Netflix Stranger Things Pedo Programming Scandal
The ThoughtCrime crew dives into the most important topics of the moment, including; Did Netflix's Stranger Things 5 open with on-screen child molestation? Support the show
The ThoughtCrime crew dives into the most important topics of the moment, including; Did Netflix's Stranger Things 5 open with on-screen child molestation? Support the show
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| Okay. | |
| So before you say anything, Jack, can I say this? | |
| When Jack brought this up originally and tweeted about this, I thought he was being overdramatic. | |
| And I was like, this is like, this seems like it's way overdramatized. | |
| Not that Jack gets overly dramatic often, but sometimes on the pop stuff could happen. | |
| And so I'm like, I'm going to watch, sit down and watch this. | |
| And I watched it. | |
| And I was actually, I thought that Jack didn't go hard enough on this. | |
| Well, so let's explain what we're talking about. | |
| So for people who might just be listening, also hi, or people who, you know, don't, you have no idea what we're talking about, like Blake, for example. | |
| So this is season five of the TV show, Netflix show, Stranger Things has just come out. | |
| This is Netflix' number one show. | |
| It is currently the Netflix's number one show worldwide. | |
| It's been a massive cultural phenomenon. | |
| The original season was all about 80s nostalgia. | |
| That's what made it so big in the first place. | |
| You hear the synth music. | |
| It's kids riding around on bikes. | |
| So it's got a lot of allusions back to old 1980s, you know, movies and growing up like that. | |
| And so similar to what Andrew was just saying about how youth brands and youth bands could have a second life, it's sort of like that same thing where it's, you know, this is a way for a lot of Gen Xers and elder millennials, Gen Wires to be able to sort of share the 80s with their kids. | |
| And they've gone and they've been making the show gayer and gayer as the seasons go on. | |
| And in this scene, this is the, so this is a flashback, what you're actually watching back to season one. | |
| So what you're seeing here is them reestablishing something or what they'd say, revealing something that actually happened in season one that they're only showing you now for the first time. | |
| And I watched this scene and you're seeing the big bad right there of the whole series. | |
| We'll call him gay Darth Vader. | |
| And what gay Darth Vader is doing, also known as Vecna, is he is metaphorically, you know, it looks like he is physically violating this young boy. | |
| We'll call him Gay Luke Skywalker with his tentacle. | |
| And he is shoving his tentacle down Gay Luke Skywalker's mouth and shooting his dark effluvia down the boy's throat. | |
| The boy's eyes roll backwards. | |
| They, you know, they, you know, they roll back in his head. | |
| He starts gagging. | |
| And at which point, gay Darth Vader then starts stroking the boy's face and his sort of neck also, his head also goes back in a form of pleasure. | |
| And to me, I watched this. | |
| This was actually released prior to the season itself. | |
| And I said, guys, this is very clearly representative of a gay rape scene. | |
| And that's crazy that nobody is calling out Netflix for this, number one, for filming and putting something like this in, again, this is their Keystone show. | |
| This is their tentpole show. | |
| This is their blockbuster. | |
| People have been waiting for this for four years for this very episode to come out. | |
| And that's the first thing you see. | |
| And what was crazy is that people then came back to me and said, oh, that's not what it is, Jack. | |
| You're just making a big deal of it. | |
| To Tyler's point, no, no, that's really, really what it's representative of. | |
| Oh, it was like it was more horrifying than I realized. | |
| And I sat down. | |
| It's like right at the beginning. | |
| It's like they like they wanted this to be the lead off. | |
| And it's super, everything about it's weird. | |
| Like I was talking about it with my wife while we were watching. | |
| We're like, I was like, oh, this is the thing Jack was talking about. | |
| She was like, what is it? | |
| I'm like, it's like something, something gay happens at the beginning. | |
| And she's like, what are you talking about? | |
| And we watched it. | |
| And I was like, there was, we went through it. | |
| There's probably 50 different ways they could have done this like so easily. | |
| It's like they, this was, this is like, this has to be intentional. | |
| Like all this is like, it's so clearly, weirdly intentional. | |
| And even like the scripting of it, super, like, none of it's necessary. | |
| It has nothing to do plot-wise. | |
| Like, there's no way that this actually is applicable to like the story in any kind of way other than it just being like super weird. | |
| So Jack, did you say, did you describe it? | |
| You said it was text, a textbook gay rape scene? | |
| Representative, like representative of pedophile, you know, behavior. | |
| And by the way, so there was a actually a professor from the University of Chicago sort of responded to my, I wrote an op-ed about this over the Thanksgiving break and sort of responded to my piece and said, and said, yes, that's true. | |
| However, if you watch the rest, and the rest of the season kind of gets into this, where this character, his name is Vecna, but I call him Gay Darth Vader, where Gay Darth Vader is then targeting other children, but he does so in a guise called Mr. What's It. | |
| And her point was, well, perhaps you could read it as a warning of grooming behavior. | |
| And while that's all, you know, well and good, I just think this scene itself in a TV series, which has been marketed very largely towards children is just inappropriate. | |
| It's just, it's so weird. | |
| I mean, everything, everything. | |
| It's very graphic. | |
| It's very graphic. | |
| And, you know, the fact that we have to blur it out for, I mean, here's what I would say, Jack, to those people that were hating on you. | |
| It's like, who, who any age over like 15 wouldn't see this imagery and be like, that looks a little phallic. | |
| Like, you would, of course, see that. | |
| You could not see that by looking at that image. | |
| And then him petting the kid's head. | |
| And like, I'm kind of with you. | |
| It's with you, Tyler. | |
| Like, it's worse than I imagine. | |
| And I get that like people are going to defend it as some sort of like make-believe. | |
| But to your point, I think a lot of families watch this show. | |
| Am I wrong, Jack? | |
| I only watch season one. | |
| A lot of families watch the show, yes. | |
| Lot of family watch together, like especially with like teenagers and stuff like that and like like a little bit. | |
| Like, my kids are kind of in the perfect. | |
| My, my two older kids are kind of in the perfect. | |
| My, though I, I feel like nine ten eleven, twelve year olds are like this is kind of like a really cool show to like that age group because it's just, it's it's not really scary, but it's scary enough and it's, you know, it's just kind of an interesting. | |
| You know, like Dick Jack said, we've been asked, we've been asked. | |
| People are asking us to cut the video out because it's too disturbing to them. | |
| So I guess they're, they're definitely agreeing with jacket. | |
| I mean, you can just, you can just show us, she can just show us still. | |
| But actually what, what we could also show, which is separately from the video, which and, by the way, that's my entire point, because the people who were like hating on me and this, this went viral, this we got written up in international, you know, media over this and I had all these these I call them the stranger simps all the stranger simps were coming at me saying, oh no, it's just, you know, it's just like the scene in Alien, don't you understand they're? | |
| They're just doing a bit from Alien. | |
| I said, well, you understand that the movie Alien is meant to represent male rape, but it's an r-rated movie. | |
| Writer, Alien is an r-rated movie and and the they're called the face huggers in Alien are meant to represent male rape because the it's it's sort of this, you know creature that that grabs onto your face, injects it, injects its, you know, spur sperm spore whatever, into your body. | |
| Then they become pregnant and then the pregnancy kills you. | |
| So it was written and the writers of the of the original Alien movie have come out and said this that that's exactly what they intended. | |
| They were pro-abortion and they thought that if they could put this into the film, that it would make uh, men perhaps more open to being pro-choice, if they understood what it was like to be raped and then get pregnant again. | |
| Go look at the actual writers of Alien. | |
| That's what they said. | |
| Like i'm not making this up. | |
| So for people saying oh, it's just like the Alien scene yeah, I know I, I understand what an homage is out to the doing, but what I do want to also point out though, is and let's talk about some of the b-roll here guys throw up? | |
| Where is it? | |
| Throw up just some of this b-roll, three for 334. | |
| Just throw up 334 as b-roll while we're talking because, and and some of this other stuff, because you can see if in 334 and you know 339, 340 to scroll through those because there are numerous tie-ins to children's action figures, children's happy meals, all children uh, children's toys, where they are clearly marketing this show towards children. | |
| I think that last one was that was just the Teenage Ninja Turtles. | |
| No, it was like a crossover. | |
| Okay, it's like a crossover yeah no, but but you know, I think the point is because I I only watched season one, so I i'm a little behind on stranger thing. | |
| I thought it was cool, love the synth music, retro 80s but it was like the kids were really, really young. | |
| It kind of had this like it was like a kid's. | |
| You were watching the world through these kids eyes and being terrified at this stranger thing. | |
| That was kind of creeping into their reality. | |
| But it and I again I could be misremembering, but it seemed completely appropriate For like a little slightly older children to watch with their parents. | |
| There was some like violence, but you know, that's that's that's probably as much as season one was some adult themes, but it was like it was basically you're following around these kids in their lived experience right around as they grow. | |
| But Andrew, but Andrew, the point is, is that this scene is meant, you know, it's a flashback to season one. | |
| So it's almost like the writer. | |
| So it's like Netflix came in basically. | |
| Woke Flix came in and was like, no, season one was too family friendly. | |
| So we want you to watch season one, knowing that this is what actually happened right before season one, right? | |
| So the kid gets, or I guess during, because the kid gets Will, this is the name of his character, who's now gay Luke Skywalker. | |
| He goes missing. | |
| And throughout all of season one, they're trying to find Will. | |
| Well, now we found out this is what was happening to Will. | |
| He was being raped by gay Darth Vader the entire time. | |
| Yeah, it ruins it. | |
| It like makes it totally ruins it. | |
| It ruins everything. | |
| They ruined it. | |
| Is this worse? | |
| Is the first five seconds of this season of Stranger Things worse than the last episode of what do you call it on HBO? | |
| That ruined the Sopranos? | |
| No, the Game of Thrones. | |
| Well, I mean, Game of Thrones wasn't... | |
| What's worse, the last five minutes of the last episode of Game of Thrones or the first five minutes of The Stranger Things? | |
| The thing about Game of Thrones is that this stuff was like the last five seasons of it, essentially. | |
| No, really, the last three seasons, but two or three seasons. | |
| Well, so this, this, for me, for me, if people are like, why is Jack commenting on this stuff all of a sudden? | |
| It's kind of like, this is sort of return to form for me because my original, you know, Twitter account and I had a blog going back in like 2012 through 2016 was all about ripping on Game of Thrones. | |
| I did a blog called The Angry GOT fan. | |
| And so that was our focus the entire time was basically attacking HBO for what they were doing with Game of Thrones. | |
| And so this is a little bit return to form because now I'm the Angry Stranger Things fan, I guess. | |
| Way before Critical Drinker, by the way, way before Critical Drinker. | |
| Although I love that guy. | |
| I think he's, I think he's phenomenal what he does. | |
| So, so Jack, you mentioned that this is kind of like pedophilia, grooming. | |
| Like, this is, you know, this is what some people are observing. | |
| This is as a warning, but it's like, it occurs to me that the entire show is now in hindsight being 2020, is just one giant grooming exercise. | |
| Because I've been into a show. | |
| Yes. | |
| I've never watched you into a show. | |
| Because Stranger Things just clearly seems to be, I said it was a sissy hypno program to turn you gay. | |
| And I kind of suspect all three of you guys are going to be able to do that. | |
| Your instincts were proven right there. | |
| Well, Sim, we'll watch. | |
| No, Blake, Blake, I will unfortunately and begrudgingly admit that Blake was probably right about this. | |
| But there is, do we have any of the okay, no, we don't have it here in these clips. | |
| There's a clip now in, so this is what's crazy, right? | |
| This is what they set it up with. | |
| There's a new clip in the very last episode of this, you know, current, the current episode that have been released, where basically Will, the gay Luke Skywalker, and this is why I call him gay Luke Skywalker, because now he then talks to his lesbian friend, Robin, Rockin' Robin, and she tells him that it's okay to be gay and you should just embrace your gayness. | |
| Do we do it? | |
| We have it. | |
| Oh, we have that clip. | |
| Okay, I see it now. | |
| I see it now. | |
| 3-3-4. | |
| Sorry, guys. | |
| 3-3-4. | |
| She just looked perfect. | |
| So God perfect. | |
| And it was right then and there that I knew she was the one that with Tammy, I would finally be able to be myself, you know, all of myself. | |
| Because there was always this part of me that kind of scared me, you know? | |
| But I thought that if Tammy loved me, all of me, you know, I wouldn't be so scared anymore. | |
| And then he showed up. | |
| Steve the Hare Harrington. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| You probably can't guess the rest. | |
| And that's when it hit me. | |
| It was never about Don't have Dam. | |
| It was always just about me. | |
| I was looking for answers in somebody else, but I had all the answers. | |
| Just needed to stop being so god scared. | |
| Again, that music you heard in the background was not synth wave. | |
| It was the undulations of the sissy hypno burrowing into your brain. | |
| You guys just, you gave into it for fun. | |
| Blake is right. | |
| Blake is totally right. | |
| So what happens right? | |
| What I was referring to is, and I see what's going on. | |
| Right after that, Will has this sequence where he decides to embrace himself and then he is able to exhibit, you know, basically like force-like powers the same way that Darth Vader does. | |
| So gay Darth Vader and gay Luke Skywalker both have these force powers now and are able to use them to fight each other. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Well, I guess gay Darth Vader kind of used the force on him, if you get what I mean. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| Oh, no. | |
| Oh, yeah, that's dirty. | |
| That's very dirty. | |
| So, but what you said is interesting, Jack. | |
| You said that you said it as they have to, because she said it in a clip where I just had to embrace me. | |
| So you, and you were saying Will had to embrace himself and he gets these powers. | |
| But like, isn't that just some sort of like subliminal, subliminal license to be entirely narcissistic, to just be completely obsessed with self, to worship self, to yeah, that's okay. | |
| I'm just making sure that like it's that on the nose. | |
| No, it's it's that on the nose, the entire thing. | |
| And so he he gives in and they've been playing. | |
| And well, and I will tell you, by the way, that the and this is so the full season hasn't been released. | |
| So the sequence that they specifically mention, not just giving into self, but it shows him growing up with another boy and as they're very young. | |
| So this idea that they're trying to imply is that he's been romantically, sexually attracted to his best friend all along. | |
| And there's a theory that a lot of people have been talking about. | |
| Peruser Foz totally agrees, by the way. | |
| You should definitely get him on this episode. | |
| Where, you know, it almost seems like they're playing it out that he and the best friend boy are going to kiss or are going to have some kind of relationship or something like that. | |
| As if, so not only are they going back and recasting season one, it's like they're going back and recasting the entire show to be about child abuse, this weird pedophilic scene with gay Darth Vader and now just about embracing gayness. | |
| So it really goes back to like what a lot of people have been warning about Netflix and that movie Cuties and a lot of things that Netflix does to just take stuff and then wokeify the heck out of it. | |
| Are we going to get a scene, you think, in the season finale where maybe like the two boys will like make out with each other and then they'll go, like maybe someday this racist country will have a first black president and he could make gay marriage legal. | |
| Yeah, literally. | |
| He'll be letting it say how that doesn't make sense. | |
| And they'll say like, we can make it make sense. | |
| Yes, we can. | |
| And then it will fade out the Baltima hope poster. | |
| That is not the stranger than all credits. | |
| Yeah, they'll meet another boy who comes in to help them in the final battle, right? | |
| And they're like, what's your name? | |
| I go by Barry. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| He's Barry. | |
| He's an exchange student from Hawaii. | |
| I go by Barry. | |
| I see a student from Hawaii, right? | |
| The, you know, it's so, but Jack, just sorry to belabor the point, but are they saying that homosexuality is just self-narcissism? | |
| So I don't think so because I don't think they're that self-aware. | |
| I think they're, I think the general message is that being homosexual is good, that you should follow your heart, do whatever you feel like, your impulses are all that matters, your urges are all that matters, do whatever feels right and you be you. | |
| And this, you know, if you watch a lot of Netflix, we know that Netflix has a huge LGBTQ section. | |
| We know that they inject these storylines into property after property over and over again. | |
| And I think it's, I don't, I don't think it's, I don't think they're trying to be that on the nose. | |
| I think they literally think it's good writing, which it's not, obviously. | |
| What I do find interesting, though, is I don't know if there might be, and Blake, you might, you know, I'd like to get your take on this. | |
| It almost feels a little subversive too, because again, they're showing that the child who was the first one to be abused by Vecna then later goes on to become gay. | |
| So it's like, what, what, what mean? | |
| What, what mean, Netflix? | |
| So it's like, it's like, is there some guy who's like in the background, like, who's actually like closetly, you know, closetly like conservative, who's like, what if we, what if we had Vecna abuse him and everyone just kind of went along with it, but he actually is like putting a subliminal message inside the, you know, underneath that, that overt message, like a Straussian kind of thing. | |
| Maybe I got, I just think it's all that's a glass half full. | |
| That's a glass half full take on it. | |
| After your op-ed, you might be. | |
| Well, yeah. | |
| I actually have it. | |
| I say it in the very end of my op-ed. | |
| Like, or maybe, is there like an extra little something going on there? | |
| Because I don't know that we have stats on this that are provable. | |
| Maybe we do. | |
| I should look them up. | |
| But like, do we have stats on, you know, if it's a percentage of people that are, that are, that are self-described, like they were abused as a child that then. | |
| So in the op-ed, I did research for this. | |
| I did, I did look this up and there was a Vanderbilt study from 2022 that said, that found that hetero, or excuse me, homosexual adults reported instances of child abuse at a three to four times higher rate than the heterosexual population. | |
| Wow. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's, well, maybe you're right then. | |
| Maybe there is some weird tie-in. | |
| Maybe, maybe the writers, some writer in the writer's room looked up the same stat that you just referenced in your op-ed. | |
| One could do that. | |
| And so they're trying to kind of sneak it in, which obviously, because obviously it's totally at odds with everything that the characters are saying, you know, embrace yourself, just be yourself, whatever, whatever. | |
| But Also, you know, it's like, it's kind of contradictory because we don't see him, you know, being like this before the abuse scene. | |
| We only see it after. | |
| Foz just dropped something in the chat that convinced me that this is really just like the whole like Stranger Things five seasons or whatever is just like a gay sixth sense. | |
| Because in 335, we have a clip. | |
| Maya Hawk says she wouldn't exist if her parents hadn't aborted her sibling. | |
| Like that, I mean, this is dark. | |
| 335. | |
| This is really dark. | |
| I'm on with this really beautiful essay about her abortion that she got when she was really young and about how if she hadn't have had it, she wouldn't have become the person that she'd become and I wouldn't exist and how both of my parents' lives would have been totally derailed and she hadn't had access to safe and legal health care, fundamental health care. | |
| And I, of course, like wealthy people will always be able to get abortions. | |
| But so many people, because of this ruling this like week, will not only not be able to pursue their dreams, but actually lose their lives and be unsafe. | |
| Was she seated on that in like a dark? | |
| Was she seated cross-legged on? | |
| I didn't miss that. | |
| I think she had her leg under her. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, that's a little odd. | |
| That reminds me of that Pramala Jayapal tweet where she was like, abortion is healthcare. | |
| Full stop. | |
| And then she just got ratioed into oblivion. | |
| A really dark thing. | |
| A lot of people on the abortion topic, what's clear is a very common normie sentiment on abortion is you're not killing a separate human being. | |
| It's just, I guess, you know, we have DND in Stranger Things I've heard, Dungeons and Dragons. | |
| They think it's just, if you get an abortion and then have a kid later, you just, you re-rolled their stats. | |
| You just, you rolled the dice for a different kid. | |
| The kid, same kid came back. | |
| They're just different. | |
| Yeah, that's the wishful from the like that you really only killed someone maybe if like you never have a kid at all. | |
| But otherwise, yeah, you're just re-rolling their stats. | |
| No, this is something where it and by the way, so there's another angle to all this as well. | |
| Do you guys know about the Warner Brothers deal? | |
| Haven't heard about that. | |
| No, what? | |
| You guys, Andrew, have you heard of this all the big acquisition that's going on? | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Something about it. | |
| Yeah, vaguely. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| So Warner Brothers Discovery is currently up for sale. | |
| And what's really interesting is that Warner Brothers Discovery is also the parent company of things like CNN, HBO, like all this stuff. | |
| Right. | |
| And so one of the top bidders for this is Netflix. | |
| So they're coming in with like this Netflix, which is known for being one of the wokest, you know, organizations on the planet. | |
| One of the wokest things that they have is, you know, this is where, you know, where all of every, pretty much every show they get, they're either going to put something woke in there, they're going to make a lot of children's content, including gay characters, including LGBT characters. | |
| There was one, it was like a, something about a couple, I remember it was a couple of months ago where it was like just two nights and they just started being gay all of a sudden for no reason. | |
| This is where one of the, this is where, of course, QDs came out, which was just a straight up pro-pedophilia movie based in France. | |
| And I believe, if I remember correctly, there was a writer, what was that show? | |
| Paranormal Park, I think, where they had trans characters. | |
| And I think the creator of it was actually attacking Charlie, like making fun of Charlie after he was killed, was another Netflix show. | |
| I forget exactly what he said, but it was, I remember that being another Netflix show with a trans character. | |
| And so imagine, if you will, right? | |
| How we would have to respond if Netflix all of a sudden got in charge of like the Looney Tunes at Warner Brothers, got in charge of like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. | |
| And also, by the way, WB also owns like what else? | |
| All of the DC superheroes. | |
| So like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, who I believe they already made gay in Warner Brothers, The Flash, et cetera. | |
| I'm not sole on this making a big difference. | |
| I mean, we already have an example of beloved characters getting taken over by a turbo gay company, and it's called the Disney Corporation. | |
| They've made a lot of stuff really gay. | |
| They didn't get too much. | |
| But you're just proving my point, though, that if Netflix gets this, you know, it takes over Zoom. | |
| My guess is nothing has like heaps of big gay. | |
| I just don't think we're going to see a lot of gay Bugs Bunny because when was the last time you saw anything related to Bugs Bunny? | |
| I guess they made a new song. | |
| My kids watch Bugs Bunny every day, like every single day. | |
| They love it. | |
| Are they making new Looney tunes or do we just have the old Looney tunes? | |
| They are making new ones. | |
| Yeah, there's new ones. | |
| There's new ladies. | |
| All right. | |
| There's a whole new, there's a whole new show where it's like, it's got like an overarching plot, basically, you know, where they, you know, the character is kind of, the storyline's like flowing. | |
| We have epic arcs about Bugs Bunny. | |
| The epicist. | |
| Bugs Bunny's going on a Buildings Roman. | |
| Bugs Bunny is following the huge. | |
| So the other angle of this, there's two other companies right now that I think are in a bidding war over Warner Brothers. | |
| And so that's, I'm just saying, like, if Netflix gets in, like, I'm coming for it. | |
| Like, this is insane. | |
| This is completely insane. | |
| And I can't imagine how you do this. | |
| The other two companies are Comcast, which honestly, I'm obviously not a huge fan of since they run, excuse me, Emmeth Now. | |
| And then Paramount, which is interesting because Paramount, of course, yeah, they have Paramount Plus and they have Yellowstone, which of course I've been quite outspoken on, but they did also just, you know, take over CBS News. | |
| They gave that to Barry Weiss. | |
| So it, you know, it seems like they're trying to at least do something to differentiate themselves there. | |
| Jack, you're going to love this. | |
| Netflix would be insane. | |
| You're going to love this. | |
| They are, Jack. | |
| It's that they're quietly moving to their right over there with CBS. | |
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| You're going to like this. | |
| You're going to like this. | |
| Zuzu's Pedals points out Netflix got a lot gayer when Obama got on the board, presumably right after saving those kids in Indiana at the end of season five of Stranger Things. | |
| I canceled Netflix three months ago, and so should you. | |
| That's such a good point. | |
| You're right. | |
| It totally slipped my mind as we were having the conversation that Obama is, I don't know if he's on the board specifically, but they have a major, major deal between Barack, Michelle Obama. | |
| I thought he was on the board of Netflix. | |
| He definitely got a huge contract to make those documentaries that I was looking up. | |
| No, it's documentaries and feature films. | |
| They did the whole thing with Julia Roberts about like the, it was like, what was like an energy wave kind of thing, like crashes and, you know, everyone loses patents. | |
| It's like the end of the world one. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Susan Rice got on the board of Netflix. | |
| Susan Rice. | |
| Well, okay, so basically Obama, like Susan Rice was Obama. | |
| The appendix. | |
| That's what it was. | |
| Susan Rice gets on the board. | |
| But the Obamas, the Obamas are clearly deeply in bed with it. | |
| So how do they think we're going to react if the Obamas then take, like, imagine if the Obamas have a direct line to controlling CNN and controlling like everything the WB does. | |
| It's like, no, that's, I would go to war over that. | |
| I would 100% go to war over that. | |
| It's leave the world behind. | |
| That was leave the world behind. | |
| That's it. | |
| Yeah, he made that. | |
| And by the way, by the way, everybody, I remember all those conspiracy theories about how, you know, what did they know? | |
| Did they know something was going to happen? | |
| And then there was the scene where all the Teslas, which people thought was like an intentional dig at Elon Musk because all the Teslas get taken over by some mysterious power or force or alien beings and they just start crashing all these Teslas. | |
| I'm telling you, this is this is absolutely the Obamas are trying to take over media. | |
| They are trying to take over a media empire. | |
| They've already done it with Netflix, which by the way, I'd love, because I think Stranger Things started like almost 10 years ago. | |
| So that was before the Obama partnership. | |
| So before Susan Rice was on the board, before they had the Obama partnership, he was still president when it started, or certainly when they were making the show. | |
| But now, right, now they're required to do all this extra stuff. | |
| So they even have to go back to season one and make it all gay. | |
| And in fact, actually, one thing that's really interesting, it just occurred to me as well. | |
| They've also caught Netflix stealth editing Stranger Things where they will, because it's a streaming service, right? | |
| So you don't have DVDs of it. | |
| So they'll go back and they've actually like slightly edited certain characters and certain storylines as the show is going. | |
| So if you go back and watch season one right now. | |
| Yeah, yeah, there was a whole scene where one character was kind of like a peeping tom of the character. | |
| Jonathan was peeping on Nancy and they like basically like re-edited the whole sequence so that he was just sort of like outside, but didn't mean to be looking in or something. | |
| So yeah, there's the guy with the shutter camera. | |
| And so they re-edited it. | |
| So if you go back in season one and look at it now to do a rewatch, it's like it's like a slightly different, you know, a slightly different narrative. | |
| Wow. | |
| So Jack, on a scale of one to 10, how big is this story worldwide? | |
| I mean, it's the number one show in the world right now. | |
| It is the number one show. | |
| Don't and don't think for a second that lots of kids are not watching it because they are. | |
| And it's something honestly where it people say like, oh, why do you care? | |
| Just don't watch. | |
| It's like, no, guys, we actually do have to pay attention to how the masses are being propagandized. | |
| And that's exactly what's going on here. | |
| Oh, I totally agree. | |
| The issue, you know, the issue that I would also, this is why we talk about the Super Bowl so much and why we're doing this, the, the, put, the, uh, the, the sporting event halftime show later, uh, you know, later next year. | |
| Yay, sports. | |
| And yay, sports. | |
| And I would also add, you know, I'd also add that, you know, you, you have to know what you're up against because millions of people who make decisions in politics, who make decisions in media, who then go on to just just exist in the world, they are now all going to have this mental model. | |
| This will be the mental model that they are given. | |
| This is where most people get their stories from. | |
| That's where they get their beliefs from. | |
| It's where they get their history from. | |
| It's from watching movies. | |
| There's no more powerful instrument in the entire world, movies, TV shows, dreaming, et cetera, that people get this from than here. | |
| And that's why I call it out. | |
| That's what, whether it's Game of Thrones 10 years ago or gosh, almost 14 years ago when I started doing that to Netflix now, to Star Wars back when they were doing that and they were making everything crazy. | |
| Disney got really mad at me over the Star Wars thing. | |
| Actually, Ryan Johnson as well, who was the writer of the second Disney Star Wars movie, because I pointed out that in the Disney Star Wars films, all the heroes were this like diverse band of rebels and all of the villains were white men. | |
| Every single one was a white man, and all of the heroes were not. | |
| And of the heroes who were white men or the one straight white woman, they were all killed one by one from the old movies. | |
| Just saying, just saying, I'm noticing things. | |
| I'm just noticing a few things here. | |
| You're just noticing the crime of noticing. | |
| Jack, why don't you take us home? | |
| It's been a fun episode. | |
| Thanks so much, guys. | |
| Pay attention to what's going on. | |
| Don't be a stranger, simp. |