Based Camp - June 17, 2024


The Deranged Misogyny of Star Wars The Acolyte! (Only Men Can Create Life？？？)

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Malcolm Collins Simone Collins
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Jar Jar Binks Anakin Bridgerton Malcolm Tiger King Miss Kennedy Coruscant Acolyte Jedis Spike Mary Sora Tracy Woodgrains Benjamin Boyce Alex Jones Darth Vader Sky High Palpatine Mormons Medula and 5 more
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34 minutes

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6,118

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724

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Misogyny

54

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Toxicity

85

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Summary

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Join us as we discuss Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Mandalorian, Sky High, and more! Also, a new Star Wars movie is being greenlit, and we talk about it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 It would be like if you wrote a biblical fan fiction and you knew the Jesus story and you were like, and there was this whole other town, this whole other town of lesbians where everyone just prays to God and gets pregnant in the same way Mary did. 0.81
00:00:14.100 Hold on. 0.96
00:00:14.720 This is where it gets insane and misogynistic.
00:00:17.360 Okay.
00:00:18.160 There is a famous scene in this.
00:00:20.200 I carried them.
00:00:24.460 I created them.
00:00:26.020 Which implies that men create the child and women carry the child. 1.00
00:00:34.620 This is even more misogynistic than real human earth biology.
00:00:41.080 So she's actually.
00:00:42.440 Actually, I inseminated you.
00:00:44.400 Therefore, I created the child.
00:00:47.700 Therefore, I am the dominant partner in this relationship and make all child rearing decisions.
00:00:52.920 Would you like to know more?
00:00:53.980 I am so excited for this episode.
00:00:56.900 Yes.
00:00:57.540 Okay, let's do it.
00:00:58.280 Let's go for it.
00:00:59.180 Yeah.
00:00:59.560 This is going to be the worst.
00:01:02.360 Yes. 0.99
00:01:02.740 She is the worst. 1.00
00:01:05.280 She is the worst person in the world. 1.00
00:01:06.960 Huge skank. 1.00
00:01:07.920 Terrible.
00:01:08.820 What did I tell you?
00:01:09.860 Huh?
00:01:10.600 The worst. 0.99
00:01:14.480 She's the worst in the world. 1.00
00:01:16.480 I got to put the worst. 0.98
00:01:18.080 She is the worst team here because, oh my God, does this deserve it.
00:01:21.460 Two things that is going to make this somewhat unique when contrasted with other discussions of The Acolyte.
00:01:27.740 One is we have some interesting insider industry information, given that our own documentary was recently canceled, about how decisions are being made inside of Hollywood right now.
00:01:37.200 Which can help you understand how something as insane as this could have gotten greenlit.
00:01:43.220 Because that is something that before we worked in Hollywood genuinely perplexed me.
00:01:48.760 Why is this getting greenlit?
00:01:50.960 It's obviously not good for the industry.
00:01:52.980 But then the second is how absolutely misogynistic the ideas presented in The Acolyte are.
00:02:00.800 But wasn't it, like, produced by women? 0.96
00:02:04.060 Yes, it was.
00:02:04.780 They were trying to create something that was misandrous.
00:02:08.120 A world...
00:02:08.880 And I want to get your reaction to the world.
00:02:12.240 Start was one of the most controversial things.
00:02:14.520 So let's get your real-time reaction to this.
00:02:16.320 Okay.
00:02:16.500 Because no one doesn't know what happened.
00:02:17.480 Yeah, tell me about The Acolyte.
00:02:18.860 I didn't know it was out.
00:02:19.800 I did not know there was more Star Wars property to enjoy.
00:02:22.900 So I have not watched anything.
00:02:24.220 I have not seen a single preview.
00:02:25.260 During The High Republic.
00:02:27.660 When is The High Republic?
00:02:28.700 A long time before most of the stuff that you've seen.
00:02:32.720 So pre-Queen Amidala or before?
00:02:35.260 Very before that.
00:02:36.380 Long before.
00:02:37.820 Yeah, this is in a time when there were lots of cis and lots of Jedis. 0.97
00:02:41.280 Before the Rule of Two.
00:02:42.620 Living in Harmony?
00:02:44.040 There wasn't a split before?
00:02:45.660 But the different era of Star Wars.
00:02:47.860 Okay.
00:02:48.200 Anyway, the point being, this isn't important to the show right now.
00:02:51.000 Okay.
00:02:51.180 So the point being, End of the High Republic, it follows two twins.
00:02:56.720 An evil twin and a good twin.
00:02:59.140 Well, thank goodness there's an evil twin.
00:03:01.580 It reminds me of that scene and I've got to post it from Sky High.
00:03:04.940 What if I said it's not just her twin, it's her evil twin?
00:03:08.700 This Friday, you say? 1.00
00:03:12.160 Medula, you dog. 1.00
00:03:15.140 Sky High is so undersold as a show.
00:03:18.760 It really is.
00:03:19.640 Do you want to go, because it's about a world of superheroes and it plays a lot of trots from that.
00:03:24.660 And one guy asked me, do you want to go on a date with twins?
00:03:28.200 What if I told you she was the evil twin?
00:03:31.280 That's such a great scene.
00:03:36.260 I can already tell that this movie is very unique and bold in its writing.
00:03:42.040 Hold on.
00:03:42.280 I haven't gotten to the insane part yet.
00:03:44.300 So episode three is the one where everyone goes crazy.
00:03:46.940 So episode three takes place in a backstory where these two girls were raised.
00:03:53.180 They were raised in a lesbian cult or religion. 0.99
00:03:59.580 Okay.
00:03:59.920 Everyone's a woman. 1.00
00:04:01.580 It's run by a strong black woman. 0.99
00:04:03.940 So don't worry about that.
00:04:05.400 This is very South Park predicted this.
00:04:07.660 Put a ticket in it. 1.00
00:04:08.340 Make her gay. 1.00
00:04:10.400 Uh, yes, Miss Kennedy. 0.98
00:04:11.940 Uh, some of the execs are just expressing that maybe...
00:04:15.600 Well, that maybe we should go a different route than we did with Indiana Jones. 1.00
00:04:19.220 Fuck Indiana Jones. 1.00
00:04:20.320 Put a ticket in it and make her name a gay. 1.00
00:04:23.400 Any diverse woman in it, it gets mad. 1.00
00:04:26.020 But Mrs. Kennedy, Bambi's a baby deer. 1.00
00:04:29.000 Fuck baby deer, put a chicken in it and make her gay. 1.00
00:04:32.460 Linguini and clam sauce. 1.00
00:04:34.480 Uh, excuse me. 0.99
00:04:35.420 I believe I asked you to put a chicken in this and make her gay. 1.00
00:04:38.580 Uh, yes. 0.98
00:04:39.360 The chef was a little confused what you meant by that. 1.00
00:04:42.040 It means put a chicken in the linguini and make her fucking gay. 1.00
00:04:46.000 And I want it lame. 1.00
00:04:49.620 And I think that's why she was so mad.
00:04:51.700 It was probably this was already so well into production at that point that she couldn't stop it. 0.99
00:04:55.660 But they put a chicken in her and make her gay and lame. 1.00
00:04:58.320 Oh, no. 0.98
00:04:59.660 Being a meme when this thing had been greenlit and funded and she couldn't get out of it.
00:05:04.700 Oh. 0.98
00:05:05.140 Lesbian cult. 1.00
00:05:05.720 But were they trying to play it off like Amazon's Amazon warrior?
00:05:10.760 Much more Wiccan-ish than that. 1.00
00:05:12.540 It's very clear.
00:05:13.340 There's this one scene where they're all chanting and very Wiccan-y and oh, they call it a force, but we call it a thread.
00:05:20.340 If Amazons were really mystical.
00:05:23.140 Yeah.
00:05:23.740 So I got to get your reaction to this.
00:05:26.420 So how do you suppose this tribe of all lesbians procreated in the Star Wars universe? 1.00
00:05:34.040 By the way, I met Simone in her pictures on her dating profile.
00:05:37.280 She wore film-grade Stormtrooper armor for 5017 Division.
00:05:41.360 Like very into Star Wars back in the day.
00:05:44.540 We still have Star Wars art on our walls from back when she was younger.
00:05:48.340 This is something that she identified with but hasn't really watched any of the recent stuff because...
00:05:51.920 Why haven't you watched the recent stuff? 0.97
00:05:53.480 It started sucking. 0.94
00:05:54.760 I don't like it anymore. 1.00
00:05:57.580 How do you suppose this lesbian cult was reproducing? 1.00
00:06:00.420 So they would cut off one of their breasts like Amazons and then the breast would form into a new child? 1.00
00:06:07.640 No. 0.98
00:06:08.680 Okay.
00:06:09.120 They would form a Wiccan circle. 0.94
00:06:11.660 They would form a Wiccan circle. 0.94
00:06:13.060 Think what you know about Star Wars lore.
00:06:15.420 What could be the most sacrilegious way they were reproducing to the lore of the Star Wars universe?
00:06:22.640 They killed baby Yodas. 0.99
00:06:24.760 To create genetic material.
00:06:29.160 They were using the force to impregnate other women. 0.97
00:06:33.500 The way Anakin was born.
00:06:36.160 And only Anakin was born.
00:06:38.640 And that made Anakin unique and special in the Star Wars universe.
00:06:42.640 Oh yeah.
00:06:43.600 It was Jesused. 0.83
00:06:44.540 Yeah.
00:06:45.760 That's how they make all of their kids in this community.
00:06:49.360 Oh.
00:06:51.420 Okay.
00:06:52.460 It is very Jesus.
00:06:53.620 But this is...
00:06:54.460 And I actually like it with biblical fan fiction.
00:06:56.800 It would be like if you wrote a biblical fan fiction and you knew the Jesus story and you were like...
00:07:02.440 And there was this whole other town. 0.91
00:07:05.040 This whole other town of lesbians where everyone just prays to God and gets pregnant in the same way Mary did because they're all sinless. 1.00
00:07:11.820 That's basically what they did with this. 0.93
00:07:15.500 Isn't that kind of the lesbian dream? 1.00
00:07:17.280 If you could just have kids without male involvement?
00:07:20.020 Hold on.
00:07:20.720 This is where it gets insane and misogynistic.
00:07:23.360 Okay.
00:07:24.160 There is a famous scene in this.
00:07:26.220 Where the one lesbian is saying to the other lesbian to try to say that I should be the one who decides how they're raised. 0.84
00:07:39.080 She goes, I carried them.
00:07:41.900 And then the other lesbian, the strong black woman, she replies, I created them. 0.98
00:07:50.220 Which implies that men create the child and women carry the child. 1.00
00:08:00.600 This is even more misogynistic than real human earth biology.
00:08:07.400 So she's actually...
00:08:08.660 Actually, I inseminated you.
00:08:10.740 Therefore, I created the child.
00:08:13.920 Therefore, I am the dominant partner in this relationship and make all child rearing decisions.
00:08:18.800 It's worse that the analog for the male here is the force.
00:08:24.200 I just...
00:08:24.720 Wow.
00:08:25.140 Okay.
00:08:25.500 This is...
00:08:28.020 Did...
00:08:28.580 They need to have sensitivity readers, but they're just normies because I don't...
00:08:34.500 No, they're so woke.
00:08:35.840 They didn't even think to have sensitivity readers.
00:08:38.500 Sensitivity readers are the most woke, so that's the problem. 0.84
00:08:41.740 I think the problem is they're...
00:08:42.580 I think a normal person reading this would be like, this is very misogynistic.
00:08:47.420 Yeah.
00:08:47.860 Like, you think that men create the child and women just carry it and therefore men should 1.00
00:08:53.440 have dominance over all family decisions?
00:08:55.700 There was a period in human history where that seemed to be what people believed, yes.
00:09:00.720 Well, and this is actually interesting.
00:09:02.180 It shows that when you're in these ultra-woke circles, because you cannot criticize strong
00:09:06.020 black female writer or whatever, whoever wrote this, like, that no one... 1.00
00:09:11.600 They're just so unaware of how genuinely toxic their views have become in terms of misogynistic
00:09:18.340 aspects of their views, because nobody's willing to challenge them.
00:09:21.800 Oh, boy.
00:09:23.700 Yeah.
00:09:24.540 What I'm...
00:09:26.180 That really happens.
00:09:28.140 In the...
00:09:28.520 I'm going to put the shot in this show.
00:09:31.600 I created them.
00:09:33.060 Therefore, I win.
00:09:35.480 Okay.
00:09:35.840 Here is...
00:09:36.480 So we got to keep going with what happens to this temple.
00:09:39.300 There's more.
00:09:39.900 Before we get to our insider story here.
00:09:42.420 Yes.
00:09:42.760 Okay.
00:09:43.560 There is more.
00:09:44.800 Okay.
00:09:45.500 Okay.
00:09:46.680 So...
00:09:47.120 They try to brainwash the girls. 0.99
00:09:49.360 Now, in the show, it's... 1.00
00:09:50.980 They're the good guys and the Jedis are the bad guys, which is fucking stupid. 1.00
00:09:54.980 So wait, so... 1.00
00:09:55.900 Again, we're back to the lesbian Jedi commune, and they're raising the female Amazon younglings. 1.00
00:10:04.040 Okay.
00:10:04.400 Right?
00:10:04.600 Yeah, and they are framed as the Jedis think, and this is framed multiple times, that we
00:10:09.700 are using the dark side.
00:10:10.960 Now, keep in mind, we know from the series, so if you were taking this from the outside
00:10:15.060 perspective, and you were watching this the way I think it should be watched, as in-universe
00:10:19.480 fascist propaganda, they admit that the Jedis say that they're using the dark side of the
00:10:24.780 force.
00:10:25.100 They're like, some would say the way we're using the force is dark-sided.
00:10:28.060 There is only one way to dark side use the force, which is to use the force to control 1.00
00:10:32.640 and manipulate other people, to force the force to act by your will.
00:10:36.980 Wait, but Jedi do that all the time, the whole, like... 0.99
00:10:39.220 No, no, no, the Jedi are supposed to be enacting the force's will on reality, and the force
00:10:45.100 helps them do that.
00:10:46.880 The darksiders have their own will, and they use that to exercise the force on reality. 1.00
00:10:51.480 Yeah, but how are darksiders using their own will? 1.00
00:10:54.960 Is that not just the force using them to use their will?
00:10:57.420 No.
00:10:58.840 That is not the way the dark side is seen in the universe, no.
00:11:01.160 And this is also why the dark side isn't intrinsically negative.
00:11:04.420 It's just, do you relate to reality via harmony?
00:11:07.500 Which, of course, we would see as a mystic pathway.
00:11:09.460 So in many ways, from our perspective, the Jedis are the bad guys. 0.96
00:11:12.800 Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil! 0.99
00:11:15.680 In my point of view, the Jedi are evil! 0.90
00:11:18.320 They are fighting for a mystic pathway, whereas the darksiders can be fighting for a monotheistic 0.97
00:11:23.760 pathway.
00:11:24.200 I've been Team Sith since you met me, Malcolm.
00:11:26.120 But, in this context, it means something quite different, because this is like a coven of
00:11:32.120 witches, and we are seeing that the girls are trained from a young age to just not trust
00:11:37.480 anyone outside the group, to not trust, and to believe that they're a persecuted minority.
00:11:41.820 And are they raised with a certain imperative?
00:11:43.500 Is there a raison d'etre de...
00:11:45.920 Yes, we are a persecuted minority, everyone else is a bad guy.
00:11:49.560 So is their job to eliminate all other people?
00:11:52.320 Do they exist to defend themselves, and just exist in their own tiny community? 0.99
00:11:56.240 Here's what's fucking insane, okay? 0.96
00:11:58.220 They exist to defend themselves, but... 0.98
00:12:00.740 But...
00:12:01.260 And we need to use the force to procreate. 0.97
00:12:04.000 These are the only two children in this giant commune of women. 0.86
00:12:08.100 Okay.
00:12:08.560 Oh, so there's not...
00:12:09.380 Okay.
00:12:09.760 This isn't like a regular thing that they do, and I think that this shows the way progressives
00:12:14.500 view children.
00:12:15.700 They're like, if we have two children for 80 women, that can save our culture. 1.00
00:12:19.640 That'll do.
00:12:20.260 Well, intergenerationally, that won't do.
00:12:24.140 Especially what happens immediately after this, the children leave this culture.
00:12:27.660 Isn't that more of an indication of the short-term thinking of progressive culture in general?
00:12:31.480 That there's a complete lack of long-termism, and it's really about what's happening now.
00:12:35.100 There's a myopia.
00:12:36.380 Yeah.
00:12:36.880 So then, next, what happens?
00:12:38.780 Because we've got to go over what happens in this episode, because it's insane.
00:12:43.020 So they live in this, like, old base on a mountain in an abandoned world.
00:12:48.080 And it's this giant stone semi-circle, like you would see in a lot of Star Wars stuff.
00:12:53.220 Okay?
00:12:53.520 Cool.
00:12:53.800 Yeah.
00:12:54.700 Cool.
00:12:55.160 Yeah.
00:12:55.480 Cool idea. 0.87
00:12:56.200 Problem is, they light it up like a freaking Christmas tree.
00:12:59.300 So it would be obvious to anyone, when they're trying to hide their kids from this Jedi thing... 0.90
00:13:03.460 Don't you understand?
00:13:04.320 Women need good lighting, Malcolm. 0.99
00:13:06.020 Jesus.
00:13:06.300 Even after a lifetime of brainwashing, the evil one wants to stay.
00:13:11.820 The good one wants to go as a Jedi, or at least this is the way I'm reading it.
00:13:15.060 It might be the other way around, but yeah.
00:13:17.680 And she wants to...
00:13:18.000 They're twins.
00:13:18.560 I'm sure they're hard to tell apart.
00:13:19.740 Do they dress them the same?
00:13:21.400 No, this group tells her to lie to the Jedi.
00:13:23.920 That's how she's going to stay.
00:13:25.140 She needs to lie to the Jedi in order to stay in the group. 0.75
00:13:28.880 And she doesn't want to.
00:13:29.700 And she doesn't lie to the Jedi, by the way.
00:13:31.820 So they're trying to take their two young and use them to infiltrate an existing Jedi order, 0.83
00:13:36.860 correct?
00:13:37.700 No.
00:13:38.100 They just don't want the Jedi to take their kids at all. 0.97
00:13:40.840 Oh, okay.
00:13:41.320 And so they tell the kids to lie to the Jedi.
00:13:43.540 Okay.
00:13:44.160 Except the kid wants to escape them.
00:13:46.680 The kid clearly seems to understand that they're abusive and wants to be away.
00:13:50.140 Which is interesting that they don't see the coding in this, but it's very clear.
00:13:54.440 The kid...
00:13:55.260 You can read this separately.
00:13:56.500 The kid wants to join the Mormon missionaries who have come to their house.
00:14:01.020 Oh, there are space Mormons in this too.
00:14:02.820 All right.
00:14:03.460 So we've got some Starship Troopers going on here.
00:14:05.680 Yeah.
00:14:05.900 So she's been coached to lie to them.
00:14:09.420 Okay.
00:14:10.080 God, coaching children to lie to space CPS, basically.
00:14:14.860 That is fantastic.
00:14:16.220 But she doesn't because she has a moral conscience. 0.93
00:14:19.160 And then the other one, the evil one is, I won't let you leave.
00:14:22.040 And she's like, what do you mean by that? 1.00
00:14:23.600 And she's like, I'm going to kill you. 0.99
00:14:24.820 Like immediately to 11, right? 0.99
00:14:28.640 That escalates.
00:14:29.240 It's also like, it's very clear that this giant group of women, who is only raising two kids, by the way, is not at all qualified to be parents if one of their kids is already trying to murder the other one and torturing animals. 0.66
00:14:46.380 That's how, by the way, it's established that she is the bad, the evil twin, is that she tortures animals. 0.99
00:14:52.240 The moms are like, no, this is fine. 0.96
00:14:54.240 The space CPS does need to come and take these kids. 0.93
00:14:57.840 And she lights this girl's diary on fire and then locks her in the room and throws it on the ground. 0.99
00:15:03.540 And what happens next?
00:15:06.420 The giant stone fortress burns down.
00:15:11.720 She burns the oopsies. 1.00
00:15:13.480 She burns down.
00:15:14.760 Now, keep in mind that in the episode before this, this is like why you need mansplaining.
00:15:18.800 Many people are like, in the episode before this, there was a fire in space, a campfire in space, outer space, with no air.
00:15:26.760 And in this episode, a giant concrete slash stone fortress caught into a rapid fire.
00:15:33.900 Oh, I was going to ask.
00:15:35.100 I figured it just, it'd be more like the Globe Theater or something.
00:15:38.200 Fully would.
00:15:39.060 It's completely concrete and stone.
00:15:41.580 You don't see-
00:15:42.020 I don't even-
00:15:42.620 Space rocks are flammable, Malcolm.
00:15:45.920 Stop.
00:15:46.360 We don't know.
00:15:46.840 Maybe-
00:15:47.200 Telling women how space rocks are made. 1.00
00:15:49.900 Okay.
00:15:50.240 It's made of potassium-infused rocks.
00:15:52.720 Yeah, duh.
00:15:53.920 They're just bustable.
00:15:54.880 Yeah.
00:15:55.400 So, one, this is why you need a sarcastic conservative man on every set.
00:16:00.620 If you would like to hire us for anti-DEI consulting, we are starting a firm to do that.
00:16:05.820 Just let us know.
00:16:06.820 Just sarcastic.
00:16:08.680 Of course they should.
00:16:10.660 I know.
00:16:11.120 No, there actually should be.
00:16:12.660 And we can clear up all of these problems you might have on the cheap.
00:16:16.360 We'll just fire people. 0.99
00:16:17.280 We'll only take a percent of the money we save you.
00:16:19.940 So-
00:16:20.280 That's actually a good business model.
00:16:21.680 No, it is.
00:16:22.140 And the company would be run, technically, because you are a trans- 1.00
00:16:25.200 Ace woman, by their perspective. 0.96
00:16:27.560 And disabled. 0.54
00:16:28.600 I'm autistic.
00:16:29.300 Oh, yeah.
00:16:29.640 And you're autistic, right? 0.95
00:16:30.860 So, who better to be making these decisions?
00:16:34.940 So, anyway.
00:16:36.040 And I have no MBA from Stanford.
00:16:37.660 I'm qualified to do this.
00:16:38.640 I've run big companies.
00:16:39.720 I've been a director of strategy at a major VC firm.
00:16:42.860 So, anyway.
00:16:43.400 We are at this point.
00:16:44.940 The whole thing's burning down. 0.79
00:16:46.680 So, all of the lesbians, as they're leaving, because, of course, the Jedi saved the good one. 1.00
00:16:52.020 Oh, what happens to the evil twin whose diary was burned? 0.95
00:16:55.340 She teleports outside somehow. 0.89
00:16:57.620 Plots, armor.
00:16:58.740 It's insane.
00:16:59.740 It's genuinely insane.
00:17:01.100 But, anyway.
00:17:01.360 Okay.
00:17:01.980 The good ones think she's dead.
00:17:04.740 Oh.
00:17:04.980 And I'm assuming it's a good one that goes with the Jedi. 0.92
00:17:07.040 If it's not, I haven't watched the episode, because I will not torture myself with this or pay for Disney+.
00:17:11.120 But I've watched a lot of reviews, and they haven't clarified this point yet.
00:17:14.700 Okay.
00:17:15.140 Gotcha.
00:17:15.760 It doesn't matter.
00:17:16.740 Does it matter?
00:17:17.560 No.
00:17:18.440 It doesn't matter.
00:17:19.280 Yeah.
00:17:19.520 It doesn't matter.
00:17:20.760 She, what was I going to say? 1.00
00:17:22.920 She runs by this room, and all of these lesbian witches are dead. 1.00
00:17:28.160 Do they all murder suicide, or what? 0.99
00:17:30.660 We don't know.
00:17:31.460 It doesn't look like they burned.
00:17:33.320 The room isn't on fire.
00:17:34.680 No, maybe they didn't know about crawling on the ground.
00:17:37.320 The bad fire training.
00:17:39.240 That's what killed them.
00:17:39.980 Yeah, bad fire.
00:17:40.660 It's deadly.
00:17:41.860 Maybe Disney just wanted to use this as a teaching moment to remind everyone to crawl on the ground for a fire.
00:17:49.320 Yeah, and it's interesting that this cult is supposed to be, like, way more powerful than the Jedi.
00:17:53.680 They make that clear.
00:17:54.980 I love this comment here, by the way.
00:17:58.400 Okay. 0.90
00:17:59.420 The witches are so powerful, they can easily kill a Jedi using the thing they said wasn't a weapon. 0.94
00:18:05.820 I should note here that they said that the Force isn't a weapon.
00:18:08.700 Okay.
00:18:08.860 They say no one can use the Force as a weapon, or at least you're not supposed to use the Force as a weapon.
00:18:13.160 Yeah.
00:18:13.440 So the witches are so powerful that they can easily kill the Jedi using the thing that they swear is not a weapon, and no one should use the weapon. 0.52
00:18:20.120 Then they all died at once by a fire caused by a single girl in a giant fortress made of stone with people inside the fortress who can project barriers and control gravity. 0.97
00:18:32.520 So now we get to talk about our own little private story with Hollywood, unless you have some final comments on this.
00:18:49.360 And do you think that, like, Star Wars lore is recoverable at this point, or anyone's going to give it a chance again?
00:18:54.160 When did you stop watching?
00:18:55.420 I stopped watching after the pod race.
00:19:01.080 That's really...
00:19:02.860 By stopped watching, I still went through the motions of trying to watch some of the properties, but I have no memory after that point.
00:19:09.780 Oh, so even before it went woke, you stopped in the prequel.
00:19:12.900 Mm-hmm.
00:19:13.560 Yeah.
00:19:14.000 The last good moment for me was the pod race, and after that, everything was so traumatically bad, as far as I'm concerned, that I literally have no memory of it.
00:19:24.060 But pod racing is cool.
00:19:25.540 That's okay.
00:19:26.420 But you watched the first and the second of the new movies with me.
00:19:29.540 We didn't watch Return of whatever.
00:19:32.420 I do not.
00:19:33.200 You didn't watch that one with the Palpatine movie.
00:19:35.200 You don't remember it?
00:19:37.240 I remember being deeply unhappy.
00:19:38.860 You don't remember when they had, like, white sand in the one?
00:19:40.780 Mm-mm.
00:19:41.580 I've literally blocked them out, and I wasn't even drunk.
00:19:43.560 Remember, I used to try to get blackout drunk to watch things with you, because it was really fun, and then I'd forget them, and then I could watch them again.
00:19:49.140 But now, no.
00:19:51.340 Yeah, sorry.
00:19:52.200 It just, I don't know.
00:19:53.060 It just got bad.
00:19:53.900 I liked the camp.
00:19:55.420 And the camp went away when it became corporate.
00:19:58.040 So that's where I lost it.
00:19:59.140 Woke wasn't even what killed it for me.
00:20:00.680 It was the loss of camp.
00:20:02.660 Wait, Jar Binks wasn't camp enough for you?
00:20:05.060 Yeah, yeah.
00:20:07.440 I guess he's pretty camp, but it felt more cringe than camp.
00:20:10.760 And, of course, now he's gone through.
00:20:12.200 He's gone through the gauntlet, and now he is Sith Lord Jar Binks.
00:20:15.800 That's cool.
00:20:17.800 That's not canon.
00:20:18.760 That's fanon.
00:20:19.580 It doesn't matter, because it doesn't matter, because it's just obviously true.
00:20:22.540 Come on, Malcolm.
00:20:24.680 There's no way it's not.
00:20:26.720 People who are familiar with the Sith Lord Jar Binks theory, it's that Jar Binks was actually very powerful with the Force and was a Sith Lord who was tricking Jedi and creating these events.
00:20:35.840 And it actually makes a lot of sense, given all of his canon appearances.
00:20:40.260 And there's an easy way you could craft a narrative around that, and I would love to see Disney do that, but they won't do anything that interesting.
00:20:46.440 Yeah.
00:20:46.640 No, everything about Jar Binks points to that.
00:20:49.880 It is irrefutable truth.
00:20:52.040 Whether or not the creators of Jar Binks realize that is not my problem. 0.75
00:20:56.320 He's a racist stereotype.
00:20:57.980 That makes it even better. 0.93
00:20:59.200 He's also this anti-woke, like, I'm going to even mock every concept of you thinking you're...
00:21:07.320 It's just everything about it. 0.97
00:21:08.840 This incredibly racist, evil character. 0.98
00:21:12.240 It's like a white minstrel performer that is also incredibly evil and trying to ruin all the forces of good. 1.00
00:21:19.760 What better character could there be? 0.51
00:21:21.940 But, yeah.
00:21:22.440 I love that Star Wars, the old Star Wars, went hard into racial stereotypes.
00:21:26.620 Oh, my God.
00:21:27.580 Remember the Jewish character? 0.88
00:21:29.820 The floating guy with the long nose who owned slaves and was, like, trick people with games?
00:21:37.920 And he wore, like, the old-timey, medieval Jewish hat style.
00:21:41.420 Yeah, Anakin's new boss.
00:21:43.340 And he spoke in that accent.
00:21:44.940 Oh, my God.
00:21:45.640 That was horrifying.
00:21:46.940 I was like, what?
00:21:48.060 It was an extremely racist movie.
00:21:51.760 And I've always said that the original Anakin slash Darth Vader stereotype was obviously a Calvinist stereotype from older media.
00:21:59.760 It was all of the pain-obsessed, minimalism-obsessed, single-minded focused, moralizing.
00:22:05.640 I know what's right.
00:22:06.460 Everyone else is wrong.
00:22:07.960 And the super manic, it's like a young person.
00:22:11.980 And then the older iteration that's, okay, I'm just going to carry out my mission no matter what.
00:22:16.400 Yeah, it's interesting.
00:22:17.460 The whole thing was built around stereotypes.
00:22:18.700 And I think it made it better, to be honest.
00:22:21.280 I think the stereotypes fit snugly within our mind.
00:22:24.000 What are you saying?
00:22:24.680 I guess there are still very offensive stereotypes, right?
00:22:26.980 So there was the offensive Jew stereotype, the offensive, what was it supposed to be, Jamaican stereotype. 0.99
00:22:32.020 And now we have the offensive lesbian stereotype. 1.00
00:22:34.460 And it's fine. 0.85
00:22:35.120 Lesbians who... 1.00
00:22:36.000 No, because it's not like lesbian. 0.99
00:22:37.840 It wasn't interesting lesbians. 1.00
00:22:39.580 This is another thing where they're like, they tried to make this movie palatable to women by putting a bunch of lesbians in it. 1.00
00:22:45.980 That is not what women watch. 1.00
00:22:48.440 I don't know.
00:22:48.960 There are some, a very small handful, but there are some good lesbian shows, according to lesbians.
00:22:54.320 No, no, no, no, but this is not what the mainstream woman wants. 1.00
00:22:57.560 The mainstream woman wants Bridgerton, okay? 1.00
00:22:59.780 Yes, she does.
00:23:00.980 And you could do this with Star Wars.
00:23:02.880 You could have a bunch of nobles with hot, masculine, buff men interacting with women and saving them.
00:23:11.660 I was actually going to say, though, here's the thing, and this is actually even more accurate, although Bridgerton is very accurate.
00:23:17.180 The mainstream woman wants Yowie. 1.00
00:23:19.060 Oh, definitely.
00:23:19.620 Then you have a man-on-man action devoid of women. 0.98
00:23:23.700 I'm sorry, but, like, putting a bunch of chicks in it and making them gay is not the answer, unless you're actually, like, really good. 1.00
00:23:30.180 You have to be really good. 0.97
00:23:30.900 And these are, like, old women, by the way. 0.82
00:23:32.300 This isn't, like, hot lesbian stuff. 1.00
00:23:33.940 Oh, see, that's, yeah, okay, like, at least make them hot. 0.65
00:23:36.500 At least make them fun for the whole family.
00:23:38.500 But, yeah, that's, yeah, I guess go ahead and...
00:23:40.180 But, okay, so people might not understand how this happened, and now I need to tell a personal anecdote that happened to us recently.
00:23:45.960 And this is speculative, whatever.
00:23:47.380 It's speculative, and I'm not going to give names or companies, so you guys can ignore that.
00:23:51.860 But we have been trying to make a documentary.
00:23:53.680 A lot of firms have been trying to make a documentary about our family for a while now.
00:23:58.160 And the prenatalism in general.
00:24:00.140 And it's generally the same story over and over again, which is it gets approved by the creative department, and it gets shut down by the legal department.
00:24:08.900 And we've had this at major streaming networks multiple times at this point.
00:24:13.080 The most recent excuse for the shutdown was that we practiced corporal punishment, and that caused problems for legal.
00:24:19.380 Now, this is very confusing to me because it's legal in our state, so it shouldn't have anything to do with legal, except that maybe it affects ads, but that's not legal's department.
00:24:29.820 But in addition to that, it's something the majority of Americans do, and it's something that the most recent research backs.
00:24:36.520 You can look at the giant meta study done last year, parental punishment, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, 2023.
00:24:43.020 Those two things being the case, why would it be shut down by legal, right?
00:24:50.380 And this is where I realized something.
00:24:52.740 There hasn't been a single right-leaning show that has been greenlit by a major streaming network in about the past 10 years,
00:25:03.560 where characters are shown in a somewhat right-leaning light as positive.
00:25:08.900 And people can say, what about Tiger King?
00:25:11.080 Which you might not be familiar with, is Tiger King was actually pre-produced and then bought by a studio,
00:25:16.260 which seems to be okay for conservative shows.
00:25:19.280 You just cannot have the studio produce it itself.
00:25:22.520 Which shows me that the legal departments of these studios, after they have been ransacked by DEI departments, are the core problem.
00:25:33.580 It is not the DEI departments themselves.
00:25:36.220 And unless you can influence legal departments of the major studios, you are never going to get anything passed through.
00:25:43.080 But also these departments and the managers, who do not get fired when they make bad numbers.
00:25:48.640 They get to fire the creatives, right?
00:25:51.300 But they have incentivized the creatives to make these sorts of things by canceling everything that comes through the pipeline that isn't far left.
00:25:59.420 These are the same companies that let forward videos that have literal, like, PDA file content in them.
00:26:07.560 That have, it is insane the stuff that they are greenlighting.
00:26:11.020 Right?
00:26:12.360 Dear white people, for example, right? 0.95
00:26:14.920 Yet, slightly conservatively coded content ends up getting killed.
00:26:19.780 And the reason is, is because the institutional bureaucracies of these structures are structured in a way where the urban monoculture has such control of them,
00:26:28.500 that deviating from it, even in ways that the majority of the American populace, the vast majority of their audience, deviates from it in, is unacceptable.
00:26:37.560 Now, of course, caveat, there are exceptions to this.
00:26:42.020 There are some streaming platforms or networks that do have shows that showcase conservative people.
00:26:48.600 No.
00:26:50.020 Have you looked at the last big conservative show that did?
00:26:52.600 You're looking at, like, Duck Dynasty, and that was well over 10 years ago.
00:26:55.840 Welcome to Platteville.
00:26:57.420 Welcome to Plackville?
00:26:59.160 Platteville.
00:27:00.060 I've never heard of this.
00:27:00.920 Where is it streaming?
00:27:03.880 TLC.
00:27:05.240 That is not a major network that we've talked about.
00:27:08.920 No, yeah, no, we haven't looked at TLC.
00:27:11.100 I'm just saying that there are exceptions.
00:27:14.800 But...
00:27:15.280 I think that kind of proves our point.
00:27:17.020 If that's what you came up with as your example, when historically speaking, there were lots of conservative-leaning shows, like Duck Dynasty,
00:27:23.620 the fact that this exists...
00:27:25.980 Or do you guys remember The Man Show?
00:27:28.640 Like, this was a thing that existed for a while.
00:27:32.040 Do you remember Spike TV in general?
00:27:33.820 Which was like...
00:27:34.420 Yeah, Spike TV, an entire network for men. 0.67
00:27:36.760 Yeah.
00:27:37.300 Since everyone watched it because it was fun.
00:27:40.380 Yeah, they had a lot of fun stuff.
00:27:41.820 Yeah, and I liked it.
00:27:42.780 I remember this one skit where the little kid, the Spike TV boy, would go into this Quickie Mart type things,
00:27:48.820 and then, like, he'd get alcohol.
00:27:51.020 And they'd say, can you show me your ID?
00:27:53.020 And he'd go, can you show me your green card?
00:27:57.760 Oh, God.
00:27:59.140 Yeah.
00:27:59.940 Back when jokes were jokes.
00:28:01.960 Back when jokes were jokes.
00:28:03.720 You can never do that today, I'll tell you what.
00:28:05.440 It's not fun anymore because people have made immigration lame and not fun.
00:28:11.040 Scary.
00:28:12.120 I don't like it.
00:28:12.680 Can you show me your ID?
00:28:13.780 Can you show me your green card?
00:28:16.060 I just can't.
00:28:17.000 But, yeah, no, so the problem is that systemically, even lightly conservatively leaning things cannot be shown at these platforms,
00:28:23.700 even when what makes them conservative is opinions that are held by the majority of Americans.
00:28:28.880 Yeah, I mean, there's probably a pretty big market for it.
00:28:33.300 There are only a small number of channels that appear to be actively catering to that market, which is interesting, even though, honestly, content about conservatives is equally entertaining to both conservative and progressive markets because it's one of those things where you're either like, oh, these people are great.
00:28:50.980 Or you're like, oh, these monsters are hilarious.
00:28:53.180 And so either way, you win.
00:28:55.180 But I think this is this makes me think, of course, of Tracy Woodgrain's sub stack essay on how Republicans are screwed, how when you look at a lot of the executional apparatus that is being minted by universities, and this is lawyers, this is legislators, this is the people who functionally get things done within large bureaucracies.
00:29:13.460 Because these institutions are so progressively coded, and kind of designed at this point to mint progressives, even if centrists and conservatives enter them, only progressives can come out to a certain extent, unless you've been totally radicalized against it.
00:29:29.320 And there may be more of that backfiring.
00:29:31.100 Benjamin Boyce seemed to be radicalized in the other direction by his brush with the progressive institution.
00:29:36.020 But, yeah, that just means that you're not going to have a lot of conservative lawyers and producers and people who can grow within these really large networks.
00:29:48.300 So, of course, you're going to have conservative independent filmmakers and conservative entrepreneurs and conservative anything that's small scale.
00:29:55.100 But when you get to the big bureaucracies, it's going to be.
00:29:57.760 Well, I mean, AI is going to change this game, I think.
00:30:00.140 And I also point out, when we can do AI automation of shows or animation, it's going to completely upend this model.
00:30:08.660 But with Sora and other Sora-like competitors, you can already make really amazing film content.
00:30:16.960 It's only a matter of time until.
00:30:19.040 Yeah.
00:30:19.280 So, the final point I'd end on is we have been told that if, and this is just a thing, if somebody wants to invest in this, they can.
00:30:27.520 I don't really care one way or the other way.
00:30:29.220 But if we created something like a Tiger King for our family, right, like of our family, it would probably do well in the film festival circuit.
00:30:37.520 And then we could get it onto one of the streaming platforms and you'd likely make a good return.
00:30:41.200 But it's going to require a pretty hefty investment, like half a million dollars or something like that.
00:30:45.840 So, if anyone is interested in doing that, let us know.
00:30:49.360 But only if you're like, one, you have the money to do something like that.
00:30:53.720 I don't want to fan raise money for something like this.
00:30:56.520 If somebody is doing it, I want it to be an investment that they plan to make a good return on.
00:31:01.000 And then we'll do our part to ensure that you make that return.
00:31:04.320 But outside of that, yeah, tough situation.
00:31:07.420 But that might help to explain why the lesbians didn't know basic fire safety. 1.00
00:31:15.800 Not fire safety. 1.00
00:31:17.260 Living in a fucking concrete building is fire safety. 0.99
00:31:20.580 Not when the concrete is obviously flammable. 1.00
00:31:23.420 And they probably knew that.
00:31:26.200 I don't...
00:31:27.200 Where did the good slash evil twin get an incendiary device?
00:31:31.700 She just left fire on the ground. 1.00
00:31:34.240 She was a little lighter.
00:31:36.600 So, they had fire there.
00:31:38.840 Yeah.
00:31:39.420 In the building full of flammable stones, apparently.
00:31:41.880 It hadn't burned down yet, for some reason.
00:31:45.960 You've left so many loose ends with this fascinating show.
00:31:49.420 I feel like now I have to watch it. 0.83
00:31:50.680 But I'm too busy watching Bridgerton and their ridiculous costumes. 0.76
00:31:54.000 Because here's what Bridgerton actually is.
00:31:56.180 Bridgerton is not a historical romance.
00:31:58.180 It is the season in the capital of the Hunger Games.
00:32:03.820 Which is what I always wanted.
00:32:05.760 It is literally the dating season.
00:32:07.200 You could have that in Star Wars.
00:32:08.760 You could have a Coruscant movie.
00:32:10.320 You could have an...
00:32:11.040 Oh, I do Coruscant.
00:32:12.600 Yeah, for sure.
00:32:14.000 But honestly, Bridgerton just did that.
00:32:15.800 Bridgerton's sci-fi, practically.
00:32:17.380 It's not actually like period dress or anything.
00:32:19.940 It's great.
00:32:21.080 So, personally, I think I've got what I need media-wise.
00:32:23.760 So, I'm glad I'm watching that.
00:32:25.620 I have seen that there were a lot of sexy men in Bridgerton.
00:32:28.540 Are you watching too many sexy men being sexy?
00:32:30.780 No one watches this for the men or women in it.
00:32:33.100 They watch it for the costumes.
00:32:34.400 100% is the costumes.
00:32:37.120 They're really pretty.
00:32:38.300 Yeah.
00:32:39.540 I love them.
00:32:40.620 I love them.
00:32:41.460 I love you.
00:32:42.880 I love the Dory.
00:32:43.980 You too.
00:32:44.720 Still a lot of poop.
00:32:48.640 This was the big one.
00:32:51.220 I'm still...
00:32:51.880 I'm on my way.
00:32:52.700 I'm nearly done.
00:32:53.640 Okay.
00:32:53.880 We're getting cleaner.
00:32:55.380 This is getting...
00:32:56.320 The situation is improving.
00:32:58.900 I'm almost done.
00:33:00.380 There's still a lot of wiping happening.
00:33:03.780 It's okay.
00:33:05.260 We have plenty of time for the episode.
00:33:07.540 Hang in there.
00:33:08.920 We can do this.
00:33:10.040 Hold on.
00:33:11.720 Hang in there.
00:33:12.520 Okay.
00:33:13.080 Almost done.
00:33:14.680 Almost done.
00:33:15.720 And I'm getting the diaper now.
00:33:18.860 Fresh diapers come in.
00:33:21.880 And I'm doing this with one hand, so it's a little awkward.
00:33:26.220 Hold on.
00:33:28.040 Okay.
00:33:29.740 Getting the diaper installed.
00:33:31.400 It's happening.
00:33:32.320 Oh, boy.
00:33:32.840 I've discovered more poop, and I'm marking it off.
00:33:36.460 All right.
00:33:37.660 And the diaper's coming on.
00:33:40.240 Other diaper's going into the trash.
00:33:41.900 I'm nearly done now.
00:33:43.780 I'm on my way over.
00:33:45.920 I'm definitely on my way over.
00:33:48.940 The diaper is being fixed.
00:33:52.960 One tab is on.
00:33:54.640 Now the second tab is on.
00:33:55.920 I'm almost there.
00:33:57.720 She's looking very serious about this.
00:34:00.340 Indy.
00:34:01.400 I'm putting out the fluffs.
00:34:02.780 If you don't put out the fluffs, the next diaper's blowout. 1.00
00:34:05.060 Almost guaranteed.
00:34:05.800 And now I'm tucking in legs, checking to make sure that there is no fecal matter on my hands.
00:34:14.980 And I'm making my way over.
00:34:17.100 Okay.
00:34:17.760 Okay.
00:34:18.220 I'm almost there.
00:34:19.600 Almost there.
00:34:21.460 On my way right now.
00:34:24.300 And I'm walking over.
00:34:27.180 I'm walking over.
00:34:28.180 I'm walking over.
00:34:29.800 I'm sitting down.
00:34:31.040 I'm here now.
00:34:32.480 I have the baby.
00:34:34.160 I cannot hear you yet.
00:34:35.840 I am putting her down.
00:34:38.620 The poop has been removed.
00:34:40.360 And I will soon be able to hear you.
00:34:43.060 And I'm super excited for this.
00:34:46.520 The.
00:34:47.720 Yes.
00:34:48.700 Okay.
00:34:50.120 Okay.
00:34:50.800 Sorry.
00:34:51.140 I didn't want you to give up on this just because we had another diaper.
00:34:55.120 Oh, no.