The Michael Knowles Show - July 27, 2024


Michael Knowles Vs Tim Pool ｜ FACE-OFF： Civil War


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

176.79239

Word Count

4,589

Sentence Count

606

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

17


Summary

The battle lines have been drawn. Are we getting closer to a Civil War? Well, to see who knows more about the topic of Civil Wars, we have a man who, in preparation for such an event, taught himself how to make his own peak lapel suit out of deer skins and tree sap.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I wrote 5.35.
00:00:01.880 I said 3.10.
00:00:03.920 It's 4 minutes and 56 seconds, so I...
00:00:06.840 Highest without going over, yes!
00:00:08.680 Yeah!
00:00:10.180 Closer.
00:00:10.980 I believe Tim won that, because he was closest to it, so...
00:00:15.920 Ooh, that's got to be embarrassing.
00:00:17.840 Brace yourselves.
00:00:19.000 The Libs want to steal, kill, and destroy.
00:00:21.300 And the Conservatives?
00:00:22.360 They want these topless lunatics to either playfully jump up and down on a trampoline
00:00:25.800 or get off their lawn.
00:00:27.280 The battle lines have been drawn.
00:00:28.400 Are we getting closer to a civil war?
00:00:30.660 Well, to see who knows more about the topic of civil wars,
00:00:33.520 we have a man who, in preparation for such an event,
00:00:36.160 taught himself how to make his own peak lapel suit out of deer skins and tree sap.
00:00:41.020 Michael Knowles.
00:00:41.920 Versed the current Guinness Book Record holder for the most time-saying civil war
00:00:46.500 in a single podcast, Tim Pool.
00:00:48.740 So grab your lightest pair of loafers, pack an extra black beanie,
00:00:51.860 and steal your neighbor's free-range chicken.
00:00:53.900 This is Face Off Civil War.
00:00:58.400 Welcome, gentlemen, to Face Off.
00:01:01.720 Thanks, Ben, for having me on my own show.
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00:02:25.380 Back to you, Ben.
00:02:26.340 Thank you so much for that, Michael.
00:02:27.440 We should be prepared at all times.
00:02:29.380 Tim, what did you do to prepare for this topic today?
00:02:32.100 In terms of trivia?
00:02:33.860 I guess just doing my show as I normally do and reading the news constantly.
00:02:37.700 You should be more than prepared then.
00:02:39.540 All right, gentlemen.
00:02:40.320 I'm going to read these questions.
00:02:41.460 You have 30 seconds to write down your answer.
00:02:43.700 At the end, whoever loses has to do a 30-second commercial for why people should watch the
00:02:49.120 other person's show.
00:02:50.380 Are you ready?
00:02:51.280 I'm ready.
00:02:52.560 A lot on the line here.
00:02:53.620 All right.
00:02:54.480 Question one.
00:02:55.900 Who killed Howard and Maria Stark setting the stage for the Avengers Civil War?
00:03:00.200 Oh, give me a break.
00:03:01.220 Are you freaking kidding me?
00:03:03.040 Oh, really?
00:03:03.820 Is that the question?
00:03:04.540 Oh, that's...
00:03:05.320 I'm doing that one.
00:03:05.940 Oh, I was so looking forward to saying that one.
00:03:09.420 Are you kidding?
00:03:10.200 That's so...
00:03:11.320 That was easy.
00:03:12.620 All right.
00:03:13.240 I think I got my answer.
00:03:14.920 All right, Michael.
00:03:15.780 What do you have?
00:03:16.420 Uh, Dumbledore?
00:03:18.780 Close.
00:03:20.300 Uh, it was Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.
00:03:22.340 That is correct.
00:03:23.760 Not in one million years.
00:03:26.400 If I had infinite time to give my answer, would I have gotten to Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier?
00:03:32.720 If you want to ask me some Marvel questions, I'll answer those easily.
00:03:36.580 This is brutal.
00:03:37.460 Michael kept asking, is this American Civil War?
00:03:39.280 I'm like, Civil War in general.
00:03:40.560 That's what we kind of got to do today.
00:03:41.600 This is awful.
00:03:42.440 The funniest thing you could do right now is only ask me questions about that Marvel movie.
00:03:46.740 That would be deeply painful, but very funny.
00:03:50.180 Let's see if this one's painful.
00:03:51.700 Number two.
00:03:52.600 In which year did the American Civil War begin?
00:03:56.220 And whoever gets the closest will get the correct answer.
00:04:00.220 Tim, looking for help.
00:04:01.840 You're wrong.
00:04:02.920 What do you got?
00:04:03.940 You were wrong, Michael.
00:04:05.280 60, what did I say?
00:04:05.940 I said 1860.
00:04:06.780 Yep, it's 1861.
00:04:08.200 Really?
00:04:09.260 Yeah.
00:04:09.940 What, hold on.
00:04:10.800 So it's Fort Sumter is the beginning of the war.
00:04:14.320 Correct.
00:04:15.380 With 61?
00:04:16.200 Ah, man, this is not a good start for me.
00:04:18.960 This is not a good start at all.
00:04:20.740 Oh.
00:04:21.200 It's all right, Michael.
00:04:21.720 There's a bonus question at the end, just in case.
00:04:23.660 Yeah, great.
00:04:24.220 Okay.
00:04:24.600 Except Tim's smarter than me, and he's not going to gamble his win on some stupid bonus question.
00:04:28.780 Oh, I love poker.
00:04:29.680 Number three.
00:04:31.180 During the French Revolution, how many people were killed specifically by guillotine?
00:04:36.440 It's not the deaths total.
00:04:37.660 This is just what historians think the number was for guillotines.
00:04:41.860 Closest without going over, or just closest?
00:04:43.480 Just closest.
00:04:45.320 You got to get the person in there.
00:04:46.680 You got to, like, pull the thing up.
00:04:48.000 You got to release it.
00:04:48.620 It's the whole process.
00:04:49.800 Hold on.
00:04:50.020 Let's wait for Michael to finish writing.
00:04:51.180 Okay.
00:04:51.300 All right, Tim, you go first this time.
00:04:54.380 I have no idea.
00:04:55.220 I put 3,000.
00:04:56.300 All right.
00:04:56.780 Michael.
00:04:57.500 I said 90,000.
00:05:00.400 I think Tim won.
00:05:02.820 Between 15,000 and 17,000 people were beheaded at the guillotine during the French Revolution.
00:05:08.160 That's, yeah, but what about all the secret ones they didn't list?
00:05:11.020 90,000.
00:05:11.780 Michael, that's high.
00:05:12.460 I don't know, man.
00:05:13.140 The Jacobins were awful people.
00:05:15.060 Yeah, they killed themselves.
00:05:16.140 It was hilarious.
00:05:16.900 Yeah.
00:05:17.820 Not in a funny ha-ha way.
00:05:19.900 More like a...
00:05:21.020 Yeah, like, after they got rope spear, it was like, I'm going to kill everybody.
00:05:24.180 They're like, now we're going to kill you.
00:05:25.060 And he was like, well, you know, by the sword.
00:05:27.380 Apparently, just as many people were killed by this weird drowning technique, but they
00:05:30.740 thought that was too inhumane and moved specifically to the guillotine.
00:05:34.160 This is why I always thought, for all of Henry VIII's problems, you can't say he was a
00:05:38.640 bad husband, because he ordered really, really fine blades for his wives.
00:05:43.200 So, painless.
00:05:44.500 Number four, according to Wikipedia, how many men died in the American Civil War?
00:05:51.000 According to Wikipedia, I don't know, that's it.
00:05:54.700 All right, Michael.
00:05:56.500 600,000?
00:05:58.060 Tim.
00:05:59.300 1.8 million?
00:06:00.940 Michael is closer.
00:06:01.880 Oh, thank goodness.
00:06:02.880 Between 620,000 and 750,000 deaths.
00:06:06.280 All right.
00:06:07.680 You know what I was?
00:06:09.360 I was thinking that it was that number for each side, and so I added them up.
00:06:14.820 Look, I'll take whatever I can get.
00:06:16.500 What is it now?
00:06:17.240 Three to one?
00:06:17.880 Four to one?
00:06:18.640 Three to one.
00:06:19.380 Three to one.
00:06:19.840 Okay.
00:06:20.160 All right.
00:06:20.600 I'm still in it, I guess.
00:06:21.700 It's a comeback coming.
00:06:22.620 Yeah.
00:06:23.200 All right.
00:06:23.460 Number five.
00:06:24.080 Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history, starting in 1948?
00:06:29.940 This is A, B, C, and D.
00:06:31.660 Is it A, Colombia?
00:06:33.320 B, Myanmar or Burma?
00:06:35.100 C, Sudan.
00:06:36.300 D, Yemen.
00:06:37.860 Oh, I already wrote my answer down before I gave multiple.
00:06:39.880 I actually, hold on.
00:06:40.900 I think your answer, can you state the question again?
00:06:44.460 Because I think the actual correct answer is not even listed there, but say it again.
00:06:47.760 Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history, starting in 1948?
00:06:55.120 Colombia, Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen.
00:07:00.180 They also would say Myanmar is Burma, so you can use it in one of those.
00:07:03.320 Tim?
00:07:04.540 I wrote that down before you even gave multiple choice.
00:07:06.720 Burma.
00:07:07.660 Michael?
00:07:08.240 I said Sudan.
00:07:09.600 The correct answer is Burma.
00:07:10.960 Really?
00:07:11.340 Ah.
00:07:12.160 But what did he, he should have said Myanmar, though.
00:07:14.000 So does he get, I thought, I thought the answer was going to be Korea.
00:07:19.080 That's actually a good point.
00:07:20.240 Yeah.
00:07:20.660 Shouldn't it be Korea?
00:07:23.380 It's still technically in a state of civil war.
00:07:25.860 But that was in the 50s, wasn't it?
00:07:28.320 That wouldn't be, yeah, because this started in the 50s.
00:07:29.580 Right, right, right, right.
00:07:30.300 That's true.
00:07:30.860 Okay.
00:07:31.220 All right.
00:07:31.800 Burma it is.
00:07:33.060 Yeah.
00:07:33.560 You missed that movie, Michael, about Burma?
00:07:35.680 I think I might have, yeah.
00:07:37.580 Yeah.
00:07:38.180 Darn.
00:07:38.640 All right.
00:07:39.240 Getting blown out.
00:07:40.180 Number six.
00:07:41.000 During Caesar's civil war from 49 to 45 BC, what action did Julius Caesar take that most
00:07:47.740 historians attribute to the start of the bloody conflict?
00:07:51.100 All right.
00:07:51.680 Y'all are flying through these.
00:07:53.040 Yeah, I think this one's easy, right?
00:07:54.720 All right.
00:07:55.160 Crossing the Rubicon.
00:07:55.840 He crossed the Rubicon.
00:07:56.640 He crossed the Rubicon, that is correct.
00:07:58.420 Just like Trump.
00:07:59.620 Every week, there's something new.
00:08:01.440 He crossed the Rubicon.
00:08:02.500 However.
00:08:02.820 I will add that his forces had already crossed earlier from a couple days before he did.
00:08:09.700 And so, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon is a misattribution.
00:08:14.240 And yeah, at that point, it was old hat.
00:08:16.540 I don't even know why they took notice of it.
00:08:18.320 Yeah, his troops already had troops on the other side.
00:08:20.840 But then when he personally did it, I guess everyone's like, oh, look what he's doing.
00:08:23.760 Yeah.
00:08:23.900 All right.
00:08:24.800 Number seven.
00:08:25.640 According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, how many people lost their lives in the Spanish
00:08:30.740 Civil War?
00:08:33.100 What's that in the Holocaust Encyclopedia?
00:08:35.560 I don't know.
00:08:36.240 It's just where we got it from.
00:08:37.060 Dirty, rotten, filthy commies or like all people, including the good priests and nuns who the
00:08:42.580 communists were killing?
00:08:44.320 All people.
00:08:45.320 Okay.
00:08:46.040 Uh, gosh, I don't know.
00:08:47.880 We'll probably have to cut that out for you too, Michael.
00:08:49.780 Huh?
00:08:50.100 What?
00:08:50.420 No, because this is what the libs do.
00:08:52.220 The libs try to, they try to make, they call the communists the Republicans and they try
00:08:57.440 to make Franco into like super duper mega Hitler, but the communists, the Soviet Union was trying
00:09:02.220 to take over Iberia and the commies were killing nuns and priests and they were just like the
00:09:07.960 worst people on earth.
00:09:09.200 And then there's Franco trying to cobble together this coalition of like monarchists and some
00:09:14.000 fascists and some right wingers to stop, you know, the Ruskies from Iberia.
00:09:19.620 But then somehow Franco's the bad guy.
00:09:21.760 I don't know.
00:09:22.700 Civil wars are complicated.
00:09:23.880 They're complicated.
00:09:25.500 All right, Tim, what do you have?
00:09:27.440 I put three million.
00:09:29.600 Put 500,000.
00:09:31.580 It is exactly 500,000.
00:09:33.160 Hey, all right.
00:09:34.800 I had no idea.
00:09:36.460 Knowles is flying.
00:09:37.740 Oh, yeah, sort of.
00:09:38.820 That's my second correct answer.
00:09:40.660 All right.
00:09:41.140 Number eight.
00:09:42.380 What event is commonly regarded as the starting point of the Syrian civil war in 2011?
00:09:48.020 Is it A, government corruption scandal, B, military coup, C, Arab Spring protest, D, assassination
00:09:55.420 of a political leader?
00:09:56.460 All right, Michael.
00:09:57.960 I said the Arab Spring, wasn't it?
00:09:59.880 And then Assad allegedly gassed the people?
00:10:02.500 Yeah.
00:10:02.920 Yeah.
00:10:03.180 Okay.
00:10:03.560 Yeah.
00:10:03.820 I could see.
00:10:04.380 Arab Spring.
00:10:04.940 That is correct.
00:10:06.100 Arab Spring protests.
00:10:07.920 And then the entire Western world said, you know, we have to take out Assad.
00:10:11.840 And then he didn't go away.
00:10:13.240 And then we all just like forgot about it.
00:10:14.600 I feel like years.
00:10:16.440 He's the worst guy ever.
00:10:17.580 We have to.
00:10:17.860 Ah, never mind.
00:10:18.360 He's fine.
00:10:18.860 He's back in the club.
00:10:20.020 Well, Trump won.
00:10:21.020 And that kind of changed things.
00:10:22.200 Yeah.
00:10:23.700 All right.
00:10:24.140 Number nine.
00:10:24.980 Which American civil war battle had the most casualties?
00:10:28.660 Oh, that's it.
00:10:30.400 That's a tough question, actually.
00:10:33.660 Oh, I don't know if I like that question.
00:10:36.320 I don't know.
00:10:37.500 It seems like y'all know more about civil wars than our producers do here.
00:10:40.840 Well, so my question with that is, how do you define battle?
00:10:44.300 Because, yeah, how do you define battle?
00:10:47.420 Like, that's a tough one.
00:10:50.360 It's a pretty famous one.
00:10:52.760 Yeah, I could give you two answers.
00:10:54.700 Oh, are you thinking?
00:10:56.980 Okay, I think I know what you're thinking of.
00:10:58.420 That's a fair point.
00:10:59.880 I assume he means battle battle.
00:11:02.420 Are you talking about after the Winter Soldier killed Tony Stark's parents?
00:11:06.200 Or what's the timeline?
00:11:08.420 Shortly thereafter.
00:11:09.820 I don't know.
00:11:10.380 I have no idea.
00:11:11.160 I'm throwing at a dartboard right here.
00:11:13.680 All right.
00:11:14.420 What's your dartboard, Michael?
00:11:16.060 Bull run?
00:11:16.680 I don't know.
00:11:17.560 First or second.
00:11:18.800 Tim?
00:11:20.200 Gettysburg.
00:11:20.960 Gettysburg.
00:11:21.480 I thought it was, like, too obvious to say Gettysburg.
00:11:24.340 The reason I was asking is because I'm pretty sure there are bloodier instances.
00:11:29.640 You know, I'm like, Sherman's march to the sea is not considered a battle, I guess.
00:11:32.420 But, man, that was...
00:11:33.600 Oof.
00:11:33.860 Yeah, I think it was 50,000 people died in Gettysburg.
00:11:37.340 Wow.
00:11:38.460 Number 10.
00:11:39.020 Which senator had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War?
00:11:43.300 One for the North and one for the South.
00:11:45.700 Was it A, John C. Calhoun?
00:11:48.280 B, Henry Clay?
00:11:49.940 C, Stephen A. Douglas?
00:11:51.940 Or D, John J. Crittenden?
00:11:54.420 I'm saying D.
00:11:55.920 Me too?
00:11:56.420 I had no idea.
00:11:57.340 That's correct.
00:11:58.000 You're both right.
00:11:58.960 It's because he's, like, the only one who doesn't have a really famous name.
00:12:01.260 Yeah, he was a U.S. senator from Kentucky.
00:12:04.540 Wow.
00:12:05.300 Number 11.
00:12:06.720 The French Revolution got so nuts, they even tried to establish a new way to tell time with their revolutionary calendar.
00:12:13.740 How many days were there in the French Republican calendar?
00:12:17.780 10 seconds?
00:12:20.500 All right, Michael, what you got?
00:12:21.880 1,000.
00:12:23.880 10?
00:12:24.240 I put 300.
00:12:25.280 300.
00:12:26.280 10 days in the calendar.
00:12:27.800 The day was divided into just 10 hours.
00:12:29.640 That's 10 hours total, not 10 hours a.m. and p.m.
00:12:33.000 And the hours consisted of 100 minutes, and a minute consisted of 100 seconds.
00:12:37.580 Wait, so 10 days were in the year?
00:12:40.060 It was just like their calendar was just by a week.
00:12:42.120 It was, like, going like that.
00:12:42.900 No, dude, that's not, you wouldn't say that's how many days are in the year.
00:12:47.100 I mean, that's just how it's described.
00:12:49.820 Repeat the question.
00:12:52.080 How many days were there in the French Republican calendar?
00:12:55.820 Yeah, so how many days are there in our calendar?
00:12:59.200 Seven.
00:13:00.260 No, there are 365 days in our calendar.
00:13:04.740 We're striking that question.
00:13:07.200 Come on.
00:13:08.040 You meant how many distinct days are counted per week?
00:13:11.400 How many days in a week is what you were asking.
00:13:13.840 Yeah, yeah.
00:13:14.680 Yeah, that question, we're eliminating that question from the record.
00:13:18.580 That's outrageous.
00:13:19.660 Wikipedia is not always accurate, you know?
00:13:21.760 Listed, yeah.
00:13:22.560 All right, well, we'll call that null, and we'll move on to number 12.
00:13:25.340 Number 12, in the movie Civil War,
00:13:27.880 what was the name of the reporter played by Kirsten Dunst
00:13:30.740 who was killed at the end of the movie?
00:13:33.480 Oh.
00:13:33.980 Wait.
00:13:34.760 Oh.
00:13:35.460 The new movie.
00:13:36.680 Uh.
00:13:38.720 The movie wasn't good enough.
00:13:39.900 Y'all both watched it.
00:13:40.760 I was sitting next to you when I watched it.
00:13:42.880 But you want to hear a secret?
00:13:44.400 I wasn't paying very much attention.
00:13:48.420 I'm going to come up with, uh,
00:13:50.000 what's the most offensive name I can come up with?
00:13:52.040 Yeah.
00:13:52.740 Hmm.
00:13:53.180 The least, one that's least likely to be right?
00:13:55.740 I have no idea.
00:13:57.120 I think, I think I've got it.
00:13:58.700 You probably got it, I don't know.
00:13:59.700 I think I've got it.
00:14:00.780 All right, Mike, what do you have?
00:14:01.820 Is it Shaniqua?
00:14:02.560 Shaniqua?
00:14:02.960 I just put Sam.
00:14:09.380 Sam was closer, but neither one of you got it.
00:14:11.500 Her name was Lee Smith.
00:14:13.660 I would never.
00:14:14.180 Oh, that's right.
00:14:14.960 Yeah.
00:14:15.100 That one with the other Civil War movie, I would never have.
00:14:17.840 I'm learning that I don't know anything about Civil Wars at all.
00:14:21.580 But I really loved that movie because, and I mean this, honestly,
00:14:24.660 it really shows the depravity of journalists.
00:14:26.740 And I'm not exaggerating.
00:14:28.100 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:28.440 The scene where it shows the guy, there's bombs going off,
00:14:31.400 people are dying, and the main character guy looks to the young girl
00:14:34.280 and he smiles and nods, and she smiles and nods back.
00:14:36.580 And it's just like, I've personally experienced these people,
00:14:39.260 they're psychotic.
00:14:40.120 Yeah, yeah.
00:14:40.640 Even the final scene, that, spoiler alert.
00:14:43.540 Yep.
00:14:43.980 It's some stone-cold psychos in the press corps.
00:14:47.300 And I guarantee you that would happen.
00:14:48.900 Yep.
00:14:49.360 Oh, yeah.
00:14:50.000 Yeah.
00:14:51.140 Should we say what the spoiler was?
00:14:53.220 Just so people know?
00:14:54.720 She dies.
00:14:56.740 Spoiler alert.
00:14:58.400 Journalist calls, like, I'm being a bit gross, like, exaggerate.
00:15:02.620 He basically steps over her dead body to get the photo, to get the shot.
00:15:05.920 Yep.
00:15:06.380 Like, he renders no aid to her as she is going down,
00:15:10.100 and he runs in because he doesn't care about her.
00:15:11.760 And the younger girl just snaps the pic of her father.
00:15:14.200 Yep.
00:15:14.640 Yep.
00:15:15.020 That's exactly what would happen.
00:15:16.180 Yep.
00:15:16.660 She takes a picture of her dead on the ground and goes,
00:15:18.240 okay, next story.
00:15:19.120 Mm-hmm.
00:15:19.760 What is the current score?
00:15:21.060 8-5.
00:15:22.060 It's pretty close.
00:15:22.860 Okay.
00:15:23.400 All right.
00:15:23.700 I guess maybe there's a chance for combat.
00:15:25.360 Probably not.
00:15:25.980 All right.
00:15:26.260 Number 13.
00:15:27.440 In 1939, Hattie McDaniel was the first black woman to win an Academy Award
00:15:31.940 for her performance in what Civil War-themed movie?
00:15:36.140 All right.
00:15:36.400 Knowles.
00:15:37.780 Winter Soldier, Captain Marvel.
00:15:39.360 No, I'm joking.
00:15:39.980 Gone with the Wind.
00:15:41.600 That's what I got.
00:15:42.660 That is correct.
00:15:43.300 Gone with the Wind.
00:15:43.960 My handwriting is much worse than Michael's.
00:15:47.460 Mammy.
00:15:47.900 She was great.
00:15:49.900 All right.
00:15:50.140 Number 14.
00:15:51.300 In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency during the American Civil War.
00:15:57.660 What were these bills called?
00:15:59.540 Y'all both started writing really quick.
00:16:00.940 I guess that was an easy one.
00:16:02.420 Tim, what do you have?
00:16:03.820 Greenback?
00:16:04.760 Greenbacks.
00:16:05.480 Greenbacks.
00:16:05.860 That's correct.
00:16:06.820 This isn't good because I'm getting them now, but so is Tim, which doesn't help me.
00:16:11.280 Maybe you should have kept that French question because I think you were closer to the week.
00:16:14.580 I know.
00:16:15.400 Yeah.
00:16:15.720 Yeah, I guess.
00:16:16.560 I don't know.
00:16:16.760 Was it?
00:16:17.020 I think he would have won that one, too.
00:16:18.380 No, you put $1,000.
00:16:19.140 I put $300.
00:16:19.480 Yeah, he would have won that, too.
00:16:20.880 This is not.
00:16:22.500 All right.
00:16:23.460 This thrill-seeking activity was used strategically during the Civil War for reconnaissance and attacks.
00:16:30.640 What was this activity?
00:16:31.760 The thrill-seeking activity?
00:16:34.580 Yeah, I know this one.
00:16:36.220 It's a thrill-seeking activity.
00:16:38.580 All right.
00:16:39.020 This answer is wrong, but at least it's kind of funny.
00:16:42.300 The photos of this are actually pretty funny.
00:16:44.860 All right.
00:16:45.320 What do you got, Tim?
00:16:46.500 Hot air balloons.
00:16:47.900 Hot air balloons.
00:16:48.640 Oh, no, no, no.
00:16:49.560 It's obviously bungee jumping.
00:16:55.440 It is hot air balloons.
00:16:56.680 No!
00:16:57.280 There's these really funny photos you can see during the Civil War.
00:17:00.300 Dude, you've never seen General Lee just tied by his ankle diving off a cliff?
00:17:06.220 I do want to point out, I live next to Harper's Ferry and the John Brown Museum.
00:17:13.800 So when you walk down the street, literally anywhere you go, they have all of these plaques everywhere.
00:17:19.260 There's cannons.
00:17:20.020 There's plaques.
00:17:20.880 You go out for coffee, and there's a plaque being like, this is where this happened.
00:17:23.420 This is where that happened.
00:17:24.000 You drive down to Winchester, and you're hanging out at Lee's Compound.
00:17:28.420 So the hot air balloon was kind of easy.
00:17:29.820 I'm like, they got pictures of that everywhere.
00:17:31.880 But dude, did you see all the plaques to the bungee jumping?
00:17:35.840 Because that must have confused you.
00:17:37.720 Yeah.
00:17:39.420 That would have been so epic.
00:17:41.920 They used standard rope and shattered their spines when they did it, but you know, got the job done.
00:17:45.920 All right.
00:17:48.300 The Taiping Rebellion, which broke out in 1850, would come to be the bloodiest civil war in human history.
00:17:54.220 How many lives do historians estimate were lost?
00:17:58.260 You don't hear about this one as much.
00:18:00.320 Oh, I actually live next to a monument for the Taiping Rebellion.
00:18:05.120 So it's sort of like Tim, but there's a lot more bungee jumping, though.
00:18:09.240 That's what confused me.
00:18:10.900 Okay.
00:18:11.340 The number just clacked there, too.
00:18:13.240 All right.
00:18:13.520 What do you have?
00:18:14.320 One and a half million?
00:18:15.100 I put three million.
00:18:17.020 The correct answer is 30 million.
00:18:19.800 Oh.
00:18:20.080 So was I closer?
00:18:21.320 You were closer.
00:18:22.020 According to the French Revolutionary calculation, was I...
00:18:25.000 Maybe you've used that.
00:18:27.660 All right.
00:18:28.500 Here we go.
00:18:29.060 This famous author traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and stayed to join the Republican militia.
00:18:36.480 Oh, I knew this.
00:18:37.840 Oh.
00:18:38.700 I can't remember.
00:18:40.060 Wait, hold on.
00:18:40.360 You said American author or English author?
00:18:41.860 Famous author.
00:18:42.860 Famous author.
00:18:43.640 Oh.
00:18:44.000 Tip of my tongue.
00:18:44.740 I can't get it.
00:18:46.020 I can't think.
00:18:46.600 I know it.
00:18:47.140 I was just reading about this a couple months ago.
00:18:49.360 All right.
00:18:50.120 Tim, what do you have?
00:18:51.120 I put Michael Knowles, but I know he got it.
00:18:53.260 I would have been.
00:18:54.300 Yeah.
00:18:54.620 I wouldn't have been fighting for the Republicans.
00:18:56.060 That's for sure.
00:18:57.560 Is that Orwell?
00:18:58.700 That is correct.
00:18:59.480 Oh, Orwell.
00:18:59.800 Oh, man.
00:19:02.260 I almost faked myself out and wrote Hemingway, confusing it with the World War I, but.
00:19:08.040 I couldn't think of it.
00:19:08.840 I was just reading about this, actually, not that long ago.
00:19:10.760 I was like, tip of my tongue.
00:19:11.440 I couldn't get it.
00:19:11.960 And was that question worth 15 points?
00:19:14.000 Because then it might be a tie game.
00:19:15.380 Well, this one's going to be easy for you, so you can just stage your comeback now.
00:19:18.260 Okay, good.
00:19:18.780 In Game of Thrones, the Dance of Dragons is a royal war of succession and civil war in
00:19:26.200 the seven kingdoms of Westeros, fought between two rival factions of the House Targaryen.
00:19:31.220 What were the names of these two rival factions, Michael?
00:19:33.900 So easy.
00:19:36.200 I don't even know what to write.
00:19:38.920 This one's pretty obvious.
00:19:40.720 Have you guys caught up on the new season?
00:19:42.560 Oh, yeah.
00:19:43.380 Yeah.
00:19:43.700 I'm still catching up on the first season.
00:19:45.840 I'm going to put a second guess here, too.
00:19:47.760 Ten seconds.
00:19:49.240 All right, I got it.
00:19:50.440 All right, Michael, what do you have?
00:19:51.680 The obvious answer is the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.
00:19:55.280 But if that answer doesn't do it for you, I would say the Houses of Lancaster and York.
00:20:00.880 I drew a cat.
00:20:05.860 I think Michael was closer, technically, so he gets an advocate.
00:20:08.860 It's the Blacks and the Greens.
00:20:11.620 Oh.
00:20:12.600 Oh, yeah, of course.
00:20:12.860 It's the Blacks and the Greens.
00:20:14.760 Those are the two rival factions of House Targaryen.
00:20:17.900 Huh.
00:20:18.780 That's so lame.
00:20:19.740 I would have expected some ornate, sort of pseudo-medieval name.
00:20:24.360 Like Guelph and Ghibelline, which is not, that's actually a medieval name.
00:20:27.420 Yeah, Game of Thrones is not exactly Lord of the Rings.
00:20:29.540 Okay.
00:20:29.820 It's not quite there.
00:20:30.520 Blacks and the Greens.
00:20:32.240 Blacks.
00:20:32.640 Are we even allowed to say that anymore?
00:20:35.380 The faction of color.
00:20:37.040 They're both factions of color, I guess.
00:20:38.580 All right, what's the score?
00:20:39.680 15-14.
00:20:40.960 The score currently is 8-11.
00:20:43.380 Tim Poole.
00:20:44.280 However, there is a chance for the bonus question to go double or nothing, go all in, and just
00:20:50.000 see what happens.
00:20:50.560 I know you're a gambling man, Tim, so do you want to wager that?
00:20:53.820 Yeah, what say you, Tim?
00:20:55.480 Is this the last question?
00:20:56.820 This is the last question.
00:20:58.520 Yeah, I'll wager everything.
00:20:59.420 Let's go.
00:20:59.820 All right, let's go, baby.
00:21:00.680 Let's go, baby.
00:21:01.600 All right.
00:21:02.280 I'm so glad that after I described how much I regretted doing this with Kaya Raychik,
00:21:07.340 that you're doing the same thing, even though you're probably going to get it.
00:21:09.920 It's a very hard one, right?
00:21:11.880 This is a very hard one.
00:21:13.240 It's also going to be whoever gets closest, all right?
00:21:15.980 All right.
00:21:17.060 In 1967, the song Together Again, the hit single from the first Smokey Mike and the God
00:21:22.840 King album was released.
00:21:24.840 However, that is not the only version of this classic.
00:21:27.320 Notably, the live version recorded later by Smokey Mike and the God King at the historic
00:21:31.640 Ryman Auditorium and the modern cover done by Tim Kass, which resurrected the band after
00:21:36.720 Ian was caught mercilessly beating that child.
00:21:39.060 What was the total runtime of the original Together Again single?
00:21:43.340 He's going to freaking know it better than I do because he worked on the cover.
00:21:49.300 All three versions are different times.
00:21:51.240 Wait, so you're saying the original?
00:21:54.200 The original, not the live version at the Ryman.
00:21:56.200 The live version is the original.
00:21:58.340 No, but it's the release.
00:22:00.360 Okay.
00:22:01.060 All right.
00:22:01.640 Sure.
00:22:02.160 The performance was much longer than the original single.
00:22:06.000 Yeah.
00:22:06.300 Okay.
00:22:06.980 Okay.
00:22:10.260 Write down 10 minutes.
00:22:11.720 Then I can win.
00:22:12.460 Yeah.
00:22:14.000 Yeah.
00:22:15.440 Are we doing it in French time or English time?
00:22:18.800 They call it French time now.
00:22:21.280 Oh, man.
00:22:21.920 There's so much writing on this.
00:22:23.880 And I partially wrote the song.
00:22:27.740 All right, Tim.
00:22:28.480 Do you have yours?
00:22:29.640 I wrote 535.
00:22:31.000 535.
00:22:31.600 Probably wrong.
00:22:32.340 I said 310.
00:22:35.080 It's four minutes and 56 seconds.
00:22:37.680 So I...
00:22:38.260 Highest without going over.
00:22:39.180 Yes!
00:22:39.880 Yeah!
00:22:41.360 Closer.
00:22:42.180 I believe Tim won that because he was closest to it.
00:22:46.720 So...
00:22:47.340 Wrong song.
00:22:48.860 Oh, that's got to be embarrassing.
00:22:50.660 Michael, two in a row.
00:22:51.640 Oh, yeah.
00:22:54.700 Yeah.
00:22:55.060 Four minutes and 56 seconds.
00:22:57.260 That was...
00:22:57.580 You're telling me the one on Spotify is almost five...
00:23:00.720 We are the most self-indulgent people on the face of the earth.
00:23:06.580 How long was the...
00:23:07.760 It was around five minutes.
00:23:09.240 And I was like...
00:23:09.800 I didn't know if it was like low five or high five.
00:23:13.220 And I was like, I'll just put five and a half.
00:23:14.760 Wow.
00:23:16.440 Wow.
00:23:17.000 Well...
00:23:17.720 And the TimCast version was shorter than that, obviously.
00:23:20.280 It was a little more upbeat.
00:23:21.280 It was a little faster.
00:23:21.900 In my mind, the TimCast beautiful synthwave 80s version was longer, actually, than the original.
00:23:29.940 Wow.
00:23:30.560 You know what I will say is the reason I probably got closer, Michael, is because I'm a huge fan.
00:23:36.040 And I actually...
00:23:37.160 It's at songs in our playlist, so it comes on quite a bit.
00:23:39.840 Hey, look, I'm honored.
00:23:41.500 I'm honored by your beautiful reinterpretation of it.
00:23:44.340 And I just got destroyed by facts and logic and Tim Pool.
00:23:51.900 So, will I do a pitch for the show?
00:23:55.980 Yep.
00:23:56.200 We'll put 30 seconds on the clock.
00:23:57.800 And, Michael, would you please tell everyone why they should tune in to the TimCast IRL?
00:24:01.280 Many, many reasons.
00:24:03.600 Tim himself, obviously, possesses a great deal of knowledge, far more than I, apparently,
00:24:09.660 at least on the topic of Civil War and Marvel movies and my own musical works.
00:24:15.220 Also, because the co-hosts and guests on Tim's show are really terrific.
00:24:21.900 Eccentric, delightful people.
00:24:23.980 I'm thinking of Ian.
00:24:24.980 You know, I'm thinking of many other people on the show.
00:24:27.380 But the main reason that Tim's show is so great is that it made my book Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
00:24:38.260 hit number one on the charts.
00:24:40.060 So, for that reason alone, you should tune in and support TimCast in all its various forms and through all its various media.
00:24:48.240 That was lovely.
00:24:49.080 Wow.
00:24:49.780 Tim, I'm not wearing a hat.
00:24:51.860 If my hat would be off to you, that was painful for me, but very impressive.
00:24:59.440 It's been fun.
00:25:00.280 I was surprised I got as many as I did.
00:25:01.600 And Ben, I would like to say to you, I can't believe you don't understand the difference between a week and a year.
00:25:10.320 Well, there you have it, all right?
00:25:14.900 If you haven't already, go follow Tim Pool on X and subscribe to TimCast IRL on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts.
00:25:21.080 And please write in the comments section and let us know who you'd like to see and what topic to cover in the next episode of Face Off.
00:25:27.440 I'll see you next time.