The Michael Knowles Show - Michael Knowles Vs. Mary Morgan: Test Your Pop Culture IQ | FACE-OFF

Episode Date: October 18, 2025

Michael Knowles takes on Mary Morgan in a lightning-fast showdown packed with viral trivia, celebrity scandals, movie quotes, and music madness. From Hollywood gossip to internet memes, no topic is too wild for this battle of wit and charm. Who will reign supreme in the ultimate pop culture showdown—Mary’s Gen Z savvy or Michael’s old-school wisdom? Find out now in FACE-OFF: Mary Morgan POP CULTURE Showdown! - - - Today's Sponsor: Hallow - Put your relationship with God first. Head over to https://hallow.com/knowles for three months free today! - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It is C, your hands, your team, your vibe. Fate of Ophelia lyrics. Is Sabrina Carpenter secretly pushing trad values through her practically new music videos? Are Labubu is actually pocket demons? I don't know. I'm just a regular suburban dad who thought ice spice was a winter candle. But you know who might have the answer to these pop culture defining mysteries? Michael Knowles and Mary Morgan.

One of them hosts pop culture crisis, which has pop culture in the title. The other thinks pop culture peaked when Bach dropped his six concieritos. Here's how it works. Concieritos? Concieritos? Concieritos? Was he a Mexican? Oh, man, this is off to a bad start.

Sorry, keep going, Mr. Davies. Here's how it works, right? Well, I'll read a question. Each host has 30 seconds to scribble down their answers. The loser, well, they'll have to deliver a glowing 30-second ad for the winner and publicly declare them the real Delulu, Gigga, Chad, Sigma Rizzler, main character, Maven, a pop culture. This is face-off pop culture. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Well, it's great to be here, Mr. Davies.

Thank you for having me on my own show. Thank you. My answer for who our guests will be today is Mary Morgan. Oh, I hate that. Is that what you mean? That's good. What are you talking about? That looks horrible. That's very pretty pretty nice.

Erase that immediately. What? Hold on. That's nice. Mr. Davies, is that? That is going to be the most value NFT of 2025. Most of these questions will focus on 2025 pop culture, but maybe there'll be some curveballs.

We'll see. Are you all ready for the first question? I'm ready. All right. I think so. One. What is the price of the most expensive Laboo Boo Boo doll ever sold? This is.

closest without going over. Closest without going over. Of the Lububu doll, they're like Lulu lemons, I hear. I can't spoil it. I'm going to say... Five seconds? All right, Nol's be a gentleman.

What do you got? $1.5 million? I said $1,400. Well, one of them was made of gold. They made a gold to be pretty expensive. No, they did not make a gold. I don't know what to be. The dollar sign, because it depends on the currency, how much this means it's worth.

Hold on. You can't pick any currency. You can't simultaneously answer yuan, rupees, and dollars. Pick a currency. Pick a currency. Well, this is not going very well because neither one of you were close at all. The correct answer is $170,000. Let's go! Let's go, babe. Because it's close without going over. Yes, close by going over. So if you let Mary Morgan get away with yen, then she actually would be roubles or something. And then she would win. Wow.

Oh, let's go. How much was it? $170,000. It was a life-size Labubu. Did they make one out of gold, though? What does that mean? They're not alive. Life-size.

Like, depending on how tall you are, it's kind of like rupees. But is it like Mary Morgan life size or is it like, you know, David Cohn life size? Great question. Those are very different lives. You know another great question. Yes. Okay. The next one.

All right. Sabrina Carpenter's new album, Man's Best Friend was released in August of 2025. With the album cover going viral, leaving everyone, and basically every man, thinking the same thing. How tall is Sabrina Carpenter? Close without going over. How tall is Sabrina? Yeah. I know this one. It's in her song.

Whoa. Not looking good, Michael. She's saying it. It's in her lyrics. I wonder if she lied. Or if the internet lied. We'll see. All right. What do you have? I'm going to get it wrong. Yeah, ladies first. Okay. This is the lyric. Five feet, to be exact.

Michael. She leaves quite the impression. So I almost put five feet to be exact, but it's closest for that going over, and I did four foot 11. It is five feet exactly. Hey. That was against my better judgment. But in those huge, like, platform heels that she wears, she's like maybe your height, Michael. Yeah.

She might be. That she, is she petite in her videos? I've never really noticed her relative to other men. It's really hard to tell the movie video. In her videos, like, compared to the men? Yeah, like, I see her, I've watched two of her videos now, I think at least. And she doesn't, five feet is very short.

She doesn't seem that short. Maybe the guys are all in Lao Pachino's, I don't know. It's the perspective thing. They probably have her standing on, you know, a milk crate or something. That's show business. And Michael, when he analyzes her music video, he's always thinking about the height. Always, all the time. How tell are you, Mary Morgan?

I'm 5-1, to be exact. Powering. Five foot one flat. Why didn't I get it? I'm kicking. I kind of maug her. You moog her. You moog her.

All right, number three. As we know, 2024 was the Hoc-toa summer. Which viral phrase dominated 2025? Is it A, Bones Day, no Bones Day. It's giving. Brain-Rot summer, muse summer. Muse, as in the muses?

None of these. the word I just said. Muses. As in the mues, it's muse now. None of these are the correct answer. Literally none of these are the correct answer. I have my answer. Mary Morgan, you got to get on the TikTok and figure out what all the kids are twitching about. You know.

There was no summer anything this summer. There is no anything summer. My good friend Google says otherwise. I don't know where any of this comes from. Yeah. Maybe you didn't. Mary Morgan, maybe. you didn't get invited. Maybe only missed, I certainly didn't get invited. Maybe it was only Mr.

David. I've heard that like I'm officially unk now because I was alive during 9-11. That makes you unc. Wow. It's not if you remember 9-11 now. It's just if you were alive during 9-11. I was like 28 during 9-11. No, I was 11 actually. I was 11 really. Same. All right, what do you have? I just put brain rot summer because I don't I don't know what other term it could have been. I put six, seven as a footnote. What did Michael write in cursive? What did that? I wrote, it's giving.

It's giving. Wow. It ages you, Michael, just like your cursive. It's actually brain rot summer, which is why Jacob's having the best summer of his life. What is the six seven? That's not real. Well, don't get into the six seven because we may. We may get into that later.

Oh, now I'm keeping that in my mind. Let's go. All right. There was no brain rot summer, though. Have you been around Professor Jacob? Green Rots number. All right. Next up, the new Grand Theft Auto, number six, takes place in a fictional U.S. state.

Which real state is it based on? And I mean, maybe they'll come out this year. No. Probably not. Michael may actually play this one. This one is pretty, this one is easy, right? You're going to draw it, too? He's going to quickly erase it.

What's going on there? I feel like I can see it. So I'm cheating by looking at your board. Can you see what I'm writing? Vaguely, yeah. But there's like more, there's more flourish than that. I wasn't really creative with mine. I'm ready.

Oh, yeah. I said California. And that's Gavin Newsom. That's your genuine answer? Yeah. Oh. Oh, no. No, it's Florida.

It's my city. No, I was thinking of San Andres. Oh. I thought it was obvious. Michael, my futures tied to you. The fact that you missed that, it was so brutal. I knew it was a reboot of one of the two, and it was the only one that I ever played was Vice City,

but I just confused it because San Andres was the L.A.1. Wow. We reviewed the trailer on your show. We talked about it. I had so much Tylenol this morning. I'm sorry. I just over there's like Tylenol. That's what do you think of my Gavin Newsom?

I'm not even a gamer, and I knew. Yeah, I'm really into drawing. Your Gavin Newsom. Is it okay? I don't know. He's a little bit more vivacious than the real Gavin Newsom. Than that is American psycho-cadver. Yeah, okay.

Yeah. All right. All right. Next up, how many major tabloid-level relationships has Taylor Swift been in since entering public life in 2008? This is closest without going over. This is like high school mystery boyfriends or whatever. This is like official celebrity, you know, track relationship.

Could have had a song written about it. since 2008. Pluses for that going over. I think I know. It's because she's a witch. Do I have to not go over? Confirmed. Right.

You have to not go over. But you can get it exactly like your five foot. That one's going to want to be. Okay. I'm nervous. I got to get my board off camera. We got to frame this better next time. You see in my numbers.

Well, it's like blurry. It's fine. It's 18. Oh. I think you went way over. I put 13. All right. Y'all both collectively lose because it was 12.

Damn it. I knew it was 12. I knew it. I knew it. She's a witch. I think that her 13 obsession, like she's obsessed with the number 13. It has to be the 13th guy that she married. So maybe that means she'll break up with Travis.

I don't know. I thought that I could be a witch. I thought I could force the reality to bend to my will by confidently saying 18. But I am not a witch. Like that lady in Delaware, I'm not a witch. All right, what's the score currently? This is bad. Asking control room.

3-1, Mary. All right. This is when the comeback starts right here. Wow. This is great. I feel good about this because I learned on yes or no that I'm not competitive enough. and I'm really bad at following rules. Oh, Michael, this is your shot here. Get that bot question.

Let's go, baby. Here we go. Which social content format rose the most in popularity in 2025? Was it long-form live streams? 30-second TikTok duets. Vertical shorts under 15 seconds. Full-screen VR videos. Which of those four?

Which was the most popular? Which rose the most in popularity? So it's like about, it's acceleration, not velocity, right? the growth. Where's the energy at? You got to be a hot pop culture maven like me to know, but it's obvious. It's obvious. You ready? Is it? All right. I did long form live stream. Not even close. 15 seconds. The correct answer, which is... I have too much faith in humanity. Which is bad for both of our shows. It's the vertical shorts under 15 seconds. Yeah! Yeah! You're right, though. It is bad for the shows. But at least take it a point.

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I have a pretty good guess. There's been some good ones. There was like Birdbox and a few others like that, but this crushed it. I don't, I watched like one television show a year, possibly, too. The biggest Netflix movie ever, say. Okay, I think I have it. I think, okay, I've got it. That was a long title. Listen, it's the biggest movie ever.

All right, what do you have? Mary Morgan. Knives out? Hmm. I said Tyler Perry. presents Big Medea's House 7? The correct answer is K-pop demon hunters. Ah, shoot, I knew that.

Ah, I hate that. It got 541 million views in 28 days, which is wild. That was for 2025. I was just thinking, like, the most popular of all time. This is still, this is the most popular of all time. Because also Tyler Perry's Big Medea's H7 came out in 2022. Wow. So I also, I guess, was thinking about it that way.

Brutal. That's frustrating. That's crazy. I also, I need to point out, I think Mary Morgan is very delayed here, and I think that's giving her a big advantage. I think her stream is delayed, and it's giving her an advantage. I'm watching you put up your answer while I'm still writing mine. It's outrageous. Cats out of the bag here.

Speaking of views, how many Taylor Swift music videos currently have over one billion views on YouTube? Closest without going over. Just for reference, you know, the true pop star. Sabrina Carpenter doesn't have a single one over a billion yet, but your girl Taylor's got a couple. Ha-ha. She has a couple. I don't even know how many, I don't know how many music videos Taylor Swift has.

He just gave us the answer. She said, he said, she has a couple. A couple is two. So did you just said it's two? Close is not going over, Michael. All right. Shoot your shot. All right.

It's like, is he lying? Is he a reliable narrator? Is he a reliable moderator? Yeah, I think he's trying to lead us away from him. Because he's going to be like, it's going to be like 10. And he's going to be like, no, like a couple just means more than one or whatever. I'm like not what it means. It means two.

But I don't know, maybe. Or is it like a double triple reverse uno card? I'm just trying to keep it competitive with this delay. I don't know. I got to throw Mary Morgan off the scent with this delay. I know the delay. That's messing me up too. She might have, with the delay, she might have traveled into the future.

looked it up on YouTube, come back and then written down the number. I'm thinking about it now and I'm thinking bad blood for sure has a billion views. Blank space for sure has at least a billion views. Maybe look what you made me do. I think that would have a billion views. Yeah, dancing in the moonlight probably has like a trillion views. Her best one hasn't quite cracked a million. It's at 950 million.

Tootie Fruity has at least a quadrillion views. I don't really know any Taylor Swift songs. I've heard of bad blood. Okay, I say two. I stick by two. Two. I said four. I don't know why.

I'm not confident in it, but. The correct answer is five. Mary Morgan pulls ahead more. Uh-huh. Yay. She actually has two. It feels good to be good at something. There's two over 3.5 billion, which is the blank space and blank space and shake it off.

You said she had a couple over a billion. I don't know. I couldn't just say like, oh, she has one. I'd be like, you know, a couple, a few, like, whatever. A couple and a few are different. You said a couple. A few's three, a couple. You didn't say a thruple.

How many of the views are bots? Like, a lot of the YouTube views are bots anyway. I don't know. Great question. You know what else is a great question? Number nine. Someone needs to turn the air on because it's heating up and it's about to get serious. Because I can tell that Mary Morgan wants to choke Michael out with his new Mayflower silk ties available now. And I know what Michael's feeling. Michael's feeling a little six, seven, if you know what I mean.

What did I just mean? Feeling a little six seven, yeah. I was kind of hoping six seven would be the answer to one later on and I could just use my. If Michael's thinking 6-7, what is he thinking? Like how he goes in the ad read. Things are heating up. Mary Morgan's beating me by like 100 points. It's heating up, though. But you can pull ahead here.

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Wait. It's a couple, Michael. Now you're giving us hints. Yeah. I forget the name of the basketball player, but I know the name of where it comes from. Do you know what 420 means? Apparently it means marijuana. I think by the end of this, I'm going to be the pop culture maven.

I'm just going to win the award. 420 is also Hitler's birthday. Did you know that? I'm just trying to prove I know something about pop culture. I have an okaying. answer. It's like part of the answer. You know what's even better than okay? Michael Knowles's Mayflower silk cigar is available on dw shop.com. Silk cigars he says. He's selling my silk cigars. This is a disaster. This is a complete shonda. I say it means moderately acceptable.

Like it's not like it's, you know, on a scale of one to ten. It's like six, seven. Scrilla. What's the scrylla? I think this is the name of the rapper. I think this is the name of the rapper that made the song that was used to like over the videos of the basketball player that you mentioned then you are that that that is correct and that is kind of the origin of the term but that's not what the term means what's it mean it does it mean moderately acceptable wait i think i know what it means now it means nothing it's just like dada it's like nothing it's uh-h-h-h-s like six-seven i love dada i got to kick it wow yeah that's kind of the point is scrylla is scrylla like skillette I know skillet.

They're a Christian bad. I've never listened to Scrilla. I've listened to Scrillex. Is he allowed to say screller? But like we have to say scryler. That might be offensive. I'm asking. I don't know.

All right. Next question. No more of the S word. Yeah, before we get knocked off YouTube. What does Taylor Swift pledge allegiance to in her new song, The Fate of Ophelia? And for Michael, if you don't know, Ophelia, is a, it unpopular. character in a very popular play. Oh, thanks for informing me.

Yeah, yeah. He doesn't know that. No. Can we give multiple answers? Yeah, I'll give you A, B, C, and D. So the first option is she pledged allegiance to the land, the sea, and the sky. B, your pants, your feels, my guy. C, your hands, your team, your vibe.

D. The American flag. This is what Ophelia pledges allegiance to? This is what Taylor pledges legions to her song, The Fate of a Featim. I watched your reaction to the music video. You should know this. I should, I know, but I I forgot.

It's been like two days since I saw it. Can you read the answers again? Can you read the answers again? I'm honored. Is it the land, the sea, and the sky? Your pants, your feels, my guy. Your hands, your team, your vibe. Or the American flag?

It should be the American flag is what it should be. It's not. She hates America. Can I move the purr to a different answer? You can. Thank you. I will allow it. The American flag.

I can't get the trail, man. Thanks. I hate it. You got to be a little bit Mediterranean for that, you know? I was trying to give Michael hints with that because he does it on all the shows now, just to make people uncomfortable. All right. This is, it's getting weird, man.

It's getting weird. Weird emphasis. I think it's the delay. Yeah. I put C because I know my Taylor Swift. It's A. It's A. It's A off rate.

It is. It is not A. And you were getting completely destroyed. It is C. Your hands. No. She does. Travis Kelsey.

Your team, your vibe, your hands. Hold down. Hold down. I'm pulling up the lyrics. What's that song called Ophelia? I'm not even a Swifty. Like, I'm kind of a hater, but I'm a studied hater. Fate of Ophelia lyrics.

The play is called Hamlet. And out of the guy here shakes you wrote it. The, fate of Ophelia lyrics. came out. Keep it 100 on the land, the sea, the sky, pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes. I was so confident.

She is a Swifty. That's so cringy. Why did the Chiefs get a shout out on the song? What do they have to do with anything? Is that a Chiefs thing? She's talking about his team. Yeah, Travis Kelsey. Yeah. Team. Oh, man. I.

Yeah. They have a losing record since you released. the song, though. Coincidence? They didn't ask to be involved in this. No. All right, number 11. Which actress is rumored to be shifting towards maximalist glam in 2025? Is it A, Zendaya, B, Florence Pugh, C, Sabrina Carpenter, D, Emma Stone. Is Sabrina Carpenter an actress? Yes, she started out as an actress on Disney.

Interesting. Name that show. For a bonus point. Hannah Montana. I can do it. It's girl means world, right? It's not Hannah Montana. It's not Hannah Montana. Bluey.

Was it bluey? Who's the first one you said? Zendaya? Florence Pugh. No, it's Zendaya. It's how it's pronounced. Zendaya? Lawrence Pue.

He said maximalist glam. You all are both really in the fashion. So I figured this would be a real nail biteer here. Yeah, it's not going to be Hermione. She's like gone very feminist, right? So it's going to be, I don't know. She wasn't on the list.

Maximilist. I don't know what that is. Hermione's on the list, right? Didn't you say Emma Watson? Yeah. No, he said Emma Stone, right? Oh, yeah, Emma Stone. Oh, Emma Stone.

Yeah. Oh, well, Emma Stone, I don't know. I'm... Hmm. Is that a smiley face? This has been the most educational piece of content that Michael Knowles has produced in 2025. Without question.

We're learning so much. Hold on. It's a little. It's a poor. it. Sabrina Carpenter. It's Sabrina Carpenter. Let's go.

Let's go. It's not Emma Stone. I don't know. I was going off of Emma Stone's Vogue cover. She was in the cover of the September issue for Vogue. She's very pretty. She's very beautiful, but no, she's not

glam. We need my girl Sabrina for the glam. Yeah. I guess not. Yeah. Black portrait could have been anybody. That could have been Zendaya, or Zendaya as Mr. D. That could have been me.

That could have, that could have, I should have saved yours. I should have had a separate board. Speaking of women, celebrities, which female celebrity has the most husbands? A, Drew Barrymore, B, Kim Kardashian, C, Scarlethawndt, D, Jennifer Lopez. Which celebrity has had the most husband? J-Lo has had a lot of engagements, but I don't remember how many of them actually culminated in a marriage. Hmm.

We'll do closest without going over for this. We're doing a portrait again? Wait. No, I'm just kidding. Closest? Yeah. Michael Strazzell. Yeah, okay.

All right. What do you have, Mary? I put J-Lo. I said Hallie Berry. She's been engaged like seven times, right? You put Halliberry. Halliberry. It's Halliberry.

It's uncanny. She had that short haircut for a while. Remember when she was kissing the guy from the pianist. Remember? Adrian Brod? You don't remember that? Yeah. Anyway, that's why I did the short here. The correct answer is J-Lo, at four,

all the rest have been married three times. I really know my stuff. I need to fact-check. But I just thought if you've been engaged like seven times like J-Lo, at least some of them actually ended in a marriage. I wonder how many times, yeah, she's been engaged, but. Hallie Berry.

It's a lot. Hallie Barry was married to David Justice. I remember that. New York Yankee. Yeah, Eric Beney and Olivier Martinez. But she had other partners, Gabriel Aubrey and Van Hunt. But they didn't get married. Kim kind of takes the, she takes the prize for the shortest marriage, though.

Remember? Yeah, it was a basketball player. Chris Humphreys, yeah. All right. Next question. Bad Bunny. was just announced at the Super Bowl halftime show performer, which of the following is one of his songs? Is it A, signoridi, B, D. D. C. Mammariti, or D. Margariti.

This is, like, remember in the 2000s when rappers would be like, like, shizzle, whatever, that's what it sounds like, but the Mexican version. Okay, so, let's see. One of these is real. English only, U.S. Day. Yeah. One of these is real, and one of these has one point million views on YouTube. I definitely can't spell the one that I'm going to put as my answer. So I think it's the most realistic. Signoridi, Dakiti,

Mamassiti, Margariti. Which one of those is real? I got it. What do you got? Takate. It's Takate. I don't remember which one that was, but I put B. You're both correct. Yeah, let's go.

Was it the same one? Okay. It sounded the hardest to smell and pronounce, so that was my guess. Margueritey was too... I don't listen to Bad Bunny. Yeah, no. Number 14, what percentage of adults have had at least one romantic or intimate relationship with an AI system closest without going over when? And we're defining adult as 18 plus? Yes.

This is pop culture. Okay. It's modern relationships. They say they have. Have or that they would? Have. These have already occurred, apparently. At least one romantic or intimate relationship with an AI system.

Like they do weird porn stuff with it? Couldn't tell you. You couldn't tell me? Yeah, all right. Yeah, I don't know. Closest without going over. Remember. The guilty fleeth when none pursueth, Mr. Davies.

It's like $1.5 million. Wait, are you looking for a percent? or a number? A percent. Just a couple of percent. Just a couple of percent. Don't worry. Six, seven.

Six, seven, couple percent. All right. I have a doomer answer. It's quite high. Michael, yeah. And this is a doomer answer for me. I would say one percent of American adults, which is a shocking number of people.

Apparently, Mary Morgan. Because. Do you think people are freaks? I think, apparently you're underestiming yourself. I think you must be like a basket of roses because the real doomer answer is 28%. 28%. That's fake.

No. Multiple articles we're talking about it. We were looking up this morning. No. I mean, whatever. You figure, okay, so it's guys. How many guys watch porn? It's got adult guys got to be 80% or something,

at least 70%. And then if the idea is this is just like new porn, so then you're like 70% of guys. But that's still, yeah, that takes you to like 30% of the country. Wow. Crazy. Yeah.

And I saw a different survey that said something like 45% responded that they would have a relationship with some sort of AI system. And I'm guessing about like half of them would actually do it if the opportunity arose. Yeah. This is our future. I've long thought once they're not going to create new humans. Well, yeah, that's true. I always thought once they figure out AI and robots and then porn immediately affects any new technology, so they'll basically make the AI porn robot sex slaves, at that point the human race will go extinct because there'll be no more children.

Yeah, and it's interesting that Elon Musk is coveting all the time about the birth rate decline and yet he is encouraging men to take up AI girlfriends with GROC. Yeah. That's quite ironic. Yeah. He doesn't make them kind of anime and weird, though. Maybe he's just trying to, like, throw them off. Yeah. They're weirdly sexy, though.

That makes me worse. Speaking of sexy, Olivia Rodrigo had beef with an artist over their shared ex-Joshua Bassett. Who was this person? Is it Sabrina Carpenter, Selena Gomez, Arianna Grande, or Doja Cat? Who also dated this guy? Joshua Bassett. I know this one It's the lore

It's the lore It's the lore In It's the lore in one of Olivia's songs That was viral on TikTok I hated it What's nice is we're not even We're not even going to have to read Michael's

We'll just know it When he reveals this This is going to be so uncanny You want to have to say We're getting a Hold on Are we getting a torso this time? Well, you maybe

Don't Hold on I'm scared Yeah, okay No, all right, there we go. And, yeah, is Doja cat. No, that would be like predatory. It was Sabrina.

It is Sabrina. Sabrina. Do you ever see in Tom and Jerry? In Tom and Jerry, this was from like the 60s. I was playing them for my kids. They have this like really sexy cat, this like a hot cat. You know the one that's like, mm-mm. And anyway, that's what I picture, doger.

had to be. Yeah, and she has like red lipstick on and everything. Yeah. Um, yeah, Olivia's song says, like, you're probably with that blonde girl and she's talking about Sabrina. Wow. But it was all over a guy that looks 12 anyway. Mm. How old is Sabrina? No offense to Joshua Bassett. I'm sure he's a nice guy. Sabrina? I think Sabrina is 25. Okay. Now. Not then. How old's Doja Cat? A little older than Olivia Rodrigo. How old's Doja Cat? She's the older woman.

Doja Cat? Let me guess. I think that Doja Cat is in her 30s. I could be wrong. So do you know that would make her 210 years old if she were Doja Dog? In dog nurse.

Is that math correct? Did you just like nail that? I think so. I have no idea. I'm not going to fact check you on that. Thank you. Michael, this is almost as doomer as the AI relationship question, but you are losing 9-4 to Mary Morgan right now.

6-7 is what that is. There's still time to come back. All right, here we go. Next up, a popular internet theory claims which male music artist is married to a woman who stocked him since childhood based on viral photos of her appearing in the background of his life for years. Is it A, Kid, Leroy, B, Justin Bieber, C. Bryson Tiller. D.

High Dalla sign. Michael knows this. I actually, I have this one pretty well done. He's down the rabbit hole in this one. This was kind of a layup. This one, this story was huge. Yeah. He's a big Kid Leroy fan.

All right, what do you have? I said E for Emmanuel Macron. I hope that doesn't cost us a billion dollars. The correct answer is B. Justin Bieber. It is Justin Bieber. She stalked, Mrs. Bieber stalked him? Allegedly. Allegedly.

Allegedly. She's very pretty. For years, like, while she was, she started stalking him allegedly when she was like 12 years old. That's dedication. And all the women saw this story and they were like, I don't know, it's kind of crazy, but I respect it. Like, maybe we need to normalize female aggression. This is true. I could have used a more.

a little more aggressiveness from the ladies, you know, during some of my single periods, come up, hey, Michael. In these topsy-turvy times, what are we to do when men don't ask us out? We have to be the pursuers, which means we have to stalk them. Speaking of aggressive women, this female artist was labeled a homewrecker after allegedly causing a divorce by sleeping with her married co-star, a new dad and his wife's high school sweetheart. She later dropped the song, Yes, and Who is she? Did Cardi B, Doja Cat, Selena Gomez, or Ariana Grande?

These are, like, too easy. Is it just easy for me because I talk about this stuff? I got that. Even I got this one. He's writing confidently. Yeah. These were huge stories. It's stage four ho, Ariana Grande.

Ariana Grande. Not Ariana Pecaneo, but Ariana Grande. That's how I wrote that. You are both. Correct. Now the current score is 11.5, which does make Mary Morgan the victor. However, this is a gentleman's game. And it's never too late to come back. So if you're feeling frisky, you can risk it all on a all-or-nothing bonus question for the last round, Mary. Mary Morgan, do you want to do it? Are you going to risk it all? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Oh, let's go.

We had to just build her confidence in those last questions. Yeah. No, this is going to, this is going to rig it in my It better. It better rig it in my favor. Let's go. What is it? You dirty rigors. Yeah. It's rig us. It's for us. No, for you. Not for, I'm the rigor. Yeah, that's my word. All right. He is an expert in this. In 2025, only fans' top earners include Bella Thorne, Igiazalia, and Bad Baby, and it was topped by Sophie Rain. How much did Sophie Rain reportedly earn in one year? without going over. Wow, man, some people have it all. You know, if Bad Baby can make all this money on OnlyFans

and then headline the Super Bowl the following year, it's just an amazing. How much did Sophie Rain make? I think I have the number. Sophie Rain is the top one on OnlyFans? I don't know. I've heard crazy numbers for like OnlyFans general. Even though most of them make $3 ever.

Yeah. She might be lying. We never know. Hold on. And they're certainly lying to the government. You're telling me a. prostitute would lie? There's no way.

I don't believe it. You know, this Sophie Rain Girl is the one that got into a feud with Bonnie Blue because she was like, you're tarnishing the reputation of sex workers everywhere, Bonnie. Right. That's right. Some of us are in it because it's empowering and beautiful.

And you're just in it for a spectacle. Just in it for love of the game, you know? Money's only... Everyone's a freak until Bonnie Blue pulls up. Yeah, it is crazy Because you see this This gal who appears to have been hollowed out By like very, very evil forces

And she seems to be like almost You know like 700 years old With this wizened fit And then you find out she's like 23 or something Like oh man, lady She's not She is 100% lying about her age That's totally not true

And I think that she's probably Just clinically a psychopath She's like dark tetrad. Yeah, could. Yeah, could be. She never returned any of my calls back in my single days, you know, not once. I could have been Mr. Blue. You just said she's old.

Don't make it weird. You just said she was really old. All right. Look, I'm just going off of what the media told me. That's what I always do. Okay, hold on. Sophia Rain. I kind of like that.

That's a nice name. I'm going to, I don't know. This is the one that she talks about being Christian a lot. Oh, really? Interesting. Yeah. She made the most of anyone. Whatever she's doing is working, apparently.

All right, 10 seconds. Close is about going over. I think it was close. All right. Oh, man, the tension, you cut it with a knife. What do you got, Michael? I said $36 million. Okay.

That looks like $136. Is that just the dollar sign? That's a dollar sign. I wasted all of it drawing little figures of cats and stuff. I might have guessed too high, but I feel like I remember it being this high. It's $55 million. Well, it looks like there is a new maven of pop culture because it was $43 million. Let's go!

Oh, wow. So rigged. Oh, man. I want to thank every degenerate zoomer out there for special. spending money on an evil and disgusting vice that is corrupting your soul, because you just let me win a meaningless game. So thank you. You should.

I thought I knew my stuff. You just proved me wrong. Maybe you should take over my job, Michael. I've said it for years. I've been gunning to be just a hip, cool, zoomer chick. Well, to the victor, it does go the spoils. You can be whatever you want. Again, yeah.

This is great. Thank you. Thank you. Well, Mary Morgan, thank you so much for playing this game. And would you please give Michael a 30-second ad-read for why people should tune in and watch the Michael Nulls show? You should tune in and watch the Michael Nulls show because he is such a Riz master that the Riz might emanate from the screen and be endowed onto you. And one day, you could have as much Riz as Michael Noles. That's so beautiful.

that was so nice I wow it's like men want him women want to be him it's this is big thank you thank you so much I'm honored

and I want to be him wait what huh hold on I admire your bravery Mary Morgan for going out risking it all sometimes you know

in love in culture you have to take risks sometimes they pay off sometimes they don't Mr. Davies thank you once again for having me on my own show

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