The Michael Knowles Show - Ben Shapiro Vs Michael Knowles  | FACE-OFF: Famous Dead Guys
Aired: 2022-02-26
Duration: 41:09


=== Deeply Closeted Gay Guy (15:05) ===

[00:00:00]  Welcome to Face-Off.
[00:00:01]  I am your host, Cabot Phillips.
[00:00:03]  Today is the time for us to answer a very important question, and that is which Daily Wire host has the most knowledge of quotes from famous dead guys?
[00:00:12]  And here to help us answer those two very important questions are the man himself, Mr.
[00:00:17]  Michael Knowles, best-selling author, host of The Michael Knowles Show.
[00:00:19]  Michael, welcome.
[00:00:21]  Thank you for having me on my own show, Cabot.
[00:00:23]  You remind me each time we do this that this is in fact your show.
[00:00:26]  I'm not the host.
[00:00:27]  But just let me believe just for a little bit.
[00:00:29]  And your competitor today in the face-off competition is Mr.
[00:00:33]  Ben Shapiro, who's, I might add, his best-selling books do actually have words in them.
[00:00:37]  Ben, thanks for joining us.
[00:00:38]  You bet.
[00:00:39]  This is only a lose-lose for me.
[00:00:40]  I also will point out that it might be a lose-lose for you.
[00:00:43]  Michael has yet to lose any of these competitions.
[00:00:46]  He bested Matt Walsh in showing who was the best Daily Wire Catholic.
[00:00:50]  The better Catholic is, of course, Matt Walsh, but Knowles got more answers right.
[00:00:56]  All right.
[00:00:57]  And he bested Dave Rubin in who is the greatest culture warrior.
[00:01:00]  You know, Michael is a man who's very comfortable with his sexuality.
[00:01:04]  Yeah.
[00:01:05]  Michael is coming in on a hot streak.
[00:01:07]  This is a great point, Cabot, because you would say right now, my loss board is clean.
[00:01:13]  Naturally, it's clean.
[00:01:15]  And when you want to clean all of your services, I would recommend that you check out Naturally It's Clean.
[00:01:20]  More from them later.
[00:01:22]  First, though, I have got to try to keep up my perfect win streak.
[00:01:27]  I am now up.
[00:01:28]  I'm up against the big boss.
[00:01:29]  This is not, you know, I love Dave and I love Matt.
[00:01:32]  This is going to be maybe a little more formidable.
[00:01:36]  Formidable indeed.
[00:01:38]  So let's just get right to it so you don't get any more nervous than I'm sure you already are.
[00:01:42]  This is Face-Off: Famous Dead Guys.
[00:01:45]  The rules of the game are simple.
[00:01:51]  I will read a quote from a famous dead man.
[00:01:53]  You two will have 30 seconds.
[00:01:55]  I'm sure it won't take 30.
[00:01:56]  You'll have your answers in quicker.
[00:01:57]  To answer who said that quote, which famous dead man was it, then we will get right to it.
[00:02:03]  The first quote for you gentlemen today.
[00:02:07]  I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
[00:02:17]  I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
[00:02:21]  Oh, wait.
[00:02:21]  Oh, actually, hold on.
[00:02:22]  There's more of a story with this one, I think.
[00:02:25]  There are two correct answers that we will take for this one, because there is a little bit of dispute on who exactly this belongs to.
[00:02:32]  All right, Michael, you're finished.
[00:02:33]  Ben, we'll start with you, because you got yours in first.
[00:02:40]  Supposedly Voltaire...
[00:02:42]  Michael, who are you going with?
[00:02:43]  So I put the little second caveat one down there, but I did put Voltaire up first.
[00:02:49]  It's a little tricky when you name Voltaire these days, because a GOP congressman just got in trouble for confusing a quote from a neo-Nazi pedophile with a quote from Voltaire, but I'll stick with the first one, supposedly Voltaire.
[00:03:03]  You were both correct.
[00:03:05]  We would have accepted Voltaire or Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
[00:03:08]  There was some dispute still on that.
[00:03:11]  Probably getting misquoted by a lot of people.
[00:03:14]  Not by you, gentlemen.
[00:03:15]  Well done.
[00:03:16]  One point to each.
[00:03:18]  Next up.
[00:03:19]  By all means, marry.
[00:03:21]  If you get a good wife, you'll become happy.
[00:03:23]  If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
[00:03:26]  Ben's got his in, Michael.
[00:03:33]  Okay.
[00:03:33]  Alright, Michael, you're gonna go first on this one.
[00:03:36]  Who you got?
[00:03:36]  I guessed Aristotle, not because I've heard Aristotle say that or read it, but because all those old Greeks were gay guys, and so I figured if they had an unhappy marriage, that would be more likely for them.
[00:03:50]  Ben, what about you?
[00:03:51]  Yeah.
[00:03:53]  I went with Samuel Johnson, mainly because it kind of sounds like Samuel Johnson.
[00:03:58]  Uh, Michael was closer on this one.
[00:04:00]  This one was actually Socrates.
[00:04:02]  Really?
[00:04:03]  That is what the producers are telling me.
[00:04:05]  Wow, that's shocking.
[00:04:05]  So if not, take it up with your producers, Michael, if you think that was incorrect.
[00:04:08]  I almost wrote Socrates, but I thought Aristotle was the funnier gay guy.
[00:04:12]  Joke.
[00:04:13]  But that, well, okay.
[00:04:13]  Do I get points for that?
[00:04:14]  I don't know.
[00:04:14]  That was pretty close.
[00:04:16]  No.
[00:04:16]  Even though it is your show, we're not going to get points for this.
[00:04:18]  Sadly, no.
[00:04:18]  What?
[00:04:19]  Ah, darn.
[00:04:19]  I should have put Socrates.
[00:04:20]  That would have been funnier.
[00:04:21]  Okay.
[00:04:22]  Next up.
[00:04:24]  With great power comes great responsibility.
[00:04:27]  Hmm.
[00:04:28]  Ben's taking a little more time than you, so maybe easy for you, Michael.
[00:04:38]  Ben, we'll start with you.
[00:04:39]  Walk us through the thought process.
[00:04:40]  I saw some deep thinking going on.
[00:04:42]  Well, I mean, it depends where you are in the multiverse as to who says this, right?
[00:04:47]  Because Uncle Ben says this to Peter Parker, or alternatively, Marissa Tomei says it to Peter Parker.
[00:04:55]  All right, very thorough.
[00:04:56]  Michael, what you got?
[00:04:57]  I, uh...
[00:05:00]  I'm not as much of a nerd on these things.
[00:05:03]  I just said Spider-Man.
[00:05:04]  Does that count?
[00:05:06]  No, that's incorrect.
[00:05:07]  I do not think we're going to give you points on that for Spider-Man.
[00:05:11]  Also, I would just like to point out at this point, you're not a nerd for enjoying the most popular movie in the world, Michael.
[00:05:17]  You don't have to play that game.
[00:05:18]  I'm just a nerd.
[00:05:19]  Oh, no.
[00:05:20]  Ben, you get points for that.
[00:05:22]  We also would have accepted Uncle Ben, Winston Churchill, Stan Lee, or the Apostle Luke, who said to whom much is given, much is expected.
[00:05:30]  Any of those we would have technically taken.
[00:05:33]  Spider-Man does not count, unfortunately.
[00:05:36]  Fair enough.
[00:05:37]  Next up.
[00:05:38]  I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
[00:05:44]  Hmm.
[00:05:46]  Hmm.
[00:05:50]  Alright, Michael, we'll start with you.
[00:05:51]  Who you got?
[00:05:53]  I'm shooting in the dark here, as was this man.
[00:05:57]  Galileo?
[00:05:58]  Alright, Ben?
[00:06:01]  I also said Galileo, but I'm with Michael.
[00:06:05]  It could be like three other guys.
[00:06:06]  I want to say very close.
[00:06:09]  Generally close.
[00:06:10]  It was Sir Isaac Newton.
[00:06:11]  Newton.
[00:06:12]  Yeah, okay.
[00:06:13]  He was the other guy, I was thinking.
[00:06:15]  Yep, me too.
[00:06:16]  Alright, so no points awarded there.
[00:06:18]  Next up.
[00:06:19]  Let my teaching fall like rain, and my words descend like dew.
[00:06:23]  Like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.
[00:06:29]  Let my teaching fall like rain, and my words descend like dew.
[00:06:33]  Uh Ben is just rearing to hold up the whiteboards.
[00:06:39]  We're gonna go to him He looks very confident.
[00:06:45]  I'm going to go with my boy Moses.
[00:06:48]  All right, Michael?
[00:06:49]  From Deuteronomy.
[00:06:50]  Oh, darn.
[00:06:51]  I wanted it to be more mystical, so I suggested Confucius.
[00:06:58]  Mr.
[00:06:59]  Shapiro gets the points on this one.
[00:07:02]  Devastating.
[00:07:02]  That's my book, Michael, Michael.
[00:07:04]  Yeah, you're in my backyard with that one.
[00:07:05]  That's brutal.
[00:07:06]  You know, I'm doing Bible in a year.
[00:07:07]  I can almost cite that one in the original Hebrew.
[00:07:09]  I can almost cite that one in the original Hebrew.
[00:07:11]  I always start Bible in a year.
[00:07:13]  So I've read Genesis about a thousand times.
[00:07:16]  But I'm not yet up again to Deuteronomy.
[00:07:20]  I'm still on Exodus.
[00:07:24]  Many a Bible reading plan has died on the shores of Deuteronomy.
[00:07:28]  Next up.
[00:07:29]  No, it all falls apart in Leviticus.
[00:07:31]  Deuteronomy is great.
[00:07:33]  I actually may have gotten that wrong.
[00:07:34]  Next up.
[00:07:35]  This one, again, this is a quote from someone else.
[00:07:38]  I am a deeply closeted gay guy.
[00:07:41]  You can't say Socrates again.
[00:07:49]  Hmm I'll read it one more time for the sake of reminding I am a deeply closeted gay guy Can't make the Socrates joke, you already did that.
[00:08:03]  Man.
[00:08:05]  I'm having a real tough time with this one, I'll be honest with you.
[00:08:08]  Ah.
[00:08:09]  Hmm.
[00:08:10]  Slightly more recent.
[00:08:11]  There's so many jokes and I can't pick between them!
[00:08:13]  I can't pick between them!
[00:08:14]  What do we do?
[00:08:16]  I don't know.
[00:08:17]  Okay, we'll do this.
[00:08:18]  Would it help if I read the quote one more time?
[00:08:21]  One more time, Gavin.
[00:08:23]  Alright, fine.
[00:08:24]  Alright, Michael, who'd you go with?
[00:08:26]  Ben might know how to quote Moses, but I know how to quote Norm MacDonald.
[00:08:34]  Ben?
[00:08:36]  Oh, I had Rock Hudson, so...
[00:08:38]  Norm MacDonald was, in fact, his self-described deeply closeted gay man.
[00:08:45]  I'm a deeply closeted gay man.
[00:08:47]  You're a gay man?
[00:08:48]  I'm not gay!
[00:08:51]  I said I'm deeply closeted.
[00:08:53]  Point to Mr.
[00:08:53]  Knowles.
[00:08:54]  So you're saying he was a gay guy?
[00:08:56]  Well, I said he ascribed himself.
[00:08:58]  No, he said deeply closeted.
[00:08:59]  Deeply closeted, yes.
[00:09:01]  I'm hoping our producers are keeping score in my ear because I'm just kind of throwing out points left and right.
[00:09:06]  Next up.
[00:09:07]  I'm up 3-2.
[00:09:08]  I'm up 3-2.
[00:09:09]  Yeah, I think Ben's up by one.
[00:09:10]  Keep going.
[00:09:10]  Of course Ben was counting.
[00:09:12]  Yep.
[00:09:12]  Next up.
[00:09:13]  History repeats itself first as tragedy, second as farce.
[00:09:17]  Ben, who you got?
[00:09:31]  I had Nietzsche, but I think it's wrong.
[00:09:33]  Michael?
[00:09:34]  I believe it is Marks and Engels.
[00:09:37]  And the reason I say Marks and Engels is I think Engels actually said it first.
[00:09:41]  We've got Karl Marx, so we are going to give you the point on that, unless Ben can make a compelling argument otherwise.
[00:09:47]  No, I cannot.
[00:09:48]  I cannot make a compelling argument.
[00:09:49]  That's okay.
[00:09:50]  I mean, that's the first time I've ever heard Ben say that.
[00:09:52]  That saddens me that I didn't get that.
[00:09:53]  That is a blown opportunity.
[00:09:55]  I mean, in fairness, it just means that you haven't been keeping up on your Marx, which probably is for the betterment of your soul.
[00:10:04]  He has been keeping up on his Old Testament though, which is true for the betterment of his soul as well.
[00:10:09]  Next up.
[00:10:09]  More important.
[00:10:10]  Yeah, exactly.
[00:10:11]  Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
[00:10:14]  it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
[00:10:18]  Who we got?
[00:10:25]  I'm going to say that it is the man who conservatives quote 50,000 times a day with that exact line, John Adams.
[00:10:34]  Point to both of you.
[00:10:36]  Well done.
[00:10:36]  There was never any question there for either of you.
[00:10:38]  There was no suspense.
[00:10:39]  I don't want to build suspense where there is none.
[00:10:41]  No, that was an easy one.
[00:10:42]  We'll move on to the next.
[00:10:44]  Politics is the ability to foretell...
[00:10:46]  Quote some Locke and Knowles is in trouble.
[00:10:51]  Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
[00:10:57]  And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
[00:11:04]  A little more suspense here.
[00:11:06]  Ben, what do you got?
[00:11:07]  Yeah.
[00:11:09]  I had Churchill, but this is another one where I'm just not sure.
[00:11:12]  I went with a different Marx.
[00:11:14]  I went with Groucho Marx on this one.
[00:11:18]  That is incorrect, but Ben does get a point.
[00:11:21]  It was Churchill.
[00:11:22]  That's awful.
[00:11:24]  I'm back in the red.
[00:11:28]  If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
[00:11:34]  Again, if my mother is watching this, it's not a cry for help.
[00:11:36]  That is a quote from a famous dead guy.
[00:11:42]  Michael, we'll start with you.
[00:11:44]  I'm going with the Marquis de Sade.
[00:11:50]  There's one person who's going to laugh at that joke, and that would happen to be Ben Shapiro.
[00:11:54]  Everyone answer?
[00:11:55]  It's okay.
[00:11:55]  Yeah.
[00:11:57]  Ben, who do you got?
[00:11:58]  That is true.
[00:11:59]  Well, actually, Clayton would have laughed at that joke.
[00:12:02]  Okay.
[00:12:04]  And I have Proust, mainly because I have not, nor will I ever read Proust.
[00:12:10]  This was a little bit of a trick question.
[00:12:12]  It was actually Kurt Cobain.
[00:12:14]  Oh, Kurt Cobain.
[00:12:15]  Got it.
[00:12:16]  I was much closer than you.
[00:12:18]  Actually, was I that much?
[00:12:19]  Oh, yeah.
[00:12:19]  Up for debate.
[00:12:21]  On second thought, yeah.
[00:12:24]  Next up.
[00:12:24]  "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." Michael, you're so confident.
[00:12:38]  Let's let you go first.
[00:12:39]  Obviously.
[00:12:39]  Who does this describe?
[00:12:41]  Donald Trump.
[00:12:43]  There's no question.
[00:12:44]  Next one.
[00:12:45]  Next question.
[00:12:47]  Ben, what do you make of that and what did you answer?
[00:12:50]  I went with his ancients equivalent.
[00:12:54]  Plato.
[00:12:54]  Ben was much closer.
[00:12:56]  It was actually Aristotle.
[00:12:57]  We keep dancing around the old Greeks.
[00:13:00]  I know.
[00:13:00]  Ah, we keep dancing.
[00:13:01]  Yeah.
[00:13:02]  Wrong Greeks, man.
[00:13:03]  I think Donald Trump would be very flattered by that, Michael.
[00:13:06]  Or maybe he wouldn't be flattered.
[00:13:10]  Who knows?
[00:13:11]  We'll find out on Twitter.
[00:13:12]  One of our producers came up with a friendly reminder just now that Trump is not dead, so you're forgetting the premise of the game, Michael.
[00:13:20]  That's true.
[00:13:21]  Ineligible.
[00:13:22]  That's a good point.
[00:13:24]  Next up...
[00:13:25]  But Joe Biden is eligible, so that's good news.
[00:13:30]  Next up...
[00:13:32]  I cannot help it.
[00:13:33]  I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.
[00:13:37]  Hmm...
[00:13:39]  I will be very impressed.
[00:13:40]  No fair writing Martin Luther, Michael.
[00:13:42]  I know.
[00:13:44]  I cannot help it.
[00:13:46]  I want to be a good Catholic, but I am a hedonist.
[00:13:52]  This is another shot in the dark.
[00:13:55]  Ben, who are we putting down here?
[00:13:57]  Well, it's wrong, but it's true.
[00:14:03]  Several popes in the Middle Ages.
[00:14:08]  Several.
[00:14:08]  Hey, that's certainly an understatement.
[00:14:11]  That's certainly undercounting.
[00:14:13]  Michael?
[00:14:14]  I put down...
[00:14:16]  And this is just because he was a hedonist and he gets quoted a lot.
[00:14:21]  Oscar Wilde?
[00:14:23]  I do appreciate both of your answers.
[00:14:26]  We're putting the man who lived down by the river, Mr.
[00:14:29]  Chris Farley.
[00:14:30]  Mmm.
[00:14:31]  Mmm.
[00:14:33]  Wow.
[00:14:33]  Yeah, I was not going to get that.
[00:14:35]  And they're really testing y'all's knowledge here.
[00:14:37]  Wow, yeah.
[00:14:38]  I really like what this game...
[00:14:40]  That was out of the box.
[00:14:40]  I like that the producers chose quotes that are not in any way well-known.
[00:14:46]  That's great.
[00:14:46]  I'm glad they did that.
[00:14:48]  Right.
[00:14:48]  That's the best part, is they just sort of randomly opened books.

=== A Man's Rational Choice (02:26) ===

[00:14:51]  And it was like, they had a book on their shelf, and it was like Chris Farley's autobiography.
[00:14:56]  Yeah.
[00:14:56]  And then they just picked a random sentence, and they're like, okay, we'll put this one out there.
[00:14:58]  This is a quote.
[00:14:59]  Yeah.
[00:15:01]  I would like to take credit for any quotes you guys like and get correct, and any that you've never heard of.
[00:15:05]  That was the producers, they put those in.
[00:15:06]  And we will move on.
[00:15:08]  A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
[00:15:15]  Are there repeats?
[00:15:17]  There are not.
[00:15:20]  You may offer repeat answers, but there are not repeat correct answers.
[00:15:26]  A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
[00:15:29]  Mr.
[00:15:30]  Shapiro, who said that?
[00:15:33]  I'm going to say Descartes.
[00:15:36]  Knowles?
[00:15:36]  I wanted to go a little more old school.
[00:15:39]  I suggested St.
[00:15:40]  Thomas Aquinas.
[00:15:41]  Very impressive.
[00:15:42]  Michael Knowles, that is correct.
[00:15:44]  Hey, alright!
[00:15:45]  There are too many Catholics on this list.
[00:15:47]  This is not...
[00:15:49]  This is not okay.
[00:15:50]  It was one of those...
[00:15:51]  Only one Jew and many Catholics.
[00:15:52]  You know, all of the Enlightenment guys, they liked rationalism a lot, too.
[00:15:58]  But people forget those old-school medieval scholastics.
[00:16:01]  They liked their reason.
[00:16:02]  All right.
[00:16:03]  So is this tied?
[00:16:03]  It's tied now?
[00:16:04]  Yes, we are tied.
[00:16:07]  Oh, man.
[00:16:08]  It was intense.
[00:16:09]  Okay.
[00:16:09]  I have high hopes for both of you guys on this one.
[00:16:12]  Every man has a property in his own person.
[00:16:16]  This nobody has a right to but himself.
[00:16:19]  Hmm, sounds like some kind of, like, some kind of, like, lib stuff.
[00:16:23]  Hold on.
[00:16:27]  This is definitely not St.
[00:16:28]  Thomas Aquinas.
[00:16:29]  Uh, trying to see how many letters Ben is writing there.
[00:16:34]  Mmm, uh...
[00:16:36]  Mmm.
[00:16:37]  Michael, are you done?
[00:16:42]  Yeah, like, sure, whatever.
[00:16:44]  I'm so divided here.
[00:16:45]  Let's hear it.
[00:16:46]  I'm so divided.
[00:16:49]  Locke?
[00:16:49]  I don't know.
[00:16:50]  Is it Locke?
[00:16:52]  Ben?
[00:16:52]  I also said Locke.
[00:16:54]  And you also are correct.
[00:16:56]  You're both right.
[00:16:56]  John Locke.
[00:16:57]  Wow.
[00:16:58]  Oh, man.
[00:16:59]  I was literally looking.
[00:17:00]  I was like, did Ben write five letters?

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[00:18:50]  One thing that's not clean are some of these quotes that I have been given to read.
[00:18:55]  Mainly this next one.
[00:18:56]  Again, these are not my words.
[00:18:59]  I love it when you call me Big Papa.
[00:19:01]  Mm-hmm.
[00:19:05]  I will add also that Papa is P-O-P-P-A. If that is helpful at all.
[00:19:10]  Oh, okay.
[00:19:11]  I love it when you call me Big Papa.
[00:19:13]  This sounds like right in my wheelhouse.
[00:19:14]  Right here.
[00:19:18]  I think I'm ready.
[00:19:20]  Alright, Ben.
[00:19:20]  Let's see who you got.
[00:19:24]  Biggie.
[00:19:27]  Smokin' Blunts was a daily routine since 13.
[00:19:31]  A chubby fella on the scene by the name of Biggie Smalls.
[00:19:35]  Both very well done, gentlemen.
[00:19:37]  I would say you guys know your music.
[00:19:40]  Wow!
[00:19:40]  I pulled that one.
[00:19:41]  I did not expect to get that one right.
[00:19:42]  I got Locke and you got Biggie.
[00:19:44]  That is well outside my wheelhouse.
[00:19:45]  This is impressive.
[00:19:46]  Now, Ben, is Biggie a musical artist or is he a poet?
[00:19:51]  What do we consider him?
[00:19:53]  I assumed it was his given name.

=== Proverbs Puzzle (15:25) ===

[00:19:55]  Yeah.
[00:19:56]  That his mother, he came out of his mother and she said, Behold, I shall call him Begin.
[00:20:03]  Moving on.
[00:20:05]  Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
[00:20:13]  Michael, who'd you put?
[00:20:15]  I don't know, like Shakespeare.
[00:20:20]  I'm surprised by that one.
[00:20:21]  Ben.
[00:20:21]  Ben.
[00:20:24]  I said John Stuart Mill.
[00:20:26]  That is actually Solomon.
[00:20:28]  King Solomon.
[00:20:29]  King Solomon.
[00:20:30]  Oh.
[00:20:31]  I should have known that one.
[00:20:32]  Well, that's...
[00:20:32]  I mean, since Shakespeare probably wrote the KJ. They nailed you with Proverbs.
[00:20:36]  Proverbs 2017.
[00:20:37]  Proverbs.
[00:20:38]  Or 2717, I should have known.
[00:20:39]  Proverbs is so difficult to read, man.
[00:20:42]  In Hebrew, it's Mishle, and it is rough to read.
[00:20:45]  It has so many great quotes, but they're all juxtaposed with one another in bizarre order, and so there's no through line.
[00:20:52]  So everybody knows three quotes from Proverbs, but nobody actually knows how they fit together.
[00:20:58]  Proverbs is also one where I guess I could probably tell you a bunch of it, but I could never tell you where it is, or the numbers, or really anything.
[00:21:08]  It's all just kind of like a...
[00:21:09]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:21:10]  I smell a new show, like an Old Testament survey course taught by you two.
[00:21:16]  Ratings would be through the roof.
[00:21:18]  That's what the youths are after these days.
[00:21:23]  I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.
[00:21:29]  I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.
[00:21:33]  Ben.
[00:21:36]  Keats, because it rhymes.
[00:21:39]  Knowles.
[00:21:40]  I said Shakespeare because it rhymes.
[00:21:43]  And one of these has to be Shakespeare, right?
[00:21:45]  I mean, a Shakespeare of the 20th century.
[00:21:48]  This was Mr.
[00:21:49]  Tupac Shakur.
[00:21:50]  Damn, I almost wrote Tupac as a joke.
[00:21:54]  That's frustrating.
[00:21:55]  See, this has been actually accidentally giving credit to Tupac for being a brilliant lyricist.
[00:22:00]  It is.
[00:22:01]  It is.
[00:22:01]  He is the modern day Keats.
[00:22:04]  That's exactly right.
[00:22:07]  Next up, you were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge.
[00:22:12]  We've got a standoff.
[00:22:18]  I think they're both looking at the camera to see how many letters are being written by the other.
[00:22:25]  Michael, who'd you put?
[00:22:27]  Okay.
[00:22:29]  St.
[00:22:30]  Augustine.
[00:22:31]  Sounds kind of Augustinian.
[00:22:33]  Ben?
[00:22:35]  I also thought about Augustine, but we actually have not hit Plato yet, right?
[00:22:38]  We got Aristotle, who actually was correct, but we haven't actually gotten...
[00:22:41]  This was a tough one.
[00:22:42]  This was actually Dante.
[00:22:44]  Dante, really?
[00:22:46]  Yes!
[00:22:46]  Oh!
[00:22:47]  You've read him in the original Italian.
[00:22:48]  That's why he didn't recognize it.
[00:22:49]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:22:50]  Yeah, I'm not familiar with him.
[00:22:51]  If he was an Italian, he would have been good.
[00:22:53]  If...
[00:22:53]  You were not made to live, like, pursue virtue and knowledge.
[00:22:56]  I guess I, like, vaguely...
[00:22:57]  Yeah, all right, well.
[00:22:59]  Ah, darn, now I... Ah, man, I was really hoping to have an advantage on the Dante quote.
[00:23:03]  This whole thing is like the seventh circle of hell.
[00:23:06]  Do we have a score update?
[00:23:08]  Ben, are you still keeping score, producers?
[00:23:10]  What's the score right now?
[00:23:11]  No, I lost it a while ago.
[00:23:12]  I think I'm behind.
[00:23:13]  I think it's even right now.
[00:23:14]  It is.
[00:23:15]  What is it?
[00:23:15]  I don't know.
[00:23:17]  7-7.
[00:23:18]  We've got a tie ball game heading into this final stretch.
[00:23:21]  It's been even for a while.
[00:23:22]  None of us have gotten one right in a long stretch here.
[00:23:25]  Next up.
[00:23:27]  We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker.
[00:23:32]  It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
[00:23:41]  There are like four people I'm thinking of right now.
[00:23:44]  This was another tough one.
[00:23:45]  This was one of the more...
[00:23:46]  maybe unpopular of this person's.
[00:23:54]  Michael, who'd you guess?
[00:23:55]  Oh, okay.
[00:23:55]  Oh, wait, wait, wait.
[00:23:57]  Hold on.
[00:23:57]  He gave a clue.
[00:23:59]  That's some Bushley.
[00:24:00]  Yeah, he gave a clue.
[00:24:01]  Right there.
[00:24:02]  I thought the answers were final.
[00:24:04]  Oh, wait.
[00:24:05]  My conscience is clear.
[00:24:06]  I can't see that either.
[00:24:07]  That guy's still alive.
[00:24:08]  Hold on.
[00:24:09]  Here we go.
[00:24:10]  Oh, I know who you were thinking of for that one.
[00:24:12]  Yeah, you do, don't you?
[00:24:16]  Let's see.
[00:24:17]  You know what's funny?
[00:24:17]  That guy's alive, too.
[00:24:18]  I was thinking of him, too, and I also forgot that he was still alive.
[00:24:22]  Yep.
[00:24:23]  How do you both know who the other is talking about by being this vague?
[00:24:26]  We're a little bit on a wavelength right here, Cabot.
[00:24:29]  And that wavelength is hopping over the center of this screen.
[00:24:32]  All right, can we do it now?
[00:24:35]  Can we show this?
[00:24:36]  Yes, you can.
[00:24:36]  All right, okay fine.
[00:24:37]  What do you have?
[00:24:38]  I think it was Reagan.
[00:24:40]  Ben?
[00:24:43]  I had written Reagan, but then I changed it to LBJ because Cabot suggested it was surprising.
[00:24:47]  You always gotta trust your gut, Ben.
[00:24:49]  This was Reagan.
[00:24:50]  Yes.
[00:24:51]  Oh, you cheated me.
[00:24:53]  I literally wrote Ronaldus Maximus, and then I erased it because you wouldn't shut your face, Cabot.
[00:24:57]  Oh, that's such...
[00:24:58]  Never be led astray by the host.
[00:24:59]  Oh, man.
[00:25:00]  How did I lead you astray?
[00:25:02]  God bless it.
[00:25:02]  That's like...
[00:25:03]  Wow.
[00:25:04]  You said this was one of his less popular stances.
[00:25:06]  Are you kidding?
[00:25:07]  That's what won Ronald Reagan the presidency.
[00:25:10]  When you said it's one of his less popular stances, I immediately assumed that it was somebody of the left.
[00:25:13]  Did you mean a less popular quote?
[00:25:15]  I meant a less popular quote of his, where if people are quoting Ronald Reagan, typically that's not the one they're quoting.
[00:25:22]  You're like, The real reason I do this is because Michael is actually three doors down from me.
[00:25:30]  Ben, you are three states down from me, so I'm more scared of one than the other.
[00:25:34]  That's true.
[00:25:34]  Now, the difference is I don't sign the paychecks.
[00:25:38]  I may have miscalculated this.
[00:25:39]  I told you this was a lose-lose.
[00:25:40]  I would both lose to Michael and continue to sign him paychecks.
[00:25:43]  And now sign a paycheck to a corrupt host who's been bought off by the sweater vest wearing jackass down the hall from him.
[00:25:51]  Man, I was so going to complain if Ben went from the wrong answer to the right answer on that, but now, that's the way the rules work?
[00:25:58]  That's fine.
[00:25:58]  Okay, we're good.
[00:25:59]  I was led astray.
[00:26:00]  The proverbial cookie has crumbled.
[00:26:02]  Watch the tape, go back, and you can see my hand move as I write Ronald as Maximus and then erase the answer.
[00:26:09]  Oh, well.
[00:26:09]  Okay.
[00:26:10]  I'm going to move on before I actually do get fired.
[00:26:12]  Always do sober what you said you would do drunk.
[00:26:15]  That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
[00:26:19]  Always do sober what you said you would do drunk.
[00:26:22]  That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
[00:26:23]  and I'm gonna keep my mouth shut and not offer any clues.
[00:26:26]  I really do.
[00:26:33]  Yeah, I... Looks like we got our answers in.
[00:26:39]  Hold on.
[00:26:42]  Ben, I did not give him a clue.
[00:26:43]  He is erasing this of his own will and volition.
[00:26:45]  I know, I know.
[00:26:46]  That wasn't you.
[00:26:47]  That wasn't you.
[00:26:48]  Okay.
[00:26:48]  All right.
[00:26:49]  I'm so frustrated.
[00:26:50]  Michael, who'd you switch to?
[00:26:52]  So initially I said George Burns because I could kind of picture the quote with him smoking a cigar or whatever.
[00:26:57]  But I changed it to Chesterton because I assume Chesterton's going to show up at some point since he produced half of the quotes in the English language.
[00:27:04]  Ben?
[00:27:06]  I said Al Capone.
[00:27:08]  I wish I could give that half point.
[00:27:10]  This was actually Hemingway.
[00:27:12]  Hemingway.
[00:27:13]  Okay, that's fair enough.
[00:27:14]  He never took the advice, but yeah, that's good to know that he at least understood.
[00:27:18]  Well, I mean, he had no choice.
[00:27:21]  He was always drunk.
[00:27:21]  That's true.
[00:27:23]  He never had to do anything.
[00:27:25]  Yep, that's true.
[00:27:26]  Next up is the shortest quote of our list.
[00:27:29]  It is simply, hee hee.
[00:27:33]  H-E-E. What was it?
[00:27:36]  H-E-E. H-E-E. Hee hee.
[00:27:40]  I'll read in a different tone.
[00:27:43]  Hee hee.
[00:27:48]  That's it.
[00:27:49]  That's the quote.
[00:27:50]  Could you keep saying it, Cabot?
[00:27:53]  No, I'm a little worried about what that might evoke in the comment section, so I'm not going to do any more of those.
[00:28:00]  But do we have any guesses?
[00:28:01]  Ben, we'll start with you.
[00:28:05]  The Joker.
[00:28:06]  Close.
[00:28:08]  Pretty close.
[00:28:09]  I'm going to say...
[00:28:10]  Shimona!
[00:28:12]  Michael Jackson.
[00:28:13]  It is Mr.
[00:28:14]  Michael Jackson.
[00:28:16]  Yep.
[00:28:18]  Thank you.
[00:28:19]  I didn't know at first, but the read really helped, Cabot.
[00:28:23]  That one goes to the appellate court.
[00:28:25]  I'm sorry.
[00:28:25]  That is the thing that the Joker also says.
[00:28:27]  That is not...
[00:28:29]  Michael, you won that, but really everyone lost for having to hear me say hee-hee repeatedly.
[00:28:34]  Yeah, that's true.
[00:28:36]  The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
[00:28:41]  Ben is writing a paragraph over there.
[00:28:52]  I gotta see this.
[00:28:52]  Ben, what'd you put?
[00:28:55]  Nicole Hannah-Jones.
[00:28:56]  And it's a playbook, not a...
[00:28:58]  It's prescriptive, actually.
[00:29:00]  Right, actually.
[00:29:02]  I, having never read...
[00:29:05]  Almost anything this man has written, I decided to say Solzhenitsyn because I could hear Jordan Peterson quoting that as a quote from Solzhenitsyn.
[00:29:16]  Is this just you wanting to show to everyone that you know how to spell Solzhenitsyn?
[00:29:20]  That was a stab in the dark, too.
[00:29:22]  That was definitely, probably some vowels out of place.
[00:29:24]  This was actually George Orwell.
[00:29:26]  Orwell, yeah, okay.
[00:29:28]  Oh.
[00:29:28]  Fair enough.
[00:29:29]  Considering I had that book club on him last month, that's it, that's it.
[00:29:33]  The great part about being a host, which I'm learning that you guys must get to feel every day, is the feeling of superiority because I get to pretend like I already knew the answer to all of these things when in reality the producers are just telling me in my ear.
[00:29:45]  So it's a nice feeling.
[00:29:47]  Next quote.
[00:29:48]  Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
[00:29:53]  They're not giving you guys a lot of context here.
[00:29:55]  They're just giving you those five words.
[00:29:57]  I mean, it's been quoted by...
[00:30:00]  Zillions of people.
[00:30:01]  Everyone.
[00:30:02]  Yeah.
[00:30:02]  Every human.
[00:30:03]  Yeah.
[00:30:05]  Michael?
[00:30:07]  Mark Twain?
[00:30:09]  And Ben?
[00:30:10]  Yeah, he's correct.
[00:30:11]  That's right.
[00:30:12]  I put Disraeli, but it is Twain.
[00:30:14]  We've got Mark Twain on here, so Michael, we'll give you another point there.
[00:30:17]  Disraeli, though.
[00:30:18]  I wonder if...
[00:30:18]  Disraeli's got some good quotes, too.
[00:30:21]  That's a good one to throw in the noggin if he might show up in the rest of this game.
[00:30:25]  I'm blowing this, man.
[00:30:26]  This month's book is Adventures of Huck Finn.
[00:30:28]  Really?
[00:30:29]  I'm blowing it.
[00:30:30]  Yeah, I'm completely blowing it.
[00:30:32]  I'll admit that it's not in Huck Finn, though.
[00:30:34]  Brevity.
[00:30:37]  Michael's now running away with this thing.
[00:30:39]  Michael is running away with this thing.
[00:30:40]  I've got a little bit of a lead here.
[00:30:41]  I didn't want to give a score update because I didn't want to appear to be rubbing it in.
[00:30:45]  Yeah, it's like 10-7 or something.
[00:30:46]  It got brutal here.
[00:30:47]  Maybe, Ben, I'll remind you of what's at stake and this will motivate a comeback.
[00:30:51]  You will have to film and record a plug on your own show to listen to Michael's show if you lose.
[00:30:57]  And vice versa.
[00:30:58]  So just a reminder, what's at stake?
[00:31:02]  To be frank, I do that pretty much every day and it never helps.
[00:31:06]  So we'll just keep doing it.
[00:31:07]  It never helps and it always hurts.
[00:31:09]  It always just digs right into your...
[00:31:10]  Okay.
[00:31:11]  Well, if you don't want to give it to Michael, you can just plug Morning Wire and we'll call it even on that.
[00:31:15]  And that's...
[00:31:16]  What do you think I did this morning?
[00:31:18]  All right.
[00:31:19]  Anyway.
[00:31:19]  Next up.
[00:31:21]  Brevity is the soul of wit.
[00:31:26]  Oh, there we go.
[00:31:28]  Michael, it's all you, man.
[00:31:29]  You've been waiting for this one.
[00:31:30]  I've been waiting for this one.
[00:31:31]  It's kind of a trick.
[00:31:33]  It's kind of a trick question.
[00:31:35]  Why is that?
[00:31:36]  And explain your answer.
[00:31:36]  Let's see it, Michael.
[00:31:38]  Well, I actually have to write it down, though, like the real one that I'm going to get credit for.
[00:31:41]  Okay.
[00:31:42]  It's really, you know, everyone says it's Shakespeare, but it's really, really Polonius who says it.
[00:31:47]  His character in Hamlet.
[00:31:49]  Mmm.
[00:31:50]  Yeah.
[00:31:51]  Do I get bonus points?
[00:31:52]  As clearly neither of you were surprised.
[00:31:54]  Well done.
[00:31:55]  Yep.
[00:31:57]  Next up.
[00:31:58]  In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, in epochs, it is the rule.
[00:32:06]  Do we say epochs, epochs, epochs?
[00:32:09]  What do we say there?
[00:32:11]  I say epoch.
[00:32:13]  But I don't know.
[00:32:15]  Some say Tupac.
[00:32:17]  Exactly.
[00:32:19]  Do we have an answer here?
[00:32:19]  Can you read the quote again, Kevin?
[00:32:20]  I'll read it again.
[00:32:21]  In individuals, insanity is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
[00:32:31]  Ben, you've got a smile.
[00:32:32]  Let's see it.
[00:32:34]  Well, I mean, I'm just going to crib off of Michael here and I'm going to say Solzhenitsyn this time.
[00:32:38]  I too said Solzhenitsyn this time.
[00:32:40]  I sort of thought it might be Spengler, but then I thought, I was like, there's no way they looked up Spengler.
[00:32:44]  Yeah, there's no way they're quoting Spengler.
[00:32:45]  No way.
[00:32:46]  Or Toynbee or something.
[00:32:47]  Yeah, no way.
[00:32:47]  This one was Nietzsche.
[00:32:49]  Nietzsche!
[00:32:49]  I was like, I thought it sounded too lucid to be Nietzsche.
[00:32:52]  Should have gotten that.
[00:32:53]  Should have gotten that.
[00:32:54]  I know.
[00:32:54]  As soon as you mentioned madness, two out of three shot, it's a Nietzsche quote.
[00:32:57]  Yeah, it's true.
[00:32:59]  It was just, it was somewhat understandable, which is why I assumed there was no way it could be Nietzsche, but okay.
[00:33:05]  Okay.
[00:33:06]  Ben, you're going to have to make a comeback here.
[00:33:08]  You've got four quotes left to mount a seemingly insurmountable.
[00:33:12]  At least we'll be done.
[00:33:15]  Quote, as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.
[00:33:21]  Doesn't that sound nice?
[00:33:23]  As the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.
[00:33:28]  Man, I have heard this quote.
[00:33:31]  This is incorrect, but I'm just going to write it anyway, because whatever, man.
[00:33:34]  It's over.
[00:33:36]  Alright, I'm just going to...
[00:33:38]  It should have been this guy, but it isn't.
[00:33:40]  Michael, we'll start with you.
[00:33:42]  I'm still stabbing at my Chesterton.
[00:33:45]  It's not Chesterton, because it's not funny enough.
[00:33:48]  Ben?
[00:33:51]  Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
[00:33:53]  This was Pope John Paul II. Pope John Paul II. Oh, yeah, he was a good pope.
[00:33:59]  I like that pope.
[00:34:01]  This one.
[00:34:02]  Well, which one, though, is the real question.
[00:34:05]  When they say this one, people say which one.
[00:34:07]  Okay, all right.
[00:34:08]  I should have gotten that one.
[00:34:10]  Everyone thinks of changing the world.
[00:34:11]  This one's like the family of animals is...
[00:34:13]  This one's like the family of trees is the foundation of...
[00:34:20]  I'll give you 30 seconds if you want the floor just to bash the Pope.
[00:34:23]  I mean, that's...
[00:34:23]  Absolutely, that would be...
[00:34:24]  Oh, I mean, I think we're all on board with this.
[00:34:26]  No, you know how the Catholics do it, though.
[00:34:28]  Because you have to be obedient, so you're like, well, you know, I just think it might be, like, in a very respectful...
[00:34:33]  You might be preaching a heresy, Papa Francesco.
[00:34:36]  But you gotta do it, like, really nice, you know?
[00:34:38]  It was all mistranslated.
[00:34:39]  It's all mistranslated.
[00:34:40]  Everything he says is mistranslated.
[00:34:42]  Every single thing.
[00:34:43]  He's actually speaking French.
[00:34:45]  Well, that's the problem.
[00:34:46]  You can't get an Italian...
[00:34:48]  Right, yeah.
[00:34:50]  Next up, everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
[00:34:57]  Hmm.
[00:34:58]  Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
[00:35:03]  I was gonna say Michael Jackson quoting from Man in the Mirror, but there's no repeats.

=== Bonus Question (02:23) ===

[00:35:08]  Hmm.
[00:35:12]  Mike.
[00:35:14]  Alright, Ben, who'd you go with?
[00:35:17]  I said C.S. Lewis.
[00:35:18]  Again, wrong, but it's okay.
[00:35:20]  Yeah, I said Gandhi.
[00:35:23]  Also probably wrong.
[00:35:25]  We've got Tolstoy here.
[00:35:26]  Tolstoy, okay.
[00:35:27]  Yeah, that's definitely...
[00:35:28]  Did Tolstoy ever consider his own advice, or no?
[00:35:33]  Did he...
[00:35:33]  Yeah, seriously.
[00:35:34]  I don't know.
[00:35:35]  It's like another Hemingway-type quote.
[00:35:38]  Two more, just for...
[00:35:40]  The winner might be decided, but this is for pride.
[00:35:42]  So you could tie it up.
[00:35:44]  This is gonna be a bonus question.
[00:35:46]  We might give double points for this one because I'll be very impressed.
[00:35:50]  Hold on a second here.
[00:35:52]  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
[00:35:55]  Just to rig this thing.
[00:35:56]  The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
[00:36:00]  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark.
[00:36:03]  The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
[00:36:10]  Hmm.
[00:36:11]  I feel like this entire game was just the entire book of Bartlett's quotations.
[00:36:20]  The entire book.
[00:36:21]  All 800 pages was the length of this game.
[00:36:28]  Michael!
[00:36:29]  Okay, fine.
[00:36:29]  This time I'll do Chesterton.
[00:36:31]  I did Lewis, and my B suggestion was Tolkien.
[00:36:37]  The one time you didn't guess Play-Doh, it was Play-Doh.
[00:36:39]  Oh, it was Play-Doh.
[00:36:40]  I kind of thought it was Chesterton.
[00:36:43]  I guess that would kind of make sense with Play-Doh.
[00:36:46]  And we are down to our final question.
[00:36:48]  He did love light.
[00:36:49]  Yeah, he did love light.
[00:36:51]  Our final question, our final quote is this.
[00:36:54]  Poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
[00:37:00]  And only dead people, right?
[00:37:03]  Right.
[00:37:03]  I'll leave that up to the producers who chose this.
[00:37:10]  Michael Knowles.
[00:37:11]  One of the true wits and philosophers of our age.

=== Let Stand, Be Generous (03:55) ===

[00:37:16]  President Brandon.
[00:37:17]  Come on, man!
[00:37:19]  Ben?
[00:37:22]  Joseph R. McBiden face.
[00:37:25]  Wow.
[00:37:26]  Well done, both of you.
[00:37:27]  Well done.
[00:37:28]  I'm not sure what qualifies as dead, but we now know that the Daily Wire host who can quote the most dead men accurately is Michael Knowles.
[00:37:38]  Michael, would you like to...
[00:37:40]  How would you like to accept this?
[00:37:41]  I tell you, I have not been nervous about these games before, but this is not just flattery.
[00:37:49]  This is no false modesty.
[00:37:51]  This is a man who knows a lot of dead people, but there were some crucial errors here and lapses in Ben's education, namely Michael Jackson and a handful of others as well.
[00:38:03]  So I accept this with humility and a great deal of joy.
[00:38:10]  Well, you know, all I can say is that, unlike Naturally It's Clean, this competition was not in fact clean.
[00:38:20]  And I hereby challenge the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, to overturn the results of this contest.
[00:38:31]  And I believe that there will be a very big rally, a very big rally, peacefully congregate near Michael Knowles' office.
[00:38:38]  I can hear...
[00:38:40]  And peacefully protest at Michael Knowles' office.
[00:38:43]  Pardons available later.
[00:38:44]  I hear the door, people are banging on the doors.
[00:38:48]  I hear facts don't care about your Michael.
[00:38:50]  This could be very scary.
[00:38:54]  I'm just stuck in between two men.
[00:38:55]  All I'm saying is I'm with you.
[00:38:58]  I'm with you.
[00:38:59]  You're great people.
[00:39:00]  You're all very good people.
[00:39:01]  Very special.
[00:39:03]  Go on home.
[00:39:04]  You're very great people.
[00:39:05]  You can go on home.
[00:39:08]  Unlike the vice president, I don't have the power to overturn this competition, unfortunately.
[00:39:14]  I've read the Constitution thoroughly.
[00:39:15]  It was not there.
[00:39:16]  I read the trivia bylaws.
[00:39:18]  Again, it was not there.
[00:39:19]  I'm sorry.
[00:39:20]  I must let this stand.
[00:39:21]  But before I let this stand, Ben, we're going to have you go ahead and just off the top, I want it to come from the heart, your 30-second pitch.
[00:39:28]  Michael, sit back and enjoy.
[00:39:32]  If you wish to hear a man far too educated for his meager lot in life speak to you of dead people and their quotes, then make sure to check out The Michael Knowles Show, a repository of other people's wisdom and also a host who says things sometimes.
[00:39:50]  On that show, you will hear alleged humor.
[00:39:53]  You will hear verbiage in the form of English sentences sometimes.
[00:39:59]  And you'll hear much snobbery.
[00:40:03]  There'll be a lot of talk about cigars.
[00:40:06]  There'll be a bizarre sort of smarminess that you can't seem to shake.
[00:40:10]  But if you enjoy all of those things, then the Michael Moles Show is for you.
[00:40:16]  Congratulations to the most humble of our hosts, the most generous of spirit, the least corrupt, A person I'm so glad to employ every single day.
[00:40:31]  Michael X Knowles.
[00:40:34]  Thank you, Ben.
[00:40:36]  I'm honored.
[00:40:37]  I am going to make that my new logline of the show, I think.
[00:40:40]  The Michael Knowles Show, a suppository of knowledge.
[00:40:42]  Thank you.
[00:40:43]  That's awesome.
[00:40:46]  We're going to leave it there before it gets any weirder.
[00:40:48]  I will say I'm impressed.
[00:40:49]  That was well over 30 seconds.
[00:40:51]  That's just Ben going above and beyond.
[00:40:52]  Very kind of him.
[00:40:54]  He's a generous and charitable man.
[00:40:55]  And you are a generous and charitable man, Michael, for letting me call myself a host on the show, which you host.
[00:41:00]  I very much appreciate both of you for joining the Trivia Challenge and everyone for watching.
[00:41:06]  I'm Cabo Phillips, joined by Mr.
[00:41:08]  Michael Knowles, Mr.
[00:41:08]  Ben Shapiro.