Nice to see you directly acknowledge Ben Shapiro Thug Life, it's been a long time and yes this is the perfect punchline lol. I'm still subbed to that guy's channel too though it's been a dead meme and channel for a while now. But yeah it was a missed opportunity to actually use the MLG epic gamer sunglasses and fully embrace the meme, as well as have Ben do something with a violin, but it was still hilarious nonetheless.
I absolutely love the fact that he didn’t initially notice Ben and kept glancing down at the lyrics seriously every time Ben was on screen and so just didn’t notice until halfway through the “What would Ben do?” And then his multiple stages of shock 🤣😂🤣 I’m loving this so much!
My dad just died of cancer not even 2hour ago and honestly I didn't think I'd be smiling for along time but Ben Michael and tom thank you I laughed and smiled in between tears but still thank you for brightening even a moment of this day
@@jstuckless I got so tricked! Brett Cooper mentioned this vid on her channel so I searched it to watch it. I thought that "Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews" was a second channel he had for his music reviews 🤣
I respect so much that they actually renamed the channel for the joke. 100/10. And good on them for managing to suprise Michael. Insanely impressive all the way around. Massive kudos.
I love when Ben responds to anyone. You can tell he’s taken in every word with total clarity. Then responds like with complete clarity and speed that’s insane.
i also wish he had rapped as fast as he possibly could - i mean thats an actual thing! it seems he was actually slowing it down compared to his normal speech. what a wasted opportunity.
My husband just spent 15 mins trying to figure out how to buy it on iTunes because he has never bought any song from iTunes before. This is the first one. He wanted to support it. I am proud of him. Now he is trying to figure out where to find where it is now.
Yes, that letter, crafted so splendidly with grace and dignity more modern forms of correspondence are profoundly lacking. I had the opportunity some years ago to read some letters written in 1864 by several different soldiers, none ranking higher than corporal, from both the North and the South to wives and parents. I think only one had more than 6 years of formal schooling. The first thing that was so crazy to realize was how different the English language as spoken in America back in1864 is from what was spoken even during WWII, and almost seemed like an entirely different language if compared to how the average 30 year old speaks to day., even when the people from 1864 were from modest rural families with what was even then considered very little education. Reading the letters there was a considerable range in spelling skills, but the syntaxes, vocabulary, conjugation, and a sense of formality, even in letters to wives and parents, but somehow still seemed to effortlessly convey the emotions of men that deeply missed the people they loved, and there was a definite warmth to there writings. A few of these letters were obviously written the day or night before what they expected to be a very hard day of battle that would turn out to be one of the biggest battles of the Civil War., and the doubts and fears these young men, likely between 18 and 24 years old, while obvious were still conveyed in a dignified and sensitive manner, free of false bravado one expects from young men heading into battle soon. These thoughts were written down with some sensitivity to avoid causing the loved ones any unnecessary grief or fear of their own and overall all of the writers managed to keep a positive, almost optimistic quality to their writing as if they were writing with a sense of duty towards family to reassure them that they had survived thus far, and were in good health and spirits and should not be worried over. But ultimately what I found to be perhaps the most poignant part of reading these letters was the fact that the language used by both the northern soldiers, and the southern soldiers, which I expected to be very different based on the differences in how differently people from the north and south speak today were in fact nearly indistinguishable. The one exception, the soldier with the 6th grade education, and was from NYC was a little more direct, a little less flowery in his choices of words, not much but just enough to make me think "New Yorkers have always been New Yorkers ". Otherwise the writing of all was so similar that the old description of the Civil War of "When brother fought brother" became so much more evidently true and made the experience one that I'm glad to have had, also left me feeling somewhat melancholy afterward at the realization that despite their obvious differences in so many ways all these soldiers fighting and dying on each side were still at least on some levels still so alike their brothers they were fighting so desperately against. And now I see what America faces today and can't help but feel that sense of melancholy returning due to the fact 160 years later we appear to have not only lost so much of our ability to communicate with grace and dignity but have also learned little to nothing about avoiding division from our brothers. Sorry for the entire novel I've written, I guess I've just spent too much time in my own head lately thinking about these things and needed to put them into text form in order to maybe release them so I can get back out of my malaise and into doing the things I ought to be doing.
@peacewithyou6341 they were at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales campus, on loan to the American History dept from the New Mexico Military Institute which was located in Roswell New Mexico. I don't recall if they belonged to NMMI directly or if they were privately owned by an individual who collected memorabilia from the American Civil War. It was 1986 when I was taking a couple classes at ENMU so it's been almost 50 years. I do know that the New Mexico Military Institute closed down a long time ago, mid 1990s I believe.
The fact you didn't know that Ben was going to be in that was your genuine reaction is absolutely priceless. And you've actually changed the name of your channel 😂😂😂 this is hilarious and genius
This is one of the best edited short-form commentary videos on the Internet. Whatever you're paying your editor(s), it isn't enough. And the commitment to the gag by changing the channel...
His reaction was so genuine. I laughed so hard. I want all secret reveals look like that. He legit didn’t think it was Ben when he started, then it hit hard. OMG. CRYING. The Best.
Micheal is by far the best host at the Daily Wire. He's intellectually stimulating, hilarious, empathetic and keeps things simple enough to reach a wide array of people.
My husband HATES how many political videos I watch... except for Michael Knowles. He shushes me to listen to what he has to say, instead of letting me explain what's going on. Michael is by far the best at DW!!!!
For more "normal" and "relaxing" delivery, yeah, I'd choose Michael. But I also REALLY like Matt, Candace (my personal favorite cause she's fucking RUTHLESS 😂), and Brett.
yep an he's right Ben usually does speak quick to start with. well I guess he has to when he debates people r always trying to talk over him an will not let him speak. so he speaks fast to get out what he wants to say as quick as possible
I've watched a few reaction videos, and a lot of the people's jaws drop and they snatch their headphones off in shock when he starts his rap with that line. They start laughing their butts off. When they recoup, they listen to the rest of his lines and they're blown away with what Ben spit out.
It was the most frustrating thing since Matt did his Halloween movie jump scare viewing, and when the one genuinely scary clip came up (Exorcist III) he was looking at his bucket of popcorn 😢
@@aaronbarlow4376 Nah, in a recent stream, Brett mentioned this reaction, and how amazing his bad timing was. And I can believe it. I've seen plenty of videos with similar near misses.
I am part Navajo(Native American), you can clearly see it in my face. 🇺🇲 The 🇺🇲 American 🇺🇲 flag 🇺🇲 doesn't 🇺🇲 offend 🇺🇲 me 🇺🇲. This is my land for many more generations. Unfortunately my land was taken by people that now HATE it. Others, just arrived less that a few centuries ago. Many haven't had roots here at all. Well, I say "AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE THIS LAND". Go back to the land that you love, I would not want to offend you with my country's flag🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
My family came from Italy, Germania, Ireland, about 124 years ago. I bleed Red White and Blue. The United States of America brought these few hundred years of relative peace to the world. Many Nations were given a chance with global peaceful trade. All because of a bunch of deplorable people (said with sarcasm) rebelled against the strongest nation in the world at the time. With a vision for Freedom for EVERYONE. Bad things have happened along the way, but the long term trend has always been upwards. Until recent years. Communists have infiltrated many years ago. And now they don't even hide it anymore.
Your editors are simply the best in the business. That cutaway to Ben’s letter to Michael was not necessary, but I’m glad you did it. I almost fell off the can laughing
“Compound interest” is referring to a Jewish stereo type from history-Jewish tradition rules out being able to charge compound interest to fellow Jews. But it does not say they can’t charge interest to gentiles.
@@greynotgray6808 in addition, the joke is probably extra funny to Michael because he is Catholic, and the Catholic church considered charging interest a sin (called usury). So this was a source of tension between Catholics and Jews a few hundred years ago.
Michael's genuine laugther when he saw ben appear followed by the great shock of him talking slower then normal (or the shock of him rapping, I am stil not sure 🤣) is so amuzing to me. This video was great Michael!
3:12 *Michael listening to Ben rapping on the phone almost had me in tears!* 🤣🤣🤣 Then 4:51 it turned into some 1800s husband to wife letter 🤣 wow this episode was expertly written and edited! 👏 edit: I just noticed, after the part of the letter read aloud, it says *"Lest we roll up on the publisher with such a fury as to scare the record straight..."* 😆Gangster Ben!
I swear, it was hilarious watching Michael miss Ben on camera twice before you see the light bulb go off. This is the absolute best reaction both from Michael and to Tom and Ben that I've seen 😂❤
Well the first time ben was wearing his hoodie, so can't blame him for that. Just some rando in a hoodie, Tom has done many collabs nothing special there. The second time if he just shifted his eyes to the paper just a second later he would have seen it. It was a picture perfect priceless timing. Couldn't have timed it better even if it was scripted. Edit: and let's be honest here. Ben in a hoodie? Even in his private life I can't imagine him wearing a hoodie like that. What's next? Matt wearing a tuxedo?
Made me so happy to see that their interview actually led to Tom and Ben making a song and video together. And I was genuinly surprised by Ben actually spitting some bars that ''slap significantly hard'' as he would say himself. But your reaction to when Ben started was priceless! Thanks for spreading the love Mike. Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews channel is by far the best bar breakdown channel there is. H.O.G approved. Thanks for all you do Michael.
The Daily Wire simply cannot do any better than these guys and their editors. 😂 I mean everything about this was perfect, same for Bens rap. Idk how they do it but they manage to improve and become impossibly better than they already were
Lol last week I was coming out of synagouge and there were three black guys on the corner and I said to them ‘dog its a Yarmulke homie no cap’, pointing to my head. They burst our laughing and were like ‘facts baby facts’. One of them said he was DW subscriber. You guys are doing more to change the culture than you know. Keep up the good work!
Michael's production team, YOU GUYS ARE KILLIN' IT!! Production on the daily wire folks videos jus keep getting better and better! I was rollin' at Michael on the phone with Ben. Great work u guys!
im a 51 year old woman who has always considered myself democrat, until the last 10 or so years....the more woke madness i see, the more i see myself in the middle. but even i admire ben shapiro. my husband cant STAND to hear me say it, but hes got very valid points everytime he speaks. the man has a way with words that just, you can argue with...other than the spray of verbal bullets hed launch cause the speed at which he speaks, lol. i always stop and watch his shorts and brett coopers, while id scroll past any others, even michaels, sorry michael. because i dont want to put my head in a space where im triggered by something. ben and brett, being the same person, (JUST KIDDING< I KNOW THEY ARENT lmao)
@@hollyshaw-elliemae #walkaway! There's a huge(hundreds of thousands)campaign of former democrats that have walked away from the woke plantation. #walkawaycampain
I had NO EXPECTATIONS, my imagination was not equipped to go to Tom + Ben on a rap song. The world just ended, mic drop, the end. 💣💥 Ben Shapiro, rap-is-not-music Ben, can actually rap! 🤣 Oh, this is amazing. I'm SO looking forward to the meltdowns over this song. Great song, Tom and Ben! Hilarious reaction Michael! 🤣 🔥🔥🔥
My favourite part of this reaction is the horror movie timing of Michael's glances repeatedly JUST missing seeing Ben, haha. Makes for an excellent startle reflect later (and he hope he watches video back and laughs at how many times he could have noticed but didn't)
This was like an Inception of some of my favorite people. We just need Matt Walsh to do a reaction to this reaction and everything will be right in the world.
Many commenters in other reaction videos have said Ben is the first rapper they have heard that actually raps slower than he talks. 😂 Love that Michael changed his channel name for this review. 😂
This was awesome, 🤣🤣🤣 I loved your reaction, I loved the “letter” from Ben. And having Tom pop in at the end to do a plug! This is so awesome!❤️❤️❤️ oh, btw..I am with you about sometimes having a bit of difficulty in keeping up with Ben when he gets going. (Fast talking). Not all surprised that excelled in rapping! Maybe when he travels around doing guest appearances, he should do his rap for the audiences!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I grinned through this whole thing. From you barely missing Ben every time until you heard, "what would Ben do?" To you being visibly tickled! 😅 I couldn't stop smiling and audibly giggling!!
I couldn't believe it 😂 absolutely love this. Like Ben said, he just did it for fun, the thing is, he's never done this before but had the guts to release it to the world. Secondly, he actually has a natural flow, cadence etc and he even did a double entendre with the yarmulke line 😂 I have so much respect for him for not only doing something outside of his comfort zone but for still being himself the whole time!
I didn't say it on Brett's video, but Ben is probably the only person on earth who could rap about how rich he is and not lose a drop of my respect. I hope he does more of exactly that. "Nikki take notes, i did this for fun, all my people let's gl do this, let's get a billboard number one." Solid bar.
1:00 When i first moved to the US back in 2002, my family and I were very impressed at how every house had an american flag hanging outside and every building, school, church etc... it was funny at first to see this amount of patriotism first hand because in my country patriotism does not exist, not even public schools or public buildings hang our national flag but it was very admirable to say the least and it is true you barely see that anymore.
I think it depends on where you live. I have a friend in a neighborhood where the Eagle Scouts provide a service as a fundraiser, where they put a regular size flag out in front of houses on those days that are considered " flag days". It is really a great sight to drive down the streets and see all the flags as mist houses have one displayed. The scouts put them out the evening before and then pick them up till the next day. This is in Texas, by the way. I am a naturalized citizen, and I put out a flag. The silent majority don't put out a flag for the same reason they won't post on Facebook or tell their neighbors they are Republican for fear of the backlash from the liberal left who has labeled being patriotic, having conservative values and a churchgoer and white as being racists and anti woke anything. Perhaps it's the difference in core values but the liberal and left leaning Democrats are extremely vicious and destructive and intimidating.
2002 was right after 9/11, the last time the whole country was united and everyone was showing their patriotism. Too bad its been ripped in half the past several years. But as others said, depends on where you are, some of us still love this country, despite its faults
Utter nonsense. In my very blue state, not only do the schools and government buildings have the American flag flying, on any given street, there’s at least a handful of flags flying. Just peeked out my door. there were at least 3 that I could see in the immediate vicinity.
Become a super fan like me and download the song today! facts.lsnto.me/streamingnow
Get Ben's FACTS DON'T CARE HOODIE here: dwplus.shop/ivigisbf
LMAO Face Tats and Tiny hats! LOL
No. No ben did not write his part. And he was likely _heavily_ coached on his performance by Tom.
M K b jelly !
You know you’re going in his next video!!!!
Nice to see you directly acknowledge Ben Shapiro Thug Life, it's been a long time and yes this is the perfect punchline lol. I'm still subbed to that guy's channel too though it's been a dead meme and channel for a while now. But yeah it was a missed opportunity to actually use the MLG epic gamer sunglasses and fully embrace the meme, as well as have Ben do something with a violin, but it was still hilarious nonetheless.
BEST REACTION EVER…next stop, the Michael Knowles ukulele feature!!!
Great Job, Tom!
I'm here for it.
Can't Wait!
#facts
The channel name change is top tier as is the song 🤘🏼
I like how Ben is talking slower when he raps than when he talks 😂
🤣🤣🤣
That's what I was thinking lol
Haha
😂
Omg you’re right
Ben: I don't know how to rap.
Tom: Just talk slower.
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😅
This is a criminally underrated comment.
That’s freaking hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's a safe bet Ben is the first person in history to rap about compound interest. So funny.
Kendrick Lamar in Lonely Islands "YOLO" is pretty close
Immortal Technique
Weird Al came pretty close in White and Nerdy
Jay Z The Story Of O.J. if I'm not mistaken.
😂😂😂
Seeing Michael genuinely surprised, then amused, then impressed, was quite a sequence of events to witness.
do t forget: Jelous lol
He's acting
i honestly reacted the same the moment i saw ben rapping 😂
@newyardleysinclair9960 he actually didn't. DW tends troll each other as much as they troll the rest of the world.
I'm like when the hell did I subscribe to a Tom Macdonald review channel???
The fact that Michael's team didn't tell him Ben was on that track makes it so much funnier. This reaction was perfect
Daily wire could have told the whole world... No one would have expected this
lol you actually changed the channel name
I thought it was a fake channel
Holy s*** Tom MacDonald and The Daily Wire went all out for this 🤣😭🤣😭
Bro he did
So epic
@@SquareNoggina beautiful thing ❤
Ben said HIS original lyrics went too hard & he had to change them! 🤣
I absolutely love the fact that he didn’t initially notice Ben and kept glancing down at the lyrics seriously every time Ben was on screen and so just didn’t notice until halfway through the “What would Ben do?” And then his multiple stages of shock 🤣😂🤣 I’m loving this so much!
😂🤣 same
Awesome song nd reaction. # 1
@@carlaherrera681definitely a once in a lifetime reaction. Love it.
I loved the rap god Ben lol
I honestly was surprised he didn't notice because at the very start of the video it looks like he is staring at the video when it first show Shapiro.
“My dearest friend Micheal…” I almost died of laughter 😂 🤣
I laughed so hard at that part!
SAME
LOL I Lost my mind at that part too.
YEAH. I was eating gumbo and almost aspirated 😂
That Ben M&M bit was devastating.
The joy and happiness on Michael’s face when Ben started rapping is so pure 😂
The smile just dropping when he realized it is actually Ben rapping. Dr. Dreidel hitting bars lol
Dr Dreidel is hilarious. I also liked Ben Rapiro
My dad just died of cancer not even 2hour ago and honestly I didn't think I'd be smiling for along time but Ben Michael and tom thank you I laughed and smiled in between tears but still thank you for brightening even a moment of this day
So sorry to hear that
Stay strong brother
RIP Dad
Sending hugs and prayers for you
❤❤❤
The pure love on Michael’s face when he looked up and saw Ben’s face on the tvs was so funny
So heartwarming and real! : )
That's the same look that was on my face 10 minutes ago !
yes that was so hilarious and genuine...
It broke his brain when Ben rapped
The brief interlude of Ben reading a letter to Michael is lovely
one of my favorite parts haha I was dying
😂😂😂
It was like an 1860s letter to a friend. The prose, the style, the word choice, the background guitar....... I was dying of laughter!
Sooooo good and hilarious I laughed so hard
That was so classic
Whoever edited this needs a raise! 🎉
The fact that he ACTUALLY changed his channel name to Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews 🤣🤣🤣 Michael, your reaction is priceless!
Right? I thought that was just a joke in the video... and then later I was writing a comment and saw it... like, no... he actually did it.
@@jstuckless I got so tricked! Brett Cooper mentioned this vid on her channel so I searched it to watch it. I thought that "Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews" was a second channel he had for his music reviews 🤣
I just saw that; that's amazing.
him, daily wire or just someone at the marketing dept. Choose your truth 😂
I respect so much that they actually renamed the channel for the joke. 100/10. And good on them for managing to suprise Michael. Insanely impressive all the way around. Massive kudos.
Someone pointed out that Ben raps slower than he talks and IT'S SO TRUE.
I love when Ben responds to anyone. You can tell he’s taken in every word with total clarity. Then responds like with complete clarity and speed that’s insane.
That would be the comment directly above you
"Is there more Ben in here?" Looks through his pages 😂
😂
I seriously wish Ben would have gotten a 2nd verse😂
This! It felt like it needed it.
i also wish he had rapped as fast as he possibly could - i mean thats an actual thing! it seems he was actually slowing it down compared to his normal speech. what a wasted opportunity.
@@ravenmasters2467Or great marketing for a second song. It gives a reason for him to be called out and show his chops.
Agreed!
Me too lol 😆 I hope I’m the first Brit to download this lol just brought it off iTunes lol
Ben wrote his own bars! It’s a compilation of his tweets on x . No AI involved. Tom said on discord he fell over when he read Bens bars!
Thanks for letting us know. I'm really not surprised. Ben writes a lot, so he's got plenty of word-skills to be able to write his own lyrics.
That's crazy!
My husband just spent 15 mins trying to figure out how to buy it on iTunes because he has never bought any song from iTunes before. This is the first one. He wanted to support it. I am proud of him.
Now he is trying to figure out where to find where it is now.
😂🙌🏼
That would totally be me….. can I get it on cd?😂
😂😂
😂 sounds like my husband
I bought it also-
“My time on the McDonald’s farm has proved most fruitful”… I’m ded 😂😂😂
Me too....
ain't it fun, 🤣 rolling around on the floor laughing till it hurts...
Yes, that letter, crafted so splendidly with grace and dignity more modern forms of correspondence are profoundly lacking. I had the opportunity some years ago to read some letters written in 1864 by several different soldiers, none ranking higher than corporal, from both the North and the South to wives and parents. I think only one had more than 6 years of formal schooling. The first thing that was so crazy to realize was how different the English language as spoken in America back in1864 is from what was spoken even during WWII, and almost seemed like an entirely different language if compared to how the average 30 year old speaks to day., even when the people from 1864 were from modest rural families with what was even then considered very little education. Reading the letters there was a considerable range in spelling skills, but the syntaxes, vocabulary, conjugation, and a sense of formality, even in letters to wives and parents, but somehow still seemed to effortlessly convey the emotions of men that deeply missed the people they loved, and there was a definite warmth to there writings. A few of these letters were obviously written the day or night before what they expected to be a very hard day of battle that would turn out to be one of the biggest battles of the Civil War., and the doubts and fears these young men, likely between 18 and 24 years old, while obvious were still conveyed in a dignified and sensitive manner, free of false bravado one expects from young men heading into battle soon. These thoughts were written down with some sensitivity to avoid causing the loved ones any unnecessary grief or fear of their own and overall all of the writers managed to keep a positive, almost optimistic quality to their writing as if they were writing with a sense of duty towards family to reassure them that they had survived thus far, and were in good health and spirits and should not be worried over. But ultimately what I found to be perhaps the most poignant part of reading these letters was the fact that the language used by both the northern soldiers, and the southern soldiers, which I expected to be very different based on the differences in how differently people from the north and south speak today were in fact nearly indistinguishable. The one exception, the soldier with the 6th grade education, and was from NYC was a little more direct, a little less flowery in his choices of words, not much but just enough to make me think "New Yorkers have always been New Yorkers ". Otherwise the writing of all was so similar that the old description of the Civil War of "When brother fought brother" became so much more evidently true and made the experience one that I'm glad to have had, also left me feeling somewhat melancholy afterward at the realization that despite their obvious differences in so many ways all these soldiers fighting and dying on each side were still at least on some levels still so alike their brothers they were fighting so desperately against. And now I see what America faces today and can't help but feel that sense of melancholy returning due to the fact 160 years later we appear to have not only lost so much of our ability to communicate with grace and dignity but have also learned little to nothing about avoiding division from our brothers.
Sorry for the entire novel I've written, I guess I've just spent too much time in my own head lately thinking about these things and needed to put them into text form in order to maybe release them so I can get back out of my malaise and into doing the things I ought to be doing.
@@oldhillbillybuckkowalskiwhere can I find said letters?
@peacewithyou6341 they were at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales campus, on loan to the American History dept from the New Mexico Military Institute which was located in Roswell New Mexico. I don't recall if they belonged to NMMI directly or if they were privately owned by an individual who collected memorabilia from the American Civil War. It was 1986 when I was taking a couple classes at ENMU so it's been almost 50 years. I do know that the New Mexico Military Institute closed down a long time ago, mid 1990s I believe.
Ben's voice over while Mike reads the transcript is fantastic
😂😅😂😅😂
Twas positively a hoot to boot.🎩 Hat no cap.
It was great!
You could say it was “ fruitful” 😂
I can't believe Ben managed to keep this a secret from the other Daily Wire hosts.
He is in a different state.
CRYING laughing when Michael finally noticed Ben. 🤣🤣🤣
Same here...😂😂
The funniest part was when he said Tom "Kept this a secret", here I'm thinking "Dude, he revealed who the collaborator was 2 DAYS AGO!" 😂
@@deranathonarkantos6712I think he got sent and recorded this days ago.
EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!😂😂😂😂😂🎉❤
PRICELESS!!!
Ben said that him and Tom had much harder lyrics before we got this version. Now I want to hear the originals.
Same 😂
Homie Ben said "my money's like LIZZO, my pockets are FAT!!!" Hahahahaha
Bars
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not only Lizzo but Cardi and Nicki caught some strays too 💀💀💀 cannot wait for the diss tracks in response
“That’s not nice.”
-Michael Knowles
The fact you didn't know that Ben was going to be in that was your genuine reaction is absolutely priceless. And you've actually changed the name of your channel 😂😂😂 this is hilarious and genius
Lol ikr.
This is one of the best edited short-form commentary videos on the Internet. Whatever you're paying your editor(s), it isn't enough. And the commitment to the gag by changing the channel...
For real- his team is great , the convo over the phone and letter from Ben - to much ...🤣
I know their the best in the biz I see them everyday..
So, I gotta get some hoodies. Like 2 of them. Weirdly enough.
His reaction was so genuine. I laughed so hard. I want all secret reveals look like that. He legit didn’t think it was Ben when he started, then it hit hard. OMG. CRYING. The Best.
Micheal is by far the best host at the Daily Wire. He's intellectually stimulating, hilarious, empathetic and keeps things simple enough to reach a wide array of people.
Sweet baby gang. Walsh is #1 Knowles is great tho
My husband HATES how many political videos I watch... except for Michael Knowles. He shushes me to listen to what he has to say, instead of letting me explain what's going on. Michael is by far the best at DW!!!!
For more "normal" and "relaxing" delivery, yeah, I'd choose Michael. But I also REALLY like Matt, Candace (my personal favorite cause she's fucking RUTHLESS 😂), and Brett.
I thought the channel got hacked because of the name
Agree
Michael talking to Ben on the phone part was so funny😂. Love you guys.
That was hilarious 😅
My favorite part ❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
Editor is massively under appreciated in the comment section
That Ben rapping over the phone bit was freaking hilarious
😂😭🤣 yes!!
yep an he's right Ben usually does speak quick to start with. well I guess he has to when he debates people r always trying to talk over him an will not let him speak. so he speaks fast to get out what he wants to say as quick as possible
Gold
@@johnstrickland3933 He said somewhere that he's always had a intrinsic fear of wasting time so he just naturally started talking faster
I was cracking the eff up! 😂🤣😂
My money's like Lizzo...
My pockets are FAT
I think I lost it at that point
I've watched a few reaction videos, and a lot of the people's jaws drop and they snatch their headphones off in shock when he starts his rap with that line. They start laughing their butts off. When they recoup, they listen to the rest of his lines and they're blown away with what Ben spit out.
j cole once rap that
Ben folding his hands like such a polite lawyer in the video was a hilarious juxtaposition at first
"My money like Lizzo, my pockets are fat." Absolutely outstanding 😂
"that's not nice" 😭
I love how he got SO invested the moment Ben starting going 😭😭😭 great reaction!!
Michael ACTUALLY changed his channel's name to "Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews" LOL! I can't with this guy! 🤣🤣🤣
At first I was like, huh? Then it hit me n I looked! 🤣🤣🤣❤️
🤣🤣🤣🤣
i saw that too!
I guess Ben finally changed his opinion about rap not being music and has embraced the craft 😂
The same racist white people who talk shit about rappers are now rapping LOL.
When Michael looks down every time Ben shows up and looks up every time it’s only Tom, and THEN FINALLY SEES IT 😂
Yeah, the timing on that was hilarious
yup.
I didn’t know I needed to hear Michael Knowles say “it goes hard.”
It's almost amazing how Michael managed to barely avoid seeing Ben right up until the point he started rapping
It was the most frustrating thing since Matt did his Halloween movie jump scare viewing, and when the one genuinely scary clip came up (Exorcist III) he was looking at his bucket of popcorn 😢
Makes one wonder if this is fake and he staged a first time reaction, carefully avoiding looking when Ben was on.
@@aaronbarlow4376 Nah, in a recent stream, Brett mentioned this reaction, and how amazing his bad timing was. And I can believe it. I've seen plenty of videos with similar near misses.
I am part Navajo(Native American), you can clearly see it in my face. 🇺🇲 The 🇺🇲 American 🇺🇲 flag 🇺🇲 doesn't 🇺🇲 offend 🇺🇲 me 🇺🇲. This is my land for many more generations. Unfortunately my land was taken by people that now HATE it. Others, just arrived less that a few centuries ago. Many haven't had roots here at all.
Well, I say "AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE THIS LAND". Go back to the land that you love, I would not want to offend you with my country's flag🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I’m not from the USA but I have the American flag all aroun my house in my car too and the police flag
🇺🇸 Respect from Australia 🇦🇺
OG American.
Hello from a Lakota Sioux! 👋✌️
My family came from Italy, Germania, Ireland, about 124 years ago.
I bleed Red White and Blue.
The United States of America brought these few hundred years of relative peace to the world. Many Nations were given a chance with global peaceful trade. All because of a bunch of deplorable people (said with sarcasm) rebelled against the strongest nation in the world at the time. With a vision for Freedom for EVERYONE.
Bad things have happened along the way, but the long term trend has always been upwards.
Until recent years.
Communists have infiltrated many years ago. And now they don't even hide it anymore.
I love how the channel was just casually changed to Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews. Whoever's in charge of that, nice job
That was a very awesome change. That is some PR brilliance. They know his audience.
😂😂😂😂😂 USA 🇺🇸 🌈
This is so cathartic to those of us who are not participants in the woke culture.
This should be pinned 👏👏👏
War Songs and songs with great political advances through the great depression almost disappeared music industry entirely in history.
And thousands if not millions will call you a weirdo for that, a disturbing world we live in.
Whoever added the 1800s letter from Ben is hilarious. I'm crying hahaha
fr xD
Was my exact thought. Fucking brilliant 😂
dead fr fr
Yes 💯%
YES!
Your editors are simply the best in the business. That cutaway to Ben’s letter to Michael was not necessary, but I’m glad you did it. I almost fell off the can laughing
FUCKING SAME
That was the best part!!!! Whatever accent Ben was trying to do really just topped the charts of humor 😂😂
I cackled out loud!!
@@sarahl2502 my son talks like Ben in that letter frequently when he's messing around. Always so funny!
I came to look before I said the same... you get my like, instead.
You looked down every time Ben was on screen until …. Finally! That look on your face was priceless! lol
Not in the first few frames. I guess it was too fast for him to notice.
🤣🤣🤣
@@tigerbear3038 he is reading the lyrics
4:51 lol the old-timey letter from Ben 😆
... Civil War era...
Takes ya back....
It's so surreal hearing him talk that slow, also Michael's face while he reads it makes it even better 😂
Old McDonald rapped a bar ...E...I....E...I...Oooh!
He overdosed this song on politics
Letter in Rdr 2 😂😂
That phone call with Ben rapping. lol
I imagine that's not much of an exaggeration
Michael dying when he reread the "Compound Interest" line is hilariously underrated
Could you explain that to me plz? 😅
Sooo funny
“Compound interest” is referring to a Jewish stereo type from history-Jewish tradition rules out being able to charge compound interest to fellow Jews. But it does not say they can’t charge interest to gentiles.
@@greynotgray6808 in addition, the joke is probably extra funny to Michael because he is Catholic, and the Catholic church considered charging interest a sin (called usury). So this was a source of tension between Catholics and Jews a few hundred years ago.
The look on Micheal's face when he realized that Ben was rapping.
😂😂😂
Loved your reaction!!!
I think it was everyone’s reaction!!!
Michael's genuine laugther when he saw ben appear followed by the great shock of him talking slower then normal (or the shock of him rapping, I am stil not sure 🤣) is so amuzing to me. This video was great Michael!
The internet will explode on the day when Tom features Michael on a track, with his epic ukelele solo.
Can Michael even tap or shred on ANY fretted instrument?
We need to make this happen!!
We need this
Great idea... but honestly... Michael's uke talent would be best on a REN track! Some day... some day!!! :D
You are in a position to make this happen. (Looks at watch) clocks ticking...
I still hang my flag and I am a Navy Veteran. Love this song.
🇺🇸⚓ ❤️🤍💙
Every time I see a home with an American flag, I pray for God to bless the family, finances, relationships, everything!
Thank you for your service!!❤❤❤
@@rocketta.chique5761 Everytime I see an suburban Farm 🚜 I pray for that family too
Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸
Im dying laughing. Never in a million years would i have predicted this collaboration😂
Can we just take a moment to applaud the editors on this one. Well done.
3:12 *Michael listening to Ben rapping on the phone almost had me in tears!* 🤣🤣🤣
Then 4:51 it turned into some 1800s husband to wife letter 🤣 wow this episode was expertly written and edited! 👏
edit: I just noticed, after the part of the letter read aloud, it says *"Lest we roll up on the publisher with such a fury as to scare the record straight..."* 😆Gangster Ben!
I came to the comment section looking for somebody to mention this part.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂This is the 5th time I am watching this video, those two parts are cracking me up every single time!
Want more of this
I swear, it was hilarious watching Michael miss Ben on camera twice before you see the light bulb go off. This is the absolute best reaction both from Michael and to Tom and Ben that I've seen 😂❤
YES the way his eyes shifted to the lyric paper JUST as Ben appears, _twice!_ 😂
I think he was listening blind. Not watching.
Yessss I noticed that too 😂
Well the first time ben was wearing his hoodie, so can't blame him for that. Just some rando in a hoodie, Tom has done many collabs nothing special there. The second time if he just shifted his eyes to the paper just a second later he would have seen it. It was a picture perfect priceless timing. Couldn't have timed it better even if it was scripted.
Edit: and let's be honest here. Ben in a hoodie? Even in his private life I can't imagine him wearing a hoodie like that. What's next? Matt wearing a tuxedo?
Made me so happy to see that their interview actually led to Tom and Ben making a song and video together. And I was genuinly surprised by Ben actually spitting some bars that ''slap significantly hard'' as he would say himself.
But your reaction to when Ben started was priceless! Thanks for spreading the love Mike. Mike's Tom MacDonald Reviews channel is by far the best bar breakdown channel there is.
H.O.G approved. Thanks for all you do Michael.
Michael you on the phone with Ben...priceless!
The Daily Wire simply cannot do any better than these guys and their editors. 😂 I mean everything about this was perfect, same for Bens rap. Idk how they do it but they manage to improve and become impossibly better than they already were
This feels like a high budget April fools joke
Yep, administered in January! LMAO
It does 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fr 😂
Lol. It's real.
It does! 😂
I love that Ben somehow managed to encapsulate everything that I expected when I saw it was a collab.
Lol last week I was coming out of synagouge and there were three black guys on the corner and I said to them ‘dog its a Yarmulke homie no cap’, pointing to my head. They burst our laughing and were like ‘facts baby facts’. One of them said he was DW subscriber. You guys are doing more to change the culture than you know. Keep up the good work!
Michael's production team, YOU GUYS ARE KILLIN' IT!! Production on the daily wire folks videos jus keep getting better and better! I was rollin' at Michael on the phone with Ben. Great work u guys!
Honestly Ben can rap easily... His verbal fluency has always been off the chain.
im a 51 year old woman who has always considered myself democrat, until the last 10 or so years....the more woke madness i see, the more i see myself in the middle. but even i admire ben shapiro. my husband cant STAND to hear me say it, but hes got very valid points everytime he speaks. the man has a way with words that just, you can argue with...other than the spray of verbal bullets hed launch cause the speed at which he speaks, lol. i always stop and watch his shorts and brett coopers, while id scroll past any others, even michaels, sorry michael. because i dont want to put my head in a space where im triggered by something. ben and brett, being the same person, (JUST KIDDING< I KNOW THEY ARENT lmao)
Same... just 35 years young😂@@hollyshaw-elliemae
Agreed
Yep exactly. His fast talking that sometimes makes my head spin suits him perfectly for rapping. 😂 just hilarious to see.
@@hollyshaw-elliemae #walkaway! There's a huge(hundreds of thousands)campaign of former democrats that have walked away from the woke plantation. #walkawaycampain
I had NO EXPECTATIONS, my imagination was not equipped to go to Tom + Ben on a rap song. The world just ended, mic drop, the end. 💣💥 Ben Shapiro, rap-is-not-music Ben, can actually rap! 🤣 Oh, this is amazing. I'm SO looking forward to the meltdowns over this song. Great song, Tom and Ben! Hilarious reaction Michael! 🤣 🔥🔥🔥
They said 2024 would surprise us! So far it's delivering the unexpected!!
The southern letter from Ben to you had me rolling!!
“don't care if I offend you, I was put here to upset you” tshirt needed.
I didn't have Ben Shapiro rapping on my 2024 bingo sheet, but he we are
LMAOOO FOR REAL!
But, it was WORTH IT!
Lol he raps like hes a big man, but he'll still cry next time he meets Andrew Neil 😂
@@ZeroOneInfinity I don't even know who that is. I know Ben Shapiro though
@@ZeroOneInfinity you’re the dude who his line no one knows who you are was meant for…
L
😂😂
Since the Trucker Convoy SO many Canadians have hung our flag up. It’s been amazing.
I bought one and I'm in America.
We can annex you , when Trump gets back in. You can either be a state or part of our unofficial empire
This is the way.
Canada for 51st state of America when trump wins in 2024! Root out the socialists!!!
Tom MacDonald is Canadian 🍁
My favourite part of this reaction is the horror movie timing of Michael's glances repeatedly JUST missing seeing Ben, haha. Makes for an excellent startle reflect later (and he hope he watches video back and laughs at how many times he could have noticed but didn't)
This song shot to the top of the iTunes chart so fast that Ben and Tom must have strapped a rocket to it. 😁
I literally bought the song to cast my vote on the things I think we need to hear. I love it 💯
Same😂 I wanted it to get to #1 same day😂😊
I love the editors. Part where Ben narrated the old timey southern letter was hilarious.
This was like an Inception of some of my favorite people. We just need Matt Walsh to do a reaction to this reaction and everything will be right in the world.
Matt has great dancing video
He needs to do an interpretive dance to Ben’s song
Many commenters in other reaction videos have said Ben is the first rapper they have heard that actually raps slower than he talks. 😂 Love that Michael changed his channel name for this review. 😂
I was so confused at the channel name! 😂😂😂
"When did i subscribe to this bootlet channel"
Same! Omg 😂
I absolutely love that Michael was looking down when Ben was first shown and he looks up and immediately loses it.
"Is this AI?!" LOL
He literally looked down at the perfect times omg
Seeing Michael Knowles in genuine shock and delight is what I needed today
This was awesome, 🤣🤣🤣 I loved your reaction, I loved the “letter” from Ben. And having Tom pop in at the end to do a plug! This is so awesome!❤️❤️❤️ oh, btw..I am with you about sometimes having a bit of difficulty in keeping up with Ben when he gets going. (Fast talking). Not all surprised that excelled in rapping! Maybe when he travels around doing guest appearances, he should do his rap for the audiences!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I grinned through this whole thing. From you barely missing Ben every time until you heard, "what would Ben do?" To you being visibly tickled! 😅 I couldn't stop smiling and audibly giggling!!
Bro he genuinely looked terrified and proud at the same time i freaking love this guy 😂😂
This is now my favorite reaction video of all time lmao. Michael's faces perfectly captured my own feelings of utter disbelief yet absolute delight.
Same here! Love it 😂❤
3:09 he raps slower than he talks
I couldn't believe it 😂 absolutely love this. Like Ben said, he just did it for fun, the thing is, he's never done this before but had the guts to release it to the world. Secondly, he actually has a natural flow, cadence etc and he even did a double entendre with the yarmulke line 😂 I have so much respect for him for not only doing something outside of his comfort zone but for still being himself the whole time!
The double entendre? I don't speak rap, but I'm thinking "no cap" also means don't shoot me (in the head, specifically). Is that correct?
@@natashamudford4011I hate myself for knowing this, “no cap” means, essentially, no joke or no lie. I don’t know why it means that but here we are.
@@SWTORLOL87 okay. I would have never guessed that. Thanks.
@@natashamudford4011 I had to have someone explain it to me. I remember thinking, it’s happened, I’m old now.
@@natashamudford4011Cap = Lie, No Cap = No Lie. Pretty simple.
This is singlehandedly the greatest rap collab in the history of the genre!
I love how he goes immediately from laughing to completely in shock denial.
Your reaction, bar none, is my FAVORITE of the 2 dozen I've watched.
I didn't say it on Brett's video, but Ben is probably the only person on earth who could rap about how rich he is and not lose a drop of my respect. I hope he does more of exactly that. "Nikki take notes, i did this for fun, all my people let's gl do this, let's get a billboard number one." Solid bar.
They did!
Ben just standing there eith his hands in his hoody is the most gangster thing ever lol
I want that hoodie
😂
Love they made sure for Ben to have the no cap lyric after Brett taught him what it meant 😂
That’s brilliant
I have rewatched this video too many times.
His reaction to Ben’s rap was almost word for word the same as mine 😂😂😂
I usually hate reaction videos because they feel useless and add no value but this was so genuine and fun to watch lol
Literally no difference than any other react video, what did he add that made it useful?
He didn't just sit there and say one word, pretty big difference
He didn't just sit there and say one word, pretty big difference
They're not meant to add value, they're just ppl reacting to stuff. I personally really enjoy watching how different ppl react.
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When i first moved to the US back in 2002, my family and I were very impressed at how every house had an american flag hanging outside and every building, school, church etc... it was funny at first to see this amount of patriotism first hand because in my country patriotism does not exist, not even public schools or public buildings hang our national flag but it was very admirable to say the least and it is true you barely see that anymore.
I think it depends on where you live. I have a friend in a neighborhood where the Eagle Scouts provide a service as a fundraiser, where they put a regular size flag out in front of houses on those days that are considered " flag days". It is really a great sight to drive down the streets and see all the flags as mist houses have one displayed. The scouts put them out the evening before and then pick them up till the next day. This is in Texas, by the way. I am a naturalized citizen, and I put out a flag. The silent majority don't put out a flag for the same reason they won't post on Facebook or tell their neighbors they are Republican for fear of the backlash from the liberal left who has labeled being patriotic, having conservative values and a churchgoer and white as being racists and anti woke anything. Perhaps it's the difference in core values but the liberal and left leaning Democrats are extremely vicious and destructive and intimidating.
Come down to Arizona. You’ll see that.
2002 was right after 9/11, the last time the whole country was united and everyone was showing their patriotism. Too bad its been ripped in half the past several years. But as others said, depends on where you are, some of us still love this country, despite its faults
Try to take my USA flag ….. just try …..
Utter nonsense. In my very blue state, not only do the schools and government buildings have the American flag flying, on any given street, there’s at least a handful of flags flying. Just peeked out my door. there were at least 3 that I could see in the immediate vicinity.