Ben Shapiro Vs Michael Knowles | FACE-OFF: Famous Dead Guys
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Summary
Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles take on a very important question: Which famous dead man has the most knowledge of quotes from famous dead guys? Socrates, Voltaire, Socrates, or Socrates? Who do you think won the game?
Transcript
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Welcome to Face Off. I am your host, Cabot Phillips.
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Today is the time for us to answer a very important question,
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and that is which Daily Wire host has the most knowledge of quotes from famous dead guys?
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And here to help us answer those two very important questions are
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the man himself, Mr. Michael Knowles, best-selling author, host of The Michael Knowles Show.
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You remind me each time we do this that this is, in fact, your show.
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And your competitor today in the Face Off competition is Mr. Ben Shapiro,
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who's, I might add, his best-selling books do actually have words in them.
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I also will point out that it might be a lose-lose for you.
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Michael has yet to lose any of these competitions.
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He bested Matt Walsh in showing who was the best Daily Wire Catholic.
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The better Catholic is, of course, Matt Walsh, but Knowles got more answers right.
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Any best to Dave Rubin and who is the greatest culture warrior?
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You know, Michael is a man who's very comfortable with his sexuality.
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This is a great point, Cabot, because you would say right now, my loss board is clean.
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First, though, I have got to try to keep up my perfect win streak.
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This is not, you know, I love Dave and I love Matt.
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This is going to be maybe a little more formidable.
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So let's just get right to it so you don't get any more nervous than I'm sure you already are.
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To answer who said that quote, which famous dead man was it, then we will get right to it.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
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There's more of a story with this one, I think.
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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.
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Ben, we'll start with you, because you got yours in first.
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So I put the little second caveat one down there, but I did put Voltaire up first.
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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.
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But I'll stick with the first one, supposedly Voltaire.
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We would have accepted Voltaire or Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
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There was some dispute still on that, probably getting misquoted by a lot of people.
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If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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Not because I've heard Aristotle say that or read it, but because all those old Greeks were gay guys.
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And so I figured if they had an unhappy marriage, that would be more likely for them.
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Mainly because it kind of sounds like Samuel Johnson.
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So if not, take it up with your producers, Michael, if you think that was incorrect.
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I almost wrote Socrates, but I thought Aristotle was the funnier gay guy.
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Even though it is your show, we're not going to get points for this.
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Ben's taking a little more time than you, so maybe easy for you, Michael.
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Well, I mean, it depends where you are in the multiverse as to who says this, right?
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Because Uncle Ben says this to Peter Parker, or alternatively, Marissa Tomei says it to Peter Parker.
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I do not think we're going to give you points on that for Spider-Man.
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Because, also, I would just like to point out, at this point, you're not a nerd for enjoying the, you know, most popular movie in the world, Michael.
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We also would have accepted Uncle Ben, Winston Churchill, Stan Lee, or the Apostle Luke, who said,
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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I'm shooting in the dark here, as was this man.
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Let my teaching fall like rain, and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant
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Let my teaching fall like rain, and my words descend like dew.
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Ben is just rearing to hold up the whiteboard, so we're going to go to him.
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I wanted it to be more mystical, so I suggested Confucius.
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I can almost cite that one in the original Hebrew.
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I can almost cite that one in the original Hebrew.
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I always start Bible in a year, so I've read Genesis about a thousand times, but I'm not
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Many a Bible reading plan has died on the shores of Deuteronomy.
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This one, again, this is a quote from someone else.
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I'll read it one more time for the sake of reminding I am a deeply closeted gay guy.
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There's so many jokes and I can't pick between them.
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Would it help if I read the quote one more time?
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Ben might know how to quote Moses, but I know how to quote Norm MacDonald.
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Norm MacDonald was, in fact, he self-described deeply closeted gay man.
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I'm hoping our producers are keeping score in my ear,
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because I'm just kind of throwing out points left and right.
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History repeats itself first as tragedy, second as farce.
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And the reason I say Marx and Engels is I think Engels actually said it first.
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We've got Karl Marx, so we are going to give you the point on that.
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Unless Ben can make a compelling argument otherwise.
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I mean, that's the first time I've ever heard Ben say that.
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I mean, in fairness, it just means that you haven't been keeping up on your marks,
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which probably is for the betterment of your soul.
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He has been keeping up on his Old Testament, though,
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which is true for the betterment of his soul as well.
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
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I'm going to say that it is the man who conservatives quote 50,000 times a day
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There was never any question there for either of you.
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I don't want to build suspense where there is none.
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Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow,
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And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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I had Churchill, but this is another one where I'm just not sure.
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If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.
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Again, if my mother is watching this, it's not a cry for help.
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There's one person who's going to laugh at that joke,
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Well, actually, Clayton would laugh at that joke.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people,
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I think Donald Trump would be very flattered by that, Michael.
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One of our producers came up with a friendly reminder just now
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So this, you know, you're forgetting the premise of the game, Michael.
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I want to be a good Catholic, but I'm a hedonist.
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I want to be a good Catholic, but I am a hedonist.
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I put down, and this is just because he was a hedonist
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We're putting the man who lived down by the river,
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And it was like, they had a book on their shelf
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and they're like, okay, we'll put this one out there.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
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but people forget those old school medieval scholastics.
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I have high hopes for both of you guys on this one.
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Trying to see how many letters Ben is writing there.
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So everybody knows like three quotes from Proverbs,
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but nobody actually knows how they fit together
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I guess I could probably tell you a bunch of it,
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And like one of these has to be Shakespeare, right?
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See, this is Ben actually accidentally giving credit
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to see how many letters are being written by the other.
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was just the entire book of Bartlett's quotations.
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I guess that would kind of make sense with Plato.