Michael Knowles Vs Tim Pool ｜ FACE-OFF： Civil War
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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.
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I believe Tim won that, because he was closest to it, so...
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They want these topless lunatics to either playfully jump up and down on a trampoline
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Well, to see who knows more about the topic of civil wars,
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we have a man who, in preparation for such an event,
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taught himself how to make his own peak lapel suit out of deer skins and tree sap.
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Versed the current Guinness Book Record holder for the most time-saying civil war
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Tim, what did you do to prepare for this topic today?
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I guess just doing my show as I normally do and reading the news constantly.
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At the end, whoever loses has to do a 30-second commercial for why people should watch the
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Who killed Howard and Maria Stark setting the stage for the Avengers Civil War?
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Oh, I was so looking forward to saying that one.
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If I had infinite time to give my answer, would I have gotten to Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier?
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If you want to ask me some Marvel questions, I'll answer those easily.
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Michael kept asking, is this American Civil War?
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The funniest thing you could do right now is only ask me questions about that Marvel movie.
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In which year did the American Civil War begin?
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And whoever gets the closest will get the correct answer.
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So it's Fort Sumter is the beginning of the war.
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There's a bonus question at the end, just in case.
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Except Tim's smarter than me, and he's not going to gamble his win on some stupid bonus question.
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During the French Revolution, how many people were killed specifically by guillotine?
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This is just what historians think the number was for guillotines.
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Between 15,000 and 17,000 people were beheaded at the guillotine during the French Revolution.
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That's, yeah, but what about all the secret ones they didn't list?
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Yeah, like, after they got rope spear, it was like, I'm going to kill everybody.
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Apparently, just as many people were killed by this weird drowning technique, but they
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thought that was too inhumane and moved specifically to the guillotine.
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This is why I always thought, for all of Henry VIII's problems, you can't say he was a
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bad husband, because he ordered really, really fine blades for his wives.
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Number four, according to Wikipedia, how many men died in the American Civil War?
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According to Wikipedia, I don't know, that's it.
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I was thinking that it was that number for each side, and so I added them up.
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Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history, starting in 1948?
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Oh, I already wrote my answer down before I gave multiple.
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I think your answer, can you state the question again?
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Because I think the actual correct answer is not even listed there, but say it again.
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Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history, starting in 1948?
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They also would say Myanmar is Burma, so you can use it in one of those.
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I wrote that down before you even gave multiple choice.
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But what did he, he should have said Myanmar, though.
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So does he get, I thought, I thought the answer was going to be Korea.
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It's still technically in a state of civil war.
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That wouldn't be, yeah, because this started in the 50s.
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During Caesar's civil war from 49 to 45 BC, what action did Julius Caesar take that most
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historians attribute to the start of the bloody conflict?
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I will add that his forces had already crossed earlier from a couple days before he did.
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And so, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon is a misattribution.
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Yeah, his troops already had troops on the other side.
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But then when he personally did it, I guess everyone's like, oh, look what he's doing.
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According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, how many people lost their lives in the Spanish
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Dirty, rotten, filthy commies or like all people, including the good priests and nuns who the
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We'll probably have to cut that out for you too, Michael.
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The libs try to, they try to make, they call the communists the Republicans and they try
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to make Franco into like super duper mega Hitler, but the communists, the Soviet Union was trying
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to take over Iberia and the commies were killing nuns and priests and they were just like the
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And then there's Franco trying to cobble together this coalition of like monarchists and some
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fascists and some right wingers to stop, you know, the Ruskies from Iberia.
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What event is commonly regarded as the starting point of the Syrian civil war in 2011?
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Is it A, government corruption scandal, B, military coup, C, Arab Spring protest, D, assassination
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And then the entire Western world said, you know, we have to take out Assad.
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Which American civil war battle had the most casualties?
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It seems like y'all know more about civil wars than our producers do here.
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Well, so my question with that is, how do you define battle?
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Are you talking about after the Winter Soldier killed Tony Stark's parents?
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I thought it was, like, too obvious to say Gettysburg.
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The reason I was asking is because I'm pretty sure there are bloodier instances.
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You know, I'm like, Sherman's march to the sea is not considered a battle, I guess.
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Yeah, I think it was 50,000 people died in Gettysburg.
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Which senator had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War?
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It's because he's, like, the only one who doesn't have a really famous name.
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The French Revolution got so nuts, they even tried to establish a new way to tell time with their revolutionary calendar.
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How many days were there in the French Republican calendar?
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That's 10 hours total, not 10 hours a.m. and p.m.
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And the hours consisted of 100 minutes, and a minute consisted of 100 seconds.
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It was just like their calendar was just by a week.
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No, dude, that's not, you wouldn't say that's how many days are in the year.
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How many days were there in the French Republican calendar?
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Yeah, so how many days are there in our calendar?
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You meant how many distinct days are counted per week?
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How many days in a week is what you were asking.
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Yeah, that question, we're eliminating that question from the record.
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All right, well, we'll call that null, and we'll move on to number 12.
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what was the name of the reporter played by Kirsten Dunst
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what's the most offensive name I can come up with?
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The least, one that's least likely to be right?
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That one with the other Civil War movie, I would never have.
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I'm learning that I don't know anything about Civil Wars at all.
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But I really loved that movie because, and I mean this, honestly,
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The scene where it shows the guy, there's bombs going off,
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people are dying, and the main character guy looks to the young girl
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and he smiles and nods, and she smiles and nods back.
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And it's just like, I've personally experienced these people,
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It's some stone-cold psychos in the press corps.
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Journalist calls, like, I'm being a bit gross, like, exaggerate.
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He basically steps over her dead body to get the photo, to get the shot.
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Like, he renders no aid to her as she is going down,
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and he runs in because he doesn't care about her.
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And the younger girl just snaps the pic of her father.
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She takes a picture of her dead on the ground and goes,
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In 1939, Hattie McDaniel was the first black woman to win an Academy Award
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for her performance in what Civil War-themed movie?
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In 1862, the U.S. Congress authorized the first paper currency during the American Civil War.
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This isn't good because I'm getting them now, but so is Tim, which doesn't help me.
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Maybe you should have kept that French question because I think you were closer to the week.
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This thrill-seeking activity was used strategically during the Civil War for reconnaissance and attacks.
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This answer is wrong, but at least it's kind of funny.
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There's these really funny photos you can see during the Civil War.
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Dude, you've never seen General Lee just tied by his ankle diving off a cliff?
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I do want to point out, I live next to Harper's Ferry and the John Brown Museum.
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So when you walk down the street, literally anywhere you go, they have all of these plaques everywhere.
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You go out for coffee, and there's a plaque being like, this is where this happened.
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You drive down to Winchester, and you're hanging out at Lee's Compound.
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I'm like, they got pictures of that everywhere.
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But dude, did you see all the plaques to the bungee jumping?
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They used standard rope and shattered their spines when they did it, but you know, got the job done.
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The Taiping Rebellion, which broke out in 1850, would come to be the bloodiest civil war in human history.
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How many lives do historians estimate were lost?
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Oh, I actually live next to a monument for the Taiping Rebellion.
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So it's sort of like Tim, but there's a lot more bungee jumping, though.
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According to the French Revolutionary calculation, was I...
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This famous author traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and stayed to join the Republican militia.
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I was just reading about this a couple months ago.
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I wouldn't have been fighting for the Republicans.
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I almost faked myself out and wrote Hemingway, confusing it with the World War I, but.
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I was just reading about this, actually, not that long ago.
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Well, this one's going to be easy for you, so you can just stage your comeback now.
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In Game of Thrones, the Dance of Dragons is a royal war of succession and civil war in
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the seven kingdoms of Westeros, fought between two rival factions of the House Targaryen.
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What were the names of these two rival factions, Michael?
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The obvious answer is the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.
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But if that answer doesn't do it for you, I would say the Houses of Lancaster and York.
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I think Michael was closer, technically, so he gets an advocate.
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Those are the two rival factions of House Targaryen.
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I would have expected some ornate, sort of pseudo-medieval name.
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Like Guelph and Ghibelline, which is not, that's actually a medieval name.
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Yeah, Game of Thrones is not exactly Lord of the Rings.
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However, there is a chance for the bonus question to go double or nothing, go all in, and just
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I know you're a gambling man, Tim, so do you want to wager that?
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I'm so glad that after I described how much I regretted doing this with Kaya Raychik,
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that you're doing the same thing, even though you're probably going to get it.
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It's also going to be whoever gets closest, all right?
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In 1967, the song Together Again, the hit single from the first Smokey Mike and the God
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However, that is not the only version of this classic.
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Notably, the live version recorded later by Smokey Mike and the God King at the historic
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Ryman Auditorium and the modern cover done by Tim Kass, which resurrected the band after
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What was the total runtime of the original Together Again single?
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He's going to freaking know it better than I do because he worked on the cover.
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The original, not the live version at the Ryman.
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The performance was much longer than the original single.
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Are we doing it in French time or English time?
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I believe Tim won that because he was closest to it.
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You're telling me the one on Spotify is almost five...
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We are the most self-indulgent people on the face of the earth.
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I didn't know if it was like low five or high five.
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And the TimCast version was shorter than that, obviously.
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In my mind, the TimCast beautiful synthwave 80s version was longer, actually, than the original.
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You know what I will say is the reason I probably got closer, Michael, is because I'm a huge fan.
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It's at songs in our playlist, so it comes on quite a bit.
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I'm honored by your beautiful reinterpretation of it.
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And I just got destroyed by facts and logic and Tim Pool.
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And, Michael, would you please tell everyone why they should tune in to the TimCast IRL?
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Tim himself, obviously, possesses a great deal of knowledge, far more than I, apparently,
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at least on the topic of Civil War and Marvel movies and my own musical works.
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Also, because the co-hosts and guests on Tim's show are really terrific.
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You know, I'm thinking of many other people on the show.
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But the main reason that Tim's show is so great is that it made my book Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
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So, for that reason alone, you should tune in and support TimCast in all its various forms and through all its various media.
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If my hat would be off to you, that was painful for me, but very impressive.
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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.
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If you haven't already, go follow Tim Pool on X and subscribe to TimCast IRL on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts.
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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.