The Culture War #73 Trump Assassination BREAKING Woke TV w/The Quartering
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I'm really excited to have a show where we just talk about TV shows and why they suck and how they could be better.
Last night, we saw The Boys season four finale.
And you know what's interesting is that it's looking like the Trump assassination attempt has caused an immediate shift.
What we know right now is definitively The Boys on Amazon Prime, a superhero show for guys that don't know, And they're basically mocking Trump and MAGA.
They had to put a disclaimer up.
But I'm wondering if they've actually made edits to the show because of the assassination attempt.
Now, there is a fear in liberal culture.
I mean, you look at Kyle Gass, Tenacious D. They're losing.
All their show's canceled.
Rumors are their insurance company's canceled.
You can't joke about this anymore.
So I'm wondering how this impact, or how this attempt on Trump's life is going to dramatically impact all of these different shows, and I think it absolutely will.
It's going to change the writing, it's going to change their structure, because you see what happens when Kyle Gass makes a joke!
They shut you down.
And so how are these other woke shows going to be able to operate?
So we'll talk about that.
Plus, we've got just the general idea around these anti-woke shows.
Of course, there was the new norm.
Mr. Burcham was the Daily Wire's attempt.
And we're going to talk about why they suck.
I mean, no disrespect, but why everybody dislikes this conservative attempt at making anti-woke comedy.
Today, to join us and talk about this is the expert on all things culture.
Okay, this show started off as a really great idea of let's make superheroes seem realistic, And then the guy who's basically Superman is a narcissist and he got an ego and Aquaman basically rapes a chick, you know.
And now it's just basically the superheroes are Trump supporters and Trump, like Trump is Superman, but he wants milk.
There actually is a lot of creativity in the superheroes.
This is how they would behave in the real world, right?
They would behave badly, power corrupts, all that stuff.
Yeah, it's unfortunate to see him kind of delve into the political... Well, the first season's fascinating because it gives you kind of a corporate Disney perspective how they would handle the situation and just how absolutely cold they are to actual real things and just how profit motivated they are, which is how a lot of American industries are absolutely run.
Now, that's a fair, I think, criticism to make, but then when you kind of overtly Try to blame one political side for all of that while you know the other side is just as culpable here.
That's when it becomes kind of disingenuous and that's when it kind of brings the hallmarkers.
That one scene specifically that comes to my mind that ended my journey and I hope the viewing audience will also get spoiler alert warning so I could put on my earmuffs.
But the one scene that I was left off of on The Boys was when the Donald Trump character, Homelander, literally shot a guy on Fifth Avenue and everyone applauded.
Which is something that Donald Trump specifically said beforehand, saying, you know, I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and my fans will still kind of support me and cheer for me.
They literally played it out.
And I was like, wow, there's so many layers to this propaganda.
Yeah, just to mention, like, airlines are completely shut down, credit cards don't work, I had to buy my coffee with cash, which was very strange, and, you know, it is what it is.
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It's mostly corporate computers hit all over the world.
A lot of people are saying that this is related to CrowdStrike, and this is having severe impacts on travel and a lot of businesses.
And someone just made the point that a lot of people will have to not just, you know, reboot their entire computers, but carry out a kind of complicated process in doing so.
So this is going to have tremendous economic effects on all the businesses, which are going to be vast and severe.
And now that we've gotten through our responsibility and talking about things that matter, let's go back to talking about things that matter a lot less.
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Boobie milk.
I was going to say though, you might want to keep cash in your wallet.
The boys season four finale makes one big change after Trump assassination attempt.
I don't believe it.
I think they made an I think they made more changes than this.
What Forbes is saying is that after someone tried to kill Donald Trump, they put a viewer discretion is advised.
This episode contains scenes of fictional political violence.
Any similarity similarities to recent events are completely coincidental and unintentional.
Prime Video, Amazon, MGM Studios, Sony Pictures, television and the producers of the boys oppose in the strongest terms real world violence of any kind.
I'm just saying, you know, we know who you are. - For 10 years, and oh boy, I could, I don't wanna swear, I'm gonna try to avoid swearing.
I could give an F.
These people online being like, but you've criticized, so you get the Krasnsteins, they're like, they're super mad at me because I keep pointing out how the feds rated them for the- - They did have some issues. - Well, they were like, I don't know, they're running a website that had scam ads or something, and they got really mad, and he's like, "Look how many times Tim Pool has said Civil War." He's a hypocrite because he's saying we call for violence and then he says this and I was like...
All of those posts they pulled up over five years of me saying things like Civil War.
First of all, a couple of them are jokes.
Like one was Civil War II pedophiles versus Nazis, which is literally a joke.
I don't think both sides are literally just storming at each other.
But they're all reactions to the left engaging in violence.
So the left says something like, we're going to arrest our political opponents, put them in prison, we're putting people in solitary confinement.
Specifically, one of the posts is like, they have just moved on to the phase to arresting the lawyers of their political rivals.
Now they've moved on to the arresting the frontrunner for the presidency.
Now we're on to the point where someone just tried to kill the man.
And my point is this.
Every step of the way, for ten years, everyone on whatever side this is, whatever you want to call it, has been saying no violence, violence bad, don't advocate for violence on social media, don't censor people, don't advocate for violence.
They've been doing these things the whole time with the Covington kids, posting the wood chipper, saying they want to punch the kid in the face, all of this stuff, and for a show like The Boys, To now be like, hey, you know, we don't care.
So Kyle Gass, tenacious D, thinks he can go on stage and make this joke.
And Jack Black says, I was blindsided.
Yet he laughs maniacally when Kyle Gass says it.
It was only when their insurance, this is the rumor, the rumor is their insurance company said, we will not insure any of your shows because you just basically called for this.
You literally said, do it again and win.
We're not going to cover this.
We can't afford it.
Well, now their shows are done.
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Well, the irony with the boys, too, is I think they're actually setting up a civil war.
I mean, if you... Spoiler alert, Luke.
It kind of seems like that's where they're trending.
And if you look at the, you know, one of the movies that made the biggest noises last year was the Civil War movie.
But the point I'm making, it's not like, you know, Hollywood isn't also kind of That's the funny thing is they're like, Tim Pool said Civil War, and I'm like, y'all made a movie.
Exactly.
Literally called Civil War, Americans vs. Americans.
But boy, did they capture the depravity of corporate journalists so well.
Did you see it, Jeremy?
The journalists are, when people die, they laugh and they smile.
At the end, when the main character- Spoiler alert.
The main character gets shot.
The- So, okay.
End of the movie.
Young girl who wants to be a journalist jumps into the line of fire to get the photo.
Main character runs up and shoves her out of the way, takes a bullet in the back.
As she falls to the ground, instead of rendering aid, her best friend steps over her body to go into the room to get the shot, and the young girl just takes a picture of her dead body.
That absolutely captured the depravity of these vultures, who quite literally call themselves vultures.
It was like a civil war was happening and it's about journalists who glorify death and murder.
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Yeah, but fair, but most people aren't going to see the movie and they know it's a civil war movie, Americans versus Americans.
But just everyone talking about it is a big deal as well when it comes to like predictive programming and when it comes to, of course, the scenes that are going to be reliving in people's own minds with what they think about when it comes to those kind of larger notions of conversations started by it.
I think it's also not a coincidence that for, you know, many years before this kind of larger geopolitical conundrum with Russia that we're facing, that a lot of the villains in Hollywood movies were Russian.
That we had this whole Russian collusion story.
Yeah, they were Middle Eastern, now they're Russian, and I'm like, oh, okay, hold on, we're probably going to go to war with Russia, as of course the CIA impacts Hollywood directly.
In 99, the Cold War is over, but all of the movies always had the bad guys were Russians.
And the funny thing is, before that, Disney movies had the bad guys were British.
unidentified
Well, and the bad guys won't be Chinese because China's paying a lot of money to actually, you know, China literally gets rid of flags from Taiwan from major American movies.
They're not going to be the bad guys anytime soon.
I honestly think you might see that change because the budgets are... The people I talk to in Hollywood are talking about, really, the day of the $400 million movie is coming to an end.
Like people would always, in my comments, just be like, yeah, you like the X-Men, right?
That was political too.
I'm like, yeah.
Can you remember any long on the nose political statements that they made during X-Men?
No, they were making a broader point about, you know, certain things at times, but now they've gotten lazy.
If you look at the boys, I think it should be a rare compliment for me is that you have a show where critics and fans for three seasons agreed that it was good.
The political element of it was added decades later.
The civil rights movement was decades before the writers decided to create this humans versus mutants element of civil rights.
And so even when you look at the more modern context of X-Men, When you have Magneto and the Brotherhood and all the stuff in the late 90s, 2000s movie, civil rights was 50 years before that, 40 years before that.
What they're doing right now is they're like, on the news last night, Donald Trump did this thing and they have a character do it and I'm like, bro, we get it, okay?
unidentified
I will say the new Wolverine Deadpool, probably not going to be political, more of a money grab.
Yeah, I think that we'll see if they can recover, but I think we're turning things around.
So, this is the point I wanted to make about the boys' season finale.
I think we may be looking at a point where the assassination attempt was an inflection point.
The example being Kyle Gass saying don't miss Trump next time as a joke.
Jack Black laughing his ass off.
The crowd laughing and then all of a sudden they're gone.
They are out of mainstream culture.
They have lost their shows.
He's saying the band is basically on hiatus.
No new future endeavors.
And the question is how that happens, even though Kyle Gass profoundly apologized.
The rumor is, of course, their insurance companies are like, we literally don't care.
We ain't gonna go anywhere near this.
The fear is that when you encourage that, a crazy person shows up to a venue and does something, when they celebrate an assassination, the fear is someone's gonna retaliate against them.
And so with no insurance, no venue, no show, you're gone.
So now we look at the boys.
There's spoiler alerts to a certain degree.
The ending scene, it's the weirdest shit.
And it could just be that the show is trash and has been falling apart, but the last 15 minutes seems more like a montage recap than an actual show breaking down a story.
So if you ever watch a recap, it's like it's just jumping from bit to bit.
That's basically what happens.
So again, spoiler.
Uh, they're meeting up to talk about Homelander being a problem.
There's no conflict with Homelander.
They don't fight with Homelander.
All of a sudden, just blink!
Billy Butcher explodes Victoria Newland, and I'm like, wait.
Well, and the funny thing is the scene before that, so for those that don't know, you have the two factions, Seth Rogen made MAGA the Nazi Justice League, and then they want to kill, you know, the good guy Antifa, right?
So yeah, the Antifa and MAGA, right?
And it's funny, like the scene before that, the Antifa group comes together and like, violence isn't the answer.
We're going to choose forgiveness, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They made this big scene about like, you know, turning the other cheek and stuff.
Totally real, right?
Right, right.
While the MAGA guys are going around killing people in their building.
So it's like really the stark difference between...
To be fair, this season has been very bad, in comparison to 2 and 3.
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Yeah, it's been very, very, very overtly political, but also, too, they have to make MAGA the bad guys, and this was the perfect way to do it, you know, and now their goal is to go and round up Antifa and arrest them and put them in the gulags, right?
Yeah, and so, but here's what I'm really interested in.
So, nobody saw the assassination attempt coming in this degree.
I mean, obviously, Tucker Carlson, everyone's been warning, but did we really know or think this is what things would look like?
I think they're in trouble with this show because how are they now going to have a show, have another season next year?
Trump's going to win.
The media is going to be like, yes, Trump's the good, like they're not going to say he's a good guy, but the culture is shifting.
Kyle, like Tenacious D getting their entire careers blown up because they said this thing.
How is the boy is going to try and maintain that line when they've become the bad guys in the public view?
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I was going to say, I just don't think they care.
You know, I think Seth Rogen wrote it exactly how he wants it, and you know, I think they're leading up to the Summer of Love 2, just like kind of how we are if Trump wins, I think.
No, but I mean like Snoop Dogg had a video, right, where they, I think they... Yeah, he points a gun at Trump's head, pulls the trigger, and then a flag comes out saying, bang.
So you have that, right?
So then the thing happens, and then it's like, Hollywood's just like, I just wonder, Hollywood just didn't suddenly grow.
But clearly there has been a line and they haven't cared too much.
I think what happens now is it's all fine and dandy until someone actually pulls the trigger and the insurance companies are saying, OK guys, We don't want to lose money here, so none of this anymore.
unidentified
Yeah, I agree with that too, and you know, the dollars are definitely important, but if you look at the last season of the boys here on Amazon, it's down to a three and a half star rating.
The show is just getting worse because it's on the nose.
Look, the first couple of seasons they had something good, and then Seth Rogen was like, I can take a dump on this.
And now they're basically, you know what they should do?
I got an idea.
Seth, if you can hear this, I hope someone sends you this clip.
Have Homelander walk up to the camera.
for the first episode of the next season and just have the camera pointed at him and he should go i'm donald trump and antifa are actually the good guys but i'm evil so i'm going to hurt good people and then have him just give us give a soliloquy of all of your political views and that'll be the whole episode and then we never have to watch it again get it over with yeah yeah uh he probably he honestly doesn't care making a dvd bonus actually they don't make dvds anymore about it If you look at his latest projects, I mean, they just re-released Sausage Party.
And they were like, they made Shaggy a black dude.
Of course.
unidentified
Well, Mindy Kaling, yeah, they did that with, what was that latest show that was based on Scooby Doo, what was it called, where Mindy was the main character.
Like, I think if it's If there's like a historical figure, and you're gonna make a show, like Anne Boleyn, who's black, maybe not, you have a black actress play a historical figure, if it's gonna be like Gordon, like, I look at this, and what's shocking about this is I don't actually care at an individual level, like, you know, Wally, what's his fa- Wally West, they had a black character play him even though he's a ginger, And I'm like, oh, I don't really care.
Like, we're playing make-believe.
I don't care what the superhero is as long as we get along and they fit the character's persona.
I said, It's like blackface without the historical context.
When the movie came out I said, yeah I actually don't care for the most part when fictional characters are depicted by literally anybody who wants to play the role because we're playing make-believe.
You know maybe you want to match the genders properly and fit the character's persona and stuff like that especially like if they made it a gay black mermaid guy who's with another guy it'd be like we're getting a little crazier.
That was where they tried filming The Seven Companions because Dwarf was offensive, and then they had to undo it and go back because everybody hated it.
But these people come in and they're more concerned.
The exact same thing happened to the boys, right?
Look, you live in a mythical world.
You could have infinite black people.
Infinite!
Why did you make Aragorn black?
Like, he's not black in the movie, and he's not black in the book.
So it's like, you don't have to do that.
And then black folks are like, I don't want this.
There's a non-zero percentage of black folks who are like, dude, we know.
Like, this is dumb and cringe.
This is who thinks of these ideas, overweight white women.
That's who thinks Of like, who thinks this is a good idea.
unidentified
Right, and also that score, right?
Like, the corporate score in Hollywood, or if you have a person of color on the screen a certain amount of time, like, you get a certain... Well, that's how you get a Grammy now.
Early set, for those that don't know anything about it, the general idea is it's a strategy card game, it's the first trading card game, it's chess and it's poker combined, and a lot of people think it's like D&D, it's not, you're not dressing up like a wizard or anything like that, you're playing chess and poker combined, and so there's intellectual property backing the story, much like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh.
So there's characters, there's Urza, there's Mishra, and there's a character type, a special wizard called a Planeswalker who can move between dimensions, and so within like a year or two of the release of this game, they come out with a set, an expansion called Mirage and Visions, and one of the most powerful characters is a black wizard named Teferi, and it was never that he was a black wizard.
He was literally just a planeswalker named Teferi who can control time and other things.
It was a very Afro-centric themed magic style.
And it made sense because the people who were behind the magic were thinking about what types of magic are there in culture that we could utilize as themes for our cards.
And so they had like Nordic ideas.
They had dwarves, elves, goblins.
And then they tried to do like, well, let's do like Afro-centric style stuff.
Nobody complained about it.
It wasn't woke.
There was no problem.
It was really cool.
People liked the theme.
Now they're making Aragorn black instead of making new cards that fit the themes that matter to different cultures.
This is the weirdest thing because I refer to this as like the hand-me-down wokeness.
And then we have this one too, Aragorn, King of Gondor.
And I'm just like... Okay, look, if a story is written and a character is set... Like Blade.
When I'm talking about an actor, Idris Elba played Heimdall.
And Heimdall is like a Norse god and a lot of people complain because they're like, Heimdall is a Nordic white man and I'm like, I don't really care all that much about that.
I don't really care that much because Idris Elba, I think, is a great actor.
I think he did really well in that role.
I don't care if he plays James Bond or whatever, but I can understand why people who want to see a Nordic god, a piece of their culture, represented fairly are upset about it.
There is something to be said about maintaining the story.
There's so many kids growing up right now that think Thor and Loki and Odin are Marvel superheroes, and they've lost that history completely.
I totally understand if it's your culture and your tribe, and they're bastardizing your story.
It would be like taking Jesus and putting him in the Marvel Universe and saying, you know, Jesus is, you know, it's... Yeah, and this is a fair point, too.
If you did the inverse with other races, people would get really mad, which is really interesting now with Assassin's Creed, the new game that's coming out, because they made a black samurai in feudal Japan, and Japan's threatening to boycott it.
Because Assassin's Creed, for those that don't know, is a video game where it's a period set video game in various different eras where there's like a Greek mythology, there's Sumerian, There's piracy, there's British, and the characters fit the theme of the historical era in the region they're in.
But when they made Japan, the character they give you is a black samurai, instead of a Japanese warrior, or whatever.
Yeah but yeah but like Japan actually has the balls to say like uh not we're not doing that like their government is involved but they're investigating them for like spitting on their history It's like the Japanese government, you said?
We'll dive back to Magic the Gathering, because there's been this thing happening for... Jeremy, you can probably tell me how long it's been going on, where they started making the art frumpy, disgusting people.
But there's angels, Sarah Angels, and they're depicted as beautiful women in art, and then they started at some point making the women characters look fat, out of shape, frumpy, and gross.
But here's the thing, as somebody who played for a long time too, that's what kind of radicalized me against this stuff is when they started attacking men.
If you look into articles about gatekeeping and Magic the Gathering, they always say, oh, fat neckbeards don't want women.
BS!
Here's what happens when a woman's, like if you've ever been in a game store, here's what happens if a chick walks in.
Every guy in that place trips over themselves to help them and like they'll give them blop-sided trades.
They're like, oh, you need like a, I'm dead, I mean, I've been in- - Pretty privilege, it's pretty privilege. - I've been in game stores since I was 14, 13 years old, and every single time a girl came in, guys are like, oh, I have a foil version of that one.
Do you want it for free?
Or I'll say, you know, like, Oh, you want to play?
We'll play with us.
I have never seen a woman like disrespected in a magic shop.
And then they would write articles and say, Oh, these women would, these like social justice warriors were coming to the game.
And they would say, Oh, I walked into a game shop and nobody talked to me.
I've been to a hundred and that has never happened.
The first game shop I went to, I was probably 12, 11 or 12 years old, and any point a woman walks into a shop where people are playing Magic the Gathering, you may as well expect the men to break out into Gregorian chant and start lighting candles to worship them as a goddess.
You know, they might say something that they didn't mean to be weird or, you know, they do the stupid thing like, oh, you're pretty good for a girl, something unintentional.
But these guys got villainized.
And then these same people that would write these articles, here's something that the left has always known.
Everybody who is in the gaming space or Magic the Gathering space or any of these spaces that are getting quote unquote woke-ified, the left figured out a long time ago that they would get these little positions, community managers.
They would sign up as like the Reddit mods.
They would sign up as all this stuff and they realized that that had an immense amount of power.
So then they could start saying these narratives like, Oh, men are keeping women out.
And then they would ban anybody who would push back against that narrative.
They would ban anybody who would call them stupid for saying that stuff.
Essentially, I went to war with Wizards of the Coast.
I outed them for having like a dozen pedophile registered pedophiles and sex offenders in their midst.
I forced my viewers and I forced them to Institute background checks because we cause so much trouble now along the way I was young and I was sloppy and I was too mean So there was you know a couple times.
I was like picking fights with Mark Rosewater You know when he would say because they were talking junk about men, so I deserved it You know like I was picking.
I never had a bad interaction with anybody I I was always very kind to people, but online I was young and I was a little aggressive.
I made fun of this cosplayer.
I was like too mean about it.
Um, you know, because I saw these cosplayers coming in to the space and extracting money.
And then that cosplayer now, by the way, has an OnlyFans.
A guy just got accused of cheating at the World Series.
There was a three-way all-in, and when the guy who won got up and started cheering, you see a guy on camera pulling chips back to his stack, and the dealer didn't catch it.
I don't know if he actually cheated, that's the accusation.
But it's, like, when you're so close... Nathan's won the big one.
Yeah, when it's so competitive where everyone's so close and like a, you know, half a second counts and matters, like, people will, you know, try and bend the rules.
So, you know, obviously it's important to try and, you know, make it as cheat-free as possible.
Dude, the reason why I quit, for the most part competitive when I was a kid, was because my opponent, I was playing in the Junior Scholastic Series, and my opponent cheated, and they allowed it.
So what happened was, I'm trying to avoid being overly esoteric here, but I'll try my best.
This is a youth Magic the Gathering tournament, I'm like 13, and I bring in my deck, we're playing, and I beat the guy.
What do they do?
It's 2 out of 3, right?
I beat the guy the first round.
Or the first game.
And then you sideboard.
You have 15 cards not in your deck that you can switch into your deck to better accommodate what you're up against.
But now, what people do, like the most common cheating, and this, I think this form of cheating happened probably like a thousand times and no one said anything.
In the game of Magic, you each have your own deck of cards.
Trading card game.
And there are cards that allow you to search your deck, and then when you, after you're done, you have to shuffle it to randomize it.
Your opponent is allowed to cut to prevent cheating.
What happens is, for some reason, and you'll have to explain, I don't get it, they allow the opponent to shuffle instead of just cut.
And so what the opponents would do, is they would shuffle and intentionally palm a card, or they'd slight of hand a card onto the top of the deck to harm the opponent's gameplay.
And it happens like a thousand times, and just nobody does anything about it.
and then put it on the bottom. - Or they'll put a-- - Or they'll put a bad card on top. - Exactly, so you draw one card per turn, and there have been numerous scenarios where you're watching live, and the guy's gonna be like, it's a tight spot, it's a really close game, and if he gets any one of these cards, he can turn it around, and then he draws a dead card.
Because the opponent, from the bottom, shuffled the dead card onto the top, and you can't touch it then, and nobody-- And they go, oh no, it was an accident.
The reason I brought up the cheating scandals is not to get into the nitty-gritty of magic.
It was to point out that when I watched the latest tournament, the Pro Tour, and they've got the pronouns under their names, and I'm like, here is one of the most overtly dominated events in, I don't know if you call it sporting or whatever, by wokeness.
There's two big cheating scandals right now in that tour.
And I'm like, I don't think it's coincidence that the people who are willing to play these weird political games and lie, cheat, manipulate are also cheating at a game.
Oh yeah, I think that's actually, I never really thought about it that way, but yeah, I 100% believe that.
People aren't honest in real life, aren't honest in playing card games.
If you cheated a card game with your friends, you're probably the biggest piece of trash in every other aspect of life.
unidentified
Is the percentage higher?
Maybe, but growing up with board games and stuff, it was always like, Part of the tradition is to, like, figure out how to steal, taking a little bit more money from the Monopoly bank or whatever.
So, everybody in the world knows I also skateboard.
And in skateboarding you have a fun, competitive game called skate.
It functions like a horse in basketball.
I will do a trick, then you must do the trick.
If you do not do the trick, you get the letter S. If you spell the word skate, you lose.
I am particularly good at games of skate.
When I play with people, I don't play the most brutal game imaginable to win right away.
We play for fun.
And so, very often, I lose.
And I say, hey, good game.
If I'm playing with a younger, if there's like a younger skater who's not as good, so I was at the Hagerstown Skate Park in Maryland, and there was some kids skating, and I was like, hey, wanna play a game of skate?
I intentionally Do lighter and easier tricks so that we can both have a fun game together, and I try to do things he can do, and I try to make sure I don't just obliterate him with the craziest thing imaginable.
And that's not a function of cheating, it's a function of sportsmanship and trying to play a game for fun.
In what reality would it make sense for me to go to, like, a 16-year-old who's skating, and I know that in three minutes I can destroy him and be like, you wanna play skate?
Yeah, so for those that have Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 for Nintendo, it's B-A-B-A-up-down-B-A-left-right-B-A-start.
And imagine if I learned calculus or something instead of that code when I was seven.
Now I know that forever, I'll never forget it.
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Yeah, yeah, that's funny.
But I'm just saying like, you know, as long as games have been around, cheaters have existed, and identifying and exposing the cheaters has been part of the game also.
The chat's probably exploding because we're getting it wrong.
But yeah, I mean, it's a big deal because it's been highly contested because that's one of those things where you're playing on like an arcade cabinet.
So let's let's let's talk about like how conservatives are equally as bad at all of this stuff because we had the new norm and Mr. Bircham and the new norm, holy crap.
But their response is to like own it, and they're like here.
Here's what they posted time panic, and it's the new norm character like What do you do with the show that everybody hates and you're already you're already in you're?
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committed like well, it's like the new one that that Seth McFarlane did with good times was that set all the black community yeah Hey, dude!
There's one aspect of this, I don't know how much of it you're going to play, but one thing I thought was actually good writing is that the daughter When the non-binary guy comes in, she's like, oh, like worships him for being non-binary.
Well, you know, and Tim asks, you know, what are the conservatives missing?
I think what they're missing.
Well, I think, yeah.
Well, I think what they're missing, you know, even with the Daily Wire, it's like, there are so many people out there that have been cancelled by the left for various things that, you know, resurrecting some of these people, bringing them into the projects.
I mean, look at the Gina Carano thing, like when she got cancelled, bringing her over, I think that was a brilliant move.
By the way, just because you were there, that doesn't mean you were participating.
Of course.
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There's no way that BFFs are not going to be sharing stories, especially since he's there for three years, he's feeding the women, he's underfeeding the women because he was told to unfeed them.
When you're feeding the babies and the children with unaccompanied parents that are crying at the table after having a horrendous thing happen to them on the private island where horrendous things happen to them?
Not allegedly.
The island was, again we can't say it here because we're on YouTube, but that island was known as the island where children go to, as young as babies.
What do you think this has, I have not watched late night since, but that's the other thing that obviously has to change, right?
Kimmel is on break, I really wanted to see how Kimmel is going to react because he has the worst TDS, but like, Colbert like dialed it back and now he's done that.
Colbert actually did the step down please, Mr. Biden.
Yeah, but I'm just wondering if they're going to go back to Orange Man bad.
What's the waiting period?
Because there's usually like, you know, because You know, how long they're going to dial back the Redick, or if they're not going to, because that's their whole shtick.
Like, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are literally just for people with TDS or old people who fell asleep while the TV was on.
So I don't know if he's planning on doing it again or what happened.
But I was just, it's like a block away from the RNC, from the Baird Center or whatever, two or three blocks.
And I see all these people outside upset and I was just, I'm thinking to myself, Bill Maher is one of the most ignorant political commentators that we have today.
And I don't know if this was true of him 20, 30 years ago.
Like, he was always just a low-tier, surface-level viewer of the news who then commented on things he was told to comment on.
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But I'm just thinking to myself, like... I resemble that remark.
By the way, in the stand-up right after, in his stand-up, in his show after the attempt on Trump's life, he did, and again, like, I hate him I guess less than you, but like, he's smug.
I don't like the thing, I won't smoke weed because Steve-o, that's pathetic, pompous.
Like, if you're like, hey Jeremy, could you like not So, real quick, Steve-O wanted to come on his show and said, I've been sober for a while, I can't be around drugs, and he was like, I'm gonna smoke pot anyway, and he's like, well, I'm not coming on your show.
Yeah, but in his stand-up after, it must have been Saturday or Sunday, he correctly, I think, pointed out that the left lost the moral high ground that day, and that is what cascaded down, because they're the violent ones now.
Even though, I know, we all know, but the normies didn't know.
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I kind of think they're putting something in the weed that makes you a cultural Marxist.
He will bring on lefties that, you know, the Hollywood lefties... He read a quote joke on Opener from Jack Posobiec as if it were real because the man doesn't know how to use Google.
I'm sorry, dude.
Jack Posobiec was up on stage, and he says, you know, hey everybody, thanks for coming to the event.
We didn't end democracy on January 6th, but we will strive to endure.
What we're seeing with this, and the reason why I bring it up, is that this is somebody who's in pop culture, who has no business in politics, who has decided to start espousing things on social media to get attention, because pop culture is politics.
He has no idea what he's talking about.
He has no business in the space.
I'm not gonna go yell at him because his drum rhythm is off, because I don't know drums.
I'm not gonna be able to tell him anything about double bass pedals or whatever.
But all of these people with zero experience in politics, advocacy, activism, anything, have decided to become politicians and activists.
Why is it, we make this joke on X that, oh suddenly everyone's a legal expert, oh suddenly a civil rights expert, a vaccine expert, how come we're not talking about, why isn't the zeitgeist on X people talking about, I don't know, the boys?
The latest, oh I'm sorry, the boys is literally just a reflection from Seth Rogen's perspective on the culture war.
Everything has become politics.
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Well, and that's, again, why I like Maher in the sense that he can bring on voices that we will never hear their positions.
You know, he'll have guests on that would never, never interact with us.
Bill Maher gets a million people per week on his show.
His ratings are just shy of a million.
And he tells them fake news every single day.
He's allowed to do it.
I'm not saying he doesn't have the right to do it.
I'm saying there's no value in that.
I'm not gonna praise that he brings on morons to lie to people.
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I'm just saying when he brings on Seth MacFarlane and Seth MacFarlane goes on there and shares the worst COVID information in the world, at least we know it motivates Family Guy.
Brian Griffin in Family Guy, he has said, I'm pretty sure he said, it's him, it's supposed to be representative, and he's an insufferable liberal that everybody hates.
All I'm saying is there's benefit to like hearing it from the horse's mouth versus us like, you know, watching the boys and making all of these, you know.
I think that if he was adequately informed, if he didn't get trapped watching people like Bill Maher, he'd actually be completely in alignment with us.
The show The Orville had an episode where he 100% criticized giving sex changes to babies.
There was a whole plot of Orville where they were like, our child is the wrong gender and needs surgery and he's like, you can't give a baby a sex change!
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And didn't he call out Harvey Weinstein before everyone in the industry was protecting him?
Most of these women, not all of them, but most of them knew exactly what they were doing when they went to a hotel room.
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Joe Rogan has made this argument, if Harvey Weinstein was a woman and the man knew he had to sleep with her to become Batman and get a Porsche, No one would feel bad.
Terry Crews, you know, the guy, what's the guy from The Whale?
No, Terry Crews is a guy.
No, I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, but that that contract happens even with guys, straight guys have to sleep with gay guys in order to become a star.
The point is the guy on the show went on Norm Macdonald Live and talked about his time at Michael Jackson's house as a kid with Macaulay Culkin and he told this like crazy story about... Which guy from the Big Bang Theory?
It's like, first of all, you have to have horrible parents that put you in the industry, force you in the industry, then you get abused by the people that are in the industry, then as a child... And leave you alone and isolate you, like all the stories of what happened to Justin Bieber... Oh, you know stuff happened to him, yeah.
I like a TV show where they're, like, the show is about a group of people who are stranded on another, on an alien planet, and an alien species is at war with them, and then we're gonna write based off what the conflict is gonna look like and how it evolves.
From and Lost are, like, Let's just start with there's a small town and then we'll figure it out.
It's just like, dude, You know how I imagine they wrote from there's like a seven-year-old kid and they just have him in a room with and they press record and he's like and then when they go in the tree they transport but then there's there's bugs and the bugs will kill you don't listen to Tim guys we can't we can't say though we don't agree though Tim like no no politics You know what I mean?
So what happens is, okay, now she finds a lighthouse and she goes into it, ooh, I know, let's like, ooh, there's a music box.
And then he hears the sound, but then the sound's gone!
And then the next episode they're like, ooh, I know, let's put like a, ooh, there's bugs and they're gonna get ya.
And then some writer's sitting in the room and he goes, should we address the music box?
And they throw him out the window.
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So I want to ask you guys this question because I watch far less TV than you guys, but if I had to start a new season, what season would you guys recommend that I watch of the best show out there that promotes the best values?
The reason why I take issue with this one specifically When I'm like, you know, look, if someone's going to play a fictional character and it's an actor who's playing make-believe, I really don't care all that much.
But Starfire is an orange-skinned alien and they decided to make it a black woman.
And I'm like, I think that's racist.
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Yeah, it's almost like kind of like they set up kind of like a Wakanda story with her too, with her sisters and the family fighting.
I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Deadpool and Wolverine.
I stopped.
It's a sad story.
I love the MCU since it started.
They did it really, really well.
DC screwed everything up, and I like DC more than Marvel, which sucks.
But what Marvel did was like, hey, we're going to make an Iron Man movie.
And then we want to promote the next movie.
So at the end credits, we're going to do a promo for the next movie.
And then they realized, hey, you know, this kind of connects all of them into one universe.
And so, you can clearly tell they weren't planning on doing the Infinity Stones saga right away, but then adapted it, as evidenced by in Thor, when the Infinity Gauntlet is just seen in the background in the room with the stones in it.
They didn't realize what they were gonna do with it.
But then, at some point, right before, I believe it was Infinity War, Or actually, was it after?
Dude, Star Wars is one of the saddest IP blunders ever.
They make this incredible intellectual property that everybody loves, and then they continually just take a dump on it.
The books, the extended universe, were good writers who were expanding the universe in really interesting ways.
George Lucas makes this movie, and it's pretty flat.
And I don't mean that as an insult.
I mean, you get a very surface level understanding of all these things, you don't really know what's going on, and then writers come in and say, we're going to fill in these gaps and create lore by what's going on.
And then you get the prequels, which were a bit goofy, but after this... I mean, Clone Wars was good, and then with the Disney takeover, Force Awakens, The Last Jedi... I will tell you this, the worst movie ever made, in my opinion, is The Last Jedi.
I can watch an Amazon Prime $10,000 budget horror film that's filmed only in one hotel.
Dude, George Lucas is going to buy back the IP for pennies on the dollar.
It's a perfect world.
I'm not saying it's the best movie ever, but Rogue One is good, in my opinion.
How did Disney make Rogue One where it's like, hey, here's a normal, good Star Wars story, The Force Awakens was just a remake of the original, anyway.
They don't care about Trump, they don't care about anything.
They're saying what they think they need to say to make money.
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Well, they definitely care, they just can't say anything.
I know a lot of actors that have been on set.
There's this wild story I was told once, an actor was on set, and this was just in the start of the woke takeover.
You know, he was on set, he made some off-colored remarks, something like super innocent, I forget what it was, but one of the grips was crying and he had to then go and find the grip and apologize to her in front of the entire team.
But in all seriousness, for instance, when Jeremy makes videos talking about Jack Black's career track, what's happened, and what's going on with the movie, people are going to boycott the movie.
And then she started screaming all this feminist garbage.
She got an ego.
She started being condescending.
And the writing along with it, it's not just her fault.
Captain Marvel versus Captain America is one of the greatest cultural shifts to exemplify what's happening.
Captain America is a movie about a scrawny guy with physical defects who can't join the army so he tries lying his way in, jumps on a grenade to save the life of his fellow soldiers in training, and it was a story about a dude who loved his country and wanted to fight Nazis.
Captain Marvel is a woman who always had the power by sheer accident that was suppressed by a man and she robs a guy and steals his clothes.
By the way, the female character was strong, his wife was like a... Bruce Willis, if they made it today, Bruce Willis would be played by a black woman, and they would get a short, fat, white guy to play the terrorist with a squeaky voice, and he'd be complaining about how racial diversity has ruined his business because he used to sell, like, you know, I don't know, American flags or something.
And so Nick Cage, who's playing himself, is like lurking around the island and he comes to this like door and he's gonna go in to sneak inside to try and find evidence and then all of a sudden he hears Pedro Pascal's character being like, don't do it.
But they come back for him, he doesn't go for them!
And it was just a popcorn flick, the audience loved it because it was just entertainment to watch a guy, there's no deep message in it, and the woke media, the liberal anti-gun media was angry that a guy used a gun to protect his family.
Can I give up my all time favorite recent popcorn film?
I know a lot of this isn't going to be a deep cut because a lot of people saw it, but if you haven't seen it and you like John Wick, the moves you're talking about, watch Nobody.
So not every local reporter is staging crime scenes and killing people to get the shot or whatever, but I like Nightcrawler because Jake Gyllenhaal plays this perfect sociopath who basically organizes death and destruction to get the story.
In the movie Civil War, there's a scene where an armored personnel carrier is just opening fire.
I don't know if it's an APC, but whatever you want to call it.
It's like a .50 cal full auto decimating a building.
People are dying, and then the older guy looks to the younger girl, and he smiles and nods, and she smiles and nods back like they love that stuff.
Dude, When they say, if it bleeds, it leads, I have been on the ground with so many of these reporters who, they just, they may as well be, I'm gonna be family friendly, they may as well be working it to watching Death and Destruction.
That's what kind of irked me is like, you spend thousands of years trapped in an ancient bronze trap and the first thing you do is run head first into an enemy with weapons to defeat you.
I like Dan Aykroyd running his oddities thing because that's probably what he would do in the world.
I thought they were more respectful, but I was so Blueballed by seeing this cool big bad.
I was like man.
We're look how much time they spent on the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man They spent less time on this guy who is supposed to be I mean Stay Puft was a joke this guy is supposed to be an ender civilizations like Ghostbusters 2 wasn't as good as one I still like it.
I paid to see it in the theater, just so Chad knows I'm being honest.
I went to the theater, I paid it, I bought the $40 popcorn bucket, and it's on my set.
So, don't, like, I don't want to pretend like I didn't like it, because I'm a go- like, for people who are Star Wars people, or Star Trek people, I'm a Ghostbusters person.
So, like, it was never going to be bad, but I was so bummed.
I was like, dude, that guy's so cool, and then he's gone.
Bro, she jumps over him, and there's a crashed ship behind him, and she presses a button, and it blasts his back with jet, and then it shows his back, steam coming off of it, singeing, and he goes, I'm watching it.
And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
The bad guy was a Mexican dude whose back had to be dried off to be defeated.
- Oh, I didn't even get that word yet. - They thought that was a good message.
And he breaks into Wakanda by going through the river.
- I'm watching it. - And to open the barrier, how do the Wakandans open the barrier?
