Leo D.M.J. Aurini - April 06, 2015


Nerd Hour with The Bechtloff: 2 of 3


Episode Stats

Length

1 hour and 12 minutes

Words per Minute

157.30644

Word Count

11,329

Sentence Count

955

Misogynist Sentences

48

Hate Speech Sentences

41


Summary

In this episode of The Nerd Hour, we discuss Star Wars: Episode VI - The Rise of Skywalker, Star Trek: Into the void, Star Wars prequels, and why the prequel trilogy is better than the original Star Trek. We also talk about Spider-Man getting married to Mary Jane and why that s a good thing.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome back to the Nerd Hour. This is hour two, and where we get even nerdier. Nerd harder.
00:00:09.220 All right, so we're kind of touching on the topic of destroying a franchise, of the difference
00:00:21.920 between why is it that the Star Wars prequel movies are deeply offensive, but Star Trek
00:00:31.660 2009 and Wrath of Khan Part II, eh, like I didn't even see the second one. It's like
00:00:38.740 they suck. I know they suck. It doesn't destroy Star Trek for me. Star Trek The Next Generation
00:00:46.420 is still awesome. Star Trek Deep Space Nine is super awesome. Star Trek Voyager still
00:00:51.160 sucks. Well, part of that, I mean, with the prequels, it's in the official mainstream
00:00:57.920 canon, whereas the Jay Abrams Star Trek are their own separate universe. I mean, you know,
00:01:04.180 I'm a comic book nerd. If they make a Spider-Man movie I think is shit, well, it's its own thing.
00:01:10.160 I don't, I can ignore it. If something that really buttfucks the franchise happens in the
00:01:14.800 actual comic, like Brand New Day or One More Day. That's exactly what I was going to bring
00:01:20.440 up. That is, that has buttfucked it for me. All right, what is One More Day and why did
00:01:31.000 it bend over Spider-Man as if he were Spider-Woman? All right, well, um. Ooh, ooh, patriarchy
00:01:36.400 joke. One More Day, uh, Spider-Man, um, back in the day. Sorry, sorry, one more aside, just
00:01:43.720 with a pig. Go watch Maddox's video on the Spider-Woman's ass is a big ass deal. Great
00:01:49.480 video. But, sorry, I'll stop interrupting. What is One More Day? You know what, I'll
00:01:53.480 pimp my video. I have a video on Spider-Woman's ass and left-wing puritanism. Yes, go watch
00:01:58.880 that. And, uh, but my video, I, I actually, I laid out, like, a whole bunch of points. I
00:02:04.220 got a notebook, a notepad full of outlines, and I just lost my shit and start just, like,
00:02:08.940 screaming, like, like, go away! Why won't you social justice warriors go away? Leave
00:02:15.100 us alone! Uh, folks, Zekloff has a really good YouTube channel. Um, I only watch about
00:02:20.140 half your videos because half the time you're talking about Pokemon or something, and I don't
00:02:23.940 even know what it is. But then you talk about Mega Man, and I do know what you're talking
00:02:27.260 about. And when he's talking about something that I give half of a shit about, it's excellent.
00:02:33.140 Great, great videos. Yeah, you'll, you'll, you'll care about easily half of what I talk
00:02:37.940 about. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Subscribe to it, if, if, in the video title, it's like, what,
00:02:42.760 what is, what is a Pikachu? I don't know, don't care, don't watch it. But then he's going
00:02:47.560 to talk about something you like. So, and he's very co, cogent and charismatic and handsome
00:02:54.820 and... Well, thank you. I appreciate it. No, I'm up. Um, so, so one more day. Uh, back in
00:03:02.620 the 80s, they had Spider-Man get married to Mary Jane. Which was, it was a, like, it
00:03:07.980 was a 30-year love, like, love triangle. Oh, are, are Ross and Jane going to get together
00:03:14.080 or whatever the friends bullshit? Yeah. It was like the sexual tension had lasted for
00:03:18.560 30 years or 50 years or whatever, and then they had him get married. Now, I really like
00:03:25.140 that. I, I, now I started reading comics in the 90s, so I, I never, you know, I never had
00:03:30.540 it any other way. Now, of course, I read old issues through reprints and trades and
00:03:34.260 all, but, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't what I grew up with. So I, I guess I can kind
00:03:38.700 of understand why writers are like, well, it's not like I remember. But I like the
00:03:42.700 dynamic. I like the dynamic because it's got that cop wife dynamic because, you know,
00:03:48.140 he goes out to be Spider-Man. She don't know if he's coming back. You know what I mean?
00:03:52.480 He, he could be killed by any super villain. Fucking Galactus could step on him. Hell,
00:03:58.160 mugger could get a lucky shot. You don't know. I, I, it sounds like a wonderful growth
00:04:04.420 of the character to me. It, it, I, I really liked him being married. Now, the problem is
00:04:09.180 a lot of writers didn't because I, I see this in, in, in drama in particular, but I see this
00:04:17.000 especially in superhero comics. They have a hard time writing a stable fucking relationship.
00:04:22.540 Like all they know how to do is get a character together with someone and break them up. That's
00:04:26.640 all the fuck writers seem to know how to do anymore. They don't seem to understand that
00:04:30.700 there is drama within an actual stable, healthy relationship.
00:04:37.160 That's funny. I'm actually trying to write a post right now about a stable, healthy relationship.
00:04:44.280 Like it really is the most challenging thing you can do. And it's as a society, we are so
00:04:50.220 mercenary and callow. Like the, the entire focus. And I mean, there's no way to disparage
00:04:58.540 a game. My bang by Roosh is a great book. I, you should probably read it. If you're a young
00:05:04.800 man, you should definitely read it. But it's, it's very mercenary. It's like you're, you're
00:05:09.800 only after getting laid about. And then as soon as you get laid, you go and find another
00:05:15.000 woman to get laid with. And it's, and the women are doing the exact same thing with
00:05:19.940 in their own manner, with their careers and with their, you know, their, their checklist,
00:05:25.320 their feminist checklist, their merit badges. It's a, it's a, it's still actually getting
00:05:30.740 to know another person. You know, like friends, friendships are very mercenary, but relation,
00:05:36.380 all of it. It's yeah. Short-term thinking.
00:05:38.260 And here's another thing about Spider-Man that writers get wrong. Spider-Man is the
00:05:44.740 every man character more than most, any other Marvel superhero. And a lot of writers don't
00:05:50.980 understand where that appeal comes from. They think, well, he's the every man character.
00:05:55.400 So his life's got to be as normal as possible. So that means we can't have him on the Avengers.
00:06:00.700 We can't have them be married because for some reason, Joe Quesada thinks people can't relate
00:06:05.780 to someone being married. Uh, we can't have them, you know, we can't have his life be nice
00:06:11.660 ever. It's got, we got to constantly run him through the shitter. And what they don't understand
00:06:16.600 is the every man appeal of a character doesn't come from the situations they're in. It comes
00:06:21.020 from how they handle the situations. If it came from the situations he was in, he shouldn't
00:06:25.880 even be fucking Spider-Man. Cause I, I don't do that in my, no, the every man doesn't go
00:06:31.360 out and fight fucking super villains in his day-to-day life, do they? So they always
00:06:38.100 The situations, the situations are all metaphors for what we all go through.
00:06:44.180 Exactly. It's, it's how does he react to the situations? Does he react to the situations
00:06:48.280 in a way the common man would? That's the question.
00:06:52.000 And it's, it's that he is at the end of the day, he doesn't have invulnerability. He has
00:06:56.200 really good reflexes, but a bullet can still kill him. And he's a kid.
00:06:59.960 Yeah, he can bench press a Ford F-150, but a bullet to the head still takes him out.
00:07:04.080 You know, he, he can, he's a pizza delivery boy or whatever. I saw some of the recent movies.
00:07:09.500 Um, he, he's poor. Like he has to think, do I go and solve this crime or because I'll
00:07:15.940 get fired from my job and I won't be able to pay rent if I do that. You know?
00:07:19.520 Well, and again, that's a bit of a misconception. He's not always poor. He has money trouble
00:07:24.860 sometimes. Sometimes he's doing quite well. And writers own, yeah, writers only want to
00:07:30.400 write if he's poor because that's kind of easier drama.
00:07:33.460 Yeah, they're, they're, they're going for the cheap, easy drama. It's, again, it's, in
00:07:40.600 our personal lives, we all suffer these moral quandaries, these difficulties, what have
00:07:48.840 you.
00:07:49.280 This is something comic book writers have a hard time with. They always want to run the
00:07:52.680 characters to the shitter and they don't realize like, like they'll often say like,
00:07:57.320 Oh, well, everybody remembers that daredevil story. Frank Miller wrote, right? Oh, born
00:08:01.040 again, because you know, his life just went to hell, but they don't realize the lows don't
00:08:05.160 mean nothing without the highs. If the character's life is just always shit, nobody cares.
00:08:10.720 Yeah, yeah, it's, but anyways, in, in the, in the mid nineties, uh, Mark and writers had
00:08:22.360 been ever since the marriage, basically trying to undo it because they can't just regurgitate
00:08:26.840 the same, you know, Peter stood up his date to go fight Doc Ock story a million times.
00:08:31.880 Well, it sounds like they're deeply immature and yeah. And they just, Oh, well, he can't
00:08:36.420 be married. No one can relate to that. Blah, blah, blah. So in the mid nineties, they did,
00:08:41.460 uh, they briefly had Spider-Man's clone take over for him and Peter retire in an attempt
00:08:47.220 to capture the, uh, the single Spider-Man again, but nobody liked that. So that was Peter came
00:08:54.260 back. The clone died killed by the green goblin because green goblin is an asshole. Um, there
00:09:02.120 was a time shortly after that, that it seemed like, uh, Mary Jane had been killed, but she'd
00:09:07.400 really been captured by some stalker. And again, that was, Oh, now he's a divorcee. We can
00:09:12.060 make it depressing again. Cheap drama. Finally in, in 07, uh, they did a storyline where Spider-Man's
00:09:24.340 aunt, which is his surrogate mom was shot. And this storyline is so bad. So as I'm describing
00:09:31.860 it, you're going to be like, none of this makes any sense, but she was shot and she was
00:09:35.800 dying in the hospital and Spider-Man wants to save his aunt and he goes all over the place.
00:09:42.120 He talks to like fucking sorcerers and super scientists all over the fucking place. Any
00:09:49.240 of whom should have been able to fucking fix it. Cause it's a, yeah, she's an old woman.
00:09:53.260 She's like 104, but it's just a bullet wound. Nobody can fix it for reasons. Finally, Mephisto,
00:10:01.840 Mephisto shows up, who is the devil in the Marvel universe. And he's like, I can save your
00:10:08.700 aunt. Well, what's he going to want? Is he going to want Peter's soul? Cause that's what
00:10:13.460 the devil wants. No, I want your marriage, which doesn't make any fucking sense. So Peter
00:10:23.620 agrees, which doesn't make any fucking sense. And so then Mephisto magically makes Aunt May
00:10:31.880 all better. And Peter had never been married to MJ, although he had been living with her
00:10:39.580 all this time. They just weren't married. And they just, for reasons, broke up just recently.
00:10:46.020 Will they get back together?
00:10:50.940 Yeah. And, and also shortly before that story, Spider-Man's identity had been exposed and they
00:10:57.580 put that genie back in the bottle, which the only reason they exposed his identity, we've
00:11:02.300 come to find out editorially was to get to this point.
00:11:05.620 Um, it's, it's a terrible fucking story because first of all, Mephisto, the devil, he gets
00:11:14.660 nothing out of this. He gets nothing out of this. They don't even remember it happened.
00:11:18.640 So no one is suffering except me, the reader.
00:11:21.480 Well, and it's, so it's, yeah, as the reader is for catharsis.
00:11:25.680 Yeah, here's the worst part. Um, Mary Jane always called Peter Tiger. That is important
00:11:31.080 to understand. That's, that's her pet name for him. That's what, that's what she would
00:11:35.080 be screaming mid-orgasm for him as they're fucking. All right. That's got to understand
00:11:38.880 that. Um, after Mephisto does his magic and everything is back to the way Joe Quesada
00:11:47.440 remembers it as a kid. And, uh, a guy named Starskansky who created Babylon 5, he was actually
00:11:53.280 the writer on this, but it was very clearly Joe Quesada that pushed all of it to the extent
00:11:58.380 that, uh, JMS, the writer, he wanted his name taken off of it. So this was Joe Quesada's
00:12:04.020 baby, the Marvel editor in chief who, who pushed for this for a long time. So everything's
00:12:12.320 back to normal. Peter wakes up in his bed and you hear somebody downstairs, you see a little
00:12:16.400 word bubble say, Oh, I got breakfast ready, tiger. He goes downstairs and it's his aunt.
00:12:23.280 And he's calling him tiger. And then he does this really creepy fucking kisser on the neck
00:12:28.920 thing. And that's why I, and a few other people said this one more day has gross, gross
00:12:35.240 fucking Oedipus complex shit all over it, all over it. Cause look at it this way. What
00:12:41.720 did he do? He, he, he gave up his, his wife for his mom. Yeah. Because the wife requires
00:12:48.660 him in the dominant, um, responsible role. You know, being a husband is all about taking
00:12:57.080 responsibility. I mean, you and I are both bachelors. We have no responsibility whatsoever
00:13:01.180 in the world. You know, we can, we can go die in a gutter with veins full of heroin tomorrow.
00:13:06.820 Nobody gives a damn. We're just bachelors. We don't matter. But a husband, especially if
00:13:13.300 you're a husband with children, you have these incredible responsibilities. You know, it is
00:13:21.000 terrifying to recognize like you, you are responsible for providing for the family, for, for navigating
00:13:26.720 the household, for making sure your kids grow up right, to, uh, to make sure your, your,
00:13:31.260 your wife is safe and provided for and, and feels appreciated, even though that you're away
00:13:36.480 at work for eight hours a day. It's terrifying responsibility being a man. Easier just to crawl
00:13:42.480 back inside of yourself and suck on mommy's nipple. Yeah. Now when this story happened, everybody
00:13:50.080 hated it. Everybody. Even people who didn't like the idea of Spider-Man being married hated
00:13:55.200 it because it was incredibly poorly written. It was, it was full of plot holes. You could
00:13:59.700 drive a truck through and not one character up to it, including the fucking devil was written
00:14:04.900 in character. Listen, I don't even care about Spider-Man. I've never cared about Spider-Man
00:14:10.360 and I thought it was stupid. I had an opinion on it. It was horrendously bad. Now Joe Quesada
00:14:17.560 would, would constantly, um, defend it because this is, it, it'll, if it will ever be reversed,
00:14:24.200 it will not be reversed while Joe Quesada is editor-in-chief at Marvel.
00:14:28.540 Well, and, and you know what, it's more, more fundamentally from a meta level, what this,
00:14:35.040 this event does is it erases the past, what, five, 10 years of comic books?
00:14:40.340 Oh, it's damn near 20.
00:14:41.880 20 years. 20 years of comic books that you've been paying for and reading and following faithfully
00:14:49.020 are now gone and deleted and they don't mean anything.
00:14:55.800 And when he's being, you wasted your time. You could just stop reading them.
00:14:59.800 Oh yeah.
00:15:00.460 You wasted your fucking time.
00:15:01.920 I did stop reading Spider-Man and I mean, I, I plowed through some rough stories in my long
00:15:08.420 time of reading Spider-Man and I, I was like done. I mean, I, I, I would hop in and out every
00:15:14.700 once in a while just to check it out. I mean, you know, I, I sell comic back issues to people
00:15:19.480 so I get access to them. I read through them and all, but I was like done, done. I, this
00:15:25.460 is, and then it was made worse by every time he was interviewed and immediately people were
00:15:29.540 like, what the fuck, man? He's like, you are, you know, I mean, comic book, comic book
00:15:34.980 fans, they can't relate to being in a relationship with a beautiful woman. Yeah. That's, that's a
00:15:39.360 good plan. Insult your fucking customer base. This is a lot about him. Yeah. Oh, one more
00:15:45.260 day is, is a fucking autobiography of Joe Quesada as far as I'm concerned. You know,
00:15:50.220 one more day is the story of how Joe Quesada wants to fuck his mom. I'm on record of saying
00:15:55.320 him. The difference here. Now if you take, um, oh, what was the, the, the final episode
00:16:02.700 of Star Trek The Next Generation where it's like he goes into this future that winds up not
00:16:07.240 existing. Now you have various time travel stories. Uh, actually tapestry is a great
00:16:13.160 one. Um, yeah, you have these various time travel stories in Star Trek where what happens
00:16:19.780 in the story didn't actually happen except it did to the character. So the story has catharsis.
00:16:29.320 It's a what if story, you know, so it's not canon. It didn't actually happen, but it, it
00:16:36.140 makes, it has meaning to it. What, what this, what they did with One More Day was remove
00:16:44.060 all meaning for those past 20 years. Because it's not like those 20 years had a resolution.
00:16:50.500 You know, it's not like the 20 years, if, if Peter had woken up out of a coma or out of
00:16:56.620 a matrix computer or something and realized the past 20 years were a fantasy of his. And
00:17:06.140 then, like, like, like that would at least have meaning to it. But no, he, he removed all
00:17:13.400 meaning with his midichlorians.
00:17:15.820 It is, it was horrendously bad. It, it, it, I, it insults you for bothering to watch
00:17:26.940 any of it or to read anything.
00:17:28.300 Yeah. And, and every time people complain, well, you, I mean, you're just, you fucking
00:17:32.320 nerd. You don't know what it's like to get with a woman. And I'm like, maybe you don't
00:17:36.200 Joe. All right. And there's an, so this has been sneaking around the back of my mind the
00:17:43.420 whole time you've been explaining this is, um, this is what opens the door to parasites
00:17:49.200 like Sarfezian. Like all of her critiques, like her fundamental critique is that comic books
00:18:00.680 and video games are prurient and they, they pander to the lowest form of male desire.
00:18:08.680 The, the 14 year old, and, and honestly, I don't think any 14 year old boy is actually
00:18:13.360 this immature, but the stereotypical 14 year old boy that wants to see bad guys getting
00:18:18.760 blown up and just wants to see, um, what's the angry Joe bit about ass and titties? You
00:18:26.560 know, like this, this childish can't take responsibility, just wants strippers and explosions and, and thus
00:18:37.380 the tropes are evil. According to Anita, tropes versus women. Tropes of literature and fiction
00:18:46.000 are opposed to women. Unsure whether or not that includes trans women. If it, if it's just
00:18:54.520 femininity, but femininity is not a thing, right? Cause men and women are the same.
00:18:58.660 So it can't be tropes are opposed to femininity. Tropes must be opposed to women. Those with a
00:19:04.460 double X chromosome. Not sure if that includes people with an XY chromosome who want to get breast
00:19:10.820 implants. Well, you have to remember that these days you're, whatever you say you are at any
00:19:15.200 given time. And that's why I'm a Bulbasaur. I put that in an article in reaction where it's
00:19:24.540 talking about Brianna Wu. And, uh, you know, I made that point about trans stuff and all. And I'm
00:19:29.160 like, well, that's why I'm a Bulbasaur. So, and somebody in the comments was like, the author is
00:19:32.880 clearly a trans hating cisgender Bulbasaur.
00:19:37.600 Yeah, this, this whole thing, it's, it's any time that, that Ms. Sarkeesian complains about
00:19:43.700 even, you know what, quite frankly, she cherry picks her evidence. She doesn't play the bloody
00:19:48.080 video games. Doesn't know what she's talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's, let's pretend we
00:19:52.620 live in fantasy world where Anita Sarkeesian actually makes valid complaints where she doesn't
00:19:59.480 manipulate the bodies of dead strippers to make it look like that's the reason you play
00:20:03.320 the game, to impress feminists that don't play video games. Let's pretend she is actually
00:20:07.760 complaining about, like, one more day. She's complaining that this is juvenile masculinity
00:20:15.860 that refuses to take responsibility for their actions and just wants a reset button, so he
00:20:20.720 abandons his wife and goes and sleeps with the mistress. But yeah, that would actually be
00:20:26.760 a really great feminist frequency critique. Hey, Anita, take this one as a freebie. You
00:20:33.000 know, like, go do something useful with your miserable life and actually make some valid
00:20:38.920 critiques. But it's, but this whole, every critique she has, like, women in refrigerators.
00:20:46.140 Again, it's a trope. It's one of the ways you can create dramatic fiction is to have somebody's
00:20:52.820 significant other murdered. And so they go on a revenge spree. Yeah, that's basically
00:20:57.460 the story of the Punisher. Right? But when it's used in a ham-fisted manner, it stands out
00:21:04.620 and it's terrible and nobody likes it. Which is exactly one more day. Even the example, the
00:21:10.980 women in the refrigerator example that is cited, the actual woman in the refrigerator, that's
00:21:16.880 not a bad example in my mind. I think that's actually really cool. Because in the story,
00:21:21.720 there was a new Green Lantern. Kyle Rayner had become the Green Lantern. He didn't want
00:21:25.900 to be the Green Lantern, but it got thrust upon him. And at first he's like, I don't really
00:21:30.880 want to do this. And his girlfriend's like, no, you got to do this. It's fucking cool.
00:21:34.520 You know, you're, you're, go be a man, you know, man the fuck up. And she basically gets
00:21:40.380 him to, to man the fuck up. So that makes it much more powerful when very shortly in his
00:21:45.720 career is Green Lantern. A supervillain finds who he is, uh, comes home, comes to his house,
00:21:51.180 kills his girlfriend and stuffs her in the refrigerator. That's some gnarly shit to get
00:21:55.160 over. Well, and isn't that, we were just talking about Spider-Man. Isn't that the exact
00:21:59.920 story of Spider-Man with his uncle? Yeah. You never hear about parental figure in the
00:22:05.020 refrigerator. And you know, I mean, Batman's parents, Spider-Man's uncle, you know, Superman's
00:22:12.120 whole fucking planet. If you go to TV tropes, I'm sure you can find that reference. But
00:22:17.840 that, this is the thing. It's absolutely evident that, uh, Ms. Sarkeesian did nothing but scour
00:22:23.180 TV tropes for anything that was vaguely offensive to women in the most narrow-minded and narcissistic
00:22:30.560 manner possible.
00:22:32.060 And the bitch Gail Dines, who used to be a pretty decent writer, but now she's shit. And
00:22:38.560 she's this feminist fat fuck. And she's the one that had a hissy fit over the writer Ron
00:22:44.400 Mars, over the women in the refrigerator, probably because she was going through the change of
00:22:48.740 life.
00:22:52.340 Fuck Gail Dines. I'm serious. So, you know what? Fuck it. Ms. Dines, if you should happen to
00:22:57.180 listen to this, go fuck yourself.
00:23:00.500 Man, I am. And you know what? I used to love a lot of Gail Dines' writings. But ever since
00:23:05.280 I wrote that review of fucking her shitty new Red Sonja series on my blog, and she retweeted
00:23:11.780 it and fucking had a bunch of snarky comments about it like a teenage girl. You are a professional
00:23:17.040 fucking writer, woman. That's not how you handle a bad review.
00:23:22.060 Well, she's a feminist that hangs out with evangelicals. And I think that tells you a lot about feminists
00:23:28.060 and evangelicals.
00:23:29.400 Yeah. I've been worse than a fucking blue pill conservative.
00:23:34.280 But anyway, so this... The problem with One More Day is that it's written by a man-child.
00:23:43.320 You know, it deserves... The thing is, it is... This is not a problem with the audience.
00:23:48.680 When any of this... Listen, pretending that Anita had valid complaints... Like, we both know
00:23:55.400 that her complaints are founded upon finding something to complain about. But there are
00:24:01.620 critiques to be made. And there are critiques of the medium. And it's when the medium is abused
00:24:06.920 by the creators in it. And that's what we're talking about with One More Day. It's not that
00:24:12.240 the audience is brilliant and can't handle Spider-Man being married. It's that the guy in charge
00:24:19.560 couldn't handle that.
00:24:22.640 It was... It was the single worst comic
00:24:25.780 I'd ever read on an emotional level.
00:24:29.340 Because first of all, it's incredibly poorly done.
00:24:32.160 Take aside what it was trying to accomplish, it's... It does it
00:24:35.560 very, very badly.
00:24:38.400 You know, if I was... If I was so inclined to go from point A to point B
00:24:43.220 like that, to get Spider-Man...
00:24:45.960 I could think of dozens of ways I could actually write a decent story that did that, that accomplished
00:24:52.180 that.
00:24:54.240 You know, I had a number of friends in the stand-up comic community back in Calgary.
00:24:59.940 And... And... I don't know if it's the stand-up comic community or if it's just people in
00:25:04.160 general, but it's a very blue pill, pro-feminist, don't want to offend anybody. I mean, the irony
00:25:10.440 that comics are terrified of offending people. Maybe it's a Canadian thing since...
00:25:15.780 that comics in Canada have actually been prosecuted for their humor being offensive.
00:25:21.420 Who knows?
00:25:22.840 Who knows? Maybe it's that I'm just so far away from blue pill, but everyone's blue pill
00:25:26.160 in my world.
00:25:27.680 But...
00:25:28.120 There's offensive comedians.
00:25:29.840 Yeah, I...
00:25:31.240 The point is that there is no such thing as an offensive joke.
00:25:37.000 There is only a bad joke.
00:25:38.880 Any time somebody complains about a joke being offensive, it's never a funny joke that gets
00:25:49.160 complained about being offensive.
00:25:52.000 It's always a joke that fell flat, a joke that failed, that they consider offensive.
00:25:58.160 Well, with some people, every joke is offensive because they have no sense of humor.
00:26:03.240 I mean, you know, you mentioned feminists and evangelicals, and they're key at the top
00:26:07.980 of that fucking list.
00:26:10.580 Well, was it...
00:26:11.620 Oh, who was it?
00:26:13.640 Somebody made a...
00:26:14.700 Oh, it's Mr. Conductor.
00:26:17.540 George Carlin.
00:26:18.400 George Carlin.
00:26:19.060 He had a routine where he said, even rape can be offensive.
00:26:24.340 Imagine Porky Pig raping Elmer Clough.
00:26:27.720 Yeah, even rape could...
00:26:29.240 Nobody ever complained about that joke because it was funny.
00:26:34.320 Like, the mental image.
00:26:35.780 Hey!
00:26:37.000 It's...
00:26:37.560 You can't...
00:26:39.000 It's a funny joke.
00:26:40.560 It's a dumb joke, but it's a funny joke.
00:26:42.720 Even though it's about rape.
00:26:45.040 Any time a feminist says, like, on Twitter or something, like, rape is never funny, I
00:26:51.260 always just tweet that.
00:26:52.140 But what about when it's funny?
00:26:56.540 And then my favorite is, imagine a clown raping a clown.
00:27:01.920 And they're like, that's not funny.
00:27:03.360 I'm like, but what if the nose honked?
00:27:10.160 As the face is being pushed into the dirt.
00:27:15.040 See, it's...
00:27:19.500 The irony being, like, of course, humor is a reaction against horrible things.
00:27:24.000 Every joke involves suffering.
00:27:26.980 Humor is us laughing at the devil and laughing at death.
00:27:31.700 Yeah, I once heard a theologian said there would be no humor in heaven for the same reason
00:27:36.060 there would be no hospitals.
00:27:37.020 That's an...
00:27:42.400 Yeah, I like that observation.
00:27:44.500 That sounds...
00:27:45.280 That there would be the joyful laughter, but there wouldn't be humor, because there would
00:27:48.540 be nothing to be humorous about.
00:27:50.540 Humor is...
00:27:52.280 It relies upon misery.
00:27:54.460 Mm-hmm.
00:27:55.200 And in fact, most art relies upon misery.
00:27:59.220 Even art of things that are beautiful are about, like, the gap, the chasm between us and that
00:28:10.440 beauty.
00:28:11.580 There's this one sculpture, I believe it's called Faith.
00:28:15.020 And it's the sculpture of a young girl praying with perfect faith in God, and it's the most
00:28:23.080 amazing and beautiful depiction of the human form I've ever seen, and it is beyond any human
00:28:30.920 perfect...
00:28:31.240 Like, no human is that perfect.
00:28:32.640 It's an amazing sculpture, and it's painful to look at, because that beautiful and perfect
00:28:39.500 faith this young girl has is unobtainable in us or in reality.
00:28:48.880 But I was going somewhere with this humor, though.
00:28:52.200 Is that they complain about the humor when it's a joke that falls flat.
00:28:57.000 Or, if it's a joke that was actually a really funny joke, the example of the prosecuted
00:29:03.540 Canadian, there are these two lesbians that were...
00:29:08.380 It was an open mic night, and so there were a lot of amateurs getting up on stage, which
00:29:12.360 was very nerve-wracking for a first-time comedian, and they were heckling all of these first-comers
00:29:18.460 up on stage.
00:29:19.320 They're just...
00:29:19.660 They're being bitches.
00:29:22.240 And so he got up on stage, who's the emcee of the whole thing, and to...
00:29:27.000 Keep the spirit going, he said, you two aren't even lesbians.
00:29:30.700 You're just so ugly, nobody else will fuck you.
00:29:33.460 Which is fucking hilarious.
00:29:37.320 And I'm sure, like, the crowd loved it.
00:29:39.780 Well, like, of the 15 people that were actually there at the bar, they loved it.
00:29:44.280 But these two nasty pieces of work went and complained to the Human Rights Tribunal, and
00:29:50.760 out of context, without a video recording, without anything, like, misconstrued, it's
00:29:56.980 sounds like a homophobic joke.
00:30:01.580 Did you ever see the video of Kramer making racist remarks?
00:30:07.420 Yeah, I saw that he, uh, I guess, some black guy heckled at him, he started, uh, started
00:30:13.160 spouting out racial slurs at him or something.
00:30:16.080 Well, he...
00:30:17.160 I recommend everybody go and watch this video.
00:30:20.560 But, understand, first of all, that this guy, he played Kramer on Seinfeld, I can't remember
00:30:25.840 his real name.
00:30:26.860 Michael Richards.
00:30:27.840 Michael Richards, thank you.
00:30:28.980 He was not a stand-up comedian.
00:30:32.480 He had never done stand-up.
00:30:33.820 The only reason he was doing stand-up was because he'd been on Seinfeld.
00:30:38.760 And stand-up is a unique form of...
00:30:40.740 You need to know how an audience works.
00:30:44.500 And so he was out of his depth, first of all.
00:30:47.180 This guy was completely out of his depth.
00:30:48.900 And so then he's at this, this club where he is getting heckled rather viciously, and
00:30:56.960 it was apparently by a bunch of black guys, which is really neither here, it just happened
00:31:03.040 to be a bunch of black guys heckling him.
00:31:07.340 And his supposed racist remarks that he made were that you ought to be strung up by the nose.
00:31:14.280 Oh, is that what it is?
00:31:17.000 It wasn't even like...
00:31:18.360 Well, have you ever heard a...
00:31:20.420 Like, you live in the South.
00:31:22.640 Or, you look pretty close to the South, right?
00:31:24.960 Well, I...
00:31:25.760 Yeah, I know the lynching and all.
00:31:28.040 So you have lots of racist.
00:31:30.080 Oh, yeah.
00:31:30.860 Tons of them.
00:31:31.720 Have you ever heard anybody say, strung up that...
00:31:35.880 String up that Negro by the nose?
00:31:38.600 No.
00:31:39.220 I pretty much hear, you know, you don't hang somebody by the nose.
00:31:42.660 It doesn't even make sense.
00:31:45.220 What Michael Richards was doing on that video, he was trying to deal with the heckling.
00:31:53.160 He was trying to make a racist joke that wasn't racist.
00:31:57.520 Because, like, nobody says string up by the nose.
00:32:00.440 He was, like...
00:32:01.300 They were calling him a honky, and so he was trying to pretend to be racist for comedic effect.
00:32:07.640 But he was out of his depth, and he told a joke that wasn't funny.
00:32:12.420 So everybody fucking complained about it.
00:32:16.580 When people accuse me of being racist, I always tell them, hey, my best friend is Native American, and that's close enough.
00:32:24.040 But what this boils down to, it's an issue of censorship.
00:32:33.420 Because if you start censoring offensive jokes...
00:32:38.860 Listen, there's no...
00:32:40.420 You can not write a legal definition of an offensive joke.
00:32:44.160 An offensive joke is just a joke that was not funny.
00:32:47.500 And nobody has yet figured out what funny is.
00:32:49.840 If we had computers, we'd be doing all our comedy for us.
00:32:53.400 Yeah, there's a reason Data can't tell jokes.
00:32:56.400 Same thing goes for...
00:32:58.940 Tropes versus women.
00:33:01.440 Tropes just are...
00:33:02.060 If you abuse a trope, it's a bad story.
00:33:05.860 And everybody can point at that trope that you misused in the story.
00:33:09.340 But that's just a bad story.
00:33:14.420 It's not that the trope is offensive.
00:33:17.600 It's not that it's anti-woman or anti-whatever.
00:33:20.880 It's just the story.
00:33:22.280 It's either a good story or a bad story.
00:33:26.040 And a bad story is going to be hackneyed and predictable and full of obvious tropes.
00:33:30.700 Yeah, a trope is just a shorthand.
00:33:36.540 It's just a shortcut.
00:33:38.840 And, you know, stories have to be certain lengths, so sometimes you have to take a shortcut.
00:33:48.360 Yeah, there's nothing new under the sun.
00:33:50.600 It's that we've been writing stories for so long
00:33:52.340 that there's now a shorthand of mechanisms used in plots.
00:33:56.480 It's that bloody simple.
00:33:57.420 And if it's sexist, if it's actually...
00:34:01.460 Whatever sexist means nowadays.
00:34:03.200 But I think both you and I, if somebody...
00:34:07.300 I mean, I keep hearing about these gore novels from Jordan.
00:34:12.220 I'm pretty sure if you and I read the gore novels, we wouldn't like them.
00:34:16.920 Just because they're bad stories.
00:34:19.520 Or because they're simplistic and fantastic.
00:34:21.440 The only time I ever heard of gore novels before Jordan
00:34:28.220 was I heard that there was a subset of BDSNM called Gorean Philosophy,
00:34:36.380 which was just a...
00:34:39.040 You know, people have to throw a fancy fucking word on top of their goddamn fetish these days.
00:34:44.860 But it was just a fancy way of saying, you know, BDSNM where the man is dominant.
00:34:49.220 And I was like, well, what the hell does gore mean?
00:34:55.720 Like, gorean or something.
00:34:57.120 And so I, you know, googled it and I was like, oh, it's based on some novels.
00:35:01.440 Because you can't just have a fetish.
00:35:03.780 You have to fucking philosophize it.
00:35:06.060 So you don't...
00:35:07.360 You know, I think that it might be very comparable to torture porn.
00:35:11.960 Have you seen the Hostel movie?
00:35:14.800 Yes.
00:35:15.460 Well, half of it.
00:35:16.560 I remember years ago with my girlfriend at the time, she rented it.
00:35:20.760 And I mean, I love horror movies.
00:35:22.500 But I got like 30, 40 minutes into it.
00:35:25.480 Like probably about halfway.
00:35:26.740 And I was like, shut it off.
00:35:27.560 This sucks.
00:35:28.840 Because it's 10 minutes of softcore porn followed by a snuff film.
00:35:31.820 Yeah, it's an hour of boredom with utterly stereotypical characters.
00:35:37.400 And you know who's going to die and who's going to live right from the first five minutes.
00:35:41.780 It's got 10 minutes of softcore porn in it.
00:35:43.860 And then it's got 20 minutes of extreme violence.
00:35:49.400 But it's very hollow.
00:35:52.080 There's no horror to the movie.
00:35:56.580 Hostel was one of the first horror movies that didn't get the point that like...
00:36:00.860 If the characters, if my protagonists are assholes, then I don't care that they're getting tortured.
00:36:10.560 It's the sort of movie where it offends me not being...
00:36:15.100 Like it's not really offensive in and of itself.
00:36:17.360 It's kind of gross.
00:36:18.620 But I've seen enough...
00:36:20.700 Like it...
00:36:21.800 Whatever, it doesn't bother me.
00:36:23.620 I'm offended by the movie because people like it.
00:36:26.000 Because there's no character development.
00:36:29.640 By the time you get to the torture scenes, I hate everybody in the movie.
00:36:33.940 I hate the protagonist.
00:36:35.040 I hate the bad guys.
00:36:36.260 I hate...
00:36:36.820 I just want a nuclear bomb to go off and...
00:36:40.780 For them all to die.
00:36:42.480 Like everyone calls the Saw movies torture porn.
00:36:45.100 But at least the first couple of ones had cool mysteries in them.
00:36:48.200 I only saw like the first two, I think.
00:36:51.500 But I liked them.
00:36:52.460 I liked the mystery element to it.
00:36:55.000 You know, there's none of that in Hostel.
00:36:56.460 It's just like, here's some titties and here's some blood.
00:37:01.240 Mm-hmm.
00:37:02.480 And you know what?
00:37:03.340 There is a prurient audience that seems to like these movies for some frickin' reason.
00:37:08.580 And that depresses me.
00:37:11.740 Because, like, listen.
00:37:13.040 Include all the violence.
00:37:14.680 Include all the body horror.
00:37:16.540 Include...
00:37:17.240 Like, like, alright.
00:37:17.940 You know, we were talking about Alien.
00:37:19.580 Alien is chock full of body horror.
00:37:22.020 And the body horror in Alien and Aliens, I absolutely love.
00:37:26.380 Alien horror, I hate it.
00:37:28.400 Because it doesn't serve any narrative purpose.
00:37:32.900 And, and, you know what?
00:37:34.100 There is this weird cult of fetishists or whatever they are that just love it.
00:37:38.580 I love seeing the torture porn.
00:37:42.880 Alright, well, there's a weird group of fetishists that love the gore novels, apparently.
00:37:49.400 You know, to talk, like, and let's extend this metaphor into porn itself.
00:37:53.780 Um, let, let's say you, because it's not the nipple or the, the, the jeans, the bagoos,
00:38:00.660 the, the, the, the guineas, the, the, the, the gagas.
00:38:08.580 That, it's, it's, that's not what makes porn, porn.
00:38:15.060 Okay?
00:38:15.600 It's like, if you banned all that stuff, all you would do is ruin good cinema.
00:38:20.680 You know, like, like, like, like, look at Japan.
00:38:22.540 Okay?
00:38:22.860 Like, you're, you ban all that stuff from appearing on cinema?
00:38:25.640 You're, you're, you're just gonna have a woman, um, squirting eels out of her vagina, but behind a screen.
00:38:35.240 Or cartoons with octopus demons.
00:38:38.780 Like, you're, you're still gonna have porn.
00:38:40.620 I'm sorry, you're gonna have to saw movies no matter what.
00:38:43.240 They, they depress me.
00:38:44.180 I wish they didn't exist, but you're, you're gonna have them.
00:38:50.320 Yeah, as, as, as long as people can, as long as there's communication, they'll be porn.
00:38:54.880 I'm, I'm pretty sure the second thing ever drawn on a cave was tits.
00:39:00.980 I, you know, I wish the Goranopols didn't exist.
00:39:03.720 I, I wish that, um, you know, prurient garbage didn't exist.
00:39:10.020 But it does.
00:39:12.620 And that's just, yeah, there, there's people out there that want that stuff.
00:39:21.700 I mean, porn, porn does not exist because men hate women, or men treat women like authors.
00:39:26.520 It's because there are people that will pay for it.
00:39:30.560 Yeah, porn exists because there's people,
00:39:33.380 porn exists because people want to have sex.
00:39:35.820 And when they can't have sex, they'll settle for watching people have sex.
00:39:40.600 Yeah.
00:39:43.640 I mean, there's no greater, there's no greater, more grandiose, systemic reason that it exists other than that.
00:39:51.280 I mean, you know what?
00:39:52.580 If we were a morally perfect species, there wouldn't be any porn because we'd be too busy having sex with our wives.
00:39:59.420 Yeah, but that's not the world we live in.
00:40:01.520 No, it's not.
00:40:02.340 And in the perfect world, every horror movie that had a lot of bloody violence would be alien.
00:40:06.820 Instead, we'd get a lot of torture porn garbage.
00:40:15.240 In a perfect world, there'd be no One More Day or Anita Sarkeesian.
00:40:19.280 That's a really good point.
00:40:24.500 She could tear that thing to pieces, but she probably doesn't even know it exists.
00:40:30.020 Well, and she'd actually have to read it.
00:40:31.900 She'd actually have to do some work to criticize it.
00:40:35.460 I'm not sure Anita Sarkeesian exists.
00:40:38.520 I think it's all done with mirrors.
00:40:41.280 I mean, like, with all of her video game tropes, and I'm actually paraphrasing one of the people we talked to in the documentary, but it's like...
00:40:48.820 He would say, because I've watched her stuff, but it's so forgettable.
00:40:53.540 You know?
00:40:53.880 It's like, she only plays sandbox-type games.
00:40:57.800 She only plays the first few levels, and she just...
00:41:00.760 Basically, she goes around looking for stuff to complain about that she can...
00:41:05.020 You know, like, she'll spend, like, three hours playing it one evening, and then another eight hours the next day recording the footage of her playing it.
00:41:13.360 And then she's done.
00:41:14.300 Oh, she likes to rip on Mario games, I know a lot, which...
00:41:21.040 It always amazes me that fucking Bob Chipman will defend her so much when she shits on his favorite thing in the world.
00:41:30.040 I mean, I love Mario, too, but I'm not all autistic about it, like fucking Bob.
00:41:36.160 I never thought Mario was my friend.
00:41:39.760 Oh, for Christ's sake.
00:41:41.480 Did you read my review of his book?
00:41:43.060 I did.
00:41:44.820 I'm almost tempted to buy it, but...
00:41:47.380 Oh, it's...
00:41:49.600 For those of you who don't know, MovieBob wrote a book about Mario 3.
00:41:55.220 And the idea of the book was that he was going to talk about the history of the Mario franchise as well as Mario 3.
00:42:04.420 And then do a complete analysis of every single level in the game.
00:42:10.280 And there's a lot of levels in that game, obviously.
00:42:13.920 You know, it was one of the first games that had the overview world map that Mario has now.
00:42:19.100 And, you know, there were levels you could skip if you wanted to, but he does them all.
00:42:23.000 Yeah, it actually sounds like a really enticing book that I would have loved.
00:42:27.060 Parts of it are good.
00:42:28.280 When he's actually on topic, it's pretty decent.
00:42:31.980 It's nothing groundbreaking.
00:42:32.980 It's not...
00:42:33.780 You're not going to see Mario in a whole new light.
00:42:35.920 It's not like the game theorists, whose channel I love.
00:42:40.140 But it's decent analysis.
00:42:42.280 He has a good grasp of what made the game so special.
00:42:45.320 You know, what makes it a great game, even to this day.
00:42:48.520 As is always the case, when Bob's actually doing what Bob should be doing, he's pretty good.
00:42:52.840 But then he starts in on, like, before each level, he decides to read a passage from his Hello Kitty diary.
00:43:01.560 And literally, he's, like, having personal journals about what's going on in his life as he's doing this playthrough.
00:43:08.940 And he talks about his personal history.
00:43:11.420 And he goes completely off track, like, completely off topic.
00:43:15.160 He basically shoehorns his autobiography into this fucking thing.
00:43:18.380 Didn't he have, like, a huge section about moving out on his own the first time?
00:43:24.340 Well, no.
00:43:24.800 As he's playing the game, he's looking for an apartment.
00:43:29.560 His very first apartment, I might add, at the tender young age of 31.
00:43:33.940 You know how my first apartment came about?
00:43:38.780 How's that?
00:43:39.900 My dad kicked me out of the house at 17.
00:43:42.160 And so I caught a bus to Hamilton, stayed at a friend's place the first night, then wandering about, you know, on my own with a backpack, found an apartment, and then I found a job the next day.
00:43:59.520 That's my first apartment.
00:44:00.760 I mean, look, I get it's Obama's economy.
00:44:04.780 I get why a lot of people are fucking living at home still.
00:44:08.860 You know, I've always had a roommate of some kind.
00:44:13.060 Oh, don't get me wrong.
00:44:14.220 Listen, I completely disagree with Aaron Clary on this.
00:44:19.260 Paying for rent is fucking stupid.
00:44:21.420 All right, I spent my entire 20s paying for rent, and I have nothing to show for it.
00:44:24.600 You know, I, I mean, I get that, you know, there's the old joke that, you know, a boomer looks at his kid and says, you know, why won't your generation move out of the house?
00:44:37.800 And the kid looks at him and says, because your generation grenaded the economy and we can't find jobs.
00:44:44.040 And there's something to that.
00:44:45.360 I mean, obviously, the fact that a lot of my generation is fucking worthless and has no idea what the hell they're doing is part of that, too.
00:44:52.920 So, but, but I get, okay, I get it, Bob.
00:44:56.060 You're like, okay, fine, but don't, why, what does this fucking have to do with Mario?
00:45:03.780 None of it is, it's, everything that isn't about Mario in that book is, is either boring or sad.
00:45:14.060 You know what it is, he is the classic gamma male.
00:45:23.760 I know, I just did a video on this, I don't remember what I said exactly, but I know I linked to Vox's blog, and he's been talking about this.
00:45:30.940 How the, the gamma wants to pretend to be an alpha male, and so one of the ways they do this is they refuse to ever lose an argument.
00:45:44.360 And the way they never lose an argument is they never admit when they're wrong.
00:45:47.840 They never admit that they've lost.
00:45:51.140 They constantly shift what their position is, they attack straw man, they, and this is what Bob is doing.
00:45:57.060 Like, you're asking, why is he defending Sarkeesian when she attacks such a meaningful game from, of his?
00:46:03.540 Well, she's not really attacking it.
00:46:04.940 She's attacking the sexist attitude of people that play Mario, but not him.
00:46:08.780 He's one of the good ones.
00:46:09.720 No, she's attacking Mario, Bob.
00:46:14.600 I, I, it's like, this person's pissing on something I love, and I'm still like, yeah, they're awesome.
00:46:26.640 The guy is, he can never admit when he's wrong.
00:46:30.460 He was, listen, they asked him to apologize over the escapist, and he refused.
00:46:36.400 I mean, he posted that sarcastic apology.
00:46:38.580 Yeah, I remember when, when he first, when he first had to apologize, and it was, he, he had that half-assed apology.
00:46:48.480 And finally, they got rid of him.
00:46:50.520 And it's, it's gonna be tough for him if he doesn't pull his head out of his ass.
00:46:58.780 Yeah, he's on Patreon, and he's getting, he's getting more money than he deserves from idiots.
00:47:04.280 But, you know, Patreon's getting pretty fucking crowded here lately, because SJW's got nowhere else to run to.
00:47:12.140 So, you know, he's not a woman, he's not even a fake woman like Brianna Wu, so he's not gonna be able to get that sweet white knight ducats.
00:47:21.140 He's gonna quickly find out that he's, he's really fucked himself.
00:47:24.140 I mean, at this point, the best he could hope for is Lindsay Ellis takes a man over her fucking sewer pipe of a sight.
00:47:31.260 Shay's apocalypse.
00:47:32.140 Well, he can hope that he gets new opportunities, but here's, here's the thing, movie Bob, and it's, again, this is gamma male behavior, will never admit he's wrong.
00:47:43.380 He, he didn't get fired from the escapist, he left because of principles.
00:47:47.880 Like, I, I guarantee you, if you, if you approached him like you didn't know anything about the escapist, that would be his story.
00:47:54.980 Is that they were corrupt and gave in to moneyed interests, and so he had to leave.
00:47:59.960 And it was a mutual da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:48:02.600 He has never lost a fight in his life.
00:48:05.300 He has never been beaten up in his life.
00:48:08.800 Man, I think we both know that's fucking untrue.
00:48:12.100 Well, no, but he never admitted that he lost a fight.
00:48:15.360 I'm a nerd, and I kind of want to push him into a lacquer.
00:48:20.060 Yeah, he's the, he's the sort of nerd that makes you understand bullies and sympathize with them.
00:48:24.980 Yeah, he makes you take a look at yourself like, ooh, was I coming off like that?
00:48:30.180 Yeah, exactly.
00:48:30.980 You know what?
00:48:31.680 Movie Bob is that, that, a mirror darkly, dark reflection of if we'd all gone down a different route.
00:48:40.240 Somebody on my Ask.FM said, like, you remind me of Movie Bob except for that you're not a socialist weasel and you don't have that godforsaken Boston accent.
00:48:50.240 And I was like, so I'm Movie Bob minus the terrible parts.
00:48:52.900 But then I started to think about it, and I'm like, you know, I look at Movie Bob and I'm like, man, there but by the grace of God go I.
00:49:01.640 Like, oh, that could have been me.
00:49:03.960 I think we all do.
00:49:05.940 And the thing is, he's going to, he's going to continue to offend his user base as time goes on.
00:49:11.640 Yeah, that's why I find his descent into madness so fascinating.
00:49:16.200 I mean, I've written three articles about him on Reaction.
00:49:19.740 Actually, I'm like, man, I've got to make sure I don't write anything.
00:49:22.500 I don't want to be the fucking resonant Movie Bob expert over Reaction.
00:49:25.940 You know, let me put it this way.
00:49:30.620 I made an incorrect statement about Aristotle and Plato recently where I attributed the, I thought it was Plato that knew how many teeth women had just by his pure logic.
00:49:42.320 It was actually Aristotle who made that screw up.
00:49:44.060 And somebody corrected me on that, and I put a note on the video saying, you know what, folks, I screwed that part up.
00:49:52.400 Now, in the short term, that makes me look like an idiot.
00:49:57.100 When I've gone to all the work of making a video, and I screw up a basic fact in it, it makes me look like an idiot when I admit that in the video.
00:50:05.080 But over the long term, if I refuse to admit that I'm wrong, then people are going to start noticing.
00:50:15.980 And I'm not going to have any long-time subscribers.
00:50:19.980 People, one by one, are going to start, you know, unsubscribing for my channel.
00:50:25.080 And the only way I will maintain any income from that is by pursuing, like, new suckers.
00:50:32.440 Same thing, MovieBob, he asks, like, how much is he getting a month right now?
00:50:40.200 I'd have to look it up.
00:50:43.260 I'm not sure.
00:50:44.200 Too much, but it's, I mean, it's probably enough for him to live off of.
00:50:49.060 Well, I mean.
00:50:49.800 Not well.
00:50:50.660 I mean, not high on the hog, by any stretch.
00:50:53.060 If the guy had any wherewithal, he'd move somewhere cheap, and he would live high off the hog.
00:50:57.000 But that would require, you know, effort.
00:50:59.380 The guy's a talented man.
00:51:00.580 Let me put it this way.
00:51:01.300 He's a talented man.
00:51:02.780 You know, he knows what he's doing on making videos.
00:51:05.280 If he'd pull his head out of his ass, you know, stop swallowing the SJW poison, and stop being a dick to his audience,
00:51:13.260 he could probably be making four to five times what he's making.
00:51:16.800 He needs to be able to admit that he's wrong.
00:51:19.600 That's honestly what it all boils down to.
00:51:22.040 Because right now, if he says something that pisses off his audience,
00:51:25.860 like, let's say I was making fun of Transformers earlier.
00:51:29.000 Now, by the way, I'm sure I probably have a couple of people that like Transformers.
00:51:33.820 Nobody was offended.
00:51:35.800 You know, it's just my opinion.
00:51:37.960 But Bob would make that, he would make that statement while riding his high horse
00:51:42.440 and saying anybody that disagreed with him was a scumbag, libertarian, neo-Nazi skinhead.
00:51:51.220 And he would offend a portion of his audience.
00:51:53.660 And he'd say, no, fuck you.
00:51:54.940 I'm right.
00:51:55.780 See, I have all these facts.
00:51:57.500 And Transformers is racist.
00:52:00.380 And he's going to offend that portion.
00:52:02.800 And then two weeks later, he's going to do something.
00:52:05.080 Bit by bit, he's going to drive these people off because he cannot admit that he's wrong.
00:52:08.880 I'll give Bob a little bit of credit, though.
00:52:13.660 He doesn't, on Twitter at least, he doesn't hide behind the block button.
00:52:16.900 So that puts him at least a step higher than most of his peers.
00:52:20.260 You know what?
00:52:21.440 Again, I'm sorry.
00:52:22.760 That's typical Gamma Male behavior.
00:52:25.080 The Gamma, like, he's too stupid to even know when he lost an argument.
00:52:30.700 It's not that he has the courage.
00:52:32.420 Listen, if Bob went up to a UFC champion, some guy that's like 6'6", weighs 300 pounds, and
00:52:42.760 it's all muscle, and his, like, lip is twitching with droid rage, and if Bob went up to him
00:52:48.820 and started making fun of him for trying too hard, that's not because movie Bob is brave.
00:52:54.300 Well, he's got his Captain N game pistol next to him.
00:53:03.260 Exactly.
00:53:04.700 And even when he's, like, beaten with broken bones, laying on the cement, and everyone's saying,
00:53:10.520 Stay down!
00:53:11.820 He's going to be like, You're still a faggot!
00:53:13.780 You know, and her majesty shows up,
00:53:15.320 Please, stay down, my subject!
00:53:17.400 No, he'll fucking keep getting up and getting his ass kicked,
00:53:20.360 because he never loses a fight.
00:53:22.000 Oh, poor Bob.
00:53:29.120 Poor, poor Bob.
00:53:33.120 Such wasted potential.
00:53:35.840 And that's really the tragedy, is that he has quite a bit of potential.
00:53:42.580 If he'd just get over himself and stop...
00:53:45.340 Stop trying to...
00:53:48.840 Dude!
00:53:50.080 Movie Bob!
00:53:52.000 You're a fat dork that needs to work out more.
00:53:58.180 He talks about in the book how he was going to the gym a lot,
00:54:03.180 and I'm like, I don't buy that for a second.
00:54:05.280 Maybe he was going to...
00:54:06.160 What's that gym with the meathead alarm?
00:54:11.240 No, I don't even think he was going to that gym.
00:54:12.980 I don't even think the guy's played Wii Fit Sports or anything.
00:54:27.160 I can't believe that we are letting these people influence our society.
00:54:31.260 I mean, like, these social justice warriors, they are...
00:54:34.580 They are...
00:54:35.580 They're just...
00:54:40.160 They are broken...
00:54:41.580 Broken people.
00:54:45.300 They are...
00:54:47.580 There's one thing Clary said in the interview that...
00:54:52.440 Jordan's a little bit iffy about including this,
00:54:55.060 but I think it's quite necessary.
00:54:56.740 Where Clary points out that, like, all these people are crazy,
00:55:00.340 they're all in therapy, they're all on drugs and whatnot,
00:55:03.040 and Jordan's saying, well, we don't want to hurt people's feelings that are in therapy.
00:55:08.580 And, like, I agree with him there,
00:55:10.740 but I don't think...
00:55:12.300 That's not the thrust of what Aaron's saying.
00:55:14.040 You know, it's like...
00:55:18.240 Like, dude, you're overweight.
00:55:21.700 You still made it all the way to the top of Angel's Landing.
00:55:25.220 And how many people have died on that slope in the past 10 years?
00:55:29.780 Yeah, and I'm also doing something about it, too.
00:55:32.320 Yeah, exactly.
00:55:33.040 None of us are perfect.
00:55:35.760 You know, I'm far from perfect, believe me.
00:55:39.760 You know, we've got...
00:55:41.620 Hey, if you're in therapy, you're in therapy.
00:55:43.240 You know, we're all trying to improve ourselves.
00:55:48.000 The thing is that you and me and the rest of the game,
00:55:50.500 we're not making constant excuses for ourselves.
00:55:55.160 We're not wallowing in our failures.
00:55:59.020 Yeah, and we're not walking around acting like we're...
00:56:01.560 We're not walking around acting like we are perfect.
00:56:04.100 We're not...
00:56:05.000 I mean...
00:56:05.760 We don't pretend that our failures are stigmata.
00:56:09.380 Yeah.
00:56:09.680 These people that will call you disgusting, you know, what was it, Sarah Butts or something
00:56:16.620 on Twitter?
00:56:18.240 You know, it's like, she'll call you a disgusting misogynist troll and she'll, you know, she'll
00:56:23.940 take the dog dick out of her mouth just long enough to do it.
00:56:26.600 You talk to these social justice warriors and they'll call you all these names when they're,
00:56:36.480 you know, Moot will be like, oh, you're just a, you're just an evil, scummy loser.
00:56:43.180 Meanwhile, he's like, but you know, cuckolding is the thinking man's fetish.
00:56:46.660 Did he actually say that?
00:56:49.560 I, from what I understand, I mean, I've seen screenshots, I guess they could be faked,
00:56:54.080 but apparently he did.
00:56:55.460 He's certainly not denying it.
00:56:56.920 All right, you've got to elaborate on this.
00:56:59.800 Moot, the founder of 4chan, is apparently on record saying that cuckolding is the thinking
00:57:08.220 man's fetish.
00:57:09.020 Did he offer any elaboration or explanation?
00:57:11.780 I believe it was on some sort of a talk about cuckolding.
00:57:16.360 I don't know.
00:57:18.180 I don't particularly frequent cuckold boards, but.
00:57:24.100 I can sympathize with the bull.
00:57:26.520 He's, he's, it's funny.
00:57:29.320 My, my, my one friend.
00:57:31.280 God, we're a trashy generation.
00:57:32.620 We are a trashy generation.
00:57:34.560 My one friend Cameron said, you know, I think he's right.
00:57:36.820 Because whereas most fetishes are active, cuckolding gives you a lot of time to think.
00:57:42.100 Primarily about what the fuck happened to my life.
00:57:45.760 Actually, you know what?
00:57:46.840 That, that statement of his actually makes a lot of sense, but not in the way he hopes
00:57:51.060 it makes sense.
00:57:52.160 It's, it's like when you are such.
00:57:56.040 Yeah.
00:57:56.780 C.S. Lewis wrote about men with no chests.
00:58:00.440 Right.
00:58:00.980 About how we either have guys with really big brains or really big genitals, but there's
00:58:05.660 no chests.
00:58:06.820 Nowadays.
00:58:08.160 You know, the, the real man is a combination of the, the aspects of the intellect, the,
00:58:14.940 uh, the, the airy fairy pontificating mathematical fucking bullshit, but also the, the genitals,
00:58:24.360 the, the, the stomach, the, the fire of life, the animal urges, and the chest is where
00:58:30.360 virtue lies.
00:58:31.780 Um, heroism, uh, courage, uh, virility.
00:58:36.460 Like, like true, like not, not the base virility of rutting like an animal, but like the, uh,
00:58:41.120 of choosing a woman and, and making her your wife, this is all stuff in the chest.
00:58:47.500 And so I, I think Mood is absolutely right.
00:58:49.520 If you've got no genitals and no chest, then cuckolding might be for you.
00:58:54.300 But yeah, these people, how depressing is it that?
00:59:02.420 Do you think we need to explain to our audience what cuckold porn is?
00:59:07.180 I, I would rather not.
00:59:09.420 I, I don't think we need to.
00:59:10.560 You know what, Google it.
00:59:12.360 Welcome, welcome to the fountable year of our lord, 2015.
00:59:16.240 You all know what cuckolding porn is.
00:59:17.620 Google it with your safe search on.
00:59:20.040 You know, somebody needs to buy him a pair of horns.
00:59:23.400 Now maybe, maybe 10% of my, of the audience knows what that is.
00:59:27.760 Oh, jeez.
00:59:30.720 But it's like, that's the other thing about them.
00:59:33.460 Like these people, these fucking Tumblr, it's the, like take the fucking, the, the worst
00:59:38.260 porn you've ever jerked off to, that thing that you're ashamed of.
00:59:41.860 Like, man, I can't believe I was so fucking horned up.
00:59:45.540 I jerked off to that.
00:59:46.420 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59:47.560 We like, we, we've, we've all done foul things.
00:59:50.380 Yeah.
00:59:50.980 Like, that's your identity.
00:59:53.760 Like, I, I watched a fucking donkey show jerk off.
00:59:56.440 So that's what I'm all about now.
00:59:57.900 That's the Tumblr at fucking mentality.
01:00:00.780 I actually had this guy on Twitter, uh, criticizing me.
01:00:04.900 I made the mistake of, of clicking the link to his Tumblr.
01:00:10.000 And his Tumblr was nothing but pictures of his own asshole.
01:00:15.760 I, I mean, like, I don't even think I need to get Freudian with it.
01:00:21.240 And it wasn't a very attractive asshole either, you know, it's, uh, like it was a, it was,
01:00:27.940 it was like a four out of 10 when it comes to assholes.
01:00:30.760 And it was an asshole.
01:00:34.020 Four out of 10.
01:00:35.040 What, would not asshole again.
01:00:37.160 Yeah.
01:00:40.940 Like, you're, you are criticizing, you're calling me a terrible person.
01:00:44.560 And you wrote a website where you post pictures of your own asshole.
01:00:47.760 And I, I swear that's like the only content.
01:00:56.980 It is like, I scroll through a few, like, I, I mean, I've, in for a dime, in for a dollar,
01:01:02.900 you know?
01:01:03.760 Davis is like, I get a whole folder now.
01:01:07.400 I've got, I've got the straight porn and the other porn folder.
01:01:10.040 Um, no, it's like, I'm already, you know, you can't, I can't unsee this.
01:01:17.440 I like three pages.
01:01:18.580 I scrolled down and it's straight porn and the, I'm sorry, Jesus.
01:01:24.900 And it is, it is nothing but picture.
01:01:26.900 It's not even like pictures of his dick or anything or pictures of him.
01:01:30.180 It just pictures of his asshole from various zoom angles and, you know, now that I think
01:01:38.620 about it, I can't imagine that's an easy angle to get.
01:01:43.000 I, I guess if there's any artistic merit in it.
01:01:46.120 I mean, the guy must be flexible.
01:01:50.280 I mean, you know, like, and this is what you were just saying, like, like, take the
01:01:55.440 most degenerate, um, gangbang, whatever, porn, like, take the worst porn you've watched.
01:02:07.340 There, it at least has some artistic merit.
01:02:10.980 Like, there's at least a challenge in filming this and, uh, that, this guy just takes pictures
01:02:16.580 of his own asshole with a cell phone problem, like a fucking iPhone.
01:02:25.440 Well, I mean, like I said, there's got to be some skill involved.
01:02:28.980 I, I am literally thinking about it.
01:02:30.780 I'm like, that, that cannot be a very easy angle to get.
01:02:34.540 I mean, unless you got like a timer delay on the camera or something.
01:02:42.240 What a successful human being.
01:02:43.940 I'm sure his parents are proud.
01:02:47.620 Got a whole folder.
01:02:48.720 Well, these days he could probably put it in a fucking museum.
01:02:50.980 Oh, yeah.
01:02:54.380 If you've been watching Sargon's recent videos analyzing, uh, feminist products, then there
01:02:59.900 you go.
01:03:03.100 I love Sargon stuff.
01:03:07.640 Yeah.
01:03:07.920 He's one of those guys I'm really glad I discovered after Gamergate.
01:03:11.720 Yeah, I'm, I'm ashamed to even be talking about this stuff, but it's, it's, it's there.
01:03:16.380 You know, it's, well, that's the point.
01:03:21.280 These people have, what I said about the gore novels and all, someone has to philosophize
01:03:26.080 their fetish.
01:03:27.160 You know, it's not just, well, you know, I, I'm, I'm a guy who likes to be a sadist in
01:03:31.860 bed or, or I'm a chick who likes a, a dude who's really, really fucking rough in bed.
01:03:37.680 No, you have to fucking philosophize it.
01:03:40.140 You have to make this your, you know, it's not just what you do in bed, but your lifestyle.
01:03:45.660 I, I didn't go out looking for a guy that took pictures of his own asshole.
01:03:53.380 You know, it's.
01:03:54.840 But that's probably his life.
01:03:56.480 That's the point.
01:03:57.140 That's probably what he's all about.
01:03:58.700 But then he does this, and he gets a Twitter account connected to his site, and then he
01:04:04.000 starts bothering me about political and philosophical opinions while linking to it.
01:04:10.620 It's, it's, it's, like, this guy does not even have the dignity of having a separate
01:04:15.220 Twitter account for his political opinions and for his pictures of his own asshole.
01:04:21.720 Gotta compartmentalize that stuff.
01:04:24.100 I do not care if J. Edgar Hoover, dressed in women's clothing or not, that is, dude, everybody's
01:04:31.040 into weird stuff.
01:04:31.800 We know that.
01:04:33.060 Thank you, internet.
01:04:34.820 I don't judge.
01:04:37.440 But J. Edgar Hoover had the dignity not to do that while in office.
01:04:44.820 Who was the Roman senator that married a goat or something?
01:04:49.120 I think he married a horse.
01:04:50.440 The emperor?
01:04:51.080 Yeah, he married a horse.
01:04:52.040 But, see, that's the thing.
01:04:56.020 It's, like, J. Edgar Hoover didn't write long diatribes in his journal about, you know,
01:05:04.040 like I said, philosophizing why he wears women's clothes.
01:05:08.360 Like, these freaks on Tumblr that are into, like, the weirdest fucking shit, they have, like,
01:05:13.460 they have to have some sort of political, philosophical reason why they're fucking behind it.
01:05:18.480 Like, you know the guy who's all into cuckold porn is talking about how it stops white privilege
01:05:24.260 because the bull is black or something.
01:05:27.480 Oh, God.
01:05:28.020 And I actually wrote a post about that when I first discovered cuckold porn.
01:05:31.480 About, like, the, about the, the contempt, the inherent contempt for the black bull.
01:05:37.600 You know, like, there is so much, like, it is, racially based cuckold porn is racial
01:05:45.000 hatred distilled.
01:05:45.960 It is the purest form of racial hatred that you can get upon this earth.
01:05:51.060 I mean, like, Satan has better forms of racial hatred.
01:05:54.200 But, outside of the realm of pure spirit, it's like a, it's, it dehumanizes everybody involved.
01:06:01.260 Well, porn is just a look into the id.
01:06:06.620 The pure, irrational, destructive id.
01:06:09.400 And you know what, we, we really, we are, we are, we are at the time now.
01:06:19.560 Again, the, the Roman emperor marrying his, was it, was it, was it Nero?
01:06:24.500 I don't, I'm not sure.
01:06:27.740 Yeah, folks, don't.
01:06:28.640 I couldn't do it.
01:06:29.440 Yeah, folks, I'm rough on that period of history.
01:06:32.940 Nero fiddle.
01:06:33.760 That's about all I know about Nero.
01:06:37.280 But, but this is where we are now.
01:06:39.220 Where, our, listen, 80 years ago, people were having all sorts of degenerate orgies.
01:06:48.360 You know, like, the flapper girls, the, I mean, Germany, post-war Germany was freaking crazy
01:06:54.000 if you were a guy.
01:06:55.620 But, but it was all Sub Rosa.
01:06:57.800 You know, people kept themselves.
01:06:59.480 And it's like, they, they, yeah, okay, they don't have an orgy on Saturday night.
01:07:02.960 But, you know, by Monday, they were back at work.
01:07:05.900 Nowadays, we have, we have people that want to show up at work in furry costumes.
01:07:13.860 There was a furry convention in my area one time, and I, and I, I knew about it because I saw it on the news.
01:07:19.080 And they, like, I don't know, they couldn't have not known.
01:07:22.380 But, they, they're reporting it on the news like it's just another comic con.
01:07:27.600 You know what I mean?
01:07:29.020 Like, this is a con for people that like to dress as animals.
01:07:32.820 And I'm like, you're burying the lead here.
01:07:37.380 Like, that's, that's irresponsible.
01:07:39.440 Some parents could accidentally take, try to take their kids to that, all right?
01:07:43.020 Yeah, you know when, um, teddy bears were first introduced?
01:07:46.180 Uh, people objected to them because they say, they said it would warp
01:07:51.000 little girl's mothering instincts.
01:07:56.960 Doesn't sound so stupid nowadays, does it?
01:08:04.480 Oh, man, I, I, I'm, I'm a fan of the old Sonic cartoon, like the, the one with Princess Sally.
01:08:12.380 Mm-hmm.
01:08:14.100 And, it's, it's, like, furries almost ruined that for me because I can't even talk about it
01:08:19.840 to anybody like, hey, you should, this cartoon was actually really good.
01:08:23.840 It's like, what, is Princess Sally your waifu, you fucking fur fag?
01:08:27.600 Because if you Google her, it's rough.
01:08:30.280 Yep.
01:08:38.660 Yep, I, I, I, good word, like, ten years ago, I saw, like, cartoon porn of various cartoon
01:08:45.100 characters from when we were, and it's, at the time, I just, you know what, it's, these
01:08:51.600 are, some of these cartoons of complex characters with real personality that, you know, you might
01:08:57.800 have had a crush on when you were a kid. Yeah, and I, I just took it as that. So, now that
01:09:02.900 we're adults and, you know, we're sexually aware, now here's Princess Sally naked. But,
01:09:08.520 no, no, that's not, no, we need to go deeper than that. We, we need to get weirder than that.
01:09:14.620 We, we now need to dress up in fur costumes to relive this fantasy life.
01:09:21.140 Because you're an other kin fucking squirrel.
01:09:27.800 And you wonder why the birth rate is 1.4.
01:09:34.400 What the hell do you want to bring a kid into this world?
01:09:36.940 Oh my god.
01:09:38.820 It's like, hey, best you could hope for is you get to be John Connor.
01:09:45.620 Pretty much.
01:09:48.340 You know, I, I'm, I'm looking forward to collapse. I just want to, uh, establish myself a bit better
01:09:52.800 first. Once, once I've got the compound, once I've got the compound with a bunch of gardens
01:10:00.840 and some, uh, large tanks of gasoline beneath the surface and some large tanks of water above
01:10:06.380 surface. Isn't that what, uh, what, what Mike and Asenoff or whatever was doing?
01:10:13.780 Well, except I'm going to be living there with my wife and my dogs. I'm not going to be living
01:10:17.500 there with a bunch of guys.
01:10:21.980 I know you had a beef with him a while back. I don't know what that was. Cause that was
01:10:26.320 before I really discovered you, I think.
01:10:28.680 I never had a beef with him. I think he might have a beef with me. I'm not sure.
01:10:36.080 I mean, I know, I, and I know Matt Forney did too, but Matt Forney's got a beef with everybody.
01:10:40.580 So that's why I love the guy. He blocked me on Twitter. I discovered, and I asked him
01:10:47.740 why on like ask FM. I'm like, you know, what's up with that? I got, I got no beef with you.
01:10:52.000 And he was like, I don't remember, but you're on black now. I'm like, Oh, okay.
01:10:57.620 I figured maybe it was cause I was friends with you and Matt or something.
01:11:02.280 Do we want to do a third hour of this podcast and, um, and focus on the neo-reactionary movement?
01:11:08.080 Yeah, sure. Why not?
01:11:11.520 All right. I'm going to piss off a lot of people with this, but we'll, uh, yeah, let's, we'll
01:11:15.760 stop talking about guys posting pictures to their own app. Well, actually we might not.
01:11:23.620 Degeneracy is going to be the word of the day, but, um, I think we're pretty much done
01:11:27.400 with the game of gate topic at this point. Wouldn't you agree?
01:11:30.200 Yeah.
01:11:31.060 I, I, I've only got so much to say on it. And if I don't have anything to say, I want
01:11:35.360 to shut my mouth. So I, I think we said a bunch of good stuff. And if we say anything
01:11:39.900 more, I'll just be done.
01:11:41.880 Alrighty.
01:11:42.660 All right. If you, if you want to hear about internet politics, folks, tune in for hour
01:11:46.980 three. And remember, check out the Beckloss channel. Like I said, at least 50% of his videos
01:11:52.000 will be really, really good.
01:11:58.900 All right. We will be back.