the way the glass reflects the light. Really stunning.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But it’s just ugly to look at. It’s not as ugly as sin, but it’s ugly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">And yet — we’ll take the “W”. We’ll take the win.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">I am confident I will be pilloried from all sides for this — the people who say I’m a Philistine for not appreciating the modern basilica, the people who say I’m too religious not to be focused on a toy church — I don’t care. <em>I’m going to take the win.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But let’s not lie to ourselves. Let’s use our our taste, our real intelligence — not artificial intelligence — and say it’s not ugly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Listen, Lego could have done the Cathedral of Chartres.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">They could have done Notre-Dame de Paris.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">They could have —</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">But no matter. I’ll take the win.</span></p>
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Lego’s Biggest Set Ever Takes An Unexpected Turn And It’s A Win For Tradition
