00:19:31.000They made like House of Cards, Orange is a New Black.
00:19:34.000Those are like the two big properties that, uh,.
00:19:39.000Came out of the streaming services, original programming, and they're just funneling millions, crazy money into the original programming.
00:19:47.000And so Amazon came out with their show called Hunters.
00:19:53.000It debuted, it premiered, I guess, what, two weeks ago, about?
00:19:59.000Yeah, a little bit more than two weeks ago, February 21st, 2020.
00:20:03.000The series is inspired by, so fucking retarded.
00:20:08.000The series is inspired by a number of real Nazi hunters through the decades, but is not meant to be as.
00:20:13.000Specific representation of any of them.
00:20:15.000It follows a diverse band of Nazi hunters living in 1977 New York City who discovered that Nazi war criminals are conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the United States.
00:20:29.000This isn't exactly, by the way, a new genre.
00:20:31.000If you watch Boys from Brazil, there are a lot of movies about Nazi plots, particularly in the 70s, there's a lot of stuff like this.
00:20:48.000Is American nationalist posted some of these clips.
00:20:52.000So we'll play some of these clips and you can just judge for yourself and then we'll get into some more stuff.
00:20:57.000But the premise of the show so they gave you like a short synopsis on Wikipedia, but basically the premise is that after World War II, the Nazis came to the United States, which is true, but that did happen.
00:21:12.000The Nazis came over to the United States to work for NASA.
00:21:34.000They're from the Nazi regime and they go undercover and they're trying to take over America from the inside.
00:21:43.000And then there's this group of Jews and they're super, aw, they're badass.
00:21:49.000It's like a few Jews, a black woman with an afro.
00:21:53.000Some like Nun, this Jewish kid, and they all band together and they're going to hunt the Nazis.
00:21:59.000So there's this sort of cat and mouse game of the Nazis trying to take over America and then this ragtag band of Jewish, I don't know what you call them, rebels, mercenaries.
00:22:54.000They say that actually this thing between Jews and Nazis goes back before Jews even existed.
00:23:01.000Before Jews even existed, people were hating Jews.
00:23:03.000That's literally what they talk about in the show.
00:23:07.000And it is just this constant battle of people attacking the Jews for no reason, and the Jews having to survive, and they have songs, and that's how they survive, and so on.
00:23:18.000And the war is never over, and we just have to fucking kill the Nazis.
00:23:23.000And throughout, there's all these cartoonish Nazi caricatures.
00:23:29.000There's one scene where there's a human chess match in one of the Nazi death camps.
00:23:34.000They do a flashback, and the ancestors of the main characters are being used.
00:23:41.000As human pieces in a human chessboard in a Nazi death camp.
00:23:44.000There's some sadistic Nazi camp official who has, you know, death camp, what would you call them, inmates.
00:23:55.000He arranges them in a field as a chess map, and he has this Jewish chess player.
00:24:02.000He is controlling one team, and the Nazi leader is controlling the other team.
00:24:09.000And when a piece takes another piece, The players have to kill each other.
00:24:14.000So there's one scene where a guy is like a pawn and he's instructed to take another piece and he has to kill his fellow Jewish prison camp, death camp member, whatever.
00:28:39.000He had a wife, he had kids, he got into the government, and one of his employees brings over a girl to the barbecue, and she happens to be a Holocaust victim or Holocaust survivor.
00:28:52.000He recognizes him, and his cover's blown, so he has to go in and naturally shoot his wife, shoot his kids, shoot the neighbors, the employee, and then he talks about how the war rages on against Jewish people.
00:30:00.000Did you know his maternal grandparents, Menachem Mendel Grossman and Sarah Wheel Grossman, were Holocaust survivors who were born in Lodz, Poland?
00:30:11.000His grandmother's stories of being in the Unterlust concentration camp inspired.
00:31:36.000This guy's in jail for like, I don't know, I'm not that far into the show yet, but he's in jail.
00:31:39.000A Jewish lawyer named Goldstein comes in and is like, hey, you know, if you plead insanity, you'll get off in less than 10 years on parole.
00:31:46.000And he goes, oh, no, no, I'm not trying to get out.
00:34:30.000How David Weil tapped his own personal history for the Nazi fighting saga, Hunters.
00:34:35.000As a child, Weil saw stories of the Holocaust as comic book stories, stories of grand good versus grand evil.
00:34:44.000Hunters series creator David Weil recalls being just six years old when he and his brothers gathered around their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, to hear some of their first stories about Nazis in World War II.
00:34:57.000Did she tell him about electrified floors?
00:36:26.000One of the survivors of the Triblinka camp said that he escaped when a guard shot him, and the bullet pierced his clothes but stopped at his skin.
00:37:56.000The series has received some criticism from the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum due to inaccurate use of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
00:38:04.000The scene depicting prisoners being forced to participate in a game of human chess, I'm not making this up, was called out as dangerous, foolishness, and caricature.
00:41:40.000You know, white people have done, you know, if you view white people as a group, yeah, white people throughout history have done bad things.
00:41:46.000White people have done a lot of good things.
00:41:48.000And the same is true of Jewish people.
00:41:50.000Jewish people have done some good things.
00:41:52.000Jewish people have done some bad things.
00:41:53.000You know, it's Jewish people that did the Russian Revolution, okay?
00:41:58.000It was Jewish people that tried to do a communist revolution in Germany.
00:42:03.000Jewish people that are behind a lot of pornography.
00:42:06.000And then there's a lot of Jewish people that make good music, and there's Jewish people that, you know, there's a lot of scientists, and, you know, so as with any, you know, I am a realist.
00:42:20.000I don't believe in villains and heroes.
00:42:23.000I mean, yeah, we have to create those for narrative purposes.
00:42:27.000We are people that view the world through stories, but, you know, there are only men, and each man has good and bad inside of him.
00:44:31.000In this sometimes ultra violent tale about a group of vigilantes fighting Nazis in 1977 in New York City, Whale seeks to turn the stories of real life Jewish heroes into superheroes.
00:45:13.000I haven't finished the series, but in the first three episodes, no, they seem to be very much judicious.
00:45:19.000Through a fresh teaser trailer, da-da-da.
00:45:22.000It begins with Jonah, a Jewish comic book shop clerk recruited by Meyer Offerman to join the Hunters, whose mission is to uncover Nazis hiding in America 30 years after the war and prevent the formation of a fourth Reich.
00:45:37.000Blah, Then there is the grand evil, the Nazis themselves, a group powered by their sociopathic golden boy, Travis.
00:45:48.000According to Austin, Travis doesn't necessarily believe in the group's dogma, but that doesn't make him any less cruel.
00:45:55.000That has somehow been caught up, blah, Pitching a show like Hunters, which also includes flashbacks to concentration camps and brutal slangs of Nazis, was a high wire act.
00:48:27.000The purpose of this is to dehumanize and to fear monger.
00:48:32.000It's to create a caricature with exaggerating the worst stereotypes to say, you know.
00:48:40.000Well, when you look at a Jewish person, this is what you have to look at.
00:48:44.000And that's exactly what they're doing with this show.
00:48:47.000They want to create a similar caricature of a white person that's a neo Nazi, a white conservative, a white patriot, whatever you want to say, a white Trump supporter.
00:48:59.000They want to create a caricature that when people hear certain things, certain phrases, they're going to think of this character, Travis.
00:49:22.000Like I said, people that will kill babies, kill children, butchers, slaughterers.
00:49:30.000People that are sick, obsessed with racial purity, constantly around every corner, constantly a threat, always on the rise, everywhere, have to be paranoid all the time.
00:50:53.000She's a lesbian in the series, black detective, lesbian, good.
00:50:59.000Jewish, you know, shadowy Jewish figures, plucky, funny, genius, savant, good, these are the good superheroes, good superhero versus the grand evil.
00:51:12.000This is the only thing that's black and white.
00:52:12.000So I believe in racial realism, but I'm not a eugenicist.
00:52:16.000I don't believe that there is a hierarchy of races, right?
00:52:20.000I don't believe that one is superior to another.
00:52:22.000I don't believe in extermination, genocide, but this show is intended to obfuscate that difference.
00:52:30.000If I say, yeah, well, you know, there are obvious differences between peoples.
00:52:34.000I mean, starting with skin color, and then you've got stature, and then you've got physical features, you know, facial characteristics, and then you've got, you know, things like muscle fiber, then you've got things like, you know, group differences in intelligence, you've got different aptitudes, you've got different expressions of, you know, in art, in culture.
00:52:54.000But this is intended to basically do a bait and switch or, you know, whatever you want to call it.
00:52:59.000Anybody that talks about race in a certain way.
00:54:29.000We've got an Asian guy, Jewish people, we've got a black girl, we've got a woman, and they're all totally justified in racial revenge violence, extraditional racial revenge violence against white people, against Nazis.
00:54:44.000What do you think that does in the current political climate?
00:54:48.000Can you ignore the political context of what's happening right now with the alt right and Charlottesville and Trump and all that?
00:54:55.000The messaging is obvious Trump's a Nazi, we have to kill Nazis, it's an eternal war.
00:56:42.000The happy merchant meme plays on the anxieties of a majority, which is that a sneaky minority is getting the upper hand, pulling the puppet strings.
00:56:55.000The happy merchant meme plays on the anxieties of the majority, and it plays on stereotypes of Jewish people.
00:57:03.000And this happy merchant, this caricature, plays on the anxieties of the so called minority, of the so called oppressed.
00:57:11.000That's why this character is very different than a merchant.
00:57:15.000You know, the happy merchant caricature is sort of this nebbish, sneaky, you know, conniving, manipulative sort of character.
00:57:27.000This character is somebody who's very bold, somebody who's very tough, a warrior, somebody with pride, somebody with hubris, perhaps.
00:57:35.000You know, stands up straight, is muscular, and has numbers, strength in numbers and force, and this idea of overwhelming support across the country, mass support.
00:57:46.000So, a lot of people might look at this and say, oh, that's not a dangerous caricature because, you know, everyone knows Nazis are bad.
00:57:53.000And, you know, anyway, white people are in the majority, so this is harmless.
00:57:57.000Well, they're both very, very harmful caricatures.
00:58:31.000You could talk about, you know, war crimes.
00:58:34.000War crimes happen everywhere in all wars.
00:58:37.000We could talk about, you know, slavery.
00:58:39.000We could talk about, let's talk about facts.
00:58:41.000Let's talk about what actually happened.
00:58:43.000You know, if you want to talk about, like, slavery, for example, don't watch Django Unchained, where you've got some sadistic slave driver who just hates everyone.
00:58:54.000Like, 6% of Americans own slaves, and most of the slaves were honestly.
00:59:00.000I mean, it was slavery, so it's not a good arrangement.
00:59:03.000But it's not what's depicted in the movies.
00:59:05.000A lot of the slaves had good relationships, and it's going to sound like it's bad optics, but it's just true.
00:59:10.000If you read a lot of the accounts from slavery, a lot of the slaves continued working after they were freed, as like, you know, I guess it wasn't a total freedom situation, but they had good relationships, and in a lot of cases were treated well.
00:59:25.000It was a much smaller thing than people like to think, and it wasn't this.
00:59:30.000I mean, obviously, there is something intrinsically cruel about slavery.
00:59:33.000Obviously, but it's not this completely sadistic, pleasure driven thing that people make it out to be.
00:59:41.000I mean, it is in some cases, but it's not across the board.
01:02:30.000So if we're too militantly Christian, it's going to be another Inquisition.
01:02:34.000It's going to be another Holocaust, right?
01:02:38.000And why can we not shut down immigration?
01:02:40.000Because if we're too xenophobic, if we're too nationalistic, if there's too much of a racial component to our nationalism, we're going to start othering minorities who are going to be the first people to be targeted, just like that, right?
01:03:25.000Identify Europa is neo Nazis trying to take over the government.
01:03:29.000I mean, literally, it all goes back to that.
01:03:34.000So, you know, and I don't care about what happened 80 years ago, but this narrative stuff does cast a long shadow, and people are buying into this paradigm, this story.
01:04:59.000You know, in a story, you have these events and dialogue, and life is brushing your teeth and, you know, driving some to an event.
01:05:07.000but then driving home and then getting into bed and then falling asleep and then waking up the next day and, you know, checking your phone.
01:05:15.000And we tell ourselves stories about politics to make sense of it all.
01:05:18.000In truth, politics is a lot of, I mean, it's so many variables, it's so many moving parts.
01:05:22.000I'm really believing that these narratives are all bullshit.
01:05:25.000Why did Donald Trump win the election?
01:05:27.000Is it because he was a guy who told it like it is and Hillary Clinton was corrupt?
01:05:31.000Or is it because, like, a combined 3,000 people voted a certain way in three states and pushed him over the edge, right?
01:05:38.000And you could say that, well, you know, why some people turned out and why some people didn't.
01:05:41.000But, like, look, if it were due to circumstances beyond our control, the outcome could have gone the opposite direction.
01:05:49.000You know, if Trump didn't run Facebook campaign ads in Michigan, it would have been a different story.
01:05:55.000And so, you know, was it because Trump animated all these people, or was it because, you know, like he bought Facebook, he had a smart campaign team, he bought Facebook ads?
01:06:05.000All this is to say, these narratives are useful for interpretation, these narratives are useful as sort of from like a perspectivist lens, but they're not the whole story.
01:06:19.000And so, When we're thinking about narratives that are prominent, who are these narratives helping?
01:06:26.000When we are told the story of our history about America, about, you know, we went into World War II, you know, or, you know, I don't know, another story, you know, a story about ourselves in Iraq.
01:06:40.000The story about Iraq is that we were liberators.
01:07:35.000Why were some stories shut down about that?
01:07:39.000And you have to think about stories and how we orient our worldview based on history because we don't look at every event and every fact and every perspective.
01:07:50.000You know, when we look at American history, for example, it starts in 1776 or thereabouts.
01:07:59.000It doesn't go back to like, you know, sometimes it goes back, but it doesn't often go back to like the colonies and, you know, the Seven Years' War and the War of Austrian Succession and the French and Indian Wars.
01:08:12.000And, you know, it doesn't talk about a lot of these different things, right?
01:08:16.000I mean, sometimes it does, but not often.
01:08:20.000We have to pick and choose the events, the characters based on themes.
01:08:24.000That's what I'm trying to get at here.
01:08:26.000And so these stories, like, who does this help?
01:08:29.000This narrative of this huge atrocity, the worst atrocity ever, the worst atrocity.
01:08:35.000There have been atrocities, but none like this.
01:08:38.000There have been killers, but none like this.
01:08:41.000You think about Attila the Hun, you think about Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, the butchers, you think about the Armenian genocide, the Kurdish genocide, you think about all these things, but there's one.
01:10:31.000I want to hear the story about our people.
01:10:34.000I want to hear the story about America.
01:10:36.000I want to hear the story about the pioneers and the settlers.
01:10:38.000I want to hear the story about, you know, a country that was attacked by Japan and we defended ourselves and we mobilized and regardless of your feelings on it, it was a feat of national strength.
01:10:53.000And Ellie Wiesel, who was an alumnus from my university, he goes to the president every year expecting an apology for, you know, like, I don't know, because FDR didn't do more about the Holocaust at the time or something.
01:11:07.000Why are we telling a story of shame instead of a story of heroism?
01:11:11.000A story of shame and guilt for something that we didn't even do.
01:11:31.000We have to just show that the Democrats did all this stuff.
01:11:34.000No, let's just tell different stories.
01:11:37.000Let's just create a different narrative.
01:11:39.000And it's not to say that we're minimizing or we're shoving aside anything else, but it is to say that we want to create a story that is going to serve America's interest.
01:11:50.000I want to create a story that's about American optimism and America's future and America's children, not a story that creates.
01:11:58.000Animosity and grudges and shame and guilt, you know, based on something that's nearly 100 years old.
01:12:06.000So, oh, we need to make the Democrats own the KKK.
01:12:10.000Why are we telling a story about the KKK?
01:12:13.000I've never, the KKK in my entire lifetime has never been a factor, okay?
01:12:19.000There's like 100 of them left and 90 of them are federal agents, right?
01:12:24.000So, why, Dinesh D'Souza, is it incumbent upon us to make the Democrats own the Ku Klux Klan?
01:12:30.000Why don't we make them own mass migration?
01:12:33.000How about they own all these illegal immigrants who are raping people in Maryland?
01:12:38.000How about we make the Democrats own all the drug dealers who have been released from the prisons?
01:12:41.000I guess, you know, Trump owns that to some extent, right?
01:12:44.000Well, the Democrats were the slaveholders.
01:12:50.000How about we just tell the story instead of that?
01:12:52.000Let's tell the story about the working class and how in the 1890s, in the Gilded Age, during Reconstruction, by the way, you had the industrialists totally abuse the country.
01:14:16.000And if you meet me, I'm like, I'm not a nasty, I'm not a cruel person.
01:14:20.000Anybody who knows me knows I'm not, well, you know, let's dispense with the good and evil.
01:14:24.000Anybody who knows me knows I'm not a cruel person.
01:14:27.000I'm not a mean-spirited person, I don't think.
01:14:31.000I'm generally, you know, I'm a little bit reclusive and I can be sometimes disagreeable or antisocial, or maybe I can make fun of somebody.
01:14:40.000You know, I make jokes at somebody's expense.
01:14:42.000But generally, I'm a pretty affable, friendly, kind, cheerful person.
01:14:47.000You know, I'm not, I'm a pretty likable guy.
01:14:50.000But people watch this show and they'll see this guy who's like, you know, beating people up with bowling balls and, you know, threatening to kill kids.
01:15:00.000There's a scene where this guy's on an airplane and he's sitting next to a little kid and the kid's mom.
01:15:05.000And the mom's like, oh, he's allergic to peanuts.
01:15:07.000And the guy's like, maybe he should eat a peanut because he's weak and people like him used to die and he's the poison and the peanuts the cure.
01:18:51.000I don't mean to be like, I am very smart, but it's like, there are so many people out there like this who are just not on the same wavelength.
01:20:56.000He says, and I'm just going to read a bunch of this.
01:21:00.000I haven't picked out the exact passage, but I have arrived where I am.
01:21:04.000It says, he says, according to esoteric teachings, At the death of the body, an ordinary person usually loses his or her personality, which was an illusory thing even while that person was alive.
01:21:17.000The person is then reduced to a shadow that is itself destined to be dissolved after a more or less lengthy period, culminating in what was called the second death.
01:21:28.000The essential vital principles of the deceased return to the totem, which is a primordial, perennial, and inexhaustible matter.
01:21:36.000Life will again proceed from this matter and assume other individual.
01:21:40.000Forms, all of which are subject to the same destiny.
01:21:44.000This is the reason why totems were identified with the dead.
01:21:49.000The cult of the ancestors, the demons, and the invisible generating force that is present in everybody was often confused with the cult of the dead.
01:21:57.000The souls of the deceased continue to exist in the manus into whom they were dissolved, but also in those forces of the stock, the race, or the family in which the life of these manus were manifested and perpetuated.
01:22:13.000This teaching concerns the naturalistic order.
01:22:15.000There is, however, a second teaching relating to a higher and a different, more privileged aristocratic and sacred solution to the problem of survival after death.
01:22:24.000It is possible to establish a connection here with the ideas expressed above concerning those ancestors who, through their victory, bestowed a sacred legacy upon the ensuing patrician generations that reenact and renew the rite.
01:22:39.000So he gets into, like, you know, the aristocrats, but the point is about the ordinary people.
01:22:44.000They lose their personality after death.
01:22:46.000Which was illusory even while they were alive.
01:22:49.000They were reduced to a shadow that is dissolved in the second death into a more general sort of life force.
01:23:01.000That's what I'm reminded of when I see this.
01:23:06.000This is what I'm reminded of when I see this.
01:23:09.000You know, I wonder people like this are they, are these ordinary?
02:03:33.000Dude, imagine we're hanging out here playing Raft Wars and some dickhead gets in your face and says, Remember to lift weights and eat chicken!
03:04:29.000Jaden is a given name that was rather obscure until the 1990s when it, in variants, appeared on the Social Security list of the thousand most popular boys' names.
03:04:59.000The name is probably a modern invention formed by blending the J sound from the 1970s popular name Jason with the den sound from names like Brayden, Hayden, Jordan, and Zayden.
03:08:30.000Each player races to create their own word grids by arranging the letters to form words connected in an intersecting or interlocking manner.
03:12:39.000So let's say I got an X, I can't use an X. I'll say dump, I'll turn the X into the pile, and I will have to withdraw three tiles to compensate for that.
03:12:47.000And, you know, I don't know, how was the victor declared?
03:12:53.000When there are fewer tiles in the bunch and there are players.
03:43:24.000Tell the baby we don't got that long Listen, this is not my city show But I treat it like my city show 20 more minutes into I'm on I am not slow Niggas, you want me cause I got the dope Bad like a ride on my freaking coat He passed me home for it, so they switching rules