Brian Knecht

Dedicated father, Guardians, Browns, Cavs and Wolverines Fanatic. Stone Installation Specialist.

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@HLC_actual Should we just call you Chris Longballs?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your first meme was probably a Chuck Norris fact. Mine was. He died yesterday in Hawaii at 86, ten days after posting a video of himself throwing punches on his birthday. His caption: “I don’t age. I level up.” This is a little tribute.

The real Chuck Norris was wilder than any meme about him. He lost his first three karate tournaments, then went 65-5 over the next decade. Six-time undefeated world middleweight karate champion. Black belts in five different disciplines. First person ever inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame, and the only martial artist to be named to it three separate times.

His student Steve McQueen told him to try acting. That led to a fight scene opposite Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon (1972), which became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year. Then Walker, Texas Ranger ran 9 seasons on CBS, 194 episodes, broadcast in over 100 countries.

But his biggest cultural moment started with a college freshman’s joke. In 2005, a Brown University student named Ian Spector built a random fact generator on the Something Awful forums. It was originally about Vin Diesel. When the novelty faded, Spector ran a poll with 12 celebrity options. Chuck Norris wasn’t on the list. He won anyway, by write-in landslide.

By early 2006, the Chuck Norris Fact Generator was pulling 20 million pageviews a month. This was before Twitter existed, before Facebook was public, before YouTube had a single viral hit. A college kid’s joke website about a semi-retired action star became one of the most visited humor pages on the internet. It spawned six books (some hit the New York Times bestseller list), two video games, and a scene in The Expendables 2 where Sylvester Stallone’s character recites a Chuck Norris fact to Chuck Norris’s face.

When asked about his favorite fact, Norris said it was: “They tried to carve Chuck Norris’ face into Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t hard enough for his beard.”

The meme ran for 21 years. Most memes last weeks. Chuck Norris Facts introduced more people to Chuck Norris than his movies ever did. For everyone born after 1995, he was never an aging action star or a karate champion. He was the guy who counted to infinity. Twice. The guy whose tears cure cancer, too bad he never cried.

The last thing the internet saw from Chuck Norris was him throwing punches on his 86th birthday. Which is, honestly, the most Chuck Norris fact of all.

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@SportsCenter He has a chance at 400hr/400sb with one team. Just insane!

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@yoxics What Kai is doing here is showing his growth in wisdom at a young age. Intelligence can only take you so far. It is his growth of wisdom to know that he can always learn more and improve even in the face of his detractors. This is to be applauded, not mocked. Do better!

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@Eli_Doubletap @UnsubscribeCast Come on to the podcast @BlastingThrough so a bunch of us can buy the book and hear your amazing stories!

[Zachary Bell @zacharyebell]

The holidays hit different for some people.
Grief. Stress. Loneliness. Memories.

For some, this season brings empty chairs, quiet phones, and reminders of what’s been lost—or never was.
If you’re just getting through the day, that’s enough.

If this season feels heavy—
that doesn’t make you weak.
It makes you human.

You don’t have to fake joy.
You don’t have to explain your pain.
And you don’t have to carry it alone.

You’re still here.
And you’re not alone.

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@TheAKGuy @TonyGonzales4TX It's RINO hunting season. And just like a rhino, Tony is blind to what's in front of him.

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

Could help cover my lost backpacking setup. I finally found a bag that fit me comfortably too...

[TECTONE 🇺🇸 @Tectone]

I just monetized my Twitter

Every dollar this tweet makes whenever payout is

I’m gonna give to one of yall who likes retweets and follows my page

Update whenever I get paid

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@pepperboxtv @keel_jed Add far as I know, Xbox may never happen. I know they are still working with Samsung.

[Brandon @LibOrNormal]

Last night, Staind dedicated the song "Something To Remind You" to Charlie Kirk!!

At one point, the crowd starts chanting Charlie's name 🔥🔥🔥

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

Amazing thread

[Kenny Burchard @KennyBurchard]

On the antifragile Charlie Kirk influence: Tonight my 23 yo son came home from a long day of being an electrician apprentice then trade school. Out the door at 5:30 am back home at 8 pm . Showered. Ate dinner. Did push ups. Sat next to me and prayed aloud for Charlie’s family for 10 minutes without prompting. Listened to two worship songs including “Rise up O men of God.” Watched a short talk by Charlie while eating. Hugged me and said “I need to be like Charlie. God help me.” Went to bed. Something is happening with young men. Burn like fire. Pour like rain.

[Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello]

Charlie Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, has a message for her husband’s “evildoers.”

“If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before you have no idea. You have no idea.”

[Hunter Kozak 🧦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @HunterEKozak]

I was talking to Charlie as he died. I made a video about it here. I hope his family and loved ones are safe ❤️

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

There's a debt that we owe Charlie.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.

But we aren't "one people" are we?

The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.

We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.

I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.

And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.

I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.

It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.

Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.

And the other side murdered him.

Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.

I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.

Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.

I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.

I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.

I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.

There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.

But then there will be a reckoning.

My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.

So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.

Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.

Ours is just beginning.

[Zachary Bell @zacharyebell]

This will be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history.

Charlie Kirk was murdered today for standing up for what he believed in.

Put politics aside — this isn’t about left or right.

He believed in free speech.
He believed in the peaceful exchange of ideas.
And he was killed for it.

The country I fought for feels like nothing more than a memory.

We are living in a nightmare.

[Alex Hollings @AlexHollings52]

Okay folks, I’m here to ask for your help — Sandboxx tasked me with hitting 500k subscribers on YouTube by the end of the month… and it’s going to be REALLY CLOSE.

Right now, we’re at 492,540… so I need 7,470 new subs in the next 22 days.

https://t.co/xhS1qVtqtR

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

@ayebee11 Good luck on getting it off any playlist you listen to. It's addicting

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

I wear a 13 narrow. I think I bought the 11's or 12's of the Echo Gum RO clog. They run big AF. I actually yelled FUCK in the store when I tried them on and walked around. I was visibly pissed. The sales guy helping had laughed and said, "You're not the first grown man to react that way."

[Brian Knecht @knecht_brian]

His reaction was my reaction 2 months ago. The wife started laughing at me when she saw his reaction as well. Never have I ever been so pissed about not only being wrong, but being pissed that I was wrong AND comfy.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

You Will Wear Crocs
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