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March 2, 2021 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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Izzy and Stef: EVERY Disney Movie Cliché!
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Alright, so it's us.
We're back. Yes, it's us.
It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a really long time.
It's been a really long time, but we're back and this came out of...
We watched...
So we did movie reviews and we did a movie review...
We're going to do a movie review of Mulan.
The new Disney.
It wasn't too bad.
You know what it was? It reminds me of this song.
I was just humming it before. We started with this guy's like, She was so beautiful, but oh so boring.
I'm wondering what am I doing here.
And with the movie, it really was pretty.
It was. Yeah, they had some nice graphics.
Great scenery. Cool fight scenes.
Cool fight scenes. And we're not going to go into the movie in detail because it is not really worth it.
We were going to do this review and then it was like...
Well, I honestly thought there was going to be a lot more propaganda and more stereotypes, if you know what I mean, movie stereotypes.
But honestly, it was a bit boring, I have to say.
It wasn't that interesting. Yeah, it was a bit predictable.
A bit predictable. So, it starts with something that we want to talk about, which is magical female excellence.
Yeah. So, she starts in a village, and she's chasing a chicken.
And she does these unbelievable moves, right?
And she's like nine or something.
And there's no training. No, she has no training, nothing.
She has, what was it, Qi or Qi or something like that, right?
Qi. I think it's Qi. Oh, don't get me started on Scrabble.
Scrabble words that saved my life.
She just has these powers, because she's just huge with this magical ability.
Whenever I go to the...
There's this cool park that we sometimes go to, and I try and do some easy little swing my legs up onto the bars and hang there for a few minutes, and I get my legs caught in my head sometimes or something.
I can't even get my legs up to the bars.
It's just a matter of flexibility.
Partly flexibility, partly strength, and also partly I've never really tried it before.
Even doing a simple monkey bar thing, my hands get hurt when I'm trying to swing and stuff, so I don't know how she does it.
We went to this ninja place once.
Oh yeah, I remember that, yeah.
And the first time I swung in it, and I'm fairly athletic, but the first time I swung in it, I just went straight into the paddock, like down.
And I did get it once.
You got it like twice, I think.
Once or twice, yeah. It's hard.
You can't just wake up and do these things.
I mean, honestly, I was kind of scared to jump onto it.
Not because of the floor, because the floor was all puffy and everything.
You lay in there, and you have an inch or two or three inches to fall before you actually start feeling any type of gravity.
Right, right. No, but it was like really crazy padding and stuff, but it was honestly, I was just worried that my hands, like, you know when you grab onto something and your hands like really start twisting up and it really hurts, if you know what I mean?
And then you get all those scabs and stuff on your hands.
Oh, calluses. Yeah, calluses, calluses, yes.
So I was worried I was going to get, I was also worried that I wasn't going to be able to jump properly and my hands were just going to get Clanged against the metal and it was really going to hurt that.
So I honestly was a bit nervous to do it.
I think I almost completed it, but it was a lack of size that didn't get me to do the last jump thingy.
Why do you think people are so incredibly susceptible to this People thrilled.
There's this cliché, like in the Star Trek universe, they're called the Mary Sue, and there's a character who's just, you know, she knows how to translate this.
She's an excellent gymnast.
She's a brilliant mathematician.
She's an amazing archer.
And it's just like in Dungeons and Dragons, if you have like 18 for every single characteristic, plus you have magic, and that's how you're born.
Yes, for those who don't know D&D, 18 is like one of the highest you can get.
It's the highest you get without additional modifier.
So why do you think people are so addicted to this idea that You just bought the one.
Someone comes along and just yeets you out of your life and you have all these abilities and skills like Star Wars or The Matrix or whatever and people just can't get enough of these stories.
I mean that would be cool but honestly this is why I used to be into movies more when I was like a lot younger and I was less noticeable with this stuff and you know when you're little you can like listen to the same thing or watch the same thing like 20 times in a row and not get bored of it.
I remember we were doing this on a drive and I was listening to this song I liked and I was like, are you ever going to get bored of that?
And I'm like, nope. That's right.
That's right. I think it kind of makes people lazy, to be honest, because I think they think that you either have these magical abilities or you don't.
But the idea that, you know, there's this guy, Malcolm Gladwell, who's Canadian actually, he wrote a book about how you just, you need 10,000 hours to become really good at anything, which you're almost getting under your gas, obviously.
Okay, I learned that really fast.
You did, but you've become really great at all the stories and everything.
It's taken a long time.
I've made at least 12 and I only like 5.
And I think what happens is if you believe that there's these magical, this chi, or these magical powers that allow you to do all these cool things, then if you don't have this chi, you wouldn't sort of just work at it to figure out how to do it and to learn it the painful, slow, human way, right?
And I think that makes people kind of lazy in their, you know, oh, it's not coming that easy to me, so forget it, right?
Yeah, well, this is why I've kind of, as I was saying earlier, I used to like movies more when I was younger because I was okay with this and I was, like, just was interested in, like, the graphics and stuff.
Well, the stories were all new, too, then, for you. Yeah, all the stories were new and I was kind of learning about the stuff, but now I'm kind of like, oh, we have to watch a movie.
Okay, so the one thing I noticed, so there are two main female characters in Mulan, right?
There's Mulan, who is...
Perfect. She's perfect.
She's perfect. I mean, she's absolutely perfect.
There's like nothing wrong with her.
She's not selfish. She's not mean.
She's not lazy. She has no flaws.
Oh, and she's a lot stronger than the average man.
If you see her, yeah, yeah.
This doesn't, it doesn't work like this.
I mean, if you're like some lazy man or whatever, I can understand, yes, some women are probably stronger than you.
But honestly, I'm going to say like 10% of women are stronger than the average man.
Well, especially if they're warriors and have been training in strength from the beginning and she's just been doing all this weird acrobatic aerial stuff.
Well, I mean, maybe she'd be a good archer, but...
But even that has quite a bit of strength, right?
Yeah. Well, I mean, honestly, she was like, there was this thing where you had to carry up two buckets full of water up this crazy mountain hike, and I'm like, I was looking at them like, I'm not even able to do the mountain hike.
Right, right. But, yeah, they were carrying these up, and at first everyone was having issues.
She was always slightly better.
She wasn't, like, falling down or pouring out water.
But at the end, she was, like, half running up there, and the other guys were just looking at her like, what happened?
Well, there's a reason that they keep men and women's sports in general separate.
They should! In most sports, there's a few, but in most sports, women simply can't compete.
For the fact that the thing, do this with the men, they say, I want to be a woman, and they can enter into women's sports, and I think it was like a year or two ago where they completely broke the weightlifting record in the women's sports.
Yeah, some guy who identified as a woman, they outrun, they outlift, they outfight, and it's really, you know, it's really bad for women, because then a lot of the girls will say, well, what's the point?
Why would I go into these sports if I'm just going to get beaten by some man claiming to be a woman?
And it means that the girls are going to stay home, they're going to play video games, they're going to get overweight.
It's just really bad for women as a whole.
And since there's nothing saying, well, maybe if you're not doing all this career stuff, you can settle down and have kids, they're definitely not going to settle down and have kids.
That's crazy, yeah. So, there's Mulan, who's perfect.
Absolutely perfect. And then there's the witch, and I don't remember her name, it doesn't really matter.
It was something that began with an X, and it had a bunch of weird spells.
Xylophone. Xerxes.
Xanadu? You can leave.
I'm kidding. Sorry, that's if you want to say it.
You know what? You've lost all privileges to new shows.
Well, it's you and YouTube, right?
Yeah, it was some long name.
Let's just call her the bird lady.
She had wings!
She's the witch, right? Now, one thing I've noticed in movies is that if it's a male character and he's a bad guy, Does he have a reason?
No, he's just bad.
Okay, but that's what I hate about movies.
You're bad or you're good.
Well, sometimes there's transitions, right?
Now, if it's a female character who's bad, can she just be bad?
No. She's like, oh, well, I was kind of like, I wanted to be really different.
I was always kind of different from everyone else, but they didn't really accept that, so I kind of got exiled.
It's like, can you just say you're bad?
Yeah. And then she turned out to be great and she saved Mulan's life.
Like, no particular turning point either.
Well, here's the funny thing, right? And it's a bit dark, but what the heck, right?
So, this woman, the witch in Mulan, she's basically, she was special, powerful, she had high chi or whatever, and she felt...
That people didn't treat her well or they didn't accept her and so basically she went around killing everyone.
Now listen, so in America in particular, there are these, you know, we've talked about this before, these school shootings, right?
Where kids who feel alienated or bullied or ostracized or exiled or whatever it is, they take weapons and they'll go harm other kids in school, right?
Yeah. That's not a redemption story afterwards.
It's just weird. So the women, if they're bad, there has to be a reason, number one.
And number two, what happens at the end of the movie?
They're always perfect.
And she actually died saving Mulan.
She becomes a self-sacrificial mother witch figure who saves Mulan, right?
And it's like, so not only...
So the evil female characters, not only do they have a reason to be evil, which justifies it to some degree, but they also will always turn around.
Except that didn't happen too much in the older movies.
Yeah. It's happening a lot in the newer movies.
So... And also, they have to look a whole lot better.
Do you remember the guy who was the evil guy?
He had veins all over his face and scars.
Sweaty and swarthy and half stubble and stringy hair.
He looked like an orc, right?
But she's got this weird half-toned makeup.
Yeah, she's got these pretty makeup, I guess you could say.
These nice, long, straight hair, pretty clothing, and she's like...
She looks like she showers every two seconds.
Right, right. Whereas the other guy looks like he basically was pooped by a whale into mud.
Oh, and knives, because that would explain all the scars he has.
Oh, yeah. He's just causelessly bad, and there's no redemption.
She's bad for a reason, but she becomes good.
Anyway, so there was a lot of cliches in there.
Alright, so you've got a list.
I made a list.
Let's do it. Sensible list.
Wait, do we have anything left to say about Mula?
Well, she, of course, perfect acrobat with no training.
She's a perfect warrior.
No training. With no training.
She's a perfect general.
She knows how to win an entire battle.
No training. Yeah.
And, you know, I've got to tell you, like, this is something I sort of asked on my show.
Like, is there ever a point where women as a whole...
No, I mean, lots of exceptions to this.
But women as a whole say, oh, come on, that's too much flattery.
Like, she can't be that perfect.
Yeah. No. I say that, and I'm like, I'm 11.
I'm turning 12 soon, but I'm 11, and I'm saying that.
How about these actual grown-up women who should know what they're doing?
Yeah, like, is there any point where the women say, oh, that's not a realistic, come on, that's not a realistic situation, that's way too much power for her.
Like, it doesn't seem to happen.
So, I think men have their weakness in particular, which is status.
Like, men will always try and beat and conquer, but women have this...
This weakness, which is vanity.
Vanity, yeah. Well, that's why the makeup stars do so well, because they all want to look so perfect and pretty.
Right, right. And that's why, I mean, for me, I'm not too vain.
The only thing I'm like...
I wouldn't say that I'm that vain, but...
A lot of these women are like, well, I want to wear it.
I don't care how uncomfortable this clothing is, but I want to wear it because it makes me look cool or like it shows my stomach or whatever, right?
And I'm just like, alright, can you give me some nice fluffy track pants?
Comfort is key. I'm more for comfort.
I really don't care how I look just as long as I'm comfy.
But you know what the women are trying to create?
What are they trying to create? With the makeup and the hair and the frosting in the hair and the heels and all of that.
Do you know what they're trying to create?
What? Chemistry.
Okay, me and chemistry.
Tell me all about chemistry. I heard this word a while ago.
Maybe a month ago. Maybe a couple weeks ago.
Occasionally I'll read out some of these advice columns from the internet.
And this woman was like, oh, he's such a nice guy.
He's smart.
He's funny. He's attractive.
He's got a great sense of humor.
He's sweet. But there's just no chemistry.
Okay, so, what does that mean?
What does that mean? There's no chemistry. I don't know, it's like, how do you, like, I don't know, are you gonna, like, take him and shove him in a test tube and, like, bubble him up?
It's like, there's no chemistry.
There's no chemistry. And here's my official way of saying it.
There's no chemistry. No chemistry.
Yeah, it is. So, I watched a show when I was younger, and in it, the guy was saying to the girl, oh, I really want to kiss you.
And she says, oh, I don't hear da-do-ron-ron, which is a song.
Da-do-ron-ron-ron, da-do-ron.
Anyway, she says, oh, I don't hear the da-do-ron-ron.
And he's like, what? What are you talking about?
She says, oh, well, if a guy wants to kiss me and I hear da-do-ron-ron, I know it's right.
I know we have chemistry. And he's like, uh, I could turn the radio on.
Maybe it's playing. And she's like, no, no, no.
If I don't hear da-do-ron-ron, you can't kiss me.
So then what is he saying?
Alright, I'm done. No.
Da-do-ron-ron-ron, da-do-ron.
He tries to sing the song to her so she'll kiss him.
Okay, if someone ever says something that dumb to you, can't tell you what you do, you smack them in the face and get as far away from them as you can.
I would go with the second part of that, but not necessarily the first part.
That's just my particular preference.
That would probably be my reaction.
Also, I will say that that's the preference of the law and morality and virtue and self-restraint and all of that, right?
But smack. No, seriously, get away from people who are that dumb.
Oh, chemistry. It's like, I don't care about your dumb chemistry beliefs.
Do you like the guy, and is he a good guy who can support you and your family?
Is he going to be a good dad?
Is he going to be a good friend, a good partner?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, mom chose me partly because she thought I would be a good dad.
Yeah. Anyway. Oh, yeah, yeah.
So, you know, hit and miss.
He was worried about that. No, if she had just gone straight for chemistry.
A lot of times, chemistry has to do with women who feel that a guy is kind of dangerous.
There's something about women, I don't know exactly what it is.
They like to take a bad boy and turn him into a good boy.
That apparently is chemistry.
And spoiler, spoiler, what happens?
It doesn't work. They generally turn her into a bad girl, but anyway.
I mean, how about just find a guy, a not too bad guy, and see how it works.
I like this. Just look for red flag.
It's not too bad. No, I mean...
Not too bad. What I mean is, like, don't get, like, some perfect...
Like, in a crime gang, but not the leader of the crime gang.
Like, not too bad. Well, you see, how about, like, not that extreme?
I mean, like, not...
What I mean by not too bad is, like, not...
Not in terms of, like, meanness, just in terms of, like...
Standards in terms of goodness.
Not exactly goodness and badness, just in terms of, like, qualities, if you know what I mean.
Just have, you know, somebody who's honest, somebody who's reliable, somebody who's dependable, somebody who's sensible, loyal, very, very important, right?
Just get someone like that. I mean, especially this year, right?
I mean, we're all in the same place 24 hours a day for, like, eight months, right?
Really fast, I have turned into a turnip.
You have turned into a turner.
Tell us about that. Because we've been all over the world, right?
We've been to Poland, we've gone to...
Like for my work, right? Yeah, for your work.
Where I caught the epically huge lizard.
I don't even know... Epically, I don't know if that's a word, but it was huge.
It is now. I still have... It's recorded.
Yes, it's huge. But now, we say, let's go to a store, and you're like, no.
Oh! No, I mean, I get a little confused.
Like, I'll water some plants, I'll see you on the couch, I'll water you.
And I'll start growing. Honestly, I kind of like it.
What happened? You in the world have no chemistry anymore.
I grew out of it. The dumb phase of chemistry.
No, honestly, I mean, I like travel, but it's just...
If I'm already home and I've had a year of that, I'm just like, all right, let's continue.
You don't turn back.
You start and you don't turn back.
If you travel at the very beginning of the year, you can have a year of travel.
If you don't, then you stay.
Well, there's a principle called inertia, right?
Which is something that's in Something that's not in motion tends to stay in motion.
Like if you drop a rock, it's going to keep falling, right?
But something that's not in motion tends to not stay in motion.
And if you want to slow down something that's in motion, like if you're in a car, you have to hit the brakes and apply a lot of power to slow it down.
Whereas if you want to get a car moving, you've got to apply the gas and get it moving that way.
But if you were in motion, you liked travel, but now we're not in motion.
And I'm like, don't make me castle!
I know. I think we just have to wake up with you in a new place.
Yeah, like, knock me out or something.
Let's go through our list of things that we have seen that make us roll our eyes.
So, number one.
So, imagine you're reading, you got a movie script as a character.
It's not too important, but not too not important.
You mean like you're the actor? Yeah, like you're the actor.
And you're reading, and it says, fake a cough.
Oh, yes. Bob. Bob.
And Bob coughs.
And then what always happens to a character who coughs?
They die. They die. So if they cough, they're going to die.
And if they sneeze, it's probably because they're hiding and they're going to get found.
Like they're hiding from someone and there's some dust that's in their nose and they have to sneeze.
It's either you cough or you sneeze.
They never do it when that's not happening.
That's right, that's right.
So yeah, you don't want to be a character who coughs.
Because the moment you cough, and next thing you know, there's like blood in the handkerchief.
Right, and then run again.
Yeah. Let's not get into those details.
Next. Girls are perfect and guys are kind of useless.
So, in action movies, the guys can be kind of helpful.
Yes. But in other movies, like family movies, the women are generally perfect.
And the women are only ever...
So there's a thing that happens with women.
It's called being overwhelmed.
Yeah. Oh, I hate it.
I hate it.
Go on. No, I mean...
You hate it when you get overwhelmed?
No! Um, anyway.
It annoys me a lot.
It annoys me. I mean, it's just like, women are always so perfect, and like, something little goes wrong, and they're like...
And they start crying, and they're kind of weak and upset, and then some person comes along and comforts them, and it makes them feel better or whatever.
The other one thing is interesting, too, because, look, I mean, everybody every now and then, when I was a kid, it's like you've bit off more than you can chew.
You've taken on too many obligations, and you can't get things done, right?
Yeah. So everybody has that from time to time.
Now, as a man, if I've taken on too many obligations, what I have to do is find some way to...
Either push through it and just work like crazy, or you've got to phone people up and say, I can't do this, I can't do that, I can't do the other.
You have to manage it yourself.
But you don't expect the world to change because you've taken on too much.
But the overwhelmed thing is when women are taken on too much, and somehow it always becomes the fault for a lot of women of...
The man. Well, of someone else.
Yeah. Of someone else.
And, of course, the sensible thing to do is to cut back on your obligations.
And, you know, we're not designed to be hamsters constantly going around, working all the time, right?
So, the overwhelm thing.
I'm not sure hamsters work too much.
No, you're right. But I do like running that wheel.
I would love one of those.
I think I've been in a human-sized one once and it was epic.
Okay, let's get to the next one.
Kids are kind of always right and parents are kind of dumb.
Yes, in shows.
Oh man, that's kind of killer.
The kids are always good at technology, they're always good at sports, they're always good at managing their own stuff or whatever.
And the parents are always kind of intervening and trying to fix stuff, and it just makes parents look really horrible.
And there's kind of a cliche in these shows, right?
So the parents try and explain something really in a kind of simple manner, and the kid says, looks at them scornfully and says, I'm 12, I'm not stupid.
Yeah. You know, like, and...
I mean, parents understand...
Let me regain my speech.
I forgot how to talk.
And kids, I mean, yeah, it's okay to explain something to kids sensitively.
I mean, like, that's just fine.
Age appropriate. Age appropriate. I mean, like...
I get that kids aren't dumb.
They're just slightly less knowledgeable.
But they're inexperienced, right? They're inexperienced.
So they should take some stuff, you know, like a way a parent should say it.
Parents are probably a bit more experienced at life.
Oh yeah, that's the thing too. Now, so in a society that doesn't change that much, generally the elders have a lot of respect.
There's a lot of respect for the elders. But in a society that changes a lot...
The young people generally have more, not quite respect, but they have more authority in a way, because there was an old way of listening to music called a gramophone, which was prior even to the flat black disco records.
I ended up buying my mother a CD player many years ago, because she liked listening to particular kinds of music.
And she kept referring to it as a gramophone because that's what she listened to when she was young.
It's just called a gramophone, right?
Yeah. And even though I was a CD player, she'd say, oh, can you turn on the gramophone?
She couldn't adapt to the new way.
And I'm certain that something, somewhere, somehow is going to come along.
I won't get it. Yes.
Like some new technological thing.
It'll be like some... Well, it was Minecraft.
I mean, you got it. Oh, that's totally different.
Okay, no, it's not. No, it's not.
No, it's not. Minecraft overwhelms me!
There's no chemistry! Listen, you've spent, sometimes, about, like, an hour or two trying to find some pack that would make Minecraft look more realistic.
Oh, yeah. And they're out there, too.
I remember having that.
VR is kind of like that.
The helmets? You've never been in one, have you?
At the malls, they won't let you do it.
That's a dumb rule. Just give them a dizzy test or something.
And what if they get a bit dizzy?
It's not that. We've seen occasionally videos of people in the VR. They'll crash into the TV or the wall or jump back or something.
I think they said mainly it's because they don't want the kids getting dizzy or whatever.
But it was like, you know, you could just spin them around and see how dizzy they get.
Because I know there are some people really susceptible to that, and then there's me, who can be spun for like 18 times eyes closed and not get dizzy.
Well, you can, yeah, so just for those who don't know, Izzy can like spin on like a seated place plaything.
Those little things in the playground that you'll see.
20 times super fast and walk in a straight line.
However, getting out of the chair at the kitchen table sometimes can be a chance.
Okay. Well, I'm growing.
This is a mangrove spurt area because I'm getting bigger and all.
But it's because I am growing so much that I'm not too used to my new size and all.
So whenever I try and get up, sometimes my feet will get tangled kind of in each other, if you know what I mean.
And I'll just slip completely and fall off the chair.
Everything's stretching, everything's getting bigger, and you feel like a puppet.
As a kid, you get used to that size.
For a while, from about the age of 6 to about 10 or 11, you don't grow a huge amount, but then suddenly, just before puberty, you grow like crazy.
It just feels like you've got a plane control in your body.
It takes a bit of getting used to it.
There was this one week, literally every single day in that week, I knocked over at least two cups of water with my hand.
There were three things on the table, I reached for something at the other end and somehow, somewhere, something knocked over a cup of water.
Well, your hands are turned into fishing poles.
Oh yeah. So you know when you turn around fishing poles they get caught everywhere?
Well that's what happened. I got my hand caught in like...
I was walking by and my hand got caught on the side of a door.
I just whacked completely into it.
I was like, oh that's not supposed to happen.
Well the hips do, right? Oh yeah, like a week or two ago my hips, which are getting bigger at the moment, I was walking by a counter and my hips just rammed into it.
I'm like, ow! What's next on our list?
Anyways, what did we just do?
Also, parents, another thing, last thing I think about parents for now-ish, parents are always, they're never absolutely awful.
Like, they may not be the best, but they're never awful.
They never, like, yell and spank or whatever.
Or even if they are, oh gosh, you remember the name of this.
Remember the guy with the funny hair and the kids got the Baudelaire's?
What was that one called? Oh yeah, I remember that.
I think it was, uh...
Well, he was a mean guy, the guy with the funny hair in the Baudelaire show.
But he still was kind of fun.
Yeah. Like, he's never terribly scary, right?
He's never actually terrible. Yeah, yeah.
Where it's just, like, really mean parents.
He's always kind of silly. Right, right.
You guys probably don't know about that show, anyone listening to this.
No, no. But you might have an idea.
It was popping up on Netflix and stuff like that, so you might have heard of it.
It was popping up on Netflix. Alright, so what else do we have?
Oh, never mind, I was wrong.
We actually have something else about parents.
The mom is kind of always, like, loving and nurturing, and the dad's always kind of silly.
Yeah, what's wrong with that? No, no, I mean, it's like always.
The mom is always kind of perfect and like overprotective and the dad's kind of more like risky.
I mean, I know that happens in real life, but it's overdone in movies.
It's way overdone. Now, I'm not an issue with that.
I say do that sometimes, but always have your exceptions.
Right. And the other thing too, so the moms are sensible, the dads are goofy, and how do the moms feel about that in the movies?
They never, never ever like it.
They don't like it because they say, oh, you're always the fun parent and I'm always the disciplinarian.
I'm always the bad guy. I always have to be the bad guy and stuff.
It's like, well, why don't you stop being as much of a bad guy and let the dad take it over?
Yeah. Well, I know I'm planning to be a parent in the future.
I know I'm not going to be one of those Overprotective, overloving, over everything, moms.
I know you're giving me that look. I'm so glad that we have this on a recording.
You are going to have this on a recording and you're going to look back and say, Izzy, I was wrong.
I knew you were going to do that. I'm going to play this recording to your children.
You're going to play this recording to my children.
I'm going to play this recording to your children wherein you say, oh, I'm not going to be overprotected.
I'm not. I will never be one of those parents.
Let me tell you. Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
Now, when you were born, Babies are like, I don't know, what's the most fragile thing you've ever held?
Oh, like baby toes. Baby toes?
Toads. Oh good, that's much better.
No, it's like toes.
No, but... If they fall, or the frogs, right?
If the frogs fall, especially if they fall on something hard, we don't like that, right?
No, no, no. We try to avoid that as much as possible.
So that feeling of care and protection that you have for that, at times a billion.
Because babies, I mean, their brains are like, I mean, soft, right?
Their skulls are like balloons that are kind of hard inflated.
You can like squish it. Oh yeah, no, I would like draw little letters in, no kidding.
Is that why my head's shaped weird?
But it's so fragile and so delicate and that overprotection just comes out like a rush.
Now, I think it lasts too long.
When the kids get older, like when they hit around age five or six, I'm going to really try and lift that off.
Yes, we are going to bookmark this.
Maybe it will be the case.
Maybe I can transfer it all over to my husband.
They're called helicopter parents, right?
Because wherever the kids go, they're always hovering over where the kids are.
When I was growing up, I roamed the neighborhood, I roamed the city.
I would grab four pennies and I'd get on a bus and go explore the city.
I really think that should be a thing now, because now it's like we can't even have a playground that's more than two feet tall.
Oh, yeah. I know now that I'm like...
I would go to the pool.
I was about your age, maybe a little older.
I would go to the pool, and I would spend two hours practicing double-flip dives and stuff like that.
I want to try that stuff now.
But now, whenever there's a lifeguard, they're like, it's unsafe for you itty-bitty child.
Well, they've taken away all of the...
Yeah, there are no diving boards left.
Boards, right? Yeah. And also, I'm really like...
I do not want to... I want to be, like, tiny.
I want to be, like, four feet tall or whatever.
I'm already past four feet tall.
But I want to be very short because I want to be able to use playgrounds when I'm, like, 20 or 30.
Right, right. I want to be able to, like, swing from the bars and stuff.
Remember when we saw the pictures of the playgrounds from, like, 100 years ago?
They were giant, massive.
They were, like... Up to the sky.
Like, ten feet tall.
Oh, yeah. I like, seriously, I mean, adults can use that, kids can use that, anything can use that.
But it's a funny, it's kind of, it's a funny thing, but when people had a lot more kids, they were less protective of each child.
It's like, eh, I got some backups.
Yeah. Right. One or two kids.
They're like a pair of rabbits, if you know.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Just like have a ton and see them.
All right, next.
What do we have? If there are any animals involved in a movie, the dog will always save the day.
That is true. The dark will always save the day.
We don't need to touch too much on that, but I'm just saying, that doesn't happen in real life.
Very rarely does a hamster save the day.
Yeah. So, in terms of girl is useless, then perfect, it's like...
They may not know anything about computers and stuff like that, or say, let's make a computer.
They know nothing about computers, but then there's some desperate need for some hacking, and they're all right on it.
It's like, how did you know how to hack?
It's like, oh, I went to computer school in grade one.
Yeah, yeah, or my best friend is a computer nerd.
So, yeah, the girls go from, like, not knowing anything about a particular topic until it's needed for the movie, and then they're perfect at it, and they can hack the most complex systems in, like, 30 seconds.
In, like, the entire world. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, too. Like, I mean, stuff with, like, multiple passwords.
Like, they can hack into the president's phone or something like that.
And there's a funny thing, too. Don't do that.
It's a funny thing, too, you'll notice in movies as well.
So most actors don't know how to type, because typing is obviously a specific skill.
And so when they use the computers, they never hit the space bar.
Yeah. And that's just something you see.
I've noticed that all the time.
I remember, I think I was like five, I'm like, why is it never hitting the space bar?
Right, right. It's like, so you know what they're typing is just...
Yeah, I know.
I cannot fake typing.
I was trying it once and it was like...
Oh, you probably can't even hear that.
But it was like, it just sounded awful.
There was a guy I knew once, he created a company, and the way he said, people have a particular typing style, which is kind of true, right?
They use the A key, the F key, the Q key, like they use it in a particular kind of pattern.
And he said, it is as distinctive as a password.
And so... He wanted to create a password that was like 20 characters, and it didn't matter what you typed.
Because it was just the way that you typed that was individual to you.
Okay, I have this thing.
I don't mean to be like different, but I have this thing.
I honestly just stare at the screen and see what comes up, and whatever's wrong, I just go back and fix it.
Well, that's a different thing. I learned on manual typewriters and that the keys were covered up.
You couldn't even see what they were.
Oh! That sucks.
Alright, next. Honestly, like me, I'm just like typing and then it's like, oh wait, that's a mistake.
Let's go back and fix that.
Now, my mom was a killer typist.
Oh yeah? She was a blur.
So, she could do like 80 words a minute, even on a manual typewriter.
Oh my gosh. That was her job, right?
She was a secretary when she was younger, so she was just wild at the typing.
Alright, let's move on.
People never get hurt.
Now what I mean by that is in an action movie they can take three punches to the face and two minutes later they'll be perfectly fine.
Even if they take any type of injury at all, they're okay no matter what.
They'll take three punches to the face, a kick in the stomach, maybe even a bullet shot through the arm, and then they're back punching.
Oh, so yeah, the way it works in movies, it's really kind of funny, right?
So in the action hero, the more danger the hero is in, the more the audience is like, oh, it's exciting, right?
Yeah. And so the action hero might be in a plane crash.
Remember, we were talking about that.
Yeah, like a helicopter crash, I think it was.
I told you about that scene in a movie called World War Z, where the guy literally has a giant piece of metal go through his side.
Ouch. And, of course, when he wakes up, he's like, oh, it's so painful, you know, because that's dramatic, right?
And he's like, oh, and he pulls it out, oh, and he pulls it out of himself, and then he splashes something on the wood, oh, and then he binds it, oh, you know, it's like the worst thing ever.
Like, Harvey's innards are hanging out.
You can see what he had for lunch three weeks ago, right?
And then he staggers a little bit.
And then he's like, why?
And then he's like, literally within...
Ten minutes, he's running.
And without his sandwich falling out his side.
During the summer, I fell off my bike.
Now, this summer, I never really had any bike falls or whatever, like bad ones.
But I remember a few years ago, I got this one, and it was like...
I actually fell, and I was perfectly fine, but when I was walking back, I tripped over my bike and fell over that, and that's what actually hurt me.
And I couldn't walk properly for like two weeks.
Well, that's because you insulted that gypsy woman who put a curse on you?
I remember it well. I never even met a gypsy once.
Oh, and one of the curses is that you would forget it and that your father would always be right.
I'm sorry, what? Nothing.
Just keep going. We'll just let that sink into your brain.
Go on. Alright, I think we're going to need to have a discussion here.
I think we're going to replay the video, the audio.
Anyways, and also another thing, I fell and I scraped my knees really badly.
Oh, you got that strawberry, strawberry.
Yeah, no, complete strawberry, like the entire knee area.
By the way, I have like so many scars on my knees by now, but I was like, it's still like a month later, I was still finally healing from that thing.
And I had the scar for like three months or something.
Oh yeah. And I mean, it was, it took me like two weeks to be able to actually not hobble.
Oh yeah. It was like, I think in the winter time, and I actually had to go out.
I was wearing like, it was really cold, and it was night, and we went out for some, grabbed some food or whatever, because we had like no pre-made foods.
At the house and we just wanted to, you know, we didn't feel like cooking or whatever.
So I was wearing shorts, a coat, boots, but I had nothing over my knees because I couldn't put anything over my knees.
This is like two weeks after. Yeah.
No, and I remember when I fell in St.
Louis, it took me eight months to be able to run again.
Yeah. So yeah, it was crazy.
All right, next. Oh, the other thing too, do we have the scar thing?
Oh yeah, they always have like some on a cheekbone and it makes their cheekbone stick out a little bit.
Yeah, they always have these cool scars that accentuate whatever attractive features they have, like high cheekbones.
You never see an action hero who gets punched in the mouth and then has big swollen duck lips.
Oh yeah! I remember we saw that video of the guy who got his...
It was like in a compilation of funny videos or whatever.
The guy who had a bee stunning his upper lip or whatever.
And it was like... Right, right.
You never see that. Or you never see...
You know, his nose is gushing blood.
Or they never have some big swollen black eye or whatever.
Yeah, or there's something called a cauliflower ear where...
This happens in boxing. Trust me, I know.
But this happens and I don't know about it.
But you get hit in the ear and your whole ear swells up like five times its normal size.
You never see that. It's always just like a cool scar that just looks...
Or you'll have like a little bash right up behind your eye or something.
And then it's always like three little pieces of tape.
We'll solve it if need be.
So, yeah, that's kind of funny.
Alright, next. What do we have next?
Well, we also discussed this in the same one.
If people get hurt, they can run, like, five minutes later.
If there's a disaster, they get it last second.
There's a countdown, right? There's, like, some big, long countdown, and it's, like, there are, like, 30 seconds, and it's, like, three, two, one, beep.
It's like, you know, for those people who play Among Us, I'm sure pretty much everyone plays Among Us, it's like when the O2 is getting sabotaged, and, like, no one's getting it, and then finally you get it, like, two seconds from the end.
For those people who play Among Us, that's a very scary thing that happens.
And so if you're new to movies, you're like, oh, but now, like, you see the countdown, it's like, yeah, who cares, right?
Well, it's even the same thing, like, when the hero's, like, really injured or is about to get killed, I'm just kind of sitting there like, yeah, okay.
Okay. Well, and the evil guy will always give you a big speech, and then he'll set up some complicated timer to kill the good guy, and then he'll leave the room.
You know, like you did. It's like, how about you go up and stab him in the movie song?
Yeah. Alright. That's what you'd do if you were an actual villain.
That's what you'd do. Um...
Money's, like, never a problem.
So, even if people are poor in the first place, maybe there's, like, some really expensive surgery they have to do, there's always going to be, like, some magical money that comes up out of nowhere, and that doesn't happen in real life.
Well, or you'll have poor people who just stay in the hospital in places like America, where you're supposed to have to pay, right?
And they never seem to get a bill.
No. And you were talking about this in the show Heartland, right?
Yeah, and that horse show, if those people know, it's called on for, like, 13 seasons or something.
It's quite ridiculous. It's a long show.
There was, like, this big...
Surgery on this horse, and they could not get it.
Like, they didn't have the money.
And then I think there's, like, this money.
They wanted some competition, like, two days before the surgery dew point, or whatever.
And it's like, oh, look, we have money now!
And nobody ever has to pee?
No one ever has to use the Washington Lastest Part of the Plot.
Right, right, right. Um...
Also, villains never win.
Never, ever win.
I mean, even if they kill the main hero, maybe something can happen afterwards where they still lose.
But to make it, like, exciting and new for the people, that will probably get you, your company, a lot of followers.
I know I'd probably follow more if it wasn't always so predictable.
Even something, I'm gonna make a really dumb example that no one would probably ever do.
They kill the hero, and then they're walking away, and they fall down a flight of stairs and die.
Well, here's the thing, too, like...
So you have a view of the world through art, you have the view of your world through your own eyes, your own experience, but also because you've been on, you came on the tour with Lauren and I and all that, and so, you know, sometimes, you know, people would try and shut down the speeches and they would phone in threats or whatever it is, right? Yeah. But a lot of times we'd get to give those speeches.
Now, you've seen two situations, right?
One was in New Zealand, the other was in Vancouver, where we were going to give speeches.
Not working.
And they shut down the venues.
They used the aggression or threats or whatever to shut down the venues.
So sometimes the good guys win, and sometimes the bad guys win.
Yeah.
And sometimes in history, the bad guys really win.
Yeah.
Right?
So they create some terrible government that kills people or whatever.
Amunism.
Yeah, yeah.
So that question of like, it's really kind of, I think it makes people a little bit lazy.
Yeah.
So if they're constantly told, well, the bad guys are going to lose and the good guys are going to win, then it's like, okay, there's someone out there who's going to make things better, and it's not up to me, Could be up to you. Yeah.
Like in Denmark, which is a country in Northern Europe, they wanted to put in a law that said, basically, you have to get vaccinated.
Oh! Like, the police can grab you and make you get vaccinated, and people just took to the streets, they wouldn't, and the law has been withdrawn, right?
Good. But this idea that there's, well, the bad guys are always going to...
There's always going to be someone else out there.
Yeah, or, you know, just the bad guy's going to have a heart attack or whatever, right?
I thought of that when we watched Mulan, and I thought about that occasionally when you see war movies.
So these big dramatic scenes in war movies where you get like 10,000 guys on a horseback, most of them are probably computer generated by now, but they used to be real, right?
And you get these 10,000 guys on horsebacks riding down, and I always thought, wouldn't it be kind of an odd coincidence that they all had heart attacks at the same time, and that's how you won the war?
Of course it wouldn't happen.
Or maybe there's like some poison air, like some snake that just started biting, and then they thought someone was inside, like an insider was trying to kill them, and they all started shooting each other.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, what else do you have?
There's, we also have this thing.
So this was seen in, I've seen this in a couple movies, There's, like, some useless employee, or- what I mean by useless is, like, kinda low down, uh, not an important job, just kinda got the job, but he, like, knows literally everything, and he's, like, amazing at everything or whatever.
Um... There was an example somewhere.
Oh, yeah! The main example that got me this one was in the movie- it was, like, a Spider-Man movie, too.
Now, I know there's a ton of Spider-Man movies, but there's this one of them, this dude, I think his name was Max.
He became, like, some villain who knew everything about lightning or whatever.
And when he starts, he's a janitor.
He starts as, like, a janitor, pretty much.
Like, who just has to go around. But then he turns out to have the ability to figure out how to buy and sell and use these crazy, complex alien artifacts.
And it's like, well, if he had that ability, why would he be a janitor?
Like, why wouldn't he be up high in the company doing what he's doing?
You know what I mean? Right, right, right, right.
So, I mean, that was in a Spider-Man movie.
Now I've seen it somewhere else or a couple other places I know.
Um... But I'm not exactly too sure where exactly I've seen it at the moment.
But yeah, I've seen it before and that's the thing.
That's a bit of a cliche. Alright, next.
That's it? Yes. That's our list?
That is our list. So for Mulan, I would say it's a solid 6 out of 10 as far as movies go.
I'm going to say 7 because I thought there was going to be a lot more cliches.
In terms of stuff. Like, I mean, I thought there was going to be more, like, strong, even worse cliches, so it was slightly better than I expected, so I'm going to say 6.1.
And there used to be this formula for movies involving love where it's like boy meets girl Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back at the end, right?
Well, or like the friends from both sides kind of bring them back together or whatever.
Or there's some big tragic misunderstanding that a three-minute explanation would solve but nobody ever...
Well, misunderstandings and relationships are so dumb.
It's like maybe you get into some big fight with your partner and they want to leave.
It's like, no, have them not leave and just get your point across and then continue discussing it.
In a fashion manner.
Like, if they're trying to...
In a fashion manner? What does that mean?
Fashion... I mean, like...
Oh, gosh. In a sensible fashion.
In a sensible... There we go.
I broke the code. I broke the code.
As I said, English has stopped.
It ain't my main language.
Gibberish is. Uh, no.
Um... And, like...
What's it called? What's it called?
In English? Gibberish?
No! What? Romance?
Movies? A fashionable fashion thing.
A sensible fashion. Sensible fashion is comfortable shoes.
Fashionable sensibleness.
Right. We have the title for the show, Fashionable Sensibleness and Mulan.
I bet you we get a lot of views.
Maybe, yeah. In a sensible fashion.
I'm not going to remember that.
Anyways... So you talk things through in a sensible fashion?
Yeah, it's like if they try and leave, if it's only going to take a second, like, go in front of the door and say, look, I understand you want to leave, and I understand that there's been this misunderstanding, but let me just tell you everything that happened without an interruption, and then you can leave.
Right. And if you get your point across and maybe you're in the...
I mean, there's never like you're in the right or you're in the wrong.
It's always kind of around 50-50.
Yeah, yeah. But maybe you just weren't...
you didn't explain it correctly in the first place and you completely...
Or someone jumps to a conclusion.
Yeah. I hate that. Do not jump to conclusions.
Anyone listening, do not jump to conclusions.
Always get the right answers first.
Like sort of a typical example is a woman picks up her boyfriend's phone and there's a message from Susan saying, I miss you, I love you.
And it's actually her sister.
Yeah, yeah, his sister or something, like his aunt or whatever.
This is why you can just go up and say, hey, sorry, I don't mean to be, like, sneaking looks and stuff, but I'm just kind of curious who this is.
Well, and then, so then let's say she goes up.
And then you know what he says?
What? What are you doing looking at my phone?
That's private! Well, that's why I always said, look, I don't mean to be, like, sneaking looks on your phone, but I just was walking by and I saw this message.
Or maybe the message is just on the...
Well, that's what I mean. She picks up the phone and just happens to see it, right?
Or, like, she locked, found a way in.
Well, not even that, but what happens is, you know, like, your notifications on your tab will typically turn the screen on.
Right. So maybe she's just walking by or she's sitting somewhere and she hears a ping and she doesn't know where it's from.
Maybe it's one of her messages or whatever.
So she walks around and sees it on her boyfriend's phone.
Yeah. And she just kind of glances at it and is like, oh wait, what?
So it's not like, hey, you can just go up and say, look, well, I mean, I wasn't trying to sneak licks on your phone or whatever.
I just happened to see this message pop up.
I'm just curious who this is. Or people do it where it's like the guy says, the woman says, oh, can I have the pin for your phone?
I need to see something or check something.
Or maybe she forgot her phone.
She needs to look something up. Do you know what he says?
Are you trying to see if I'm cheating?
No. Or he'll give her the pin to his phone.
And then he'll change it.
And then she tries to get into it, but she's changed it.
Now she really gets suspicious.
Why would he change the pin to his phone?
But she can't go and say, I tried to get into your phone because maybe she didn't have permission.
Anyway, if you're in that kind of relationship, man, you can't win.
That's not going to work. You've got to trust the person 100%.
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