Leo D.M.J. Aurini - Nerd Hour with The Bechtloff： 1 of 3

00:00:00.520 Hey, folks, this is Irini, and you're listening to The Podcast with my good friend, The Beklav.

00:00:08.220 How are you doing, brother?

00:00:09.320 Not bad. How are you doing?

00:00:11.040 Not too shabby.

00:00:13.140 Now, before the show, we were just having a conversation, which is absolutely wonderful and hilarious.

00:00:19.660 Tell the listeners about Phelous.

00:00:23.740 Oh, yeah, Phelous is one of the Channel Awesome guys.

00:00:28.260 But one of the good ones.

00:00:30.780 Yeah, his style's pretty good.

00:00:32.420 I like him.

00:00:33.460 He's dating the Lupa chick that I also like, but mostly because I'm partial redheads. 0.86

00:00:39.200 And Phelous does bootleg action figure reviews.

00:00:42.780 And we were just talking about one he did where there was like...

00:00:45.740 Wait, wait.

00:00:46.720 Beklav, what is a bootleg action figure?

00:00:49.320 Oh, just like a generic one of these things.

00:00:52.880 It usually comes out of China or somewhere in the Orient.

00:00:55.540 They made these, and, you know, it's unlicensed.

00:00:58.740 And half the time, they don't really have the official mold.

00:01:02.300 Or if they do, they fell off the truck kind of thing.

00:01:05.540 You see these all the time.

00:01:06.760 I have a little comic stand at an indoor flea market on Saturdays.

00:01:11.760 And I get these sometimes.

00:01:13.060 People selling me lots of toys and stuff.

00:01:16.880 And Phelous does reviews of them. 0.85

00:01:18.600 And some of them are fascinating because the packaging will be all fucking weird.

00:01:22.100 Or they'll just be the weirdest things about, like, wrong with them.

00:01:27.100 Like, he had a Ninja Turtle toy that the weapon they put in with it was a pitchfork. 0.98

00:01:32.280 And the damn thing had, like, a pentagram, a satanic pentagram on the top of his head. 0.98

00:01:38.880 And on top of that, the paint on the teeth was all messed up. 0.99

00:01:44.720 So, like, there were, like, six teeth on the top and four on the bottom all jagged at angles.

00:01:50.660 And there was this skin tag coming off of the side of the face.

00:01:55.920 Yeah, there's, like, sharp jags of plastic coming off of it.

00:01:59.300 It was the most horrific-looking thing.

00:02:03.520 Like, I was just reading a book on demonic possession, and it reminded me of this turtle.

00:02:09.420 Like, it looks, it's a horror show.

00:02:12.280 It's scary.

00:02:13.640 I think Phelous had that turtle's face as his Twitter avatar for a little while.

00:02:18.820 I mean, I was watching his review of it.

00:02:21.800 And it's like, I almost suspected that he faked it.

00:02:26.940 Except this is too crazy to be fake.

00:02:29.440 Okay, like, truth is stranger to fiction.

00:02:31.760 Nobody would invent this horror show of a ninja turtle puppet.

00:02:39.220 Some poor kid got that probably even in America.

00:02:43.660 You know, his aunt bought it for him because she didn't know any better or something.

00:02:48.000 Like, here's your demonic hero turtle.

00:02:51.840 Oh, my God.

00:02:52.660 I was reading this thing the other day about, oh, what was it?

00:02:56.640 Well, don't buy food from China, people.

00:03:00.260 Basically, that was the conclusion of the thing.

00:03:01.920 Do not buy food from China.

00:03:03.700 It's like, the people there just do not care about quality control.

00:03:07.880 And it's, now, okay, listen.

00:03:09.360 Some of these bootlegs are decent quality.

00:03:13.600 And, you know, I can understand the whole concept of a little kid in Mexico or in China, India, wherever,

00:03:19.700 can't afford 12 bucks for 12 cents of plastic for the official ninja turtle.

00:03:23.740 So, some local enterprising entrepreneur starts bootlegging these things to make a few bucks and to sell cheap toys to local kids.

00:03:32.140 All right.

00:03:33.040 Yeah, fine.

00:03:33.860 Wonderful. 0.99

00:03:34.160 But, so many of these toys were just utter garbage. 0.97

00:03:41.840 Like, tell me, tell us about some of them. 0.95

00:03:47.680 Well, I actually got one at my stand a while ago.

00:03:51.340 Because a lot of times the packaging is just as weird.

00:03:53.940 Because it was a bootleg Spider-Man, and it looked like it had almost no articulation.

00:03:58.840 But the paint job looked decent.

00:04:00.240 We didn't open it.

00:04:01.300 We just sold it to some customer for, like, five bucks.

00:04:04.280 You know, we bought a big box of toys off somebody for, you know, 30, 40 bucks.

00:04:09.340 And then you just sell them all for a little bit of profit.

00:04:12.340 Well, it had the weirdest packaging.

00:04:14.060 It had, like, Spider-Man from, like, the Tobey Maguire movies on the packaging.

00:04:18.400 And then it had, like, Superman, just like a drawing of it from one of the comics.

00:04:22.660 And then it had Ben Affleck's Daredevil and a one-way sign all next to each other.

00:04:29.540 And it's like, yeah, this is Spider-Man, I guess.

00:04:35.400 It's like, you might as well give the kids, you know, like, rocks and rusty screws to play with.

00:04:41.120 You know, like, the, I mean, okay.

00:04:44.540 When China sells baby food contaminated with mercury, it's child abuse.

00:04:51.700 There's actually on the, um, what, is Hong Kong the island?

00:04:55.800 I can never remember.

00:04:56.540 Hong Kong's the island that used to be the British protectorate, right?

00:04:59.900 Yeah, and it was sort of independent for a while, but not quite.

00:05:03.260 Okay, on the northern coast of the island, baby food is in very high demand.

00:05:08.960 And there's mainline Chinese people constantly coming over.

00:05:12.400 And there's, like, a, you can only buy so many units of baby food with your visa per visit.

00:05:17.260 Because they do not trust local, uh, baby food.

00:05:21.580 Because they, they put, like, sawdust in it, they put mercury in it, they, they don't care.

00:05:26.820 And it's, the monstrosity of it is just, it's, it's horrifying and it's perfectly sunned up by the Satan turtle.

00:05:33.120 And by the way, this is a communist government. 0.99

00:05:38.440 To all the people that think evil capitalist pigs are poisoning people. 0.98

00:05:44.460 Over at a communist government, they sell you baby food with mercury and satanic ninja turtles. 0.96

00:05:51.480 Probably lead-based paint on all those things, too.

00:05:54.100 Yeah, Phyllis might want to, might want to isolate these things. 1.00

00:06:01.460 I mean, I mean, it really is horrible.

00:06:04.120 I mean, it's hilarious, but it's, it's, it's horrible.

00:06:07.380 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.

00:06:16.780 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.

00:06:24.100 That they, I, I got the feeling that they were trying to trick grandparents into buying these.

00:06:29.440 Because the grandparents don't know the difference between a Power Ranger and, uh, I, I don't know.

00:06:37.500 Yeah, that, yeah.

00:06:38.820 I, I got a few of those as a kid, too.

00:06:42.580 Bootleg ninja turtle stuff.

00:06:44.580 Yeah, it's not exactly bootleg. It doesn't claim to be a mutated hero turtle.

00:06:48.880 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.

00:06:59.940 It's, it's like the next layer of that. It's just, it's, ah, no morals.

00:07:06.160 Think of the children.

00:07:10.780 Yeah, seriously, think of the children. 0.97

00:07:15.060 Oh, my God, right, we, we, we, we're, we're, we're gonna talk about how video games suck nowadays. 0.98

00:07:20.760 You know, because, because, because this is the internet from 2009, and everything sucks.

00:07:25.320 But, I, I, I, for, I wanted to start with movies, and why movies are always leftist.

00:07:34.500 Now, but before we even get to that, we need to cover the problem with HD.

00:07:42.780 Bekloth, as a filmmaker, there is nothing I hate more than HD.

00:07:48.540 HD has, it has utterly ruined movies. 0.54

00:07:54.980 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.

00:08:07.680 There's, there's this hyper-realism in movies, and movies are not supposed to be realistic. 0.75

00:08:16.440 But the medium itself is not about accuracy, it's not, like, listen, if you want deep realism and insight, you get a book.

00:08:26.340 Movies are supposed to be dreams.

00:08:29.000 And the HD just utterly ruined them, in my opinion.

00:08:33.740 I don't know, your take on that.

00:08:35.220 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.

00:08:47.380 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.

00:08:55.560 This is just wasting money.

00:08:57.580 Well, and that's, that's exactly it.

00:08:58.840 Now, like, from an artistic standpoint, I cannot stand watching stuff in HD, especially 60i.

00:09:05.220 I, I think everything's being broadcast in 60i now.

00:09:08.280 Uh, 60 frames per second looks like a bloody documentary.

00:09:11.480 It's, I feel like I'm watching a documentary about a TV show being made, instead of watching a TV show.

00:09:18.040 It's too realistic.

00:09:22.100 And, as you said, it's the, the expense. 1.00

00:09:25.200 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. 0.94

00:09:37.240 Because, because, because you expect to see all of it, it's like, it's now so bloody difficult to make these films. 0.91

00:09:44.700 Because you have this ridiculously high bar.

00:09:47.980 And then, you know what, I go back and I watch Star Trek The Next Generation.

00:09:53.400 What's the problem there?

00:09:54.380 I mean, okay, you know what, as a kid, yeah, I wanted to see an HD version of the Borg costume.

00:10:03.920 But as a filmmaker, it's not about that.

00:10:08.840 You know, like, Star Trek is not about getting the phasers and the photon torpedoes mixed up, okay?

00:10:14.560 Like, that stuff happens.

00:10:16.140 That's part of the difficulty of making a, a movie, is that it's a fantasy.

00:10:20.400 It's magical.

00:10:21.520 It's a dream.

00:10:23.140 It's not about HD Borg costumes.

00:10:26.280 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.

00:10:33.960 It needs to be actual three-dimensional circuitry, because the camera will be able to see that.

00:10:38.700 But it goes through the roof.

00:10:42.900 And so, what happens with all of this?

00:10:45.600 Is that movies, the production studios in Hollywood, they are banks.

00:10:51.220 It's not about making art.

00:10:52.680 It's not about telling a story or creating a dream.

00:10:56.460 It's about making money.

00:10:59.160 And what sort of people are attracted to money?

00:11:03.920 Yeah, really.

00:11:05.420 Not artists.

00:11:07.080 Anybody, and, you know, go check out Confused Matthew's rant about Marvel Studios.

00:11:12.700 The studios just want, they're banks.

00:11:14.920 They're not creative enterprises.

00:11:17.120 They're banks. 0.96

00:11:18.140 And because movies cost so frickin' much to make, because of these ridiculous standards, there you go. 0.86

00:11:26.500 That's why it's people that are willing to sacrifice artistic vision for a political message. 0.84

00:11:31.280 They are the ones making movies.

00:11:32.860 And I think this goes over to games as well.

00:11:37.320 And so, I've been going on for a while.

00:11:39.080 Why don't you introduce the games topic?

00:11:41.720 Well, I was gonna, I'm probably still gonna write this on Reaction this week.

00:11:46.400 But the research is taking a little longer than I thought it would.

00:11:49.200 But, um, the game Destiny, come out on the PS4, uh, Xbox Nine, and I guess PC too.

00:11:57.640 Uh, it's, it's a bloated, uh, mess.

00:12:00.700 I haven't played it.

00:12:02.060 And, oh, you should play it for you.

00:12:03.540 But I've watched all the Let's Plays.

00:12:05.080 I've watched all the reviews.

00:12:06.460 You know, I've watched all the footage.

00:12:07.680 I've read on it.

00:12:08.300 It, it seems like everything that's wrong with AAA games.

00:12:12.140 It's, first of all, just a generic, uh, Space Marine game.

00:12:17.300 Uh, it's gorgeous.

00:12:18.740 The, the visuals are amazing.

00:12:20.940 They hire, uh, Peter Dinklage to do the voice of your robot buddy that tutors you through the game.

00:12:27.140 And he's the little midget from Game of Thrones. 1.00

00:12:31.420 He's also in...

00:12:32.320 He's also known as Mr. Charisma.

00:12:34.780 He's also in the, uh, in the new X-Men movie.

00:12:37.160 He's quite good at it.

00:12:38.760 He's a good actor.

00:12:39.700 But a good actor doesn't translate to a good voice actor. 0.99

00:12:42.660 Especially when he clearly doesn't give a fuck. 0.99

00:12:45.660 And, and there were no fucks to be given by Peter Dinklage. 0.99

00:12:48.320 He phoned that in completely. 1.00

00:12:51.020 But, hey, fuck it. 1.00

00:12:52.200 Let's pay for a big celebrity, uh, voice actor. 1.00

00:12:55.980 Which, by the way, on a tangent, uh, celebrity voice actors piss me off a little bit.

00:13:01.960 There are really talented voice actors out there.

00:13:04.740 And, that's not the same thing as just being a talented actor.

00:13:10.260 You know, I heard somebody else making this exact same point.

00:13:12.780 There are so many talented voice actors.

00:13:14.920 Look at Adult Swim.

00:13:16.280 Adult Swim is chock full of these amazing voice actors.

00:13:20.400 And, you're right.

00:13:21.520 It's not the same thing as acting.

00:13:23.120 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.

00:13:32.500 Because, it's got to be the big names.

00:13:35.020 DreamWorks is farting out some animated movie about an alien right now.

00:13:39.340 And, it's got Rihanna and the guy, and Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory starring in it.

00:13:44.340 Wait, wait.

00:13:44.780 The new alien movie has Rihanna in it?

00:13:46.920 No, no, no.

00:13:47.840 A cartoon.

00:13:49.440 I don't remember what it's called.

00:13:50.740 It's, uh, no, not the new alien movie.

00:13:53.460 A new movie about an alien that DreamWorks is making.

00:13:55.960 It's a cartoon movie.

00:13:56.740 And, the two main characters are voiced by, uh, what the, the, the, Sheldon for the Big Bang Theory and Rihanna. 0.98

00:14:05.120 And, what is the fucking point of that? 0.97

00:14:06.520 The point of that is they're big names. 0.97

00:14:08.280 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.

00:14:17.220 So, anyways, yeah.

00:14:18.340 Peter Dinklage doing voice acting in this, which I'm sure cost a lot of money and was nowhere near worth it.

00:14:23.220 Uh, you know, the story and gameplay are forgettable at best.

00:14:28.140 You know, it, it kinda, it doesn't quite, but it kinda forces you into online mode. 0.98

00:14:33.420 And, point is, the damn thing cost 500 million dollars to make. 0.94

00:14:40.540 Uh, how much did, um, what was that, what was that sci-fi movie that came out recently? 0.99

00:14:46.600 The good one.

00:14:49.220 Uh, what are you thinking, uh, Interstellar?

00:14:51.760 Interstellar, how much did that cost to make?

00:14:53.800 Uh, I'm not sure.

00:14:55.180 Was it 500 million?

00:14:57.120 Probably, I mean, that's what big budget movies cost to make anymore.

00:15:01.840 There's no reason a video game should, and then I, I was trying to do some research where

00:15:05.480 I wanted to find, um, some prices on, like, just some classic video games.

00:15:10.760 Like, let's say, Doom, or Super Mario World, or, or Final Fantasy VII.

00:15:16.740 Just, you know, big, big time games that were huge back in the day.

00:15:21.400 You know, anticipate it, and, you know, cornerstones in the history of gaming. 0.99

00:15:25.980 Kinda shit. 0.99

00:15:26.660 But, although I think Final Fantasy VII's a little overrated. 0.99

00:15:29.700 Not the point.

00:15:31.360 Uh, and just, I wanted to look up some of the, uh, some of, some of the production costs

00:15:36.500 for them, and I haven't been able to find as many as I wanted to.

00:15:39.140 But the point is, like, um, Grand Theft Auto V, I think I looked that up just recently,

00:15:45.420 was 47 million dollars to make.

00:15:46.860 And that was considered ridiculously expensive at the time. 0.87

00:15:51.560 And Grand Theft Auto V is this huge, immersive, fuckin', damn near masterpiece by a lot of 0.89

00:15:57.660 people's accounts. 0.51

00:15:59.700 Way more you can do in it, certainly, than Destiny.

00:16:02.460 And it was 47 million.

00:16:04.740 And Destiny was 500 million.

00:16:06.600 And the point I wanted to make is, A, what are we getting for this money?

00:16:11.080 Is every video game, like, fuckin' Waterworld?

00:16:13.140 You know, where it's okay at best, but it's, it costs way more to make than it should've?

00:16:18.840 Or, or, Marvel Studios, which has had a couple of home runs.

00:16:23.500 You know, the Avengers, it was a great movie, but most of the stuff they've been producing 0.95

00:16:28.540 is absolute garbage. 0.78

00:16:30.860 Well, I, I do kinda fight you on that a little bit, but. 0.99

00:16:33.720 It's, they keep, they keep, they keep firing really creative people.

00:16:38.120 That's.

00:16:38.960 Iron Man 2 is, is the, Iron Man 2 is the weakest of those Avengers.

00:16:43.140 Avengers Universe movies, and it's a keen example of what happened when the studio got

00:16:47.420 the most involved.

00:16:49.300 I mean, I, I still kinda like Iron Man 2, but I like it because the actors in it are

00:16:53.320 really good.

00:16:54.340 And they carry it.

00:16:55.460 Robert Downey Jr. carries it. 1.00

00:16:57.680 And I do adore that scene where he's telling Congress to go fuck off. 1.00

00:17:02.000 Oh, that's an excellent scene. 1.00

00:17:03.000 I, I didn't appreciate it in the third one where he cut off his testicles and gave it 0.99

00:17:06.220 to his wife. 0.97

00:17:08.060 Yeah, I wouldn't, I wasn't a big fan of that either.

00:17:10.140 Um, I really like the Congress scene in Iron Man 2 because not a lot of people know that

00:17:16.000 Tony Stark was originally based on Howard Hughes.

00:17:19.840 And Howard Hughes did that. 0.99

00:17:22.160 He, at one point, told Congress to eat his balls. 0.98

00:17:27.420 Well, and the gun control message was very solid in 1 and 2. 0.99

00:17:31.120 I mean, the Iron Man movies on, in pure story are, are B movies at best.

00:17:42.820 They're carried by the actor.

00:17:44.380 I mean, Robert Downey Jr. melded into that role.

00:17:47.300 And he carries it.

00:17:48.580 He, even Iron Man 2, I can sit and watch, even though it's, by all accounts, a bad movie

00:17:52.900 because he just does such a fantastic performance in it.

00:17:55.420 From what I hear, though, the studio keeps killing the movies.

00:17:59.800 They keep firing anybody doing anything creative.

00:18:02.300 And again, it's, the problem with these movies is that they're a franchise.

00:18:07.820 They're, they're making McDonald's cheeseburgers.

00:18:10.280 They're not trying to make art.

00:18:11.460 Yeah, that's, I mean, it, the shared universe idea is both a blessing and a curse.

00:18:22.920 And, but it could be done way better than this.

00:18:25.460 It could just be done with, hey, like, here's what's going on in this broader universe.

00:18:30.160 Here's the, here's your guidelines, you know, but then go nuts within those guidelines.

00:18:36.020 You know what, let me hear.

00:18:37.180 But instead, it's way too micromanaged.

00:18:39.440 That's why the Ant-Man movie's been in development hell for so long.

00:18:44.000 Let me put it in video game terms.

00:18:46.280 These are the equivalent of making a video game that presumes a sequel.

00:18:53.680 Which, uh, The Order, a recent game, which, a fantastic premise.

00:18:58.500 The idea is that, um, the, the knights of the round table find the Holy Grail.

00:19:05.340 And they're basically immortal.

00:19:06.980 Like, as long as they keep drinking the Holy Grail water.

00:19:11.080 And, so, London, in, like, Victorian era, is this steampunk era sci-fi empire.

00:19:20.340 With werewolves and Dracula.

00:19:22.180 Yeah, with werewolves and Dracula.

00:19:24.180 Uh, cause you need something for the, for the superheroes to fight.

00:19:27.020 And, all this game is, story-wise, is just a prequel that presumes a sequel.

00:19:35.760 It goes nowhere.

00:19:37.340 You know, you don't get to do anything, really.

00:19:40.180 Looks gorgeous, of course.

00:19:41.640 That's the next-gen console.

00:19:42.940 Oh, it looks great.

00:19:44.400 Yay.

00:19:44.760 And, you know, like, this is, I was saying that movies, movies are supposed to be dreams.

00:19:52.100 And it was honestly better when they were lower resolution.

00:19:55.220 Because, like, hyper-realism is just as unrealistic, but it's ten times as difficult to do.

00:20:02.960 It doesn't add anything to a movie where you can see the board armor, where you can see every hair follicle.

00:20:08.420 It doesn't make the movie any better.

00:20:09.920 It just makes it that much more difficult to make.

00:20:13.780 And so, in video games, video games are not about the graphics.

00:20:19.260 They're about the interaction.

00:20:23.660 No, I mean, I'll give you a good example.

00:20:26.980 Going back to, like, cartridge air stuff.

00:20:29.600 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.

00:20:36.100 Now, Donkey Kong Country, the graphics were considered amazingly cutting-edge at the time. 0.99

00:20:43.380 But, you look at them now, to me at least, they kind of look like shit now.

00:20:48.060 Now, Donkey Kong Country is a really fun game. 0.97

00:20:51.580 You know, it's a well-made platformer.

00:20:54.080 It's aged well in that regard.

00:20:56.240 But, purely visually, Super Mario World is aged way better.

00:21:00.760 You know, I really view it as the games are trying to do too much.

00:21:09.800 They're trying to be too big.

00:21:12.840 I've been thinking about writing a series of articles about all the problems with Fallout New Vegas,

00:21:18.780 which is a great game, in my opinion.

00:21:22.120 But the flaws are just so absolutely massive.

00:21:26.320 And, contrast that to something like Fallout 1 or Fallout 2.

00:21:33.640 Which were these amazing, rich environments.

00:21:36.300 But, let's see, in Fallout New Vegas, the world is so big, because it has to be a sandbox,

00:21:41.700 because sandboxes are what we do nowadays.

00:21:43.820 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.

00:21:52.700 That, if you look at the scene, there's, like, a story.

00:21:56.700 That there was a car accident that happened 200 years ago.

00:22:00.080 And the corpses are still lying there.

00:22:01.860 And that's brilliant.

00:22:03.220 That's amazing.

00:22:04.960 Except, nine times out of ten, there is no story.

00:22:08.500 There is nothing going on.

00:22:09.880 And I have no idea what this is supposed to be.

00:22:12.900 And so, I don't notice the times they actually do give a damn.

00:22:19.760 Yeah.

00:22:21.000 The AAA industry right now is a bloated mess. 1.00

00:22:24.400 And you can't, you can't keep that kind of shit up. 0.98

00:22:26.800 I mean, if you have a video game that has a $500 million budget, 0.99

00:22:29.880 you have to sell the shit out of that video game. 0.75

00:22:34.840 You can't, you can't just do okay in the sales. 0.99

00:22:40.800 You know, I go back to Waterworld.

00:22:42.480 Everyone considers Waterworld this huge flop of a movie.

00:22:45.820 And the reason they consider it this huge flop of a movie 0.99

00:22:48.360 is because it cost a fucking kajillion dollars to make. 0.98

00:22:52.220 It did okay in the box office when you compare it to other movies in that summer. 0.99

00:22:57.480 Now, it got critically panned, 0.99

00:23:01.600 but it was another big fucking popcorn flick, 0.99

00:23:04.060 and people went out to see it. 0.99

00:23:05.500 But it didn't make enough to justify the insane budget.

00:23:08.980 Yeah, like when we talk about it being a flop.

00:23:09.740 Because nothing was going to make enough.

00:23:12.600 When we talk about it being a flop,

00:23:14.140 it's not that it was a crappy movie, which it was.

00:23:16.800 It had a bad plot.

00:23:18.220 It was the price that went into this.

00:23:20.460 A lot of that movie could have been filmed for much cheaper. 0.99

00:23:23.660 Like, that whole stupid action sequence at the beginning of the movie 0.98

00:23:26.940 was not necessary for the story being told. 0.99

00:23:32.220 I mean, the story being told sucked, which is its own problem.

00:23:35.280 But you didn't need that huge city they built in the middle of the Pacific 1.00

00:23:39.440 for this one stupid action scene. 1.00

00:23:43.080 But yeah, they just pissed away money like drunken sailors. 1.00

00:23:50.920 To go back to New Vegas.

00:23:53.500 New Vegas is where those games are trying to beat everything to everybody. 0.67

00:23:57.400 Like, there's this crafting mechanic in the game

00:23:59.520 that's very poorly implemented and out of place.

00:24:02.500 They mistook the computer hacking and the lockpicking.

00:24:12.420 In Fallout New Vegas, lockpicking is a memorphicous skill.

00:24:17.420 It's basically, lockpicking gets you more ammo and stim packs.

00:24:22.220 That's it.

00:24:23.600 The only time that doors are plot relevant,

00:24:27.020 you can't lockpick them.

00:24:28.380 The game tries to be a first-person shooter.

00:24:37.400 It tries to be a crafting mechanic.

00:24:39.620 It tries to be an RPG.

00:24:41.440 And you know what?

00:24:42.400 The writing is absolutely amazing.

00:24:44.840 The plot, the environment, absolutely amazing.

00:24:48.540 But it also tries to be a sandbox.

00:24:50.600 It is trying to do too many things at once.

00:24:53.300 And it winds up doing none of them very well.

00:24:58.380 I mean, like, you know, and I write for a video game site,

00:25:03.420 and I have a hard time justifying getting myself a PS4.

00:25:10.020 And I could arguably tax write it off

00:25:13.120 if I wanted to be a smartass come next year.

00:25:15.600 And I still, I'm like, looking at it and I'm like,

00:25:18.740 this just seems like one disappointment after another.

00:25:21.400 Well, I'll tell you, a huge reason that I don't play that many games anymore

00:25:26.700 is because they're all exactly the same.

00:25:30.520 You know, I already played Max Payne,

00:25:33.200 the best first-person shooter ever made.

00:25:35.900 Why would I play, why would I get another update

00:25:38.440 with shallower characters and etc.?

00:25:43.400 Yeah, I mean, an amazing graphics engine doesn't count for much

00:25:50.720 when it's just to show me more glorious shades of brown and gray.

00:25:55.320 And when you have a development team that is hundreds of people,

00:26:00.320 you're not going to have a coherent vision.

00:26:02.500 You're not going to have a purpose to it.

00:26:04.040 Fallout 1, with very repetitive graphics,

00:26:12.700 managed to create an incredibly rich environment

00:26:16.900 because the development team was all on board with the same thing.

00:26:21.020 They knew what they were doing.

00:26:27.260 And the same thing with movies.

00:26:29.260 When you're trying to attract everybody to your movie

00:26:32.120 instead of just trying to make a good movie,

00:26:34.040 it waters it down.

00:26:38.560 Yeah, that's the other thing.

00:26:39.400 When you have a budget of $500 million,

00:26:41.380 you can't just be happy with a niche audience.

00:26:44.280 You can't make something that a specific audience is going to love.

00:26:47.980 You have to make something that everybody's going to like.

00:26:53.860 You know, you want a good success story?

00:26:55.500 Look at the show Supernatural.

00:26:57.780 Supernatural was one man's vision.

00:27:00.100 And that guy, he had to make sacrifices for the budget.

00:27:04.040 For a great example, the werewolves in it

00:27:06.900 are basically just people wearing sharp teeth in their mouth

00:27:10.980 with a little bit of extra fur on their face

00:27:12.700 because there wasn't a budget to have these fancy, amazing CG werewolves.

00:27:19.840 Dean was originally intended to be a smoker.

00:27:22.380 You can tell this because one of the first scenes that introduces him,

00:27:25.120 he walks out of the gas station with a pepperette held in his mouth like a cigar.

00:27:28.060 And on a recent episode, they had an ashtray on the middle of the table

00:27:31.560 where him and his brother were talking, even though there weren't any cigarettes.

00:27:34.740 He's a smoker.

00:27:36.060 He also was a Zippo. 0.91

00:27:37.680 But they had to, you know, only Arabs and bad guys can smoke, 1.00

00:27:41.400 so he's not a smoker.

00:27:42.800 He made a lot of freedom sacrifices to get that show made.

00:27:46.420 They did it on a very tight budget for a professional TV show.

00:27:52.080 They're like, I don't know the budget, but I can just...

00:27:54.520 I see the corners cut constantly, and they do it very well.

00:28:00.320 But it was one man's vision, and Supernatural is insanely popular.

00:28:04.920 Even with the SJWs, which is...

00:28:07.840 Again, that's a whole analysis there.

00:28:09.580 It's that this is one of the most red pill shows on TV.

00:28:13.740 I mean, it starts off with a couple of brothers looking for their dad.

00:28:17.520 You know, is that not a metaphor for our society?

00:28:20.900 But, you know, even the SJWs, when they see masculine virtue and virility,

00:28:27.300 they admire it, even if they then go right slash quick about it

00:28:32.180 because they're sexually generous.

00:28:37.820 You know, I never got into Supernatural, but I keep wanting to.

00:28:43.760 I just want to catch it from the beginning.

00:28:47.180 Ideally, only watch the first five seasons.

00:28:49.580 It was only supposed to be five seasons long, but it was so popular,

00:28:53.580 and the money was so tempting that they kept going with it.

00:28:56.880 And beyond season five, it's...

00:28:59.440 Okay, it's a soap opera after season five.

00:29:03.160 After season five, it's a couple of guys driving a classic car with classic rock,

00:29:07.740 hunting monsters, and...

00:29:09.540 Yeah, it's fine.

00:29:11.160 I was going to say, that still sounds pretty cool.

00:29:12.880 Exactly.

00:29:13.820 It just...

00:29:14.700 Remember, that's a five-season show,

00:29:17.400 and season six is a spin-off with the same actors and the same...

00:29:21.800 But it's not the show anymore.

00:29:24.460 I might check it out on Netflix.

00:29:26.180 I'm going to get myself a Netflix account here soon.

00:29:28.660 They're doing a Daredevil show on Netflix that I'm going to want to check out.

00:29:31.700 There is absolutely no feminism in it, no social justice. 1.00

00:29:36.660 All the monsters are metaphors for personality disorders.

00:29:40.500 And they criticize women just as frequently as they criticize men. 0.97

00:29:47.060 There are evil women and evil men. 1.00

00:29:50.080 Like, the... 0.53

00:29:52.080 If you take the werewolf, the werewolf is largely a metaphor for the rapist, 0.68

00:29:59.220 for the man that's out of control, the violent thug.

00:30:04.180 Yeah, vampires are probably metaphors for that, too, really.

00:30:08.060 They're more of a seducer, but... 1.00

00:30:10.500 They can be both masculine or feminine.

00:30:12.640 The werewolf is predominantly masculine, but something like a witch...

00:30:17.100 You know, witches are basically feminists. 1.00

00:30:19.540 They are nasty women that try and start fights 1.00

00:30:22.840 and engage in duplicitous dealings behind the scenes 0.99

00:30:26.020 and make bargains with dark powers. 0.74

00:30:30.820 They are evil in a uniquely female sense. 1.00

00:30:36.540 Well, speaking of feminists, 1.00

00:30:38.520 have you heard that clapping is now sexist?

00:30:42.960 Yes, jazz hands.

00:30:46.380 I'm still not 100% sure that's real.

00:30:50.160 Like, I keep looking at the Twitter account of this thing,

00:30:52.480 and I'm like,

00:30:53.260 is this an elaborate troll?

00:30:54.840 I just can't tell anymore.

00:30:56.820 For anybody that's not familiar,

00:30:58.200 there's some feminist organization recently came out 1.00

00:31:01.780 and said,

00:31:02.140 please don't clap at our conference

00:31:03.580 because it can trigger anxiety.

00:31:05.500 Do jazz hands instead.

00:31:07.160 I like, uh, what's his name?

00:31:10.640 Milo, uh, whatever the guy's last name is.

00:31:13.420 I can't think how to pronounce it.

00:31:14.920 But he was like,

00:31:15.680 you should do the scissoring motion instead with your fingers.

00:31:21.820 Well, from what I've said,

00:31:22.620 you know what,

00:31:22.920 they did this at Occupy Wall Street,

00:31:24.540 so it does not beg or believe in my mind.

00:31:28.620 Oh, that's the ironic thing about these people.

00:31:32.480 You can never tell,

00:31:33.320 like, you can't tell the difference

00:31:34.640 between a feminist and a satire feminist.

00:31:37.060 Like, the Clean Privilege blog,

00:31:38.920 have you seen that?

00:31:41.080 Yes.

00:31:41.900 I'm,

00:31:42.360 I can't tell if that's real or not either.

00:31:45.840 Because, I mean,

00:31:46.320 you've got,

00:31:46.840 you've got mainstream,

00:31:49.020 uh,

00:31:49.320 I don't know if it was Jezebel,

00:31:50.420 but it was some,

00:31:50.920 actually,

00:31:51.380 I think it was the Daily Mail.

00:31:52.240 some woman writing about how 1.00

00:31:54.980 women shouldn't be expected to bathe daily. 1.00

00:32:06.560 I'm,

00:32:06.760 I'm constantly astounded by them.

00:32:09.540 I,

00:32:09.740 I'm,

00:32:10.800 you know something that I noticed the other day?

00:32:15.140 Um,

00:32:15.900 I'm looking at all these,

00:32:18.400 like,

00:32:18.780 like,

00:32:19.120 look at the aggros and all, 1.00

00:32:21.420 you know,

00:32:21.620 look at the anti-gamergate people

00:32:23.240 and,

00:32:23.780 and how they respond

00:32:25.020 and how they talk to people.

00:32:26.580 And you look at the people

00:32:27.920 on the gamergate side,

00:32:29.480 you know,

00:32:30.880 when they're talking about the other side,

00:32:33.100 it's always something like,

00:32:34.600 it's always trying,

00:32:35.680 gamergate people,

00:32:36.860 it's always trying to reason

00:32:37.860 with the other side.

00:32:38.960 It's,

00:32:39.360 you know,

00:32:39.560 when they're absolute freaks,

00:32:41.060 it's feeling bad for them.

00:32:42.940 I mean,

00:32:43.260 I've written all kinds of stuff

00:32:44.480 about movie Bob on Reaction,

00:32:46.320 and I'm always like,

00:32:47.120 man,

00:32:47.340 I feel bad for this guy.

00:32:48.600 He's a talented man.

00:32:50.300 You know,

00:32:50.620 he doesn't have to be this way.

00:32:53.560 And on their side,

00:32:54.660 it's just like,

00:32:55.200 eh, 1.00

00:32:55.560 kill yourself, 1.00

00:32:56.640 cis scum. 1.00

00:32:58.120 It's just 1.00

00:32:58.680 vicious

00:32:59.980 anger.

00:33:03.420 Like,

00:33:03.640 they accuse us

00:33:04.320 of being the angry side.

00:33:06.820 Well,

00:33:07.280 I think,

00:33:07.840 um,

00:33:07.960 now there is an issue.

00:33:09.920 Um,

00:33:11.460 somebody,

00:33:12.360 I'm not gonna name names,

00:33:13.900 I mean,

00:33:15.320 now if I remember correctly,

00:33:16.660 I can't keep track of everybody

00:33:18.320 on the internet,

00:33:19.100 but,

00:33:19.380 um,

00:33:19.620 decent guy,

00:33:21.180 um,

00:33:21.920 put together a,

00:33:23.220 you know that,

00:33:23.960 uh,

00:33:24.280 that painting,

00:33:25.240 uh,

00:33:25.760 Batgirl and the Joker

00:33:26.940 that got everybody upset?

00:33:28.900 Uh,

00:33:29.220 yeah,

00:33:29.520 the alternate cover.

00:33:30.840 Yes,

00:33:31.180 I believe you,

00:33:32.140 you interviewed the guy,

00:33:33.420 and he actually said that it,

00:33:35.100 they decided not to run with it

00:33:36.720 before it went public.

00:33:38.840 Well,

00:33:39.460 I,

00:33:39.620 this,

00:33:39.940 I interviewed a,

00:33:41.260 a comic,

00:33:42.000 comic book artist,

00:33:42.860 Eric Larson,

00:33:43.380 uh,

00:33:44.460 about related issues,

00:33:46.600 and I mentioned that,

00:33:47.820 and he,

00:33:48.280 he said that what had happened was,

00:33:50.540 because the very,

00:33:51.240 it was a variant cover,

00:33:52.220 it was an alternate cover,

00:33:53.180 because it was like a celebration

00:33:54.980 of a Joker story

00:33:56.440 from like 20 years ago,

00:33:58.360 you know,

00:33:58.620 the killing joke,

00:33:59.760 and they were gonna do,

00:34:01.680 every,

00:34:02.140 every book DC published

00:34:03.480 was gonna get an alternate cover

00:34:04.800 that was gonna have the Joker on it, 0.83

00:34:06.480 regardless of whether the Joker

00:34:07.700 was in the book or not,

00:34:08.660 it's just like,

00:34:09.720 you know,

00:34:10.020 Joker month,

00:34:10.640 whatever.

00:34:11.880 And this,

00:34:12.320 this was gonna be

00:34:13.560 the alternate Batgirl cover,

00:34:14.700 so the creative team

00:34:15.640 of the book

00:34:16.100 had nothing to do with it.

00:34:17.500 When they saw it,

00:34:19.020 then they complained.

00:34:20.600 Which I can understand,

00:34:21.820 because this is a Batgirl comic,

00:34:23.480 and she's,

00:34:24.780 now like,

00:34:25.580 if,

00:34:25.800 if in the Batman comic,

00:34:28.280 Batman needs to rescue her,

00:34:30.400 because the Joker could,

00:34:31.380 okay,

00:34:31.880 that's,

00:34:32.180 that's fine,

00:34:33.160 but to put that on her comic, 0.98

00:34:36.080 it's kind of like,

00:34:36.480 she's supposed to be the hero

00:34:37.280 of this,

00:34:37.800 you know?

00:34:38.840 Well,

00:34:39.060 yeah,

00:34:39.340 but at the same time,

00:34:40.240 I mean,

00:34:40.500 how many times in a Batman comic,

00:34:42.320 is,

00:34:42.840 you know,

00:34:43.380 Joker got Batman tied up

00:34:45.140 on the cover.

00:34:46.320 I mean,

00:34:46.740 I,

00:34:46.940 I respect their right to say,

00:34:48.880 I,

00:34:49.140 we don't want that on the book

00:34:50.140 we're writing.

00:34:50.900 Oh,

00:34:51.140 I,

00:34:51.260 I completely get it.

00:34:52.780 Um,

00:34:53.140 but,

00:34:53.420 I mean,

00:34:53.860 DC could have said,

00:34:54.840 well,

00:34:55.140 it's our book,

00:34:56.340 you know, 1.00

00:34:56.620 screw you. 1.00

00:34:57.560 But, 0.99

00:34:58.020 my point,

00:34:58.780 I,

00:34:59.620 it should have been resolved

00:35:00.960 before it ever,

00:35:02.900 you know,

00:35:03.280 before it was ever in the solicits.

00:35:05.420 Well,

00:35:05.600 if,

00:35:05.880 if we weren't supposed to get that cover,

00:35:07.560 we should have never seen it.

00:35:08.980 Yes,

00:35:09.560 yes,

00:35:09.940 exactly.

00:35:10.880 Um,

00:35:11.060 and I can understand that cover being in poor taste,

00:35:13.540 uh,

00:35:13.880 for the Batgirl.

00:35:14.860 Not,

00:35:15.140 not poor taste,

00:35:16.580 period.

00:35:17.800 You understand.

00:35:18.800 You know,

00:35:19.020 that,

00:35:19.140 that could be an excellent cover,

00:35:21.180 but for,

00:35:22.580 when it's not even related to the story

00:35:24.300 and when it's appearing on the Batgirl,

00:35:26.200 like,

00:35:26.900 yeah,

00:35:27.640 that's,

00:35:28.600 so,

00:35:28.840 I'm,

00:35:29.060 hey,

00:35:29.720 totally endorse that.

00:35:31.160 Um,

00:35:32.000 but that,

00:35:32.680 that's not what the social justice reaction was. 0.53

00:35:34.840 The social justice reaction was that there was no

00:35:37.240 narrative of overcoming her rapist.

00:35:40.920 And,

00:35:41.460 and that's the problem.

00:35:45.600 Which,

00:35:46.560 why,

00:35:46.900 why is there,

00:35:47.360 first of all,

00:35:50.760 it's a single panel.

00:35:53.400 Yeah,

00:35:53.920 it's an alternate cover.

00:35:55.600 You don't even have to buy that cover.

00:35:58.760 And,

00:35:59.080 you know,

00:35:59.480 you probably have to ask for that cover at your comic book shop.

00:36:03.140 And we were having a conversation the other day about Alien 3 in regards to this.

00:36:07.720 because Alien 3,

00:36:10.700 which is universally recognized as a terrible movie,

00:36:14.400 it's a,

00:36:14.620 it's a very depressing and hopeless movie,

00:36:17.540 is actually the sort of film that perfectly fits the social justice narrative.

00:36:22.940 Because,

00:36:24.300 Ripley,

00:36:25.480 and this is spoiler alert if you haven't seen Alien 3,

00:36:28.480 which,

00:36:28.760 Spoiler alert on a 20 year old movie.

00:36:31.420 Yeah,

00:36:31.640 just in case,

00:36:32.500 you know,

00:36:33.100 you have it downloaded on your Netflix.

00:36:35.080 At the end of Alien 3,

00:36:39.040 now,

00:36:39.260 the Alien 3 starts off with all of the good guys from the first movie,

00:36:43.040 or from the previous movie,

00:36:44.460 dead.

00:36:45.280 Yeah,

00:36:45.540 they don't even die,

00:36:46.160 they're just dead.

00:36:47.480 Dead in their cryostasis chambers.

00:36:49.920 And,

00:36:50.320 and then you find out Ripley has an alien in her gut.

00:36:54.600 And,

00:36:55.020 of course,

00:36:55.300 the alien is an obvious metaphor for, 0.96

00:36:58.720 it's like the most brutal form of rape. 0.99

00:37:01.380 That's what the alien does to you. 0.99

00:37:02.760 It rapes men and women alike. 0.99

00:37:05.080 You know, 0.99

00:37:05.440 it,

00:37:05.780 it invades you,

00:37:07.500 uh,

00:37:07.960 through the,

00:37:08.420 the mouth,

00:37:09.020 which is a,

00:37:09.420 a very emotionally sensitive organ.

00:37:12.940 I mean,

00:37:13.120 like,

00:37:13.360 Freud had a whole fixation upon the oral nature,

00:37:16.580 which is,

00:37:17.860 and it uses you, 1.00

00:37:20.040 and kills you, 1.00

00:37:21.040 and eats you. 1.00

00:37:22.460 The,

00:37:22.620 the, 0.99

00:37:22.840 the xenomorph is just the space rapist. 0.98

00:37:25.080 Yeah, 0.99

00:37:25.980 it's a, 1.00

00:37:26.280 it's a giant penis monster that rapes and impregnates you to death. 1.00

00:37:30.140 And then rapes its way out of your body with its penis form. 1.00

00:37:33.360 It's, 1.00

00:37:33.780 it's an amazing,

00:37:36.780 amazing horror monster.

00:37:38.540 It says so much about us.

00:37:39.780 And Alien and Aliens are great movies.

00:37:42.040 Alien 3,

00:37:43.280 so she has one of these things in her.

00:37:44.660 where the movie ends with her,

00:37:47.880 her,

00:37:48.520 uh,

00:37:49.900 what's the social justice term?

00:37:52.140 Like,

00:37:52.740 with a,

00:37:54.700 uh,

00:37:55.060 where there's a narrative of overcoming her rapist.

00:37:59.260 Yeah,

00:38:00.020 yeah. 0.99

00:38:01.740 Some garbage, 1.00

00:38:03.120 like, 1.00

00:38:03.240 some narrative,

00:38:04.280 postmodern,

00:38:05.000 whatever,

00:38:05.900 gobbledygook. 0.97

00:38:06.540 but the movie ends with her diving backwards into a pit of lava to abort and suicide herself.

00:38:18.760 You know,

00:38:19.340 you pointed out,

00:38:20.080 you pointed out,

00:38:21.360 it doesn't really make sense,

00:38:22.420 because it's not like it's,

00:38:23.480 it's,

00:38:24.180 not like it's the last of the xenomorphs,

00:38:26.640 like she's,

00:38:27.400 because she's,

00:38:28.100 she's supposedly trying to keep the evil company from getting their hands on it. 0.99

00:38:31.820 Yes,

00:38:32.280 now that the evil company at the beginning is the one that,

00:38:34.900 the evil patriarchy is the one that impregnated her with this thing by sneaking it on board the spaceship. 0.99

00:38:41.840 Right?

00:38:42.300 So it's an evil,

00:38:43.120 dastardly plot,

00:38:43.920 because they want to have their own alien queen so they can harvest royal jelly from her, 1.00

00:38:48.020 or whatever.

00:38:50.140 And so she is rebelling against her evil daddy, 0.95

00:38:54.800 who looks just like her dead boyfriend, 0.66

00:38:57.380 um, 0.91

00:38:58.720 by committing suicide. 0.99

00:39:00.200 But it's ultimately an impotent gesture, 0.99

00:39:03.260 because there's still more aliens out there.

00:39:06.460 It's like,

00:39:06.720 yeah,

00:39:06.860 she prevented them from getting this xenomorph,

00:39:09.700 but there's still more out there.

00:39:12.220 She dies alone and forgotten in a pulper's grave.

00:39:17.920 And weren't you saying there was a,

00:39:19.900 there was an,

00:39:20.440 you thought that the company promised her that if they could harvest it without killing her?

00:39:25.840 Uh,

00:39:26.920 yeah,

00:39:27.380 I,

00:39:27.940 and again,

00:39:28.700 it's been probably over a decade since I've watched it,

00:39:32.120 but I seem to remember the guy was like,

00:39:34.100 no,

00:39:34.320 don't do it.

00:39:34.840 We can get it out of you without, 0.99

00:39:36.300 without killing you. 0.98

00:39:39.140 Yeah. 0.98

00:39:39.620 Which I would think would be easy enough.

00:39:41.340 I mean,

00:39:41.560 I know it's going to burst out and all,

00:39:43.520 but you'd think if you know it's in there, 1.00

00:39:45.800 you could easily sedate her and do surgery to get the fucker out. 1.00

00:39:50.280 I mean, 1.00

00:39:50.680 I,

00:39:50.920 I,

00:39:51.460 it,

00:39:52.220 there's a good chance.

00:39:53.680 I would think you wouldn't survive the surgery.

00:39:55.560 Cause as soon as you cut deep enough to where it's at, 0.99

00:39:57.860 it's probably going to go ape shit. 0.98

00:39:59.720 And who knows what it's going to tear up as it's thrashing around, 0.99

00:40:03.200 but there,

00:40:04.600 it's probably a better chance than letting it just burst out of your sternum.

00:40:07.580 You got a better chance than diving into lava.

00:40:10.140 Yeah.

00:40:10.860 You got a better chance than that.

00:40:13.600 And so I,

00:40:14.820 this movie really does fit the narrative that they want.

00:40:17.400 That,

00:40:17.800 that girl is rebelling against daddy and aborting her baby and committing 1.00

00:40:22.600 suicide. 0.60

00:40:23.180 Like that,

00:40:23.620 that's a survivor narrative and they're twisted reality.

00:40:27.580 When universally audience hated it because it was so hopeless and negative

00:40:31.860 at the end.

00:40:33.340 And now I hasten to add just guys look into the production of this movie.

00:40:37.720 It was a nightmare.

00:40:39.040 This wasn't,

00:40:40.260 I feel really bad for everybody involved in alien.

00:40:43.260 I think it had like nine scripts hobbled together.

00:40:45.620 It was just a nightmare.

00:40:48.580 They did the best that they could.

00:40:50.980 Yeah.

00:40:51.080 Like when you've spent that much on the movie,

00:40:52.480 you have to, 0.98

00:40:53.120 even if it's crap, 0.89

00:40:54.080 you still have to edit it and put it out there. 0.97

00:40:57.260 You know,

00:40:57.620 thankfully not a situation I'm in for the record.

00:41:01.240 I should hope not.

00:41:05.440 I,

00:41:05.480 I sent you guys a whopping seven bucks a month.

00:41:11.980 It's actually coming together really well.

00:41:13.840 I just was editing Jason Miller's footage and it's brilliant.

00:41:20.460 Absolutely brilliant.

00:41:21.680 I'll just leave it at that for now.

00:41:23.160 Jason Miller,

00:41:23.880 he's the fellow behind the not your shield.

00:41:25.800 Oh,

00:41:26.240 okay,

00:41:27.820 cool.

00:41:31.060 Jordan said you guys interviewed Aaron.

00:41:33.860 Oh,

00:41:34.500 Aaron Clary.

00:41:36.260 Yes.

00:41:36.980 Yes.

00:41:37.240 Oh,

00:41:37.940 as usual,

00:41:38.740 he had brilliant stuff to say about it.

00:41:42.380 He made some interesting comparisons to the,

00:41:45.860 the banking bubble.

00:41:47.240 Now I don't,

00:41:49.080 I don't recall if we're keeping those bits,

00:41:51.540 right?

00:41:53.800 Because like everybody had lots of brilliant stuff to say.

00:41:56.340 It's about finding the most poignant and significant and also something that

00:42:01.420 meshes with what everybody else said.

00:42:04.200 So I,

00:42:04.820 I forget if we included those bits,

00:42:06.320 but no,

00:42:07.280 he did have some interesting comparisons to the,

00:42:09.860 the housing bubble,

00:42:10.920 the housing collapse of 2007.

00:42:17.080 Well,

00:42:17.640 basically that the media right now is in a giant bubble.

00:42:21.540 You know,

00:42:22.720 journalists aren't getting paid anything,

00:42:24.900 which is why it's all social justice warriors volunteering to work for free

00:42:28.860 because,

00:42:29.500 you know,

00:42:29.640 their agenda comes first.

00:42:34.240 But,

00:42:34.880 but it's,

00:42:35.340 it's like the,

00:42:36.080 like,

00:42:36.580 because they're not paying their journalists anything, 0.97

00:42:40.040 the journalists are reporting political garbage that only a minority of 0.98

00:42:44.240 people agree with. 0.95

00:42:45.500 And so fewer and fewer people are buying newspapers or paying for mainstream

00:42:50.120 journalism.

00:42:50.840 And so,

00:42:51.800 right,

00:42:52.000 it's,

00:42:52.240 it's a giant bubble right now.

00:42:54.440 That's all going to collapse because of corruption in all of it.

00:43:03.680 Yeah,

00:43:04.160 I have to imagine.

00:43:04.980 I mean,

00:43:05.200 hell,

00:43:06.700 yeah,

00:43:06.980 Fox news still,

00:43:08.060 still brings in the ratings,

00:43:09.500 but other than that,

00:43:10.280 the rest of the networks,

00:43:11.220 I mean,

00:43:12.020 MSNBC's ratings, 0.99

00:43:13.400 I think this fucking podcast is going to do better than MSNBC's primetime lineup. 0.99

00:43:17.740 Oh, 0.99

00:43:18.380 good Lord.

00:43:18.680 And the thing is,

00:43:19.580 Chink Younger is actually getting a paycheck. 1.00

00:43:22.120 It's disgusting.

00:43:24.540 Like the one, 0.99

00:43:25.800 what the hell's her name? 0.97

00:43:26.820 This black chick that used to sub for Rachel Maddow and she's got her own show. 1.00

00:43:31.900 Melissa Harris Perry. 0.99

00:43:32.740 She's got this ridiculous lisp. 1.00

00:43:36.680 And I'm, 0.98

00:43:37.320 I'm just,

00:43:38.120 every time I see her,

00:43:38.860 I'm like,

00:43:39.260 you're on television. 1.00

00:43:41.600 And you sound retarded. 1.00

00:43:43.980 And I realize it's her voice and she can't help it. 0.98

00:43:49.640 Okay,

00:43:49.900 fine.

00:43:50.220 Well,

00:43:50.320 I mean,

00:43:50.540 she could probably get a speech therapist and knock it down. 1.00

00:43:53.420 I mean,

00:43:53.940 like John Stossel used to have a gnarly stutter and he got rid of it.

00:43:57.640 But at the same time,

00:43:59.640 your job is to sound good.

00:44:03.860 Let's put it this way.

00:44:05.240 It's not even a political thing.

00:44:06.780 It's just,

00:44:07.640 you're not even good at your job.

00:44:09.160 That aside,

00:44:10.760 you and I have colleagues that we both respect very deeply.

00:44:13.980 who do a lot more writing than they do speaking because they are not very good at speaking.

00:44:20.560 Yeah.

00:44:21.380 It's not a judgment on them,

00:44:23.020 but it just,

00:44:24.740 it's a,

00:44:25.220 it's true.

00:44:26.560 That's all it is.

00:44:27.480 But yeah,

00:44:28.380 the fact that you have people in journalism that are bad at speaking,

00:44:34.200 that in spoken journalism,

00:44:37.420 QED.

00:44:43.420 MSNB.

00:44:43.980 It's a,

00:44:44.420 it's unreal.

00:44:45.080 I,

00:44:45.340 I don't know.

00:44:46.400 I assume Melissa Harris Perry had to pass through Rachel Maddow's casting couch. 1.00

00:44:51.700 I,

00:44:51.980 I,

00:44:53.400 I hope she got worked over good to get her job because she sure as hell doesn't deserve it. 1.00

00:44:58.740 And you know what?

00:44:59.420 Listen,

00:44:59.700 I know that Fox News gets a lot of bad publicity.

00:45:02.440 Or,

00:45:02.580 it has a bad reputation,

00:45:04.000 I should say.

00:45:05.480 I was like,

00:45:05.780 go watch some of it.

00:45:07.520 I mean,

00:45:07.720 the whole stuff,

00:45:08.700 it's way too blue pill for me.

00:45:10.320 It's way,

00:45:10.700 like,

00:45:10.880 they're playing by the liberals game.

00:45:12.580 They're,

00:45:13.560 the liberal rules.

00:45:14.980 They're afraid of being called racist,

00:45:16.460 et cetera.

00:45:16.840 But you know what?

00:45:17.660 There,

00:45:17.840 there is this irreverence and,

00:45:20.780 and humor present in Fox News.

00:45:24.480 With,

00:45:24.820 um,

00:45:25.220 MSNBC,

00:45:26.040 you get a lot of snark,

00:45:27.500 a lot of contempt.

00:45:28.840 How dare anybody disagree with us because we learned the true facts in university.

00:45:32.980 Hmm.

00:45:34.680 But with Fox News,

00:45:35.960 you actually,

00:45:36.400 you do get quite a bit of wits,

00:45:38.420 quite a bit of creativity.

00:45:39.980 So,

00:45:40.280 you know,

00:45:40.440 I don't listen to it myself,

00:45:41.740 but I don't listen to MSNBC either.

00:45:45.840 Of the two,

00:45:46.700 I'd say Fox is,

00:45:47.560 is far,

00:45:48.940 far superior.

00:45:50.840 Well,

00:45:51.400 between the mainstream right and the left in this country,

00:45:53.860 I like to say that it's,

00:45:55.640 you know,

00:45:56.360 the mainstream right is better than the left,

00:45:58.520 but only in the way that catching herpes would be better than catching AIDS.

00:46:01.420 Yeah,

00:46:02.560 that's good.

00:46:03.360 I'd rather avoid both,

00:46:05.200 but,

00:46:06.220 gun to my head if I had to pick one. 0.99

00:46:10.100 You know,

00:46:10.440 if I'm going to listen to talk radio,

00:46:11.900 it's going to be Fox.

00:46:13.620 You know,

00:46:13.960 if that's what I'm doing,

00:46:15.200 if that's all there is to listen to,

00:46:17.240 they'll be fine.

00:46:17.760 Although,

00:46:18.180 I do enjoy listening to,

00:46:20.180 um,

00:46:21.040 NPR.

00:46:22.620 Because it's this,

00:46:23.720 this,

00:46:24.160 this,

00:46:24.740 psychological study.

00:46:28.460 I listen to,

00:46:29.500 uh,

00:46:29.760 I listen to Beck and Ruck.

00:46:31.020 this.

00:46:32.080 They speak with their legs together and they don't want to upset a nanny by being too disruptive.

00:46:39.620 All the women talk like that. 1.00

00:46:40.920 I can't do the woman voice, 1.00

00:46:42.300 but you know that, 0.98

00:46:43.080 that arrogant, 0.99

00:46:44.540 pretending to be a man, 1.00

00:46:45.700 bitchy voice that the NPR women have. 1.00

00:46:48.960 And anytime they talk about politics on NPR, 0.95

00:46:51.920 they are obsessing about the,

00:46:54.020 the fronting.

00:46:57.020 fronting that they're,

00:46:58.520 they're talking about,

00:46:59.520 you know,

00:46:59.700 like this politician,

00:47:01.280 he did X,

00:47:02.060 Y,

00:47:02.300 Z to impress this group of people.

00:47:06.220 They,

00:47:06.720 they never actually sit down and discuss,

00:47:08.800 should we raise or lower the interest?

00:47:10.400 No,

00:47:10.680 they,

00:47:10.800 they never talk about what will be the objective consequences of doing anything.

00:47:15.460 The objective consequences out the window for these people.

00:47:18.640 They don't even know what objectivity is.

00:47:21.040 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.

00:47:29.400 And it's like this,

00:47:32.340 it's like listening to old women gossip. 0.98

00:47:36.220 It is absolutely hilarious.

00:47:38.700 Well,

00:47:38.920 it's because you are listening to old women gossip. 0.88

00:47:44.860 There's this one episode I caught,

00:47:46.560 and this says so much about the left.

00:47:49.560 They started off by playing My Way by Frank Sinatra,

00:47:53.840 which,

00:47:54.540 if you haven't heard of it,

00:47:55.360 My Way,

00:47:55.740 beautiful song.

00:47:57.100 It's about how at the end of his life,

00:47:59.640 yeah,

00:47:59.960 he's made some mistakes.

00:48:01.120 Yeah,

00:48:01.400 nothing,

00:48:01.960 but you know what?

00:48:03.100 He lived his life,

00:48:04.400 his way,

00:48:05.220 and he's proud of the life he lived.

00:48:08.360 And there's this one line in the song that they were obsessing with on NPR.

00:48:14.120 Regrets.

00:48:14.900 I've had a few.

00:48:16.820 Then again,

00:48:18.180 too few to mention.

00:48:21.360 They were obsessing about this.

00:48:23.680 It's like,

00:48:23.840 I don't believe that anybody has lived a life without regret.

00:48:28.700 And so then they proceeded to air three radio play drama things that weren't,

00:48:37.060 they weren't even,

00:48:37.600 they're basically just like a narrated story about people that had failed at life.

00:48:43.560 They should,

00:48:46.560 they should talk to social justice warriors,

00:48:49.040 because I'm not sure they're capable of regret.

00:48:51.820 Well,

00:48:52.020 I was listening to this,

00:48:54.100 and it was,

00:48:56.560 it was so depressing,

00:48:58.300 right?

00:48:58.580 Just these,

00:48:58.940 these people that broke,

00:49:00.420 and like this one guy that couldn't even,

00:49:02.680 like had to give his children to a daycare,

00:49:04.940 because he was too broken to take care of his children. 1.00

00:49:07.680 And this other guy who went to jail because he was an idiot. 1.00

00:49:09.940 And it is depressing. 1.00

00:49:11.800 And it's like,

00:49:12.260 wait,

00:49:12.480 wait,

00:49:12.660 this is the liberal mind. 0.98

00:49:14.600 Because they're all such failures.

00:49:17.500 They want to hear stories about other people being failures to make themselves feel better about that.

00:49:25.000 Whereas the temperament of the right is we want to hear stories about heroes,

00:49:28.920 so that we can become more heroic by emulating them.

00:49:36.300 Oh,

00:49:36.780 yeah,

00:49:37.080 I,

00:49:37.240 I had a tweet a couple weeks ago where I said,

00:49:39.720 you know,

00:49:39.980 some people see their betters and are inspired by the example,

00:49:43.080 and some people see their betters and burn with jealous rage.

00:49:50.260 And,

00:49:50.700 you know,

00:49:50.820 to go back to what you're saying about the gamer game and the,

00:49:55.360 the aggros,

00:49:56.700 you know what,

00:49:59.860 we do,

00:50:01.080 I think,

00:50:01.940 actually this is how we got into the whole Batgirl thing.

00:50:04.100 I was saying somebody drew a rather vulgar picture of her to trigger them.

00:50:09.420 We don't win this by hate.

00:50:11.580 Like,

00:50:11.720 I think we have all been raised to have absolutely no standards,

00:50:15.080 no civility, 0.96

00:50:16.800 to be a bunch of vulgar hooting baboons. 0.99

00:50:20.360 I think Gamergate does need to be about being better than that. 0.94

00:50:27.600 I mean,

00:50:28.220 it's like,

00:50:28.560 yeah,

00:50:28.700 it's fine to laugh at the social justice warriors.

00:50:30.760 They're absolutely hilarious.

00:50:33.020 I mean,

00:50:33.600 they're like walking parodies.

00:50:35.500 They're,

00:50:35.580 they're quite sad,

00:50:37.060 quite broken,

00:50:37.860 and quite hilarious.

00:50:39.100 But,

00:50:39.460 there's a fine line between laughing at them and stooping to their level,

00:50:43.980 if you know what I mean.

00:50:46.420 Well,

00:50:46.820 it is pretty hard to stoop to their level.

00:50:49.580 We,

00:50:49.780 we have a,

00:50:50.160 we have a pretty long way to go.

00:50:51.680 But I get what you're saying.

00:50:52.960 We,

00:50:54.120 but for the most part,

00:50:55.040 we don't.

00:50:55.640 I mean,

00:50:55.900 that's the thing.

00:50:56.620 You know,

00:50:56.880 you,

00:50:57.500 I,

00:50:57.940 I don't think we even could.

00:51:00.860 He,

00:51:01.480 you know,

00:51:01.900 sometimes we make fun of them.

00:51:03.620 Sometimes we're like,

00:51:04.400 ah, 1.00

00:51:04.560 look at these fucking freaks. 1.00

00:51:06.120 But I couldn't keep doing that all the time. 1.00

00:51:09.460 You know, 0.99

00:51:09.980 I couldn't just constantly spit fucking venom 24 seven, 1.00

00:51:14.200 but apparently these people can. 1.00

00:51:17.900 You know,

00:51:18.540 let's look at the difference between the alleged bomb threats that gamer games make.

00:51:24.320 Like,

00:51:24.540 I'm,

00:51:25.560 I seriously suspect that the bomb threats have been made by social justice warriors for their own ends. 0.99

00:51:32.600 Or just third party trolls that are looking to fuck with. 0.99

00:51:37.320 Yeah. 1.00

00:51:38.720 Yeah.

00:51:39.160 I,

00:51:39.540 I,

00:51:39.720 I would be very surprised to find out it was even a misguided supporter of Gamergate.

00:51:45.120 Although that is possible.

00:51:46.820 But let's look at,

00:51:47.600 we have,

00:51:48.420 like a bomb threat is,

00:51:51.020 well,

00:51:51.180 it's an illegal thing to do.

00:51:52.640 Um,

00:51:52.960 but it's,

00:51:53.740 what is it?

00:51:54.900 You are trying to emotionally upset people.

00:51:59.300 You're not actually making a real bomb threat.

00:52:03.080 Okay.

00:52:03.520 Like if you were going to plant an explosive,

00:52:05.140 you'd just plant an explosive.

00:52:06.580 You know, 0.54

00:52:06.740 if you're going to murder somebody, 0.76

00:52:07.620 you're going to murder somebody. 0.96

00:52:09.200 If, 0.64

00:52:09.540 if you write on,

00:52:10.620 on, 1.00

00:52:10.880 on Sarkoosian's YouTube that I hope you get raped, 1.00

00:52:14.520 you know, 1.00

00:52:14.780 you're,

00:52:15.020 you're trying to hurt her emotionally.

00:52:16.720 Well, 1.00

00:52:18.180 technically I hope you get raped isn't a threat. 1.00

00:52:20.920 Yeah. 0.99

00:52:22.540 That's just,

00:52:23.220 that's just ill,

00:52:24.000 that's just wishing ill upon someone.

00:52:25.900 So even a bomb threat,

00:52:26.520 so even a bomb threat,

00:52:29.280 although it is illegal and should be illegal,

00:52:31.000 and I spit upon it,

00:52:34.800 a bomb threat is not a physical attack.

00:52:39.160 It's an emotional attack.

00:52:41.360 Whereas it's the SJWs who are swatting people.

00:52:45.660 Well,

00:52:49.780 they are,

00:52:50.680 that I'm not sure if a lot of these people can even distinguish between something that makes them uncomfortable,

00:52:56.760 something that is an emotional attack and,

00:52:58.880 and actual danger.

00:53:00.040 I mean,

00:53:00.420 you hear them talking about,

00:53:01.400 I need a safe space and,

00:53:03.340 and against what?

00:53:05.800 Somebody disagreed with you. 1.00

00:53:07.140 Somebody called you a cunt. 1.00

00:53:09.220 I mean, 1.00

00:53:09.760 big fucking deal. 0.99

00:53:11.300 But, 0.99

00:53:11.620 oh,

00:53:11.820 I don't feel safe.

00:53:13.180 I feel threatened.

00:53:14.780 And,

00:53:14.800 I,

00:53:16.920 somebody from a computer screen,

00:53:20.120 miles away from you,

00:53:21.680 that you will likely never encounter in real life, 1.00

00:53:25.160 called you a cunt. 1.00

00:53:27.220 And you don't feel safe? 1.00

00:53:31.900 You just nailed it.

00:53:33.580 These people literally view,

00:53:36.400 murder,

00:53:37.600 and insult as the same thing.

00:53:39.600 And this is actually a trait of the narcissist.

00:53:43.560 If,

00:53:43.980 you insult the,

00:53:46.080 if you expose the narcissist,

00:53:48.560 they will react with as much violence as they can muster.

00:53:52.580 They will do anything to eliminate you saying that, 1.00

00:53:56.120 including murdering you. 0.99

00:53:58.400 Because there's no line for them. 0.99

00:54:04.780 Yeah,

00:54:05.620 I,

00:54:05.740 they have no concept of an actual threat.

00:54:12.960 They have no concept of danger.

00:54:15.180 These are the people that,

00:54:16.660 not,

00:54:16.980 not hyperbole,

00:54:18.040 not,

00:54:18.620 not as an exaggeration,

00:54:20.260 call Gamergate a terrorist group.

00:54:22.900 That we have been terrorizing people.

00:54:25.700 Yeah,

00:54:26.020 they,

00:54:26.200 they compared Owen and myself to ISIS,

00:54:28.780 which to any sane person is insane,

00:54:31.800 but these are not sane people.

00:54:34.540 They,

00:54:35.040 they can't differentiate between these two things.

00:54:38.400 Good luck. 1.00

00:54:38.680 These people really need to be punched in the face. 1.00

00:54:41.540 Hang on. 1.00

00:54:41.900 I got,

00:54:42.440 I got a comment on one of my videos.

00:54:44.360 I'll read here.

00:54:45.140 Let me bring it up.

00:54:47.420 Um,

00:54:48.080 I can't remember which one.

00:54:49.020 It was during your split.

00:54:50.760 When I had a,

00:54:51.360 I had a couple of videos where basically it was like,

00:54:53.740 you know, 0.99

00:54:54.480 who you shit together, 1.00

00:54:55.340 guys. 0.99

00:54:55.600 and for the record we have and things are just in a conference call yesterday with,

00:55:01.900 uh,

00:55:02.500 Jordan and our artist and we had a whole bunch of arguing and a whole bunch of collaborating

00:55:06.800 and things are really,

00:55:08.040 yeah,

00:55:08.260 I'm,

00:55:08.820 I'm satisfied with how you guys have worked here.

00:55:12.620 C plus one thumbs up.

00:55:18.880 Let's see if I can find this.

00:55:20.720 Okay.

00:55:21.080 Here,

00:55:21.320 here we go.

00:55:21.760 This,

00:55:22.000 this comment from a shameful travesty,

00:55:24.260 which whether he knows it or not is,

00:55:26.340 is not an ironic name for him.

00:55:29.120 Uh,

00:55:30.000 Hey bud,

00:55:30.680 you're a grown man.

00:55:31.760 Maybe you should reevaluate your emotional investment in a documentary by a skinhead and a libertarian

00:55:37.640 aimed at harassing some lady. 0.98

00:55:40.620 Maybe take your 20 year old Genesis games out of the bookshelf and find something to live for.

00:55:45.960 Now let me dissect this here for a minute.

00:55:48.860 Okay.

00:55:49.400 Now I always throw up a,

00:55:50.920 uh,

00:55:51.200 a cover picture on my videos of,

00:55:52.880 of,

00:55:53.480 you know, 0.96

00:55:53.720 an action figure on my bookshelf in front of books or games or some bullshit like that. 0.89

00:55:58.480 That's just, 0.80

00:55:59.220 you know,

00:55:59.660 for a,

00:56:00.260 and a,

00:56:00.640 a cover picture that's mine.

00:56:02.260 That's what I throw up here.

00:56:03.180 And the cover picture I had here was a,

00:56:04.940 a little Sonic action figure in front of my Genesis games on my bookshelf.

00:56:09.260 Cause Genesis does what Nintendo don't.

00:56:13.200 Sega.

00:56:14.240 Yeah.

00:56:15.100 Um,

00:56:15.540 now, 0.98

00:56:17.080 if you don't fucking like video games, 0.99

00:56:19.260 if you don't fucking, 0.99

00:56:20.600 if you don't give a damn about classic video games. 0.99

00:56:24.080 I seriously hated Sega for that attitude back in the 90s. 1.00

00:56:27.060 They were such assholes. 0.99

00:56:28.960 That was the 90s though, 1.00

00:56:30.140 man.

00:56:30.400 That was,

00:56:31.320 they were edgy and extreme.

00:56:33.200 It's like Doritos.

00:56:37.180 Doritos was like,

00:56:38.160 back in the 90s,

00:56:39.220 Doritos was associated with extreme.

00:56:41.360 As opposed to now Doritos is associated with fat.

00:56:44.400 But he's in here like,

00:56:48.700 Oh,

00:56:48.940 you got Genesis games on a bookshelf.

00:56:50.700 Okay.

00:56:50.940 So I have a,

00:56:51.440 I have a bookshelf with some classic games.

00:56:53.960 Um,

00:56:54.460 if you don't give a damn about games, 0.76

00:56:56.420 why are you talking about this topic to anybody on YouTube? 0.99

00:56:59.940 Why do you even know who the fucking either Sarkeesian is? 1.00

00:57:03.760 And a skinhead Nazi, 1.00

00:57:05.980 which I assume is you cause you're bald and a libertarian. 0.99

00:57:10.060 So I guess this guy's so far to the fucking left that a libertarian, 0.99

00:57:14.300 is essentially equivalent to a Nazi in his mind. 0.99

00:57:18.920 It's the same thing. 0.99

00:57:20.300 It's just crazies. 0.97

00:57:21.920 And, 0.58

00:57:22.220 and harassing some lady, 0.97

00:57:26.180 because again,

00:57:27.620 she's just some lady. 1.00

00:57:28.640 She's a private citizen.

00:57:29.800 Yeah.

00:57:30.520 Criticizing the public statements and public actions of a public figure is

00:57:36.780 harassment.

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.

00:57:51.920 Yeah.

00:57:52.800 Uh,

00:57:53.800 I,

00:57:54.140 I think both Lindsay Ellis and Michael Bay,

00:57:55.960 all of us an apology personally.

00:57:59.360 Lindsay more so though.

00:58:01.220 You know what?

00:58:01.960 Michael Bay is.

00:58:05.400 Listen,

00:58:06.740 Transformers wasn't that good back in the day.

00:58:10.400 Wait,

00:58:10.560 did he do Transformers?

00:58:12.140 Yeah,

00:58:12.500 he did all the Transformers movies.

00:58:13.900 Oh,

00:58:14.100 okay.

00:58:14.320 Okay.

00:58:14.520 Yeah.

00:58:14.800 It's him and the,

00:58:15.980 there's the other guy.

00:58:16.600 I've seen one and two,

00:58:17.700 but I don't hate them. 0.97

00:58:18.780 I think they're just dumb action flicks. 0.72

00:58:20.680 I don't, 0.99

00:58:21.340 I mean,

00:58:21.840 I don't have that much of an emotional investment to the original cartoon,

00:58:24.600 but I didn't hate them.

00:58:27.380 Like the thing is the cartoon wasn't that good.

00:58:30.260 It was a vehicle to sell toys to people.

00:58:33.540 And to be honest,

00:58:34.540 I don't,

00:58:34.920 I,

00:58:35.160 I don't think it was that good either.

00:58:36.600 I mean,

00:58:36.900 I realized it was a kid's cartoon,

00:58:38.540 but when I compare it to its peers,

00:58:40.780 hell,

00:58:40.940 even when I compare it to the G.I.

00:58:42.160 Joe cartoon,

00:58:43.360 I just don't think it's as good.

00:58:45.000 And,

00:58:45.280 and I really don't mean to be disrespectful because like,

00:58:47.840 like I understand,

00:58:48.420 like Ninja Turtles was huge with me when I was growing up.

00:58:52.300 Um,

00:58:53.540 uh,

00:58:54.040 Transformers wasn't.

00:58:55.100 And so I,

00:58:57.440 I wasn't offended or hurt by the new movies at all.

00:59:01.000 But here's the thing is that the new movies,

00:59:03.900 new Transformers movies don't take away from the franchise.

00:59:08.980 Like you could make,

00:59:10.500 let me put the,

00:59:11.520 the Adam West Batman does not take away from Nolan's films.

00:59:17.360 No,

00:59:18.020 no.

00:59:18.320 Cause it's,

00:59:19.200 it's not like it's a complete,

00:59:20.960 like,

00:59:21.200 it's not like they threw away the old stuff.

00:59:22.580 Like I hate the new Star Trek movie because,

00:59:25.760 because of the new Star Trek,

00:59:27.000 they're not making old Star Trek.

00:59:29.180 But if I,

00:59:30.540 if I,

00:59:30.940 as a fan of say a superhero at,

00:59:33.140 you know,

00:59:33.620 and they make a, 0.94

00:59:34.460 a shitty movie based on that superhero comic, 0.92

00:59:37.180 well, 0.93

00:59:37.480 I still have the comic.

00:59:38.760 You know what I mean?

00:59:40.000 You know,

00:59:40.380 we're about an hour in,

00:59:41.900 how about you and I take a brief break?

00:59:43.320 We finished this video and we upload a second.

00:59:45.920 So I get twice the YouTube dollars.

00:59:48.160 Sure.

00:59:49.420 All right,

00:59:51.160 folks,

00:59:51.400 we'll be right back.

00:59:52.380 There is a,

00:59:52.940 a link popping up somewhere on the screen right now.

00:59:55.560 Uh,

00:59:55.760 click that to view part two,

00:59:58.740 where we are going to nerd out about old comics and whatnot,

01:00:02.840 because we're grown men.

01:00:06.800 All right.

01:00:07.480 See you folks.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - April 06, 2015

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