Michael REACTS To "HopeCore" TikToks: Try Not To Smile!
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Your Highness, the transmission we received.
What is it they've sent us?
hope.
The West is falling.
We all know civilization is on its last gasps.
Glimmers Of Hope00:13:31
Everything is bleak.
We're all black pilled.
We doom scroll on our phones and that sense of doom grows greater and greater until the enormity brings us to the brink of despair.
But sometimes there are little glimmers of hope.
Hope.
As my producer team, this Professor Jacob in particular, has apparently found on his feet.
So there's a new challenge.
Very often the challenge is Michael, watch some crazy video and try not to laugh.
Try not to get angry.
Try not to, this is the opposite.
Professor Jacob is going to pull up those little signs of hope that just creep into the algo every now and again.
And I will do my best not to smile.
Take it away.
What's in there?
What's in it?
Open it up, Dania.
What's in it?
Yeah, pajamas.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Pajamas!
Oh Happy birthday, Mr. Porker.
Oh, my goodness.
I've never had a birthday cake before.
Oh, really?
Christian.
Christian.
I've seen these little baby with the glasses.
Like goofy little eyes.
Hi.
Hey, Munchkin.
Yeah, I've seen the last one is kind of cute, but the rest of them really, wow, I've never had a birthday cake before.
Is that real?
Wow.
Yeah, all of it.
The kid, my dad, my dad.
It's tough.
It's tough.
Wow.
Like, I come home from work.
I usually don't get home too late.
Sometimes I travel, but if I'm in town, I usually don't get home too late.
Come in, and my kids will come.
Often my kids will come to the door.
Oh, hey, Day Dai.
But now my youngest, who's like a year and a half or so, he's now old enough to kind of get it when I come.
He just comes in and he starts dancing when I come in.
It's like doing a little jig.
He's so happy.
It's very, it really melts your heart.
Wow.
The fact that after years of just increasing viciousness, invective, polemic, nasty, demonic kind of stuff.
There's little glimmers of hope in the algo.
What does that mean?
All right, give me the next one.
A big surprise today for One Channel 8 Eyewitness News reporter when her longtime boyfriend showed up to propose to her.
Wow.
Oh my God.
It was as far opposite from Eva and Tony's as you can get.
This one was very laid back, very casual.
What are you doing?
What are you doing here?
I'm just here to say that I've loved you since the day I met you.
And want to spend the rest of my life with you.
I don't like this.
Very unprofessional.
I don't like this one.
The first one was cuter.
This one is unprofessional.
He's making it all about him.
Yeah, okay.
I want, I lost it a little bit on the first one.
That was because she seemed so genuinely surprised and it was like a clever way to do it.
The middle one I didn't like, though, because it's just this guy saundering out.
Hey, Toots.
Hey, Ron.
Hey, Millie.
I know you're working or whatever, but hey, let's make this about me.
They decided to marry.
But the first one is really sweet.
Because she didn't know, you know, she really didn't get it.
I guess the reason I like the first one is she was led unawares into participating in this very sweet act that she desired.
That you had, you, you, you could, you do.
Whereas in the second one, the girl was just interrupted.
Okay, but I like, I want partial credit for keeping it despairing, you know, in the, okay, next one.
I lost.
Am I supposed to turn around yet?
The problem is these days, that could be real.
Yeah, that's kind of whatever.
The elephant one is the best one.
Because that's a real, it's not just a contrived.
What I don't like, look, why is this creeping into the algo now?
This is actually a great sign.
And it's the same reason that the despair crept into the algo.
It's that reality exists and you can't divorce yourself from reality forever.
So whatever's saying everything's great, we're great.
The borders are opening.
Prime is skyrocketing and we're casterating kids and we're killing babies and ha, but it's all green.
The reality creeps in and you can't really deny what you're seeing.
No, it's this is bad.
This is getting worse.
Things aren't going to get better if we don't acknowledge the reality that they're bad right now.
But just as that is the case, so too, I think now that we're all blackbilled and despairing, the reality that is creeping in is actually there is hope in the world.
Actually, we can do good things.
Kind of, we can choose virtue over vice.
God exists and he extends grace to us and we can cooperate with that grace.
And we're not necessarily destined eternally to death or torment, but actually we might have everlasting life and you might.
And like kids are cute and animals are kind of funny.
And that is just as real as like all the bad things in the world.
And so sometimes people cynically, or not even, it's not even cynicism.
It's like a jadedness.
They'll say, well, you know, kid, you don't understand how dark it is out there.
And that could be true.
You could be correcting for an optimism, but you also need to correct for pessimism, which are two sides of the same coin.
That's why this is creeping back in.
And the thing I don't like about these, like be happy videos, is when they're just totally contrived, when it's like forced, when it doesn't feel real.
But the elephant one, that's like real.
It's just like a delightful little thing that happened.
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Yeah, say hello to the camera.
Hello.
Hey, mom.
I almost lost it there at the end.
And you know what it was?
It wasn't even the.
It was the.
It was that.
I almost lost.
And I hadn't seen that video before.
The one with the baby on the news clip.
I had, we've all seen that.
There was.
That one got me.
Okay.
Did I pass that one?
That was a great effort, Michael.
I was smiling.
Does it count?
Does it count?
I was kind of doing a little bit of like a.
I'm so hopeful now that I'm going to give you a point for that.
Thank you.
Wow.
What an act of grace.
The quality of mercy is not strained, you know.
That's what he's the goat!
The goat!
Though justice be, thy plea consider this that in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation.
Okay, all right, that's her.
Is that it?
Are there any more clips?
There are like so many more.
Oh, there are.
Okay, all right, keep going.
I think there's a black on my screen.
I don't know.
It's a black bill on my screen.
Grammy, what are we seeing right now?
We're seeing 7,000 years of lava flow.
7,000.
Opa, what do you see?
I see Grammy.
And just Grammy.
But now look at Grammy.
I don't see anything.
There's nobody else.
What are you going to do for your anniversary?
We looked at it.
Same thing we're doing right now.
And he kissed me on the forehead.
You kissed her?
Yeah, he always kisses things.
He kisses me on the jack.
He kisses me on my head.
He kisses me anywhere.
Love you, huh?
Love you, too, baby.
And I look at a granddad and I don't see anything.
I don't see anything.
Aww.
That almost got me.
It almost got me.
I think I passed that one.
Next one.
I gotta be honest.
The reason why I stopped you is because you've got a child in the car with no child seat.
Are you sure?
Are you positive about this?
Are you saying I do?
Okay, alright.
We do have a child in the car with no car seat.
You can have me do it.
Hurry up, take it up in a hurry.
Nova, hurry.
You stevize to get to the place.
Come on now.
I come home.
Yeah, all right.
Yeah, the thing with the wife with the pregnancy test.
Because I don't like, there was a period for a while when everyone was attacking cops.
Well, that could be any year, I guess, but this was around the LM era.
And then these cops would pull people over and it would be like, all right, you know what I'm pulling you over to tell you to have a great day or whatever.
There was like a PR campaign.
I was like, don't do that, man.
Cops and Great Days00:00:55
You can't.
That's not your job.
Don't do that.
You're bringing the force of the state in to like make people smile at you.
No.
But that is so great where the wife obviously coordinated with the cop.
It's like, you're driving around with a kid without a car seat on.