The Michael Knowles Show - September 12, 2026


Michael REACTS To Hilarious GTA 6 TikToks


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Length

9 minutes

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183.02

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1,823

Sentence count

110

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Misogyny

4

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Toxicity

14

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Hate speech

17

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00:01:06.540 Some thought that we were going to get the Eschaton,
00:01:08.860 but GTA 6 appears to be ready to come out.
00:01:11.720 I, as a boy, I'm a little ashamed to say this.
00:01:13.820 I played GTA, especially Vice City.
00:01:16.540 Played a lot. I did.
00:01:17.320 I'm not saying I'm proud of that. I did.
00:01:19.260 And now, all these years later,
00:01:20.860 we are getting the most degenerate, botched,
00:01:24.840 lifelike version of this vicious, vicious game.
00:01:28.120 So in anticipation, here are the memes.
00:01:43.860 They're going to be doing all the jobs.
00:01:45.100 It's kind of like in World War II, you know, 0.99
00:01:46.920 when all the women had to take all the factory jobs
00:01:49.080 because the men were all fighting war.
00:01:50.260 Except in this case, instead of fighting war and liberating Europe,
00:01:53.280 the men will be playing violent and, in some cases, pornographic video games.
00:01:57.380 before we get to this next one i got to give you a little bit of context okay so in the game you
00:02:03.900 have to maintain a relationship with your girlfriend so that means you have to text her
00:02:08.880 back on time or else it affects like your game progress you have to take her shopping you have
00:02:13.420 to take her on dates is that real really it's real you have to do that it's very immersive so
00:02:17.360 use that context for some of the clips that you're about to watch okay i really don't need you on my
00:02:22.600 bumper right now man you angry i get it cool we all feeling billy
00:02:26.520 oh okay yeah okay it's too much it's too much it's too many layers i don't it's too i don't
00:02:35.780 even know who that guy is i don't it doesn't i'm too much of a boomer for that one okay next one 0.91
00:02:40.740 is that the hooker symbol that's got to be the hooker symbol right 0.99
00:02:48.560 He wants to go get a hooker. 0.99
00:02:52.980 Yeah, that is, it's funny. 1.00
00:02:54.060 I was trying to think, will I play GTA 6?
00:02:56.240 Because, you know, now I'm not like 16 anymore.
00:02:59.140 I'm 36 years young. 1.00
00:03:00.840 You know, a lady never tells. 1.00
00:03:01.900 Back when dinosaurs first roamed the earth. 0.99
00:03:05.460 Even more than the gratuitous violence,
00:03:07.480 which is probably not good for my soul, 0.86
00:03:09.140 I think the hooker stuff might be worse, right? 1.00
00:03:12.020 It is crazy to just pick up and kill hookers. 1.00
00:03:13.880 That was like a big part of the game. 0.99
00:03:14.920 I've never played it, but Jacob just informed me
00:03:16.660 that the stiletto is actually the strip club oh wait there's a strip club in the game yeah because
00:03:23.940 you know at least with the hooker one and again i'm basing this on grand theft auto vice city
00:03:27.780 it was like you'd pick up the girl and then the car would just sort of shake a little so it was
00:03:31.560 suggestive but it wasn't explicit and then the hooker would get out and you'd shoot it is generally
00:03:36.880 how you play the game so that there's a strip club but now the graphics are so good i bet that's
00:03:41.760 like real pornography another piece of context part of the reason they pushed it is because
00:03:47.200 they were developing this thing called uh jiggle physics jiggle physics what's jiggle physics i
00:03:54.640 don't want to know what jiggle physics is i don't you know what forget i asked forget i asked about 0.95
00:03:58.320 the whole thing next one please i'm sorry please shut up man shut up please 0.94
00:04:05.900 Cause you're a good girl and you know it 0.93
00:04:11.460 I know exactly who you could be
00:04:16.200 Oh, just hope
00:04:18.080 Yeah, I don't know, the girlfriend theme, it's not doing a lot for me.
00:04:24.180 I don't, cause I don't know, I don't really text anyone ever.
00:04:27.440 So this idea of like, you gotta text your girlfriend back, you gotta take her shopping,
00:04:30.820 I've basically never done any of that ever, so I don't get it.
00:04:34.160 If I were a simp like Professor Jacob, I would probably get it more,
00:04:37.260 but I don't understand that.
00:04:38.660 Next one. 0.59
00:04:39.480 For what is a man?
00:04:43.180 What has he got?
00:04:46.080 If not himself, then he has not to say.
00:04:53.560 Because you get to stay home and play video games for two years.
00:04:56.620 Do you get it?
00:04:57.520 Yeah, that's funny.
00:04:58.460 I like that.
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00:06:04.960 Don't love me as much 0.99
00:06:06.280 as I do.
00:06:09.040 Like it's not
00:06:10.560 you too.
00:06:12.340 Yeah.
00:06:14.740 Yeah, I know
00:06:15.700 it do be crazy out there.
00:06:18.200 It's been so long since I've dated 1.00
00:06:20.160 and my wife is like
00:06:21.980 normal, so I don't, yeah, I know.
00:06:23.760 It doesn't ring as true. I understand.
00:06:25.300 I know women do be like that sometimes. 1.00
00:06:27.780 Some people don't think it'd be like it is, but it do. 1.00
00:06:29.820 I know, I just, it doesn't, it doesn't ring true to me.
00:06:32.220 The thing that really most upsets me about that meme
00:06:36.220 is that you download the video game.
00:06:38.680 Because the last time I played video games,
00:06:40.260 they came on something called a compact disc.
00:06:42.700 I don't know if you were familiar with those.
00:06:44.320 CDs.
00:06:44.980 No one has CDs anymore.
00:06:46.780 Oh, sweetheart.
00:06:47.500 CD stands for certificate of deposit.
00:06:49.760 They were like round, shiny objects
00:06:51.420 that you would put into a machine,
00:06:52.980 and then you would load it.
00:06:54.020 Well, first you'd put the cheat disc in and get all the cheats loaded in, and then you'd
00:06:57.320 put the game in and load it into something called a PlayStation 2, and then that's how
00:07:02.500 you would play it.
00:07:03.160 So now, you just download all video games now.
00:07:05.540 You download the new ones now, but back in the disc days, did you remember the name that 0.99
00:07:09.320 the UK came up with for all the men not going up to work?
00:07:12.220 It was the GTA flu.
00:07:13.720 The GTA flu, that's funny.
00:07:15.560 It reported 2 million people didn't show up to work, and between LA and New York, it was
00:07:19.080 up to 6% of working men called in.
00:07:21.900 so who knows what's going to happen this time 0.51
00:07:24.200 yeah they're going to start a pandemic
00:07:26.560 it's kind of sad that you
00:07:28.460 don't buy the disc I mean I get it
00:07:29.900 I get why you don't but that means that the
00:07:32.340 video games well no what happened wasn't GameStop
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00:07:36.500 a few years ago like what they obviously still
00:07:38.360 exist huh next one
00:07:40.440 it ain't my fault
00:07:42.300 he ran right in front of my
00:07:44.540 truck
00:07:45.080 yeah I know I mean that
00:07:50.560 I remember when I would play
00:07:52.720 this is I'm confessing too much
00:07:54.100 but when I would play Vice City
00:07:56.180 I would almost never do the mission
00:07:57.460 I would sometimes do the missions
00:07:58.600 but I mostly would just go around 0.96
00:08:00.320 killing people and running them over 0.99
00:08:01.680 for hours 1.00
00:08:02.960 I would just do that for hours
00:08:04.740 no story
00:08:05.920 no it was like
00:08:06.760 kind of like hell
00:08:08.020 it was like a vision of hell
00:08:09.920 and I did it anyway
00:08:11.440 because it's attractive
00:08:13.140 when you cultivate vice
00:08:15.040 it was called Vice City
00:08:16.540 next one
00:08:20.560 those are like actual npcs that was i actually was having trouble with metaphor there because
00:08:32.060 the npc is the non-playing character in the video game but now we use it as a metaphor for
00:08:38.120 unthinking people walking around in the real world but in this case we were actually back
00:08:42.580 to the literal okay next one
00:08:44.080 Yeah, I don't...
00:08:53.560 Okay, it's like a funny meme, but I don't...
00:08:55.460 The thing that bothers me about this meme is that they raised his voice up.
00:08:58.360 It's like hat on hat.
00:08:59.900 It's joke on joke.
00:09:00.980 I don't...
00:09:01.300 What was the thing that he...
00:09:02.260 It'd be just funny if it was him saying it.
00:09:04.600 But they have to make it in this absolutely addled generation.
00:09:08.880 They just have to make everything even crazier, you know?
00:09:12.580 And so they raised the voice.
00:09:13.720 it made it less funny.
00:09:16.480 Okay, when's it come out?
00:09:20.080 When does the game come out?
00:09:22.020 Is anybody there?
00:09:23.400 Hello, Bueller? Anybody?
00:09:25.580 Anyone? Anyone?
00:09:27.340 Anyone? Anyone?
00:09:30.160 No.
00:09:31.520 Okay, well, whenever it comes out,
00:09:34.620 should I play it?
00:09:35.560 Are you going to play it? Should I play it?
00:09:37.040 Let me know in the comments. See you next time.
00:09:39.700 Feel free to respond
00:09:40.780 whenever you guys want, whenever you have time.
00:09:43.720 call on me take me he pressed the mute button instead of the microphone button that'll do it
00:09:56.020 that'll do it to you okay all right