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Sept. 10, 2021 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
01:18:48
Who Wanted a New Matrix Movie？
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I think I might be live. Way ahead of the chat.
Trinity looking like an old man, says Glenn Yarwood.
Well, that's rough, Glenn.
You don't know that she didn't transition.
Because don't you know The Matrix is an allegory for transitioning?
Always has been.
Certainly wasn't an allegory for anything else.
Let me just figure out what I'm supposed to be doing on the back end.
Because, of course, these days I don't deal with those things.
But hello, Chad.
I can see you.
Rip Joe Rogan.
Oh, God.
Can you work for me?
Possibly.
Right, okay.
How's it going, everyone?
3pm here in California.
Well, it's 11pm here in Britain.
But I agree with no quarter.
Vote PPC.
I saw Maxine Bernier was polling at 11%.
Getting up.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Only party in Canada that's against vaccine passports.
What are you going to do?
Vote tyranny?
I don't think so.
Anyway, if I've got anything on my shirt below, I apologise, but I had to feed my son earlier, and he's messy because he's eight months old and had to then pick him up.
So, never mind.
Comes with the territory.
But no, how are you all?
I hope you're all very well.
Don't give me this no audio thing.
I'm sure that you can hear me.
I didn't check, I'll admit.
I didn't check.
But I'm sure you can.
Yeah, so yeah, Viva Fry's running.
Oh, well, definitely vote Viva Fry.
Jesus, mum's favourite YouTube lawyer.
But yes, I'm glad that you're all voting.
But so let's talk about The Matrix.
Let's talk about Matrix 4 Resurrections.
What a great title.
Don't know what happened to 2 and 3.
Don't know why we went straight from The Matrix to The Matrix 4.
There were no sequels to The Matrix.
It's a real shame.
Deeply underwhelming response to the success, the massive success of The Matrix film.
There should have been sequels.
They should have been made.
They should have been made in line with the animating principles of what made the original film so great.
But for some reason, we've just skipped 4.
I don't know why.
It's really bizarre.
It's really peculiar.
But thank God, two shitty, unbelievably shitty sequels to a brilliant movie were never made.
Isn't that lucky?
I mean, I would have felt terrible about it.
Especially as I absolutely adored The Matrix.
Adored it.
And, you know, paradigm defining movie back in, was it 1999 when it was released?
I remember I'd literally just gone to university.
And, you know, in the first couple of months, The Matrix came out, we all went to sit in the cinema.
It was mind-blowing.
You know, it's such a good movie.
And the allegory that we took from it, the one that in later decades was at Lily Wachowski or whichever Wachowski it is.
They've both transitioned now, incidentally.
Weird, isn't it?
Both of them happened to transition.
Okay, fair enough.
The allegory that they're saying that it comes from it.
Let me just, I've got a description here, right?
The trans symbolism of The Matrix is easy enough to identify.
Neo is living a double life.
By day, he's an office drone known as Thomas Anderson.
By night, he's a hacker with a name he's chosen for himself.
He's troubled by the nagging sensation that something is off about the world, but he can't quite put his finger on.
In other words, he is suffering from dysphoria.
Okay, well, I mean, that's one way of interpreting the film.
And it may be, given how both of the directors or writers of the film turn out to be trans, maybe that is the initial intent.
But there is also another allegory for the film, and that allegory is, of course, that the narrative of the main stream, the narrative we're all told, isn't true.
And this appears to have been what Neo was searching for when he was online under the hacker alias Neo, and he ends up following the white rabbit.
He's looking for what the truth about reality is.
And it's not just his personal reality.
It's the objective reality around him.
And he finds that, of course, he's living in a simulation.
He's believing in what I guess James Lindsay would call a hyper-reality.
There are a bunch of things that he's told about the world that aren't really true.
And yet, everyone is forced to believe them.
And so when he is in the Matrix, he has to live by the rules of this reality, as kind of we all do in politically correct spaces.
And yet when he's in his, you know, hacker alias of Neo, or he's off and out in the real world, he gets to be the person he actually is and lives a real authentic life.
Again, you can easily transpose a trans narrative across that, but there are also many other kinds of narratives you can transpose onto it.
And as someone points out, yes, essentially Plato's cave, which is correct.
And it's an advanced sort of version of it.
But the thing is, when you're like 19 or whatever I was when I watched it first, it really does open your eyes.
You're thinking, okay, actually, maybe it could be that the powers that be are, in fact, creating a narrative about reality that's not true.
And the more that time has gone on, the internet has shown us that that's correct, isn't it?
You know, we're being told a lot of things that just I don't think are true.
And I think more and more people are becoming aware of these very obvious facts.
But anyway, this isn't the stream to talk about those things.
This is just, you know, why The Matrix was such a paradigm-defining film.
And of course, there are a bunch of other things.
Now, The Matrix wasn't the first to invent bullet time, as I understand it, but it was the first to really popularize it.
It used it in an incredibly effective way.
I'm no film critic, but it was very obvious that this was something revolutionary.
And it had style.
It had weight.
It had gravitas.
It had a story it was trying to tell.
It had a purpose for being.
There was a reason that you would easily get sucked in to the action, the symbolism, the drama of what it was to discover and go down the rabbit hole and find out what the Matrix was.
And so there was all of this mystery.
There was a second world that you were being introduced to from the mundanity of Neo's office life.
And again, the mundanity of it, living in a corporate life, it's the same sort of feeling that Fight Club gives you.
It's the same sort of ethos that it's tapping into.
Look, there is more to life than just being a corporate drone behind a desk.
I punched my time clock in the world of sitting in sterile offices, just filling out TPS reports.
That was 15 years of my life after I left university that I'll never get back.
And hopefully, God willing, I'll never go back to.
But so for those folks who are still logging, plugging in and doing your goddamn drone jobs, well, you know, best of luck, lads.
You know, good luck.
I hope you hope you manage to get out of that at some point and find something you find fulfilling.
That's what we all need to do, I think.
But yeah, so the point is that there was a need for it, right?
Because in the sort of late 90s, early 2000s, you'd had about 20 years of this sort of Modern way of doing things where computers had become the norm and paper was on its way out and the internet was just coming around, you know, fax machines.
And so you had this more interconnected world of people in boring office jobs, and it was all becoming very much how to describe it, kind of anti-human.
You were just a cognitive machine.
You weren't very important, and there was nothing heroic about your life.
Because you can go back and look at, like, you know, the way that things are done in the 70s and pastiches of the 70s now, it's not politically correct.
It's not this kind of top-down managerial view of the world.
Even in these office environments, you don't get that feeling, you know.
I mean, maybe it was, because obviously I wasn't there.
I'm not old enough to have experienced that.
But it does seem like there has been a textural, textual change in what human life has become like in cities, in offices, in the world.
And I think The Matrix is in some way a kind of cry from the collective psyche.
That's why it resonated.
You know, everyone was like, yeah, this is like awful.
What?
I don't want that kind of life.
I would rather heroism and adventure in Zion than being plugged into The Matrix and just doing my boring desk job all day, every day.
And I think that's one of the reasons why it resonated.
But anyway, so the question, I guess, is: who wanted a new Matrix movie?
Hands up in the chat.
Who wanted the new Matrix movie?
Who asked for this?
And I don't just say this is a cynical cash grab, even though it clearly is.
Who asked for this?
What's the point in this?
You know, what sort of deep cultural need are they going to be speaking to with this?
Because, like, give the Matrix its due.
It was, and if there were any sequels to it, hypothetically, I'm sure they would have also been at least philosophically informed in some way.
You know, it was a movie that made you think about reality, about the world, about your place in it.
And, okay, I expect that knows.
No one wanted this.
Right?
Who wants to see?
It's just like the Indiana Jones remakes, isn't it?
You know, no one wants to see geriatric Indiana Jones doing stunts.
You know, Keldaries isn't quite as old as Harrison Ford, but he's probably still coming on 60 at this point.
You know, he's probably in his 50s.
So it's just like, okay, why?
But anyway, why, why, why?
What are they going to be telling us?
So let's watch the trailer.
Let's go through the trailer and have a look, see what we can see.
I've watched it a couple of times, but nothing in too much depth.
Anyway.
And I have to apologise for the annoying white rabbit song by Jeffson Starship or something like that before my time.
It's so cliche.
And you can know that something is a hanger on, a trailing, you know, hanging onto the coattails of things, a kind of cash grab, a kind of way of trying to become nostalgic for past glories when it has nothing new to offer.
When it doesn't present you with anything that fits in neatly, should slot in with what had come before.
And then you build onto that and slot in onto that and then slot in onto that.
But nothing, but everything that slots into the new thing is new itself.
It's something original, something that you've created, and it fits because it fits with all of the previous things that had come before.
And I just didn't get that from this.
But let's watch it.
Thomas?
You seem particularly triggered right now.
Can you tell me what happened?
No.
That was another thing I forgot.
This is going to be insufferably woke.
I'm particularly triggered by the use of the term triggered.
I suppose in California they probably actually unironically do use the term triggered.
Like, cringe.
Anyway.
I've had dreams that weren't just dramatic is sort of like, I don't know, memories of his past life or something or his youth in the Matrix.
And somehow he's back in the Matrix.
Obviously, we don't know how.
But these are appearing as dreams to him.
And he's having therapy over it.
Hmm.
Okay.
Am I crazy?
We don't use that word in here.
Okay.
But the point is, is he crazy?
It's so on the nose.
Like, follow the white rabbit.
Oh, so now we're going.
We have to have a reference to the white rabbit.
Why?
Because it was in the film.
But show me something new.
I know it was in the film.
I saw it.
You know, do something else.
Do something new.
Construct the next chapter of the book that you're trying to write.
Have we met?
So I'm guessing, I can't even remember how the fictional sequels to The Matrix ended now.
But I'm guessing, I mean, I thought that, like, he had learned how to use his powers outside of the Matrix.
And I assume they'd brought it down.
Remind me, chat, right?
Because it's been literally years since I've watched it.
But I'm assuming what this means is they're both plugged into the Matrix.
So they're back in the Matrix, they've lost their memories, and he is getting, like, you know, subconscious memories coming up within the Matrix of his time outside of the Matrix.
I'm assuming that's what it is, but I don't know.
You know, obviously we don't know.
It's not out yet.
We'll find out.
Oh, look, he takes the blue pill.
Weird.
That's us on the nose, isn't it?
Bit on the nose.
That couldn't be more subtle.
You know?
I wonder what that's going to mean.
Because you are doubtless familiar that the Wachowskis are progressive.
Very progressive.
And they're not happy that the bad people on the internet use the term red-pilled.
Because that, of course, came from the Matrix.
Because it was such amazing symbolism.
Take the red pill, you'll see your life as it really is.
Take the blue pill, and you'll go back into the Matrix not knowing anything was untoward.
And there's Neo taking blue pills.
Look at that symbolism.
Very subtle.
Oh, see, this is the real Matrix now.
See, what's interesting is that when the original Matrix was made, these didn't exist.
Like, it's such an old film.
This literally wasn't possible.
And another thing as well, right?
Cell phones are like, you know, mobile phones were quite new.
And they had this particular kind of phone that had a spring on the thing.
So you clicked it and it flipped open and then you could call somebody.
It was so cool.
And that was the thing as well, right?
One of the things about the Matrix is the style of it, the aesthetic of the Matrix was legendary.
It was so eye-catching.
It was so interesting.
You know, and the cast is young.
They look cool.
Everyone looks badass.
They've got these amazing sunglasses.
They're wearing like black leather trench coats.
They've got these cyber phones, you know.
I mean, they didn't really do anything compared to phones now.
My God, you know, but at the time, when I had like this brick that could send text messages and receive calls, right?
And it was the first phone I had when I was like 19 girls to the university, and it was this big blue brick, basically.
And phones now are just so incredible.
Like, the technology was a part of the Matrix's appeal and charm back when it first came out.
Now, you know, your children play on technology that massively supersedes anything that was had then.
And so, yeah, like, anyway, it's just interesting how things have evolved.
But, yes, you can see this is not exactly subtle.
Oh, God, the blue pills.
Oh, God.
Yes, the subtle Alice in Wonderland reference.
Yes, we're going down the rabbit hole.
Yes, we're going to be, you know, taking the various pills that change her perception of and to body size and all this.
It's been a long time since I've read Alice in Wonderland as well.
But, you know, the metaphor of it is just so not subtle.
And it's like, look, it's embarrassingly transparent what you're trying to do here.
Welcome to Laurence Fishburne.
I mean, he got very old, obviously, because everyone got very old.
And that's, again, another problem with 20 years later.
We're going to remake or make another sequel to this film that nobody wanted.
So, yeah, but they're all old now.
You know, they're venerable.
Like, they should be doing films where they have venerable positions.
I mean, you know, I mean, maybe I'm going way overboard.
Maybe this is totally cynical on my part.
And if it is, I will be happy to say, well, hey, I was wrong.
I shouldn't have been cynical.
They did a great job and they may well have done a great job.
But again, why?
Why have we got some other guy playing what appears to be Morpheus?
Why do you need Morpheus?
We've told that story.
We've seen that film.
Tell us something new.
You know, and it's not even the world's worst premise either.
Is it like for somehow, you know, Trinity and Neo actually got conquered by the machines, plugged back into the Matrix?
Okay.
Okay.
What now?
Oh, Morpheus again.
No, give over.
You know, come on.
Do something original.
But instead, what do we get?
Morpheus with the red pill.
The fly.
Well, at least he took the red pill that time.
At least he's not still taking blue pills.
If you want the truth, Neo.
Follow the white rabbit.
I know how that goes.
I've seen this movie.
Like, Neo looking confused.
Again, it's like nothing new.
Because that's the thing.
In the original Matrix, like in the film, like he does nothing.
He's constantly the creature of other people that he's chasing around, right?
Until the very end was that, actually, no, I can see the structure of this and I can see how it works and I can manipulate it.
And suddenly he becomes his own man.
But that's like the growing experience about the whole film.
Do we want to watch that again?
And the thing is, it makes sense when you've got a guy in his 20s.
But when you've got a guy who's like in his 50s, does that make sense?
You're going to have to fool at me.
The only thing that matters to you is still here.
I know it's why you're still fighting and why you will never give up.
Okay, right.
Not thrilled with any of this, right?
So this isn't cool anymore.
This, you know, wearing the glasses and going into the alternate reality.
And, dude, like, the world has moved on.
You know, the world has moved so far on.
Like, put them in fursuits at least.
Don't even look cool.
And that's the thing, isn't it?
Like, it's hard to describe, but there's a kind of genuine aesthetic problem with using young people from California these days.
Like, they all look like they're just made of clay.
Like, made of plasticine, and they're just, you can push them over.
They're made of nothing.
These are people who've never had a hardship in their entire life, and it shows on their face.
And so it's like, oh, I'm an edgy, cool, you know, hitman or assassin.
It's like, no, you're not.
You're obviously not.
You're obviously an actress.
You know, you do not convince me of you playing the part.
I mean, listen to the delivery of the line here.
Like, this is another thing.
like terrible bitch if you want the truth you're going to have to fall on me the only thing that matters to you is still here I know it's why you're still fighting and why you will never give up.
See, now, one of the things I hate is when characters tell each other about their emotional states and motivations.
Just state it.
It's why you'll never give up.
What?
Don't show.
Show, don't tell.
Don't just tell me that this is how I'm supposed to think about Neo.
And this is, again, another crutch of modern filmmaking.
Is they just constantly say, you know, oh, this character is a badass.
It's like, you never have to say that.
Virtue is self-evident.
If the character's a badass, everyone around can see it from the actions of the character.
And if they're not a badass, then don't tell me that they are because everyone knows that now you're a liar.
You've put this narrative gloss on something that's just not essentially true.
And it's just hollow.
It's totally hollow.
And I really despise it.
But this is modern Hollywood filmmaking in a nutshell.
You know, this narrative gloss where they will tell you, this is what we want you to feel.
And if you don't feel that way, well, then there's something wrong with you because this is, we told you what you're supposed to feel about Neo, about this other character, about whatever, about whatever.
It's like, yeah, but you should learn how to tell a story again.
Because this is something that Hollywood has genuinely forgotten how to do.
And which is why Hollywood films are all shit these days.
What was the last Hollywood film you were excited to see?
I mean, the last one I enjoyed was Joker.
And that's because that was clearly made as a protest at what Hollywood is and has become.
I'm going to make a film about incel uprisings.
You know, oh yeah, but Hollywood's thrilled about that.
But it resonated with people, didn't it?
That's the thing.
Billion dollar for a goddamn cheapo film resonated with the people.
Why?
Why?
Because it's authenticity.
All of it's about authenticity.
And Hollywood is not authentic.
The people making the movies are not authentically good.
The stories they are telling are not authentically interesting.
And the actors themselves, well, probably either paedophiles or have been diddled by pedas because we can see the outgrowth of all the Me Toos and the Harvey Weinsteins and the Kevin Spaceys and all of this.
We know that Hollywood is a gross place full of gross people who sit there moralizing at you.
Nothing authentic about any of it.
But anyway, let's carry on.
You don't know me.
No?
Is that meant to be Morpheus?
I suppose it is.
It's a chap who looks like Lawrence Fishburne looked.
They've even got the pitted skin, so I'm guessing that it's supposed to be.
You know, I mean, like, how inspiring is this dialogue?
You're this, you're that.
this is why you keep fighting.
It's like, I mean, I'm just so cynical of the, the rhetoric.
I'm broken.
I'm fighting.
Oh, you're not warriors.
It was just people stuck in the drudgery of middle-class suburbia in California.
You're not fighting anything.
You're not really heroic.
You're just going about the motions because you know you're supposed to.
And you wish, you wish that you had an existential battle to fight.
But you don't.
We conquered all the demons.
We slew all the dragons.
And now you're stuck playing make-believe about problems.
Anyway, now we get some CGI.
Oh, God, CGI.
Again, when The Matrix first came out, folks, right?
You've got to understand.
CGI was not a big thing.
Now, I know that might be for any of you who are in the chat, right?
If any of you are sort of like 20, 25, let me know, right?
Because you're not going to know that once upon a time, films had to be good.
They had to be decent.
Like, cinematography mattered.
Like, the models that they would have to make were real.
You know, things had weight.
Things felt like they were real because they actually were there.
You know, the actors were actually interacting with things.
Things weren't just green screen and then CGI, right?
And films were much better for it.
I don't want to sound like too much of an old man.
But I just don't care about CGI at all.
But when The Matrix first came out, right?
And it was, there was CGI in Fight Club as well and a few of the films of that sort of era.
But The Matrix is the first one that really, really made a difference.
And things that was done very, very well.
Now, looking back on it, you can, you know, it's all CGI ages badly.
And so you can go back and see the reflections in the glasses when he's taking the red pill.
You can see that it's CGI'd on.
But at the time, because you weren't used to looking for that sort of stuff, it wasn't obvious.
You know, and, you know, the various fight scenes and the weird camera angles and how they're all put together and stuff like that.
It was amazing.
It was genuinely amazing.
And they did it to present an experience that you'd never had before.
This, who gives a fuck?
Just CGI the whole fucking thing.
I don't care.
I don't care about anything that's happening here.
Oh, look.
Neo's going to blow something up.
Ooh, look at that.
CGI.
Woo!
Don't give a fuck.
I know where this is.
This is a thing in Germany, I believe.
This is called the Devil's Bridge or something.
But who cares?
Look, I can just tell this is just a CGI computer generated model.
I don't care about this.
I don't care at all.
I am in no way invested.
And there's no reason why I should be.
This is just uninteresting.
God, I can't wait to hate watch this over Christmas.
Oh, wow.
The Matrix.
Haven't seen that before.
And again, like, what is this, right?
Nostalgia.
Hey, you remember the things that were collecting the pods and moving them around in The Matrix, don't you?
Yeah, I did.
And I really enjoyed it in the Matrix films when I saw it for the first time.
I don't need to see it again.
That's not making it against the Star Wars thing, isn't it?
Do you remember the Millennium Falcon?
Yeah, I did.
Don't desecrate it, please.
I'd like it to stay in my memory.
And if I want to see it again, I'll watch the film that it was in originally rather than this one where you're raping it repeatedly.
Why would I care?
But hey, guess what?
You need to see another thing you've seen before.
Look at that.
See, do you remember they were flying around in the ruins of the old world with the robots chasing them?
Yeah, I remember.
I remember.
Oh, they're on top of a building.
Brilliant.
That's they're on top of the building before.
they're going to jump from one building to another.
Amazing!
Oh, this CGI and jumping around buildings.
Oh, I haven't seen that before.
And let me see that agent again.
That wasn't Agent Smith, was it?
Hugo weaving.
Again, like, okay, so it's not, it's just some other guy, but like, you know, oh, they change.
Yeah, I know they change, you know.
You can't, like, show me this and be like, oh my god, look, that agent just changed the cop just changed into an agent.
Yeah, I know.
Like, this is not original.
There's nothing new here.
Like I was saying earlier, right?
All of these things, these are the sort of different narrative strands of the previous thing, right?
These are all there.
Yeah, we all know they're there.
We know how they work together.
Now, bring me in a bunch of new ones and see, tell me how they connect together.
Nothing is connecting here.
You're not building a new layer on top of a layer on top of a layer.
You're just like, hey, look, these things you've seen before.
Would you like to have them again?
No.
No, I don't.
I don't want them again.
Thank you.
Why would I?
Honestly, who cares?
Who...
Ooh, look.
It's like, you know, they're doing the karate again.
Yeah, we know.
We know.
We know.
There's nothing new.
There's nothing interesting.
And I don't care.
Like this weird, obligatory Hollywood action in trailers.
It doesn't get people excited.
Maybe I'm just an old man who's become cynical, right?
But who cares?
Like, why?
Who was inspired by any of this?
Old man jumping!
Like, I'm 42 and I would be too old to do this.
Okay.
Come on.
None of this is cool anymore.
None of this is original.
None of this is edgy.
This has all been done a million times before in a million other franchises.
Like, there have been like two dozen Fast and Furious movies that all do this kind of shit.
Nothing about this is original or inspiring or interesting.
just and it looks like like a very obvious like crappy set as well after all these years to be going back to where it all started back to the matrix
Right.
This is the worst part of the whole fucking thing, right?
This is the character that breaks the fourth wall and speaks in a meta-ironic way to you, the audience.
They know you know what the Matrix is because you've seen it before.
And they sit there and go, well, if we can just have a character that says that, then you're kind of in on the joke.
And it's like, no, now you've taken me completely out of the thing.
Now my sense of immersion is completely broken.
Like, just, oh, we're going to go back to where it all began.
The Matrix, or however he phrased it.
Now, get fucked.
There's no point.
Now, now I know that you are not telling me a story.
Now I know that basically you are trying to construct the illusion of a story.
You have gone back through what the Matrix is.
Right, okay.
These people think this and this and this and this and this.
So if you put all this together in a certain kind of way, hopefully they'll think they're watching a fucking Matrix film and they'll give us their fucking money.
That's what this is.
I hate it so much.
Let's watch this again.
Just because how much I hate this.
To where it all started.
Back to the Matrix.
Like, the Matrix, as if that's in this world is supposed to be conjuring up something in their heads that would be the same as in the viewer's head, right?
The characters in The Matrix don't have the same view as the Matrix as you, the audience, do, and he's trying to connect the two.
I hate it so much.
There's no mystique to the Matrix now.
We're four films in now.
We know all about it.
You know, you're going to have to have presented us something new to give a new sense of mystique, of mystery, of shadow, and like something interesting going on.
But there's nothing there that suggests to me that there's anything new or original that's about to come out of this story.
All I'm going to see is nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia.
It's like, I just don't care.
I can't wait to hate watch this.
I can't wait.
Let's just see if there's any more.
No, right, okay.
Awful.
Absolutely awful.
One obvious, obvious money grab.
Anyway, how are you?
They're going to milk it into oblivion.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
So how do you guys feel about the Matrix?
But you say The Matrix for Zoomers, but you can't really do that because The Matrix had deep cultural impact.
Like, I imagine that most Zoomers have watched the original Matrix.
They probably watched it when they were like 12 years old.
Because it's not like a gross film or something.
It's not like it's...
I mean, what's actually the age rating on The Matrix?
That's R for violence, right?
Okay, but like, fine.
But like, you know, it's not like a film that if you watched it, it would damage your mental well-being as a child.
You know?
Anyway, yeah, remember The Matrix?
No, it doesn't look good.
It doesn't look good at all.
I'm 24, watch all of them.
Of course you have.
Like I said, probably watch it when you're 12.
Like, absolutely, absolutely.
Cringe and blue pill.
That's correct.
But they're also obviously going to be loading sort of social justice bollocks into it.
It's not as bad as the Wheel of Time Trailer.
I haven't seen that, actually.
I haven't read the books either.
But why does he look like John Wick in this?
Well, because Keanu Reeves is now Keanu Reeves.
It's just an old guy with beard.
So.
Honestly.
Can't stand it.
Yeah.
Gen X for the Win Cultural Values Matter well.
They used to.
But the thing is, Gen X checked out and fucked up anyway.
But they had this little website, which choice is yours.
What is thematrix.com?
And I looked at this very briefly before doing the stream.
And what's interesting is, again, there's just no meat here at all.
There's no mystery here at all.
Let's take the blue pill.
Should we take the blue pill?
I think we should take the blue pill.
Come on, you know you want to.
It's been stressful getting woke to all of the SJW bullshit that's trashed our civilization.
And it's driving it down into the gutter until it's not even going to be worth picking over for carrion.
Let's take the blue pill.
Let's go back in.
You know what?
Trans women are women.
Do you remember how you got here?
You've lost your capacity to discern reality from fiction.
That's what happens when you take the blue pill.
What's real is here.
And now.
11.46 p.m.
Well, that's cute.
Anything else is just your mind playing tricks on you.
Listen and believe.
It becomes a problem when fantasies endanger us.
We don't want anyone to get hurt, do we?
Oh, that's interesting.
But yeah, take the blue pill, listen, and believe.
Well, you know what?
Let's do it.
Let's take the red pill.
This is the moment for you to show us what is real right now.
We believe it's 11:47 p.m.
But that couldn't be further from the truth.
Could be.
This is the first day of the rest of your life.
But if you want it, you gotta fight for it.
Oh, so we get to see the messed up face again when he first talks to Agent Smith.
And, you know, how you scream if you don't have a mouth or something.
His mouth's all CGI'd over.
Again, it was deeply impressive in the first Matrix film.
Don't care about it now.
But there was something at the end there.
There was a guy who looked like being put together by nanobots.
That's new.
Something new.
My goodness.
I can't wait.
I can't wait to see what that's about.
Thrilling.
But anyway, so what have people been saying?
Five things we learned from the first trailer.
Oh, good.
Can't wait.
Let's see what we have to learn about here.
Can't we?
The long-awaited fourth film in the Mace-Ups transfer.
Long awaited by who?
So, who have we got here?
Keanu Reeves, Carrie Ann Moss, Jada Pinkett Smith.
I don't care about anything.
Neil Patrick Harris.
Brilliant.
So, what did we learn?
Priyanka Chopra Jonas might be the oracle.
Again, why not?
Why not?
Why not just dredge up another old character?
Why not?
There's nothing new in Hollywood at all.
They can't tell new stories.
They don't know what a story is.
All they know is that you like these certain narrative points.
And so they're just going to throw them all up.
Oh, here you go.
There's a bunch of things you remember, isn't there?
Okay, so is Neo back to his old life?
Maybe.
So the third matrix film ended with Neo seemingly dead.
Okay, fine, yeah.
He doesn't remember Trinity.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right, okay.
So it's happening again, judging by the many overt nods the original Matrix again.
Overt nod.
Come on.
Ripping, obviously, ripping off nothing.
The presence of the woman with the rabbit tattoo and the notorious red pill blue pill scene is going to tie heavily back in, as in they have nothing.
They're just going over the same storyline as usual.
So fans react to the extremely impressive footage of Keanu Reeves.
Guys, I hope you were impressed.
If you weren't impressed, you're not a fan.
True fans are constantly impressed with things.
What an obvious cash grab.
But I mean, this is just the future, right?
This is the future of movies in the West.
Because apparently we've run out of stories to tell.
And so what this is now is us like the gravediggers of civilization.
Just going in, going, right, what did people used to like back in the day?
Oh, I found another grave.
Quick, get your shovel.
Oh, look.
It's the Matrix.
Right.
Oh, dust that off.
Reanimate that.
Like the zombie franchise.
I mean, God, what's next?
You know, what's the next zombie franchise?
We've done Indiana Jones.
We've buggered the corpse of Star Wars for all it's worth.
Honestly, Jurassic Park actually is doing better than the rest, to be honest.
But even then, they don't.
They don't know what the last Jurassic Power film was shit.
Oh, we're going to be in a mansion with a bunch of dinosaurs.
Why?
I mean, don't get me wrong, at least it's new.
It's just a bad story.
But at least it was new.
You know, I suppose that's original.
So I shouldn't, you know, props to them.
And Chris Pratt is at least an entertaining chap.
You know, you can't watch Chris Pratt and not have a good time.
But they don't know what they're doing with the stories.
Why not?
Why don't they know how to tell a story?
It's so weird.
Like, they should do what the alien franchise did.
Make a different kind of movie.
You know, don't, you know, I mean, I suppose they were trying to make a horror movie with that, I suppose.
So maybe I should maybe just lay off on the Jurassic franchise.
But, you know, what's the next franchise to be defiled?
Well, it's the Matrix.
Anyway, so let's see what they say.
I just saw the trailer for Matrix Resurrection at Comic-Con.
Cinemacon, sorry.
And it looks so badass, Scott Menzel wrote.
I was so worried.
It wasn't going to wow me, but I was totally wrong.
The only thing that shocked me is how few of the main characters don't appear in the trailer.
Yeah, the trailer is absolutely stunning.
Extremely impressive footage.
Truly brought the house down.
Why is it they sound like corporate advertising executives?
Extremely impressive footage.
But is this within budget?
You know, like it's so weird.
Is this what a human says?
Or is this what the advertising executives say?
Keanu Reeves looks fantastic as Neo.
Yeah, does he, though?
He looks like a homeless person.
You know, like, he's not the young man who cut an amazing figure in the style, you know, the stylish thing with the glasses and stuff like that in the original films.
He's not that same guy now.
But anyway, Trinity were Neo and Trinity were wrecking shit by the end.
Yeah, CGI shit.
Motorcycle, CGI, helicopters, CGI, rocket launchers, CGI, jumping off buildings, CGI, an incredible slow-mo.
Ooh, slow-mo.
God, imagine being this vapid.
Sorry, I don't mean to sound so cynical, but god damn.
I hate everything about Hollywood these days.
Everything in it is just pointless.
Any other notes?
No, that's just like three people.
Three people were impressed.
And the independent were like, right, print, right, get it on the internet.
That's more ad clicks for us.
So glad we don't use adverse.
All right, so what was this one?
Yeah, that was the teaser trailers.
Thousands of video teasers?
Thousands?
Where?
Teasers can be accessed online?
What?
Are there more than one?
If I go back and watch a different one, will I get a different...
This is the moment for you to show us what is real.
Right now.
This is different.
11:53 p.m.
But that couldn't be further from the truth.
is this thing could be the same this is the first day of the rest of your life But if you want it.
No, that was the same thing.
You gotta fight for it.
I'm sure.
Well, maybe that was different.
I don't know.
It's late, we're right.
Anyway, so on the website, both the blue pill and it is changing.
Okay, fair enough.
All right.
And to be honest with you, I mean, don't be wrong, this was quite a nicely made little website.
You know, well done.
According to Gizmodo, the website can unlock 180,000 unique video teasers.
God, imagine spending your time figuring that out.
Depends on the time of day and the pill that's chosen.
That's fun.
Shame didn't make a good movie.
I'm so cynical, but like, I haven't seen, obviously.
The Matrix 4 test screening reveals verdict on Lano Wachowski's long-awaited sequel.
Okay, let's see what they say.
It's allegedly been test screened in the US, and it sounds like it's a wild ride.
God, I can't wait.
I mean, assuming there are any cinemas left.
Leaks about the new Wachowski film have thankfully been kept to a minimum, so any word on the officially untitled sequel is being met by feverish excitement by fans.
You know, alright, if these leaks have been kept to a minimum, kind of makes me think it's because it's shit.
A regular test screening attendee claims now to have seen the film.
It is called Matrix Resurrections.
For the record, even though the invite said a new Matrix movie, the on-screen title is officially Matrix Resurrections.
Blah, blah, blah.
He called the film meta-engrossing, surprisingly funny.
Yeah, I'm sure if you're a Californian, you'll find it funny.
And ambitious to a fault.
And predicted that the general reactions will be wildly mixed.
Well, I can tell that this is going to get 10 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes, but it'll get an audience score of like 30 out of 100.
Because we've seen this so many times before.
Because they want to present a narrative about a thing, but the essence of the thing will be empty.
It will be missing, and that's what the audience is there for.
They don't care about your political narratives surrounding these films.
They don't care about how you're trying to essentially construct a fiction out of the things that you have taken, emptied out, and wrapped around yourself like a skin suit.
No one cares about that.
The people who will love it will love it.
This is definitely a work of Cloud Atlas Lana Wachowski and not Jupiter Ascending Lana Wachowski.
I've not watched either of those films, so I don't know what that means.
But right, so what they're saying is there will be politically correct narrative around the film that people can adhere to, and you will be able to sustain your political correctness by saying, I liked Matrix Resurrections.
And if you don't, you're alt-right.
How dare you, you Nazi?
Which incidentally is.
And again, I just searched the independent Matrix 4.
And oh, yeah, we get to talk about the alt-right now.
Oh, oh, God, alt-right.
I don't want to be part of that.
You know, I love the Matrix Resurrections.
I love it.
Oh, don't call me a Nazi.
That's what this is going to end up as.
And again, there's nothing to these articles.
Look at this.
It's like 10 sentences.
The Matrix who was shot in Berlin in San Francisco.
They don't know anything about it.
Throw up these articles.
Just spam, spam, spam.
So, anyway, red-pilled.
Can the Matrix Resurrections reclaim Neo from the alt-right?
It's not the alt-right that use red pill and blue pill, right?
It's people who are dissidents from the mainstream narrative.
And that's so many different kinds of people.
You know, it's literally not just alt-right.
But anyway, we get to hear about how.
I mean, look at the way he says this.
Can we save the franchise?
See, this is the political narrative.
This is how the people who love it will love it because they'll consider it to have saved the franchise from its twisted veneration by Trump sports and men's rights activists by destroying their love for the Matrix by bastardizing and ripping it out, wearing it as a skin suit, and saying, See, this was what it was the whole time.
The whole thing is going to have a political bent to it.
And I'm just not interested.
But I'm going to enjoy ripping into it.
So, anyway, obviously, he goes through the origin of this.
And then he complains that typical alt-right people such as Elon Musk, famous alt-writer, tweeted, take the red pill.
And Ivanka Trump, another alt-writer, said, Taken.
And Lily responded pithily with, F you both of you.
Oh, I can swear on here.
Fuck the both of you.
And it's like, right, okay.
That's cringe.
You're cringe.
Stop being cringe.
You're all cringe.
What are you doing?
Anyway, so men's rights activists vociferously adopted it, believing they'd seen the truth that society was unfairly structured to benefit women.
Oh, no, no, dude, dude, what are you talking about?
Society's clearly unfairly structured to benefit men, which is why they die sooner.
They earn less money than the minority in universities.
No one gives a fuck about men.
There are no affirmative action programs for men.
That's why they get screwed in divorce courts.
And that's why, when the women are starting to actually get the same treatment, because they're out-earning their husbands now, there's like, oh, I don't want to have to pay this money.
Well, this was the situation.
This was the civilization you wanted us to set up.
But no, the men's rights activists are completely wrong about all of this.
Women are being deeply oppressed, obviously.
That's how you don't get these narratives coming out anymore.
Isn't that interesting?
Like, it feels so quaint.
Oh, they come such as red pillars that congregate online in deeply misogynistic groups.
Misogynistic?
Bitch, the Taliban just took over Afghanistan and literally shot a pregnant woman in the face.
Like, we are online misogyny.
Women aren't allowed in public anymore.
They're not going to be going to school.
They're not going to have government positions.
But you're like, oh, online misogyny.
Jesus Christ, man.
It just seems pathetic, doesn't it?
And at the end of the day, to be honest with you, I'm just going to transition and become a woman myself.
So, you know, stop being transphobic, you bitch.
Anyway.
So we get to hear about how the red pill was quarantined.
Oh, God.
Quarantined on Redding.
Oh, goodness.
Again, it seems quaint.
And it's from another era, doesn't it?
Like, giving a fuck about what Reddit does.
So, anyway, what else have we got?
Oh, running motif for Trump supporters, QAnon followers, and anyone else who believed they were declaring their rejection of the perceived liberal consensus.
Well, yeah, that's the metaphor.
That's what they're using it as.
That's the way that it actually gels with reality as we know it.
This is the political divide.
People are like, look, I think that the left-wing politically correct narrative is actually a kind of bunch of bloody lies, and I don't really agree with them.
And this is driving our society into two warring factions that hate one another, that can't understand one another, and will end up in civil war.
But, you know, well, whatever.
They're just alt writers.
They're just bad.
Continue.
Maybe we'll eventually get shooting them.
Needless to say, this was not the message that Wachowskis intended to send out with the film to the world.
When they made The Matrix in 1999, they'd yet to come out publicly as trans women.
Lana transitioned after the Sisters made Speed Racer in 2008.
And then in 2016, Lily announced she had also transitioned.
Last year, in an interview, Lily Wachowski asked what she thought of fans now interpreting Matrix as an allegory for the trans experience.
And she pointed out that it always has been.
I'm glad that it had gotten out that that was the original intention.
Seems like retconning, doesn't it?
Seems very much like retconning to me.
It's like, you know, in 1999, no one said anything about this.
And the thing is, it's not like Hollywood wasn't very progressive in 1999.
Like, it's always been the place where boundaries have been pushed.
People in Hollywood are like, oh my god, something unusual.
That's awful.
Deeply traditional.
You know, trad Hollywood in 1999.
Get fucked.
Obviously not.
Anyway, but it feels like retconning to me this.
But I'm glad it gotten out that that was the original intention.
But why, you know, before hinting why it wasn't publicly discussed at the time, the world wasn't quite ready at a corporate level.
The corporate world wasn't ready for it.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
So they go through the trans symbolism.
And by the way, did you know that in the 90s, the prescription estrogen given to transitioning women did indeed come in the form of a red pill?
There we go.
That's how you know it was intended that way and not a happenstance.
It remains to be seen whether Alana Washowski will take the opportunity presented by her to return to the world of the Matrix to make these themes more explicit.
Oh, yeah, I'm sure she's not going to be hyping that up.
The fact that the red blue pill dichotomy is so prominent in the films and your advertising, though, does suggest she'd like to reclaim them.
Not symbols of right-wing nonsense.
Everything the right-wing has ever said is nonsense.
Believe the narrative.
Take the blue pill.
Cipher your way back into the Matrix.
Eat the steak.
Sit in the restaurant.
Everything's fine.
The world isn't falling apart.
You're not being lied to.
Joe Biden's the most popular president in history.
Good God.
Everything that these people who suggest otherwise are saying is just nonsense.
Right-wing nonsense.
Don't you understand?
Fuck me.
Who could stand to read The Independent?
Do they think do they believe their own bullshit?
Does who, sorry, who's written this?
Kevin E. Perry.
Does he sit there and think, yeah, yeah, now I've set the world to rights?
Those people who disagree with me, they're saying things that are just right-wing nonsense.
They're just racists and misogynists and Trump supporters.
Oh, God, I'm surrounded by them.
There were entire states of them.
Governors.
They had a president.
Oh, God, they must be full of shit.
So, yet you can't dominate the world through this one narrative.
It's not going to happen.
And that's why The Matrix resonated.
That's what the Matrix is, is the domination of a world by a narrative that's not true.
You fucking idiots.
But anyway, no, the perceived liberal consensus.
If you've taken their version of the red pill, you probably haven't had the COVID vaccine either.
What's that got to do with anything?
What has that got to do with anything?
What if I have a heart condition?
And the doctor's like, well, don't take the vaccine because there's a chance it'll do something to your heart or something like that.
And I'm like, okay, well, I won't.
And now, oh, now I'm a Trump-supporting alt-right misogynist, men's rights activist, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like, this bullshit can't last forever.
Anyway, the fact that it's in the red blah, blah, blah, blah.
So, yeah, not right-wing nonsense, but of positive change.
What's been positive about the left in the last five years?
What's been positive about it?
Like, what's good?
Where is the good in the left?
Like, it seems that all of the heroes of left have got serious mental disorders.
Like, and I mean, like, emotional, not, not, not gender dysphoria, but, like, they're depressed, they're on drugs, they're alcoholics.
Again, I mean, you know, like, all of them are depressed, it seems.
They put their little emotional, you know, I have autism or whatever my mental problems are in my bio because mental health is the crisis of the modern era, right?
And then you've got the alcoholics like Lindsay Ellis, the drug addicts like ContraPoints, the obvious grifters like Philosophy Tube.
Like, you look at them, you know, the total hypocrites, the people who are just out there for the money, like BreadTube in general.
You know, it's like, like, what's positive about these people?
Like, they all look really unhappy.
Listen to Hassan Pika's videos.
He's there screaming and shouting about like right-wingers.
And it's like, dude, they can't hear you.
They're not watching your videos because you're just telling them they're evil.
Like, why would they pay attention to you?
In the same way that, you know, your audience doesn't pay attention because obviously the MAGA chuds are being like, ooh, left-wing is evil.
And don't get me wrong, you know, no shade on the MAGA folk.
But, you know, this is just the way that things have become now.
It's like nothing, but there's nothing positive in the left.
At least the MAGA people have their families, man.
At least they have something to log off the internet for.
But what the hell does the left have any reason to log off and get out of the Matrix for?
Like, you guys are pro-Matrix.
You're pro-fictional narrative.
And to have total control of every aspect of your life.
In like Joe Biden the other day, and was it today or yesterday?
When he came out and was like, we're losing patience with those people who haven't had vaccines.
And then you see, literally, every fucking left-wing commentator just fall into line.
Like, oh, yes, sir, sir.
Oh, my God.
I can't believe that these right-wingers are opposing gulags for people who haven't had vaccines, says Karl Kalinsky.
You know, you boot-licking pieces of cowardly shit.
You are actually disgusting.
It's gross.
I see your tweets.
People send me your tweets.
I'm just like, wow.
Okay.
That's fucking grim.
Like, I thought these people were for liberty in some way.
I thought they were like, maybe totalitarian government control wasn't good, but because now it's Joe Biden doing it, and for some reason they all have to, you know, be team players.
If Joe Biden says it, well, that must be the right thing to do.
Let me find a rationalization on why the state should be allowed to tyrannize me.
It's mad.
It's absolutely mad.
And it's gross to see.
It's embarrassing.
Like, I can't even imagine why I would want to call myself left-wing in this day and age.
People are like, oh, you're a conservative.
You're a right-winger.
As long as you're not calling me a progressive.
Like, you know, you could call me a right-winger if you want.
You can call me a radical centrist or a milk toast centrist, whatever.
I don't care.
Just not left-wing.
Like, this is so gross at this point.
But anyway, it's about time.
It is, after all, the red pill that allows Neo to become the hero he's always destined to be by first allowing him to become the person he always was.
Was he?
Was there no character growth in Neo?
Is the red pill really what's being advertised here?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Anyway, can't, can't stand it.
I hate modernity.
Great point, Dan.
Joe, they told me to say it, Biden.
Exactly.
He literally comes out instructed on who he's supposed to ask questions of.
Absolutely, absolutely has no idea what he's doing.
Hold the line, Patriots agreed.
Hold the line.
Just whatever they're asking you to just say no.
Just say no.
Carl is a right-wing liberal because he saw the left as insane, but believes in liberal violence.
Well, yeah, I mean, like, you know, philosophically, I'm still a classical liberal.
My opinion hasn't changed.
You know, I think that we should have a constitutional relationship to the state.
It should be based on individualism, so we don't have group rights that supersede the rights of the individual and all that.
But I don't agree with the sort of social progressivism that has been infused into everything.
You know, there is virtue in conservatism.
There really is.
And, you know, that needs to be recovered.
There's nothing wrong with that either.
Cage-free, obsequious, facile, bootlicking, submissive slaves to the rulers of the Republic who pick their ruler from the chosen few for them by the political parties are super spreaders of tyranny.
That is a good statement, George Lloyd.
Yeah, it's mad, isn't it?
It's absolutely mad.
Is it funny that Cypher in the Matrix wanted to become an actor when he was blue-pilled and put back into the Matrix?
It is funny.
It is funny.
Liberalism is a right-wing ideology.
That's true.
It wasn't when it was first conceived of, but it is now.
It's time to lift the heaviest weight you can.
You cannot act, not enough to act disciplined.
You've got to look disciplined.
Well, I'm trying to look disciplined.
Alex Jones was today, was in podcast in Nerd Rotics on White Pill.
I haven't seen it.
If anyone's got any questions for me, go ahead and ask now because I'll probably finish my tea and then head off because it's gone midnight.
In these days, I've been a good boy in going to bed before midnight and getting a good night's sleep.
So I'm not used to staying up late.
It's probably visible in my eyes.
I'm pretty tired.
What mic am I using?
A sure mic of some sort.
It's pretty standard.
They're really good, though.
Is Lawrence Fishburne in the new Matrix movie?
I have no idea, but didn't see him.
Guy looks like Lawrence Fishburne.
We're heading to the Matrix Reality.
We're already in it.
The Matrix is an allegory for an overarching, all-encompassing narrative that's just not true.
And, yeah.
Did I see Jordan Peterson went full shill?
No.
I'm severely depressed at the state of my beloved nation, Yemi2.
Only just got notified that you were live.
Well, that's YouTube for you.
The film would be sad, sadder than Kardashian next season, which no one's going to watch.
They could have made prequels that could have been great.
Sorry for my bad English.
Don't care.
No, that's fine.
Yeah, they could.
Yeah, they could.
Does it say iron?
My shirt is ironed.
It's just I've been wearing it all day.
It's not creases.
It's fine.
Do I ever do contact Maula again?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Of course I'll talk to Mora again.
Looking forward to Maula and Rags.
Rags have been putting out videos again, which is great, because I really enjoy Rags' videos.
His organ was great.
Especially, he takes his time at the bazaar, so you get a nice long amount of content.
Same with Mauler, you know.
I actually do like having these long videos.
It just takes me ages to watch them.
Tim says, you're looking good and healthy.
Well, thank you.
I've been working very hard on losing weight.
Is Biden the Manchurian candidate?
Well, Bo wrote an article the other day.
Basically, it kind of seems like he might be.
He looks like he's being controlled by China or something, doesn't he?
But he's definitely being controlled by someone.
And his son is certainly in the pay of China.
So, I mean, just saying, it all lines up, you know?
Anyway, do I have a middle name?
Yeah, my middle name's Charles.
I used to hate that name when I was young because obviously everyone's like, oh, Charles, Prince Charles.
But these days, I don't mind it.
Will it be bad?
Yeah, it's going to be bad.
You know, it's going to be bad.
Everything's bad.
I feel like has anyone ever seen Network?
That's the, I'm going to get, I'm going to find out.
I'm going to find out.
I love this speech from the network.
We're going to watch it.
I don't have to tell you things are bad.
Everybody knows things are bad.
It's a depression.
Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job.
The dollar buys a nickel's worth.
Banks are going bust.
Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.
Punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe, and our food is unfit to eat.
We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
We know things are bad, worse than bad.
They're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore.
We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms.
Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radios, and I won't say anything.
Just leave us alone.
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad.
I don't want you to protest.
I don't want you to ride.
I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write.
I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've got to say, I'm a human being.
God damn it.
My life has value!
So, I want you to get up now.
I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.
I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!
I want you to get up right now!
Get up!
Go to your windows, open them, and stick your head out and yell.
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.
Things have got to change.
How many patients is this guy just mad?
I know it goes to the middle of Atlanta.
We're not going to take this anymore.
Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis.
But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out and yell and say, I'm as mad as hell.
I'm not going to take this anymore.
Who are you talking to, huh?
Are they yelling at Atlanta?
Are they yelling at Atlanta, Chad?
But first, you've got to get mad.
You've got to say, I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.
They're yelling in Baton Rouge.
So we'll stop there, right?
Because the thing, the irony, right?
Isn't that so?
Isn't that how talk about things that have aged well, right?
This was made in like the 70s network.
I can't remember the decade it was made in, but it's very old, as you can see.
The things that have aged well, because all of those same problems, all of those same problems we still seem to have.
But you have to understand, if you've seen the film network, you'll know that this is all containment, right?
The reason they're filming him, the reason they're, oh god, what are they saying in Baton Rouge?
Why are they saying Atlanta?
Because this is not a threat to the system.
They monetize this.
And he becomes a celebrity.
He becomes the catharsis that prevents people from actually enacting a form of change, any form of change.
And he becomes a celebrity.
And it's all packaged, it's all sold.
And the system carries on regardless.
So I'm not going to tell you to get mad.
I'm not going to tell you to shout outside.
It won't do anything.
It'll just make you feel less like things are going badly.
Anyway.
When am I going to do another collab with Critical Drinker?
Um.
Well, whenever, whenever we get some time, really, I suppose.
Just wanted to let you know I'm at a trade school for underwater welding.
Bloody hell.
I wouldn't be here if not for you pushing your audience to be better men.
Thank you.
See, that's what I'm going to tell you to do.
Make something of yourself.
And well done, AJ Cos, by the way.
Underwater welding.
That sounds impossible.
I dread to think how difficult that is to do.
So congratulations.
Because nothing I do is nearly that challenging.
Nothing that I do is nearly that interesting.
But good luck and well done.
And this is, you know, having a cathartic moment where you're screeching outside and then you get up and go to the job you hate.
That's not the answer.
The answer is to make sure that you, in your personal life, are living a decent life that you're happy with.
In the same way that AJ Cost there says.
Make sure that you go and do something you want.
Get that future that you want.
Don't wait for someone else.
Don't let someone else be the savior.
You are the savior.
You are the savior of your own life.
You're the hero.
You're the protagonist.
Make something of it.
Yeah, I'm going to do a stream with Lulavai.
I hear he got banned from the Twatter for using gamer words.
I mean, he was, he had a good run, so good to see you.
Good to see him off there now, to be honest.
Have Western movies become bad enough to turn to anime?
No.
Well, no, they are bad enough, but I'm not turning to anime.
Got a grip of my diet, went keto for three months, lost 15 kilograms.
Well done.
15 bloody kilograms.
That's excellent.
What video would you send someone to try and red-pill them?
I don't know.
I mean, depends on what that person is and, you know, the perspective that person has.
You need to think about yourself.
Think about it yourself.
Have I seen songs by rapper Tom McDonald?
Yes, I have.
Now, I'm not a rap fan.
It's not my genre.
But he seems to be very based and red-pilled.
He seems to know exactly what's going on.
And I'm genuinely impressed at the insight in some of his lyrics.
Anyway, underwater welding is the most Chad job ever.
Yeah, I mean, isn't it?
Isn't it just?
I've got to watch Black Lagoon.
Black Lagoon, never heard of it.
I almost had to leave my job because of the COVID restrictions in New South Wales, Australia.
Luckily, I live in the same suburb of my place of work.
Only found out the last minute.
And look at what Biden's doing with the, you know, just businesses with more than a hundred people will have to get, you'll have to have constant COVID tests or the vaccine or you can't work out.
It's like, really?
Really?
You don't have a constitution anymore then, right?
Joe Biden is just now the king of the United States.
The arbitrary, tyrannical dictator who gets to do what he wants.
Yeah, someone pointed out the what's the Charlie Chaplin dictator speech?
Yeah, this is a good speech.
You know, good speech about being human and humanity.
It's decent.
And it's something we don't think about anymore.
Be free of ideology.
I have seen Viva Fry.
Reaver Fry is a very good boy.
How's the 4th K modeling coming?
well actually uh so i i ah Ah, ha ha!
Ha ha!
Right?
So on my Facebook page, I have posted a battle report because my mum for my birthday for this year.
Because obviously I don't need anything.
All my material needs are met.
And she was like, what can I get?
I was like, I don't know.
And somehow, she and my son, when I was down there a couple of weeks ago, she ended up on the Games Workshop website.
Not because of my prompting, but her and Daniel sat there and she chose a box set that he wanted.
He wanted Necrons, and so I got Space Marines, and she ordered it for us.
And so that's fine.
I've actually been enjoying it more than he has.
But he's been painting his necrons.
He's doing quite well for a six-year-old.
He's very good, actually.
And we had a skirmish with just one-on-one to relearn the rules, and he won.
But we had a proper battle today.
So I had my Marines, the Primaris Marines, the Outriders, which are the bikers, and my Lord.
And then he had a bunch of Necron stuff.
And I just managed to beat him.
I just, only just got him.
But man, I was worried because halfway through that battle, it was looking grim.
And I was thinking, fuck, am I actually going to get trashed by my six-year-old son?
But no, no, it's fantastic.
And I'm really enjoying doing it.
Really enjoying it.
Dark Angels, I've painted them.
I've been trying to do like this really, because I've, for months and months and months, I've just been enjoying watching painting videos.
And there's a way of doing the Space Marine armor that makes it look like they're just glossy and shiny without making glossy shinies the way you paint it.
I've been trying to do the same thing.
It's kind of turned out okay, but it hasn't been as perfect as I wanted it to be.
But you won't get any paint videos from me because I'm shit at painting, really.
So anyway.
Yeah, no, no, I won.
So I'm not losing my touch.
I'm not losing my touch.
I did win, but only just.
I didn't let him win.
I did let him win.
So I can't remember what they're called, but he's got these three-legged sort of scythe-wielding Necron units.
And man, they're a pain in the ass.
Because they've got, you know, toughness five, three save, and four wounds.
And it's just like, Jesus Christ.
And so I was hammering them with the Space Marine bikes because they get loads of attacks.
But they're all strength four.
And, you know, so they've got unlikely to wound and they've got a good saving against them.
So I was doing hardly anything against these fucking things.
But no, I did.
I did win.
So that was good.
Yeah.
Shut up, Adam, Andrew, Andrew Rushdie.
Doesn't surprise me.
Obviously, you play Toast War.
I had a Orcs, orcs, orcs I had a campaign that I was playing a few weeks ago as Carthage, actually.
And Carthage is in a really unfavorable position in Rome Total War.
What is it?
Total War 2.
I did play the remastered, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
I actually preferred Total War 2.
I've got a mod, I can't remember the name of it, but it's a really popular one.
And it's really good.
But I was really having a good time resisting the Romans.
And I eventually managed to get to a point where I actually could storm the Italian peninsula, took Rome.
And so now I've got the Western Mediterranean as my own personal little lake.
I'm enjoying it.
Go, Blood Angels.
Oh, you're such a normie.
You don't want a painting tutorial from me.
I'd be terrible on it.
Right, any other questions before I go?
The left is anti-nature.
The left hates nature.
There is no left for us.
It's right.
There is only nature.
This is anti-nature.
Yeah, I've been saying this for a while.
They've turned nature into a counter-revolutionary force.
And it really does come from Francis Bacon's teleology of the Enlightenment.
And don't get me wrong.
In the 17th century, then it was definitely justified to say we need to use science for the relief of man, the reason for the relief of man's estate.
But I think that man's estate has been so sufficiently relieved that maybe we need to start worrying about living within our nature, what it is to be an animal, a human, and to live with one another.
What do I know, eh?
How is it coming to realize that the Christian right was right about everything but video games?
The good thing that the religious and traditionals have is an understanding of a bunch of problems about human nature that is baked into their worldview.
I can't remember where I heard it, but it was tradition is a set of solutions to problems we forgot we had.
And it's because, of course, the traditions, you grew up in them, you don't really see them, but they're always omnipresent around you.
And they solve a bunch of problems that never come up because you happen to live in a nice community.
You live by the rule of law.
You have your family, you have your friends.
And so the problems of not having these things just don't come up.
And so now, you know, we're getting to the point where people don't have their family.
They don't have their friends.
They don't have a belief in an objective moral structure to the universe.
And so now they're lost.
They're alone.
They're atomized.
They're confused.
They don't know.
Yeah, Divide Emperata was the mod.
They're confused.
They don't know what they're doing.
And they're depressed.
They don't get any exercise.
They take loads of drugs.
They eat shit.
They eat sugar and carbs and just constant loneliness and sadness.
Addicted to the dopamine hit of a couple of likes on Facebook or whatever.
And I'm not saying I'm not guilty of all these things.
Of course I am.
I'm the same as everyone else.
But it's at least understanding that these are vices that I think is what separates us from them, guys.
You know, we're all guilty of it, but just understand there is something better to be done if you just walk outside.
It's nice.
Sometimes the sun's shining.
You know, especially in England, walk around the countryside is beautiful.
I have not seen Psycho Pass.
Fructose is my jam.
What do you think of that Chinese video game timing thing, though?
Well, I mean, I don't like the state imposing rules like that, obviously.
I don't think the government should be mandating to companies that they have to use facial recognition software to prevent children from using games on the internet, obviously.
But, conversely, I don't let my son play video games during the week.
If he's good during the week, I'll give him a couple of hours on the weekend where he's playing some stick war legacy or something on my phone.
But I severely limit the amount of time he gets to play video games because he's six, and I don't think it's healthy for a six-year-old.
And I remember when I was young, my dad, we had like an Amiga 500.
He wouldn't let me use it that much either.
And I wanted to use it all the time.
And he was like, no, you know, you can.
There were certain sort of times in the day where I was allowed to.
And I think he was right to do so.
Why is it called Bread Tube?
Because they think that they need to conquer bread.
It's named after a chap called Peter Kropotkin, who was anarcho-communist in the 19th century, who wrote a series of essays that were compiled into what was called The Conquest of Bread, making them a giant anachronism because the problem we have now is, of course, not lack of food, but obesity.
I am very happy as a dad.
Very happy.
Carl, you are guilty.
At least take some accountability.
Yeah, I've tried.
But like I said, I'm exactly the same as everyone else.
But yeah, no, I don't think that children should.
I mean, you know, for adults, obviously, you're a responsible adult.
If you want to play video games, play video games.
If you want to, you know, do something else, do something else.
You know, you're the one who manages your time, blah, blah, blah.
But for Celine, especially children as young as my children, nah, they need guidance.
They can't just be allowed free reign to access the internet.
Book recommendations for camera lucidia.
Nothing like hiring a Marxist who won't try the thing he's talking about.
Personal.
Realize personal agency is important.
Yeah, well, you can't expect them to do what they're advocating because they're full of shit.
Because they're Marxists.
Have I heard of Bronze Age Pervert?
I have, but I don't know anything about it.
LGBT and BLM, the current form of imperialism, as liberalism once was.
True, actually.
True.
Right, I think I'm going to head off because it's half 12.
How about that Jimmy Door, Karl Kalinsky, TYT feud?
Oh, I'm enjoying it.
I mean, Team Jimmy Door.
Jimmy Door's doing the Lord's work.
Kyle's become a boot-licking cuck, and TYT will always sell outs.
So, yeah.
There we go.
How many pull-ups can I do now?
Probably still only five.
actually haven't done very many pull-ups so we went uh went climbing the other day and i was i know we there's this one uh sort of route that you go up on this arch and there's nowhere to put your feet I was just saying, you know what, fuck it.
And I actually managed to just hoist myself up arm over arm.
I was really impressed by this.
I was very proud of myself because I'd never been able to do anything like that before.
And oh man, am I suffering for it now?
It was like two days ago that we went and I'm still aching in my shoulder muscles.
But it was worth it.
I was pleased.
Anyway, thanks for hanging out, guys.
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