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There's no malice.
He just is defending himself and is misunderstood, which I like.
I would say there wasn't a lot of woke elements either.
Not at all.
It got a little bit art house a couple times.
Yeah.
Like, low, think about feelings.
But again, that is part of the Frankenstein story.
So it was a little slow, but it was a good movie.
Yeah.
So I give it a mugs up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If it was a little shorter and just a few more snappy moments, it would be really good, would be my impression.
I prefer the Mel Brooks version with Peter Boyle.
Top hat and tails.
You know, when I was a kid, we didn't really have horror movies.
We had monster movies.
Right.
Universal monsters.
Yeah, it was Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolfman, The Mummy, that kind of stuff.
It was just terrifying.
The invisible man, which is sunglasses with the head wrapped.
Yeah.
And some of the Frankenstein were amazing as a kid.
I just love that.
He did?
It was great.
Yeah.
I never saw him push a ship out of harbor, but no.
No, it's pretty impressive.
Like the idea is, you know, he's kind of trying to create cheat death.
And I do think the backstory of the doctor, which they did more in this than any other version that I can think of, was pretty interesting, right?
They didn't just make him out to be a mad scientist.
They made him out to be a guy who affect kind of could have some parallels to the transhumanism we're seeing now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where it's like, it's the classic, like you were so busy thinking, trying to see if you could.
You didn't ask if you should.
And that's an interesting backstory of the doctor.
There's that new ad where people are like trying to bring, Tim, you commented on this on X, where they're trying to bring dead people back through AI.
It's like their voices and their personalities.
What if somebody you lost could experience a moment with you?
I'm like, how about you accept reality?
Yeah.
So this is the thing.
It's retarded.
Playing God's not good.
Well, that's also a message movie.
The person who plays God is the monster.
And that's one thing, too.
A lot of people say Frankenstein.
They mean Frankenstein's monster.
Some dickhead in the comments.
I know.
He's going to be like, oh, actually, the monster Frankenstein.
I know.
Believe me, I know.
We know.
And in this case, I will say, too, for the ladies, the Frankenstein monster, but they still try to make him kind of hot.
They're like, you know, they add the strirations and like, you know, they add like the muscles.
Yeah.
So he's moving, and even though he's moving like a beast, so no sutures at the end of the day.
No, there are sutures, but you know, he works it.
I didn't think Frankenstein's monster needed to be twerking, but that was a creative decision.
I think you got the director's cut.
Yeah, I did.
The director's cut.
The young Frankenstein version was endowed.
Yes.
That is one running joke.
The all-time great.
So, yeah, so actually, both of these are worth watching.
And also, as a bonus, I will tell you, Death by Lightning, the President Garfield miniseries.
I think it's three or four episodes.
That's worth watching.
It's got Michael Shannon, one of my favorite things of all time, is him reading a sorority letter on Funny or Die early internet.
Nick Offerman and gosh, there are Bradley Whitford.
That one is pretty good.
Of course, there's a little bit of editorializing on that politically, but it's really pretty good and entertaining to watch.
So there have been a few releases lately that I would say are sort of gems right now in the field of something that's been pretty bleak.
Oh, they have Ben Shapiro on CNN right now, but I don't care.
This has been Mug Club Movie Review.
All right.
Let's grab a couple chats and thanks for being here, Popsky.
And you're going to have an announcement next week.
Yeah, next week, I think we'll bring it out.
About something pretty cool.
Yeah, something we've been working on for a while.
We're excited.
Excuse him while he whips this out.
Let's grab.
So we can't bring chats up because the overlay machine is broken, but I could admonish Gerald for that.
Yeah, do that.
Yeah.
There you go.
Very nice.
Admonish.
Perfect.
That's like chicken soup for the soul.
All right, that's great.
But noodles is just going to read them.
Okay.
All right.
First chat from Click Commander, but he spells it with K's, so it's less offensive.
Okay.
Question for the crew.
Since the Dems want to be so inclusive, should we hold an Indian poop festival just for them?
What other funny culture should we not bring?
I understand.
I get it.
I mean, I understand.
But who's going to be the one to actually hold the poop?
I mean, it's more of a punishment for those doing it than it is for the left.
Because that's the thing, right?
This is what they do.
The left, like, yeah, all these wonderful cultures.
And they never actually take part in the real parts of the culture.
You keep your poop over there.
We'll tell people that you're great.
You guys are great engineers and never mind that tens of millions of people, or hundreds of millions, and hundreds of millions of people poop in the streets.
So they're never touched by it.
It's so disingenuous.
Like, well, the Indian Americans and the Chinese Americans earn more than everybody else.
Yes, that's true because there's a billion and a half of both of them.
And we brought their very, very best to the moat of them, of them over.
Of course they're going to do well.
You drop a random person from Mississippi into Mumbai and they're going to be looked at like Einstein.
Right.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, you know, the same thing can be said about Danish Americans, Swedish Americans.
You take them from their previous country where they actually have a higher standard of living than people, obviously, in most of Asia and most of Africa.
They have an even higher standard of living in the United States because you add opportunity.
So if you add opportunity to any race, to any culture of people, they fare better here than their previous land of no opportunity.
If you combine opportunity with people who do have a work ethic and share some values with Western civilization, it's a walk-off.
It's not even close.
There just aren't enough of them.
And we like being inclusive, we bring over, you know, 70% Indians and 15% Chinese.
You're talking about the H-1Bs.
The H-1Bs, or whatever.
Do you think those cultures are going to get along with each other once they're here?
Right.
They hate each other more than we could ever hate either one of them.
Oh, it's worse than that.
The Northern Indians and the South Indians.
There are neighborhoods in Texas where it's basically the sharks and the Jeets.
The guy, Jacob Frey, he won the mayoral race in Minnesota or Minneapolis because he figured out how to exploit a intertribe rift between Somalians.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, what are we doing?
Yeah, I know.
It's just two different, like two different clans of pirates at that point.
That's exactly.
It's like the old pirates and ninjas, back, you know, real ultimate power.
Back to early internet days.
Well, your brother was over there.
He said it wasn't that bad, that in some of the public restrooms, there was a hole in the middle and a garden hose.
Yes.
Yes.
No, exactly.
So they're making.
But no nozzle on the hose.
You just put your thumb over the end and kind of have it.
I think it's really like having my thumb underneath my sphincter as I try and navigate the hose direction.
Yeah.
I made this comment to Dinesh.
I said, the truth is if people all from India assimilated and acted like you did, became an American, adopted Christianity, we would not be having this conversation.
Right.
It's not inherently because they're brown or because they look different.
It's not what that is at all.
So people trying to spend this as us being racist is just not the truth.
Right.
No, that's not what's going on.
It's not the melting pot.
It's multiculturalism that's failed everywhere.
Canada's a great example, Western Europe.
But we see a lot of them here, and they are never, ever with anybody of another group.
No.
They're not with Asians, certainly, and they're not with European folks.
No.
Were they meeting out at Stevie Jay's barbershop?
I didn't see them.
No, I didn't see them.
No.
No, raised in Canada.
We had to say Asians, like when I went to Centennial back then, it was a school in Greenfield Park.
It was very clicky.
It was unbelievably clicky.
And that's very different from the United States.
But yeah, if you, here's the thing, too.
Like, to give you an example, people say, I don't care.
But this idea too, well, that's a perfect example, though.
We wouldn't be able to live, coexist together with Native Americans for the same reason that Native American tribes could not coexist with each other because they didn't share values at all, right?
Some had no concept of personal property.
They didn't believe in it.
And then you had some tribes that kind of did, and they're like, hey, what happened to my shit?
Like, it just can't work.
Oh, what?
Oh, that's just a byproduct of the patriarchy.
You can't own shit.
I paid for that shit.
Like, it was four pounds of jerky or beef or pelts, whatever the hell.
So, like, they couldn't live together.
You think, and that's not a small thing.
People coming from, and it doesn't mean that all Hindus are bad, but people coming from religions like that, especially where there is no ultimate accountability, that there's heaven, there's hell, and you are judged for your life, but they believe, well, I'm creating my own heaven and hell.
And this is why I will tell you in business, people know that doing business with Indians, people who are, you know, again, first generation Indians, it's very difficult.
They'll start haggling after the contract is signed.
There's a reason that all, almost all of the telephone marketing, like the credit card scams and social security check scams come from one country.
That doesn't happen in nature.
It happens by design because imagine if you believe, okay, hold on, let me do a gut check.
Let me take inventory.
I'm either living in heaven or hell.
And I just screwed that guy over and cleared out his bank account.
And that actually feels pretty good because I have more money now.
This is hell.
If this is hell, then sign me up.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
That's a big part of it.
And that is not something that can be reconciled with the idea of Western Christianity.
For the same reason that Native Americans and Christians had those issues too.
Dare made a really good point about assimilation, though.
It's not that.
It's not a melting pot.
It's multiculturalism.
If you have a town of a Midwestern town of 10,000 white Protestants and you bring in a family from India, that's fine because that family will be taught how to become part of that community and the community will accept them and adopt them and teach them.
It's when you bring in 12,000 people from India to a town of 10,000 and your culture gets displaced.
That's a huge difference.
Yes.
That's the difference of what we're seeing with the mass migration as of recent.
Yes.
Well, a couple, and I will say, I know people out there and they're going to say, melting pot was invented by a Jew.
Look, they're just using the colloquialism because that's how people refer to it.
There's melting pot versus mosaic.
What you're talking about is America first, even if you come here.
Because there is some truth to the fact that this nation had a lot of immigrants at one point in time.
The primary difference, I would say, number one.
Okay, there are three.
Number one is pre-welfare state versus post-welfare state.
They came here at great risk to themselves with promise of nothing.
Today, people come here at no risk to themselves and only promise, promise, promise of free stuff.
Okay, that's the key difference.
The second is the shared fundamental values, largely Christianity.
An Italian coming in in the early 20th century, for example, and an Irishman living across the street, or a Brit, and a German who are coming from largely Christian countries, modern countries, Western countries.
It's not like Mars and Venus, especially if they learned a language, which they were expected to do and they by and large did back then.
There is a shared common, not just values, but holidays, for example, ways of social interaction, all of it.
That's a lot easier to fit.
And yes, race, culture, a part of it.
So pre-welfare state versus post-welfare state, shared commonality, the fundamentals, and then the rate at which you're talking about immigration.
That's what leads to actual displacement, like you're talking about.
One family coming in, you know, a few families coming in that generationally become American.
Look at Italian Americans, very patriotic.
They're the ones who are at the forefront of defending Columbus Day.
That's very different from 20 million in the span of three or four years.
That's very different from entire sectors of the economy abusing the H-1B system where you are a minority in your own industry as a white person.
Very, very different.
Those three things change the landscape.
And that's why, I don't know if you know this, that's why we've had borders.
And that's why we've actually had an approach to immigration policy to specifically deal with those.
If you look at any country that has immigration policy at all, it's okay.
How do we make sure that these people don't come in and abuse the system, pre-welfare, post-welfare state?
We make sure that they don't just come in and that this government doesn't act as a sieve to which everything can go to these people who've not contributed yet.
That's a huge part of policy.
And then you also look at, okay, borders to make sure that we can control the rate of flow because that matters in any environment where you have incoming and outgoing.
I mean, in a business, import-export coordinator, right?
That's a thing.
How much is coming in?
How much is going out?
That's why we have borders.
That's why we have policies.
And a screening process to say, are these people, is this a suitable candidate for this country?
Will it be a fit?
That's why immigration policy has existed.
It's pretty much always existed with very few exceptions.
It did exist in this country, and we threw it all out really the last couple few decades, if you want to be generous.
So let's not act like this is a new thing.
Let's not act like it's racist.
It's been policy in every country that has considered themselves a country to varying degrees throughout human history.
Final chat.
All right.
Final chat from 69.
Oh, I can't do it.
No, it's right.
Question.
In Trump's first term, he trusted a lot of establishment people that stopped his agenda.
This term, he had a great start, but I fear he may be listening to them again.
Yeah.
Thoughts.
I believe that too.
He had a great start.
And I do believe that this is the first year that we've had on in recent record of net negative migration.
Five decades, I think.
Has it been five decades?
Yeah, I didn't have time to double check on that, but that's what I had read.
Obviously, we've reduced the border interactions processing by anywhere from 96 to 99%.
So that's great.
That's great.
The tariffs are going to be generating, what was the estimate?
They're saying 1.7 trillion in revenue.
Was that what it was?
Yeah.
It's a lot.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
We can double check on that.
But it's a lot.
You can check the references from previous shows.
So that's good.
The H-1B thing.
Here's the problem.
Some of what you think was a great start with Doge, the H-1B thing comes directly from Elon Musk.
That's a big thing.
That comes from a lot of those people in tech.
They stand to benefit.
We were speaking out against that early this year when a lot of people were supporting it.
We still have a vague flip-flop on H-1Bs.
And we saw Elon Musk just sort of back away from it because he wants to present himself as a populist.
But these people were pushing the same message: Americans aren't good enough.
You're not good enough.
And then you hear that echoed by Ben Shapiro, too.
And here's the thing.
I get it.
People like Ben Shapiro out there are marketing, they'll say, hey, look, look at these people.
We need to get rid of these radicals on the right.
And to some extent, I think some views that are being reported out there are radical, but you're the ones radicalizing them.
What do you think is going to happen when you say Americans aren't good enough?
They're not smart enough.
Hey, we need to improve our educational system.
Really?
Where'd you go to school?
Where are you guaranteed going to ensure that your child goes to school?
Harvard, Brown?
Be honest.
You're taking part in this system, telling people who are yelling that the system is broken, well, sure, sure, we should maybe reform the system, but not the radical way you're saying.
Yeah, but you're benefiting from the system and you're propping up this system and you have done nothing to change it.
You've done nothing to notably change education.
You have done nothing to notably change immigration policy.
Nothing of note.
And so people are becoming radicalized.
But if you actually listen to the grievances, the grievances themselves are not radical.
Someone's saying, I think I am good enough.
I think I went to school with a skyrocketing tuition rate, frankly.
I did everything that I was told to do.
And you can, of course, place the blame largely on Democrats, but also their complicit Republican ilk.
And I don't want to do the job for pay that couldn't possibly help me pay off my student loans because they've imported a bunch of H-1Bs who are less capable than me, but are willing to take 30% less.
That is a legitimate grievance.
Now, if you want to say that their solutions are radical, I don't even think the solutions are radical.
I think rhetoric gets radical when you say, you know, Hitler was a cool guy.
I know people are just trolling when they say that, or I really like Stalin or whatever.
I don't agree with that.
But I don't even think the solution, I mean, is my solution radical?
Cut snap.
Done.
Why?
Because it's failed.
It is completely a failed system.
We need to start something new.
If you want to do food stamps, okay.
H-1B, done.
No, we don't do it anymore.
Why?
Because 83% aren't used for the original intent, what you guys said.
And there are plenty of, by the way, available other forms of visas for people who are hyperly skilled.
We don't need it.
No more.
It's a legitimate grievance.
It is a legitimate solution.
I don't think it's radical.
But then people here who are offering no solutions and sort of minimizing the grievances go, well, their solutions are radical.
This isn't going to play out well.
It's almost like when I see people like whoever, some of the Daily Wire people, the people who were gatekeepers when I was coming up.
And by the way, they gatekept toward me, just to be clear.
We've been independent this entire time.
I've never been at the cool kids' table in the conservative sphere.
It's always been seen as too rough around the edges.
These people have, it reminds me of, remember when Jeb Bush kept responding to Donald Trump in those debates?
We're like, low energy.
He's got low energy.
I'm like, no, I don't.
He's like, see that?
Look, all he could come up with was, no, I don't.
Oh, you're feeling low on energy?
I have plenty of energy.
What is he saying?
Make him stop.
Like, that's what they're doing.
They're playing into it.
And I don't know.
I don't know how much of it is just a genuine blind spot versus it gives credence to people who say they're bought and paid for.
How does someone who claims to be America first in 2025 make the case for H-1Ps?
Especially from people who pride themselves on making statistical arguments or data as being the foundation of, you can't even, can you argue it as far as Christian principles or America first principles?
No.
Can you argue it as far as data?
No.
Can you argue it as far as, okay, even if it's maybe not in line with our principles or the idea of the United States or America first, the ends justify the means because we've had a positive outcome?
No.
There's nothing good about it.
And there's nothing inconsistent or compromising of your principles to say, we got to do away with it.
And yeah, I'd like to have a country where I don't feel like a stranger in my own hometown.
I don't think that's radical.
I do not think that that is radical.
That's just, that's just me.
That's just my opinion.
And I think that most of you feel that way.
When I talk with people out there in the American public, conservatives, no one finds that offensive.
Yeah, I agree with it.
That is not reflected right now in the discourse.
And so I think whoever you think is most radical right now in fracturing the right, and I would agree with you in some facets, the old guard, and it's funny because the old guard is actually a lot younger than people realize.
They're just as much to blame at this point.
You can't keep telling young conservatives, young right-wingers, like, oh, just pull yourself up by your bootstraps when the system, and not in the way that socialists have tried to convey, but the system has been rigged.
The system has some flaws.
And blame it on the individual when they are suffering through a system that is broken.
That's the reason for a system of government.
And it's the reason for really taking an active role in politics at all.
Because you want to fix it.
You want to make this country better.
And here's the thing.
Dealing with, going to the other side, the radicals, or people will say, if those people are saying Trump sucks, the right wing sucks, everything sucks, and all they sell you is despair with no solutions.
Well, people who do that, they're just serving the leftist masters of a death cult.
And I do believe that.
I do believe that today's left is a death cult.
That's what I believe.
They're serving those masters by demoralizing anyone out there who would like to make a difference.
Because guess what?
You can.
We have.
Is it perfect?
No, but you can make progress.
I don't know if you guys know this, but before Donald Trump, everyone thought the writing is on the wall.
Barack Obama, most charismatic president ever.
We're never going to have a Republican president again.
We're going to transition to universal health care, probably some kind of universal basic income.
We are going to become like Europe or like Canada.
And it's going to be a largely socialist model.
And then it's going to be a slow descent, just like all these other nations have experienced.
Everyone thought that was a foregone conclusion.
And it's not now.
That's a big deal.
Is it perfect?
No.
But to say all is lost and only despair and there is no hope, that is to serve the leftist masters who made people believe that for a long period of time.
And if enough people on the right serve them, well, if the left is effectively a death cult, you know what that means?
You're going to die.
This country is going to die.
If the left achieves power and control, they've given you the plate for crying out loud.
People like Mao's red book.
They're not even hiding it.
So I'm not on board with that either.
Because if you want to die, if you think, hey, America isn't better than any other nation and there's no way to fix it, well, then you go ahead and die.
I'm not going to die, and I don't want the country to die.
So we'll keep doing what we do.
But both sides are screwing this up.
We'll see a Monday change my mind, which gets scary.
We don't want guys who shock the dog.
Interface China.
Keep that piece of shit.
Maybe a little channel can join.
Cause the boat just come, he's, they just come, he's.
Why are so many socialists so rich?
Just fight Sam hike you, bitch.
You dress like you're 12 ukami.
You're just a comie.
Love the flow.
Don't forget to join me Monday, November 17th, where we dive into SNAP EBT.
And while there really is some great conversation, I would say soda in more health-conscious things, but not to get away with it altogether.
Well, to kind of compromise with SNAP.
Well, so here's the thing: you can't compromise with SNAP because you can't cut soda, right?
There was a huge outcry.
It also absolutely goes off the rails, including an appearance by this.
Whatever.
Is this your furry name or your biological name?
America First.
Love the 12th.
Subject for today.
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