In this episode of the Culture War podcast, we discuss the ban on TikTok, censorship, and the new song from Trashhouse Records, Bright Eyes, which has hit No. 24 on Billboard s Hot Rock Songs chart.
00:00:29.000But we'll see, because we're now starting to see some pretty serious resistance.
00:00:32.000But along with the cultural manipulation, there's data privacy concerns, though I think the cultural manipulation is the most important.
00:00:39.000Now, in terms of what we are doing to win this culture war, it goes beyond just whinging on the internet.
00:00:45.000First, if you caught the Culture War podcast earlier today, I am joining a lawsuit against California for censorship, and this could get big.
00:00:55.000Minds.com is also a party to this lawsuit.
00:00:58.000Basically, California is requiring platforms to create terms that would You know, let's just say, effectively interfere with free speech.
00:01:06.000So, I'm going to be joining that lawsuit, fighting back.
00:01:10.000I am also, you're usually not supposed to do this, but I'll say it anyway.
00:01:16.000We are beginning the preliminary stages of filing litigation against Bandcamp for the termination of our account, and I'll explain for a few important things.
00:01:24.000And again, you know, I'll confer with my legal counsel as to what the right approach is, but here are the personal complaints that I think are legitimate and fair.
00:01:31.000I don't know if the people who paid for the songs that I've produced have access to those songs, which means I have no idea who my customers are.
00:01:39.000I have no idea if they still have the product.
00:01:41.000Some people have said they still have the song.
00:01:43.000Well, if that's the case, then Bandcamp is hosting my content, my copyright without my permission, and using it to profit off of me by providing that content to individuals in the long term.
00:01:55.000So I think we've got some very serious problems, plus the withholding of data.
00:01:59.000I believe it's likely they're withholding money from us because they're not communicating with us, so we're gonna have to go into some very serious litigation against them.
00:02:42.000We're hoping that Bright Eyes, the latest song we put out, hits Billboard as well, and you can help make that happen by going to trashhouserecords.com and downloading the song for, I think the minimum is 69 cents, but you can put in whatever price you want.
00:03:23.000We hit number one with the past two songs.
00:03:24.000We even beat out Taylor Swift briefly.
00:03:27.000I'm hoping that we can once again do it, but it's entirely up to you.
00:03:30.000If you guys want to support our cultural endeavors, buy the song at Trash House Records.
00:03:34.000And I think the reason that we got banned from Bandcamp is likely because They don't care that much when we complain on the internet, because complaining does very little.
00:03:42.000But if we make successful cultural products that influence people and get people talking and become popular, they are actually then losing the culture war.
00:03:52.000So when all these outlets are like, uh-oh, how are we supposed to ignore the third song from Timcast that has hit Billboard?
00:04:00.000I mean, it starts to become really weird when people are like, how are they not... I mean, isn't that a big deal?
00:04:05.000How many bands have pulled that one off?
00:04:07.000So, if we get a fourth song in a row, we'll just keep trying to do it.
00:05:56.000Like, if you've been reading Green Lantern, and some people in the chat probably have, we did something called the Emotional Spectrum back in 2009 or so, and what it was was we realized that Green Lantern, his green energy represents willpower, then there's yellow energy, which represents fear, and boy, it really seems like those two colors are real close on the rainbow, right?
00:06:19.000And maybe there are other colors as well?
00:07:26.000All of the DC heroes and villains that died, we resurrected them, we gave them Black Lantern rings and they came back and bedeviled the heroes and the prophecy of Blackest Night.
00:07:39.000I mean, we really got people excited because the idea that we gave to DC Comics was this superpower that's transferable to any other character.
00:07:48.000Imagine How this lights somebody's imagination on fire that, you know, if you get a red lantern ring, you can put it on Wolverine, a Marvel character, and he's suddenly Red Lantern Wolverine and he's spitting up red energy and he's crazy and wild.
00:08:03.000The Hulk might have a red lantern ring.
00:09:13.000Yeah, just put it right below your mouth.
00:09:15.000I'm going to use it to cover as much of myself as I can, if that's okay with you.
00:09:21.000All right, let's jump into this first story.
00:09:24.000You know, I saw this from Politico, and I don't know if they're gonna ban TikTok, but I personally think TikTok should be banned for a variety of reasons.
00:09:31.000And there is a difficult question, but, you know, we don't want to curtail free speech.
00:09:37.000Politico reports, will TikTok be banned?
00:09:41.000A number of House Democrats and at least a few Senators remain unconvinced that singling out the Chinese-owned app is the best course of action.
00:10:16.000In China, the kids there, their version of TikTok has educational, science, that kind of stuff.
00:10:21.000Really great for a young developing mind.
00:10:23.000In the United States, there's young women who think they're birds saying they're a bird person and their pronouns are bok bok or something like that.
00:10:29.000There's the woman who's like frog, frog self pronouns.
00:10:32.000These things are being propagated on the American version which is literally Harming vulnerable people to the point where you notice a lot of the trans people, the trans species people, people who actively want surgeries are autistic and extremely vulnerable.
00:11:20.000If we want to win the culture war, there is a political and technological component right here.
00:11:25.000Granted, I think creating culture is the number one way to do it and pushing back, but it's hard if the mechanisms for delivering that content are controlled by, say, the CCP.
00:11:35.000What's interesting is, first of all, I heard earlier, somebody mentioned to us, I mentioned the fact that China has a different algorithm for their version of TikTok than we do, right?
00:11:43.000And somebody said that Andrew Schultz said that he started that as a conspiracy theory, so that was actually him that started the STEM rumor that they had a different version of the algorithm.
00:11:54.000It doesn't matter because the damage it's doing here in America, whether China was getting the same stuff as we are or not, I can't say if that's true.
00:12:01.000Somebody said that to us when we were on the show earlier.
00:12:03.000I think a lot of it's also the addictive nature of it.
00:12:07.000As much as you talk zombification, I talk the addictive nature of phones, of technology, and just how much damage it's doing for people to have to use this technology constantly, all the time, every day.
00:12:19.000Well, let me just say, I mean, you know, if espionage isn't the issue, I gotta ask then what makes TikTok different from what Tim's talking about than YouTube Shorts, which is basically adopting the same delivery system as TikTok.
00:12:44.000And that's why this bill that's been introduced into the Senate, it's called the Restrict Act, is so dangerous.
00:12:49.000Because there really isn't much of a difference in these companies.
00:12:53.000If you start generally targeting social media companies for people doing things you don't like on those networks, It gives you carte blanche to just start ending networks.
00:13:45.000The Secretary, in consultation with the relevant executive department and agency heads, is authorized to and shall take action to identify, deter, disrupt, prevent, prohibit, Investigate or otherwise mitigate these technologies is what they're saying.
00:13:59.000If they pose an undue or unacceptable risk of interfering with the result or reported result of a federal election.
00:14:07.000And they're saying like if a person, this is any covered transaction by any person or with respect to any property subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
00:14:15.000So any American citizen that says an election was fake on Twitter means that they can go into mitigating any mitigating I don't think that Andrew Schultz thing is true.
00:14:30.000I mean, the reporting going back talks about how the algorithm is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:15:15.000So perhaps Schultz lied to Joe and then Joe ran with it.
00:15:18.000But there is previous reporting where people are saying Douyin, China's version of TikTok, has a very different algorithm that doesn't allow this kind of content.
00:15:28.000It doesn't specify STEM or anything like that, though.
00:15:30.000Think of all the influencers that will be out of a job if they ban it here in America.
00:16:45.000Like, they just lie, lie, lie, analytically lie.
00:16:48.000I think that one of the biggest black pills for me was when somebody on Facebook, like long before I got rid of Facebook, was like, actually said, China's got the right idea by locking people in their homes.
00:16:57.000I'm like, that's enough internet for today.
00:17:00.000Like somebody I've known for a long period of time said that.
00:17:39.000Sargon posted like a poll the other day that said a bunch of people in Britain said when
00:17:44.000they said like, do you believe that the lockdowns were a mistake and most of them said no.
00:17:49.000I don't know how big the sample size was in a poll like that, but even with hindsight being 20-20, you're living in a different world than people who intake a different set of news to you.
00:17:59.000So somebody watching CNN or over there, I guess the BBC, they don't understand things the way you understand about what's been going on in the world.
00:18:06.000So functionally, they might see another lockdown as a good idea because they just don't get that things are different now.
00:18:12.000Straight up, it's a manipulation tool, TikTok.
00:18:15.000We don't have access to the algorithm, so we don't know what it's feeding us, why it's feeding us, what it's feeding us.
00:18:20.000We don't know what's getting tracked with our data.
00:18:25.000That I understand we could use the government to force open, but to do these dumb, bland, general, legal things where it gives them, they can mitigate any system that, quote, poses an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.
00:18:54.000But it's like, you don't need to see the code to know that doom scrolling is bad.
00:18:58.000You'll find yourself, like, 10 minutes go by and you're like, holy crap, what the hell have I been doing for the last 10 minutes?
00:19:04.000And like, I go through phases like that, right?
00:19:06.000Where like, not TikTok, but like, I, there's a difference between posting content and then when you, where you find you've just been scrolling and looking at nothing important for 15 minutes, you're not even really engaging with what you're looking at, but you always feel worse for wear when you're done.
00:19:20.000And that's just as much as you're talking about as it, it incentivizes people to act or promote bad behavior or to promote unhealthy behavior.
00:19:29.000It is mentally damaging for your brain, even if you're taking in general content, to sit there and doomscroll for long periods of time.
00:19:36.000What is that thing called you talk about all the time, apoptosis?
00:19:39.000Yeah, apoptosis, when a cell programs itself to die because it has no more function in the system.
00:19:43.000I feel like Democrats are the party of that, right?
00:19:46.000Like every single thing, I shouldn't say everything, but like most of their policies are just about killing their constituents.
00:19:51.000Like abortion, sterilization, or now TikTok.
00:19:55.000It's like promoting the things that maximize the likelihood an individual suffers and then dies.
00:20:02.000That or just the fact that people who use it tend to vote that way and it encourages them to reach out to more people.
00:20:07.000That's what I mean, like, if their policies result in people ending their bloodlines, they're like, just basically, the Democratic Party is the great filter of social Darwinism.
00:20:17.000Well, that's what they talk about with LGBTQIA philosophy, right?
00:20:23.000And then the people who are resistant to those ideas have families and persist and their bloodlines continue.
00:20:28.000I worry sometimes, though, like we've talked about how they say Gen Z is going to be the first generation in a long time that will be more conservative.
00:20:35.000I don't know if that's bared out to be true, but a lot of times I wonder.
00:20:41.000That kid is still going to have a phone at 12 years old.
00:20:43.000If the parents don't do the right thing, that kid's still going to have a phone too young and they're going to have access to material that's very damaging them to have access to if they don't have parents that are showing them the right way to live.
00:20:53.000Gotta get out of the cities, you gotta home school your kids.
00:20:55.000But let's talk about some of the stuff that we can do in pushing back.
00:20:58.000It's not just about complaining on the internet like we often do.
00:21:08.000We're talking with James Lawrence, lawyer.
00:21:10.000We're suing California because California passed a law that has requirements on big tech platforms, basically requiring censorship, which negatively impacts me as a media company and content creator for distribution on these platforms.
00:21:23.000And then Bill, who's the CEO of one of these big platforms.
00:21:26.000So we're actually taking those steps to do something because we're not just sitting around doing nothing.
00:21:31.000We're likely going to be entering litigation, filing lawsuits against Bandcamp for terminating our account because they've created a whole slew of problems for us and all of the tens of thousands of people who've purchased music.
00:21:43.000I think it may be in the thousands, possibly tens of thousands.
00:21:48.000And the way we described it is like, if you go to a mall and you sign a contract to open up a mall store and sell a product, and then without breaking any of the rules of the mall's contract or any of the deal, one day you walk up and they've pulled the gate down, locked it shut, they've changed the locks.
00:22:08.000And you're like, I've got stuff in there.
00:22:09.000And they're like, too bad, it's ours now.
00:22:11.000And you're like, yo, at the very least, you have to give me my stuff back.
00:22:18.000So we don't even know if they're still holding our money.
00:22:20.000We don't know if they're still distributing our content or hosting our copyrighted works without our permission or profiting off of it because they've communicated nothing.
00:22:27.000So our only course of action is going to be if, like, that's why I'm saying the mall analogy, if they shut the store and we know for a fact our stuff is in there, and we do because we had music on the platform, Well, so, the first thing is, yo, you have to let us in to go and check to see where our stuff is.
00:22:47.000With the mall, they'd let you go in and say, look, your stuff's not there.
00:22:50.000I mean, granted, you'd know if you have an ice cream machine and you didn't get it, you'd know it's there.
00:22:53.000With us, the problem now is we can't contact any of the people who bought from us.
00:22:57.000Not directly, so we don't know how to refund if they need a refund.
00:23:00.000So if they don't have the music, then Bandcamp took a percentage of the money that transferred and then took the music away from the people?
00:23:15.000And then if they didn't take the music away, now I've got a problem because they're hosting my copyrighted content and profiting off of it by hosting it on their platform for people without my involvement.
00:23:26.000So we've got a legal issue that needs to be answered by the courts.
00:23:30.000Can a business host my copyrighted content after removing me from the platform if it retains a customer base that they are profiting off of?
00:23:40.000So there's a real question that has to be answered.
00:23:42.000I forgot what it's called, but we talked about it.
00:25:32.000I used to, I mean I literally was the only elephant in the room all the time when I went to comic book conventions and everybody looked at me weird.
00:25:41.000I would have friends, I would make friends with other professionals and then I would, I don't know, we'd spend a little time apart and then the next time I'd see them they'd go, You voted for Bush?
00:25:53.000And they'd have this look of disgust about them.
00:26:51.000And I didn't know what that was all about, but there was definitely, like, rage over this idea that somebody who was a fairly influential artist at DC Comics was a Trump supporter.
00:27:02.000And I didn't think it was gonna... You know, I basically talked to a few of them and kind of said, hey, this is the way... Oh God, I'm so naive.
00:27:10.000I said, this is the way the country moves forward.
00:27:12.000Right step, left step, you know, basically we all get our turn and hopefully, you know, this is progress.
00:27:19.000But then I got a message from somebody who said, how could you do this?
00:27:24.000You voted against all of your queer comrades in comics.
00:27:28.000How do you understand that our lives are in jeopardy and you voted for that?
00:30:50.000So it really is a nasty situation and in any case DC Comics called me up and it was, I gotta say, DC did the best they could but they were being swarmed by the media over my existence working there.
00:31:07.000The thing that leftists do that they're so great at Uh, is they have accomplices in the media that will write the articles that you want them to write, that they want them to write.
00:31:17.000And then those will get published on the Daily Beast or any of these awful, like, uh, websites.
00:31:22.000Uh, and then they'll refer to those articles as proof that you are exactly who they say you are.
00:31:27.000And then those get referenced in Wikipedia.
00:31:29.000Your Wikipedia is soon denouncing you as a whatever it is, a white supremacist or whatever they're calling you.
00:31:40.000DC Comics called me up, and God bless them.
00:31:42.000They tried to stand by me as much as they could, but somebody who I really liked there, a friend of the family, called me up, and I said, am I okay?
00:32:32.000So then they walk out, and then people are like, I saw him walk out with a black eye, and then you're like, you're going to renew my contract?
00:32:40.000Right, they say, they accuse the boss of some kind of impropriety, they exploit the law, the EEOC, the labor rights and stuff like that, whereas you, an honest guy, just went, well, I guess my contract's done, I guess I'll leave.
00:32:53.000Yeah, but you know, one thing I don't like is when people use the word can't.
00:32:57.000That's really annoying when what it means is, I don't want to, we don't want to, but we're like, we can't refer you to your contract.
00:33:12.000They were trying to sell themselves to AT&T, they were trying to get good press, and they were deliberately, the left was deliberately putting all this stuff in the media to make it look like they were employing white supremacists.
00:33:22.000They really didn't have, as a business, a choice.
00:33:25.000And I give them a pass, I do, because they've always been good to my family, up until the end, and they're still writing me big royalty checks for movies like The Flash.
00:33:56.000So, like, how does that... I want to avoid asking anything too personal, but I'm curious, like, a comic book artist who sees their work turn into a movie, like, what kind of money can they make from that?
00:34:52.000But if you want to create something for them, like I always did, I always created new stuff for them, if they look at it and say, this is really good, we're going to be using this in other media, they'll send you an incentive contract that you sign that grants you a percentage.
00:35:49.000I, I, I, there was a friend of a friend, uh, so, someone I know knows a band that we would widely consider to be a one-hit wonder, and the guy I think made like ten million dollars off of one song that ended up in a commercial.
00:36:06.000Most people may have remembered it from the 2000s.
00:36:09.000But, like, they told me the story where it's like, this guy went from being a middle-class dude playing local shows, building up a following, making a decent living, then one day a phone company bought a song from him, and then he just didn't know what to do and he just had ten million bucks.
00:36:23.000Like, the money just slapped his account and he was like, eh, that's weird.
00:36:27.000It kind of, in a sense, destroyed his life, as I'm told, in that A buddy of mine said that, you know, when he first became very wealthy at a young age, he had an existential crisis because you don't know what to do.
00:36:40.000Everyone around you is in this machine.
00:36:42.000The relationships that you had were predicated upon, like, your work environment or your school environment, but now you've been removed from that, and you're just some dude who wanders around and doesn't have to work, where everyone else is like... You know, the story is, he'd call up his friend on, like, a Monday afternoon and be like, hey, you want to go out to eat?
00:36:59.000They'd be like, I don't know, six or seven, then I'm going home to see my family, and he'd go, oh.
00:37:02.000So all you rich people out there, when you take your friends out to lunch or dinner or whatever, let them know before the meal that you're going to pay for it.
00:37:08.000It's so stressful to wonder the entire meal when you're broke.
00:37:42.000And also, I know exactly what you're talking about, Ian, because, you know, when I worked for, like, these media companies, they'd be like, hey, let's go out to dinner.
00:37:51.000And they would bring people from the work who are making, like, maybe 80k a year, but they'd want to go to, like, a five-star steakhouse and get, like, Wagyu or something.
00:38:00.000And then I'm just like, you realize you can't bring that, like, that's not nice.
00:38:04.000That's, like, a mean thing to do, you know?
00:39:16.000Obviously, you're filled with this rage that you can't even comprehend.
00:39:21.000But then a little red ring flies down from outer space and looks at you and talks to you and says, put me on and together we'll get the vengeance that you're looking for, that you deserve.
00:39:35.000Because the minute you put the ring on, you are now overwhelmed with rage to the point where you're spitting up, like, red blood and energy and everything, and now you're entirely consumed by vengeance.
00:39:47.000You've become the Incredible Hulk, essentially.
00:39:50.000And yes, you know, you get your revenge.
00:39:52.000You can go get this guy and punish him and destroy his whole world.
00:40:19.000Let me ask you about, you know, before all this stuff went down, did you notice in the industry, before your cancellation, an encroaching wokeness, cult-like mentality, something like that?
00:40:44.000A lot of strange women kind of suddenly showed up in the comic book business and basically came at us with this criticism that this was clearly a boys' club, it was unsafe for women, and everything that you guys are putting out is sexist and it's racist and it's homophobic.
00:42:09.000These guys started to ask girls on dates, and then the girls would say that that was sexual harassment, and that's when cancel culture really started.
00:42:18.000I saw some very talented guys get their lives turned upside down because they were stupid enough to ask So and so at the bar at a convention if she wanted to come up to their hotel room.
00:42:31.000And this wasn't like a power disparity.
00:42:34.000There was one case where an editor with a lot of power was putting his hands on women.
00:43:39.000And then DC tried to hire him to do a Superman story, and the entire industry went crazy trying to get this Superman story, a short story, by this legendary Orson Scott Card, look him up, legendary author, cancelled.
00:43:57.000I was like, why can't we just publish the story?
00:43:59.000I don't understand why disagreeing with him about this one political idea means that he can't write a Superman story when everybody loves his work.
00:44:07.000So that's when I started to see woke creeping into comics.
00:44:10.000And by the time 2015 rolled around, my peers were saying strange things to me.
00:44:18.000They were saying, you're a capitalist, you're a Republican, right Ethan?
00:46:38.000I would become the guy, Duke, or Scarlet, or whoever the character, and we would act like me and Steve.
00:46:43.000We'd set them all up, and I'd be like, I'm coming!
00:46:46.000And he's like, no, look out, look out!
00:46:48.000And he'd be the Cobra Commander, and we were acting as the characters.
00:46:51.000I've never put my personality onto a doll before.
00:46:55.000It's why they say where a lot of the representation stuff comes in, it's a feminine trait that's been learned by males to look at representation as if they have to see their exact selves in another character.
00:47:06.000I don't know if when I played with Legos and stuff, if I became the character or whatever.
00:47:12.000Like, if I was playing with Batman, Batman was doing Batman stuff.
00:47:25.000You were acting as them, which is why, as a male... Well, I mean, like, this is what I'm trying to say, like, I wasn't going like, I'm Batman and I will fight you.
00:47:33.000It was like, I have Batman Cyclops and Batman would be like, yeah, two of two!
00:47:36.000Like, so they were two distinct characters of themselves that I would have do battle when I was a young man.
00:50:15.000And when he's jumping off the building and he falls and gets hurt, I'm like... And then you had the woke, Selina Kyle, white privilege thing.
00:50:20.000Like, they just ruined what Batman was.
00:50:24.000That line was particularly bad because the rest of the movie's dialogue was written to be completely evergreen, meaning that it could have taken place at any time, so even if you haven't taken a bathroom break by the time you're at the 2 hour and 37 second point of this extremely overly long and overly self-indulgent art piece masquerading as a superhero flick, that line just takes you out of it completely.
00:50:46.000Question, Ethan, did you notice when the women would come in and start to change the system, did they have kids?
00:50:55.000Something that someone pointed out is that women that aren't mothers tend to try to mother society, and they get into HR, and they'll try and mother the company, they'll try and like protect and nurture and change, and like, no, that's racist, do it this way, do it this, you know.
00:51:09.000I'll give you my experience working with women, it's very interesting.
00:51:13.000I worked at an office, and I was the only male manager, and the office was having problems.
00:52:47.000Let's talk about the cultural success, and I want everyone to understand this, and I want you to tell your friends, and I want you to buy the movie, and I want you to somehow make the movie number one on Netflix or whatever.
00:52:58.000Captain America is a Marvel film from about ten years ago, right?
00:53:06.000developmentally like physically a weakling a weakling born with a weak heart perhaps a
00:53:13.000Like someone suffering from many physical ailments who is so desperate to fight for his country
00:53:20.000To help others that he tries to cheat his way into the military and he is of such strong heart
00:53:27.000He is chosen for the super soldier program So here's a guy of good moral character standing and honor who wants to serve his country, fight against the bad guys, and sacrifice whatever it takes for his community.
00:53:41.000He defends his friends by fighting in the streets, and then there's that scene where he jumps on the grenade.
00:53:46.000His motivation is to sacrifice himself for everyone else.
00:54:38.000The story arc for her is, she can do whatever she wants because she's powerful, and she shouldn't have to listen to any man who tells her to control herself.
00:54:45.000Captain America's motivation is, I will die for you so you can live a better life.
00:54:50.000It is the Hillary Clinton quote personified when she said, women are the real victims of war because their husbands and their brothers and their sons die.
00:55:12.000Everything is a... You know, all of these new superheroes that are coming out of Marvel, they're all selfie-taking, self-aggrandizing narcissists.
00:55:19.000Eating lunch and dinner together at diners.
00:55:22.000There's no... You know, my book, Cyberfrog, Cyberfrog says in the very, you know, in the very first couple of pages, you know, he just says, because people don't like him.
00:56:21.000I'm thinking about, just like, I'm thinking about Ms.
00:56:24.000Marvel specifically, and I was thinking about Miles Morales, you know, in the new Into the Spider-Verse.
00:56:29.000He's like, wow, I got spider powers too!
00:56:32.000And then I was thinking about growing up watching X-Men, and in X-Men, typically the kids who got powers were panicked and scared, and didn't want it to happen, and the parents were freaking out.
00:56:40.000And the story with, you know, early, the X-Men stuff I grew up on was, it was actually bad to be a mutant.
00:56:46.000It was scary, it was bad, and they weren't happy about it.
00:56:49.000It was often depicted as like, your mutant powers were a curse, not a gift, and then Charles Xavier would be like, no, no, don't worry, like, I'm gonna help you through this.
00:56:57.000Nowadays, the mentality among younger people is more so like, I want to be that.
00:57:04.000I felt like DC was all, all, maybe not always, but I didn't read a lot of DC, but it felt like DC was more just about raw power, and Marvel was about psychological Did you guys get that vibe?
00:57:18.000Yeah, DC Comics has aspirational heroes.
00:57:38.000I'm terrified of the Man of Steel version of Superman from the Zack Snyder movies.
00:57:42.000Can I just, can I just complain about the scene in Batman v Superman where Batman is about to, you know, kill Superman and then he's like, you're letting him kill Martha and then Batman goes, your mom's name is Martha?
00:57:57.000As if anybody actually calls their mom by their name.
00:58:00.000What should have happened, and I'll say it every single time, is that when Batman had the spear to Superman's neck, what would have made it work is then Batman sang the famous line, let this be the day you never forget, the day I defeated you, and then throw it- Yeah, they should have just recreated that scene from the animated series.
00:58:34.000I could have made it out of a stronger mix of Kryptonite.
00:58:39.000I could have made this far stronger and killed you much easier if I wanted to.
00:58:43.000Yeah, it should have been, he proved his point.
00:58:46.000It was never, because Batman's not a murderer.
00:58:48.000He wouldn't arbitrarily want to kill Superman.
00:58:50.000His point was to make sure Superman knew he wasn't a god.
00:58:53.000You know, instead... All this like, my mother is your mother, we're brothers, all this crap, this like nepotism, is like European monarchies, they're all cousins, like it's a bunch of this crap, it's like psychological manipulation to make you think it is some value if the guy's your brother.
00:59:29.000They refer to each other as people, but they are heroes.
00:59:33.000And then the interesting thing is Superman's identity is Superman, Kal-El, and his secret identity is Clark Kent.
00:59:39.000Whereas in Marvel, often it's like Peter Parker is the person and his secret identity is, or like his, you know, the costume is Spider-Man, whereas for Superman, the costume is Clark Kent.
00:59:49.000Who are you guys' favorite superhero of all time?
01:00:21.000Technically, I would say technically, but...
01:00:24.000Yeah, I guess the issue is there are a lot of super-powerful villains who are on par with Superman that haven't been able to take down Batman, because Batman is a figment of our imagination.
01:00:35.000What makes him a good character is his ability to survive and overcome with no superpowers.
01:00:54.000But you can't, you know, fly, you can't do those things.
01:00:57.000Batman's just a dude, but he's a martial artist, he trains right, he eats right, he gets beat up, he gets injured sometimes, he gets his back broken, and he rises back up to the challenge.
01:01:38.000The Golden Age was like, yeah, the 1930s, late 30s to the early 50s.
01:01:44.000But I want to say, the 80s is when things, I think, got really mature, and the writing got really good.
01:01:50.000And then, actually, I think one of the most profound moments in Comics, but I guess it's technically cartoons, is Mr. Freeze, the story arc, the retconning of his history in the Batman animated series.
01:02:02.000I think the first cartoon ever won an Emmy.
01:02:05.000And that was, I think that was, was it really that the first, maybe not the first time, but one of the first times a villain's story arc was sympathetic?
01:02:13.000It used to be all one-dimensional, I'm gonna rule the world, I deserve power.
01:02:16.000That's what I love about the old Batman, the animated series.
01:02:21.000All of them are just generic corporate villains, but Mr. Freeze was actually a fairly three-dimensional character, given the story with his wife in that.
01:02:28.000Wasn't Clayface's story in the animated series that he was a guy who was negatively impacted by a cosmetic product that turned him into a monster?
01:02:35.000There were a bunch of different Clayfaces.
01:05:14.000And they got roasted and said, we don't understand.
01:05:16.000They're emailing us saying they want this.
01:05:18.000Because they don't realize it is a cult of annoying, loud people, and they wasted tons of money, and they're destroying themselves by supporting this.
01:05:27.000But it's not kids buying these comics, right?
01:05:30.000The majority of the large-scale audience is still men in their 30s and 40s and 50s.
01:06:36.000For those that aren't familiar, Naruto is about a world where there are ninjas and they can use inner energy called chakra to do, you know, I guess you'd call them spells.
01:07:12.000He wrote these books because he was inspired throughout his life.
01:07:16.000Naruto eventually encounters a villain in the story arc who goes by the name of Pain, and they fight, and you find out that this guy Pain's real name is Nagato, and he is a former pupil of Jiraiya, the same teacher Naruto now has.
01:07:33.000And then after this great battle, Naruto is like on the verge of defeating this guy and then he says this famous line of you know like I will save the world or something like this like I'm gonna be the hero and make my enemies my friends and I'm gonna not allow the pain and it was a direct quote
01:07:51.000from Jiraiya, his teacher, who wrote this book about a character, and Jiraiya had been quoting his pupil.
01:07:57.000So basically what happens is when Jiraiya's younger, he trains this kid who's idealistic, wants to save the world, who says this inspiring line as like a 13-year-old.
01:08:04.000Jiraiya's so moved by it, he writes this book, which is, you know, he then teaches Naruto.
01:08:10.000And so I love this because the villain is now facing down this younger, you know, ninja who says his own quote back to him, realizing he's become the villain he swore to fought.
01:08:20.000and and and naruto now embodies his past ideals and ideology i'm like that was
01:08:57.000Like you mentioned earlier with Captain Marvel, that's the funniest part about that, is it's so simple to understand that Captain America telling a story of self-sacrifice and wanting to help his fellow man, and even the idea that you could even tell a story now about an idealistic person wanting to protect or wanting to serve his country, they probably wouldn't even do that story anymore.
01:09:19.000Let's talk about the first big three of Marvel.
01:09:21.000Iron Man, a military industrialist who's selling weapons for profit, has a profound experience, and realizes his weapons are being sold to both sides, causing this conflict, and then says, I'm not doing this anymore.
01:09:33.000And it destroys his company, so he builds himself a suit of armor taken to his own hands, and then he fights the military industrial complex war monger, Iron Monger, To stop it from happening, and then the company does better than ever.
01:09:48.000Like, that is an amazing arc of a guy who had everything and was this cocky a-hole, who still is, but he then decides it's not worth it to be a part of this problem.
01:09:58.000Captain America, scrawny young guy wants to serve his country.
01:10:00.000We should talk about the cultural victories that the first Marvel movies are.
01:10:03.000Then Thor, an arrogant prince who has everything, gets his powers taken from him and comes to realize humility.
01:10:11.000I'm like, these are great character arcs.
01:10:31.000I mean, you know, there are rare creative geniuses that come along and they have the heart and the The empathy to be able to write stories that touch people in a unique way and build their childhoods.
01:10:47.000And then when they leave or they die, J.R.R.
01:11:05.000They're writing stories of what they're owed.
01:11:07.000When we were reviewing Prey, we were talking about how nobody in this movie looks like they've lived through anything actually difficult in their entire life.
01:11:15.000Nobody looks like they've lived in the wilderness.
01:11:17.000Nobody looks like they've ever had to hunt for any type of food in their life, right?
01:11:20.000So people are trying to write stories now from a world that they just can't understand.
01:11:34.000Yeah, he was around in the Golden Age too, but the Silver Age, he launched it.
01:11:38.000He really did launch the Silver Age, even though before there was Flash and Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, that really launched the Silver Age.
01:11:47.000Stanley was so disgusted by the politics of comics in the 1950s, with the Comics Code and the way things had become so silly, that he just wanted to quit.
01:11:58.000And he told his wife, I'm so inspired by this, he told his wife he wanted to quit and his wife said, just do one your way.
01:12:20.000It's one of the things like gone are the days.
01:12:22.000There used to be dozens and dozens of actors all who had served in the military, who had
01:12:26.000extensive military, whether through draft or because they enlisted because they believe
01:12:31.000And as that generation of people has died off, you start seeing that less and less of the stories, less and less of our culture's empathy towards its own country is gone.
01:12:42.000We talk about this every time an actor passes away that was older, right?
01:12:46.000It's like they were born at a time when there was a relative amount of support for America and they believed in their country and they believed in
01:13:22.000Another really great show, really great manga.
01:13:24.000Um, I've not, uh, I stopped after a while, but in this world, everybody, not everybody, but many people will get a magic grimoire and magic abilities.
01:13:34.000So one day a grimoire comes to you, and then you have your book of spells, and you can cast certain spells and certain elements.
01:13:40.000There's one kid who really wants to be a magic knight and work for the, you know, he wants to join the service, basically, but he has no magic powers.
01:13:50.000He works out until he's so incredibly powerful that when he's in these, like, when he's in the trials to become, you know, a knight or whatever, he has no spells, but he just, like, he's extremely powerful.
01:14:02.000Like, he jumps and the ground cracks and he shoots in the air super fast and they're like, what?
01:14:06.000When they first see him with no magic, they're like, what a pathetic loser.
01:14:20.000And all of his capabilities are basically his physical ability to wield it.
01:14:24.000There's other arcs too, like anti-magic and stuff, but the general idea was you can work hard, and if you do, you can be a magic knight hero too.
01:15:48.000No, no, the Iron Age is really independent creators rising up and taking over the culture because we have no choice.
01:15:58.000I would like to see a Diamond Age, if possible.
01:16:02.000We're on the verge of Graphene anyway.
01:16:03.000Also remember a lot of those characters and a lot of these amazing stories were written at a time when these were not major conglomerates that were homogenizing their storytelling down to the most basic, safe, and inoffensive model that they could make for people to watch.
01:16:18.000So people were willing to take risks with their storytelling in a way that they're not willing to do anymore.
01:16:24.000Or the ones that are, aren't getting jobs by these corporate conglomerates that are selling these major properties.
01:16:29.000Yeah, let's talk about taking risks, Ethan, because I want to hear about Cyberfrog, too.
01:16:35.000Okay, so Cyberfrog is the story of an evasion, an alien swarm of hornets that goes from world to world and just There's a world out there called Perdonia that has survived this.
01:17:14.000But they get this idea to send an agent with a secret power to planet Earth that'll be
01:17:20.000able to fend off the Vespas and stop them.
01:17:23.000Within this being is the ability to push back the Vespas and destroy their invasion.
01:17:30.000Uh, that person ends up being Cyberfrog.
01:17:33.000Uh, through a sheer accident, he accidentally becomes a frog and a machine, Cyberfrog.
01:17:38.000But he still has the power to stop this invasion, except that he fails.
01:17:43.000The year's 1998, Bill Clinton gives his speech, confessing that he lied to the American people, and right then, August 16th, 1998, the invasion hits.
01:17:52.000Bill Clinton's pulled away from the cameras, and the entire world is swarmed by these hornets.
01:17:58.000I don't want to give too much spoilers, but just as an incentive, I'm on, like, page three, and a guy explodes.
01:19:26.000She has a daughter now who lost her father.
01:19:30.000And he just realizes that step one is to try to take the frown off of this little girl's face and try to make her life better.
01:19:38.000You know, step in for dad and sort of, you know, make her life happier.
01:19:42.000And that's the first way to kind of save humanity.
01:19:47.000Uh, this is episode 2 of 4, is that right?
01:19:49.0002 of 4, but I'm gonna keep going, yeah.
01:19:51.000Yeah, the next one's called Red Extermination, I'm launching that one on the 4th of July, Independence Day.
01:19:57.000Now, certainly, going independent and leaving the big, successful industry, certainly you're not making lots of money off of this venture, I'd imagine.
01:20:42.000They see their comics, comics are just sort of going to reflect the political stances of their parent companies, and that's a reason to keep them around for ESG purposes, etc, etc.
01:20:54.000At ComicSkate, and ComicSkate is basically the term that describes an affiliation of comic book creators and fans who are tired of woke in comics.
01:23:36.000I'm seeing a lot of friends of mine who love old comics, love old media, who aren't... They're not watching new Star Trek with their kids, they're watching old Star Trek with their kids.
01:24:23.000I think part of it also, Ethan, is that people need to learn to, the ones who want to go out on their own are going to have to understand there's going to be more work.
01:24:30.000You don't have the infrastructure that's built up through these mega corporations that do the printing, they do the packaging, they do all this stuff.
01:24:37.000It's going to be more work, but you'll reap more of a reward and you'll be able to keep the profits because you own the IP.
01:24:54.000I was going to say, we talked about this like a year ago, that we wanted to launch some kind of comic or manga-style portal for TimCast.com, and I've talked to a few people, and the challenge is the amount of work that goes in.
01:25:07.000Like you said, how many years did it take to make this?
01:25:09.000Two years to make that, one year to fund it.
01:25:12.000And in between, we made action figures and a bunch of other stuff as well.
01:25:49.000We basically have to ship everything by hand.
01:25:52.000But the great thing about crowdfunding is There's no real possibility of loss.
01:25:57.000You know how many issues that you're going to need to make.
01:26:00.000You know how much money you have to spend.
01:26:02.000I knew I had 1.5 billion dollars to spend.
01:26:05.000I was able to make PVC toys to give away for free, trading cards, bonus comics that came with that for like 25 dollars is the lowest level to back at.
01:27:04.000That's what Comicscape is meant to do.
01:27:05.000Comicscape, you've got loud mouths like me.
01:27:07.000And I'll go, I'll come over, Tim will be nice enough to let me come on his show
01:27:10.000and talk Comicscape, Comicscape, comicscape.org, go to that website,
01:27:14.000you'll see a bunch of other creators who have similar stories.
01:27:19.000Yeah, we have to promote each other, we have to do this as a group, we can't do it as individuals, and hashtag ComixSkate.
01:27:26.000What's the biggest difference in your daily activities since you've left the big companies, started your own?
01:27:32.000What does a day look like as opposed to what it used to look like when you're working?
01:27:35.000I wake up in the morning, I put together 200 packages of that book, I ship them through UPS, then I start drawing and writing, and then at night, usually around 8, 7 or 8, I do this.
01:30:16.000I shuffle between seven and eight shows at a time where I can maybe get through two to three episodes at a time before my brain needs to put something else on.
01:30:23.000If you can't hook me to your show in one episode, you get no more from me.
01:30:27.000And real quick, sorry, just one thing that bums me out is Picard is finally picking up after the latest developments in the Star Trek universe, but it's all, remember Deanna Troi?
01:32:37.000She got the last great publishing deal, where after those books were so successful, she has almost full creative control over everything she does, right?
01:32:47.000But she ended up just ruining herself by being a major feminist.
01:32:51.000I'm imagining she's just sitting in her room with her eyes half-closed, and she's like, oh, Dumbledore?
01:33:02.000You know what I thought would be a cool tactic for a movie or a comic, and I'm gonna say it publicly, someone might create it, is if the episode follows a piece of an item, and then it's all the people that pick up the item and get killed with it, and then the item falls, and someone else gets the item.
01:33:19.000I don't know what the original story is, but I know that American Dad spoofed it with Roger the Alien.
01:33:27.000Like, say there's a gun, and the comic book is about the gun itself, and the people that carry it are kind of secondary, but it's about the weapon, or the item, like the data cube, or whatever.
01:34:04.000nothing and he goes let me see it let me see it and then he clubs him and takes
01:34:07.000it he goes it's mine and then he runs and he gets in his car then later on
01:34:11.000abruptly it'll like pan away from Stan and then show the truck driving on the
01:34:14.000road turns widescreen the music gets eerie and then it shows him driving to
01:34:18.000like a mountain to like bury it yeah that's good because you can follow it
01:34:21.000that's been I think the X-Files did something along that lines or something
01:34:24.000keeps going through pawn shops and it ends up turning whoever buys it evil
01:34:29.000What I like about it is it shows the main characters as secondary characters and you get to see how they react to the world rather than how they create the world.
01:34:36.000Like if you did that to the X-Men and there was an item and you just watched each X-Man deal with the item, you'd get like another perspective on their personality.
01:34:43.000The best recurring characters in television are actually designed to do that.
01:34:47.000A good recurring character in movies, well not in movies but in television, Is designed to take a main character that you see exist only within the realm of one universe and they have the same interactions with the same people all the time because the world requires it.
01:35:01.000A good guest, like a guest character or recurring character who lives in a world outside of what they experience every day is supposed to draw out different performances from those characters so you see a different side of them.
01:35:13.000If you haven't already, would you kindly smash that like button, subscribe to this channel, share this show with your friends, and I guess right now our big thing that we're trying to promote is head over to Trash House Records and purchase the song, Bright Eyes, that we just released.
01:35:27.000As of today, until next Thursday, that is the time period we have to sell as many songs as possible so that we can try and once again chart on Billboard and then basically give a big middle finger to all of these companies that are trying to put their boot on us because they don't like the fact that we are pushing back and developing culture.
01:35:43.000So if we can get a decent amount, I think we only need like 10,000 sales because that's like a big number, you know, in one week.
01:35:52.000But if you want to support our work today, do it.
01:36:04.000I've been actually feeling kind of mixed a little bit, sometimes confident.
01:36:08.000The fact that the conversations we've been able to have have been expanding.
01:36:11.000The calling out of the lies, calling out Fauci.
01:36:15.000We just saw the International Sports League banned males in women's sports, which was massive.
01:36:19.000I feel like we're actually gaining a lot of ground.
01:36:23.000I mean, look, if you look at the success of Ethan's comic, a million dollars, you're outside of the big machine and you're more successful.
01:36:32.000So it's almost like the independent decentralization is actually winning and the cult is being pushed back.
01:36:39.000Ethan and Eric July are probably two fantastic examples of people that are proving that it can be done on your own.
01:36:54.000If you listen to the fans and you're paying attention to the fans, you're going to make money.
01:36:58.000That's what we'd like to impart to Marvel and DC.
01:37:00.000Hilarious that that's hard to explain to people now that don't understand that listening to the fans is actually just a great way to make money.
01:37:07.000What happens is people are getting confused by the loud minority and they think that's the fan base, so it's a little bit of a diffusion.
01:37:24.000Check out youtube.com slash timcast and the latest episode of the Culture War podcast where we basically announce we're suing California and then we're, that's like actually happening.
01:37:35.000It's like the paper, they hand me the paperwork, I sign some papers.
01:37:39.000As for Bandcamp, we are beginning the preliminary exploratory options of how we take legal action.
01:37:46.000Someone, I saw several superchats from people saying that they do not have access to the song they purchased, which would mean something weird happened.
01:37:54.000I mean, you bought a song using their platform, and then they took that song away from you, so did they steal it?
01:38:17.000This used to happen a lot on iTunes and stuff, right?
01:38:19.000You'd buy a movie and it would be on the server, and then when rights would be renegotiated and the movie would be taken off that platform, you suddenly don't have access to the movie you purchased anymore, and you don't know whether they're going to get back or not.
01:38:30.000That's why you should buy physical media.
01:38:37.000Rock on, guys, and peace be with all of you.
01:38:39.000I will say, uh, When we released the other songs, we did a heavy promotion Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I think we're getting to the point where the music thing needs to just become its own entity and be responsible more for itself, which is what I'm basically saying is I won't be promoting it as heavily, though we will still do, like, promo, shout out, please buy it, throughout the next week of episodes.
01:39:03.000We gotta get to the point where we just start putting out music and let the machine build itself and the snowballs roll down the hill.
01:39:09.000So we can't treat every song like the biggest release ever.
01:39:12.000We can't just try and hyper-focus every single one.
01:39:17.000We'll put another song next month and we'll just let the music be the music and then exist as its library and then hopefully the snowball rolls down the hill.
01:39:24.000But more importantly, we also need to spread the resources around to start just producing more music from other artists.
01:41:58.000Sounds like some kind of theft or something, I don't know.
01:42:00.000Like, if you went to Best Buy and bought a CD, and then you're like, I have a right to listen to Metallica, and then a guy from Best Buy showed up at your house and took the CD from you?
01:42:07.000Like, that'd be like a weird thing, you know what I mean?
01:42:10.000And it's like, well, look, the CD was ours.
01:42:21.000At the very least, I don't understand how this will, uh...
01:42:25.000How this will affect the future of commerce and thus there's some kind of precedent that needs to be explored because obviously Best Buy couldn't send an employee to take a CD from your house.
01:43:34.000When you try to call up these tech companies, if you have an issue with Facebook, do you actually get on the phone with Facebook and talk to them?
01:43:41.000They just assume that you're a problem, that you're just not going to want to deal with the vast bureaucracy and the inability to get a hold of someone and actually take care of these issues, so they end up winning either way.
01:43:54.000They got bought, Bandcamp got bought March 2nd of 2022 by Epic Games.
01:43:59.000It was March 17th, two weeks later of 2022, they changed their terms of service.
01:44:04.000So get a copy of the terms before the sale and then put that up against the terms now and see what they changed and see if it's legal to do that to a customer that signed under the old terms.
01:44:15.000Yeah, but probably what happened is they sent out an email saying the terms have been updated, you know what I mean?
01:44:30.000And if someone comes in and says, your honor, our terms say that we can take all of your money whenever we want, he's gonna be like, shut up!
01:44:39.000I talk to so many people, and maybe this is something for people who don't understand how business operates and they've not run a company, but they'll be like, well, if you had a contract, then you have to do it.
01:44:48.000And I'm like, that doesn't mean anything.
01:44:52.000So people seem to think that if I say, like, hey, let's do a deal, Ethan, where I will distribute the comics, and for every comic I sell, I get a percentage cut.
01:45:14.000You'd go to court and I'd be like, he agreed to give me the full ownership of all of his IP, and then he would just say to the judge, that's not what we agreed upon, and that's insane, I would never have signed that.
01:45:24.000And then the judge would be like, why didn't you read it?
01:45:25.000I'd be like, I did, I misunderstood it.
01:45:26.000The judge would be like, okay, the contract is voided.
01:45:29.000Like, a judge can simply be like, no reasonable person would actually agree to what you're talking about, you were trying to exploit someone, the contract is voided, I hereby rule.
01:45:40.000Now, if it was something more reasonable, like, I said, I'll give you, I'll take five percent, but the contract says 20, now you're in trouble.
01:45:47.000Because you're gonna be like, I never agreed to 20.
01:46:32.000Showing you chemical and food processing plant explosions to make you think that there is some inner turmoil in this country is a part of their attempt, in my opinion, to sow discord.
01:46:43.000It's not about a video popping up being like, China is great, you love China!
01:46:46.000It's a video that pops up that says, you should sterilize your children!
01:46:50.000And other people seeing videos saying, your country is falling apart, everything's burning down, quick run!
01:47:16.000A major chemical spill explosion, they burned it off.
01:47:19.000Then all of a sudden everyone started saying, look at all these train derailments that are happening all over the country.
01:47:23.000And then I looked it up and I'm like, yeah, that's actually par for the course.
01:47:25.000There's like a thousand, like there's 1700 per year on average.
01:47:29.000So we're talking about more than a hundred per month that happened.
01:47:32.000But because of East Palestine, media outlets were like, let's keep showing these over and over and over again because it gets clicks.
01:47:37.000And I'm like, it's not news that these things happen.
01:47:39.000So much of our lives now is algorithmically manipulated because so much of your life takes place looking into your phone almost all the time.
01:47:46.000When you really think about how often you look at your phone on a daily basis, you really are at the whims of what your phone is showing you.
01:47:53.000And whether that's Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, any of these places, your mood, your state of mind can ultimately be controlled by your phone.
01:48:02.000Just the radiation coming off the screen, I think.
01:48:05.000We were just talking the other day, I was like, dude, have there been any long-term studies that tell us that these things aren't going to nuke our brains in 50 years?
01:48:47.000I mean, it really is, like, you get one shot at it and you can use whiteout and everything like that, but when you can just blow up this part and move this around, it doesn't feel... It's kind of like the digitization of music?
01:48:58.000Yeah, it just feels a little artificial to me.
01:49:00.000But no judgment, you know, people do their thing.
01:51:34.000That girl went on to be like, she has like three million followers now and she does like choreography for like Shania Twain and built an entire like ridiculous career because she used to record those videos, but that's the way it started.
01:51:48.000Adrienne Curry says, Thank God Stan Lee left us before women destroyed nerddom.
01:51:53.000Comic Con, E3, DC, Marvel, and now Lord of the Rings all lost to us because of feminism.
01:51:57.000Not only did Stan leave us, he built Stan Lee's Superhumans, one of the greatest shows on television, before he left us.
01:52:05.000Hey, by the way, I don't think women destroyed nerdom.
01:52:09.000I think feminism did, and I think woke destroyed nerdom.
01:52:13.000We've had females who understand that mostly when you're writing Daredevil, you're writing it for boys, and they understand that and they do a great job.
01:52:22.000Women, you're welcome in comics, but understand 95% of your audience is male.
01:53:02.000I will always push people to Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
01:53:05.000If you want to watch actual good feminist television with a feminist character that actually exists in a world where she has emotions, she's a fully fledged person, and she is not somebody that just beats up a bunch of men and makes a bunch of quips, she's actually vulnerable.
01:53:51.000I'm saying like, we keep talking about how, like, the number one thing we do outside of
01:53:58.000talking politics is trying to build culture.
01:54:01.000So, I've said this before, look, I could hire ten more conservative commentators, libertarian commentators, disrespected liberals, and just be talk radio, or we can try and win a culture war.
01:54:13.000The Daily Wire does that, and they do it very well.
01:54:15.000They've done a great job of finding personalities who are in this space of the freedom faction to talk about these ideas.
01:54:23.000They've also done big cultural endeavors.
01:54:26.000My thing is like, I'm gonna focus strictly on the cultural stuff and try and just build that kind of stuff.
01:54:31.000So if there was a way that we could create some kind of portal or some kind of hub on TimCast.com that, like I was mentioning before, we wanted to do some kind of like weekly chapter release or something.
01:54:42.000You know, maybe there's a way to do it Shonen Jump style.
01:54:44.000Were you talking about, like, digital release?
01:55:08.000I'd have to know what you guys are working with and what you guys need but my idea is like if we had a way to do like I wanted to do weekly chapters of comics kind of like how Shonen Jump they'd put that release out and then you have like chapters every week the new Naruto would come out and I would read it but if it's too hard to do one chapter of a comic every week as what people said it could be like one chapter every other week and you interlace them so if it takes someone two weeks to do a chapter then you know you put that up and then two weeks later the next one goes up and then in between you're you're you're skipping out or maybe even three weeks or something like that Some way to have like, hey, this Wednesday is the latest release of the chapter of whatever.
01:56:19.000Therefore, Batman is greater than Goku.
01:56:20.000And everyone that Goku defeated, Batman is the greatest superhero.
01:56:24.000Let me just pause and say, you don't need to do that.
01:56:29.000Batman can defeat Goku, and it's not even an argument.
01:56:32.000Okay, look, if you're gonna be like, who would win in a fight, Batman or Thanos or Batman or name character, you know, Eternity, and it's like, well, here's what Batman would do.
01:57:20.000It's like having the Deathstroke versus Deadpool debate that everyone always has.
01:57:24.000There's the guy who did the video reenactment of it.
01:57:27.000But look, so you could say, I personally believe it would be a deus ex machina.
01:57:33.000for you to say superman could heat blast and kill batman because batman's superpower is actually his ability to escape and solve problems so it's like i i've heard it described as peak human as the way to describe it it wouldn't make sense for batman's character to instantly be taken out by superman yeah he'd be ready for it he thinks ahead Right.
01:58:40.000I think Bradley Cooper from Limitless could be Batman on the Limitless pill.
01:58:43.000Oh, which means I have to do my daily show.
01:58:45.000Watch the Limitless TV show, which is one of the very few examples of a television show that should not be good, but absolutely got one season and then they killed it.
01:59:26.000One piece I've heard tremendously great things about, never got into it though, and Attack on Titan is a masterpiece.
01:59:34.000Seriously, if you are involved in culture war politics, you really need to watch Attack on Titan.
01:59:39.000It is like, there's that joke where Jordan Peterson says to watch it, but I'm like, I'm pretty sure he would tell you to watch it if he did.
01:59:45.000Because it's about privilege and like, it covers like, woke politics and post-modernism.
02:00:25.000Maybe in 100 years there will be a massive TMG Big parent media corporation that has American values and believes in the family and meritocracy and individualism.
02:00:36.000For today, we are but a few humble shows.
02:00:39.000But if we win, and we keep winning, here's what you gotta understand.
02:00:46.000I am telling you, there are people out there who wish they were a musician, rock stars, who wish they could get their song charting, and they're like, how do I do it, man?
02:00:56.000Right now, many of these people are working for woke record labels or signed to them, and they're being told, do as you're told, take the Vax, kick out your band members who vote for Trump, otherwise you will never make it.
02:01:07.000And they're going, I wish I didn't have to, but I have no choice.
02:01:09.000Then, off in the distance they look and they're like, that dude on his own got all three of his songs on billboard, what am I doing with these guys?
02:01:19.000We want people who are in that woke machine to be like, there's clearly a way to do this, because that guy's more successful than we've ever been, and we're sitting here bending the knee to these crackpots, and he would never make us do that.
02:01:33.000We can't just keep doing like, here's another one of Tim Pool's songs, which is why we're like, we need to expand.
02:01:38.000But it's like, we started pushing a snowball down the hill.
02:01:41.000I think the fact that we got three of three on Billboard gives us a tremendous launching pad to be able to go to people and be like, don't do those deals.
02:01:53.000We will plant those seeds and your song will be more successful with us than with anybody else.
02:01:57.000Then you'll start seeing these people be like, I'd sign with you, man, but I'm not confident you're actually going to get my song out there.