Nerd Hour with The Bechtloff: 1 of 3
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Summary
In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the and talk about bootleggings and the weirdest things you can get from them. Phelan talks about some of the craziest things he has ever gotten from bootlegging toys, and why you should never, ever buy anything made in China.
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Hey, folks, this is Irini, and you're listening to The Podcast with my good friend, The Beklav.
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Now, before the show, we were just having a conversation, which is absolutely wonderful and hilarious.
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Oh, yeah, Phelous is one of the Channel Awesome guys.
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He's dating the Lupa chick that I also like, but mostly because I'm partial redheads.
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And Phelous does bootleg action figure reviews.
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And we were just talking about one he did where there was like...
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It usually comes out of China or somewhere in the Orient.
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They made these, and, you know, it's unlicensed.
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And half the time, they don't really have the official mold.
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Or if they do, they fell off the truck kind of thing.
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I have a little comic stand at an indoor flea market on Saturdays.
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And some of them are fascinating because the packaging will be all fucking weird.
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Or they'll just be the weirdest things about, like, wrong with them.
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Like, he had a Ninja Turtle toy that the weapon they put in with it was a pitchfork.
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And the damn thing had, like, a pentagram, a satanic pentagram on the top of his head.
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And on top of that, the paint on the teeth was all messed up.
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So, like, there were, like, six teeth on the top and four on the bottom all jagged at angles.
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And there was this skin tag coming off of the side of the face.
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Yeah, there's, like, sharp jags of plastic coming off of it.
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Like, I was just reading a book on demonic possession, and it reminded me of this turtle.
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I think Phelous had that turtle's face as his Twitter avatar for a little while.
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And it's like, I almost suspected that he faked it.
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Nobody would invent this horror show of a ninja turtle puppet.
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Some poor kid got that probably even in America.
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You know, his aunt bought it for him because she didn't know any better or something.
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I was reading this thing the other day about, oh, what was it?
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Basically, that was the conclusion of the thing.
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It's like, the people there just do not care about quality control.
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And, you know, I can understand the whole concept of a little kid in Mexico or in China, India, wherever,
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can't afford 12 bucks for 12 cents of plastic for the official ninja turtle.
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So, some local enterprising entrepreneur starts bootlegging these things to make a few bucks and to sell cheap toys to local kids.
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But, so many of these toys were just utter garbage.
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Well, I actually got one at my stand a while ago.
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Because a lot of times the packaging is just as weird.
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Because it was a bootleg Spider-Man, and it looked like it had almost no articulation.
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We just sold it to some customer for, like, five bucks.
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You know, we bought a big box of toys off somebody for, you know, 30, 40 bucks.
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And then you just sell them all for a little bit of profit.
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It had, like, Spider-Man from, like, the Tobey Maguire movies on the packaging.
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And then it had, like, Superman, just like a drawing of it from one of the comics.
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And then it had Ben Affleck's Daredevil and a one-way sign all next to each other.
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And it's like, yeah, this is Spider-Man, I guess.
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It's like, you might as well give the kids, you know, like, rocks and rusty screws to play with.
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When China sells baby food contaminated with mercury, it's child abuse.
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There's actually on the, um, what, is Hong Kong the island?
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Hong Kong's the island that used to be the British protectorate, right?
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Yeah, and it was sort of independent for a while, but not quite.
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Okay, on the northern coast of the island, baby food is in very high demand.
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And there's mainline Chinese people constantly coming over.
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And there's, like, a, you can only buy so many units of baby food with your visa per visit.
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Because they do not trust local, uh, baby food.
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Because they, they put, like, sawdust in it, they put mercury in it, they, they don't care.
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And it's, the monstrosity of it is just, it's, it's horrifying and it's perfectly sunned up by the Satan turtle.
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And by the way, this is a communist government.
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To all the people that think evil capitalist pigs are poisoning people.
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Over at a communist government, they sell you baby food with mercury and satanic ninja turtles.
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Probably lead-based paint on all those things, too.
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Yeah, Phyllis might want to, might want to isolate these things.
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I mean, it's hilarious, but it's, it's, it's horrible.
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Like, what a, I remember when I was young, I saw these, uh, they had these knockoff pseudo-Power Rangers for sale at, like, the drugstore.
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I don't know what it was like here in America, but in Canada, the, we had, like, this drugstore that would always have, like, the cheap $3 toys.
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That they, I, I got the feeling that they were trying to trick grandparents into buying these.
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Because the grandparents don't know the difference between a Power Ranger and, uh, I, I don't know.
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Yeah, it's not exactly bootleg. It doesn't claim to be a mutated hero turtle.
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It's, it just, it looks a lot like the Power Rangers, and grandma doesn't know the frickin' difference, so she just got scammed out of three bucks, and you got a crummy toy.
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It's, it's like the next layer of that. It's just, it's, ah, no morals.
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Oh, my God, right, we, we, we, we're, we're, we're gonna talk about how video games suck nowadays.
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You know, because, because, because this is the internet from 2009, and everything sucks.
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But, I, I, I, for, I wanted to start with movies, and why movies are always leftist.
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Now, but before we even get to that, we need to cover the problem with HD.
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Bekloth, as a filmmaker, there is nothing I hate more than HD.
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Because, nowadays, everything needs to be up to this idiotic stand, where you can see every single pore, and where it's, it's, now, the expensive movies are over-realistic.
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There's, there's this hyper-realism in movies, and movies are not supposed to be realistic.
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But the medium itself is not about accuracy, it's not, like, listen, if you want deep realism and insight, you get a book.
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And the HD just utterly ruined them, in my opinion.
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I don't, I don't even have an HD TV, I don't think, I, I mean, I got my TV in probably, like, 2009, so, I doubt if it, I mean, it's a flat screen and all, it's, it's, but, yeah, I don't, I don't give a damn.
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I, after the time, I go to, like, a friend's house, and they got the new HD, and shit, and I'm like, it's reaching a point where my eyes can't even tell the difference.
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Now, like, from an artistic standpoint, I cannot stand watching stuff in HD, especially 60i.
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I, I think everything's being broadcast in 60i now.
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Uh, 60 frames per second looks like a bloody documentary.
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It's, I feel like I'm watching a documentary about a TV show being made, instead of watching a TV show.
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Because everything is HD nowadays, because we expect to be able to see every bead of sweat and facial hair that is perfectly manicured on the face of the superhero on this stupid movie.
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Because, because, because you expect to see all of it, it's like, it's now so bloody difficult to make these films.
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And then, you know what, I go back and I watch Star Trek The Next Generation.
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I mean, okay, you know what, as a kid, yeah, I wanted to see an HD version of the Borg costume.
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You know, like, Star Trek is not about getting the phasers and the photon torpedoes mixed up, okay?
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That's part of the difficulty of making a, a movie, is that it's a fantasy.
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And when all of a sudden you need this HD Borg costume, you can't just paint, like, the circuitry, you can't just paint the circuitry on.
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It needs to be actual three-dimensional circuitry, because the camera will be able to see that.
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Is that movies, the production studios in Hollywood, they are banks.
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It's not about telling a story or creating a dream.
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And what sort of people are attracted to money?
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Anybody, and, you know, go check out Confused Matthew's rant about Marvel Studios.
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And because movies cost so frickin' much to make, because of these ridiculous standards, there you go.
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That's why it's people that are willing to sacrifice artistic vision for a political message.
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Well, I was gonna, I'm probably still gonna write this on Reaction this week.
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But the research is taking a little longer than I thought it would.
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But, um, the game Destiny, come out on the PS4, uh, Xbox Nine, and I guess PC too.
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It, it seems like everything that's wrong with AAA games.
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It's, first of all, just a generic, uh, Space Marine game.
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They hire, uh, Peter Dinklage to do the voice of your robot buddy that tutors you through the game.
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And he's the little midget from Game of Thrones.
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But a good actor doesn't translate to a good voice actor.
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Especially when he clearly doesn't give a fuck.
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And, and there were no fucks to be given by Peter Dinklage.
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Let's pay for a big celebrity, uh, voice actor.
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Which, by the way, on a tangent, uh, celebrity voice actors piss me off a little bit.
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There are really talented voice actors out there.
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And, that's not the same thing as just being a talented actor.
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You know, I heard somebody else making this exact same point.
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Adult Swim is chock full of these amazing voice actors.
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Yeah, when Disney, or especially DreamWorks, puts out a newest animated film, you rarely get any of the really good voice actors in it anymore.
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DreamWorks is farting out some animated movie about an alien right now.
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And, it's got Rihanna and the guy, and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory starring in it.
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A new movie about an alien that DreamWorks is making.
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And, the two main characters are voiced by, uh, what the, the, the, Sheldon for the Big Bang Theory and Rihanna.
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So, we'll shell out the extra money for that, even though neither one of them necessarily have the ability to do good voice acting.
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Peter Dinklage doing voice acting in this, which I'm sure cost a lot of money and was nowhere near worth it.
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Uh, you know, the story and gameplay are forgettable at best.
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You know, it, it kinda, it doesn't quite, but it kinda forces you into online mode.
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And, point is, the damn thing cost 500 million dollars to make.
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Uh, how much did, um, what was that, what was that sci-fi movie that came out recently?
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Probably, I mean, that's what big budget movies cost to make anymore.
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There's no reason a video game should, and then I, I was trying to do some research where
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I wanted to find, um, some prices on, like, just some classic video games.
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Like, let's say, Doom, or Super Mario World, or, or Final Fantasy VII.
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Just, you know, big, big time games that were huge back in the day.
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You know, anticipate it, and, you know, cornerstones in the history of gaming.
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But, although I think Final Fantasy VII's a little overrated.
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Uh, and just, I wanted to look up some of the, uh, some of, some of the production costs
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for them, and I haven't been able to find as many as I wanted to.
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But the point is, like, um, Grand Theft Auto V, I think I looked that up just recently,
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And that was considered ridiculously expensive at the time.
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And Grand Theft Auto V is this huge, immersive, fuckin', damn near masterpiece by a lot of
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Way more you can do in it, certainly, than Destiny.
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And the point I wanted to make is, A, what are we getting for this money?
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You know, where it's okay at best, but it's, it costs way more to make than it should've?
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Or, or, Marvel Studios, which has had a couple of home runs.
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You know, the Avengers, it was a great movie, but most of the stuff they've been producing
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Well, I, I do kinda fight you on that a little bit, but.
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It's, they keep, they keep, they keep firing really creative people.
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Iron Man 2 is, is the, Iron Man 2 is the weakest of those Avengers.
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Avengers Universe movies, and it's a keen example of what happened when the studio got
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I mean, I, I still kinda like Iron Man 2, but I like it because the actors in it are
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And I do adore that scene where he's telling Congress to go fuck off.
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I, I didn't appreciate it in the third one where he cut off his testicles and gave it
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Yeah, I wouldn't, I wasn't a big fan of that either.
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Um, I really like the Congress scene in Iron Man 2 because not a lot of people know that
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Tony Stark was originally based on Howard Hughes.
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He, at one point, told Congress to eat his balls.
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Well, and the gun control message was very solid in 1 and 2.
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I mean, the Iron Man movies on, in pure story are, are B movies at best.
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I mean, Robert Downey Jr. melded into that role.
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He, even Iron Man 2, I can sit and watch, even though it's, by all accounts, a bad movie
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because he just does such a fantastic performance in it.
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From what I hear, though, the studio keeps killing the movies.
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They keep firing anybody doing anything creative.
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And again, it's, the problem with these movies is that they're a franchise.
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They're, they're making McDonald's cheeseburgers.
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Yeah, that's, I mean, it, the shared universe idea is both a blessing and a curse.
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And, but it could be done way better than this.
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It could just be done with, hey, like, here's what's going on in this broader universe.
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Here's the, here's your guidelines, you know, but then go nuts within those guidelines.
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That's why the Ant-Man movie's been in development hell for so long.
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These are the equivalent of making a video game that presumes a sequel.
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Which, uh, The Order, a recent game, which, a fantastic premise.
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The idea is that, um, the, the knights of the round table find the Holy Grail.
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Like, as long as they keep drinking the Holy Grail water.
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And, so, London, in, like, Victorian era, is this steampunk era sci-fi empire.
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Uh, cause you need something for the, for the superheroes to fight.
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And, all this game is, story-wise, is just a prequel that presumes a sequel.
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You know, you don't get to do anything, really.
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And, you know, like, this is, I was saying that movies, movies are supposed to be dreams.
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And it was honestly better when they were lower resolution.
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Because, like, hyper-realism is just as unrealistic, but it's ten times as difficult to do.
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It doesn't add anything to a movie where you can see the board armor, where you can see every hair follicle.
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It just makes it that much more difficult to make.
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And so, in video games, video games are not about the graphics.
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Back in the day, you know, you had games like Super Mario World, and around the same time, maybe a couple years later, you had Donkey Kong Country.
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Now, Donkey Kong Country, the graphics were considered amazingly cutting-edge at the time.
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But, you look at them now, to me at least, they kind of look like shit now.
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But, purely visually, Super Mario World is aged way better.
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You know, I really view it as the games are trying to do too much.
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I've been thinking about writing a series of articles about all the problems with Fallout New Vegas,
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And, contrast that to something like Fallout 1 or Fallout 2.
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But, let's see, in Fallout New Vegas, the world is so big, because it has to be a sandbox,
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And so, every so often, there will be something where there will be some corpses that, like, there's, like, a story of the corpses.
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That, if you look at the scene, there's, like, a story.
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That there was a car accident that happened 200 years ago.
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Except, nine times out of ten, there is no story.
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And I have no idea what this is supposed to be.
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And so, I don't notice the times they actually do give a damn.
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And you can't, you can't keep that kind of shit up.
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I mean, if you have a video game that has a $500 million budget,
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you have to sell the shit out of that video game.
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You can't, you can't just do okay in the sales.
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Everyone considers Waterworld this huge flop of a movie.
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And the reason they consider it this huge flop of a movie
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is because it cost a fucking kajillion dollars to make.
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It did okay in the box office when you compare it to other movies in that summer.
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But it didn't make enough to justify the insane budget.
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it's not that it was a crappy movie, which it was.
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A lot of that movie could have been filmed for much cheaper.
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Like, that whole stupid action sequence at the beginning of the movie
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I mean, the story being told sucked, which is its own problem.
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But you didn't need that huge city they built in the middle of the Pacific
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But yeah, they just pissed away money like drunken sailors.
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New Vegas is where those games are trying to beat everything to everybody.
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Like, there's this crafting mechanic in the game
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that's very poorly implemented and out of place.
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They mistook the computer hacking and the lockpicking.
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In Fallout New Vegas, lockpicking is a memorphicous skill.
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It's basically, lockpicking gets you more ammo and stim packs.
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I mean, like, you know, and I write for a video game site,
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and I have a hard time justifying getting myself a PS4.
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And I still, I'm like, looking at it and I'm like,
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this just seems like one disappointment after another.
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Well, I'll tell you, a huge reason that I don't play that many games anymore
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Why would I play, why would I get another update
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Yeah, I mean, an amazing graphics engine doesn't count for much
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when it's just to show me more glorious shades of brown and gray.
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And when you have a development team that is hundreds of people,
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managed to create an incredibly rich environment
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because the development team was all on board with the same thing.
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When you're trying to attract everybody to your movie
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You can't make something that a specific audience is going to love.
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You have to make something that everybody's going to like.
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And that guy, he had to make sacrifices for the budget.
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are basically just people wearing sharp teeth in their mouth
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because there wasn't a budget to have these fancy, amazing CG werewolves.
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You can tell this because one of the first scenes that introduces him,
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he walks out of the gas station with a pepperette held in his mouth like a cigar.
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And on a recent episode, they had an ashtray on the middle of the table
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where him and his brother were talking, even though there weren't any cigarettes.
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But they had to, you know, only Arabs and bad guys can smoke,
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He made a lot of freedom sacrifices to get that show made.
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They did it on a very tight budget for a professional TV show.
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They're like, I don't know the budget, but I can just...
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I see the corners cut constantly, and they do it very well.
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But it was one man's vision, and Supernatural is insanely popular.
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It's that this is one of the most red pill shows on TV.
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I mean, it starts off with a couple of brothers looking for their dad.
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You know, is that not a metaphor for our society?
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But, you know, even the SJWs, when they see masculine virtue and virility,
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they admire it, even if they then go right slash quick about it
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You know, I never got into Supernatural, but I keep wanting to.
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It was only supposed to be five seasons long, but it was so popular,
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and the money was so tempting that they kept going with it.
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After season five, it's a couple of guys driving a classic car with classic rock,
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I was going to say, that still sounds pretty cool.
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and season six is a spin-off with the same actors and the same...
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I'm going to get myself a Netflix account here soon.
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They're doing a Daredevil show on Netflix that I'm going to want to check out.
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There is absolutely no feminism in it, no social justice.
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All the monsters are metaphors for personality disorders.
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And they criticize women just as frequently as they criticize men.
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If you take the werewolf, the werewolf is largely a metaphor for the rapist,
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for the man that's out of control, the violent thug.
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Yeah, vampires are probably metaphors for that, too, really.
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The werewolf is predominantly masculine, but something like a witch...
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and engage in duplicitous dealings behind the scenes
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Like, I keep looking at the Twitter account of this thing,
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there's some feminist organization recently came out
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you should do the scissoring motion instead with your fingers.
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Oh, that's the ironic thing about these people.
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you know something that I noticed the other day?
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and I can understand that cover being in poor taste,
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that's not what the social justice reaction was.
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The social justice reaction was that there was no
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you probably have to ask for that cover at your comic book shop.
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And we were having a conversation the other day about Alien 3 in regards to this.
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which is universally recognized as a terrible movie,
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is actually the sort of film that perfectly fits the social justice narrative.
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and this is spoiler alert if you haven't seen Alien 3,
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the Alien 3 starts off with all of the good guys from the first movie,
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and then you find out Ripley has an alien in her gut.
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Freud had a whole fixation upon the oral nature,
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it's a giant penis monster that rapes and impregnates you to death.
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And then rapes its way out of your body with its penis form.
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where there's a narrative of overcoming her rapist.
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but the movie ends with her diving backwards into a pit of lava to abort and suicide herself.
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she's supposedly trying to keep the evil company from getting their hands on it.
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now that the evil company at the beginning is the one that,
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the evil patriarchy is the one that impregnated her with this thing by sneaking it on board the spaceship.
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because they want to have their own alien queen so they can harvest royal jelly from her,
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And so she is rebelling against her evil daddy,
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she prevented them from getting this xenomorph,
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She dies alone and forgotten in a pulper's grave.
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you thought that the company promised her that if they could harvest it without killing her?
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it's been probably over a decade since I've watched it,
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you could easily sedate her and do surgery to get the fucker out.
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I would think you wouldn't survive the surgery.
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Cause as soon as you cut deep enough to where it's at,
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And who knows what it's going to tear up as it's thrashing around,
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it's probably a better chance than letting it just burst out of your sternum.
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this movie really does fit the narrative that they want.
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that girl is rebelling against daddy and aborting her baby and committing
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that's a survivor narrative and they're twisted reality.
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When universally audience hated it because it was so hopeless and negative
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And now I hasten to add just guys look into the production of this movie.
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I feel really bad for everybody involved in alien.
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I think it had like nine scripts hobbled together.
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you still have to edit it and put it out there.
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thankfully not a situation I'm in for the record.
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I sent you guys a whopping seven bucks a month.
00:41:13.840
I just was editing Jason Miller's footage and it's brilliant.
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Because like everybody had lots of brilliant stuff to say.
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It's about finding the most poignant and significant and also something that
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he did have some interesting comparisons to the,
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basically that the media right now is in a giant bubble.
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which is why it's all social justice warriors volunteering to work for free
00:42:36.580
because they're not paying their journalists anything,
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the journalists are reporting political garbage that only a minority of
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And so fewer and fewer people are buying newspapers or paying for mainstream
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That's all going to collapse because of corruption in all of it.
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I think this fucking podcast is going to do better than MSNBC's primetime lineup.
00:43:26.820
This black chick that used to sub for Rachel Maddow and she's got her own show.
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And I realize it's her voice and she can't help it.
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she could probably get a speech therapist and knock it down.
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like John Stossel used to have a gnarly stutter and he got rid of it.
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you and I have colleagues that we both respect very deeply.
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who do a lot more writing than they do speaking because they are not very good at speaking.
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the fact that you have people in journalism that are bad at speaking,
00:44:46.400
I assume Melissa Harris Perry had to pass through Rachel Maddow's casting couch.
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I hope she got worked over good to get her job because she sure as hell doesn't deserve it.
00:44:59.700
I know that Fox News gets a lot of bad publicity.
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How dare anybody disagree with us because we learned the true facts in university.
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between the mainstream right and the left in this country,
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but only in the way that catching herpes would be better than catching AIDS.
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They speak with their legs together and they don't want to upset a nanny by being too disruptive.
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they never talk about what will be the objective consequences of doing anything.
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The objective consequences out the window for these people.
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Everything is the social dynamic game where they're trying to figure out that the Republicans are doing this to impress their face so that they can get into the Senate.
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it's because you are listening to old women gossip.
00:47:49.560
They started off by playing My Way by Frank Sinatra,
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And there's this one line in the song that they were obsessing with on NPR.
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I don't believe that anybody has lived a life without regret.
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And so then they proceeded to air three radio play drama things that weren't,
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they're basically just like a narrated story about people that had failed at life.
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because I'm not sure they're capable of regret.
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because he was too broken to take care of his children.
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And this other guy who went to jail because he was an idiot.
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They want to hear stories about other people being failures to make themselves feel better about that.
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Whereas the temperament of the right is we want to hear stories about heroes,
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so that we can become more heroic by emulating them.
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some people see their betters and are inspired by the example,
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and some people see their betters and burn with jealous rage.
00:49:50.820
to go back to what you're saying about the gamer game and the,
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actually this is how we got into the whole Batgirl thing.
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I was saying somebody drew a rather vulgar picture of her to trigger them.
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I think we have all been raised to have absolutely no standards,
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I think Gamergate does need to be about being better than that.
00:50:28.700
it's fine to laugh at the social justice warriors.
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there's a fine line between laughing at them and stooping to their level,
00:51:09.980
I couldn't just constantly spit fucking venom 24 seven,
00:51:18.540
let's look at the difference between the alleged bomb threats that gamer games make.
00:51:25.560
I seriously suspect that the bomb threats have been made by social justice warriors for their own ends.
00:51:32.600
Or just third party trolls that are looking to fuck with.
00:51:39.720
I would be very surprised to find out it was even a misguided supporter of Gamergate.
00:52:10.880
on Sarkoosian's YouTube that I hope you get raped,
00:52:18.180
technically I hope you get raped isn't a threat.
00:52:50.680
that I'm not sure if a lot of these people can even distinguish between something that makes them uncomfortable,
00:53:21.680
that you will likely never encounter in real life,
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And this is actually a trait of the narcissist.
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they will react with as much violence as they can muster.
00:53:52.580
They will do anything to eliminate you saying that,
00:54:35.040
they can't differentiate between these two things.
00:54:38.680
These people really need to be punched in the face.
00:54:51.360
I had a couple of videos where basically it was like,
00:54:55.600
and for the record we have and things are just in a conference call yesterday with,
00:55:02.500
Jordan and our artist and we had a whole bunch of arguing and a whole bunch of collaborating
00:55:08.820
I'm satisfied with how you guys have worked here.
00:55:31.760
Maybe you should reevaluate your emotional investment in a documentary by a skinhead and a libertarian
00:55:40.620
Maybe take your 20 year old Genesis games out of the bookshelf and find something to live for.
00:55:53.720
an action figure on my bookshelf in front of books or games or some bullshit like that.
00:56:04.940
a little Sonic action figure in front of my Genesis games on my bookshelf.
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if you don't give a damn about classic video games.
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I seriously hated Sega for that attitude back in the 90s.
00:56:41.360
As opposed to now Doritos is associated with fat.
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why are you talking about this topic to anybody on YouTube?
00:56:59.940
Why do you even know who the fucking either Sarkeesian is?
00:57:05.980
which I assume is you cause you're bald and a libertarian.
00:57:10.060
So I guess this guy's so far to the fucking left that a libertarian,
00:57:14.300
is essentially equivalent to a Nazi in his mind.
00:57:30.520
Criticizing the public statements and public actions of a public figure is
00:57:38.420
These are the same types of people who've told me I owe Lindsay Ellis an
00:57:42.340
apology for criticizing her to which I always respond.
00:57:46.220
Well then I guess she owes Michael Bay an apology.
00:58:21.840
I don't have that much of an emotional investment to the original cartoon,
00:58:27.380
Like the thing is the cartoon wasn't that good.
00:58:45.280
and I really don't mean to be disrespectful because like,
00:58:48.420
like Ninja Turtles was huge with me when I was growing up.
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I wasn't offended or hurt by the new movies at all.
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new Transformers movies don't take away from the franchise.
00:59:11.520
the Adam West Batman does not take away from Nolan's films.
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a link popping up somewhere on the screen right now.
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where we are going to nerd out about old comics and whatnot,