The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles REACTS to Internet Brain Rot: Don't Laugh

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Starting point is 00:01:46 No, it is not a joke. Yeah. There's nothing I'm supposed to get. Look, I want to keep an open mind because I have an appreciation of Dadaism, for instance, like the Dada art movement, which was at its core just about absurdity. I think it's bad and maybe evil, but I kind of get it. It kind of titillates me, maybe in a way that I should feel guilty about. But so the brain rot, it's not that it's offensive jokes or something like that.

Starting point is 00:02:15 It's more that it's just absurdity. Sometimes absurdity is really delightful. And sometimes it's not. Like in a way that sometimes when the absurdity itself seems contrived, it doesn't work for me. So this is like, imagine if glitter dissolved into a kitten corn dog. Wouldn't that be so weird? You weird. Buddy, you're weird.

Starting point is 00:02:39 It's kind of like, you know, it's like a tryhard girl in her 20s. I'm a girl. No, you're not. Yeah, he's just a cool guy with long hair. She wants to impress the guys, and she's so quirky. You know, she's so weird. She's so special and quirky. It's kind of like that.

Starting point is 00:02:53 Okay, next one. I hope it's better. The Juxtest League of America. Chew. The protectors of a disproportionate amount of the world's wealth. Led by Juperman. $30. What do you need $20 for?

Starting point is 00:03:09 Spider Jew My Goyom senses are tingling That doesn't even make sense It'd be like my spidey sense It'd be about him, not about the other day Shabbatman I'm here to break you out Jeffrey To the Shabbatmobile

Starting point is 00:03:28 It's a bird, it's a plane No, it's a well-balanced Roth IRA Aquajoo Hypothetically speaking of course Is this just Ben? You and all your fish friends Hypothetically Swam into the Mariana a trench for me to search for some shekels.

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Starting point is 00:04:10 Yeah, okay. First of all, I hire a religious Jewish producer, and he turns out to be the most anti-Semitic person on the internet. Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, at least I've got this Jewish producer. Surely I can, no, he's more anti-Semitic than, like, all of Twitter combined. You know, it's a funny bit, the idea of, like, Juperman or the Jews, it's funny, it just went on too long. But so now I'm confused, because sometimes the brain rot is just absurdity, and sometimes it's, It's a joke. And the brain, it's not, the brain rat's not really doing it for me right now. Next one.

Starting point is 00:04:46 All right, that's a little, there was more of a logic to that one. Yeah, okay. It just wasn't even quite there. Because then at the end, you get this kind of electronic music. And then it's, it would have been funnier if it cut to some super hardcore edit. You know the edits. I'm like a hip, cool zoomer now. I know about edits.

Starting point is 00:05:19 Edits are this art form where it's, I would just get to like really kind of edgy stuff with hard electronic music. But it wasn't fast enough. Like if it cut to like a really cool giga-chat edit, it's a duck. It would have been funnier. There's a lot more to say first, though. Go to helixleep.com slash Knowles, KennaW-L-A-S. You want to perform at the highest level, then you cannot ignore sleep. The data are clear.

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Starting point is 00:06:59 Don't believe it. Wow, I like that one. Because it was very internet-y and Mimi, and you get the characters and the Wojacks or whatever. But there was a kind of a logic to it in that it's not only just an assemblage of random internet memes, but it kind of is a depiction of the internet. Wow. Which the internet itself always has to lead to,

Starting point is 00:07:28 greater extremes and esoterrorism, which typically just redounds to like anti-Jewish stuff. Jew, Jew. It's why all conspiracy theories always end up with something about the Jews, is because they're this like very small minority that's quite distinct. It's like, it is defined by being distinct. You know, like they define themselves of being distinct. Anyway, so you get this, that's like a nice depiction of the whole internet. And it's not really even weighing in on anything. It's just, it's memes for memes's sake. Meme, Gratia Mimes. Okay, next one. So, wait, he's Maduro?

Starting point is 00:08:45 Go faster. So the oil he finds is Venezuela? Huh. I like the Trump calling, accept, accept, and democracy in 3-2-1. That's, yeah, okay. It doesn't, it doesn't,

Starting point is 00:09:06 it didn't make me laugh, but it made me think. You smoke crack, don't you? You smoke crack, don't you? Yeah, yes, sir. You know what that does to you? Huh? No, sir.

Starting point is 00:09:18 It kills your brain cells, son. It kills your brain cells. Which is really not exactly what art should do. Okay, next one. I was once a look smacks, are the same as your father. He had the best jawline in the galaxy. And he edged a lot.

Starting point is 00:09:37 You're a Sigma male, aren't you? Are you capping, Littlebrum? I saw your jawline. Only sigmas can have such a mewing streak. Perhaps I maugged a sigma and phantom taxed him. I don't think so. No one can mong a signa. I hate this so much.

Starting point is 00:09:56 You're a new Jan Amkin. You're cooked. Oh, I hate it. I hate it. It's just so, there's no art to it. Also, what is two questions about it, edged?

Starting point is 00:10:13 Is that, I think we've covered this on a Gen Z vocab episode, is that that's like is that is that is that gooning is ed to edge to goon sort of I don't want to get into it

Starting point is 00:10:26 okay all right actually that's fine let's just leave it at that good call and what is phantom Jacob doesn't even know is it like gooning

Starting point is 00:10:36 I don't let's just back I can try him wheezing he thinks this is hilarious I don't all right phantom huh I hated

Starting point is 00:10:49 that one. I hated all of them. Now look, you came and recruited me, man. You disappoint me, brother. You disappoint me. The disappointment here is you. Me. Yes. Look, you know who I am. You know what I would do. The fact is you're screwing up. You are not taking care of business. This shit you're pulling now. You're just going plain loco.

Starting point is 00:11:11 And if I didn't have a spirit of charity in me, I would hate you too. The producers, not the audience. Though I've expressed hatred and contempt for you by making you sit through that with me. and for that I'm sorry. See you next time. Wow. What is Phantom?

The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles REACTS to Internet Brain Rot: Don't Laugh

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