The Michael Knowles Show - April 22, 2023


FACE-OFF： Pop Culture ｜ Brett Cooper Takes on Michael Knowles


Episode Stats

Length

32 minutes

Words per Minute

173.89716

Word Count

5,712

Sentence Count

714

Misogynist Sentences

26

Hate Speech Sentences

13


Summary

On this week's episode of The Michael Knowles Show, the gladiators square off on the topics that truly matter: pop culture, the best and most LGBTQ-friendly cities in the US, and the most expensive cities in America.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Who has the most Instagram followers in the world?
00:00:03.700 Oh, Selena Gomez or Kylie, because it is currently changing by the minute,
00:00:08.040 because TikTok has started a campaign to push Kylie over the edge,
00:00:11.060 because Selena was the person with the most followers.
00:00:13.580 Nah, Brett's full of it. I think I'm right. I said it's Kim.
00:00:17.420 Welcome back to Face Off exclusively on The Michael Knowles Show,
00:00:21.400 where modern-day gladiators square off on the topics that truly matter.
00:00:25.220 I'm Ben Davies, and I'm the guy who reads the cards today for your five-time champion,
00:00:29.240 your host, Michael Knowles.
00:00:31.580 Mr. Davies, wonderful to be here on my show, as always.
00:00:34.780 Five-time champion should mean that I am undefeated on this show,
00:00:39.640 but I'm recalling now, that's not what that means, right?
00:00:43.440 That is correct, Michael. You do have a blemish on your record?
00:00:46.080 Clavin. Clavin beat me. I hate that.
00:00:48.860 Drew Clavin is the champion of this episode of Face Off.
00:00:52.360 I don't want to take this seriously or anything.
00:00:53.700 Speaking of blemishes, you might notice I have this ash on my forehead.
00:00:59.840 It is not because I haven't showered in several weeks.
00:01:01.920 This is, in fact, Ash Wednesday that we are filming this show on.
00:01:06.340 And when I want to treat my skin, when I want to treat the actual problems on my skin,
00:01:09.420 do you know where I turn?
00:01:10.640 I turn to GenuCell. More from GenuCell in a second.
00:01:13.480 First, though, let's get into the game.
00:01:15.540 Well, after Michael's controversial loss, we knew that we had to get back on track with an easy win.
00:01:21.220 So we decided to welcome on the first woman to the show to enter the arena,
00:01:25.380 the first of her name, queen of the comments, protector of the section,
00:01:29.460 breaker of woke chains, Brett Cooper.
00:01:32.220 So happy to be here, guys. I'm honored to be the very, very first woman.
00:01:36.740 And, you know, Michael, this should be an easy win for you.
00:01:39.820 Listen, I'm cool and hip and sexy and fun and young,
00:01:42.780 but I do feel kind of like a fuddy-duddy sometimes in the context of the comments section.
00:01:48.720 So we'll see. We'll see how it goes.
00:01:50.120 I think it's going to be great.
00:01:50.840 Michael does care deeply about baby mama drama,
00:01:54.020 and Brett is the maven of internet culture.
00:01:56.200 So what better topic to square off on than this?
00:01:59.200 It's face-off pop culture.
00:02:04.840 First question.
00:02:06.420 What is the highest grossing movie domestically in 2022?
00:02:11.300 Your options are Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, Avatar, The Way of Water,
00:02:16.400 Top Gun, Maverick, Jurassic World, Dominion, and What is a Woman?
00:02:21.720 A lot of sequels here.
00:02:23.960 Okay. I think I have it.
00:02:26.280 Michael's still writing?
00:02:27.640 Mm-hmm.
00:02:28.020 He's writing a paragraph explaining his rationality.
00:02:30.560 Okay.
00:02:31.820 All right, Brett, show.
00:02:34.880 Top Gun.
00:02:35.920 Michael?
00:02:36.760 I said Avatar 2, Environmental Boogaloo.
00:02:40.760 The correct answer is Top Gun Mavericks.
00:02:43.400 Not a good start.
00:02:44.260 Not a good start.
00:02:45.660 Okay.
00:02:46.140 Now, you were right worldwide.
00:02:47.540 World-wide, it was Avatar by about a billion dollars.
00:02:50.940 Wait, hold on.
00:02:51.360 So how did I get it wrong?
00:02:52.900 I said domestic.
00:02:54.520 Oh, because I read an article somewhere that said it was like the biggest grossing film ever.
00:02:58.560 Okay, well, that's terrible.
00:02:59.660 Americans were fed up with the Avatar BS.
00:03:02.840 What they wanted was Tom Cruise looking hot.
00:03:05.420 That's what you got to think of.
00:03:06.200 They don't want those weird blue alien things looking hot?
00:03:09.000 No, they get enough of that on TikTok.
00:03:10.480 They don't want any more.
00:03:12.160 All right, listen carefully to this one.
00:03:13.920 In 2022, according to Lawn Starter, calculating same-sex households and the presence of LGBTQ support groups and 19 other categories,
00:03:25.220 what was the most LGBTQ-friendly city in America?
00:03:28.800 So what was the best and most gay city in America?
00:03:31.860 Is this a trick question?
00:03:33.620 There seems like an obvious answer to this.
00:03:35.240 I'll read your options and this will help you a little bit.
00:03:38.020 Portland, Oregon.
00:03:38.940 Ugh.
00:03:40.020 Orlando, Florida.
00:03:42.160 Seattle, Washington.
00:03:43.920 Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
00:03:46.340 What?
00:03:46.940 There were a lot of factors, including equality and affordability.
00:03:51.620 So that throws out some more expensive places that you may think of.
00:03:55.200 Well, plus, I mean, Mickey's been grooming those kids now for many decades.
00:03:59.100 So, okay, I'm kind of giving up my answer here.
00:04:01.480 But 15 seconds.
00:04:04.360 Yeah, the affordability throws out two cities right away.
00:04:07.460 All right, Brett, you ready?
00:04:11.180 That's good.
00:04:12.380 What was that?
00:04:14.020 Let's do it.
00:04:14.980 All right.
00:04:15.420 What is it?
00:04:17.720 Fort Lauderdale.
00:04:18.560 Michael.
00:04:19.020 I was just in Fort Lauderdale.
00:04:20.480 And it seemed only moderately gay to me.
00:04:22.980 I said Orlando.
00:04:25.500 It was Fort Lauderdale.
00:04:26.860 No!
00:04:27.140 Oh, Brett's running away with it.
00:04:28.640 Yes!
00:04:29.520 In my defense, I grew up in New York.
00:04:31.740 I went to the gayest university in America.
00:04:33.260 I lived in L.A.
00:04:34.200 My measure, I think, is a little bit odd.
00:04:37.360 All right, next question.
00:04:38.780 Who was the highest paid actress in 2022?
00:04:42.240 Margot Robey.
00:04:43.580 Millie Bobby Brown.
00:04:44.820 Gail Godot.
00:04:46.580 Zoe Zaldana.
00:04:47.980 Isn't it Margot?
00:04:50.940 That's not Margot, is it?
00:04:53.100 I put it both ways.
00:04:54.640 Oh, wait.
00:04:55.840 Margot?
00:04:56.660 Yeah, it's Margot.
00:04:57.800 I'm going to, just for that, I'm putting her down.
00:05:01.160 All right, Michael, what do you have?
00:05:01.940 I say Margot.
00:05:05.460 Is it my turn?
00:05:06.340 Yeah, it's your turn.
00:05:07.480 I pick Robert.
00:05:09.200 Margot Robey, too?
00:05:10.240 Yep.
00:05:11.460 Margot.
00:05:11.980 Yes, Margot.
00:05:12.680 Okay, you guys both got it right.
00:05:14.020 Hey, all right.
00:05:15.480 Michael's on the board.
00:05:16.500 Feeling a little better.
00:05:17.400 All right, next question.
00:05:18.540 According to Billboard, what was the most popular song of the year?
00:05:22.300 And I'm not going to give you options for this one.
00:05:24.820 You're not going to give me options.
00:05:25.980 The only songs I know that have come out are the ones you make me listen to on the show.
00:05:30.000 It's got to be some Harry Styles thing or a Taylor Swift song.
00:05:33.160 Oh.
00:05:34.000 You know, I'm just going to pick my favorite one.
00:05:35.920 It's probably not the right one, but it's my favorite of these pop songs.
00:05:39.640 Is Brett still thinking?
00:05:40.880 No, I'm just...
00:05:41.680 Going back and forth.
00:05:43.760 All right, what do you have, Brett?
00:05:45.880 I can't read it.
00:05:46.920 What is it?
00:05:47.660 Something Taylor Swift.
00:05:49.360 Nice.
00:05:49.840 Michael?
00:05:50.140 From that album.
00:05:51.800 I can buy myself flowers.
00:05:53.540 I can hold my own hand.
00:05:54.880 Michael, that cake...
00:05:55.460 I can love you better than you can.
00:05:56.940 Either you, Brett, or you.
00:05:57.800 Brett, do you want to tell him, or do you want me to tell him?
00:05:59.240 Michael.
00:05:59.560 Michael.
00:06:00.160 What?
00:06:00.620 That song came out in 2023.
00:06:02.320 What?
00:06:02.780 I'm so hip that I thought it was older than it is?
00:06:05.680 I know.
00:06:06.080 Yeah, you thought it was vintage.
00:06:08.000 Do I get the point for that?
00:06:08.960 If she gets a half point, I want a half.
00:06:10.560 It's obviously a Taylor Swift song.
00:06:11.600 It's actually not, and it varies from different sites, but according to Billboard, this year
00:06:15.840 was Heat Waves by a British indie pop band called Glass Animals.
00:06:21.180 Oh!
00:06:22.300 How does it go?
00:06:23.340 I've never even heard that song.
00:06:24.120 It's actually...
00:06:24.800 It's a great song.
00:06:26.280 It's just I did not think that that was as mainstream as...
00:06:29.040 Can you sing us a bar?
00:06:30.260 Absolutely not.
00:06:31.260 All right.
00:06:31.720 Next question.
00:06:32.360 According to Ranker, the open source ranking website, who was voted the sexiest man alive
00:06:38.420 in 2022?
00:06:39.560 Who deserved it or who was voted?
00:06:41.640 Who was voted?
00:06:42.540 Okay.
00:06:43.200 It's going to be somebody really ugly.
00:06:45.060 Henry Cavill.
00:06:46.220 Chris Hemsworth.
00:06:46.880 Michael B.
00:06:48.520 Jordan.
00:06:49.440 Ryan Reynolds or Michael Knowles?
00:06:52.880 It's not who deserves it, though.
00:06:59.120 All right.
00:07:00.000 I'm going to have Michael go first for this one.
00:07:02.200 Who was voted?
00:07:02.960 I'm going to say...
00:07:03.120 Henry Cavill.
00:07:06.280 All right.
00:07:06.780 Brett?
00:07:07.960 I couldn't pick.
00:07:09.840 You couldn't pick.
00:07:11.020 You have to pick.
00:07:12.260 I love Ryan Reynolds.
00:07:13.980 I put a heart next to his name.
00:07:15.480 And I feel like I remember him winning something.
00:07:18.680 But Michael B.
00:07:19.280 Jordan seems like the wokest pick.
00:07:21.700 Like, you know, they wanted to hit some of the intersectional boxes.
00:07:25.740 Brett, I can't accept that.
00:07:26.740 You have to pick something.
00:07:29.360 Ryan Reynolds.
00:07:30.520 It was Michael B.
00:07:31.200 Jordan.
00:07:32.420 Damn it!
00:07:33.120 I almost...
00:07:34.220 That would have been bad.
00:07:35.200 But he's not the sexiest man alive.
00:07:37.000 He just isn't.
00:07:37.500 He's a fine-looking guy.
00:07:38.520 But he's not the sexiest man alive.
00:07:40.700 Well, that's your opinion, Michael.
00:07:44.680 Okay.
00:07:45.180 What were the most popular baby names of 2022?
00:07:48.940 You can pick a girl name and a boy name.
00:07:50.740 It's going to be something stupid like Aspen or something.
00:07:53.300 Probably.
00:07:53.960 It's not going to be a normal name.
00:07:55.620 Of 2022 and 2023?
00:07:57.780 No, no.
00:07:58.120 Just 2022.
00:07:59.040 The year of all the births.
00:08:01.440 Give me a girl's name and a boy name.
00:08:03.120 It's like...
00:08:04.220 It's like...
00:08:05.220 You were going to kick yourself.
00:08:07.040 Five seconds.
00:08:09.000 I hope it's one of Michael's children's names.
00:08:11.420 Okay.
00:08:11.740 The girl, I'm going to go a little more normal.
00:08:14.100 The boy, it's going to be like...
00:08:16.080 Michael, you're going to give me something.
00:08:18.000 Okay.
00:08:18.840 All right.
00:08:19.500 Michael should be able to do this.
00:08:20.560 He's named two children.
00:08:21.500 I have, but I've given them normal names.
00:08:23.580 All right.
00:08:24.140 Brett, what do you have?
00:08:24.600 Really?
00:08:27.600 Can you say what your answer is?
00:08:28.980 So, I said, for a girl, Daisy.
00:08:31.420 I feel like that's coming back into style.
00:08:33.080 I know a lot of people who have named their daughters Daisy.
00:08:35.300 They're a friend of mine.
00:08:36.220 And then for a boy, I've seen a lot of styles because of Harry Styles.
00:08:40.280 No.
00:08:41.000 I mean, I remember when Khaleesi jumped to, like, one of the top tens because of, like,
00:08:45.020 because of Game of Thrones.
00:08:45.940 But, Michael, what do you have?
00:08:46.980 I said, for the boy, Skylar, which could also be the name for the girl.
00:08:51.840 And for the girl, I said Mila, as, like, in Kunis.
00:08:55.440 I think that's coming back.
00:08:57.020 You are both dead wrong.
00:08:58.800 The most popular names, they've been the same for, like, three years now, is actually Olivia
00:09:03.220 and Liam.
00:09:04.940 Liam.
00:09:05.460 I had heard that.
00:09:06.060 One Direction.
00:09:07.580 I actually kind of like Liam, too.
00:09:08.880 That's better than Apple or whatever people were named 10 years ago.
00:09:11.680 Both of those names are actually connected to Harry Styles, so I think I should get a half
00:09:15.180 point because Liam connected to One Direction, obviously, connected to Harry Styles.
00:09:20.760 And then Olivia, Olivia Wilde dating Harry Styles.
00:09:23.240 That was, like, my entire timeline of 2022.
00:09:26.160 And Liam Hemsworth left Miley Cyrus and gave us a great song.
00:09:30.520 Look at that.
00:09:31.340 Everything's coming.
00:09:32.420 It's all aligning.
00:09:33.620 You both make great arguments for the names.
00:09:36.580 Michael, is there a name of a product you want to shout out for this show?
00:09:39.320 There is, as a matter of fact.
00:09:40.480 Thank you for reminding me, Ben.
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00:09:49.400 All right.
00:09:49.980 Back to the questions.
00:09:50.900 According to the Way Too Social website, which is not one of the top five things that attract
00:09:58.180 women to men in 2022?
00:10:01.120 Being witty.
00:10:02.320 Clear, beautiful, and healthy-looking eyes.
00:10:05.440 Being wealthy.
00:10:07.040 Being intelligent.
00:10:08.680 Speaking to her true self.
00:10:10.600 Body posture.
00:10:12.740 Which one of those is not in the top five?
00:10:15.320 According to women.
00:10:16.900 Yeah, women saying that...
00:10:17.820 Women deluding themselves.
00:10:19.500 Speaking to my true self.
00:10:21.640 Yeah.
00:10:22.260 Brett has an advantage here.
00:10:24.120 She does.
00:10:24.840 I know, but I'm not like other girls.
00:10:27.120 You're not like other girls.
00:10:28.060 I'm not like other girls, Michael.
00:10:29.660 You're a cool girl.
00:10:31.120 Okay, let me see.
00:10:32.320 I got it.
00:10:32.680 I really...
00:10:33.680 The I one was so specific that I have to believe it's up there.
00:10:38.560 All right.
00:10:39.180 Michael, what do you have?
00:10:40.560 I said the lowest one of that list was going to be posture.
00:10:44.800 Brett?
00:10:45.980 Posture.
00:10:47.280 Being witty.
00:10:48.440 What?
00:10:48.800 Being witty is the lowest?
00:10:49.680 Girls don't like to laugh as much as they used to, apparently.
00:10:51.460 Wow.
00:10:51.920 That actually...
00:10:52.820 That adds up, because women these days can't take a joke.
00:10:57.140 They can't.
00:10:58.100 The wittier you are, the less acceptable you are.
00:10:59.660 Yeah, exactly.
00:11:00.760 That is a great point.
00:11:02.060 I couldn't figure out why that was the case.
00:11:03.640 That's got to be it.
00:11:04.480 Well, no, because a man says anything that's remotely funny, and they find offense with
00:11:08.280 it.
00:11:08.420 I mean, look at the Tiger Woods situation, where he did the tampon joke, and they're like,
00:11:11.300 oh, my God!
00:11:13.160 That's true.
00:11:13.920 That's true.
00:11:14.760 I just wonder, are the women delusional?
00:11:17.300 Like, do they think, you know what I really look for in a man is, you know, X, Y, and Z,
00:11:21.580 but really it's just like money, height, those piercing eyes that you talked about.
00:11:25.560 I don't know.
00:11:25.920 I mean, I just don't know that it totally lines up with what they think they're attracted
00:11:29.280 to, and what they're actually attracted to.
00:11:31.520 All right.
00:11:32.420 What was the most viewed video on YouTube in 2022?
00:11:36.660 The NFL halftime show with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige.
00:11:41.200 Mr. Beast, why I built a Wonka chocolate factory.
00:11:45.760 The watch the uncensored moment, Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage.
00:11:50.400 Or finally, first we feast, Millie Bobby Brown needs a milkshake while eating spicy wings.
00:11:58.200 I don't know who that is, but she keeps coming up in this show.
00:12:01.560 Really?
00:12:02.040 She's the lead of Stranger Things.
00:12:03.740 Is she related to Bobby Brown?
00:12:06.220 I don't think so.
00:12:06.680 Like, got a little rough with Whitney kind of?
00:12:08.100 I feel like Brett would know.
00:12:09.000 No.
00:12:09.700 So halftime show, Mr. Beast, why I built a Willy Wonka chocolate factory.
00:12:13.900 Will Smith smacking Chris Rock.
00:12:16.260 First we feast.
00:12:17.460 All right, Michael, which one did you pick?
00:12:18.820 The slap.
00:12:21.040 Brett.
00:12:22.360 Mr. Beast.
00:12:23.980 Mr. Beast was second to the NFL halftime show, apparently.
00:12:28.440 What?
00:12:29.040 People care about it that much?
00:12:30.500 Wow.
00:12:30.720 It was like all the artists, and then people were re-watching it, and I don't know.
00:12:33.460 I didn't know who Mr. Beast was until I saw this, and then, like, so many views.
00:12:37.260 Really?
00:12:37.820 Yeah.
00:12:38.440 You know why I'm not totally surprised about the halftime show thing?
00:12:41.860 The next episode.
00:12:43.340 It's a great song.
00:12:45.580 Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.
00:12:48.140 You know, like, da-da-da-da-da.
00:12:50.320 It's the mother-lovin'.
00:12:51.820 There we go.
00:12:52.480 I got that part.
00:12:52.960 M-I-K-E.
00:12:53.900 Big Mike, mother-lover.
00:12:55.100 You know that song?
00:12:55.740 That's a great song.
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00:14:22.540 All right, next.
00:14:23.800 According to Wikipedia, what is the longest-running Broadway play?
00:14:28.500 Play or musical?
00:14:29.820 Probably both, right?
00:14:31.020 I think it was play, but it's also musical.
00:14:34.780 It's like a square and a rectangle.
00:14:36.120 Are you saying that a musical is a type of play, or are you saying they're totally distinct?
00:14:41.000 I don't think they're distinct.
00:14:42.280 I just looked at the longest-running Broadway play, and that's what came up.
00:14:44.880 Okay.
00:14:45.540 Okay.
00:14:46.020 But there is music.
00:14:47.380 I'm going to act as though.
00:14:48.500 Okay, then that makes it a musical.
00:14:49.920 All right.
00:14:50.680 Brett, what do you have?
00:14:51.840 Phantom of the Opera.
00:14:53.460 Michael.
00:14:54.520 It's Phantom.
00:14:55.320 It is Phantom.
00:14:56.200 Of course it's Phantom.
00:14:57.280 Obviously.
00:14:57.900 You know, it's closing this year.
00:14:59.860 Is it really?
00:15:00.560 Yeah, because of the economy, and nobody's going to New York because it is a socialist
00:15:05.520 hellhole, and everybody's getting shot and stabbed there.
00:15:08.280 So why would you go spend $150 seeing Phantom?
00:15:10.920 So this will be one of the last times you can hear the music of the night.
00:15:14.080 Yeah.
00:15:14.580 I thought it was cats.
00:15:15.480 I thought I'd slip you guys out, but it should be.
00:15:18.340 All right.
00:15:18.920 Memories.
00:15:20.240 Currently, who has the most Instagram followers in the world?
00:15:25.320 Oh!
00:15:25.500 Selena Gomez, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian.
00:15:33.960 Okay, so I have a bone to pick with this question because I'm going to wait until after it's done.
00:15:41.800 All right.
00:15:42.880 All right.
00:15:43.540 Let me, I've got to do this.
00:15:45.280 Selena Gomez or Kylie, because it is currently changing by the minute because TikTok has started
00:15:50.080 a campaign to push Kylie over the edge because Selena was the person with the most followers
00:15:54.380 for literally an eternity, but literally last night on TikTok, they're blowing it up, and
00:15:58.840 it was, like, inching.
00:15:59.740 Like, she was, like, $375 million, and then it was, like, Selena had $378 million because
00:16:05.400 it's literally changing.
00:16:06.420 Like, if you look at the track record, it has changed by, like, in the last 48 hours.
00:16:10.080 So I don't know where they're at right now.
00:16:11.860 It is changing quickly.
00:16:13.120 Michael?
00:16:13.620 No, Brett's full of it.
00:16:14.640 I think I'm right.
00:16:15.340 I said it's Kim.
00:16:17.620 I don't have any numbers or anything, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.
00:16:20.940 You are both wrong.
00:16:22.720 The correct answer is Cristiano Ronaldo with 550 million followers.
00:16:29.480 That's, like, 150 million more than anyone else on this list.
00:16:32.540 That's so embarrassing.
00:16:33.560 I forgot about that.
00:16:34.500 And guess who's number two?
00:16:36.020 Another guy, Lionel Messi.
00:16:37.980 And he has over 100 million more.
00:16:40.160 Who are they?
00:16:41.000 What do they do?
00:16:41.760 Soccer players.
00:16:42.500 They're both soccer players.
00:16:43.540 Why do people love soccer so much?
00:16:46.640 It is wild that the, you know, the visual social media side is dominated by two dudes.
00:16:50.840 I was so confident with that because it was literally dominating my TikTok.
00:16:55.500 And Selena used to have...
00:16:56.880 She did used to have it.
00:16:57.740 She used to be the most.
00:16:58.760 Are they hot dudes?
00:17:00.080 Or are they just regular looking schlubby dudes?
00:17:02.600 No, they're good looking dudes.
00:17:04.400 Okay.
00:17:05.060 Not like, not like Ryan Reynolds.
00:17:08.100 Not like some candidates for sexist man of the year in 2022.
00:17:12.180 Who currently has the most Twitter followers?
00:17:15.660 Justin Bieber, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Katy Perry, Cristiano Ronaldo.
00:17:22.340 I have no clue.
00:17:24.680 All right, Michael, who do you got?
00:17:26.100 I'm going to guess Obama.
00:17:28.420 Brett?
00:17:29.380 The Biebs.
00:17:30.400 Michael with the win, Barack Obama.
00:17:32.360 Nice.
00:17:32.920 Elon Musk is second with 127 million.
00:17:36.020 Barack Obama, when we got these numbers, was 133 million.
00:17:39.820 Got to go on a streak here, Michael.
00:17:40.940 Yeah.
00:17:41.980 All right, what singer holds the record for the most Grammy nominations?
00:17:45.820 These aren't wins, these are nominations.
00:17:47.900 Beyonce, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Jay-Z, Kanye West, or Yee?
00:17:56.900 Yee?
00:17:57.760 Is that what people call him?
00:17:59.980 Yay.
00:18:00.660 Has Mr. Davies pronounced one name correctly in this entire game?
00:18:05.160 I say Kanye.
00:18:06.220 I think Margot and Yee are finally going to make it.
00:18:08.820 You know, those two crazy kids.
00:18:10.940 All right, Brett.
00:18:16.380 Michael Jackson?
00:18:17.940 Michael?
00:18:18.820 I almost guessed Michael Jackson, with whom I share a first name, but instead I guessed
00:18:23.320 Beyonce, with whom I share a last name.
00:18:25.240 It is Beyonce who is tied with her husband, I think still, Jay-Z.
00:18:29.540 Hmm.
00:18:30.040 Look at that, you're moving on up in the world, Michael.
00:18:32.180 What was the most streamed TV show in 2022?
00:18:37.500 Stranger Things, The Office, Wednesday, Cocoa Melon, Ozark.
00:18:42.580 What were the first two again?
00:18:44.160 Stranger Things, The Office, Wednesday, Cocoa Melon, Ozark.
00:18:50.220 No, no, no, no, wait.
00:18:57.620 Last minute change.
00:18:59.140 All right, Michael, what'd you put?
00:19:00.620 I have a guess out of left field here.
00:19:02.960 I'm going to guess Cocoa Melon.
00:19:06.160 Brett?
00:19:07.180 The Office.
00:19:08.660 You were both wrong.
00:19:10.540 It was Stranger Things.
00:19:11.780 Damn it.
00:19:12.280 Followed by Cocoa Melon.
00:19:13.380 Is anybody watching Stranger Things still?
00:19:15.820 Isn't everyone a lesbian on that show now or something?
00:19:18.160 Aren't they progressively making everyone?
00:19:20.760 That's what I wrote down first, and that's the reason why I erased it.
00:19:24.380 Because I was like, there can't be that many people still watching it, but everybody still
00:19:27.500 watches it.
00:19:27.980 I feel like The Office is a comfort show.
00:19:29.320 I couldn't get over, once they made Steve's fast food girlfriend, it was supposed to be
00:19:35.880 a love story, and at the end she's a lesbian, I wrote off the show.
00:19:38.720 I assumed it was Cocoa Melon, because that is just crack for little kids.
00:19:42.720 They're all glued to it.
00:19:44.540 I won't let it in my home, not even once.
00:19:46.500 Neither do I, actually.
00:19:47.440 It is straight crack for kids.
00:19:49.560 Who was the most Googled person in the year 2022?
00:19:54.520 Andrew Tate.
00:19:55.740 Johnny Depp.
00:19:57.020 Will Smith.
00:19:58.400 Vladimir Putin.
00:19:59.860 Amber Heard.
00:20:00.720 Or Chris Rock.
00:20:02.400 This is for the whole year.
00:20:03.660 The whole year.
00:20:04.180 This isn't just some short period.
00:20:05.320 Exactly.
00:20:06.300 It's really going to be a testament to whether our population cares more about the geopolitical
00:20:11.040 state of our world, or a domestic dispute.
00:20:14.300 All right.
00:20:14.780 Well, you give your answers.
00:20:15.660 I will tell you a fun fact.
00:20:16.820 The most Googled word, like if something else it wasn't a person, was Wordle, which I never
00:20:22.920 played.
00:20:23.520 I didn't either.
00:20:24.380 I did play Wordle, and it was great.
00:20:26.940 I loved it.
00:20:27.820 Good for you, Michael.
00:20:28.500 And the New York Times bought it for like a zillion dollars and ruined it.
00:20:31.920 All right, Brett.
00:20:32.640 What do you have?
00:20:33.520 Putin with Depp in his second place.
00:20:35.960 All right.
00:20:37.040 I have no second or third place.
00:20:39.180 I'm giving it to Mr. Tate.
00:20:40.960 It was Johnny Depp.
00:20:43.720 Sorry, Brett.
00:20:44.720 Wow.
00:20:45.780 See, I wanted to do that, and then I was like, you know what?
00:20:50.820 Stuff with Ukraine has been going on since February of last year?
00:20:54.360 March?
00:20:54.920 March.
00:20:55.900 And so I thought, you know what?
00:20:56.540 That would be an entire year.
00:20:57.820 I hope the American citizens are concerned enough.
00:21:01.140 But no.
00:21:02.120 No, no.
00:21:02.940 No, no.
00:21:03.980 I'm definitely concerned about the $100 billion that we've given to them.
00:21:07.860 But in terms of the actual day by day of this thousand-year conflict, I don't know.
00:21:12.160 All right.
00:21:12.760 Next question.
00:21:14.260 What is not the name of one of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's children?
00:21:19.660 This is not one of their names.
00:21:21.680 North, Future, Saint, Chicago, or Psalms?
00:21:28.000 Let me know if you can hear those again.
00:21:31.320 Michael?
00:21:32.240 I'm guessing...
00:21:33.920 Future.
00:21:35.360 Brett?
00:21:35.900 Future.
00:21:36.900 You're both right.
00:21:37.880 Woo!
00:21:38.040 It's Future.
00:21:39.440 All right.
00:21:39.660 Now listen to this carefully.
00:21:41.340 All right.
00:21:41.500 Who is Time Magazine's 2022 Hero of the Year?
00:21:47.860 Is that different than Person of the Year?
00:21:50.300 It is.
00:21:51.400 Huh.
00:21:52.520 I don't know who the Person of the Year is.
00:21:54.440 Although I was the Time Person of the Year in 2006.
00:21:57.400 A lot of people don't know that.
00:21:58.860 Oh, sure.
00:22:01.500 Okay, well, maybe I'm giving things away here.
00:22:03.980 Person of the Year was Zelensky.
00:22:05.700 So Hero.
00:22:06.940 Hero of the Year.
00:22:08.540 All right.
00:22:09.200 Five seconds.
00:22:10.480 All right.
00:22:11.160 Brett, what'd you get?
00:22:13.040 Kamala.
00:22:14.140 Kamala.
00:22:14.700 Michael?
00:22:15.480 I said St. Greta of the Blessed Sailboat.
00:22:18.920 That's really close.
00:22:20.580 But it was the Women of Iran.
00:22:22.820 Oh!
00:22:23.860 The Women of Iran.
00:22:25.300 Yes.
00:22:25.740 Interesting.
00:22:26.140 I remember seeing that.
00:22:26.840 Oh, there was the whole protest over the hijab, right?
00:22:29.420 Yeah.
00:22:30.100 Okay.
00:22:30.660 Okay, so for this next question, since Brett kind of gave it away, she didn't completely
00:22:34.600 get the answer correct.
00:22:35.700 There's another part to it.
00:22:37.000 So let me read this to you carefully.
00:22:37.940 Who is Time's Person of the Year in 2022?
00:22:42.560 There's more to it than what Brett gave away.
00:22:45.060 How many Y's have they added to Zelensky's name now?
00:22:48.160 Last I checked, it was about seven.
00:22:50.140 I always add an additional one just for good measure.
00:22:53.820 Five seconds.
00:22:55.680 All right, Brett, what'd you get?
00:22:57.380 All right.
00:22:57.840 Zelensky with the people of Ukraine.
00:23:00.820 Michael?
00:23:01.220 I put down something similar, but I remembered something.
00:23:04.640 I don't know if I'm right about this.
00:23:06.600 Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine.
00:23:09.160 It's the spirit of Ukraine.
00:23:11.060 Damn it.
00:23:11.820 Whatever the heck that is.
00:23:13.420 I thought I remembered that.
00:23:15.040 Wow.
00:23:15.540 Oh, that's close.
00:23:17.260 You know, y'all's professional commentators.
00:23:18.740 What is the spirit of Ukraine for those listening?
00:23:21.220 Yeah.
00:23:21.840 Oligarchy and sex trafficking, I think.
00:23:25.500 Blue and yellow.
00:23:27.880 Yellow flowers on TikTok.
00:23:30.120 Who is the godmother of both of Elton John's sons?
00:23:38.020 Madonna.
00:23:38.700 Hold on, I gotta pause you there for a second,
00:23:40.680 because some math isn't quite working out in my head.
00:23:43.760 Elton John, to my knowledge, does not have a wife.
00:23:46.940 Is that correct?
00:23:47.720 That is correct.
00:23:48.540 He doesn't have a girlfriend.
00:23:49.460 Is that correct?
00:23:50.180 That's correct.
00:23:50.880 Okay.
00:23:51.840 All right.
00:23:52.700 So your options are, his options were Madonna, Lady Gaga,
00:23:58.360 Kate Bush, and Olivia Newton-John.
00:24:02.120 Oh my god, I hope it's a Madonna.
00:24:03.980 When did Mr. John give birth to these children?
00:24:06.700 Because I'm just trying to think of the era of friendship.
00:24:08.840 Yeah, that's good.
00:24:10.120 Who is Kate Bush?
00:24:11.260 Should I Google this, Michael, for us?
00:24:12.820 When the babies?
00:24:13.700 Right.
00:24:13.920 I have a guess.
00:24:15.680 How old are...
00:24:18.240 2010 and 2015 was the year they were born, I'm getting told.
00:24:21.120 Okay.
00:24:22.360 2010 and 2013.
00:24:23.920 Oh, okay.
00:24:24.740 I'm sure that helps you immensely.
00:24:25.720 They're 10 and 12.
00:24:26.600 Well, I mean, that makes it...
00:24:28.500 10 years ago, Lady Gaga, still...
00:24:31.680 I wouldn't, you know...
00:24:32.820 She was like really obscure.
00:24:34.260 She hadn't gone mainstream yet.
00:24:35.400 Only cool guys like me.
00:24:36.460 Obviously.
00:24:37.100 Well, that was like meat dress era.
00:24:38.740 And as, obviously, a father, a birth giver like Elton John.
00:24:44.840 I don't know if I would want my kids.
00:24:46.120 He is an interesting guy, though.
00:24:47.080 Oh, man.
00:24:47.840 Maybe this.
00:24:48.300 Five seconds.
00:24:50.100 All right, Mike, what do you have?
00:24:51.460 I'm going to say Olivia Newton-John.
00:24:53.860 Brett?
00:24:54.640 Madonna.
00:24:56.020 Lady Gaga.
00:24:56.940 What?
00:24:57.420 I almost picked Gaga.
00:24:58.580 Oh, we would have been tied.
00:24:59.840 I talked myself out of that.
00:25:01.560 Yep.
00:25:02.460 Next question.
00:25:03.680 Which artist made history as the youngest winner of the Grammy's four main categories?
00:25:09.140 Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
00:25:12.840 Who has the record for being the youngest to do that?
00:25:14.760 And this happened in 2022?
00:25:16.380 No, this happened recently within the last, I'll give you maybe five years.
00:25:22.180 This one's easy.
00:25:23.540 All right, what do you have?
00:25:24.380 Brett?
00:25:25.160 Billie Eilish.
00:25:26.820 Michael.
00:25:27.820 I also said Billie Eilish.
00:25:30.700 How do you like that?
00:25:31.500 Yeah, you both got it right.
00:25:33.020 Woo!
00:25:33.700 I just remembered she's young.
00:25:35.260 I don't really know anything else about her.
00:25:36.940 Olivia Rodrigo could have blown her out of the water,
00:25:38.580 but I think she only won a singular one.
00:25:41.200 What is the most watched YouTube video of all time?
00:25:46.040 Probably some obscure meme from like 2010.
00:25:49.220 Michael, do you remember?
00:25:50.120 What does the fox say?
00:25:52.300 Oh, wow.
00:25:53.260 That's a deep cut.
00:25:54.860 The oldest meme I remember is the dancing baby Jif,
00:25:58.300 back from before Brett was even a glint in her parents' eyes.
00:26:02.500 Obviously.
00:26:03.140 That was like a 90s meme.
00:26:05.040 Charlie bit my finger.
00:26:06.180 Oh, Charlie.
00:26:07.840 That was what I was thinking of, but you just said it,
00:26:09.620 so now I'm thinking it's not that.
00:26:10.460 It's my finger.
00:26:12.400 I was actually just about to write that,
00:26:14.700 and then you convinced me not to.
00:26:16.960 I have absolutely no clue.
00:26:18.520 The most watched YouTube video of all time.
00:26:21.060 All time.
00:26:22.680 Five seconds.
00:26:24.180 Oh, okay.
00:26:24.640 I got it.
00:26:25.740 All right.
00:26:26.320 What do you have, Brett?
00:26:27.500 I have no idea.
00:26:28.480 It's something stupid, I'm sure.
00:26:29.700 I said some video game thing,
00:26:33.640 because those guys playing video games get all the views.
00:26:36.660 Oh, guys.
00:26:38.500 It's Baby Shark.
00:26:39.620 Come on.
00:26:40.860 What's Baby Shark?
00:26:42.820 The Baby Shark.
00:26:44.700 Oh, oh.
00:26:45.800 Baby Shark.
00:26:47.700 It's like a kid song.
00:26:48.840 Baby Shark.
00:26:49.760 I forgot that existed.
00:26:51.580 Yeah.
00:26:51.980 Followed, not very closely, but followed by Despacito.
00:26:55.500 Is Baby Shark, it's like a song?
00:26:57.700 Yeah, it's like a kid's song that's a minute long,
00:27:00.280 and it just plays on repeat forever.
00:27:01.620 Michael, have you ever heard of the Avocado song?
00:27:04.860 No.
00:27:05.540 That was in that kind of same era.
00:27:07.080 It's a woman.
00:27:07.720 She looks like that vegan teacher on TikTok,
00:27:09.700 and she goes,
00:27:10.520 peel the avocado, peel the avocado,
00:27:13.900 and then she does a little dance.
00:27:14.680 She goes, guac, oh, mole, guac, guac.
00:27:17.640 That's like in the same vein as Baby Shark to me.
00:27:19.960 I like that.
00:27:20.440 I just learned one the other day about a pizza.
00:27:22.580 You ever hear this?
00:27:23.220 I am a pizza with extra cheese.
00:27:27.700 From tomato sauces squeezed,
00:27:30.320 I am a pizza.
00:27:33.060 Now eat me up.
00:27:35.080 You ever hear that?
00:27:36.800 I'll put that on a record.
00:27:38.060 I can be God King.
00:27:39.860 All right, next question.
00:27:41.700 How many children does Nick Cannon have?
00:27:44.800 Current, like, what about unborn babies?
00:27:47.880 So he, not one, as far as I know,
00:27:50.600 and I'm not counting pregnancy,
00:27:51.680 there was a recent one,
00:27:52.740 which is why it was talked about a little while ago.
00:27:54.220 That's right, yeah, okay.
00:27:54.980 So including the one that was then born after that.
00:27:59.020 All right, Michael,
00:28:00.300 because we have no idea how many people
00:28:01.120 he is impregnated currently.
00:28:03.240 Sowing the seeds.
00:28:04.400 Yeah.
00:28:05.080 I'm going to say,
00:28:06.440 I kind of forget how to even do this symbol.
00:28:11.400 Nine,
00:28:12.760 or Aleph Nal,
00:28:14.380 countable infinity.
00:28:17.360 Brodeo.
00:28:18.440 Nine.
00:28:19.980 Twelve.
00:28:20.900 What?
00:28:21.280 Twelve, wow, I almost guessed eleven.
00:28:22.740 Twelve of the course of eleven years
00:28:25.180 by six baby mamas.
00:28:26.700 Oh, impressive.
00:28:27.840 I forgot how to do Aleph Nal,
00:28:28.720 so I just did pie
00:28:29.540 with another line underneath it.
00:28:31.580 Do I get a bonus point for that?
00:28:33.000 Absolutely not.
00:28:33.820 All right, there you have it.
00:28:34.740 Seven, six.
00:28:35.480 Michael Knowles is your face-off
00:28:37.120 pop culture champion.
00:28:38.400 No way!
00:28:39.580 Baby, all right.
00:28:41.040 Now we're talking.
00:28:42.260 Yeah, that was really close.
00:28:43.160 I'm actually bummed, though,
00:28:43.840 because I had some awesome questions
00:28:45.000 if we did have a tie break.
00:28:46.140 I'll tell you what,
00:28:46.580 I don't,
00:28:47.980 I did not necessarily expect
00:28:50.920 to do as well
00:28:51.560 as I usually do going into this.
00:28:53.000 Brett is much younger
00:28:54.480 and hipper and cooler than me.
00:28:55.760 I am now an old man,
00:28:56.960 a fuddy-duddy.
00:28:57.760 I don't go to nightclubs.
00:28:59.000 I don't go to discotheques.
00:29:00.720 That's a lie.
00:29:02.180 I know it.
00:29:03.520 I want to do
00:29:04.600 the tiebreaker questions,
00:29:06.520 and furthermore,
00:29:07.640 I want to do the ad read
00:29:09.060 for Brett Cooper.
00:29:09.860 That would not be
00:29:10.580 a punishment to me.
00:29:11.500 That would be a great privilege.
00:29:13.020 I adore Brett Cooper.
00:29:15.140 I would love to do it,
00:29:16.640 so I don't care
00:29:17.180 who wins the tiebreakers.
00:29:18.860 Wow.
00:29:19.260 I win, I lose.
00:29:21.040 I will be doing the ad read
00:29:22.140 at the end anyway.
00:29:23.620 I mean,
00:29:24.900 all right, Michael.
00:29:25.540 Let's do it.
00:29:26.020 Let's do it.
00:29:26.520 All right, let's do it.
00:29:27.600 This is another one
00:29:28.580 where you have to listen
00:29:29.180 very carefully,
00:29:29.900 because this actually involves
00:29:30.900 both of you personally.
00:29:32.200 Okay, because this has been
00:29:32.820 one of the bonus questions.
00:29:34.000 According to IMDb Pro,
00:29:36.260 who has the highest
00:29:37.440 total box office gross
00:29:39.360 for credited films?
00:29:41.620 That means you have to be credited
00:29:43.240 and you can't be playing yourself.
00:29:44.940 Between the two of us
00:29:45.760 or between the two of you?
00:29:47.260 Oh.
00:29:48.900 I'm going to have to guess.
00:29:51.300 Like, unless this is
00:29:51.920 some trick question,
00:29:52.820 I think I know the answer.
00:29:54.340 I said it very carefully.
00:29:56.380 Ten seconds.
00:29:57.360 I don't see how I could
00:29:58.780 get this wrong right now.
00:30:01.040 All right,
00:30:01.700 what do you have, Brett?
00:30:03.500 I said Michael,
00:30:04.700 because I've done more TV
00:30:05.620 than movies,
00:30:06.480 so I don't think...
00:30:08.700 I said, I mean,
00:30:09.420 I've been in like three things.
00:30:11.600 I do not have
00:30:12.920 like a lengthy career
00:30:13.780 as an actor,
00:30:14.320 so I said Brett.
00:30:15.680 You are wrong.
00:30:16.400 It is Michael
00:30:16.900 for No Space Spaces
00:30:18.400 where you played Keith
00:30:19.480 and it made $1.3 million
00:30:21.560 domestically.
00:30:22.740 Who's Keith?
00:30:23.940 Wow.
00:30:24.360 And then Brett, though,
00:30:25.980 if you include uncredited,
00:30:27.600 she was in
00:30:28.300 the Parental Guidance movie
00:30:30.080 that made $120 million
00:30:31.420 and she was the speech student.
00:30:33.820 I was in a, yeah,
00:30:35.040 an uncredited role in that.
00:30:37.340 But I've done more TV,
00:30:40.120 so that's why I thought
00:30:40.960 maybe not.
00:30:42.500 Wow, that's amazing.
00:30:43.960 So I'm basically George Clooney
00:30:45.440 is what you're telling me.
00:30:46.140 You are.
00:30:46.600 You're George Clooney
00:30:47.220 of The Daily Wire.
00:30:48.200 So Brett Cooper
00:30:49.460 with $120 million.
00:30:51.300 That puts you guys
00:30:52.120 both behind me
00:30:53.260 at $139 million.
00:30:55.420 $139 million?
00:30:57.060 Yep.
00:30:57.640 What's our,
00:30:58.180 what is our IMDb scores, though?
00:31:00.280 Like our ranking?
00:31:01.060 I want to hear those.
00:31:01.880 Brett is ahead
00:31:02.380 at $6,000.
00:31:03.680 What?
00:31:04.060 What is my score?
00:31:05.480 I think you're at like
00:31:06.120 15 or something like that.
00:31:07.340 15?
00:31:08.120 She gets $6,000,
00:31:09.120 I get 15?
00:31:10.160 That's outrageous.
00:31:11.300 All right, Michael.
00:31:12.200 Would you do the honors
00:31:13.520 of telling the audience
00:31:14.940 why they should watch
00:31:16.520 the comment section
00:31:17.500 with Brett Cooper?
00:31:18.400 Happily.
00:31:18.700 I actually would happily do that.
00:31:21.120 I adore Brett Cooper
00:31:22.980 and the comment section.
00:31:24.440 I think that she is just
00:31:25.700 a marvelous, wonderful thing
00:31:27.100 that happened to pop culture.
00:31:28.620 You should watch the show constantly.
00:31:31.200 You should get Brett's hot takes
00:31:33.020 and then you should follow her lead.
00:31:35.480 And instead of following
00:31:37.220 the entire rest of the pop culture
00:31:38.940 and going off
00:31:39.940 and becoming some like
00:31:41.540 transsexual, demon-infested,
00:31:44.280 just depressed,
00:31:45.920 grotesquerie
00:31:47.700 and sort of half simulacrum
00:31:51.160 of a human being,
00:31:52.080 you can follow Brett
00:31:53.060 and live a good, happy,
00:31:54.140 flourishing life
00:31:54.840 and learn things
00:31:55.620 and enjoy yourself.
00:31:56.700 That was the best,
00:31:58.280 that was the best ad read
00:31:59.400 I could have ever asked for.
00:32:01.120 It came from the heart.
00:32:02.300 Oh, thank you, Michael.
00:32:03.760 Well, if you haven't already,
00:32:05.240 go head over to the comment section
00:32:06.760 with Brett Cooper,
00:32:07.760 YouTube page,
00:32:08.500 subscribe,
00:32:09.400 then watch everything there.
00:32:11.020 Maybe even post a comment
00:32:11.960 and get the full experience.
00:32:13.840 And please write
00:32:14.540 in this comment section
00:32:15.600 and let us know
00:32:16.320 who you would like to see
00:32:17.580 and what topic to cover
00:32:18.800 in the next episode
00:32:20.100 of Face Off.
00:32:20.840 Face Off.