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Stay tuned. - So I was thinking about it, and I think it's okay that white guys, you know, we don't know if Mariachi El Bronx is white guys.
I think it is, but it's okay.
I figured it out.
It's okay that they do mariachi music because white guys, we let that one mariachi band play Pink Floyd.
In that viral video.
It's true.
It's true.
That's like endless cachet.
It's just, you know, it works both ways.
It's just like it's an economy.
It's a it's a marketplace of ideas.
It's a sharing.
It's a sharing economy, you know?
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I think that I think that's best balance.
Did you ever listen to Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt album?
No.
His first one.
There was like really corny interludes that are supposed to be gangsters.
You know?
And there's one where he's like, OK, I'm reloading!
That's how he does it, just like that.
Fuck yeah.
Every time I hear reloading, I think of whoever's doing that voice.
OK!
The fucking fake Tony Montana voice.
Yeah, I'm reloading!
Did I tell you I just watched that?
I just watched Scarface?
Uh, no.
Was it the first time?
Yeah.
Well, the first time, first time, like on purpose, all the way through, not just like at someone's house in the background, you know, not catching it, like a chunk of it on like the TV.
You like sat down and pressed, sat down and watched it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What'd you think?
It was a fun movie.
It was a great movie.
Yeah.
I think it's a pretty good movie.
Yeah.
It's a great movie.
I mean, it's like really badass, first of all.
Totally.
And then it's got the best actor in the world, Al Pacino, in it, so.
Number one.
A.K.A.
Duncan.
You've seen Heat, I'm sure.
I watched it the same, like, week.
Wow, just kidding.
That was the first time I watched it, too.
It was, like, three weeks ago.
You watched Jack and Jill, too?
Round off your Al Pacino trilogy?
No, I don't know Jack and Jill.
It's the Adam Sandler movie.
Where Adam Sandler plays twins.
I don't think I've seen this.
Al Pacino plays himself, I want to say, and is in love with the girl Adam Sandler twin.
With Jill.
Yeah, he thinks she's like hot.
He thinks she's got a fat ass!
I mean, where's the lie?
Okay.
Should we do the episode?
Yeah.
All right.
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And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are meeting in Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Wait, what are we talking about?
Adam Sandler's fat ass?
The world is ending.
A movie getting an award is responsible.
We're documenting it.
Hey, what's up, everybody?
Thanks for tuning in.
We are pre-recording this.
We are on vacation this week, but we thought, hey, why not give you folks an episode anyway?
So here it is.
Did you hear the news about Ron DeSantis, about the way Ron DeSantis eats his pudding?
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is one of the times where I've been like, what the fuck, Ron?
Making his pudding eaters look bad.
Ron apparently eats pudding like a cup.
Like I saw this headline or I saw like, you know, whatever they say, the upshot.
I saw the upshot on this and it was eats pudding with three fingers.
And it like took me a second to read.
I was like, wait, is this like a British pudding that has a crust or something so you could pick it up?
And like, yeah, it makes more sense if you're not American.
No, it's Ron DeSantis, the most American governor we have, Ron DeSantis, just scooping pudding out of a cup with his fingers.
This is from the Daily Beast.
It's all about Ron DeSantis being on the campaign trail, this article.
Like, you know, he hasn't announced or anything like that, but he's testing the waters here.
The article is, the GOP campaign trail is already getting DeSantis-proofed.
And what that means is that they are child-proofing all the public events that Ron DeSantis has to do because he's so bad with other people.
The more I hear about this story, the more I believe what they're saying here.
One of the examples of how socially awkward and maladjusted he is, is eating pudding with his fingers.
Fuck, dude.
It sounds like an insult like, oh, he eats corn on the cob the long way.
Oh, you eat pudding with your fingers, don't you?
It's not even just with fingers, because I think everyone has, you know, hit the corners of a pudding cup with one finger.
Sure.
You know, everyone's done that, right?
We've all licked the lid.
You know, we're not too good to lick the lid.
Do you get it under your nails?
Do you use your nail when you go into the corner of the cup, Tony?
And then I scrape that on that bottom little thing we got.
That's what that's for.
But it is the three finger scoop.
That is just so like, that's so that's like, go ahead.
Go ahead.
Put that up to your three fingers.
That's a lot.
Mm hmm.
That's like a that's a that's that's too big of a bite.
That's the whole pudding cup.
Yeah, it's well, I think that's the point.
The point is that it's like the most amount of fingers you can use.
It's the biggest scoop you can use to get that pudding.
It makes the most sense.
If you're just using two fingers, you're wasting time.
Oh, this is about efficiency.
See, we're not thinking about this is actually a strong point for him.
This is yeah, this is how he's going to run a lean mean federal government.
It's the three finger method.
Listen, getting things done is way more important than finding a spoon.
You know, come on now, I got to eat this.
At least he didn't do the thing where like he just like squeezes the cup and just like sucks the whole thing in, you know, in one slurp.
Yeah, that's that's pretty bad, too.
I don't know.
But it's but it's also it's the trade off.
You don't have to get your fingers all messy and you don't have to lick your fingers after you've been shaking hands with Shiver, the general public.
Yikes.
Yeah.
Also, so you think you're above the general public is what I'm hearing.
I mean, maybe this is proving that he's a man of the people.
Eating pudding off his hands.
So the whole article is about how bad he is at meeting constituents and interacting with other human beings.
This is by Jake LeHutt and Zachary Patrizio.
As he explores a run for president, the demanding Florida governor is already coming across as a quote nightmare in the early primary states.
At any given fundraiser or VIP room where he's present, Ron DeSantis is usually easy to find.
In the corner, keeping to himself, Good, good.
Just being a little, little wallflower.
And I think, I think that's endearing.
You know, that's, that's who I want to have a beer with, is the wallflower.
He's in the corner with a little thought bubble.
They don't know how I eat pudding.
All the reporters in the room are like, we know how you eat pudding, dude.
We all know.
We've all seen it.
He's lucky, though.
I mean, like, we would be saying, I think, prove me wrong, we would be saying President Buttigieg right now if we never saw him eating.
Oh, or knew what he ate, aka Caninus Familius.
Oh, true, true.
I'm just joking.
I don't know what the Latin term.
Okay, yeah, he's sulking in the corner.
That's where you know to look for him.
As DeSantis gears up for a potential White House run in 2024, his aloof public persona is being thought of by his rivals, namely former President Donald Trump, as his Achilles heel in the retail politics-heavy early primary states.
And even though he hasn't announced a bid yet, DeSantis' apparent desire to test the waters of a presidential campaign while barely dipping a toe into the aspects he recoils from is already being put to the test.
I don't think...
If he's smart, he doesn't run.
If he's smart, he lets Trump lose the next election and then runs against whoever Biden's successor is.
Yeah, because he's still in that scape.
He's still young.
He has a lot of time to do this.
I think you're absolutely right.
I think he probably learned from a lot of people last election, don't rush this shit.
Don't let people fuck up in front of you.
Not only that, the biggest lesson is don't run against Trump.
Trump has to lose again.
You have to get Trump out of the way if you want to actually be president and not just be made fun of, dunked on by Trump.
If you don't want to whatever nickname Trump picks for you to become your fucking personality, Then you just wait.
Although DeSanctimonious, not a great nickname from Trump as we've said, I don't think he runs.
I think he's just meeting people and indicating that he's interested.
By which I mean taking money from people.
And even though he hasn't, yeah, it's being put to the test.
During his donor retreat in Palm Beach in late February, an attendee stood up and called him DeSatan, according to Republicans familiar with the outburst.
How have we not heard that one before?
It's so easy.
It's so easy.
I don't know, because I think that there's like a lot of... You're kind of almost giving him some credit when you call things Satan, you know?
They don't want to give him that much credit.
He's not as scary as like, you know, queer people.
It doesn't roll off the tongue either.
The Satan.
The Satan?
No.
It almost sounds cool too.
It's almost like you're saying the Satan.
But I do like it, though.
It's right there.
Somebody had to do it.
So bless that person for being, you know, the first one, the one to really take the take the knife on that brave, brave, brave of you.
At his recent book tour stop in Davenport, Iowa, a volunteer English teacher and seasoned caucus enthusiast posed for a photo alongside the governor with the term, quote, fascist carved out within her design of a paper snowflake.
Did you see that, Tony?
That's amazing.
No, that's that's art.
I like it was cute.
Yeah.
Uh, it was like, uh, in cursive.
So I, I couldn't read it, but some, you know, a Gen Xer pointed it out, what it actually said to me.
Um, thanks to your dad.
Hey, can you read this to me?
The governor's aversion to pressing the flesh and his concern over the risk of unexpected interactions with the public is already so well known that early primary state players are working to DeSantis-proof their events in order to attract the flinty would-be candidate and his tight-knit team.
So, yeah, I guess if you're like not actually running for president, you can afford to be extremely fucking stingy with your appearances and, you know, be demanding with how things are going to be set up for you.
Like I think it mentions it later on in this article, but he at some I think it was the Iowa whatever press gathering he had, whatever meet and greet he had, he had fucking bike What do you call it?
Like you chain a bike to whatever they're called.
Bike racks?
Yeah, like this, like the steel, you know, curved metal bike racks all the way around the stage so that there was like 10 feet before the bike rack and then 10 feet after the bike rack.
And that's where the audience was.
Respect it.
I love it.
Yeah.
He said he's got nothing.
Him doing this, him doing these appearances are only like a favor because like he said, I don't think he is going to run.
I don't I don't think he I think he's smarter than that.
He doesn't have to.
He's he's pretty chill by being like.
Everyone's favorite governor.
His his speaking voice is crazy, like not crazy, but it's just it doesn't it doesn't fit him.
It sounds like a sounds like a nerd's voice.
Have you heard him talk?
I don't recall, actually.
No, I don't think I have.
I can't think of what he sounds like.
It's not worth looking it up right now, but it's just, it's like a door.
He's not, he doesn't sound cool.
He sounds like he's from a city.
He sounds like he's from like an Ivy League school or something.
Well, that sucks.
Maybe not Ivy League, but like state.
He sounds like he's from a state college.
He doesn't sound like he's from Florida is what you're telling me.
No.
Missed opportunity, bud.
Quote, he's been tighter in his requests than other candidates.
A new top Hampshire Republican told the Daily Beast, adding that only former House Speaker Newt Gingrich came to mind as a bigger nightmare to deal with.
Yeah, we'll see when Ron DeSantis says he only wants brown M&Ms.
That's not because he actually cares about brown M&Ms.
It's just he wants you to know that you've read the rest of the writer where you won't allow anyone with a red hat through the doors.
It's for his safety.
This makes sense.
He knows his base and he knows the people who don't like him, who are on the same side of the politics, are even more wild.
Yeah, this all makes sense.
It makes total sense.
It's so funny.
He's actually afraid of Trump supporters.
Like he's not afraid of Democrat supporters because what they're going to do is they're going to pose with a snarky sign that he doesn't even see, you know, behind his back like they did with Ted Cruz or whatever.
Trump supporters just fucking hit him with a car.
Yeah, I can act on the stage.
They'll be he'll be on the stage when they hit him with the car, too.
During his Iowa swing, DeSantis' apparent use of bike racks to create space between himself and a crowd didn't go unnoticed elsewhere.
Quote, if they want 50 bike racks, we'll give them 50 bike racks, a New Hampshire GOP lawmaker quipped to the Daily Beast.
A representative for DeSantis did not return a request for comment for this story.
If DeSantis continues on his current course, Trump's job of beating him in the primary may not prove very difficult.
Gone are the days of covert fundraisers such as a little-known DeSantis soiree in San Francisco last October, which was hosted by David Sachs.
And Elon Musk and Peter Thiel-Acolyte who recently helped spread panic amid the run on the Silicon Valley Bank.
We didn't talk about this guy, Sean and I, when we were talking about the Silicon Valley Bank.
But David Sachs is one of the guys that was heavily involved with begging the federal government to bail out the banks.
You know, libertarian until it inconveniences him.
And then it's everybody's problem now.
That does speak to how fucking weird American politics are.
There's no reason for the governor of Florida to be hosting a soiree in San Francisco to raise money for himself.
That makes no sense.
Yeah, it's almost like the people who actually have outsized power in California are extremely right-wing libertarian tech freaks.
Weird.
It's crazy, yeah.
In the critical early primary states of New Hampshire and Iowa, a panoply of elected and unofficial elected or elected and unelected power brokers, not to mention thousands of seasoned voters, are accustomed to interacting with presidential candidates up close.
In their view, that scrutiny helps the rest of the country determine which candidates are legit and which aren't, though many political observers in both parties believe that the early primaries emphasis on retail politics is overblown.
Yeah, wow, that's crazy.
A guy whose reputation depends on getting to meet possible presidential candidates, they have to go through him in order to make it through the primary or whatever.
It's crazy how they would be upset when you don't, like...
Give them everything they want.
You know, you don't you don't have to hand it to Ron DeSantis here.
But I just I love the the reason for this article is because these people are like offended that Ron DeSantis didn't come to them and ask for their state's hand in marriage.
You know, their their citizenry's hand in marriage before running for president or whatever.
They're like, you know, you're supposed to grovel, right?
You need to grovel to get the presidency.
And he's like, ha ha.
You're assuming I want the presidency.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just like with social media and like, I mean, retail politics don't really go anywhere when earmarks and pork has been like fairly well eliminated from federal politics.
Like.
It's all just, you know, hiring somebody after they've served and in their office.
That's like the main form of payola or payback is just the rotating door of like between, you know, Wall Street or between whatever military industrial contractors and the government.
Um, it's no longer like, oh, you have to come talk to the representative of, uh, or members of this state so that they can spread the good word about you.
I guess you still do need their money.
You still, but like with social media, it feels like a lot of, a lot of that, uh, older machinery isn't as relevant.
Yeah.
I mean, and, and it probably isn't the way that, You know, obviously, that's where they're getting the money from for the social media.
But like you said, he's not saving face here.
There's no reason that there's no face to be saved.
He's just showing up.
He's like, yeah, if you guys want to raise some money for me, I go for it.
I don't really care.
Like what's what sucks about this whole thing is now I'm over here saying I'm like defending Ron DeSantis.
You know, I'm over here being like, well, he is qualified.
He is more qualified than some other people.
He is a governor, at least.
Yeah.
So here's the money shot, though.
Several former staffers for the governor told Daily Beast almost everything he does is scripted, which coupled with an aversion to small talk, general pleasantries, and any unplanned interactions with the public make him difficult to manage ahead of events.
Hey, this guy kind of sounds like Bernie Sanders, to be honest.
You know, maybe we've been selling him short.
Wow.
The chatter over DeSantis' public engagement has also surfaced past unflattering stories about his social skills, particularly his propensity to devour food during meetings.
He would sit in meetings and eat in front of people, a former DeSantis staffer told the Daily Beast, always like a starving animal who's never eaten before...getting shit everywhere.
That sounds like a fucking, uh, like a Tim Robinson-like line.
Just getting shit everywhere.
And also, what do you know?
Maybe he was starving.
Maybe he was hungry.
You don't know his schedule.
He's a busy man.
He's an executive for Christ's sake.
I mean, that's just like, it shows how hard he works if he has to scarf down food in front of all you people.
True.
Enshrined in DeSantis's lore is an episode from four years ago.
During a private plane trip from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C.
Not private enough, apparently.
In March of 2019, DeSantis enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert by eating it with three of his fingers, according to two sources familiar with the incident.
Oh, man.
A representative for DeSantis's political team did not return a request for comment.
Do you think it was, like, pointer to ring?
Or do you think it was pinky to, like, middle?
Which... You gotta start with the pointer, in my mind.
Yeah, I think it's gotta be... I think you're right.
I think it's gotta be pointer to ring.
Because if you're doing pinky to... It gets in the corners real nice.
It gets in the corners real good.
You really get a nice scoop in there.
But I don't know.
It doesn't seem ergonomic for the actual eating.
And it just looks weird.
Those aren't my stronger fingers, you know?
No, no.
One manager of a restaurant that's been a frequent campaign stop in an early primary state told the Daily Beast that they would agree to any DeSantis demands to restrict access.
If they came here, they would get the private dining room and it would be their rules and do what you like, they said.
We're not like the diner where you shake hands and make your way through.
So yeah, DeSantis running for president as long as he doesn't have to touch anyone.
I hope, man, that would be kind of cool if he's like a Krusty the Clown figure and just hates the public, hates all of his fans, and he like dies inside every time he has to interact with somebody.
I hope that's the case for him.
That would make me happy, and if I knew that, then I would push back a little more.
I would encourage that he is forced to do these things more often than You know, I do got to say, knowing that this happened on a plane.
Kind of that feels like less of my business, you know, you did things like that's that's there's a certain elevation you hit where it's a free for all.
It's maritime rules, you know, like you don't you don't you don't need to use fucking spoons and.
In airplanes, everyone knows that.
Yeah, that's true.
All all laws do go out the window and you hit a certain altitude.
And so, yeah, you don't you're not required by law to use a spoon anymore.
Yeah, you said, not very private, pretty fucked up, kind of not cool that they added him this way.
It is so petty.
It's extremely petty, but it's also so funny that you had to have that pudding.
You had to have that pudding, didn't you?
And now everybody knows about it.
I bet he's like, I didn't get any on me.
Like, I didn't make any mess.
I saved them from doing dishes.
What do they want from me?
I sanitized immediately after. - Moving on.
People may have seen this in the news.
New Hampshire dad dresses as Julius Caesar at school board meeting to protest teacher's gender fluid attire.
Accuses district of quote facilitating gender confusion.
And I have a video here as well as an article.
More on the back story behind this after we watch the video.
I am Caesar.
Julius Caesar of Rome, the emperor.
I am also a female.
Should have just stuck with Julius Caesar.
Yeah, yeah.
Because we know Julius Caesar wasn't a female.
So now you're like undermining.
I don't think you think you're Julius Caesar anymore.
Yeah, you're not committed to this at all.
This doesn't feel authentic anymore.
So he's wearing like an expensive party costume.
Of a Roman soldier like.
He looks like he's he's Alex DeLarge fantasizing about whipping Jesus.
Yeah, yeah, it's a good.
It's a good costume.
You said it's an expensive costume though.
It's not quite like theater quality.
It's not leather.
No, no, it's not.
Leather is definitely, but there is actual cloth on it.
You know my favorite part of it is the fucking body cam mount like the GoPro chest mount.
What?
What's the point of that vantage point if this is the joke you're doing?
Were you doing a costume?
They can't see you at all.
Well, that's not getting extreme here.
That's the trigger cam.
That's the cam that's capturing everybody who's triggered.
So you can make memes of them later.
Yeah, so he's dressed up like Julius Caesar.
He's at a school board meeting.
This is where Where most sensible things happen in this country is at school board meetings.
Improving a point of some kind.
Let's see if we can hear it.
Julius Caesar of Rome, the Emperor.
I am also a female.
Does anybody here believe that?
That I am Julius Caesar?
Anybody believe that?
The woman behind him looks like she's in physical pain having to watch this guy.
Yeah, it's rough.
It's pure, concentrated, cooked-down cringe.
It's a cringe-roo.
No, of course not.
It's ridiculous.
I'm not Caesar.
He removes his cap to reveal that he's not in fact Julius Caesar.
He's a shaved, a bicked head guy with either a handlebar mustache or a goatee.
It's like white hair, so you can't really tell.
I gotta give my man some credit.
The, the, uh, the accent changed because the accent was pure Roman Caesar.
And then once that fucking hat came out, he was like, straight, we went straight to Jersey.
Straight, straight to Jersey.
It's fucking ridiculous.
Out of nowhere.
I'm here as a father.
I'm here as a father.
Uh, your, your daughter or child is like, you're not allowed at this school anymore.
This guy is crazy.
So, uh, let me, let me read here from ABC.
A New Hampshire father dressed as Julius Caesar at a recent school board meeting to fuel his claims that a public school district is quote facilitating gender confusion.
The Concord School District has found itself at the center of a heated debate since a father, Michael Guglielmo... Hell yeah.
That's a real father.
...was prohibited from visiting one of its elementary schools last month.
The order against- Why is he fucking allowed at the school board meeting?
Students should not be anywhere near here.
Because they let any motherfucker in school board meetings.
You hold them at the school so perverts can't come, dude.
That's what you should be doing.
The Order Against Googly Elmo.
Literally fucking Googly Elmo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stemmed from an interaction between him and Krista McAuliffe school art teacher Silas Allard.
Guglielmo has been outspoken about Allard, who identifies as a member of the LGBTQ plus community for his decision to wear traditionally female clothing during the school day.
He has also criticized Allard's previous social media posts, arguing they are inappropriate for children.
This this was funny to me, too.
Like.
I don't know, social like social media posts being in a you should be allowed to have a social media that's not for children, even.
Even if you are a teacher.
Yeah, I mean.
Why yeah, why is your kid have access to their social media?
You should have to be like smart about it and not tell any kids what your social media is.
Don't let your kids follow you on social media or whatever.
Yeah, if you're going to be wild like using all for sure.
But yeah this moral panic is it really seems like it's breaching into just like public decency territory where they're just coming after everything like everything needs to be childproof now like even social media like we had a troll in the Facebook group this is this guy we've there's probably more in there but they just don't say anything because I don't really vet anybody but
This guy who would only comment to make fun of me and call me single?
Accuse me of not having a girlfriend?
Yeah.
What if I called you single?
How would that mar you?
You gotta listen to the show!
If you wanna troll somebody, you have to actually listen to their content.
And you would know that I'm the opposite of single.
Yeah.
Yeah, like I took a photo in the new shirt, the long sleeve and hat when I finally got those in.
And he was like, this pic screams single.
Totally.
I was like, I was like, what?
Like, I didn't know if I didn't know he was a troll yet.
And I was just like, what?
I mean, there is no there was no one else in the picture with you.
And if you have a if you have a partner, they should be in every picture with you.
Yeah, I was like, can you help me find a wife?
And he was like, listen, I ain't a miracle worker.
All right.
It was real.
It was real last Boy Scout hours with this guy.
And then the second time that was like, you know, obviously like four months ago or whenever those shirts came out.
But like and then more recently.
I made a joke because iTunes automatically censors any curse words that are in the title of an episode.
And so when I titled that Black Rifle Coffee Company title that it had, like, buttfuck in the title, it bleeped it.
It censored it.
And so I posted that and I was joking.
I said, oh, they're censoring us.
Yep.
Yep.
And then he commented, he's all, oh, so you think it's OK for children to see the phrase buttfuck?
Yeah.
And I was like, I, what are you reading in there?
Just podcast titles, just titles of podcasts.
I'm just going through all the podcasts, reading the titles.
I was like, I mean, we're like an adult podcast.
It says explicit on the iTunes.
I don't know, like check your kid's iTunes account, get into their Apple ID, make some changes or something if you don't want them listening.
Like.
I don't know this idea that that.
You're a pervert if you don't make art for children or something.
That's where this is spreading to.
You're degenerate.
You're corrupting the youth for, yeah, doing curse words in your podcast.
So something I'm working on now is I'm trying to do, basically get like harm reduction stuff into skate shops.
And I put it in one of like the boards, one of like the skateboard message boards.
And people were like, no, man, I bring my kids into skate shops.
I'm like, it's a skate shop.
What are you talking about?
Like, I saw so many of my first like my first things at a skate shop.
That's where you get like it.
I mean, because I think those are good things.
Maybe a kid should maybe be aware of it.
You know what I'm saying?
But yeah, it's a skate shop.
What the fuck?
They were like, have you ever heard of hookups?
Yeah, there were just boobies on the skateboards.
Yeah, or like talking.
There was a there was a skate company called Pornstar.
Yeah, yeah.
Like there's so many examples in skateboarding of things are inappropriate for children.
And yes, because it is like those things are.
But that doesn't mean.
Yeah, you don't have to purify everything.
Calm down.
Also, like I don't care if a kid reads a bad word on the Internet.
No, that's not my problem.
I don't.
Yeah.
But yeah, so apparently this person, this teacher, identifies as a man, but just wears traditionally female clothing or whatever.
So he criticized the social media posts.
The criticisms led to CSD, so it's the school district, placing Allard on leave and conducting an investigation, but the teacher was ultimately allowed to return to his position this week.
Guglielmo donning a Julius Caesar costume shared his concerns over the outcome at Monday's school board meeting.
Then they put that video in there.
While standing in front of attendees holding signs reading choose love and love is stronger than hate, Guglielmo called for the suspension of both CSD Superintendent Kathleen Murphy and Krista McAuliffe Principal Kristen Gallo.
He accused the two of quote facilitating gender confusion by allowing Allard to continue teaching in the elementary school.
Uh, it's by gender confusion.
You mean literally just like dressing in in different clothing?
Yeah, what?
Because because like you said that this person said still identifies as as male and just happens to be wearing femme clothing, you know, does a little femme, you know, dresses femme not even asking what this guy's saying so this whole like look look i'm saying i'm a female and i'm not this dude's also not saying that so what are you what are you doing what is your any he's just trying to get attention just don't it is just protect kids from quote confusion
that's so what a dumb thing to be worried about um several parents chose to defend both alert and csd officials Where is the article where he confronts the teacher?
He like physically confronts the teacher.
So Michael Guglielmo is also a poster.
He's a prolific Facebook poster.
And he posted a letter he received from Concord School District.
So what do we have here?
Hmm.
It appears to be an order from Concord School District Superintendent Battleax Mur- Mur-oh-he.
Misspells Murphy.
That states, I am ordering that you not be allowed on the campus of Krista McAuliffe Elementary School.
I wonder if Mrs. Krista McAuliffe would agree with this, but unfortunately we can't ask her because she sacrificed her life for this country's space exploration.
More interesting is that Murphy has no law enforcement authority, so in order to lend some form of law enforcement authority, she weaponized the Concord Police Department against me by copying Police Chief Bradley Osgood to her unlawful command.
Okay, here, it's in the statement.
It's in the letter that he received from the school district, what he fucking did.
It's from February 10th this year.
Dear Mr. Googly Elmo, I have been made aware of a situation at Krista McAuliffe School on Thursday, February 9th during after-school dismissal.
You approached a member of the faculty requesting to take his photograph, which he agreed to.
Which is wild.
They even let you take a photo of him.
You then proceeded to ask him to pose for the picture, which he denied.
This request borders on harassment.
I am requesting that you refrain from such actions, and I am ordering that you not be allowed on the campus of the Krista McAuliffe School.
Good, man.
You can't fucking do this stuff to teachers, to the workers there.
That's wild.
Also, the poor kid.
How embarrassed.
You're ruining everything.
Your child will be greeted in the morning by staff at the entrance for student walkers and released each afternoon with the walkers.
I suggest you use street parking at pickup.
Yeah, so you're actively draining resources away from the school because of how deranged you are.
And like I said, like embarrassing the fuck out of your kid.
That sucks.
That sucks so bad.
So, uh...
This guy, uh, he wants to be an internet celebrity.
So we're probably, uh, not, not doing the Lord's work by giving him more attention on this episode, but man, is he a poster?
I found just some, some good stuff on his Facebook page.
You go down here.
Uh, I also like the idea of, like, wanting to be taken seriously, because he wants to be taken seriously in the sense that he does not want their kids to be subjected to more gender confusion because someone else is wearing something you don't like.
So let's do a comedy bit about it.
Let's do a little, let's do a little costume.
Let's do some theater for it.
OK, I'm going to read here from another Facebook post.
It's from February 20th.
I pulled my kid from the Krista McAuliffe Elementary School and register her in a virtual school and each day she gets to pick from a library of what she wants to be each day.
For instance, she can be a man, a cowboy, a woman, a transsexual, hermaphrodite, bisexual, a trisexual, non-binary, and there is a genitalia drop-down list so she can choose to have a penis, two or three Even, and with the graphic technology, she can place the penis on her forehead, even replace her arms with penises.
Penises.
And the other incredible virtual functions of the virtual school is she can make all her own teachers, staff members, and even construct the hierarchy of the school district superintendent's office, the school board.
So this virtual school is amazing and it conforms with the current ideology.
Of non-conforming and being whatever you want depending on which side of the gender bed you wake up upon each morning.
So just another case of a person being so fucking deranged and obsessed with genitalia that they are the ones invoking penises on their own daughter's face, man.
So weird.
Well, actually, the poor guy got hustled.
The kid has just been playing cyberpunk the entire time and telling their dad they're going to school.
On Melissa's login.
Wow, this new...
The new edition of the school software sure is glitchy.
Really not holding up that well.
Dropped frame rates across the board.
Amazing, right?
Like your whole argument is that these teachers are freaks and to argue that you spin up a joke of your own imagining filled with more gnarly stuff about your own daughter than could have ever been said by these teachers.
Yeah, and like, the teacher's social media is the problem.
That's the one that's not child safe.
Right, man!
Jesus Christ, this is a public post.
I'm not a friend.
I'm not even friends with this guy.
And I can see this post.
Yeah.
Like I said, this is elementary school.
This could be a potentially very young kid.
He's like, Dad, what are you talking about?
What are you saying here?
What's happening?
Are you pulling me out of school, Dad?
Is that what's happening?
Dude, this post is so... This is the most deranged man in history.
Okay, this is the next paragraph.
It's like building a virtual community.
Starting at the top, you could place Nurse Ratched, so yeah, 50-year-old cultural reference there, as crabby, condescending, cantankerous, holier-than-thou superintendent of the virtual department.
And surround her with robotic Stepford wives with no critical thought process, moral fabric, sense of justice, and eliminate all the natural, protective, innate traits of a mother over their children.
Then you could build your school board and fill the seats with clowns, completely disconnected from reality.
Wonder what that looks like.
Because after all, a clown is a mere fiction and creates its own reality to perform and entertain an audience of like-minded or no-minded characters.
And then you could build your elementary school staff with cross-dressers who could be men one day and women on the next and even have a full-faced beard while being a woman or man.
And instead of a purse, use a wallet and a man could rock a coach purse.
Believe it or not, it's been done.
I know it sounds crazy to you.
A guy has worn a purse before.
Yeah, it's happened.
It's happened.
Don't go back in history.
You're gonna be really freaked out.
That's the thing is like I know this is like a fucking trite point.
Dude was dressed as Julius Caesar in a fucking skirt.
Yeah.
In a leather skirt.
Julius Caesar like notorious like The reason that the Greek Towel Boy meme exists.
You know, like, that's Julius Caesar.
What are you talking about?
Roman Towel Boy.
Roman Towel Boy.
I don't know.
Uh, yeah.
It just keeps going and wait, wait, wait.
You could add more stuff like transsexuals and pansexuals and trisexuals and bisexuals and even a few normal people to portray the appearance of social normality.
I mean, it kind of betrays the point when you get down to buy, like you don't even think bisexuals are valid.
Like, yeah, you gotta, you gotta stop somewhere.
It's like the conspiracy theory thing.
You got to have like some, Limits to pretend that you're a sensible person.
And if you're going to do that, you actually have to start and end with bisexuals aren't real.
You don't go outside of that.
You got to focus on that one or not touch it at all.
And every day you could have drag queen library story time and by the end of the school year your kid would be so discombobulated in the head it would require hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for gender mutilation surgery to conform with the new gender identities your staff cultivated in the minds of seven, eight, nine, ten-year-old kids who just wanted to be kids.
Yeah, there's nothing that's more harmful to a kid than dressing up in clothes.
Than wearing clothes.
Doing dress up is bad.
Also, can you drop a link to these taxpayer dollars that we can get to help people gender affirming surgery?
Can you drop a link to that one?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's it's barely happening for like adults can barely get this, let alone children.
Yeah.
Who just wanted to be kids, and for the other kids, millions in therapy to treat those that didn't seek juvenile transgender mutilation surgery.
In worst case scenario, you could offer parental... Uh... Oh my god, dude.
No.
Uh, this gets... No.
It gets worse.
Yeah.
Um... Thank you for posting this, though, Michael Guglielmo.
He did another one...
I think I have it here in a folder.
He did another post saying that he had to put armed guards at his house now.
No way!
It's so funny.
This is so funny because you're not supposed to say you needed help.
We should also say Michael Guglielmo, in this other article I read, was accused of grabbing a juvenile at Concord Restaurant in a sexual manner.
Let me change the screen here.
Oh no.
He faces several misdemeanor charges including sexual assault, simple assault, and criminal threatening.
Who could have seen it coming?
Who could have seen it coming?
Jesus.
Wonder why this guy is obsessed with kids and genitalia.
What the fuck, man?
Like, why would you want to be famous?
Why would you want to?
That's the Googleable shit.
That comes up.
That's the stuff that comes up right away.
Like, why would you want to be famous?
It just shows you how, like, detached from reality he really is.
Yeah.
If he's willing to be the public face of this movement.
Uh, yeah.
I mean, there's, there's a reason, there's a reason you're on this particular crusade.
It's because it excites you.
It's because you get something out of it.
Um, really nasty stuff.
Uh, okay.
This is from February 25th.
So this is after the post we just read.
This is him on Facebook.
Again, Michael Guglielmo press release in accordance with the announcement of state officials regarding an alleged threat bite up by undisclosed sources celebrating a national day of hate.
In New Hampshire, I posted armed personnel at my home to protect the Guglielmo family from any leftist extremist groups attempting to retaliate against me or my family for my recent lawful activism against potential extremist elements of the leftist educational cabal subversively acting in the Concord, New Hampshire area.
Amazing.
So like, He's trying to say that it's the radical left that should celebrate the National Day of Hate.
Yeah.
And so for that, that's so funny.
I love that.
I love that.
Cause like, I'm surprised I don't see the angle taken more often.
Uh, yeah.
Um, this, this is a long post, but, uh, he posts a link to patch.com, New Hampshire officials monitoring for possible National Day of Hate extremism.
What is the National Day of Hate?
That's a real thing?
Yeah, it was like a week and a half ago, I think.
I don't remember the exact day, but yeah, it's a thing that the new Nazis were doing.
It's like the Proud Boys and all of them.
They were like, yeah, we're going to national day of hate.
We're going to do some hate shit.
So like some, you know, around here, some people, you know, spray paint swastikas and some freeway overpasses, things of that sort, you know.
So it's really funny to be like, oh, this is the thing that's real.
And it's definitely the left that's doing it.
So let me get armed guards that I can totally afford.
And they're going to target me because I love protecting children and they hate that.
That's not one of the foundational myths of the Nazi Party.
It's to protect children.
Yeah.
So just an excellent poster, Michael Guglielmo.
You can look him up on Facebook.
I don't know.
Maybe don't, don't give him anything to like get excited about.
Don't, don't like interact with him.
Cause he's obviously like feeding off of this stuff.
But yeah, The Ballad of Michael Guglielmo.
I expect we'll be hearing more from him.
I hope we hear more from him, because he's got a good voice on him.
It's got a good range of voices, actually.
And other than I'm gone again.
You wave your head over my hands.
And I'm watching something good.
I tell you if you understood.
All right, so it's that time of year again.
One week exactly after the Oscars, when we decide maybe we're going to talk about the Oscars, I guess.
That classic time of year we all love.
We all know there might have been a recount, so we had to wait for that to all buff out.
I didn't have a lot riding on this Oscars.
I enjoy movies.
I saw a fair amount of movies last year, but I didn't have much invested in the Oscars, seeing as how my pick for best pictures weren't even nominated.
Crimes of the Future, no nomination.
We don't support novel organs, I guess, in this academy.
That's a bridge too far.
Fucking bullshit.
Fucking bullshit.
We can have women directors now, but we can't have women fetish surgeons.
It's pretty fucked up.
They talk a lot about equality, but they don't really give us that.
They give us something that looks like it.
Beautiful movie, though.
Very, very funny movie.
But yeah, don't... I don't know, if you have a queasy stomach, don't watch, but I loved it.
Did you see it?
If you have a queasy stomach, yeah.
So if you have a queasy stomach, maybe just avoid all Cronenberg stuff.
Good move.
But yeah, I loved it.
It was one of the few movies I saw in theaters last year.
I made a point to see a couple movies in theaters last year.
More than in the past.
So that was one of them.
Really enjoyed it.
When I'm ready.
I'm not ready yet, but at some point I'm going to eat some plastic.
When I'm ready.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think.
I don't blame you.
You let me know how that goes.
Uh, my other pick for best picture, uh, if I had to pick a runner up, um, Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.
Two favorite movies.
Um, I mean, if like, if ladies talking, uh, or women, ladies, ladies, they love talking, uh, women talking.
If women talking had like a high on fire riff creep in behind one of the scenes where they're arguing, um, that, you know, that's an easy way to win me over.
Does that happen in this movie?
In Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon.
Have you seen it?
No.
I just looked it up right now.
It looks pretty cool.
It's a great movie.
Same writer-director as A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
That Iranian vampire skateboarding woman movie.
I don't know that one either, but I've heard cool things about that one, too.
You should watch that one.
It's really cool.
I like this one even better, though.
It's got one of my favorite opening scenes in any movie.
I kind of don't want to spoil it.
So I'm going to watch it today because I I did subscribe to to get a free week of Showtime so I can watch what we're going to talk about in a minute.
But I can also watch this here.
So we're yeah, we're watching this today.
Um, it's got kind of a gnarly opening scene.
Most of it is more like fun.
It's more like an 80s kids movie where there would still be kind of like serious themes in it, you know, or like edgier stuff and, you know, like crime and stuff like that, um, in a kid's movie.
But the opening scene is, is gnarly.
And I was just, while it was happening, it was so, I was like fucking pumping my fist in the theater.
People probably thought I was like a psycho, but, um, Anyway, those two not nominated.
The big winner, of course, Everything Everywhere All at Once, which is polarizing along at least two different axes.
There's of course the people who like it, which I think is probably the majority.
The majority of opinion is that it was a good movie.
Then there's the people who are too cool for it or think it was too corny, which it is a very corny movie, so I get that.
And then there's the people who don't like it because it had Asians in it.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's definitely the line right there.
If you don't like it, it's either because you're too cool, and you do watch a lot of Asian cinema, and you're kind of annoyed by the tokenism of maybe this being nominated, or you don't like Asian people.
It's either you love them or you hate them in this case.
Yeah, we're dabbling into everything everywhere all at once discourse.
Probably not the best idea.
We'll try to be good about it.
Yeah, I saw that one, what's her name?
Peggy Hubbard.
That one woman we talked about who's like a kind of older black woman, former military police officer, former IRS agent who's running on like an anti-woke.
You know, America first platform or whatever.
She made some post that was like.
Just being a minority is not shouldn't be enough to win an Oscar.
But she made that post like two days before the Oscars happened.
And you know, was it was it less true then?
You know.
What was she expecting?
I want to know who that was targeted at.
Was that targeted at everything, everywhere, all at once?
You know what sucks?
I don't think it was.
I think it was targeted at Angela Bassett.
Because a lot of people were like, oh, this is going to be her snub year where they're going to give her the one from 30 years ago they owe her and give it to her now.
one from 30 years ago they owe her, and give it to her now.
And that was like, the internet was kind of ready for that.
And they wanted that.
And I think that's what she was talking about, because I think her whole thing is to kind of also do like.
Anti.
Like, don't give me anything just because I'm a black woman, even though it's like that's exactly why people are feeding you money so you can maybe do that.
But yeah, yeah, I think it was about Angela Bassett.
Yeah, that's, that's probably a good call, but it was like, um, I think I did see people defending Angela Bassett in the comments.
And, uh, it's like, you, how do you do that?
How do you be like, Oh, I'm the good white conservative who likes her because she's a good actress.
Not be like, there's no, I don't think there's like any room for that anymore in, in the movement.
I think you just have to like ignore her at best.
Oh yeah, yeah, I think that's the move.
Oh no, I can't show that.
I was about to laugh at this photo and it's a photo of somebody who's dead now.
I think it was like an obituary post.
Oh no, yeah, yeah.
Bad Alex, don't do that.
RIP, RIP though.
Oh, she does say Brendan Fraser deserved the best actor.
Which is funny because that, if anything, is like the biggest affirmative action award.
It's like, it's like the whale wasn't a sensation the way everything everywhere all at once was.
Like the whale was just like a, like a little, uh, what do you call it?
Like a, a festival movie.
You know, people didn't go out and see that.
They just gave, gave Brendan Fraser the award, like as reparations for what happened to him.
I saw people who were saying that the whale is good because fat people do suck.
That's what I saw.
I didn't see anybody who was like, oh, the whale was great and they meant it earnestly.
Maybe some xenophile or whatever out there, but I didn't see that.
No, everybody I've heard talk about it says they fucking hate it.
Says it's awful, but whatever.
I like Brendan Fraser.
Yeah.
I'm trying to get to the one before the Oscars.
Yeah, here we go.
Receiving an Oscar solely based on the color of one's skin would be meaningless.
Judge on the quality of work and talent.
It's the equivalent of an participation trophy.
Yeah, this is for sure by Angela Bassett.
It's in it.
But it's like, OK, when are you going to ever believe that the Academy is going to base their decisions on it?
Like, when could they ever prove to you that they didn't take it into consideration?
I mean, giving what's-her-name, best supporting actress Jamie Lee Curtis In, like, the Asian movie.
Does that count now?
Oh, well, you gave a white person an Oscar in an Asian movie, so I guess that one's real.
But the ones that the Asians got was not real.
Also, like they said, there's only been, like, three, like, non-white winners, like, ever.
It hasn't been that many, like, ever.
So it's like, what are you talking about?
Like, this isn't happening.
This is so funny.
Susie says, I get so tired of people basing everything on race.
If you look at me, I look very Caucasian, but I'm 50% Portuguese and the rest is American, Indian, Dutch, German, etc.
Heinz 57 is always what my parents said.
I love that.
Like, why do you care so much about race?
I look white and I've never had any problems.
Yeah, yeah.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, it's like, that's, that's the whole idea of, you know, white, of like, race being fake.
Yeah.
White doesn't exist.
Yeah.
Like Anne says, what an insult to the winner to win because of their color.
I'd want to be known and win for my acting abilities.
So sad.
And it's like, maybe you should stop telling people that they only succeeded because of their race.
Yeah.
Because that is sad for you to think that about them.
It does suck.
It absolutely sucks.
Yeah.
Louis Gossett Jr., Morgan Freeman, and Denzel Washington are my three favorite actors, not because of skin color, but because of their fabulous acting abilities and great scripts.
Quite a jump there from Gossett Jr.
to Morgan Freeman.
Hey, hey, I like it, though.
Tell me, tell me, like, all hits.
Yeah.
You also like a certain type of movie, apparently.
So Ben Shapiro had something to say about Everything Everywhere all at once.
He says, in five years, nobody will watch Everything Everywhere all at once.
The movie is meh.
It is overlong, two hours, 19 minutes, confused, and generally bizarre.
That's true, though.
It is a bizarre movie.
You have to admit that.
Yeah, it's super weird.
It's really random.
Dude, when I saw it, so, uh, full dis-, no, full disclosure, uh, I, I liked Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, uh, quite a bit, actually.
I thought it was a great movie.
Yeah.
Same.
I really, I really enjoyed it.
I just watched it last night, and I really, I really enjoyed it.
I had a great time.
Um, I haven't, I haven't had, like, everything he's saying right now, except for he's saying it using the wrong words, yeah, it is long.
Um, it is genuinely bizarre.
Um, those are all, like, fun things.
This was, like, a really fun movie to watch.
Uh, yeah, I mean, that's like, that's another kind of funny criticism about it is that it's like, oh, it's a normie movie or it's too, um, I don't know.
It's trying to appeal to audiences or something like that, but it's like, It's not really, like, it's still a weird movie relative to, like, the general movies that people go see.
Even though there's, like, you know, it's a multiverse movie and there's tons of multiverse movies now.
Like, the way it uses the humor or whatever is different.
Is a little different than, you know, it is... Sorry, I need to put Tony upstairs because he's driving.
Yeah, I know where it is because Tony's absolutely bugging.
I will accept the criticism that it's like Rick and Morty.
It's like kind of Reddit, you know?
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
After I saw it, the next day I tweeted out, we can't let Rick and Morty fans find out about everything everywhere all at once.
Yeah.
Like we can't let Hot Dog Fingers become the new Pickle Rick.
Yeah.
And you're right by that.
I'm happy that didn't happen.
I feel like it could have easily, closely happened.
I think I did see a couple people recreate hot dog fingers, but not like it would have happened if it was the Rick and Morty fans, because there are a lot of parallels there, I'll say.
Because you're right, it is like, the movie is random.
It is sticky caps, lowercase r, uppercase a, random.
But that's like a function of the plot, though.
It's explained.
It's not just random for the sake of being random.
And I did like some of the random shit that happens.
If you haven't seen the movie, it's probably because you have no interest in seeing it, but I won't spoil too much.
In order to jump multiverses, to like tap into your other selves.
I like it too because it's like Jet Li's The One, kind of.
It's like accessing your other personalities, your other instances and other universes in order to get their skills.
It's kind of similar.
She didn't hit anybody with a police motorcycle, but... But that's only because there was no police motorcycles.
Yeah, and because she was a cop.
She respects police motorcycles too much.
Oh, she does, yeah.
True.
I forgot about the bootlicking!
Nevermind, fuck this movie!
Well, I mean, just in, you know, Michelle Yeoh, she's played a cop, you know, several times over.
Police story.
Disgusting.
She was a cool cop, though.
She was, like, jumping motorcycles and stuff.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, she hit herself with a motorcycle a couple times.
But I did.
So, so like to access your other personality, you have to do something statistically improbable, a.k.a.
random.
And the way that that manifests is like, uh, she like sniffs a bug off of a ledge.
She like snorts it up like it's coke.
Yeah.
I don't know.
That's like, that's true.
Cause like, what's the, what's, what would be so unpredictable here if I, yeah, if I snort this bug and it's like, there's a function in this is that they're not doing it for no reason.
Scientific.
Yeah, the most random things in here that are so, so stupid, they talk about for a second and they talk about how stupid it is.
Yeah, and it's also funny for people to be like, oh, I hated that movie except Rakukuni.
Rakukuni made me laugh.
And it's like, that's like the whole sense of humor, the whole thing.
But yeah.
OK.
The movie is meh.
It's overlong, confused, and generally bizarre.
In fact, nobody has watched a single Best Picture winner five years later since 2007's No Country for Old Men.
I don't know what that... I guess just like...
Five year gap after whenever they won, which that's like the last that's the last best movie that people will still revisit.
Yeah.
I got the exact opposite feeling from this movie.
Like, I kind of want to I want to watch this with pay.
Like, I want I want her to watch this movie with me because it is fun.
Yeah, there's a lot of shit going on that you could pick up on a second second watch.
Also, I don't know, like Moonlight.
People love Moonlight a lot.
Yeah, Moonlight's great.
I mean, I don't have a desire to rewatch it all the time because it does punch me in the fucking chest every single time.
But yeah, I don't like.
They all hold up, you know?
Well, not all of them.
I've seen Parasite.
I think people will rewatch Parasite for a long time.
Yeah, yeah.
I've seen it twice.
That's that's probably enough for me.
But it is it is a beautiful looking movie.
Yeah.
Okay, no one is rewatching Green Book.
I'll give them that.
Everybody hated Green Book, man.
Matt Walsh commented, and he commented with the same tweet he tweeted out, so good on him for being efficient.
Matt Walsh commented on his boss Ben Shapiro's post, perhaps the worst best picture winner in the history of the Academy Awards.
Hell yeah.
Again, like you don't have to do this extreme, you know, not everything is the worst thing ever, man.
Nobody's going to believe you.
Yeah, it's okay.
There's been worse Academy Award winners.
I mean, people fucking hate Crash.
A tedious and pointless movie.
Mildly amusing at certain points, but that's the absolute best thing that can be said about it.
Dude, nobody cares of your fucking opinion about pop culture, man.
Sorry, it's not a VeggieTales.
I'm sure VeggieTales is too demonic for this guy.
I mean, have you seen a fucking fruit or vegetable talk?
Not me.
That's gross.
They must be possessed.
I saw a pickle talk one time.
That was like hard to get out, huh?
The thing is, I don't even care about the Oscars, let alone Matt Walsh's opinion about the Oscars.
Yeah, pretty funny to have to grandstand on every fucking issue.
This is the Daily Wire's moral stance on the Oscar Best Actress winner.
Shut the fuck up, dude.
You know, because I was thinking, what's funny about this, they're not even championing something else.
They're just like, They're just mad about the winner, but it would be funny if they would have, like, said, no, Tar should have won this.
They're just mad because Tar lost, and that's why, that would be, but they didn't even do that.
They're just mad because something won.
They don't even want, they don't even feel like someone else got snubbed.
They just don't like this one won.
Yeah, I mean, there was a pretty white, there were a couple of pretty white movies you could have put, thrown your weight behind if you're really worried about, you know, a future for our white actors.
We need to secure a future for white actors and directors.
Did you, uh, did you see Tar?
No, I want to.
Sounds pretty good.
It's good.
It's good.
But, um, like just, I mean, without spoilers, it is basically about like, um, You know, someone does something wrong and they basically get cancelled?
Yeah.
I'm surprised they didn't, like, champion that movie.
Yeah, well, I think unless you're doing a poor read of it, from what I've heard, it's not, like, necessarily sympathetic towards TAR.
No, it's not.
It's not sympathetic towards TAR, which is why I feel like they would be into it.
Because they're like, see?
This is what fucking happens every single time.
Every time this happens.
And so, Ben didn't like everything everywhere all at once.
Yeah, did you see Banshee's of Ennis Sharon?
You might like that.
I don't know, that wouldn't probably be too weird for you too, Ben.
However, most of the people in this comment section loved everything everywhere all at once.
Steve Manos... I don't know, dawg.
This one's pretty cool.
Steve Manos says, I actually enjoyed everything everywhere all at once.
It was original, funny, sad, mind-bending, and relatable all at once.
See, it's like people are like, oh, it's corny.
They're just doing the universe, the multiverse thing.
It's all basic bitch Reddit humor, wacky, whatever.
And it's like, no, this is mind-bending for the general public.
You know?
What?
I never thought about that.
I never thought about if you could like leap from one verse to another verse.
I've never seen that.
I've never even heard of that idea.
How do you say it?
Multiverse?
The acting was incredible.
The imagery was warped.
There was an immigrant story, a love story, and a coming of age story wrapped around the concept of a multiverse that got you thinking about what's important in your own life.
I'm sorry that some folks missed the point.
Totally understand the movie is purposefully chaotic and depressing at the front end.
Plus it gets weird in the middle.
But all that chaos gets resolved at the end.
Definitely for adults only.
All my friends saw it.
None of us could understand why it was such a limited release.
Because money.
Because it was an independent movie.
Mike says to Ben Shapiro, couldn't disagree more, Ben.
This is the first time in years and years that they actually awarded a film that is bold, creative, and original.
Not to mention one that isn't woke or politicized.
It's a beautiful film about family values.
I can't wait to watch it again.
Uh, so it's funny that they're saying it's not woke because the main plot of this, like the family plot, uh, part of the, of the story is Michelle Yeoh's character coming to terms with the fact that her daughter is a lesbian.
Yeah.
That her daughter has a girlfriend that she wants to bring over and Michelle Yeoh is like worried about what her father is going to think about, you know, the girlfriend.
But I guess even displaying any type of resistance to it is kind of unusual in a movie, unless that's the entire movie.
Yeah, that's fair.
And I can't even think of what that would be, you know?
Because usually in Hollywood, when the kid comes out, the parent does backflips and throws a party.
Right, yeah, totally.
So, in another instance of somebody disagreeing with Ben, Craig R. Britton, Mr. Revenge Porn Libertarian Candidate himself, who, as I've said before, is all over these right-wing comment sections, he often has, like, the top comment in any Normie, Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire, Fox News-type Facebook post.
It's crazy he did that pivot so seamlessly, and, like, it just worked, and it's just working.
Yeah, because people don't care about fucking actual sex crimes against actual women, including underage girls.
That's not what they fucking care about.
No.
Craig says, it's an incredible film because it was made on a very low budget and stands against everything Hollywood is for.
American audiences can't handle more than 90 minutes, which is false.
Every fucking Marvel movie is like three hours long now.
What are you talking about?
There are arguably no A-listers in the film.
Parts of the movie openly mock wokeness and traditionalism alike.
There's anime, stop-motion, and other quote, alternative film elements sandwiched into the production.
This is the sort of film that would become a subculture favorite like Army of Darkness, Rocky Horror, or Labyrinth, if not for the fact that Hollywood is so bad that those films now are spectacular by contrast.
Those are good movies.
I don't know.
Like, those are singular movies, even in whatever decade they were made, you know?
Yeah.
Well, I think, yeah, they do look a lot cooler and richer, and they're more fun to watch than a lot of movies that do exist now.
Yeah, totally.
It sucks.
Again, it sucks that we have to agree with someone like this, but here we are.
Heartbreaking.
Worst person you know just made a decent point about everything, everywhere, all at once.
Okay, but some people did, uh, agree with Ben Shapiro.
Like Todd Fields here, who says, absolutely correct!
The movie is just noise!
And a bizarre and terrible plotline!
But!
It checked all the appropriate boxes for today's Hollywood Academy!
Do you know, like, the academy that's, like, repeatedly protested by saying, you know, Oscar's so white, Oscar so male they're always like that's they're always up again and as they should be like those are Totally true observations.
Yeah, you know like how how good they are about representation I think Todd fields here might just be mad that like you said Tony tar didn't win since it's the movie he directed Oh, I is that who this is?
This is the real director, Todd Fields.
No, I'm just kidding.
It's just a guy with the same exact name as the director of Tar, complaining that everything everywhere all at once won.
Also, like you saw this, Todd, I just like I said, I just saw it last night.
And I'm pretty like, you know, I'm a pretty hip person, pretty in touch with what's going on.
With the pop culture.
I don't know about that.
It's been in theaters for like four months now.
That's what I'm saying.
I just barely saw it.
But Todd saw it?
Todd's seen that?
Renee Mason says, I watched about three-fourths of it.
It started out pretty good and then got too crazy for me.
I turned it off and went to bed.
Not Oscar-worthy by any means!
Imagine getting that far into the movie and turning it off.
Like, with this movie, there's no way.
There's no way.
Again, this person never watched it, I don't think.
There's no way.
I think that's what happened to Ben.
I think Ben watched the first, like, 25 minutes that are, like, stressful and anxiety-ridden and was like, nope, can't do this, turning it off, I hate it.
Um... Al Kamar Malik says, the titles are coded messages.
Signs of the time.
So everything, everywhere, all at once, it's a code.
It's a code for iPhone.
Phone bad.
It's telling you where there's no escaping the internet.
Yeah.
No phones, just everything, everywhere, all at once.
And then this is from Mads in the Facebook group.
I saw this comment a few times.
I don't know if this guy is a troll or not, but it's a good comment.
This is Suleiman.
Akhlaqn, who has a bunch of, like, pro-Islam posts on his personal Facebook page.
He's, like, just giving messages about how Islam is better than Christianity.
And about how it doesn't make sense that Jesus died.
How could he die if he was God?
And, like, that would never happen to the Muslim God.
Muslim God can't die.
I mean, true, you know?
Just build different, you know?
But he commented on this.
Let us know when Conservatives have icons like Scott Baio, Stacey Dash, James Woods, Dean Cain, and Kevin Sorbet get honored.
Till then, we the people will continue to boy-scot the Oscars.
Ain't that right, y'all?
I think this is a joke.
I think this is a joke.
I think this person is really funny and on point.
Because they're like, yeah, like if that, if they did make something, if any one of them made something good enough to be mentioned or even whispered about, they probably would campaign behind it pretty hard.
I think that if, what's our boy's name?
Ben Shapiro?
No, no.
The actor, Clint Eastwood.
If Clint Eastwood puts out a project like This coming year, and they do the marketing right, they push for it right, he can get the public right to campaign for him to be winning the Oscar.
Yeah, well they'll do.
And then they'll be signing Weefield about Angela Bassett.
I mean, they do.
When his movies are up, they like his movies, but they don't really pay attention to Oscar voting or the Oscar campaigns or whatever.
Yeah, I think Ben Shapiro, like me, is just mad that some of his favorites weren't, you know, nominated for Oscars, like Terror on the Prairie or Run, Hide, Fight, the two Daily Wire movies that nobody saw.
Yeah, probably pretty bummed about that.
I didn't think about that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why is no one?
Why is?
You know that you're fucking rigged.
It's rigged because none of my stuff was nominated or even talked about.
Yeah, I'm right there with you, Ben.
Let's boycott the Oscars next year by not watching them, not writing about them, not talking about them, and not thinking about them.
What does that sound like to you, buddy?
Yeah, please.
Let's go all in next year.
Yeah.
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