In this episode, the boys talk about the new Black Lives Matter comic book series, "Static Shock," and the Amazon logo being made to look like Hitler. They also discuss the new Mein Kampf book, and the fact that Jordan Peterson's book was banned by an Australian publisher.
00:01:07.000There's a gang war and then, long story short, there's a chemical explosion and all these gangbangers get superpowers and they're all basically villains.
00:01:14.000But he was this kid who didn't want to be there and was mixed up.
00:02:17.000And I figured that the cultural commentary stuff is probably better today anyway, because we got Ryan Long hanging out, and he's gonna make fun of everybody.
00:03:43.000That was those three, Bogosian and Lindsay.
00:03:46.000Oh, that was one of those guys' papers when they were messing with- Oh yeah, I do remember that, yeah.
00:03:50.000So we're gonna have to talk a whole lot about the Amazon logo, and the stupid world we live in, and I don't know, they might ban us, whatever, because we're talking about Amazon and the stupid things they've done.
00:04:01.000Well yeah, you were going on your rant about Mein Kampf, and before we started, Tim goes, this episode's gonna be extra based.
00:05:03.000I just think people assume civil war means like two people in uniforms marching towards each other.
00:05:08.000Right now you've got a call for a commission.
00:05:10.000They're calling it the 1-6 Commission to track down all of those responsible for inciting the insurrection.
00:05:16.000You've got an article today, I'm sorry, a couple days ago, NBC saying Republican talk of secession has become serious and academics are warning that this time it's for real.
00:05:26.000Texas just introduced a bill that will allow Texas to secede from the Union and the GOP of Texas endorsed it.
00:06:06.000Well, I think that most people in New York probably take where those guys were bad news and we're glad we got the orange guy out of the power, right?
00:06:15.000But as far as whether the Civil War is happening?
00:06:18.000Well, so, it's fifth-generational warfare.
00:06:21.000It's information, it's propaganda, it's manipulation, but there is low-tier violence across the country.
00:06:27.000Look, there's just been more than one instance where, like I was saying, people assume it's going to be people in uniforms marching towards each other.
00:06:33.000That's like 200 years ago, you know what I mean?
00:06:36.000We're not that kind of people anyway, that's not what happens.
00:06:38.000So what happens when the civil—what are examples of the things that they do?
00:06:41.000Move your bank accounts, delete you from the internet, that kind of stuff?
00:06:46.000So, like, this is actually based on academic research that came out of UC San Diego, where they talked about how it will be removing people's ability to speak so that the political narratives are dominated by only one faction.
00:06:57.000And that way political... So, if you have two factions, two parent factions that are fighting over control of a government, and you strip one of the factions' ability to communicate, then the only thing... You basically isolate each individual so they can't form any kind of cohesive response.
00:07:13.000So it perhaps, you know, I would say war might lead people to thinking like in the past, but there was a Princeton professor who said, we are in a cold civil war.
00:07:42.000When you have these people hear the phrase civil war, they're like smart enough to engage, but they're not smart enough to understand the future.
00:07:50.000There's also probably an element of when you use those words, you get to dismiss the fact that it's happening the same way that they do with conspiracies.
00:08:01.000You know, it's always like, oh, Pete, they think that there's these pedophiles in the pizza shop or whatever, you know, and then people go all these crazy and you're like, I mean, they've had nine pedophile conspiracies that have got uncovered recently.
00:08:14.000There's like, you know, that Epstein is what makes people kind of go crazy when they see this and they want answers and they don't get them.
00:10:16.000Ladies and gentlemen, I'll just tell you, I'll just tell you what, I'll just tell you what, go to TimCast.com, become a member.
00:10:23.000Cause I can only imagine what's going to happen when we do the exclusive, you know, behind the paywall segment where Ryan can say whatever he wants.
00:10:30.000He's going to get his ban from everything, even though it's behind the paywall.
00:11:13.000So, uh, I don't know if I need to necessarily read the, uh, I'll read a little bit.
00:11:17.000They say a recent retcon to the origin story of the DC comic superhero Static, real identity Virgil Hawkins, has changed the inciting incident that grants him superpowers from a gang war to a Black Lives Matter protest.
00:11:29.000Okay, there is so much wrong with this.
00:11:31.000I'll need to actually read the comic to give you a better breakdown, but let me just explain something.
00:11:37.000In the original comic, he's basically, he's a good kid, but he's being bullied.
00:11:42.000He gets a gun, and he shows up at this gang war, and he wants to take out his bully.
00:11:47.000But he decides he can't do it, and he starts crying, and he throws the gun into the water.
00:11:51.000But then the police, seeing a gang war, you know, people are trying to kill each other, fire an experimental tear gas, which caused some crazy reaction.
00:11:59.000They call it the Big Bang, and then all of a sudden, all these gang bangers get superpowers.
00:12:07.000But this kid who was down there, who actually was an okay kid, just mixed up in some bad stuff, ends up becoming a hero.
00:12:12.000In the later version, the more recent version, they're all still pretty old, the WB cartoon, Static Shock, he basically gets pressured into joining a gang he doesn't want to join.
00:12:22.000So I thought that was a really awesome way to deal with issues that...
00:12:25.000I know exactly what that was like growing up on the south side of Chicago.
00:12:28.000I knew people who were surrounded by people in gangs who were like, are you joining or not?
00:12:38.000And so what they do is they would beat the crap out of these kids who were like 14 or 15, force them to join gangs.
00:12:42.000One dude went to prison because what they want to do is they want to get a minor, give him a gun and say, go and kill our enemies because you'll get out in four years because they can't hold you until you're 18.
00:12:51.000So when I saw this show, I was like, wow, that's that's clever, right?
00:12:55.000It actually gets to, you know, like real issues that I think affect young people.
00:12:59.000They don't want to get mixed up in this stuff.
00:13:01.000It addressed social justice issues in a really cool way.
00:13:03.000And it actually told an interesting story.
00:14:23.000Where do they say the villains do come from?
00:14:25.000I don't know, it just says, he's like, I got powers, but hold on, here's the funny thing, he says, here's what it says, he goes, I don't know what the first panel is, it's just him waking up saying, which made me stronger, stronger than I could ever imagine, then electricity burst from his eyes, now I could get revenge on all the bullies who picked on me, who pick on everybody, but it turns out they have powers too.
00:14:47.000And it's three white dudes, and it's like blonde hair, blue eyes, And they're bullies.
00:15:36.000Yeah, it's almost like they chose this topic, but it was so sensitive that they had to sort of illogically decide kind of the rest of the plotline.
00:15:57.000But, like, one of the biggest problems with Star Wars latest iterations and, like, Captain Marvel and a lot of these new comics is that it's just really cheap writing.
00:16:11.000Like, it's a dude sitting there with his eyes half closed, and he's like, I don't know, is that a Black Lives Matter protest or something?
00:16:16.000Just write it down and sell it, whatever.
00:16:17.000You know, like, it used to be that Whenever you're getting propaganda, period, the hope is that it's good enough that you'll take your propaganda.
00:16:27.000Like, I'll be watching certain shows and you can kind of tell when it's really getting into that stuff and they're trying to sell you something.
00:16:33.000And then there's another one where the show sucks and you're like, hey, there's 12 characters and 11 of them are gay.
00:16:38.000And you're like, this isn't good enough for how much you're shoving this down my face.
00:16:42.000So I think the problem is, yeah, it's like anything in any art, or songs, you know, anything you're listening to, it's like, you get to give me a teaspoon of propaganda per good amount of entertainment.
00:16:53.000And then I think that they are tipping the scales where the propaganda levels are out of the ballpark.
00:17:00.000I bet the argument from the left will be the original Static Shock cartoon was very much social justice-y.
00:17:16.000Now it's just like, this just seems like, what do they call it?
00:17:20.000They call it rainbow washing when you just make something, you know, LGBTQ to sell a product.
00:17:25.000It's kind of like social justice wash and they're like, Oh, that's static.
00:17:28.000So I think there's probably so much logistical things too.
00:17:31.000It's the same thing that happened with You know recently we were talking about even this is on Amazon, but I'm sure you guys cover like potato head and all that stuff But it's like they basically were like, oh There's an easy way to kind of get clicks and this your new advertising campaign comes in and they go Yo, all you have to do is this but then now even on that side they go Hey, you didn't do it right and then the other side gets mad at them so I think in a lot of ways the the like easy bucks to be made off social justice are becoming harder and harder, so
00:18:07.000They're trying to squeeze out the last drop of money that you can get from, you know, saying you've got the right opinions.
00:18:13.000So I think when you do this, it's like, I think that you probably end up making a lot of decisions and choices based on things other than what makes sense for your plot, probably.
00:18:23.000Have you guys seen the new Craft movie?
00:20:46.000I don't I don't care about that I don't I don't care about static being in a Black Lives Matter protest.
00:20:49.000I care about the story making sense Well, how are you gonna have super villains if like how are the bullies were they at the Black Lives Matter protests?
00:20:57.000So anyway, I'm watching this movie and I'm like I didn't really think twice about the interracial gay couple being, you know, the characters.
00:21:04.000I was just like, it's 2020, man, you know?
00:21:18.000It turns out, there are immortal white people.
00:21:22.000who explain that they choose minority and marginalized families on purpose to frame for murders so that they can sacrifice them for immortality and then in the end the bad guy is like there will always be people to fear and no one will ever believe you And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me, dude.
00:21:42.000Like, like you said, you can give me a teaspoon of propaganda for every, you know, every cup of entertainment I get.
00:21:47.000That was the whole thing was propaganda.
00:21:52.000I like, I honestly thought that show was kind of good, but by the end they, so everyone's a lesbian, right?
00:22:01.000All the leaders are women and they're all lesbians and all of the women are the best fighters and it's sort of like a sci-fi thing but then they give the backstory and they just came on a spaceship and there's like they don't give you any logistical reason why in this world the women like it's not oh they're like Amazonian women it's just like normal women and for some reason the women are better fighters than guys they don't explain you go okay whatever Yeah.
00:22:25.000You just have to be like, these fight scenes better be sweet, dude.
00:22:29.000I watched a really good, there was a video explaining why Captain America and Captain Marvel are totally different.
00:22:34.000Captain America's good, everyone loved it.
00:22:36.000Captain Marvel, people kind of groaned at it and some people just accepted it.
00:22:40.000And they explain that one of the issues is, you know, like early on in Captain America, they explain to you, Steve Rogers, Captain America, is a weak guy.
00:22:47.000He's weak, but he's willing to stand up.
00:22:49.000He's a scrawny dude getting beat up outside of a theater and it establishes... Yeah, they have to give you that.
00:23:01.000Like you just, otherwise you go, it doesn't make sense in your context.
00:23:05.000But in this context, what they're basically saying is, you know who Steve Rogers is.
00:23:09.000He's not the strongest guy, but he's willing to stand up and defend himself no matter what.
00:23:14.000And then he eventually gets superpowers, and then you see this guy of really good moral character who wants to protect people, now is powerful and says, I'm gonna do the right thing.
00:23:23.000Whereas Captain Marvel is, she's always strong, she's always been the best, and the man, like, there's a guy- Yeah, there's no- They've completely removed themselves from any hero's journey.
00:23:34.000All of these like woman power movies basically became Steven Seagal movies where there's no adversity.
00:23:39.000Like they start out and she's just like, I'm ready to kick some ass.
00:24:25.000Yeah, that's like, when that happened, I was kind of like, dude, I don't want to root for this character.
00:24:29.000Some guy made a snide comment, so she robbed him.
00:24:31.000The reason for it, like, I find this even when I'm writing stuff, and especially when I was like doing more traditional stuff, there is this thing of like, you're not supposed to say this about this person, you're not supposed to say this about this, but like, so if you're gonna make people protagonists, they need, you know, bad qualities and good qualities.
00:24:46.000But there's this sort of thing, like, if you're gonna write a woman, they're like, oh, we'll make her shitty.
00:24:50.000And you're like, Well, you can't make women bad.
00:25:36.000So I'll tell you the one last thing that, this is a joke, but I said that, And what happens at the Women's March is they all march from one side of the city, and halfway through they forget something and go back.
00:27:25.000Well, Count Dankula had probably the best response.
00:27:28.000He said, imagine fighting your whole life to transition and to be considered a woman, and then these woke corporations just come out and tell you you're not.
00:27:36.000And then all these woke leftists were like, Dankula redemption arc?
00:27:40.000And he's like, no, I've always felt that way.
00:27:43.000Stop acting like it's a different opinion.
00:27:44.000But then he did show the second video of his dog.
00:27:48.000Let's jump to the next segment where we can talk about the ramifications of social justice stuff.
00:27:58.000And this will probably be a little bit more outside your wheelhouse, but I'm sure you'll still be able to make fun of them, Ryan.
00:28:04.000So over in Virginia, The new law banning police from pulling over Virginia
00:28:09.000drivers solely for certain car safety violations Officers can also not stop people if they smell marijuana.
00:28:15.000So in Virginia, they passed new legislation taking effect Monday
00:28:18.000So I believe I believe it what it's it's already taken effect
00:28:21.000Will make it harder for authorities in Virginia to pull over drivers
00:28:26.000Several minor infractions, while still illegal, can no longer be the primary reason police stop you while you're driving.
00:28:31.000These include certain defective equipment, objects dangling from your rearview mirror, loud exhaust, tinted windows, and smelling marijuana, to name a few.
00:28:39.000An expired inspection or registration sticker can only get you pulled over.
00:28:42.000However, it has to be at least four months late.
00:28:45.000The legislation lists more changes here.
00:28:48.000Maybe we can pull these up and see what they got going on.
00:28:50.000Social justice advocates say this is a win.
00:29:12.000The cops can't pull people over now because the original proposal was it was like Black Lives Matter protesters were saying they just pull over people of color and they use it as excuses.
00:29:25.000I had a cop pull me over once, and as soon as, like, I rolled the window down, I put my, you know, my keys and wallet on top of the dash, I put my hands on the steering wheel, I turn the radio off, he walks up, and the first thing the cop does is go, excuse me, OH!
00:30:19.000So, I see stuff like this and I'm like, I understand, but it's also kind of crazy that someone could literally be smoking pot and the cop can't pull them over.
00:30:27.000Well, if they see it, I think they still can, right?
00:30:30.000I guess, yeah, it's as if they smell marijuana.
00:30:32.000But I mean, come on, if like, I grew up in Chicago, people smoked pot all the time and what do they call it, clam bake or hot boxing?
00:31:14.000No, no, but the bigger picture here is, Are we getting to the point where the sensitivities over the social justice stuff are getting to the point where like a cop can't pull someone over for literally breaking the law?
00:31:23.000It's obviously when you go to the extremes at any of these things.
00:31:26.000I always used to say like in comedy because essentially there's like a war on noticing things.
00:31:33.000A big thing that you don't talk about is like, oh, you know, women kind of do this more, guys kind of do this more, and you go, oh, it's interesting that black guys kind of do this or like, you know, whatever it is, like that's base level, but noticing things that, and then kind of, that's funny, right?
00:31:54.000So yeah, there's, there's a war, it's a war on noticing things where you go, but it's it's so manufactured and it's so fake and so this is what happens when it gets these things get taken to their extreme but i agree with you that the cops do do all that stuff put it this way i used to have really long hair like this guy and i i cut my hair and i've never been pulled over since i cut my hair
00:32:15.000And when I had long hair like him, when I had long hair like him, twice at the airport, I was searched, my entire bag searched.
00:32:22.000I was pulled over for no reason, lots of different times.
00:32:25.000And since I've cut my hair 10 years ago, never happened again.
00:32:28.000So, you know, they're one, of course they do.
00:32:30.000And I've had cops do all sorts of crazy stuff.
00:32:51.000Like a reasonable, you know, like you have a reasonable, well, probable cause is that you have a reasonable suspicion that someone is doing something.
00:33:01.000You know, it's one of those things, like everything else, where Tim, you go, most people for a lot of the problems, we go, do you think it's bad that, you know, there's these bad cops pulling people over?
00:34:53.000I mean, you register your car for a reason, you're paying taxes, you're contributing.
00:34:57.000So the issue I have here, well, I wonder if the libertarians are all cheering.
00:35:03.000There's also the other element of making, you know, the most aggressive laws to force you into that position where you go, well, I don't know, like you're all of a sudden pro-cop.
00:35:12.000And then they go, look at this guy, he's like Blue Lives Matter, dude.
00:35:15.000It's like they pick these extreme positions that everyone's like, I mean, that's a little crazy.
00:35:20.000And you're like, well, you know, they do it with, it's like with all the issues.
00:35:23.000The issue now is basically all they're really saying is you don't have to get your license plate renewed for four months.
00:35:43.000Could be like a COVID, like, we're not gonna make, just like a little buffer that in case people can't afford to get their license renewed or something.
00:35:50.000But see, the point is, cops are supposed to just give you a warning.
00:35:53.000So, well, not supposed to, but I think, I think they should be supposed to.
00:35:57.000So when my plate expired, On my car when I was like 19, the one full of Taco Bell wrappers.
00:37:09.000I suppose that's the kind of story where you hear these progressive leftists being like, when I got pulled over for an expired plate, they gave me a warning, or when I was going 120 in a 35 school zone, they gave me a slap on the wrist.
00:37:27.000Like, if you get pulled over for speeding and your license is expired, then you're in trouble, in my opinion, if your license plate's expired.
00:37:34.000But if you just are The speeding is dangerous.
00:38:13.000So there's a school where there was this black woman and she was in an unauthorized area of the university eating.
00:38:17.000So the janitor was told if anybody goes in there just call the security.
00:38:21.000Security got called they went there and they asked her the cop was just like, you know What's going on and she was like I'm eating and she's like shaking and filming him and it was like, okay, you know Sorry to bother you just you know, we're supposed to have anybody in here But it's fine if you're here and then she claimed it was this big like super racist moment Yeah So the New York Times wrote an article saying it was a moment when her lived personal truth was at clash with the facts The New York Times actually wrote that so the problem I have is How do we know, you know, if like someone's, when someone says, I get pulled over for no reason.
00:38:52.000It's like, the difficult thing is there's no control, right?
00:38:55.000We can't send one car down a rope, the same cop.
00:39:41.000They say it's pronounced... The X is pronounced... You're supposed to... It's the two arms and there's a socket under... That's the under contact.
00:39:56.000But no, you can't like if you're everyone's had those experiences and you go and it kind of goes to why I mean, I was saying the other day that like, there's a lot of people that their Fox News when it's agrees with them and their their CNN when it doesn't like, for example, if you say someone will go, okay, that different racial groups have different crime more, right?
00:40:15.000And they'll be like, obviously, that's because of the system.
00:40:17.000And you go, okay, well, then why do guys go to jail less than women?
00:40:20.000And they go, well, that's because women are less violent.
00:40:22.000And You legitimately switch between being Fox News and CNN based on whether it's the group that you care about.
00:40:30.000I mean, and you go, obviously, a lot of these things are a mix of, they're all multivariable things, but nuance is difficult and takes a lot of energy, and it's not very good for activism.
00:40:42.000Like, there's, like, legit scientific conversations are very, very hard to have on YouTube, because they'll try and get you banned for talking about actual scientific studies.
00:41:00.000I kind of have that same mentality sometimes when it's like, oh, you can't talk about this because you're a man or whatever it is.
00:41:06.000And I go, all right, give me a list of things that I'm not allowed to talk about and let's avoid those subjects because I'm not about to hear you just listen to you speak and be like, zip it up.
00:41:48.000I'm not saying the people who thought this cardboard box with tape on it looked like Hitler are psychotic.
00:41:51.000I'm saying the person who worked at Amazon saw someone complaining that your box looks like Hitler, so they immediately rushed to the graphic department and said, quick, change it, change it.
00:42:02.000They should have been like, when crackpots on the internet start screaming that the moon is made of cheese, we don't entertain them and write books about it and make sure they get it.
00:43:02.000I see Michael Jordan, but so the New York New York Post writes Amazon has changed its new smartphone app logo after critics said the earlier Incarnation was a dead ringer for Adolf Hitler dead ringer dead ringer dead ringer.
00:43:15.000They literally did look at this one guy Let me see if I can pull I'm trying not to make a few different jokes right now to keep it in right?
00:43:21.000Okay, so Alex, Alex, you get me going on the Alex turn is a UK tech editor for the Guardian and he
00:43:32.000tweeted lmao I completely missed that Amazon quietly tweaked its new
00:43:36.000icon to make it look Less like Hitler and then some responded
00:43:40.000Well, I mean to see Hitler's mustache in a ripped scotch tape
00:43:43.000One must really think of Hitler all the time because I still don't see all that resembly
00:43:48.000The internet is too exaggerated and everything.
00:43:51.000And someone responded, it's not just ripped scotch tape, it's a ripped scotch tape that has a similar shape and is right on top of a smiling mouth.
00:43:58.000Looks like a happy little cardboard Adolf to me.
00:44:01.000Somebody responded with a really funny tweet.
00:44:03.000They said, yes, yes, the image of the smiling, happy-go-lucky Hitler is why everyone thinks so.
00:44:08.000What if they compromise and they say they'll make it look less like Hitler, but still a little bit like Hitler?
00:45:53.000I mean, we're all sort of trained to hear all the things right now.
00:45:55.000So it's like, yes, if you start, I think whatever you pay attention to, of course, but as soon as you get into that game where it's like, I'm going to look for everything bad.
00:46:04.000It doesn't mean you're bad, but it does mean you're looking for it.
00:46:07.000Ryan, it's like saying that's what she said.
00:46:36.000It's like a diamond and then it goes like out and there's like little wings, I guess.
00:46:39.000I feel like every three months they go, look at this, kind of looks like, you know, they've had a few superhero things where they said, oh, the thing looks too much like the SS stage.
00:47:09.000We'll see how much YouTube allows you to get away with all of it.
00:47:13.000We got in trouble though before, right?
00:47:17.000Tim, I don't want to talk about my personal problems that I've had with the great corporation Google.com, which you called them Goobles, not me.
00:47:26.000I was killing something Tim would do, yeah.
00:47:28.000And if the people at Google are listening, I appreciate y'all.
00:47:50.000Apparently the hotel wrote a strongly worded letter saying like, we can't believe that they used this for CPACs like Christmas to these people.
00:48:36.000I don't know whether to complain about the corporate response to these accusations or to complain about the girls' performance of the Star Spangled Banner.
00:49:57.000And he was saying the exact same thing that these people were saying.
00:50:01.000He goes, you know, this is harmful words to kids.
00:50:05.000You know it's everything that they were saying this shouldn't be available we need all of the stuff and it was 100% flipped and you know the insane and they were like you know you're teaching your kids to you know do all these bad things and the insane clown posse who you said you're a big Juggalo fan on your off time.
00:50:22.000But they were kind of like, no, these people aren't as stupid as you.
00:50:45.000No, you know, Halls of Illusion I thought was actually a good song when I was a kid.
00:50:48.000Dude, when I was in grade six, a little skateboard kid, when they came out, and they go, in this one song, I say F 93 times.
00:50:57.000I was like, you're pretty, you're pretty cool.
00:51:00.000Here's the point I want to make, right?
00:51:02.000I'm imagining like, there was a channel in Chicago that was like the Christian channel, and they had a bunch of cartoons that were very hokey and just not good storytelling.
00:51:13.000It was like the religion behind it made it good no matter what.
00:51:17.000I think about, like, the Static Shock thing, where they're making him get his powers at Black Lives Matter, and it's like watching, when I was a kid, watching these Christian cartoons with, like, you know, like, Christian man, and it's like, he got his powers from reading the Bible and praying properly.
00:51:29.000And I'm like, you know what's substantially cooler than that version of Static Shock?
00:51:38.000It's tongue-in-cheek, it's like self-deprecating almost, where they're kind of mocking the idea So Jack, this isn't as many lines like you can like, listen, no one likes to watch things when they know it's like really being colored in the lines.
00:51:50.000And there's just, there's no transgression on it.
00:51:53.000And that could be like artistic, that could be political, whatever it is.
00:51:56.000So when you completely know exactly what you're getting, and you know why you're getting it, it's, it's less desirable to watch.
00:52:04.000And you know, it doesn't catch cultural heat.
00:52:05.000And that's why all of these places are having trouble like manufacturing the energy to get people to like their things.
00:52:11.000Well, I also think that it's like... It's what you were saying earlier.
00:52:15.000You're allowed to give me one teaspoon of propaganda for every, like, cup of entertainment or whatever.
00:52:19.000But what happens is... The problem with giving more propaganda is... The feeling I get is I'm watching something and I want to be entertained.
00:52:29.000If I'm mostly just getting smacked over the head with a lesson, well, then I would rather watch, like, reruns of American Gladiators and listen to Bill Hicks scream in my ear about how I'm, you know, an idiot for doing it.
00:52:43.000But it's more entertaining than watching, like, religious content.
00:52:46.000Look, I'm not trying to rag on religious people, but I gotta tell you, when I was growing up and I saw these, like, I went to Catholic school, and they would play these cartoons where it was just, like, you know, just not good storytelling.
00:52:58.000Well, it comes back to the idea where you go, okay, what would it take for you, you know, if someone has a belief, like let's say they're a huge fan of a sports team and you go, what would it take for you to change sides, like to not be a Yankees guy?
00:53:09.000If they lost, like if they didn't make the playoffs 50 times, whatever it was, and they go, nothing, I'm to the death.
00:53:14.000And you go, okay, so I don't really need your take on them then, do I?
00:53:17.000And I think that's what all this stuff is.
00:53:18.000If you go, you're so in it, it's, you know, to the death, and I'm ride or die with this ideology.
00:53:23.000What if, what if we're completely wrong about the static shock thing, and it turns out that the villains were all Black Lives Matter supporters, and the villains are Antifa, and we're just, like, we're totally wrong?
00:53:32.000I mean, I gotta see the movie to, yeah.
00:54:39.000Do you want to know the actual truth, and this is what happened, was sometimes it ain't, like, it wasn't even me being stupid, I go, I looked at Amazon to buy costumes, and I was like, those were the three that kind of looked the best.
00:54:49.000You put Captain America and the Green Lantern together.
00:55:34.000But it is, I mean, so much of this stuff, because even like I see how fired up you are about this story, like it all kind of goes back to the gate.
00:55:41.000How many people say that Gamergate is kind of the, you know, the pinnacle of the whole thing?
00:55:44.000But it's like the one thing that they're like, we can't have this one thing.
00:56:10.000Like the point they were making, rather extreme, is like, if you just leave our video games alone, we didn't care what you were doing politically.
00:56:19.000I just wanted to play video games, now I'm campaigning for Trump.
00:56:24.000That's the meme, I just wanted to play video games.
00:56:26.000So the issue is, I think a lot of this started because when the blog era began, there was this pressure among these low-talent, midwit writers to produce content every single day.
00:56:39.000If you write for a video game website... And it was the way to get publicity too.
00:56:45.000You come out with a comedy special, and I write for a comedy website.
00:56:49.000I can only write about your special one time!
00:56:52.000So what they do is, when a video game comes out, the video game bloggers would write about the game, write about its release, write tips and tricks, and then say, now what?
00:57:16.000Definitely the content, the necessity for pounds and pounds of content, you know, contributed to, I mean, he cited the blog generator where they just go, there's a, uh, transphobia problem in Yeah, whatever it is.
00:57:32.000He throws a dildo at the wall, and it sticks to it.
00:59:19.000Well, that's the thing, like, so, I tweeted about Potato Head, because AP said, like, Mr. Potato Head is now regular Potato Head, and then everyone was like, it's gender neutral!
00:59:29.000And I just tweeted, how is, this is stupid, like, how is he even gendered anyway?
01:01:05.000I mean, people didn't know if it was real or fake.
01:01:07.000And I think that's the most, because so many, sad to say, stupid people that are bathing in stupidity think it's real, which is funny to me.
01:01:14.000But it's also, I think, can be dangerous.
01:01:18.000I was just, the Kaufman thing makes me laugh, because I watched the Comedy Store documentary.
01:01:22.000And it's so funny, like, to go back and how much things are romanticized.
01:01:25.000Like, even comics, like, they're like, oh, this guy was such a killer, but what you don't remember is how much they bombed at the time.
01:01:30.000But I was watching the Jim Carrey on the Comedy Store documentary, and they go, He goes, before every, you know, when he did a bad gig, he would go sit in the piano and then close the piano and he goes, I won't come out of the piano until the, you know, until I've had my punishment and the show's over.
01:01:45.000Then he would get out of the piano and I go, if any of my friends did that, I would be like, I am done with this loser.
01:01:51.000Like, can you imagine how annoying that would be if Ian had a bad show and he goes, I need to punish myself by sitting in the thing and I'm gonna be in the fridge all night and you'd be like, alright, we need to deal with this Ian guy.
01:02:01.000But then in the history books, they write it as like, Ian was such a, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:02:06.000He was so in his head, but at the time he'd just be like the biggest eye roll in history.
01:02:13.000But that's why I mean, a Kaufman's great, but I bet you a lot of the things people were probably just like, can you Saturday Night Live in general is definitely romanticized.
01:02:23.000I always hear about people saying, like, remember when Saturday Night Live was good?
01:03:56.000So the Ted Cruz bit was like him being really weaselly and just agreeing with whatever they told him to say, and then he was wearing Cancun clothes or whatever.
01:04:04.000A bunch of conservatives got mad and they were like, what are they gonna rag on Cuomo?
01:04:07.000And then some liberals were like, that's the same sketch.
01:04:11.000And then they put out the full clip and then you see Cuomo's there getting ragged for murdering
01:04:15.000elderly people. So I was like, oh wow. But you know what, Democrats really hate Cuomo now for
01:04:21.000whatever reason. It's like they got their orders, I guess, from the money.
01:04:29.000He's out there. There's protesters right now. I guess outside like, yeah, office chanting resignation or whatever.
01:04:33.000He's done I mean it was but let's be real it's because SNL was brave
01:04:37.000enough to stand up to him that these these Democrats finally
01:04:41.000Potentially you might be I might be happening the other Would you do SNL Ryan if they offered it to you?
01:04:47.000I've had conversations about doing that lots of that stuff, but I'm fairly
01:04:52.000Not interested in general to take I mean I was in like traditional media my whole career in Canada
01:04:58.000And when I came here, it's like I was pretty into doing the other thing
01:05:01.000So that the same way that I'm saying these corporations and all that stuff like there's such a cost of that like right
01:05:07.000now Who's all the best people they're all kind of doing their
01:05:10.000own thing Like we're I think I'm making good things right now and
01:05:13.000those like systems The money isn't a lot of times so much greater for all the nonsense you have to deal with, all the slowing you down.
01:05:23.000And I think that maybe in 10 years I'd be, you know, let's do one of those.
01:05:26.000But I think right now it's just, that would be like just ultimate like handcuffs.
01:05:31.000I also, I also feel like the comedy you put up on social media is standing on the line Of where you're poking, you're like, you're legit poking the censorship bear.
01:05:42.000Whereas SNL would be like, pull it back, pull it back.
01:05:59.000But my point is I'm more concerned with, and I think that a lot of people, and even more so younger people than me, it's like the same, what you're doing.
01:06:38.000I've got a ton of offers from a ton of companies.
01:06:41.000And it's like, I wonder if people who like watch or listen to this show ever wonder why it is that TimCast.com is its own website and not a part of any one of these other political podcasting networks.
01:06:51.000It's because I'm, you know, I'll be honest, I'm just smarter than all of them.
01:06:58.000And once they finally come and just give me anything, guys, please, I'll sign right away.
01:07:03.000No, I've had a lot of conversation with some of these big networks, and I gotta tell you, I'm a bit of... I would swear right now, but we can't be family.
01:07:50.000So the general idea is there's a lot of interest in a moderate, left-leaning podcast because you have a lot of leftist podcasts, you have a lot of offensive humor podcasts, and you have tons of conservative talk radio.
01:08:02.000And so they're like, we like the space you're occupying because there's definitely a market there.
01:08:07.000And I said, straight up, if you get me a contract that is legitimate and fair and doesn't waste my time, I'll sign it.
01:08:15.000But you know what they do in the entertainment industry?
01:09:04.000I mean, $100 million is a lot of money, but...
01:09:07.000I would never give up your creative freedom.
01:09:09.000You know, it's like he might've done, you know, whatever.
01:09:11.000Everyone has their own reasons, but like right now where the energy is in making things and where the energy is in entertainment and especially comedy is not in the like mainstream platforms right now that are You know, have a bucket of problems there, which is kind of a, it's a fun way to look at it is every one of us, you know, in entertainment, when I was in music, same thing, you kind of are like, Oh, you don't want to sell out, right?
01:09:35.000There's this idea that like, you want to kind of stay true and they're making it real, real easy to not sell out.
01:09:56.000And so it's like... And then the other... Look, you make so much money, they go... These people, the only way to do it is to give them Rogan-style, where they drop a big bag at your cashier house because they're so late to the mark.
01:10:08.000Look at these young guys, the Nelk Boys, Logan Paul, these guys.
01:10:10.000It's like, if you want to get them to do anything, it's like, these guys have so much money.
01:11:17.000It comes from, you know, being new to the game.
01:11:19.000And it also comes from like, uh, people that have a need for like a dad, you know, a lot of people need a manager and they need parents to sort of, you know, give them approval and tell them what to do.
01:12:24.000But I read a story about how when they were up and coming, he went to this meeting with Viacom and he was walking around looking at the expensive paintings and checking out the furniture and everything as if he was expecting to have it and own it and buy it.
01:12:40.000And his attitude was very much, I'm smarter, I'm better, I'm faster, and I'm going to buy you.
01:12:46.000Look, you can complain all day and night about Vice, but for a while, they were the cream of the crop in terms of digital media, and they were worth an obscene amount of money.
01:13:47.000You'll make a good amount of money, but you'll have no long-term prospects because we'll own the IP.
01:13:53.000And if you do anything, we can make you disappear.
01:13:56.000With the cancelling stuff, with everything that's happening in the world, if I was coming out of college right now or high school, The obvious answer is you gotta start your own thing that you're gonna own, even if it's a small company.
01:14:14.000Whatever you do, it should be your own thing because these jobs are too disposable.
01:14:25.000The Mandalorian Bill Burr defends Gina Carano slams cancel culture.
01:14:30.000Comedian, actor, and podcaster Bill Burr calls out the toxic nature of cancel culture and defends his fired Mandalorian co-star Gina Carano.
01:14:40.000But this story about Gina Carano exactly exemplifies what you were just saying about why take the risk.
01:14:45.000You signed with one of these companies.
01:14:48.000They could just snap their fingers and fire you because you said a word someone didn't like at some point, maybe in six months, maybe a year.
01:14:54.000Take it away as quick as they gave it to you.
01:14:56.000Yeah, and the problem is, let's say you sign a deal that says, like, maybe they're buying you out, or maybe they're like, okay, we're gonna buy your show, we'll own it, and we'll pay you this large sum of money, and it's like, here's the money up front for the show, and then you'll get X amount of dollars to continue producing the show as lead producer executive, and then they also have a morality clause where it says, if you do anything obscene, they could terminate you.
01:15:22.000You're like, I got this really great deal, it's awesome, Let's be real, Joe Rogan, I'd have to imagine that Spotify has some control in that regard.
01:15:30.000Where they could, you know, be like, oh, look what you said, and you know, I don't want to necessarily, you know, talk about Joe's deal, because who the hell knows, but I think that all of this stuff, it's, they want to take this as just a given.
01:15:41.000You know that old thing where it's like these people think they can just move chess pieces
01:15:44.000around and you know people don't react to what happens.
01:15:49.000But the truth is like I know people with normal jobs and they go there and they make them
01:15:52.000sign the clauses about what they put on Twitter and what they put on Facebook and you go this
01:15:56.000is people are starting to realize this when they get this.
01:15:59.000Now the same way that if someone gives you a job and you go it's 50 miles away from my
01:16:02.000house that's going to be a bit of a pain.
01:16:04.000The same way you're getting a contract that says you know you can't be on Twitter you
01:16:08.000So all it takes is for other companies to realize, like, there's monetary values on all of these things.
01:16:12.000If I go, okay, I get 60 grand here for whatever, you know, my middle job or whatever, but I'm allowed to say whatever I want, or this place is offering, you know, 65 grand, but they kind of, is this five grand worth me?
01:18:20.000If he gets canceled from the show and then Disney issues a statement saying he defended racist comments and was extremely offensive and we had no choice, then other companies might be like, look, there's a backlash going on.
01:18:34.000You know, not to just be like the complete, like free market or sorted out guy, but yeah.
01:18:38.000And if that happens, the next generation of people like me and my friends are going to be like, no, don't take a job on those places, dude.
01:18:45.000Do you remember what happened to Bill Burr?
01:18:46.000That's exactly what's happening right now.
01:19:14.000I mean, maybe... I would argue many of the conservative channels have much more integrity than many of the traditional Hollywood type stuff.
01:19:24.000Ideally, in my, you know, what I've kind of said, I like the idea of a non-partisan network to begin with.
01:19:32.000Like, even when... Like, think about music.
01:19:34.000It's kind of like, what you want is...
01:19:38.000Like a guy that's like, hey, I don't really get it, but the kids seem to.
01:19:42.000Not a guy that has a lot to say to you.
01:19:44.000What you want is a network that's like, yep, people seem to be responding to this, it's funny, or, you know, Tim seems to have a big audience, people like it, we should get him on the, as opposed to- You want a person who's gonna be like, oh, so we host this one guy, the left hates him, he's really offensive, we don't know a whole lot about, you know, we don't care too much, it makes money for us.
01:19:59.000We do have this lefty guy in our network, though, and he does these things, the conservatives really hate him.
01:20:03.000You want somebody who approaches it like a business.
01:20:05.000That's what I think that a lot of people, even the younger people, are kind of looking at it like that.
01:20:11.000I don't care what your political values are.
01:20:13.000The bigger issue is when they're scared and it's a business.
01:20:17.000They say, we don't want to lose half our customers because they're freaking out.
01:20:21.000Yeah, with Gina Carano, I didn't know who she was before the scandal, and Bill Burr is a superstar.
01:20:25.000So like, they look at their bottom line, they're like, you know, we can afford to lose Gina, we can't afford to lose Bill.
01:20:30.000Well, Bill Burr is a comedy superstar.
01:20:32.000He's not like an A-list Hollywood actor in that context.
01:20:35.000I mean, you know, I don't know exactly what the hierarchy looks like, but it's the little world I live in, some of these people we go, oh, that's the biggest guy in the world.
01:20:51.000Obviously who cares, but that's just the way the world is.
01:20:54.000This is a really interesting subject, because I don't think we talked with Ethan Splee about this specifically on the show, but we did briefly touch on it.
01:21:02.000I wanted to get into this more, but this idea that the traditional idea of fame is over.
01:21:07.000Because now you have HBO Max, I think it's called HBO Max, where they're doing simultaneous theater releases and streaming releases.
01:21:16.000So people aren't going to go to the movie theaters for these big movies and spend 20 bucks per person anymore, for the most part.
01:21:23.000They're gonna spend 20 bucks for the whole movie and then watch it with like 50 people at their house while they order pizza or whatever.
01:21:28.000So why would someone cast Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, you know, who was the person you mentioned?
01:22:08.000Yeah, and that's with me renting it 50 times.
01:22:10.000Yeah, I know, and I, you know, I signed up for 50 accounts to buy it because I just love Gal Gadot.
01:22:15.000No, no, no, but seriously, why pay Gal Gadot, you know, $20 million to do a movie when you don't need her name on it because it's not going to do that well anyway?
01:22:23.000Yeah, especially when they've lost like Hollywood mastered their star making formula, you know, the way that certain labels have in the past or whatever, like they were able to make her and then, you know, sign her to these contracts, and it was all part of the system.
01:22:37.000So they bring people in and they make them, you know, the next Gal Gadot, whatever it is, right?
01:22:41.000But they're doing everything in their power to, like, ruin their vouch and their star system.
01:22:46.000So when I go back to the younger kids, and I think me and you are around the same age, so we're in the middle, there's a lot of young people right now that they've mastered.
01:22:54.000They have these huge Instagram accounts, huge YouTube channels.
01:24:06.000When you buy an ad on, say, Tucker Carlson's show, you're not going to get, like, the numbers you get for Tucker's ratings are an estimate based on a sample size from, like, Nielsen boxes.
01:24:15.000Fake boxes that no one's actually using.
01:24:55.000I guarantee you it's going to cost way more than that.
01:24:57.000Yeah, so you and she's getting she gets at what like two to three million premium ads.
01:25:03.000He's got Nike I was watching when you watch Fox News I told you this earlier, but it made me laugh so much that they can't get good sponsors.
01:25:09.000So they have sleep apnea mask cleaner.
01:25:11.000That's Fox They have the funniest ads like orthotics You know remover so I'll write this point up and then we'll get into that a little bit.
01:25:20.000But basically, these advertisers spend the eight grand and then just look at their sales
01:25:27.000and see if they go up and then try and figure out if the ad campaign worked.
01:25:31.000With online, I can literally see people click the link.
01:25:35.000I know if the link is actually working.
01:25:38.000So what's happening is in a lot of ways, there's more ad space, there's more real estate for
01:25:51.000It's becoming worth less and less and less.
01:25:53.000Fox News is running pillow commercials and sleep apnea commercials.
01:25:56.000Rachel Maddow's ads are like... I gotta tell you, man.
01:26:00.000And they're not even the parts that they can, and to go back to, because you're so right, but the even worse part of it is that even the data they do have, they don't want to listen to for other reasons.
01:26:12.000It's the equivalent of they go, actually, this is what they like.
01:26:16.000There's a huge market for this perspective.
01:26:18.000The world's craving, you know, this perspective.
01:26:19.000And then they go, what if we go with this one?
01:26:22.000And you go, this numbers are way higher on this one.
01:26:58.000If somebody can get three million views per video, they're probably selling it for like 50 to like 75, depending on where the ad appears and whether or not they consider themselves to be a premium brand that is better.
01:27:46.000You know, so anyway, the main point of the segment, because it's like we've veered into a bunch of different subjects, is I would never sign a contract with any of these big networks.
01:27:53.000If Fox News or CNN or any, well, if CNN and MSNBC came to me and they were like, would you like to sign?
01:28:04.000I wouldn't sign with any of these companies now for the digital media ones I think it's great that they're smarter and doing better in their business models But you know, you know, we're gonna do we're launching a new podcast soon.
01:28:15.000It's gonna be crime cults mystery in the paranormal It's gonna be evergreen stories and not news related.
01:28:32.000It's going to be like a bit of scripted, but we're going to start producing this content and we're going to create a new site that's going to be, you know, nonpartisan content.
01:28:41.000So it'll have talk, it'll have content, it'll have jokes, it'll have entertainment.
01:28:45.000And then we're going to create something bigger and better than all of these other platforms and it needs to happen.
01:28:48.000I want to build these multi-channel networks kind of thing and start an organization, but I want to make sure that the people that we sign and empower are fully empowered, that we don't end up ripping them off with, like, we own your content, we own your ad revenue.
01:30:24.000And then they have to transfer it over.
01:30:26.000It makes sense to have in your contract, like, you'll make the channel, and for the duration of our contract, we get the revenue from it, and we control it as if we did own it.
01:30:35.000Upon your contract ending, then Well, a lot of times I guess they change, they keep the show going without you.
01:30:42.000Well, but I mean, like, a lot of these deals that are happening now with YouTube are like, we're gonna sign you to do a new YouTube show that you host because people really like you, and then we keep the channel.
01:30:50.000And I'm like, okay, then keep the dead IP after I leave.
01:31:14.000I want to do, like, build a network like that where you empower the user to own their own content and to, like, see them flourish, but you just kind of create, like, a seed organization.
01:31:41.000Yeah, I watched a lot of the contracts go awry.
01:31:43.000Like, Philip DeFranco was part of it in the very beginning, and they wanted all his revenue.
01:31:47.000And he was like, why am I—he was the first one to realize, like, why am I doing all this work and paying all this revenue to Maker when I could just be keeping it all myself?
01:31:55.000So I took that as, like, I learned my lesson from that.
01:31:58.000I've had a lot of conversations with these YouTube people, and you're kind of like, I go, I don't, listen, I'm like a loopy guy, but I don't think I'm stupid.
01:32:06.000And then I like have these conversations and they sell me the whole pitch and I go, okay, I just listened to you talk for like 20 minutes and I, honest to God, have no idea what you're, what you do.
01:32:18.000They're like, no, and we have take your channel and there's like tips and tricks and we have, we maximize this and maximize, and you go, what are you talking about?
01:33:09.000It's number two and it's a, you know, there's like a little poop emoji because it's double on time.
01:33:15.000Alright, let's take some of these super chats from a lot of people who are...
01:33:19.000Having some questions and stuff, talking about Static Shock and all that.
01:33:22.000If you haven't already, go to TimCast.com, sign up to become a member, because if you've been listening to this episode thus far, I can only imagine that the exclusive members-only content is gonna get us in serious trouble, because Ryan really, really just is poking the bear as much as possible.
01:33:35.000You're giving me the funniest intro, where you're like, this guy is gonna be no holds barred!
01:33:40.000As soon as we finish, you're going to be like, okay, do your edgy thing.
01:33:45.000And he's going to like put on a suit and tie.
01:33:47.000So Ryan, when six million people died in the Holocaust.
01:33:49.000Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, we're not being that edgy. Not that. Although apparently you don't need to watch
01:33:56.000the exclusive episode now because he's already saying these things. No. Give it away for free Ryan. Let's read super
01:34:02.000chats before, before Ryan gets his ban from the internet.
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01:35:08.000Yeah, but there is also that thing of, and it always goes back there, but it's like, Can't you just make new things?
01:35:14.000Like, if Hollywood wasn't so friggin' lazy, they're like, if you want to make a Black Lives Matter superhero, make a Black Lives Matter superhero.
01:35:20.000Do you have to take everything and remake it differently?
01:35:24.000Like, just start from scratch and write a movie.
01:35:58.000WhatBroke says, Tim, I never super chat, but I'm begging you to look into getting JP Sears onto the show.
01:36:04.000YouTube channel AwakenWithJP, dude has arguably some of the boldest political commentary on YouTube.
01:36:09.000Yeah, but he's also a really, really big channel.
01:36:12.000The one thing people need to understand about getting other people who host shows is that they're like, I'd love to come on your show, but I host my own show.
01:39:56.000It's been cool, dude, to have everyone come out because I haven't toured America since I moved here and then we're like, I think there's enough places open.
01:40:04.000So we started doing it and it's been, I was like, oh man, this is way better.
01:40:08.000So with your comedy, you're basically hosting like mini clan rallies.
01:40:15.000I'm not offended by the Klan rally part.
01:40:17.000I'm offended by that you think my shows don't have a lot of people at them.
01:40:19.000All right, all right, we gotta... No, that's the funny part that, even just touring, one thing I'll say that's kind of funny is that anyone that kind of, you know, that people get mad at online, they think that, and you go to the shows and it's like, people of all races, like, you know, some frat dudes, a group of girls, it's just everyone, right?
01:40:37.000And the funniest part that I feel like people get wrong about everything Is whenever you're talking about like race and stuff, I mean, other people have said this, but going back on the road made me realize it so much.
01:40:48.000People can't wait for you to talk about their group.
01:40:50.000Like if I'm doing, there was like a table of like Hasidic Jewish dudes when we were at the other table and I started doing Jew stuff.
01:41:17.000So one of the things that got cancelled was it said the China man who eats with stick eats with sticks or whatever and it's just a cartoon guy wearing traditional Chinese clothing and he's running and he's got a bowl of rice and they banned the book they stopped publishing the book because of that and I'm like Yeah.
01:41:33.000Was that offensive I don't understand it's literally just someone who drew a picture of a Chinese guy eating rice
01:41:46.000I Guess I'm not allowed to be offended by anything ever
01:41:49.000because I'm not completely Asian and not completely white So the left just tells me to shut up and like get into the
01:41:53.000corner. You're like that Comer that new TV show that the clip went viral for which
01:41:58.000one was it didn't see that. No. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes Yes, yes the Netflix show where she's like you're closer to
01:42:04.000white than I'll ever be so but what I'm I'm not offended at all by these things, but based on what you were saying... The same way if you go to a show and you play an instrument, like you play guitar, and they're making fun of the drummers, you're kind of like, okay, do guitars.
01:43:45.000Ryan's going to be The idea for the Our Pillow, and this is basically what you said, was it's the most brutal pillow ever, but it has the right ideology, so you have to buy it.
01:43:55.000That's basically what they're saying about Static Shock and this woke media.
01:44:00.000The content is garbage, but it's the right ideology, so you have to watch it.
01:45:50.000Mitch Stew says, Tim, I am going to resend you my resume and post it in your subreddit within 24 hours to show my interest in joining your team.
01:45:56.000I share your vision and would love to simply share my ideas.
01:46:58.000I do not need a studio in Toronto that I can't go to, but I'm subletting some of these things out.
01:47:04.000So me and Dani were reading about the Jessica Yaniv thing or whatever, and while we were talking about the story in our office that Dani's the guy I do the sketches with, we were like, this is crazy or whatever.
01:47:13.000And then at the same time, we're like, it's crazy that there's all this news stuff happening outside of our office, blah, blah.
01:47:18.000And at the same time, and we never realized it, but while we were reading the story, it was happening because it's across the street from my office, the spa where she went to try to get the ball waxing.
01:49:03.000Somebody made a meme where the Titans are King of the Hill characters, and the heroes are, like, they have, like, these things on their waist that, like, shoot cords to, like, project, like, propel themselves.
01:49:15.000And it's Hank Hill, and he's holding spatulas, and it says, Attack on Hill, and the titan is Bill D'Otriva.
01:49:53.000It's the, and the new one that everyone says, it's the guy that says potahto and you go, and you go, it's actually originally pronounced like that.
01:50:05.000Eric Miller says, Ryan, you should do a follow-up to the Voting Wrong turned me white, where the guy sees the Woka Cola ad, drinks the Coke, and it fades to black, and you hear him say, I'm back, baby.
01:53:21.000And that's why, like I mentioned this sometimes, I went to Portland and actually had some Antifa people like fist bump me and say, don't let anybody know.
01:53:29.000The world's way more unified than it seems.
01:54:39.000You know, I have a million and one songs.
01:54:41.000If I was to actually write down every song I've ever written, it's probably a viable completed song, several hundred.
01:54:47.000There's probably thousands of some type of song with, like, melodic, but not, like, written out.
01:54:52.000But we are working on a new one, which will probably never get done because all the songs we were originally working on, because we did Will of the People, well, we just bounce around too much.
01:55:01.000I think we'll get this one done, though.
01:56:11.000George D says, Tim with Australia, you have to separate what's going on in Melbourne under dictator Dan and the rest of Australia apart from Melbourne.
01:56:49.000And we did like a whole bonus segment where we just asked her about kangaroo And she was answering it, but then the segment Rose Byrne did on this other podcast, she was like, I grew up in a city.
01:56:59.000I have no idea what it's like in the middle of nowhere with these animals.
01:57:16.000Could you imagine if an Australian person came and said, tell us about the bison?
01:57:20.000You'd be like, I don't know, I drove past one one time, it was crazy, they have horns, and apparently you can get them to eat.
01:57:27.000But if you tell me, like, you know, some of the Canadian stereotypes... You say aboot animals as much, but, you know, whatever, hockey, syrup...
01:58:11.000Yeah, I guess when the country peacefully divorces, Illinois and New York are gonna join the United States of Canada, and then everyone else becomes... United States of Canada.
01:59:57.000It honestly had nothing to do with what you were talking about.
01:59:59.000There were some researchers, I think they were at Syracuse and they would capture crows to use in research.
02:00:04.000And they learned that if you have, if you engage in this, you have to wear a mask because the crows would never forget that you were the one who captured them and subjected them to experiments and life.
02:00:15.000So they would, and they would tell their friends and they would like poop on people and like harass them.
02:02:14.000It's going to be like, I bet you could take Bibleman and the new Black Lives Matter static shock and be like, I see similarities in how it's like all about ideology.
02:02:22.000He's like, the police were tear gassing me because I was doing the right thing.
02:02:27.000If he stopped believing in the right, you know, doing the right thing.
02:02:30.000I mean, that's probably going to happen.
02:02:32.000Someone's going to be like... You know what I think is really happening, to be honest?
02:02:35.000There's probably a bunch of young, woke people, and there's, like, checked-out Gen Xers who are sitting there with their eyes half-closed, and then the person's like, I got an idea!
02:03:50.000And it's like, yeah, like family guys, Trump episode.
02:03:54.000It was like, yeah, I'm a fricking idiot.
02:03:55.000It was just, they made him tiny hands with a bright orange face and it was like, dude, on the nose.
02:04:01.000Just a little, much of a character, but that's not really, you know, there's funny parts about everyone, but you need to like contain the humanity.
02:04:10.000And I think it's when you're providing the opposite side, same as providing the opposite perspective.
02:04:14.000It's like, even in most superheroes, it's like they're villains, not just all bad.
02:04:19.000Like something got them there and you sort of see their side.
02:04:29.000With, with these stories, I think about a lot when we're, when I'm like writing music, you can't just tell the audience what's happening.
02:04:37.000You have to like, Allow their imagination to guide them to some capacity.
02:04:41.000You can't write a song where you're just literally... So I wrote Will O' The People, and it's telling a story, but a lot of it you can't see unless you watch the video.
02:04:49.000And so, you know, like I'm talking to Nish today because we're writing this song, and she was like, there's a lot of information to convey in this that we can't get in lyrics.
02:04:56.000And I was like, that's like kind of the point.
02:04:58.000That's sort of the new school where it's people kind of...
02:05:01.000If you look at Lonely Island, they were writing songs knowing that the video was going to be part of the gags.
02:05:07.000And I think that a lot of people are doing that musically right now, where they're sort of picturing the video to convey something else while they're writing it.
02:05:12.000The song will be good, but with the video you really understand it.
02:05:16.000You don't want them to be like, that guy, that villain is so evil.
02:05:19.000You just want the audience to see the villain's behavior and think, Wow, that's very, you want the audience to think it, to realize it on their own.
02:05:26.000I mean, you know, it's just like multi-tiered.
02:05:28.000But hold on, you know what's crazy to me?
02:05:31.000I guess this is a relatively new thing in comics.
02:05:35.000I shouldn't say relatively new, it's been some time, but like, uh, the origin of Mr. Freeze in the Batman animated series, do you guys know this?
02:05:46.000But, uh, Mr. Freeze, originally comic book villains were like one-dimensional.
02:05:50.000I'm gonna take over the world, because I'm evil!
02:05:52.000Mr. Freeze was, his wife was terminally ill, and he was misappropriating corporate funds to do research to try and cure her disease, and when the boss found out, he was like, how dare you, shut it down, and then while they were fighting, he was like, no, I won't let you kill my wife, and he grabs a gun, and then the security guy throws him down, and then the cryogenic chemicals blast him, and then he gets turned into Mr. Freeze, And his whole motivation is he's trying to save his wife's life and it's all about his own personal selfishness.
02:06:20.000So it was like, it was an interesting backstory for a villain.
02:06:22.000Like Magneto also was kind of like, and Dr. Doom I think also.
02:06:26.000But Magneto later on, I don't think, I think originally Magneto was really one dimensional.
02:06:30.000And then it was later artists who really made this amazing, like X-Men's genius stuff.
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