00:13:15.000I haven't seen any of it at all, I haven't seen a minute of it.
00:13:19.000But I want to, but I want to watch and I want to see what happens.
00:13:24.000So we'll be experiencing it for the first time together.
00:13:30.000And I don't know if we'll watch the whole thing.
00:13:31.000The whole thing's an hour and four minutes, which I don't know if I could stomach an hour and four minutes of Benny Johnson, but we'll get through as much as we can.
00:13:39.000For as long as it's interesting, we'll watch it.
00:13:41.000And then if we get bored, then we'll switch it up.
00:16:14.000I'm one of these news parasites where I feed off of happenings, you know, whether it's current events or it's e drama, but only if it's consequential.
00:16:24.000I only care about e drama if it's like juicy, it involves people that matter, but if a couple of like gay retards are just, you know, fighting over nothing.
00:21:41.000If anybody watches this show, there's nothing confusing about it at all.
00:21:46.000You've even checked my Twitter after the UCLA thing.
00:21:51.000Well, my pinned tweet for like three weeks said something to the effect of We like and respect Don Jr., we are trying to expose Charlie Kirk, who is a subversive infiltrator in the MAGA movement.
00:22:37.000Before my YouTube channel got banned, I was easily getting 40, 50, 60,000 views per show.
00:22:45.000If you go back in December, throughout December, I was even up at a couple of videos past 100,000, and a lot of them were like clearing 70,000, 80,000.
00:22:57.000In January, after my first strike, and I had gone on vacation and then I was banned for a week, I was still pushing like 50,000 right up until I got banned.
00:23:08.00050,000 views for a two hour live stream with a half hour of music in front of it, 70,000 subscribers.
00:23:20.000It's a clean cut, edited, high production value, one hour interview with a special guest.
00:23:26.000And the guy can't clear 65,000 views, which, you know, his whole show has really declined.
00:23:34.000One of the things we talk about, across the board, I remember when Dave Rubin, I don't know if you guys remember, but Dave Rubin used to be like huge with Peterson and Ben Shapiro and who else?
00:28:49.000Or Rashida Taleb, who's out on the campaign trail with him, out on the campaign trail with him on a regular basis, someone who says the Holocaust gives her a calming feeling.
00:28:58.000This is just shocking that Drogan is the guy who needs to be deep sixed.
00:29:05.000We're all going to embrace Michael Moore, and we're going to, you know, literally communist Michael Moore, communist AOC, and open anti Semite Rashida Taleb and Ilhan Omar.
00:29:17.000Let's shift a little bit to this impeachment thing.
00:29:19.000That was a very serious, that was a very serious, wow, very serious take from Benny Johnson there.
00:30:36.000What I am doing, and what I do on a professional basis every day, is I take the meme culture world, the meme world, prequel memes, Star Wars memes, I mean, some of the best memes out there are Star Wars memes, and you apply that to politics, and you are able to get an intersectional point where you can get a young kid or some young person who might know Star Wars but doesn't quite understand what's going on with impeachment, and you can frame it, the world for them, based on Star Wars, and actually bring them into the political process.
00:32:59.000He was subsequently fired from BuzzFeed and apologized for the plagiarism.
00:33:03.000A few weeks later, he became digital director at National Review Online.
00:33:08.000That's kind of weird when you think about it, isn't it?
00:33:13.000How does somebody get fired for plagiarism as a journalist, which should be like one of the worst things?
00:33:18.000I mean, like one of the worst things you could do.
00:33:20.000As a journalist, from a professional standpoint, if your business is content and more specifically like original creative content, shouldn't cheating at that, lying, deception about your work?
00:33:38.000I would think that'd be one of the worst things you could do.
00:33:40.000Like, shouldn't that destroy your reputation?
00:33:43.000So, how is it that, you know, a few weeks later he gets a job at National Review, digital director?
00:35:09.000In 2015, a few months after he was hired by National Review, he joined the IJR as the creative content director later that year.
00:35:20.000IJR staffers accused Johnson of plagiarism.
00:35:24.000In 2017, Johnson was suspended by the IJR after Johnson's involvement in an article which asserted that Judge Derek Watson's partial blocking of.
00:35:32.000Executive Order 13780 was connected to former President Barack Obama's trip to Hawaii.
00:35:38.000Later that year, Johnson was demoted for violating IJR's company ethics.
00:35:43.000Business Insider reported that Johnson had been verbally abusive and driven numerous staffers away from the IJR due to his management style.
00:35:50.000Johnson and IJR's relationship was terminated in October 2017.
00:35:55.000Johnson joined the Daily Caller in November 2017.
00:36:06.000Because, from what I just read, this is like a complete and total scumbag who can't do his job right, who just seems incompetent and like a total disaster.
00:36:17.000And yet, every time he gets handed an opportunity and shits the bad, there it is, in short order, lined up at another job.
00:36:28.000He's at BuzzFeed, 10% of his articles plagiarized.
00:36:32.000A few months after that, he's hired by National Review.
00:37:11.000Is that you don't get inside the influence machine unless you're controlled.
00:37:16.000Like, that is really what it amounts to.
00:37:19.000It's like the music industry or television or anything like that.
00:37:24.000Any of the mega celebrities, they're allowed to become mega celebrities because they had to, like, do a pedophile sex ritual or they got branded on their ass by, you know, with, like, a Star of David or a pentagram or something.
00:37:58.000You make the deal, you sell your soul, you give up control, you give up your spirit, and in exchange, you're always going to be taken care of, basically.
00:38:58.000And the idea is maybe somebody's got something on him, so he's promoted through the ranks because they know they can control him because they've got blackmail material.
00:39:09.000That's what Jeffrey Epstein was about.
00:39:10.000That was the whole deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:39:12.000I'm not making this up, it's not coming out of my ass.
00:39:17.000This is something that is established in the world.
00:39:21.000That's the modus operandi of the system, that's the MO of the system.
00:41:31.000There's not much, there's not a ton of things you could do that's really gonna, like, you know, like you're gonna graduate from high school and then you're gonna be an adult, then you'll be a player.
00:41:43.000So, there's not much you could do that's going to help yourself.
00:41:45.000I'm not saying that, you know, there's not anything you can do to help yourself.
00:41:48.000You can read books and study and, you know, learn skills and all that.
00:41:54.000But I mean, like, you're not going to become like a mogul, you know, when you're generally speaking.
00:42:00.000But there are so many things that you can do that will ruin your life.
00:42:04.000Like, the biggest thing that you can do to set yourself apart from everybody else and to put yourself on a good path is not doing something, it's refraining from doing dumb things, right?
00:42:16.000Like, there's not a ton of things I would prescribe to people that it's like, how do I get ahead?
00:42:20.000How am I going to set myself up for success?
00:42:22.000Well, you could, like, read and blah, blah, blah, but it's not so much what you should do, what you should not do.
00:42:27.000Dumb, life-ruining things that you should not do.
00:42:49.000You know, and that is one of the reasons why I don't drink, do drugs.
00:42:53.000Also, one of the reasons why, you know, even before I was a total like Christian zealot, why I wasn't so engaged with dating and all that.
00:43:04.000Because the more that you engage with your vices, and I don't necessarily mean that women are a vice, but particularly with drugs and alcohol, but sometimes it can be with women, you're exposing yourself to risk.
00:43:18.000You know, like that is a window through which.
00:43:24.000That is a vulnerability through which people can attack you, control you, do all kinds of things.
00:43:30.000So, if you're clean, if you're like clean and you're just doing your thing and you're doing the right thing and you're basically on guard, there's not a whole lot they can do to mess with you.
00:44:26.000Outside of the impeachment hearings, you're asking questions about politics and Trump and impeachment all through the lens of a little movie called Star Wars.
00:45:34.000If Star Wars references about President Trump are worthy of having him be impeached, I am the Senate.
00:45:42.000We're going to see if these leftist protesters believe that the president should be impeached, for instance, of killing a fictional general, General Grievous.
00:46:27.000I'm not like the, you know, I'm not like the most handsome guy in the world.
00:46:33.000I'm not the most Chad guy in the world.
00:46:35.000So, but these people just have like a sick.
00:46:39.000I can't like put my finger on it, but it's just weak.
00:46:45.000It's like a very, I don't know if it's facial expressions or it's just the physiognomy, just like the underlying facial structure, but I mean, this is not like a person that I can trust.
00:46:57.000Many people felt a disturbance in the force when General Grievous was killed.
00:47:03.000What do you think about the killing of General Grievous and why, you know, was it right or wrong?
00:48:32.000I remember a time before Man on the Street, the genre of videos where you get a political person that goes out and says something that's not true, but saying it like it is true, or like it's something else.
00:49:16.000Maybe it was funny like the first time it happened when people would, I think, like the first iterations of it is people would go out and I don't know, you know, it would be.
00:49:28.000Quizzing people about U.S. history and they don't know what they're talking about, or it's, you know, Jimmy Kimmel asking people about things that didn't happen.
00:49:37.000People are saying Charlie Chaplin, Jaylen, other stuff.
00:49:43.000Yeah, I don't know the history of that thing, but I'll just tell you, I never found it very funny.
00:49:50.000And especially this, like, political stuff.
00:49:52.000I mean, if you have, like, a new take or a different take on it, or it's edgy, that's a different story.
00:51:15.000It's more funny to, you know, troll people, trigger people, that kind of thing.
00:51:21.000Then, like, I never liked the, like, liberal night host, comedy, late night show host thing where it's like they make you look like an asshole with editing, or, you know, you know what I mean?
00:51:34.000Like, they do that, or they'll do an interview and they'll interview somebody and then.
00:51:40.000They'll go in and editing and do voiceover and make you look like a jerk.
00:51:56.000Like, I think it's much more funny to just be confrontational and outrageous and for you to be the clown, not make the other person look like a clown.
00:52:05.000On some level, I think that's just chucking a bomb.
00:52:09.000Not literally, but you know what I mean.
00:52:11.000I've always found that a lot more funny.
00:52:16.000Are you doing something goofy and somebody, you know, see how they react, something like that?
00:52:21.000But, you know, this, I've never thought this was very funny.
00:52:25.000And also, you know, I guess in some cases, I don't know, some of these are better than others, but you're watching a video like this and what are even like the reactions?
00:52:35.000It's one thing if you get a really good reaction out of somebody, like they're like, oh yeah, like in Darth Vader, who is a real person, blah, blah, blah.
00:52:42.000If you get some guy who has like a really goofy, over the top, funny response, but like with the one we just watched, The guy just didn't talk.
00:52:50.000He just didn't know what was happening for 30 seconds.
00:52:53.000Oh, we asked this guy a silly question, and then we asked some homeless guy on the street a question, and he just didn't know what to say for 20 seconds.
00:54:49.000I thought the whole joke is when Jimmy Kimmel would do it like way back when, it would be a ridiculous, oh, remember on the awards show when they smashed that watermelon and people are like, oh, yeah, I do remember that.
00:55:47.000Either we have it and we need to live by it, both the citizens and our government, or we don't and we don't give a crap one way or the other.
00:58:27.000So, yeah, they can, and that's what the whole turning point thing comes down to across the board is they can create, and that's what it is.
00:58:35.000They throw money at it and they make these professionals produce their whole thing, you know, whether it's their college tour, their videos, their Twitter, whatever.
00:58:50.000And it's really like these Potemkin villages.
00:58:59.000It's all designed to convince you that there's like some semblance of an ideology or a movement or a really cogent point being made, but there's no substance there.
00:59:11.000It's like they spent all this money creating this shell.
00:59:14.000It's like in World War II when they would build all those inflatable tanks and inflatable jets so that when the Germans would spy on them, they would take aerial photographs, they would see this fake army of.
00:59:49.000It's just throwing money, creating this fake thing that's meant to convince you that it's a real thing, and then people start to buy into it.
00:59:56.000Well, then they might have something like a real thing, you know?
00:59:59.000Which is like this joke, this video, their whole thing.
01:00:11.000It's a small portion of this video that you put out there, and I think now my audience understands why I wanted to throw that before we do anything else here.
01:00:18.000Now, that one gentleman at the end did make a good point.
01:00:21.000Should we not have taken General Grievous in and put him on trial?
01:00:25.000I mean, he was the leader of the Separatist army.
01:00:27.000He had just taken over from Count Dooku, who's a horrible human being.
01:01:05.000When you do these videos, because I know most people watching them are going, oh, come on, he must have had to go to a thousand different people to get the five, ten, first five guys.
01:01:39.000It would be one thing if they said Darth Vader.
01:01:42.000But General Grievous is like a little known character from Revenge of the Sith.
01:01:48.000You think if you go up to some resistance boomer who's like 60 years old that they're going to know the name of a secondary character from the third movie in the prequel trilogy from 15 years ago?
01:02:02.000I kept prodding them, like saying, I kept saying weird things like thermal detonator and, uh, The Force and the Dark Side, but they didn't catch General Grievous.
01:02:13.000I kept, oh, hey, how about the killing of Kit Fisto, Plo Koon, North Korean General Plo Koon?
01:03:49.000So the purpose of a video like this is never to actually make fun of anyone.
01:03:53.000What I'm trying to do is to show that there is a bankruptcy when it comes to the understanding of why we are impeaching this president.
01:03:59.000Why do Are these people actually out there protesting?
01:04:02.000Every person in the video is protesting for Trump's impeachment.
01:04:05.000Yet, even when asked if they should impeach Trump for killing General Grievous, which was my question, should we impeach Trump for killing a fictional Star Wars villain?
01:04:16.000And so, what I am doing and what I do on a professional basis every day is I take the meme culture world, the meme world, prequel memes, Star Wars memes, I mean, some of the best memes out there are Star Wars memes, and you apply that to politics, and you are able to get an intersectional point where you can get a young kid.
01:04:35.000Or some young person who might know Star Wars but doesn't quite understand what's going on with impeachment.
01:04:40.000And you can frame it, the world for them, based on Star Wars and actually bring them into the political process, which is very important.
01:05:27.000Some like asinine, basic, generic partisan take.
01:05:32.000I'm going to assume that it says something like that.
01:05:36.000So really, you don't have a meme here.
01:05:38.000You have a completely generic. Partisan take, shit out by some super PAC, but it says, Riddle me this, and there's a picture of the Riddler.
01:05:48.000That's one of the best memes out there.
01:09:39.000About Star Wars, because I meme the hell out of Star Wars, probably only second to you, right?
01:09:45.000And there's something, particularly about the prequels, that the memes just, you know, how does democracy die with thunderous applause, and I am the Senate, and all of those lines, they seem so powerful right now.
01:09:58.000And it's like, what do you think it is about Star Wars specifically that leads to this?
01:10:03.000Where other movies, you can meme some things from other movies, but not like the Endless amount from Star Wars that just feels right for the moment all the time.
01:10:11.000I will answer this and we'll see how Benny Johnson answers.
01:10:33.000Music, movies, video games, internet culture, that kind of thing.
01:10:40.000And memes are constructed using these mass media cultural artifacts.
01:10:46.000This is why, what are memes for boomers?
01:10:50.000It's, you know, Carpe Donctum taking a Spaceballs clip and putting Donald Trump's head over it.
01:10:58.000Why does that resonate with baby boomers?
01:11:00.000Because baby boomers watched Spaceballs, they saw it in theaters.
01:11:06.000And Spaceballs is based off of Star Wars.
01:11:08.000You know, Spaceballs is like a meme, it's like a pre internet meme.
01:11:12.000It took Star Wars, which was a cultural artifact of the boomers, one of these massively popular things, resonant, recognizable, and relatable to a whole generation, and it dunked on it and did jokes.
01:11:25.000And it took imagery and tone from that and it made fun of it.
01:12:03.000I don't know if I'm articulating this well.
01:12:04.000I don't know if you know what I'm talking about, but they'll take like an old song, like an old rock song from the 80s, where the chorus will be a phrase.
01:12:15.000And in a commercial, they'll take that phrase and make that like the theme of the commercial.
01:12:18.000Like it'll be that song, Turn Around Bright Eyes, and the commercial's somebody turning around.
01:12:22.000Or it'll be, you know, a movie with silly characters like Eminem's.
01:12:27.000And they'll play Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye because that's the funny romance song.
01:12:31.000And, you know, it's silly characters doing romantic things.
01:12:35.000These are the memes of old people, it's made up of their cultural artifacts, their mass media.
01:12:41.000Why Star Wars is memeable, why it's hot right now.
01:12:47.000Is because it's nostalgic for the Zoomers, for this generation, for the generation of who comprises Instagram and TikTok and Twitter these days, which is people between the ages of 15 and 20, 25.
01:13:02.000You know, that's like that young demographic.
01:13:04.000All those people who saw Star Wars, all those people at Star Wars made a big impact on them.
01:13:09.000They played Lego Star Wars, they watched the movie, it touched their lives.
01:13:19.000In the same way, which is why memes these days are comprised of video game songs, the Fortnite dance, it's things that are recognizable and relatable across a mass scale.
01:13:30.000The experience, experiencing an artifact of mass media, is a shared experience across the board.
01:13:40.000Because if it's not recognizable or relatable, the experience of consuming it is not relatable, it doesn't take off because people don't get it.
01:13:48.000And memes sometimes become hot because a meme is so artificially pushed around, or maybe it's a small group of people that understand it, but everybody then experiences it online, something like Big Chungus, you know, where I've never seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon where he turns fat, but it permeates across the internet, and everybody has the experience of the tone of that image and how it's used.
01:15:00.000He based the empire on Nazis and he based the rebellion on fighting Nazis.
01:15:05.000And so, for people like us, particularly, you were able to find these moral threads that you could pull out of the basic Star Wars story the evil of oppressive, overarching, brutalist government, how it tries to squash hope, how hope must rise in order to fight that greatest evil, which is an oppressive.
01:15:28.000Overarching, massive, usually by emergency powers, government that can take over all of our lives.
01:15:35.000And that is the truth that this was based on.
01:15:38.000And I think it hits at a human truth, a truth that goes all the way back to our founding and much of the Renaissance good that comes from the idea that man is man and man wants freedom and man has liberties that should not be corrupted and oppressed by a government.
01:15:53.000Well, it's funny because that is like a completely idiotic take.
01:17:45.000That is like a political deterministic argument as opposed to a sort of cultural, I don't know, an intimacy sort of determinism.
01:17:55.000I love things from my childhood that I shouldn't, that don't line up with my politics, but I love them and I perpetuate them and they resonate with me because of experience, not because of symmetry or alignment with, you know.
01:18:12.000Even talking about politics in that context is just like.
01:18:18.000It really takes an idiot to say something like that.
01:18:22.000Because why memes are effective is because they bypass this kind of logical circuitry of, you know, making calculations about politics and, well, you know, these complex analogies, relatively speaking.
01:18:39.000Star Wars does not resonate with me because I intuitively see the analogy between the Nazis and the socialist government and the Empire in Star Wars and.
01:18:50.000I mean, if that were the case, we would only be memeing like the Jedi and not the Star Wars stuff.
01:19:51.000And anyway, and by the way, hey, and by the way, the prequels were not about the Nazis.
01:19:57.000The original trilogy was about the Nazis.
01:20:00.000The original trilogy, you had white, red, and black for the empire because that was the Nazi symbolism.
01:20:08.000But for the prequel trilogy, it was actually about George W. Bush, and George Lucas talked about this.
01:20:15.000George Lucas talked about how, you know, the stuff about emergency powers, which Benny Johnson is talking about in the context of, I don't know, like Barack Obama.
01:21:56.000Like the qualities of a human being, which would be having inside of you tension and conflict and all these things, it's not present there.
01:22:49.000In the same way that, you know, when my dad talks to me about television in the 1960s, like, I don't fucking get it because I didn't grow up through it.
01:22:57.000And my father doesn't understand TikTok and gaming and streaming and all that because he didn't grow up with it.
01:23:04.000You know, he'll tell me, I just don't understand your generation, how you watch each other play video games, how you play video games cooperatively, like on Fortnite.
01:23:12.000I don't understand this TikTok stuff, anime.
01:23:40.000But should they have been allowed to just kill him as Obi Wan did?
01:23:44.000Or should they have captured him and taken him in for trial?
01:23:47.000That actually is an interesting philosophical point that.
01:23:50.000We debate all the time because that's to your point.
01:23:52.000That when we killed Soleimani, everyone was saying, well, you can't just kill the guy, you have to bring him in for a trial or the rest of it.
01:23:58.000That, I mean, that really all does add up to why memes work.
01:26:31.000Almost universally, anything that's been written in the last.
01:26:36.000I don't even know, like 30 years is a mistake.
01:26:40.000And there's exceptions, but I just hate this yuppie, like pop.
01:26:48.000I don't even know what you would call it, but like this pop genre, pop psychology, pop, you know, all the other different genres of interest.
01:26:57.000You know, like Reddit tier, pop science, pop technology, pop this.
01:27:01.000And it's like, you know, some totally yuppie take.
01:27:06.000From some guru, you know, some asshole.
01:28:16.000If you're reading somebody that didn't have a journal talking about Jewry or about racial classifications or anything like that, throw it out.
01:28:49.000All the great men that you might read, all the real experts, existed before this yuppie political correctness bullshit.
01:28:57.000And you can guarantee that you're not reading something that's actually true or anybody that cares about the truth if it's somebody that's so manicured that they could get by with the modern standard.
01:29:08.000Anybody that could be a highly paid, highly acclaimed, critically acclaimed author is somebody that has their intellectual balls chopped off.
01:29:19.000That's why you have to go back a hundred years.
01:29:24.000You go back 100 years, and it doesn't matter who you read, whether it's Hegel or Schmidt, or you could read who's the one that writes about Cthulhu and all that.
01:33:07.000Well, I'm pretty sure we could do the Star Wars thing the entire way.
01:33:11.000So let's just do a little bit more, though, in case there's anyone out there watching this that doesn't have the appreciation of the Star Wars meme meeting point that we do.
01:33:50.000It's a way to make sure we keep the Star Wars thing the entire way.
01:33:54.000So let's just do a little bit more, though, in case there's anyone out there watching this that doesn't have the appreciation of the Star Wars meme meeting point that we do.
01:34:02.000You mentioned something really interesting to me right before we started about how.
01:34:07.000The way the Star Wars movies have progressed or regressed, I suppose, depending on which way you look at it, is really reflective of internet culture in general.
01:34:16.000Because I think it's really super interesting.
01:35:02.000And we can, the feedback mechanisms are now available in a decentralized universe where the studios have to listen.
01:35:13.000To the consumers, and where we are able to online demand something or ask for something or consume at a rate where it's a feedback loop instead of them just making a Star Wars and hoping we like it.
01:35:26.000They make a Star Wars and then we tell them if we like it, right?
01:35:29.000You can hear what happened after the last jet.
01:36:58.000If he's trying to tell us that the democratization of culture is a good thing in the case of Star Wars, well, okay, very easy way to test that hypothesis.
01:37:08.000You have three generations of Star Wars 1977 to 1983, 1999 to 2005, and 2015 to 2019.
01:37:19.000And which generation is the best, and which generation is the worst?
01:37:25.000And where are they on the continuum of this democratization of culture?
01:37:31.000It is quite literally best, middle, and worst going from least democratization, least mass media internet to most.
01:37:45.000The original trilogy, prequel trilogy, sequel trilogy.
01:38:24.000The whole trilogy didn't make any sense because each director was trying to accommodate the fans' reaction to the previous movie.
01:38:32.000Even if it was a misguided trilogy, but they just committed to something, it would have been better.
01:38:38.000Even if it was a bad trilogy, if they had just committed to it and ignored the fans, they would have had a coherent theme, coherent motifs, plot, there would be character arcs.
01:38:51.000But instead, what we got was this schizophrenic, bipolar, totally incoherent mess, which was trying to please the rabble.
01:39:04.000And, you know, there's obviously, in some cases it works, like that Sonic thing.
01:39:09.000You know, they showed the Sonic trailer and people didn't like it and then they changed it.
01:39:13.000But I don't know if you could say objectively, you know, especially if you're talking about Star Wars, that this has been a good thing.
01:39:19.000And it speaks to, you know, talking about a trilogy like that actually makes a lot of sense because, I mean, what is a trilogy?
01:39:28.000It is a long term project, it requires a greater vision, right, than a single movie, than a single installment.
01:39:38.000A trilogy takes place over, in the case of the first two movies, it took place over six years, three movies, right?
01:39:48.000And so something like that requires you to have a far out vision, to plan far ahead, for there to be that concentrated and focused creative idea, and to be persistent and consistent throughout.
01:40:07.000And that is just like all great projects.
01:40:11.000That are not even just artistic, but anything, any great project, any great infrastructure project, any great scientific achievement, any great national effort that requires that kind of, and it's different obviously for culture, but a level of sacrifice, that level of vision and focus and consistency and all that.
01:40:32.000And we're unable to do anything like that.
01:40:35.000We're unable to do anything that is of grand scale, anything that's really meaningful, right?
01:40:43.000Because what we have is the, and I know this is like cringe boomer stuff, but the instant gratification, we have the instant reaction, having to please the consumers, having to please and assuage the concerns of the shareholders and the critics and so on.
01:41:40.000The dialogue is clunky, and the special effects aren't always great, and the casting wasn't amazing, and there's goofy characters and so on.
01:41:49.000But what it represents is a coherent vision the plot, the story, the theme, all that.
01:41:55.000There's a clear arc from start to finish with Obi-Wan, with Anakin, with, you know, there's a clear idea that is, there's an exposition of this idea over the course of the three films about, you know, good and evil and all this.
01:42:17.000So whether you like it or you don't, what it represents is a clear project with a vision, and the sequel trilogy is bad.
01:42:27.000And it's made worse by the fact that it lacks all those things.
01:42:59.000And then desperately, JJ comes in to try to, like, fix it.
01:43:03.000And there are four to five different moments in The Rise of Skywalker where they papered over what Rianne did, and that's because of the response online.
01:43:12.000And so, this mechanism can actually make you more powerful than the studios producing these things.
01:45:10.000I think the best version of this, in terms of internet culture, is the all female Ghostbusters.
01:45:15.000It had nothing to do with it all being women, but it was a patently terrible movie.
01:45:20.000And then the audience goes crazy, and then you get the next layer of this, which I want to talk to you about, which is suddenly the media that runs protection for bad movies, right?
01:45:29.000And then starts attacking the audiences.
01:45:31.000And that's what happened in Ghostbusters.
01:45:32.000We saw that happen in Last Jedi too, where they say it's all angry white male trolls who hate Last Jedi or hate Ghostbusters, and it's racist Trump supporters who hate these things.
01:45:42.000And it's the media then attacking the fan base at, I don't know, is it at the behest of the studio or is it just because the whole machine just kind of works like that or what?
01:45:51.000I think it has everything to do with what's going on in society right now.
01:45:55.000I cover politics, but the election in 2016 was precisely this bubble.
01:46:02.000The same thing that happens with a Star Wars movie or Ghostbuster happened in 2016, where you have a group of people that are so insulated in their own virtue signaling and woke devism and slack devism, and they must insert that into everything in their lives, and it blinds them to understanding what an actual normal consumer wants.
01:46:24.000And so then you have the rise of something, a real anger, that the things that we cherish are being destroyed.
01:46:32.000And one of the last few good things out there was Star Wars.
01:46:36.000And from both sides, you have this kind of yelp, this anger from the base when we watch The Last Jedi and realize that it's now just a serving dish for someone's political worldview and you must eat it.
01:46:53.000I mean, the orcs are not just at the gate, they've like, Come in and they've desecrated the temple.
01:46:58.000One of the last few things that we actually all could come together on was that we all kind of loved Star Wars, and then that's destroyed, and you're going to get backlash.
01:47:06.000This happened in 2016, you got the election of President Trump, and this is happening now when it comes to our entire culture, whether that be Star Wars or Ghostbuster or national politics.
01:47:17.000What do you think about the idea that because big studios now run so much of our entertainment, that that also has fed all of this?
01:47:24.000Like the Star Wars posters look exactly like the Marvel posters.
01:49:12.000And that is something that I think people are very much hungering for on a national level.
01:49:17.000And you're watching now people running for.
01:49:21.000Speaking of new stories, I mean, look at the number of people who have never been in politics that are now running and winning and becoming very, very famous.
01:49:34.000I think they're going to wreck the country if you give them power.
01:49:38.000But listen, they have become heroes now because there's a new story, there's a new narrative out there.
01:49:44.000And of course, the opposite of that would be.
01:49:49.000Multiple people who have never had any experience on the conservative side of the aisle running for office and following a Trumpian model of I am the outsider.
01:49:59.000And the idea that there's a new story out there really gravitates, it really brings people in.
01:50:04.000And again, you have a president who's pretty much our version of that, elected outside of the media bubble, outside of the groupthink that occurs, inside of the Acela corridor between DC and New York.
01:50:19.000And the groupthink said, Like every Marvel poster looked alike, every poll looked exactly the same in 2016.
01:50:26.000Every what Hillary Clinton, nine remember the Huffington Post?
01:50:33.000You've seen the same compilations I have, and so it's like every poster looks the same, and people start rejecting it and wanting a new story.
01:50:40.000And now you have arguably, I mean, very easily, the most powerful that's the stupidest thing I ever heard has been elected because people were so desperate and hungry for a new story and not and rejecting.
01:50:52.000The same stuff that's been forced on us for decades.
01:50:54.000All right, so before we go too far into the Trump thing, and I want to talk impeachment and how this is all related to media and all that, now let's go to where I usually start the interviews, which is how the hell did you get into this whole thing?
01:53:38.000And I've always wanted to bring and mesh the worlds that.
01:53:44.000A lot of young people understand the cultural world, mesh that in with politics.
01:53:48.000People understand the political world around them.
01:53:50.000Quite frankly, that's the most important thing you can understand, is in there.
01:53:54.000So, as an Iowa guy, is it shocking or strange or backwards, or is it the way it's supposed to be that in just a few weeks, this straw poll, which seems so antiquated and ridiculous in so many ways, is the thing that is going to set the next eight months in motion, really?
01:58:34.000And before I get you back on my show, I would seriously want to have a talk with you because you've been dropping in certain streams the N word just out of nowhere.
01:59:18.000I actually have made a Word document if you want to see it.
01:59:22.000It's still supposed to be within their rules.
01:59:24.000It's just they have a flawed way of enforcing these things by having robots go and get it because you're not advocating violence towards a group or anything.
02:00:46.000And the guy used to do pretty well, but he's been failing for like years now because his show sucks and he's boring and he can't even understand what he says.
02:00:56.000And I get banned on YouTube and everything.
02:06:16.000That's right, Caitlin Bennett, the woman with an IQ at room temperature, is lying about me to her followers.
02:06:23.000Well, I'm tired of the lies, so here's my response.
02:06:27.000Let's skip forward over all the this guy is irrelevant BS and get to the meat of the video.
02:06:32.000He started his channel in 2014, making stupid run of the mill videos about memes and pop culture at a time when videos like this were all the rage.
02:06:41.000But then the 2016 election came along, and Hunter saw an opportunity to get political for easy views.
02:06:47.000First off, Caitlyn claims that I only started my political content.
02:06:51.000Okay, I full disclosure, Caitlyn Bennett has kind of been helpful for what we've been doing, you know, like during the Groyper Wars.
02:07:01.000She went to one of those, like a Daily Wire event, and she gave them a hard time.
02:07:10.000Those guys have been kind of cool to us.
02:07:12.000Caitlin Bennett's been kind of cool to us.
02:07:14.000So I don't want to go in too hard on her, because, you know, look, the way I see it, we have so many enemies.
02:07:22.000If people want to help us out and they have a platform, like, I don't know.
02:07:27.000It's not really smart to be vicious to those people.
02:07:29.000I said this a lot during Groyper Wars.
02:07:31.000It's like, people just want to put everybody on blast.
02:07:35.000And it's like, We have no shortage of people that are legitimate enemies that we hate.
02:07:41.000And so people want to support us and often going out on a limb.
02:07:45.000It's like, it's just not prudent politics to attack people.
02:07:49.000All that being said, it's like, why would you wear this?
02:07:54.000I mean, look, having said all that, having said that Caitlin's been helpful and she seems like she's got the right intentions, it's like, why would you wear this in a video?
02:09:30.000That doesn't mean we embrace like trendy values, but I think it behooves us to have a look that is good, you know, and not look like, you know, goofy.
02:09:44.000I'm not saying she looks goofy, but I was just, you know, not have goofy, strange, weird, quirky, you know, tacky looks.
02:12:05.000You said there's no amount of mediocrity that conservatives won't embrace, or something like that.
02:12:11.000On how, and I agree so much with that because all you have to do is just repeat the same conservative talking points and you will literally be accepted, promoted, given money, you get lots of followers.
02:12:26.000Like, it's so cringy to me to see these people like fucking Caitlin Bennett.
02:12:30.000Again, I don't want to shit talk like all conservatives because a lot of my followers are still conservatives.
02:12:35.000And there's also a lot of people who are like more right leaning, but they're still just like, they're just like kind of your casual, like, You know, Republican, conservative, sort of center.
02:12:46.000But, like, for a lot of people on the right, all they see is they're like a girl, she's pro gun, and she's interviewing, ha ha, dumb liberal, libtard wrecked.
02:12:56.000And that's just enough to, like, subscribe, like, comment, here's some money.
02:14:06.000She then proceeds to claim that since my audience started to get tired of my videos constantly bashing the libtards, I started to lose money and thus compromise my beliefs to gain more acceptance.
02:14:17.000Ironically, the Opposite is what happened.
02:14:20.000My channel was doing quite well when, out of the blue, it got banned for seven hours.
02:14:25.000Originally, I did think this was conservative censorship, and I've been very public about that as well.
02:14:30.000Back in 2017, I was banned from Twitter, and I've been banned ever since.
02:14:36.000At the time, I was quick to claim censorship or bias, but looking back now, I can see the guidelines I'd probably violated, no matter how ridiculous they might be.
02:14:46.000So, next, Caitlin claims that after my channel was deleted, I became an SJW to play it safe on YouTube.
02:14:53.000Then last April, he was banned from YouTube and, luckily for him, was able to get his account reinstated.
02:15:00.000In the years since briefly getting banned, Hunter has rebranded himself as a woke social justice warrior.
02:15:08.000Any videos that were deleted or demonetized either dealt with topics that were insulting to subject matter or it was because my blatantly edgy delivery went against TOS.
02:15:17.000I could have easily watched this shit, really?
02:17:45.000She takes these clips out of context and deceptively edits them to make it appear that I was crapping on Ben Shapiro when that really wasn't the case.
02:17:53.000I also think a lot of people on the right honestly do believe what they're saying.
02:17:57.000And that's always been the boat that I was in, which I know it doesn't, some of the shit that I used to say, especially about trans people, it doesn't make it any better that I did believe that.
02:18:07.000But I really do think that they're a little more genuine, a little more honest.
02:21:22.000At this point in the video, Caitlin is just grasping at straws and being extremely hypocritical.
02:21:27.000She's attempting to say that because I went on a podcast with a YouTuber who defended Antifa and Marxism, that somehow reflects poorly on me.
02:21:36.000Ironically enough, she says this just a little later.
02:21:39.000Then in his video, he lies and says, I'm the one that wrote this tweet, even though he knows full well that I don't run the Liberty Hangout Twitter.
02:21:48.000She actually has stated she thinks a monarchy is better than a complete democracy.
02:21:52.000He wants you to hate me for things I didn't even say.
02:21:55.000Interesting how Caitlyn Bennett is engaging in cheap, liberal tactics like guilt by association when I go on a podcast with someone whose beliefs don't align with my own.
02:22:05.000It's funny how she's trying to smear me because I went on a podcast, but then she is the face of Liberty Hangout.
02:22:12.000And doesn't want to be associated with any of their tweets.
02:22:15.000Oh my gosh, this is just like so juvenile.
02:23:38.000If Hunter really wanted to save his career, he would have dropped the edgy delivery of his videos, kept spewing Republican talking points, and see the digits rise.
02:23:48.000But no, he deleted videos with millions of views, publicly disagrees with both sides of the political spectrum, causing lots of Republicans to hate him, whilst still being hated by the left.
02:24:00.000That is literally the opposite of trying to save his career.
02:24:03.000Hunter, I think you are paving the way for many people.
02:24:06.000This echo chamber needs to stop on both sides.
02:24:10.000Hashtag Hunter was a free thinker before it was cool.
02:24:19.000You need to stop saying like all the time, though.
02:25:23.000You know, and this is actually almost worse than anything else in some ways.
02:25:27.000A lot of people might not understand why, but it really allows you to enter into the brain form, the mindset of an NPC.
02:25:35.000You know, imagine watching this video and like thoughtfully contributing to it with this comment, like thoughtfully responding in the comment section.
02:31:48.000He tells people don't buy anything because if you buy something flashy, well, it draws attention and then, you know, you could get pinched, as he says.
02:31:58.000If you buy, he buys a fur coat for his wife and then the next guy comes in and he buys his wife a car and he says, oh, why would you buy that car?
02:32:37.000So, Narf comments I'd love to do a parody of this where people keep walking in with different expensive shit, and Jimmy keeps getting crazier and crazier.
02:32:51.000Like, One guy would walk in with a gold grill and a bunch of strippers, then another guy comes in with a giraffe or something.
02:33:02.000Now, like, first of all, envision yourself commenting this.
02:33:06.000Envision yourself, like, watching a funny scene and being like, what if, what if, you know, okay, I don't have to do the voice, retard voice, but, like, that to me was enough where I'm like, let's see the replies to this.
02:33:19.000I want to see this kind of, like, play out, like an ant farm, kind of.
02:33:34.000Yeah, the last guy gets an airport themed parade float with bags of money and scantily clad chicks holding machine guns under a banner saying, We did it.
02:37:53.000If the writers of Saturday Night Live saw his comment on this video and stole his comedy sketch idea and they did it, well, Narf wouldn't be mad that he didn't copyright it and have the rights to it because he doesn't have the money to fund his sketch idea that he wrote in this comment to make it a reality.
02:38:12.000So if somebody else wanted to take his funny idea and make it happen, well, that wouldn't bother him.
02:40:25.000And to top off the craziness, the silliness of the sketch, we're even going to break the laws of the sketch.
02:40:32.000We're going to break the sort of internal rules in this created universe of the comedy sketch.
02:40:38.000And we're going to even go outside the bounds of time itself.
02:40:43.000To exaggerate it to a whole new level.
02:40:47.000You know, the car, the giraffe, and now we're going to incorporate something anachronistic, like a MacBook or a PS4, and the juxtaposition of something that isn't even invented yet will further highlight the ridiculousness of these items.
02:43:37.000I understand why you might think someone else came up with that because there are so many replies here, because there are so many contributions to this working sketch idea.
02:43:46.000I would understand why you might think why somebody would have come up with the key and peel hat idea for the sketch.
02:43:54.000But no, that's the first one I've heard.
02:46:54.000Then, just as Jimmy loses it completely, a wide walks in dressed as Michael Jackson with black shoes, white socks, and a diamond encrusted white glove and says, Hey, Jimmy, meet Tito.
02:47:12.000No, it would be much funnier to go the other direction.
02:47:15.000Have him flip out over a wool sweater, then a t shirt, then jeans.
02:55:10.000Seeing that is harder for me to watch than like people getting decapitated.
02:55:15.000It's easier for me to watch like that video of those two Norwegian girls that were hiking and got their heads chopped off, which I watched.
02:55:24.000It's like easier for me to watch a guy get exploded by an anti aircraft gun, you know, or that there was that one time when that kid blew his head off with a shotgun, an R9K, and then everyone was posting suicide snuff movies.
02:55:49.000That's an example of hyperbole, which is, of course, the essence of comedy.
02:55:54.000I am joking when I say that, but it is to give you an idea of the magnitude of just kind of what that represents and why it's kind of troubling on an existential level.
03:00:22.000This song is from the album I Want You by Marvin Gaye.
03:00:26.000And you actually probably don't even know about this album unless you're black.
03:00:32.000People know about Marvin Gaye, and they know about, you know, what's going on and all the hits.
03:00:39.000But unless you're black, you don't know about this album, which is epic.
03:00:46.000And I was listening to this, there was a version of this song that I was listening to the other day, and I was like, this is only like 30 seconds.
03:00:52.000And I found out that there's, I was thinking of the unedited version.
03:00:57.000I heard, like, there's, this is the unedited version of a different song, and I heard the edited version.
03:01:02.000I'm like, this doesn't, this should be longer.
03:01:06.000And I searched it up, and lo and behold, I found the unedited version, which I haven't heard in years.
03:25:48.000We got a submachine gun, and then we have sort of like a scout sniper here.
03:25:53.000Yeah, you know what on second thought that's really not gonna be good headquarters Capture each HQ as it comes online Let's try the let's try the goofy class Uh oh!