The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles Vs Dave Rubin | FACE-OFF: Culture War
Aired: 2021-11-27
Duration: 33:04


=== Welcome to Face Off (06:37) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Face Off.
[00:00:02]  I am your host, Cabot Phillips.
[00:00:04]  We're joined today for a good old-fashioned battle of wits between two distinguished guests.
[00:00:10]  First, we have Daily Wire host and best-selling author, according to everyone except The New York Times, Mr.
[00:00:16]  Michael Knowles.
[00:00:17]  Michael, thanks for joining us.
[00:00:18]  Thank you for having me on my own show.
[00:00:20]  It is so nice to have you.
[00:00:22]  I'm really glad that you could make it to your show.
[00:00:24]  And next is best-selling author and host of The Rubin Report, Mr.
[00:00:28]  Dave Rubin.
[00:00:28]  Dave, thanks for stepping into the arena.
[00:00:31]  New York Times best-selling author, begrudgingly, by The New York Times.
[00:00:36]  We refuse to acknowledge that list, but we will get into it now.
[00:00:41]  You guys will have plenty of opportunities to disagree in the next couple of minutes because we're going to get into face-off.
[00:00:51]  Gentlemen, you've both been serving honorably on the front lines of a war, the culture war.
[00:00:57]  And because of that courageous service, you're both heroes in the hearts and minds of Americans everywhere.
[00:01:02]  But it's time for us to see how much you know about this culture war that you have been fighting, this culture that you are trying to protect.
[00:01:08]  This is face-off culture war edition.
[00:01:12]  The rules are simple.
[00:01:13]  I will ask a question.
[00:01:14]  You will have 15 seconds to give an answer.
[00:01:16]  On your whiteboards, you're going to write out the answer.
[00:01:18]  The winner of this competition will be the ultimate culture warrior.
[00:01:21]  The loser will have to read a 30-second commercial on their own show about why their audience needs to listen to the other guy's show.
[00:01:28]  Does that work for both of you?
[00:01:29]  Do you both agree here in this sovereign place?
[00:01:32]  Absolutely.
[00:01:34]  I do agree.
[00:01:35]  I just want to say, as the elder of this game, that if this was 1985 culture war, I'd probably do a lot better.
[00:01:42]  It does strike me that if we're culture warriors, the whole meaning of that is that we hate the pop culture and are reactionary and don't know anything about it.
[00:01:52]  So this will be a true test of ignorance.
[00:01:55]  That's what we're going to call this.
[00:01:56]  That'll be the subtitle, A Test of Ignorance and Ineptitude from Michael and Dave.
[00:02:00]  All right, Michael, I'm going to toss to you because it's time to face off.
[00:02:04]  But first, I think you have an important word for us.
[00:02:05]  I do.
[00:02:06]  I do.
[00:02:06]  This video is brought to you by Exodus 90.
[00:02:10]  When you want to tune out all the nonsense in our culture and really focus in on what matters, Exodus 90.
[00:02:16]  We'll have more from them later.
[00:02:17]  But first, let us test our cultural knowledge.
[00:02:22]  First off, I'm jumping right into it.
[00:02:24]  This foreign Netflix series dominated viewing hours in 2021, more than doubling the next closest series with 1.6 billion viewing hours.
[00:02:34]  What was this 2021 Netflix show?
[00:02:37]  The number one show.
[00:02:40]  Are we ready?
[00:02:41]  They are ready to give their answers.
[00:02:43]  Gentlemen, what do we got?
[00:02:46]  The Crown and Squid Game.
[00:02:48]  The correct answer is Squid Game.
[00:02:51]  Yes!
[00:02:52]  What?
[00:02:52]  Point to Mr.
[00:02:53]  Rubin.
[00:02:53]  I watched it last night, episode four!
[00:02:56]  Man!
[00:02:57]  A lot of blood!
[00:02:57]  That beat The Crown?
[00:02:59]  You know, I watched Squid Game.
[00:03:00]  I actually enjoyed Squid Game.
[00:03:01]  I mean, all the show is is just watching Koreans get slaughtered, so it's a little dark.
[00:03:06]  But I did enjoy the show.
[00:03:08]  I can't believe it.
[00:03:08]  That beat The Crown?
[00:03:10]  By a lot.
[00:03:10]  Wow, oh my gosh.
[00:03:12]  The crown.
[00:03:14]  England.
[00:03:15]  We're over that.
[00:03:16]  It's all about Korea now.
[00:03:17]  It's all about slaughtering Koreans.
[00:03:18]  Are you not a big K-pop fan either, Michael?
[00:03:22]  I'm a K-pop impersonator.
[00:03:24]  I'm more of a K-pop performer than I am a listener.
[00:03:27]  Important distinction.
[00:03:29]  Next question.
[00:03:30]  Kanye West came out in support of Donald Trump and stirred up a cultural firestorm, but this wasn't the first time that he did such a thing and stirred criticism from his fellow elites.
[00:03:40]  Back in 2009, Kanye interrupted which famous pop star's VMA accepted speech?
[00:03:47]  I'm gonna be very disappointed if you guys don't get this one.
[00:03:52]  Five.
[00:03:53]  Four.
[00:03:55]  Three.
[00:03:58]  One.
[00:03:59]  Dave, come on.
[00:04:01]  Damn!
[00:04:02]  What'd you write?
[00:04:03]  Taylor Swift, whom he did not let finish.
[00:04:08]  Okay.
[00:04:09]  Knowles is right.
[00:04:10]  That is right.
[00:04:11]  I already concede.
[00:04:12]  I got the question a little screwy.
[00:04:14]  He once did interrupt Mike Myers during that hurricane thing.
[00:04:17]  Remember that one?
[00:04:18]  George Bush doesn't care about black people.
[00:04:21]  But then I realized what you said, and I wrote Blonde Girl.
[00:04:24]  I just couldn't remember her name, but she's blonde.
[00:04:26]  I knew that part.
[00:04:27]  Blonde Girl does not count.
[00:04:29]  We've gone to the panel of judges, and they have all agreed.
[00:04:31]  I'm the only judge.
[00:04:32]  I'm the panel.
[00:04:32]  It does not count.
[00:04:33]  You remember that George Bush does not care about black people, but you did not remember that Beyonce had the greatest album of all time.
[00:04:40]  Of all time!
[00:04:43]  Yep.
[00:04:43]  Michael coming on strong.
[00:04:44]  Well done.
[00:04:45]  All right, all right.
[00:04:46]  Next question.
[00:04:47]  What is the full name of the race car driver whose winning interview sparked the infamous Let's Go Brandon meme?
[00:04:55]  So which race car driver was being interviewed when Let's Go Brandon was born?
[00:05:00]  Dave, you have the shirt on.
[00:05:06]  Surely you can get this right.
[00:05:08]  You have the shirt.
[00:05:09]  I'm feeling pretty good about my answer.
[00:05:11]  Michael, what do you got?
[00:05:13]  Brandon J. McDrives-a-Lot.
[00:05:17]  I feel pretty good about that.
[00:05:20]  Dave?
[00:05:22]  I also feel pretty good about mine.
[00:05:24]  I couldn't quite remember his name, but...
[00:05:26]  Let's go, Brandon.
[00:05:29]  Let's go, Brandon.
[00:05:30]  That is cheap.
[00:05:31]  The correct answer was Brandon Brown.
[00:05:34]  And I, for one, am shocked that, I mean, NASCAR's key audience is Yale graduates and gay men in Los Angeles.
[00:05:42]  And so I personally would have thought you guys were all over the NASCAR race.
[00:05:46]  You know, there's a huge overlap between those two circles, by the way.
[00:05:50]  The Venn diagram is almost just one circle, but yeah.
[00:05:53]  Very close, very close.
[00:05:54]  All right, all right, so we're tied.
[00:05:55]  We're tied at the moment.
[00:05:56]  Yes, tied.
[00:05:57]  I don't know if you guys want to take too much pride in your performance so far, but we will continue.
[00:06:02]  There's always room for improvement.
[00:06:03]  So far in 2021, how many of the top five worldwide box office movies were released in America?
[00:06:12]  So global box office performance, how many of them were released in America out of the top five?
[00:06:17]  What do we got?
[00:06:20]  Two.
[00:06:21]  Wow.
[00:06:21]  Two!

=== Top 5 Grossing Movies 2021 (03:54) ===

[00:06:23]  You guys both got it right.
[00:06:25]  Well done.
[00:06:25]  Really?
[00:06:26]  It is two.
[00:06:27]  The top five grossing movies of 2021 so far, according to our Daily Wire list.
[00:06:33]  Number one, The Battle at Lake Chongjin.
[00:06:36]  Everyone's crowd favorite there.
[00:06:37]  That was China.
[00:06:39]  Hi, Mom.
[00:06:40]  That was China.
[00:06:41]  Number three, Fast and Furious 9.
[00:06:43]  Number four, No Time to Die.
[00:06:45]  And number five, Detective Chinatown 3.
[00:06:49]  The first and second are obvious classics, and the third one wasn't as good as the others.
[00:06:53]  But all three of those released in China.
[00:06:55]  Did you guys know that?
[00:06:56]  I think number four is going to be even better than the first two.
[00:07:00]  Can I just say something?
[00:07:01]  I've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while, so this seems like as good a time as any.
[00:07:04]  I've never seen any of the Fast and Furious.
[00:07:07]  I sense they're doing something quickly.
[00:07:09]  They're angry about it, but I don't know what's going on over there.
[00:07:12]  I've never seen any of them.
[00:07:13]  No, I saw one.
[00:07:14]  I think I saw one or two, and I actually went down to Cuba where they filmed one of them, but I have never...
[00:07:22]  I think there are superheroes involved now.
[00:07:24]  I don't know anything.
[00:07:25]  I know one of the actresses from it.
[00:07:27]  Are you able to disclose which one?
[00:07:29]  No.
[00:07:30]  I'm afraid not.
[00:07:31]  We'll trust you.
[00:07:32]  Oh, I have a girlfriend, but she goes to another school.
[00:07:34]  She lives in Canada.
[00:07:35]  She lives in Canada.
[00:07:37]  We've all heard that one before.
[00:07:39]  Next question for you fine gentlemen.
[00:07:42]  This...
[00:07:43]  These are not my words.
[00:07:44]  This is the word of the question.
[00:07:45]  This obese hip-hop artist is best known for her body positivity and revealing outfits.
[00:07:51]  She has presented herself as so sexually titillating, some commentators argue she can even turn gay men straight curious.
[00:07:59]  Who is this famous obese hip-hop artist known for her body positivity?
[00:08:06]  So there are two that I'm thinking of right now.
[00:08:12]  This one has bragged about dating an NFL football player on the Minnesota Vikings.
[00:08:18]  That's not helping.
[00:08:19]  I don't...
[00:08:19]  It's a line from one of her most popular songs.
[00:08:22]  Oh, really?
[00:08:22]  Which I don't know or listen to.
[00:08:24]  That's just the producer told me in my ear.
[00:08:26]  Did they?
[00:08:26]  Yeah.
[00:08:27]  I need a fat female rapper.
[00:08:29]  I mean, only one's coming to mind.
[00:08:30]  I got two in one.
[00:08:31]  One, though, is like...
[00:08:32]  Rapper slash singer.
[00:08:33]  They say rapper.
[00:08:34]  She's a hip-hop artist in general.
[00:08:36]  Singer as well.
[00:08:37]  And she's obese.
[00:08:38]  She's a singer and a rapper?
[00:08:40]  Boy, she can do everything.
[00:08:41]  Five seconds.
[00:08:42]  Alright, whatever.
[00:08:44]  Alright.
[00:08:45]  Final answers.
[00:08:46]  What do we got?
[00:08:50]  Lizzo.
[00:08:51]  Lil' Kim.
[00:08:52]  Lizzo was the correct answer.
[00:08:54]  Kid.
[00:08:55]  Yes.
[00:08:55]  I didn't know...
[00:08:56]  The other option I had in my head was...
[00:08:58]  Have you ever heard of the singer Cupcake?
[00:09:01]  It's like Lizzo is like a Victorian opera singer compared to Cupcake.
[00:09:07]  Cupcake is just pure porn.
[00:09:09]  She has a music video on YouTube.
[00:09:12]  But I'm glad I got Lizzo right.
[00:09:14]  That's good.
[00:09:15]  Didn't Lizzo fight Spider-Man in that remake?
[00:09:18]  Wasn't that Lizzo?
[00:09:19]  Or am I thinking of somebody else?
[00:09:21]  I have no clue what he's talking about, but I would love to see that.
[00:09:24]  Or is that The Lizard?
[00:09:24]  Maybe that was The Lizard.
[00:09:25]  Yeah.
[00:09:26]  Whatever.
[00:09:26]  Yeah.
[00:09:27]  All right.
[00:09:28]  He's up two to one.
[00:09:29]  Okay.
[00:09:30]  Gentlemen, can you name...
[00:09:31]  And this one, you only need to get one to get points.
[00:09:33]  Can you name literally any movie that won an Oscar this year?
[00:09:39]  Anyone?
[00:09:40]  In The Year of Our Lord 2021?
[00:09:42]  Correct.
[00:09:45]  Um...
[00:09:50]  And I have my computer ready because I myself am not abundantly aware of many of these.
[00:09:58]  Any movie that one of us...
[00:09:59]  No, I know this isn't right.
[00:10:00]  I know this isn't right.

=== Confident Predictions (15:38) ===

[00:10:02]  And sadly, music videos do not qualify, so Smokey Mike and the God King was snubbed because of its status.
[00:10:09]  It always is.
[00:10:10]  It always is.
[00:10:12]  All right, what do we got, fellas?
[00:10:14]  I said the all-chick Ghostbusters.
[00:10:19]  Was that last year?
[00:10:20]  I don't know.
[00:10:21]  I didn't see it.
[00:10:22]  We're going to go ahead and say no on that one.
[00:10:25]  All right.
[00:10:25]  That's oddly close to what I said, which was Shirley's secret.
[00:10:32]  Now...
[00:10:33]  That's just a movie I made up.
[00:10:34]  It's not even a real movie, but it sounds like something that would have won an Oscar.
[00:10:38]  Shirley's Secret.
[00:10:39]  It does.
[00:10:40]  Meryl Streep stars as Shirley.
[00:10:42]  She's got a secret.
[00:10:43]  Meryl Streep as Daniel Day-Lewis in Shirley's Secret.
[00:10:47]  Shirley's Secret.
[00:10:48]  About a gay 15-year-old.
[00:10:50]  With Morgan Freeman as God.
[00:10:51]  Yep.
[00:10:51]  Okay.
[00:10:52]  Hold on.
[00:10:53]  What's that?
[00:10:53]  I'm hearing that we might be awarding a point to Shirley's Secret?
[00:10:56]  What?
[00:10:57]  Never mind.
[00:10:58]  No points for either of you.
[00:10:59]  I'm sorry.
[00:11:00]  Did Ghostbusters get one?
[00:11:01]  That would have been great.
[00:11:02]  I was at the ready to type in, to look up, and I started typing in the all chick before I realized that you were giving a completely ridiculous name of a movie.
[00:11:12]  Moving on, Aaron Rodgers recently got into some hot water when he tested positive for COVID-19.
[00:11:18]  This result revealed that Rodgers never received the Fauci Alci.
[00:11:21]  He misled the press when he used what word to lead everyone to believe that he had gotten the vaccine?
[00:11:28]  So when they asked if he'd been vaccinated, he used this word to maybe deceive them a little bit.
[00:11:35]  What was that word?
[00:11:36]  And bonus point, if you can give the position and team that Aaron Rodgers plays for.
[00:11:44]  Uh...
[00:11:45]  Five seconds. - Okay, let's see.
[00:11:56]  All right.
[00:11:57]  What do we got?
[00:11:58]  Dave, we'll start with you.
[00:11:59]  I believe the word maybe was yup.
[00:12:02]  Would it be yup by any chance?
[00:12:04]  It was not.
[00:12:05]  I don't know.
[00:12:06]  It was not yup.
[00:12:07]  And I believe he's the quarterback for the Packers, right?
[00:12:09]  That is correct.
[00:12:10]  We'll give you some points there.
[00:12:11]  You earned those.
[00:12:12]  All right.
[00:12:12]  All right.
[00:12:13]  Thank you.
[00:12:13]  Is the word yes?
[00:12:16]  No, it is not.
[00:12:17]  Is he the shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers?
[00:12:20]  No, no, he is not.
[00:12:22]  Unfortunately, the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, the word he used was immunized.
[00:12:28]  When they asked him if he had been vaccinated, he said, I've been immunized.
[00:12:33]  I apologize that the phrasing on the question was confusing, so I'm going to move on.
[00:12:37]  Okay.
[00:12:38]  So I got a point there.
[00:12:39]  We're tied.
[00:12:40]  You did get a point.
[00:12:40]  All right.
[00:12:43]  Which teen pop star went to the White House this year to promote the COVID-19 vaccine?
[00:12:50]  She filmed a video with Anthony Fauci.
[00:12:52]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:53]  The two of them were yucking it up, reading fan tweets.
[00:12:58]  Oh, man, I do.
[00:12:59]  I remember this happening.
[00:13:01]  Is it that girl who licked the donuts?
[00:13:05]  Oh, God.
[00:13:06]  That doesn't narrow it down.
[00:13:09]  Who, I do actually remember this happening. - Gosh, get a video.
[00:13:19]  Biden, did Biden inappropriately touch her?
[00:13:23]  Am I getting close here?
[00:13:24]  I think he did, yeah.
[00:13:25]  Okay, he sniffed her hair?
[00:13:27]  All right, I'm sort of remembering it now.
[00:13:29]  Four, three, two, one.
[00:13:33]  All right, what have we got, Michael, to you?
[00:13:36]  Alicia Jones.
[00:13:41]  Is that a real person, Michael?
[00:13:42]  No, but I knew, like, if I said Miley Cyrus, I knew that was wrong, so I just guessed a name.
[00:13:49]  That is unfortunately incorrect.
[00:13:51]  All right.
[00:13:51]  But if there are any Alicia Jones out there watching, we see you and we appreciate you.
[00:13:55]  Dave.
[00:13:58]  Lizzie.
[00:14:00]  Lizzie-o.
[00:14:01]  Oh, Lizzie-o?
[00:14:03]  Lizzie-o?
[00:14:04]  Lizzie-o.
[00:14:06]  The correct answer, gentlemen, was Olivia Rodrigo.
[00:14:10]  Yes, I remember that, actually.
[00:14:12]  Yeah, I have no clue.
[00:14:14]  Olivia Rodrigo.
[00:14:15]  I think she might be a TikToker also.
[00:14:18]  Aren't we all?
[00:14:19]  Who was the girl that licked the donuts and then she said she hates America?
[00:14:23]  Who am I thinking of?
[00:14:25]  That was Michael's Italian countrywoman, Ariana Grande.
[00:14:30]  Ariana Grande!
[00:14:31]  That's who I was thinking of.
[00:14:32]  Thank you, thank you.
[00:14:35]  Did she date Pete Davidson?
[00:14:38]  See?
[00:14:39]  I feel hip.
[00:14:40]  I know, it's gross to think about, but yeah.
[00:14:43]  I feel hip.
[00:14:43]  Alright, that's cool.
[00:14:45]  Alright.
[00:14:46]  This NFL player became the first openly gay man to play in an NFL game.
[00:14:51]  Not an NBA game, Dave, because that obviously would have been you, NBA player.
[00:14:56]  NFL. First openly gay player in an NFL game.
[00:14:59]  And he was promptly canceled because it turned out that he was a registered Republican and had posted photos with friends in Trump shirts.
[00:15:07]  So he was canceled for that.
[00:15:08]  But first openly gay player in the NFL.
[00:15:11]  What was his name and bonus points if you know what team he's on?
[00:15:13]  All right, are either of you confident on this one?
[00:15:24]  I'm pretty happy with my answer.
[00:15:26]  I don't know if I would say confident, but I'm happy with it.
[00:15:29]  Dave, we'll start with you then, because I don't want to give Michael the pleasure of getting to go first with how confident he is.
[00:15:34]  Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure my answer could get me in legal trouble.
[00:15:37]  I said Joe Montana.
[00:15:41]  We all knew it.
[00:15:42]  Everyone was talking about it.
[00:15:43]  I said Joe Montana, and then although I do know that Joe Montana only played for the 49ers and later the Chiefs, I think maybe this guy played for the Tennessee Titans, whatever his name might be.
[00:15:54]  No?
[00:15:54]  Nothing?
[00:15:55]  No, not the Titans, unfortunately.
[00:15:58]  We'll have to reach out to Joe Montana.
[00:15:59]  That wasn't Joe Montana I saw at the end.
[00:16:00]  No, all right.
[00:16:02]  Michael.
[00:16:02]  I said Brett Liberace Favre, who played for the New York Jets.
[00:16:09]  People forget his nickname, but it was clear to those of us who were paying attention.
[00:16:15]  I was not paying close enough attention to that, for better or worse.
[00:16:19]  That is incorrect.
[00:16:20]  The player was Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders, formerly the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
[00:16:27]  Okay.
[00:16:28]  You guys are...
[00:16:28]  No points there.
[00:16:30]  No.
[00:16:30]  Although I'm tempted to give points for the Liberace reference.
[00:16:32]  Thank you.
[00:16:33]  Next up, this cultural figure claims to have seen aliens and recently said they would be, quote, absolutely open to dating an alien if given the chance.
[00:16:43]  Did you just use the singular they?
[00:16:47]  I did.
[00:16:47]  And might that be part of the question?
[00:16:52]  Somebody said this.
[00:16:53]  I know it was like a couple weeks ago...
[00:16:56]  I actually think I know the answer.
[00:16:58]  They would date aliens.
[00:17:00]  It was somebody like...
[00:17:01]  They also said that we should stop using the term alien because it might offend potential aliens.
[00:17:08]  Yeah.
[00:17:09]  It's a chick.
[00:17:10]  It's sort of like a lizzo.
[00:17:11]  How dare you, Dave?
[00:17:12]  How dare you?
[00:17:13]  It's a chick.
[00:17:13]  I specifically said they.
[00:17:15]  It's a them.
[00:17:15]  No, but I think it's a chick.
[00:17:17]  She would date an alien.
[00:17:19]  It's like a Miley Cyrus.
[00:17:22]  Um...
[00:17:24]  Michael, do you want to give him a hint, or do you want to...
[00:17:26]  No, I want to get the point.
[00:17:29]  Forgive me.
[00:17:31]  You got five seconds, Dave.
[00:17:35]  Three, two, one.
[00:17:38]  He's writing.
[00:17:39]  Michael, because you seem pretty confident, we'll let Dave go first, because I want to see the wrong answer first.
[00:17:44]  Okay.
[00:17:45]  Yeah, well, I don't think this is the right answer, but I'm pretty sure this woman is an alien.
[00:17:48]  I said Joy Bethel.
[00:17:54]  They are.
[00:17:55]  They are.
[00:17:55]  They is.
[00:17:56]  I'm so tempted to give half points, but again, the panel says no.
[00:18:01]  Michael.
[00:18:03]  Demi Lovato.
[00:18:05]  That is correct.
[00:18:06]  They me.
[00:18:07]  They me, as we now call her.
[00:18:08]  They me.
[00:18:09]  They me Lovato.
[00:18:11]  I don't know what she has done.
[00:18:13]  I don't know why I know her name, but I do remember that she said she'd date an alien.
[00:18:17]  Dave, not a big Demi Lovato fan.
[00:18:20]  No, no, she's great in that thing she was in.
[00:18:23]  Like contact?
[00:18:24]  Yeah, is that?
[00:18:25]  She's like from the 90s, right?
[00:18:27]  I don't know.
[00:18:28]  Before we get on to the next question, Michael, I believe you have another important word for us that you alluded to earlier.
[00:18:34]  I do.
[00:18:35]  I have a word about the word of God, and that would be...
[00:18:40]  Exodus 90.
[00:18:41]  I want you to think back over the past 90 days.
[00:18:44]  How often did you eat a little too much, drink a little too much, spend a little too much time in the office?
[00:18:51]  How many times did you ignore your wife, children, or friends just to thumb through social media or watch Netflix or watch a game?
[00:18:59]  So many men today are distracted.
[00:19:01]  They're dependent on the comforts of this world.
[00:19:03]  They're not in control of themselves.
[00:19:05]  And they can't say no to these kinds of things.
[00:19:09]  They're not free to do that.
[00:19:11]  We were made for more than this.
[00:19:13]  Exodus 90 is a 90-day program that gets us back to the fundamentals of the faith: prayer, self-denial, and fraternity.
[00:19:21]  More than 50,000 men from around the world, Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, even people who don't align with Christianity at all have done this.
[00:19:31]  Of these men, 99% report experiencing greater freedom.
[00:19:35]  This is very important.
[00:19:36]  If we want to truly be free, it's not just about following our base desires.
[00:19:40]  It's about disciplining ourselves.
[00:19:41]  That's how we have true freedom.
[00:19:43]  You can check it out for yourself at Exodus90.com slash Michael.
[00:19:47]  That's Exodus90.com slash Michael.
[00:19:51]  I believe Michael is up 3-2, producers.
[00:19:53]  Is that correct?
[00:19:56]  4-3.
[00:19:57]  Oh, you guys are scoring more points than you even imagined.
[00:20:00]  See, Dave got his bonus point.
[00:20:01]  This one, I'm confident that you two will get...
[00:20:05]  Dave Chappelle recently released a Netflix special that left a leftist mob going after him once again for his horribly insensitive jokes against the transgender community.
[00:20:15]  What was the name of this most recent Dave Chappelle special that got the people coming after him?
[00:20:21]  The name of the Dave Chappelle stand-up special.
[00:20:24]  Oh.
[00:20:32]  I think it's one word.
[00:20:33]  I think maybe it starts with a C. Michael, what's that?
[00:20:37]  I said raw.
[00:20:40]  I think that was that.
[00:20:42]  That was a different black guy.
[00:20:45]  Who did raw, Dave?
[00:20:48]  I believe that was Bill Cosby.
[00:20:52]  See what I did there?
[00:20:54]  Pretty sure it was.
[00:20:55]  That was Eddie Murphy.
[00:20:55]  I just wrote damn, because I feel like I should know it.
[00:20:58]  I skipped it a zillion times, and it's one word, and I think it starts with a C, maybe.
[00:21:02]  It does start with a C. Closer.
[00:21:05]  Closer.
[00:21:06]  Yeah!
[00:21:07]  Really?
[00:21:07]  Well, I didn't remember that at all.
[00:21:08]  I should get something for that.
[00:21:10]  I should get something for that.
[00:21:11]  Unfortunately not.
[00:21:12]  This is not a hand grenade.
[00:21:14]  You should get something for Bill Cosby.
[00:21:15]  That was pretty quick.
[00:21:18]  I tried not to laugh.
[00:21:19]  Next up, this one I've been informed by reliable sources that Dave should be good at.
[00:21:25]  We'll see.
[00:21:26]  Name three songs from the Village People.
[00:21:29]  Easy.
[00:21:34]  This is another one I'll need help from the producers on because if it's not a certain four-letter song, I do not know any of the other Village People songs.
[00:21:44]  Three is tough, though.
[00:21:46]  Do we get bonus points for more than three?
[00:21:49]  Going to the panel and no, only three.
[00:21:53]  Do we get bonus points for singing them?
[00:21:59]  I think our audience would say definitely not, please don't.
[00:22:03]  I'm tempted to say yes.
[00:22:05]  How about you just sing and then we'll just see where the points go.
[00:22:07]  Got it.
[00:22:08]  Got it.
[00:22:09]  Seven seconds.
[00:22:17]  I did mine also in order of greatness.
[00:22:22]  Village people's a great group.
[00:22:23]  I don't get the hate on the village people.
[00:22:25]  Are you a disco guy in general?
[00:22:27]  100%.
[00:22:27]  You know it.
[00:22:28]  Wait till you listen to that Frankie Valli song.
[00:22:31]  Dave and I... You like disco.
[00:22:32]  We text each other disco songs.
[00:22:34]  All right.
[00:22:35]  What are the examples we've got?
[00:22:36]  Let's see them.
[00:22:40]  I said YMCA, oh, Macho Man, damn.
[00:22:44]  I said YMCA, In the Navy, and Super YMCA, which I feel like is probably a song, actually.
[00:22:51]  Super YMCA, yes.
[00:22:52]  In the Navy is by far the best one.
[00:22:55]  YMCA, number three.
[00:22:56]  And number two, Macho Man.
[00:22:58]  Yeah.
[00:22:58]  I want to be a macho man, you know?
[00:23:01]  I know you do.
[00:23:03]  Dave, what does it make you feel when you hear Michael singing in general, especially singing YMCA and Macho Man and all those classics?
[00:23:11]  You know, Michael is a man who's very comfortable with his sexuality.
[00:23:16]  You know, I like to think that because I am so profoundly heterosexual, you know, I'm just brimming with that, that, you know, I'm restrained by the outer layer of dancing to the village people.
[00:23:30]  Mm-hmm.
[00:23:31]  No, no, trust me.
[00:23:31]  I know he's heterosexual.
[00:23:33]  Last time he was at my house, I tried to give him tequila.
[00:23:35]  He said, I only drink whiskey.
[00:23:36]  And only a straight man would say that.
[00:23:38]  Scotch it is.
[00:23:39]  Is that a straight...
[00:23:40]  Okay, I didn't even know that was a thing.
[00:23:42]  Okay.
[00:23:43]  Cabot.
[00:23:46]  Hope my wife doesn't watch this.
[00:23:47]  This episode's going in whole new directions.
[00:23:50]  We're going to go to the next question.
[00:23:52]  Before this gets any worse, Michael, though, you get three points there.
[00:23:55]  Dave, you get two.
[00:23:56]  Okay.
[00:23:58]  Oh, okay.
[00:23:58]  Good ratio.
[00:23:59]  Yeah.
[00:24:00]  I don't know if that's how it's supposed to work, but that feels like a good trade-off.
[00:24:04]  Which famous anti-Trump intellectual...
[00:24:08]  I don't know if that's a super charitable name for this person, but okay.
[00:24:12]  Which famous anti-Trump intellectual publicly admitted they were wrong about the Biden administration improving the state of America, saying they are, quote, publicly eating their words syllable by syllable?
[00:24:25]  I mean, there are, like...
[00:24:28]  There are like two anti-Trumpers left on the right.
[00:24:33]  Dave seems confident.
[00:24:36]  Dave's confident.
[00:24:39]  I'm going to...
[00:24:41]  I think some of them are so completely far gone, there's no hope of them ever coming.
[00:24:45]  So I'm going to go to the one that I think maybe there's a chance that he would come around.
[00:24:50]  No, you're wrong.
[00:24:52]  Am I wrong?
[00:24:53]  You're wrong.
[00:24:54]  Let's let Michael go first, because Dave seems...
[00:24:56]  You go first.
[00:24:56]  You go first.
[00:24:57]  Okay, I said it was David French.
[00:25:00]  I figured Bill Kristol, there's no way.
[00:25:02]  That whole crew, there's no way.
[00:25:03]  But maybe David, because of the pro-life stuff, maybe he would come around.
[00:25:07]  Dave, do you think he's right?
[00:25:08]  What do you think?
[00:25:09]  Well, he's wrong, but his inkling was right, but it was sort of a trick question because it makes it sound like it's a hardcore conservative who said it, but in fact, it is mild-mannered neuroscientist and atheist.
[00:25:23]  Wow.
[00:25:25]  Wow.
[00:25:25]  Well done.

=== People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive (07:38) ===

[00:25:26]  Well done.
[00:25:27]  You were right.
[00:25:28]  Michael's first inclination was to assume there was someone on the right.
[00:25:31]  Wow, I did.
[00:25:32]  I did.
[00:25:33]  Well done.
[00:25:34]  Points for Mr.
[00:25:36]  Rubin.
[00:25:37]  Dave, have you talked to Sam at all lately?
[00:25:40]  No, he unfollowed me on Twitter.
[00:25:43]  I'm a right-wing maniac.
[00:25:44]  I hang out with you people.
[00:25:47]  The liberals are not nearly as tolerant as they pretend to be.
[00:25:51]  Well, he's going to be eating that too someday, that unfollow, that uncharitable Sam Harris.
[00:25:58]  Eh, whatever.
[00:25:59]  I genuinely forgot that that happened.
[00:26:00]  I don't know if I knew that happened, but I didn't mean to lead you right into that.
[00:26:04]  So we will move on.
[00:26:05]  All right.
[00:26:06]  They don't believe in God, but they believe that Trump is the devil.
[00:26:09]  That's not right.
[00:26:10]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:26:13]  Which musician wore a dress and prompted Candace Owens to famously preach that we need to bring back manly men?
[00:26:19]  Oh.
[00:26:20]  Which dress-wearing musician...
[00:26:23]  Ah, musician!
[00:26:25]  Dress-wearing musician prompted Candace's famous rant about manly men.
[00:26:29]  This trended on Twitter for far longer than it probably should have.
[00:26:34]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:26:36]  I remember this one.
[00:26:37]  He's one of those guys.
[00:26:38]  Give me a second here.
[00:26:40]  One of those guys.
[00:26:42]  I'll give you a hint.
[00:26:49]  The Village people would not consider him a macho, macho man.
[00:26:52]  Just as a hint.
[00:26:53]  No.
[00:26:55]  Would they not?
[00:26:57]  Actually, he might qualify as their...
[00:26:59]  I don't know, yeah.
[00:27:03]  What do we got?
[00:27:03]  Let's see them both at the same time.
[00:27:07]  Harry Styles, Frank Sinatra.
[00:27:09]  Frank?
[00:27:10]  Old Blue Eyes?
[00:27:11]  Was it not him?
[00:27:12]  Are you sure it wasn't?
[00:27:14]  Harry Styles is the correct answer there.
[00:27:17]  I mean, he sang my way.
[00:27:18]  It's like, you know, I'm wearing a dress.
[00:27:21]  He doesn't answer to anybody.
[00:27:23]  Yeah, you're right.
[00:27:24]  You're right.
[00:27:25]  There's so many things I want to say about that impersonation of Frank Sinatra.
[00:27:31]  I'm surprised as an Italian that Michael is not just horribly offended at the disservice you just did.
[00:27:36]  Frank and his enforcers are going to come knocking on Dave's door later.
[00:27:40]  You don't get away with insulting old blue eyes.
[00:27:44]  Next up, who was named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive in 2021?
[00:27:49]  I believe this just came out last week.
[00:27:52]  People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, 2021.
[00:27:55]  And bonus points if you can give us his age.
[00:27:59]  Some people say that he doesn't age.
[00:28:02]  Hint, hint.
[00:28:03]  Who is People Magazine's sexiest man alive?
[00:28:15]  What do we got?
[00:28:16]  Michael, I see you.
[00:28:16]  It looks like you're drawing.
[00:28:18]  I was about to draw, but then you said, what do we got?
[00:28:20]  So I had to stop my drawing.
[00:28:21]  I had a good drawing coming out, though.
[00:28:22]  You can finish it, Dave.
[00:28:23]  Let's see your answer first while we allow Michael to finish his drawing.
[00:28:29]  The infallible Fauci, and I think he's 81.
[00:28:32]  Am I right?
[00:28:32]  I feel good about this one.
[00:28:34]  I'm the sexiest man alive, Anthony Fauci.
[00:28:38]  I'm going to leave the Fauci impressions for Gnolls.
[00:28:40]  Now listen here, you.
[00:28:42]  You dirty, it didn't turn out as well as I thought.
[00:28:44]  But yes, Fauci, I said 80 though.
[00:28:48]  I'm very surprised you both thought Fauci would be picked as sexiest man alive.
[00:28:52]  This wasn't like time most important person.
[00:28:54]  We're talking sexy.
[00:28:57]  First of all, he's got a certain charisma, you know.
[00:29:00]  Power is the greatest aphrodisiac.
[00:29:02]  But second of all, I seem to remember that headline.
[00:29:04]  Yeah, yeah, I kind of remember that headline too.
[00:29:06]  The correct answer was actually Paul Rudd.
[00:29:10]  No, that's not true.
[00:29:11]  I'm looking this up.
[00:29:12]  People Magazine, Paul Rudd, it is true.
[00:29:14]  I saw the cover photo and it's quite ravishing.
[00:29:17]  Oh, you know what it was?
[00:29:19]  Fauci was rated most handsome murderer.
[00:29:22]  I think that's what it was.
[00:29:23]  That's the one we're thinking of.
[00:29:24]  Most handsome demon.
[00:29:26]  Incarnate demon.
[00:29:27]  The Guardian proclaims Anthony Fauci the sexiest man alive, Cabot.
[00:29:32]  Well, we're talking People Magazine.
[00:29:34]  We don't believe in The Guardian over here in America.
[00:29:37]  Alright.
[00:29:37]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:29:39]  Fair enough.
[00:29:39]  That's true.
[00:29:41]  Final question.
[00:29:43]  Final question for you two.
[00:29:44]  Let's hear...
[00:29:44]  What's the score here, producer people?
[00:29:48]  8-6!
[00:29:49]  This is perfect!
[00:29:50]  Wow.
[00:29:50]  Okay.
[00:29:51]  I'm down two.
[00:29:52]  I thought I was down one.
[00:29:52]  Alright.
[00:29:52]  Two-point question.
[00:29:55]  Here it is.
[00:29:56]  What is the name of the company that actress Gwyneth Paltrow created that features a candle inspired by the smell of her...
[00:30:07]  Reproductive body part.
[00:30:09]  Gwyneth Paltrow, what is the name of the company that has a candle that smells like her lady body part?
[00:30:18]  I've been to the store and I've smelled her.
[00:30:20]  It's goop.
[00:30:23]  Can you say on Daily Wire?
[00:30:25]  I don't know how that works.
[00:30:27]  I think you just did.
[00:30:27]  It's too late now.
[00:30:29]  And you gave us all that image in our minds now.
[00:30:32]  It is, in fact, goop.
[00:30:35]  Gentlemen, well done.
[00:30:36]  You both get two points, but in the end, it wasn't enough for you to overtake Michael's lead.
[00:30:43]  Mr.
[00:30:43]  Knowles, the floor is yours to celebrate however you choose.
[00:30:47]  Thank you.
[00:30:47]  I know that I technically won, but I feel like we all lost after that last answer.
[00:30:52]  So I'm just, I will be content in my humble satisfaction.
[00:30:58]  Dave, thank you for coming on the show, and I look forward to my wonderful ad read on your very popular show.
[00:31:05]  Do I do that ad read right now or am I actually doing it live on my show?
[00:31:08]  I will gladly do it live.
[00:31:10]  You can do it right now if you would like or you can do it live.
[00:31:12]  We're going to give you the option.
[00:31:13]  No, I want it on his show.
[00:31:14]  I don't want it on here.
[00:31:15]  People are already watching me on here.
[00:31:17]  This is a very, very good point.
[00:31:19]  The producers, I blame them.
[00:31:20]  They said he can do it here if he likes.
[00:31:22]  I think, Michael, I think we should hold Dave to having to do this on his show.
[00:31:25]  That sounds like that was the agreement.
[00:31:27]  Knowles, you won fair and square.
[00:31:29]  I'll do a little read for you right now, and then I will talk about this, this very thing that we did right here, the whiteboard and the whole thing.
[00:31:38]  I'll talk about it on my show and direct people to this here video.
[00:31:42]  That would be great.
[00:31:42]  That would be great.
[00:31:43]  I would love that.
[00:31:43]  Can you guys do a virtual handshake agreement first?
[00:31:50]  Thank you.
[00:31:51]  Alright, we now have 30 seconds on the clock.
[00:31:53]  Mr.
[00:31:53]  Rubin, this will go to you.
[00:31:55]  You can really just use your heart, your soul, whatever you feel necessary to say.
[00:32:01]  Listen, I want to tell you guys about The Michael Knowles Show.
[00:32:04]  Michael Knowles is such a thinker, such a great conservative pundit, that he wrote a book with no words, which became a bestseller.
[00:32:13]  Then he wrote a book with words that the New York Times completely ignored.
[00:32:17]  He likes to drink scotch.
[00:32:19]  He has a lot of old, dead, conservative friends that he talks about all the time.
[00:32:23]  He loves Frankie Valli, and he's got good Italian hair.
[00:32:27]  Watch The Michael Knowles Show on The Daily Wire.
[00:32:31]  Goodbye.
[00:32:33]  That's my new logline.
[00:32:34]  That's what's going up right now at Spotify, baby.
[00:32:36]  That was great, Dave.
[00:32:37]  Thank you very much.
[00:32:39]  I enjoyed this, Knowles.
[00:32:40]  I don't care what they say about you.
[00:32:42]  I like working with you.
[00:32:43]  You know, we also did better than I thought we would.
[00:32:47]  Everything being equal.
[00:32:48]  Yeah.
[00:32:49]  You know what?
[00:32:50]  You know what?
[00:32:50]  You won fair and square.
[00:32:51]  I live in Los Angeles.
[00:32:52]  This ridiculous Gwyneth Paltrow goop store is here.
[00:32:54]  I'm going to send you the f***ing candle.
[00:32:56]  Please, please don't.
[00:32:58]  But I'll look out in the mail.
[00:32:59]  I'll look out in the mail in case it arrives.
[00:33:02]  Oh, my guys are telling me we have one in the bathroom here.