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

This episode is a spirited and humorous debate between Michael Knowles and Tim Pool, focusing on historical civil wars and trivia.

1. The trivia covers a wide range of topics, from historical civil wars to modern pop culture references.
2. Michael Knowles and Tim Pool display a competitive spirit, each bringing unique insights and humor to the discussion.
3. The episode is rich in historical facts, particularly about the American Civil War and other global conflicts.
4. Misunderstandings and comic missteps add a layer of entertainment to the trivia.
5. Audience engagement is encouraged through interactive trivia questions and responses.

1: Introduction to the Trivia Face-off

A comedic setup introduces the theme of the episode, civil wars, and the participants. Both Knowles and Pool prepare for a series of challenging trivia questions about civil wars.

• Michael Knowles: "Thanks, Ben, for having me on my own show."

2: Trivia Round

The hosts engage in a series of trivia questions, ranging from the specifics of the American Civil War to references in pop culture, demonstrating both their knowledge and gaps.

• Tim Pool: "It was Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier."

3: Historical Missteps and Comic Relief

Inaccurate answers and humorous exchanges dominate this chapter, with Knowles and Pool often providing laughable and wildly off-base responses to historical questions.

• Michael Knowles: "I don't know, man. The Jacobins were awful people."

4: Conclusion and Reflections

The episode wraps up with reflections on the trivia, humorous acknowledgments of their mistakes, and a light-hearted concession speech by Knowles.

• Michael Knowles: "Hey, look, I'm honored by your beautiful reinterpretation of it. And I just got destroyed by facts and logic and Tim Pool."

1. Engage in regular learning and trivia to enhance historical knowledge.
2. Appreciate the complexities of historical events to gain a deeper understanding.
3. Use humor to make learning more engaging and memorable.
4. Participate in discussions to challenge and expand your perspectives.
5. Foster a competitive spirit to make educational activities more thrilling.

Get ready for an explosive episode of FACE-OFF, hosted by Michael Knowles, featuring Tim Pool, the host of Timcast IRL. They both talk about it, but who knows more about the topic of Civil War? Find out now!

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Tim Pool
I wrote 535.

Michael Knowles
I said 310.

Ben
It's four minutes and 56 seconds. So I highest without going over.

Michael Knowles
Yes. Yeah.

Tim Pool
Closer.

Ben
I believe Tim won that cause he was closest to it, so.

Tim Pool
Ooh, that's gotta be embarrassing.

Ben
Brace yourselves. The libs want to steal, kill and destroy. And the conservatives, they want these topless lunatics to either playfully jump up and down in a trampoline or get off their lawn. 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. Michael Knowles versed the current Guinness book record holder for the most time saying civil war in a single podcast. Tim Pool. So grab your lightest pair of loafers, pack an extra black beanie, and steal your neighbor's free range chicken. This is face off civil war.

Welcome, gentlemen, to face off.

Michael Knowles
Thanks, Ben, for having me on my own show.

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Ben
Thank you so much for that, Michael. We should be prepared at all times. Tim, what did you do to prepare.

Tim Pool
For this topic today in terms of trivia?

I guess just doing my show as I normally do and reading the news constantly.

Ben
You should be more than prepared then. All right, gentlemen, I'm gonna read these questions. You'll have 30 seconds to write down your answer. At the end, whoever loses has to do a 32nd commercial for why people should watch the other person's show. Are you ready?

Michael Knowles
I'm ready.

Ben
A lot on the line here. All right, question one. Who killed Howard and Maria Stark setting the stage for the Avengers civil war?

Michael Knowles
Give me a break. Are you freaking kidding me?

Tim Pool
Oh, really? Another question. Oh, that's. That one.

Ben
Oh, I was so looking forward to saying that one.

Michael Knowles
Are you kidding? That's so.

Tim Pool
That was easy.

Michael Knowles
All right, I think I got my answer.

Ben
All right, Michael, what do you have?

Michael Knowles
Dumbledore?

Ben
Close.

Tim Pool
It was Bucky Barnes, the winter Soldier.

Ben
That is correct.

Michael Knowles
Not in 1 million years. If I had infinite time to give my answer, would I have gotten to Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier.

Tim Pool
You want to ask me some Marvel questions? I'll answer those easily.

Michael Knowles
This is brutal.

Ben
Michael kept asking, is this american civil War? I'm like, civil war in general. That's what we're kind of gonna do today.

Michael Knowles
This is awful. The funniest thing you could do right now is only ask me questions about that Marvel movie. That would be deeply painful, but very funny.

Ben
Let's see if this one's painful. Number two, in which year did the American Civil War begin?

And whoever gets the closest will get the correct answer.

Tim, looking for help.

Michael Knowles
Good.

Tim Pool
You're wrong.

Ben
What do you got?

Tim Pool
You were wrong.

Michael Knowles
Michael, what did I say in 1860?

Ben
Yep. It's 1861.

Michael Knowles
Really?

Tim Pool
Yeah.

Michael Knowles
What? Hold on. So Fort Sumter is the beginning of the war.

Correct. 61 with 61. Oh, man. This is not a good start for me.

This is not a good start at all.

Ben
Oh, it's all right, Michael. There's a bonus question at the end, just in case.

Michael Knowles
Except Tim's smarter than me and he's not going to gamble his win on some stupid bonus question.

Tim Pool
Oh, I love poker.

Ben
Number three, during the french revolution, how many people were killed specifically by guillotine?

It's not the death's total. This is just what historians think the number was for guillotines.

Michael Knowles
Closest without going over. Or just closest?

Ben
Just closest.

You gotta get the person in there. You gotta, like, pull the thing up. You gotta release it. It's a whole process. Hold on. Let's wait for Michael to finish writing.

Michael Knowles
Okay.

Ben
All right, Tim, you go first this time.

Tim Pool
I have no idea. I put 3000.

Michael Knowles
All right, Michael, I said 90,000.

Ben
I I think Tim. Juan.

Between 15 and 17,000 people were beheaded at the guillotine during the french revolution.

Michael Knowles
That's. Yeah, but what about all the secret ones?

Ben
They didn't list 90,000. Michael. That's high.

Michael Knowles
I don't know, man. The Jacobins were awful people.

Tim Pool
Yeah, they killed themselves. It was hilarious.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Tim Pool
Not in a. Not in a funny ha ha way. Kind of more like a. Yeah. Like, after they got ropespeare was like, I'm gonna kill everybody. They're like, now we're gonna kill you. And he was like, well, you know, go buy the sword.

Ben
Apparently, just as many people were killed by this weird drowning technique, but they thought that was too inhumane and moved specifically to the guillotine.

Michael Knowles
This is why I always thought, for all of Henry VIII's problems, you can't say he was a bad husband because he ordered really, really fine blades for his wives. So painless.

Ben
Number four. According to Wikipedia, how many men died in the American civil War, according to Wikipedia?

Michael Knowles
I don't know.

Ben
All right, Michael.

Michael Knowles
600,000.

Ben
Tim?

Tim Pool
1.8 million.

Ben
Michael is closer.

Michael Knowles
Oh, thank goodness.

Ben
Between 627 hundred. 50,000 deaths.

Tim Pool
All right, you know what? I was.

I was thinking that it was that number for each side, and so I added them up.

Michael Knowles
Mm. Look, I'll take whatever I can get. What is it now? Three to one. Four to 1313 to one. Okay. All right. I'm still in it, I guess.

Ben
Coming back. Coming.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Ben
All right, number five. Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history starting in 1948? This is a, B, C, and d. Is it A, Colombia, B, Myanmar or Burma? C, Sudan. D, Yemen.

Tim Pool
I already wrote my answer down before I gave multiple.

Michael Knowles
I actually. Hold on. I think your answer.

Can you state the question again? Because I think the actual correct answer is not even listed there. But say it again.

Ben
Which country is home to the longest active civil war in modern history starting in 1948? Colombia. Myanmar. Sudan. Yemen.

They also say Myanmar is Burma, so you can use either one of those.

Tim Pool
Tim, I wrote that down before you even gave multiple choice. Burma.

Ben
Michael.

Michael Knowles
I said Sudan.

Ben
The correct answer is Burma.

Michael Knowles
Really? Ah. But what did he. He should have said Myanmar, though. So does he get.

I thought. I thought the answer was going to be Korea.

Ben
That's actually a good point.

Michael Knowles
Yeah. Shouldn't it be Korea?

It's still technically in a state of civil war.

Tim Pool
But that was in the fifties, wasn't it?

Ben
That would be, yeah. Cause this started.

Michael Knowles
Right, right. That's true. Okay. All right. Burma it is.

Ben
Yeah. You missed that movie, Michael, about Burma.

Michael Knowles
I think I might have. Yeah. Yeah. Darn. All right. Getting blown out.

Ben
Number six, during Caesar's civil war from 49 to 45 bc, what action did Julius Caesar take that most historians attribute to the start of the bloody conflict? All right, y'all are flying through these.

Tim Pool
Yeah, I think this one's easy, right?

Crossing the Rubicon.

Michael Knowles
He crossed the Rubicon.

Ben
He crossed the Rubicon. That is correct.

Michael Knowles
Just like Trump.

Every week there's something new. He crossed the Rubicon.

Tim Pool
I will add that his forces had already crossed earlier from a couple of days before he did. And so Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon is a misattribution.

Michael Knowles
And, yeah, at that point, it was old hat. I don't even know why they took notice of it.

Tim Pool
Yeah, his troops. Harry had troops on the other side. But then when he personally did it, I guess I was like, oh, look what he's doing.

Ben
All right, number seven, according to the Holocaust encyclopedia, how many people lost their lives in the spanish civil war?

Michael Knowles
Mm.

Why is that in the Holocaust encyclopedia?

Ben
I don't know. It's just where we got it.

Michael Knowles
From dirty, rotten, filthy commies, or, like, all people, including the good priests and nuns who the communists were killing and all people. Okay, gosh, I don't know.

Ben
We'll probably have to cut that out for you too, Michael.

Michael Knowles
Huh? What? No, because this is what the libs do. The libs, they try to make. They call the communists the republicans. And they tried to make Franco into, like, super duper mega Hitler, but the Soviet Union was trying to take over Iberia, and the commies were killing nuns and priests, and they were just, like, the worst people on earth. And then there's Franco, trying to cobble together this coalition of monarchists and some fascists and some right wingers to stop the Russkies from Iberia. But then somehow Franco's the bad guy. I don't know.

Ben
Civil wars are complicated.

Michael Knowles
They're complicated.

Ben
All right, Tim, what do you have?

Tim Pool
I put 3 million.

Michael Knowles
Put 500,000.

Ben
It is exactly 500,000.

Michael Knowles
Hey, all right.

Ben
I had no idea Knowles is flying.

Michael Knowles
Yeah, sort of my second correct answer.

Ben
All right, number eight, what event is commonly regarded as the starting point of the syrian civil war in 2011? Is it a, government corruption scandal, b, military coup, c, Arab Spring protest, d, assassination of a political leader.

Michael Knowles
All right, Michael, I said the arab spring, wasn't it? And then Assad allegedly gassed the people stem.

Tim Pool
Yeah, okay, yeah, I could see Arab Spring.

Ben
That is correct. Arab spring protest.

Michael Knowles
And then the entire western world said, you know, we have to take out Assad. And then he didn't go away, and then we all just, like, forgot about it. Do you remember, like, years. He's the worst guy ever. We have to. Ah, never mind. He's fine. He's back in the club.

Tim Pool
Well, Trump won, and that kind of changed things.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Ben
All right, number nine. Which american civil War battle had the most casualties?

Michael Knowles
Ooh.

Tim Pool
Oh, that's it? That's a tough question, actually.

Uh. Oof. I don't know if I like that question.

Michael Knowles
I don't know.

Ben
Seems like y'all know more about civil wars than our producers do here.

Tim Pool
Well, some. My. My question with that is, how do you define battle?

Cause.

Yeah, how do you define battle? Like, that's a tough one.

Ben
It's a pretty famous one.

Tim Pool
Yeah. I could give you two answers.

Michael Knowles
Oh, are you thinking.

Okay, I think I know what you're thinking of. That's a fair point.

I assume he means battle.

Tim Pool
Battle.

Ben
You talk about after the Winter soldier killed Tony Stark's parents or.

Michael Knowles
Yeah, right.

Ben
What's the timeline shortly thereafter?

Michael Knowles
I don't know. I have no idea. I'm throwing at a dartboard right here.

Ben
All right. Miss your dartboard, Michael?

Michael Knowles
Bull run. I don't know. First or second, Tim?

Tim Pool
Gettysburg.

Michael Knowles
Gettysburg? I thought it was, like, too obvious to say Gettysburg.

Tim Pool
The reason I was asking is because I'm pretty sure there are bloodier instances.

I'm like, sherman's march to the sea is not considered a battle, I guess, but, man, that was.

Ben
Yeah, I think it was. 50,000 people died in Gettysburg.

Michael Knowles
Wow.

Ben
Number ten, which senator had two sons who became major generals during the Civil War? One for the north and one for the south? Is it A, John C. Calhoun, B, Henry Clay, C, Stephen A. Douglas, or D, John J. Crittenden?

Michael Knowles
I'm saying d, b, two.

Tim Pool
I had no idea.

Ben
That's correct.

Michael Knowles
You're both right. It's because he's, like, the only one who doesn't have a really famous name.

Ben
Yeah, he was a us senator from Kentucky.

Tim Pool
Wow.

Ben
Number eleven.

The french revolution got so nuts, they even tried to establish a new way to tell time with their revolutionary calendar. How many days were there in the french republican calendar? 10 seconds.

All right, Michael, you got 1010.

Tim Pool
Put 300.

Ben
310 days in the calendar. The day was divided into just 10 hours. 10 hours total, not 10 hours am pm. And the hours consisted of 100 minutes and a minute consisted of 100 seconds.

Michael Knowles
Wait, so ten days were in the.

Ben
Year that was just like their calendar was, just by a week. It was like, going like that.

Michael Knowles
No, dude, that's not. You wouldn't say that's how many days are in the year.

Ben
I mean, that's just how it's described.

Michael Knowles
Repeat the question.

Ben
How many days were there in the french republican calendar?

Michael Knowles
Yeah. So how many days are there in our calendar?

Ben
Seven.

Michael Knowles
No, there are 365 days in our calendar.

We're striking that question.

Tim Pool
Come on. You meant how many distinct days are counted per week.

Michael Knowles
How many days in a week is what you were asking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That question. We're eliminating that question from the record. That's outrageous. We're competing.

Ben
Moderator, accurate, you know, listed.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Ben
All right, well, we'll call that null, and we'll move on to number twelve. Number twelve. In the movie Civil War, what was the name of the reporter played by Kirsten Dunst, who was killed at the end of the movie?

Michael Knowles
Oh, wait. Oh, the new movie.

Tim Pool
The movie wasn't good enough.

Ben
Y'all both watched it.

Michael Knowles
I was sitting next to you when I watched it. But you want to hear a secret? I wasn't paying very much attention.

Tim Pool
I want you to come up with. What's the most offensive name I can come up with.

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Tim Pool
One that's least likely to be right.

I have no idea.

Michael Knowles
I think I've got it.

Tim Pool
You probably got it. I don't know.

Michael Knowles
I think I've got it.

Ben
All right, Mike, what do you have?

Michael Knowles
Is it Shaniqua?

Tim Pool
I just put Sam.

Ben
Sam was closer, but neither one of you got it. Her name was Lee Smith.

Michael Knowles
I would never.

Tim Pool
Oh, that's right.

Michael Knowles
That one with the other Civil War movie, I would never have. I'm learning that I don't know anything about civil wars at all.

Tim Pool
But I really loved that movie because. And I mean this, honestly, it really shows the depravity of journalists. And I'm not exaggerating.

Ben
Yeah, yeah.

Tim Pool
The scene where it shows the guy. There's bombs going off, people are dying, and the main character guy looks to the young girl and he smiles and nods and she smiles and nods back. And it's just like I've personally experienced these people. They are psychotic.

Michael Knowles
Yeah, yeah. Even the final scene, that. Spoiler alert.

Tim Pool
Yep.

Michael Knowles
It's some stone cold psychos in the press corps.

Tim Pool
And I guarantee you that would happen.

Michael Knowles
Yep. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Tim Pool
Just people know she died.

Michael Knowles
Spoiler alert.

Tim Pool
Journalist crawls like I'm being a bit gross, like, exaggerated. He basically steps over her dead body to get the photo, to get the shot.

Michael Knowles
Yep.

Tim Pool
Like he renders no aid to her.

Michael Knowles
I.

Tim Pool
As she is going down, and he runs in because he doesn't care about her.

Michael Knowles
And the younger girl just snaps the pick of her fall.

Tim Pool
It's exactly what would happen. She takes a picture of her dad on the ground and then goes, okay, next story.

Ben
What is the current score? Eight five. It's pretty close.

Michael Knowles
Okay. All right. I guess maybe there's a chance for a convict. Probably not.

Ben
All right, number 13. In 1939, Hattie McDaniel was the first black woman to win an Academy Award for her performance in what civil War themed movie?

Michael Knowles
All right, Knowles Winter soldier. Captain Mor. No, I'm joking. They're gone with the wind.

Tim Pool
That's what I got.

Ben
That is correct. Gone with the wind.

Tim Pool
My handwriting is much worse than Michael's mammy.

Ben
She was great.

All right, number 14. In 1862, the US Congress authorized the first paper currency during the american civil War. What were these bills called? Y'all both started writing really quick. I guess that was an easy one. Tim, what do you have?

Tim Pool
Greenback.

Michael Knowles
Greenbacks.

Ben
Greenbacks. That's correct.

Michael Knowles
This isn't good. Cause I'm getting him now. But so is Tim, which doesn't help me.

Ben
Maybe you should have kept that french question. Because I think you were closer to the week, you know?

Michael Knowles
I know. Yeah. Yeah, I guess. I don't know. Was it. I think he would have won that one, too.

Yeah, he would have won that, too. This is not.

Ben
All right, this thrill seeking activity was used for. Used strategically during the civil war for reconnaissance and attacks. Max, what was this activity?

Michael Knowles
A thrill seeking activity.

Tim Pool
Yeah, I know this one.

Michael Knowles
It's a thrill seeking activity. All right, this answer is wrong, but at least it's kind of funny.

Ben
The photos of this are actually pretty funny. All right, what do you got, Tim?

Tim Pool
Hot air balloons.

Michael Knowles
Hot air balloons? Oh, no, no, no. It's obviously bungee jumping.

Ben
It is hot air balloons. No, there's these really funny photos you can see during the Civil War that you see.

Michael Knowles
Dude, you've never seen General Lee just tied by his ankle, diving off a cliff.

Tim Pool
I do want to point out, I live.

I live next to Harper's ferry and the John Brown Museum. So when you walk down the street, literally anywhere you go, they have all of these plaques everywhere. There's cannons, there's plaques. You go out for coffee, and there's a plaque being like, this is where this happened. This is where that happened. You drive down to Winchester and you're hanging out at Lee's compound. So the hot air balloon was kind of easy. I'm like, they got pictures of that everywhere.

Michael Knowles
But, dude, did you see all the plaques to the bungee jumping? Cause that must have confused you.

Ben
Yeah, that would have been so epic.

Tim Pool
They used standard rope and shattered their spines when they did it, but, you know, got the job done.

Ben
All right. The Taiping rebellion, which broke out in 1850, would come to be the bloodiest civil war in human history. How many lives do historians estimate were lost?

You don't hear about this one as much.

Michael Knowles
Oh. I actually live next to a monument for the Taiping rebellion. So it's sort of like Tim, but there's a lot more bungee jumping, though. That's what confused me.

Ben
It has the number just plaque there, too. All right, what do you have?

Michael Knowles
One and a half million.

Tim Pool
I put 3 million.

Ben
The correct answer is 30 million.

Michael Knowles
Oh, so I was I closer. You were, according to the french revolutionary calculation. Was I?

Tim Pool
Maybe.

Ben
If you use that.

All right, here we go. This famous author traveled to Spain to report on the spanish civil war and stayed to join the republican militia.

Tim Pool
Oh, I knew this.

I can't remember.

Michael Knowles
Wait, hold on. You said american author or english author?

Ben
Famous author.

Michael Knowles
Famous author. Oh.

Tim Pool
Tip of my tongue. I can't get it. I can't think. I know it. I was just reading about this a couple months ago.

Ben
All right, Tim, what do you have?

Tim Pool
I put Michael Knowles, but I know he got it.

Michael Knowles
I would have been. I would have been. Yeah, I wouldn't have been fighting for the Republicans, that's for sure.

Is that Orwell?

Ben
That is correct.

Michael Knowles
Orwell.

Ben
Orwell.

Tim Pool
That's good. Oh, man.

Michael Knowles
I almost faked myself out and wrote Hemingway confusing it with the world War one.

Tim Pool
But that was. I couldn't think of it. I was just reading about this, actually, not that long ago. It was, like, tip of my tongue. I couldn't get it.

Michael Knowles
And was that question worth 15 points? Because then it might be a tie game.

Ben
Well, this one's gonna be easy for you, so you can just stage your comeback now.

Michael Knowles
Okay, good.

Ben
In Game of Thrones, the dance of Dragons is a royal war of succession and civil war in the seven kingdoms of Westeros fought between two rival factions of the House Targaryen. What were the names of these two rival factions? Michael?

Tim Pool
So easy, I don't even know what to write.

Michael Knowles
Yeah, this one's pretty obvious.

Ben
Have you guys caught up on the new season?

Michael Knowles
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm still catching up on the first season. I'm gonna put a second guess here, too.

Ben
10 seconds.

Tim Pool
All right, I got it.

Ben
All right, Michael, what do you have?

Michael Knowles
The obvious answer is the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.

But if that answer doesn't do it for you, I would say the houses of Lancaster and York.

Tim Pool
Well, I drew a cat.

Ben
I think Michael was closer, technically, so he gets an advocate. It's the blacks and the greenshouse.

Tim Pool
Oh, yeah.

Michael Knowles
It's the blacks and the greens.

Ben
Those are the two rival factions of House Targaryen.

Tim Pool
Huh.

Michael Knowles
That's so lame. I would have expected some ornate sort of pseudo medieval name like Guelph and Ghibelline, which is not. That's actually a medieval name.

Ben
Yeah, Game of Thrones is not exactly lord of the rings. Okay, not quite there.

Michael Knowles
Blacks and the greens.

Tim Pool
Blacks.

Michael Knowles
Are we even allowed to say that anymore?

The faction of color. They're both factions of color, I guess.

Ben
All right, what's the score?

Michael Knowles
1514.

Ben
The score currently is 811, Tim Pool. However, there is a chance for the bonus question to go double or nothing. Go all in and just see what happens. I know you're a gambling man, Tim, so do you want to wager that?

Michael Knowles
Yeah. What say you, Tim?

Tim Pool
Is this the last question?

Ben
This is the last question, yeah, I'll wager everything.

Michael Knowles
Let's go, baby. Let's go, baby. All right. I'm so glad that after I described how much I regretted doing this with Kyoraic, that you're doing the same thing, even though you probably didn't get any.

Tim Pool
Right.

Ben
This is a very hard one. It's also going to be whoever gets closest. All right?

Tim Pool
All right.

Ben
In 1967, the song together again, the hit single from the first Smokey Mike and the God King album, was released. However, that is not the only version of this classic. Notably the live version recorded later by Smokey Mike and the God King at the historic Reimann Auditorium. And the modern cover done by Tim Cass, which resurrected the band after Ian was caught mercilessly beating that child.

What was the total runtime of the original together again single?

Michael Knowles
He's gonna freaking know it better than I did. Cause he worked on the COVID All.

Ben
Three versions are different times.

Michael Knowles
So wait, so you're saying the original.

Ben
The original, not the live version at the Reiman?

Michael Knowles
The live version is the original.

Ben
No, but it's the release.

Michael Knowles
Okay, sure.

Ben
The performance was much longer than the original single.

Michael Knowles
Yeah. Okay. Okay.

Tim Pool
Write down ten minutes, then I can win?

Michael Knowles
Yeah.

Are we doing it in french time or English?

Tim Pool
They call it time now.

Michael Knowles
Oh, man, there's so much riding on this.

And I partially wrote the song.

Ben
All right, Tim, do you have yours?

Tim Pool
I wrote 535.

Probably wrong.

Michael Knowles
I said 310.

Ben
It's four minutes and 56 seconds. So I highest without going over.

Michael Knowles
Yes. Yeah.

Tim Pool
Closer.

Ben
I believe Tim won that. Cause it was closest to it, so.

Tim Pool
Wrong song, Michael. Ooh, that's gotta be embarrassing.

Ben
Michael. Two in a row.

Yeah. Four minutes and 56 seconds.

Michael Knowles
That was. You're telling me the one on Spotify is almost five. We are the most self indulgent people on the face of the earth. How long was I.

Tim Pool
Five minutes. And I was like, I didn't know if it was like, low five or high five. And I was like, I'll just put five and a half.

Michael Knowles
Wow.

Ben
Wow. Well, and the Timcast version was shorter than that, obviously. It was a little more upbeat.

Michael Knowles
It's a little faster in my mind. The timcast, beautiful synthwave eighties version was longer, actually, than the original. Wow.

Tim Pool
You know, what I will say is the reason I probably got closer, michael, is because I'm a huge fan and I actually, that song's in our playlist, so it comes on quite a bit.

Michael Knowles
Hey, look, I'm honored. I'm honored by your beautiful reinterpretation of it. And I just got destroyed by facts and logic and temple.

So I do a pitch for the show.

Ben
Yep, we'll put 30 seconds on the clock. And, Micah, would you please tell everyone why they should tune in to the Tim cast irl?

Michael Knowles
Many, many reasons.

Tim himself obviously possesses a great deal of knowledge, but far more than I, apparently, at least on the topic of civil war and Marvel movies and my own musical works.

Also, because the co hosts and guests on Tim's show are really terrific, eccentric, delightful people. I'm thinking of Ian. I'm thinking of many other people on the show.

But the main reason that Tim's show is so great is that it made my book speechless. Controlling words, controlling minds hit number one on the charts. So for that reason alone, you should tune in and support Tim cast in all its various forms and through all its various media.

Ben
That was lovely.

Tim Pool
Wow.

Michael Knowles
Tim, I'm not wearing a hat. If I were, my hat would be off to you. That was painful for me, but very impressive.

Tim Pool
It's been fun. I was surprised I got as many as I did.

Michael Knowles
Yeah. 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.

Ben
Well, there you have it. All right, if you haven't already, go follow Tim Pool on X and subscribe to Timcast IRL on YouTube and wherever you listen to podcasts. 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.

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