Speaker 1: Hello the Internet. All right, and welcome to this episode
Speaker 1: of all Right. Pete Dave trend Lynch. That one courtesy
Speaker 1: of Paul Garaventa. We're saying goodbye to a filmmaker, an
Speaker 1: artist who passed away. We talked more about it on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's episode. My name's Jack O Brian. I'm thrilled to
Speaker 1: be joined by Caitlin Deronte we woo, and it is
Speaker 1: our last training episode before inauguration week. As we're all
Speaker 1: we're all talking about it, you know, Trumps, inauguration happening
Speaker 1: to part of it. I don't have you major plans yet,
Speaker 1: or are you the type of person who just like
Speaker 1: kind of leaves your house and just kind of finds
Speaker 1: yourself floating between inauguration parties, like whichever one pulls you in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. If I'm gonna just like get
Speaker 2: blackout drunk and try to disassociate. I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna sort of lie down for several hours.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe I'll maybe I'll go see The
Speaker 2: Brutalist since it's a thousand hours long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's so long. That's a good idea. Brut
Speaker 1: like some combination word mash up of brutalist and inauguration
Speaker 1: like like Oppenheimer, like Boppenheimer or.
Speaker 2: Barbie the inaugurationist, brutal inauguration for some of us, all right.
Speaker 1: For the libs who got owned. A writer, mister j McNab,
Speaker 1: we were on a editorial call yesterday and he was asking,
Speaker 1: what is the age at which it's too late to
Speaker 1: the village your children to take your children and just
Speaker 1: like pull them out of society and pretend that you
Speaker 1: live in a different era.
Speaker 2: When they start forming memories around age three or like
Speaker 2: memories that they'll actually like store store, So.
Speaker 1: My memories are like really start at like three or four.
Speaker 1: Then it's like a glimmer of like I remember standing
Speaker 1: on my driveway this time.
Speaker 2: You know, so like a glimpse of something I feel.
Speaker 1: I feel like I could the village my kids, just
Speaker 1: get them out of this ship and how they Again,
Speaker 1: we live in the eighteen hundreds, they are sick and eight,
Speaker 1: so the eight year old we would have to do
Speaker 1: a lot of work I think worth it.
Speaker 2: But but yes, there's.
Speaker 1: A great question from J. M McNab. Brian had a
Speaker 1: really good note. Brian, what was your note about uh
Speaker 1: they should do Robot Wars.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 3: I was just saying it would be kind of tight if,
Speaker 3: like after they inaugur eight elon they like they do
Speaker 3: like a Robot Wars tide of thing because they have
Speaker 3: the money to build really cool robots and the tech.
Speaker 1: Guys and stuff.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, that would be like a nice little
Speaker 3: little fun way to kick off the next horrible four years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's have fun with it, guys. And then we
Speaker 1: of course started talking about Real Steal and.
Speaker 2: A movie we all definitely.
Speaker 1: Remember Foundational Film the way I thought it was. I
Speaker 1: thought this was like a movie everybody remembered and knew.
Speaker 1: It's Hugh Jackman, Young Child and then Boxing Robots, so
Speaker 1: it's like Rocky mixed with rock em sock Em Robots,
Speaker 1: Rocky em Sochium Robots.
Speaker 2: I mean, a winning premise. I don't know how it
Speaker 2: didn't why it wasn't a smash hit at the box
Speaker 2: office earning three billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, Caitlin, how do you not remember this?
Speaker 1: And you pointed out that it was a flop that
Speaker 1: made one hundred and thirty billion on like a eighty
Speaker 1: million budget plus, But like me, taken marketing, not great,
Speaker 1: not Baffo as I had remembered it. I usually have
Speaker 1: a pretty good memory for Baffo Bo. But this is
Speaker 1: how my brain feels right now. Is I just like
Speaker 1: want to grasp onto anything that is not the approaching
Speaker 1: Trump administration. You know, just what about real steel? We
Speaker 1: could talk about that.
Speaker 2: This is why entertainment exists for escapism.
Speaker 1: Hey, well, speaking of some entertainment, Trump's inauguration will have
Speaker 1: a real racist dentist's office radio vibe to it. I
Speaker 1: feel like, I don't know that's a very specific vibe
Speaker 1: to be putting out. But among the performers, Billy Ray, Cyrus,
Speaker 1: not Miley, they couldn't get the good Cyrus, but they
Speaker 1: got her dad kid Rock, not the rock. They got
Speaker 1: the his sons Kid is his child kid Rock. And
Speaker 1: then Carrie Underwood, which if I knew anything about Carrie Underwood,
Speaker 1: I would be so disappointed right now. She's a mainstream
Speaker 1: country singer who sings the Monday night football song. I
Speaker 1: think is the mainly what I know about her.
Speaker 2: She has that song that's a pretty good So I'm
Speaker 2: not a country music listener generally, but she has a
Speaker 2: song that makes for a great karaoke song, because this
Speaker 2: is how I evaluate music these days. I'm like, can
Speaker 2: I sing this at karaoke?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Or no? Or does this generally make a good karaoke song?
Speaker 2: That song of hers, Oh god, I hope this is
Speaker 2: her song? Or also I'm gonna be humiliated.
Speaker 1: But the one so.
Speaker 2: Dug my ken to this song? It was pretty little
Speaker 2: souped up for anyone.
Speaker 3: The song.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know of that song, even though I've
Speaker 1: never heard it.
Speaker 2: You've heard it, I've sang it to you.
Speaker 1: I've never even touched the color thing Like, I know
Speaker 1: of that song, but I've actually never heard Carrie Underwood's voice.
Speaker 1: Every time it comes on, I mute it because that's
Speaker 1: how I am. I only listen to man country singers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she was like, I'm honored to answer the call. I
Speaker 1: thought we agreed last time that like we don't fuck
Speaker 1: with with Trump. But it just it seems like everybody
Speaker 1: endorsed Trump. Now everyone's just like this is who we are.
Speaker 1: It's it's the eighties all over again. We're going back
Speaker 1: to a time when like people thought it was cool
Speaker 1: to be culturally signing off on a conservative president. The president.
Speaker 1: They were like, I think it's cool to trust and
Speaker 1: like the president in the eighties, I feel like mainstream culture.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're about to wander into the island
Speaker 1: of Kokomo. You know, the Beach Boys song Cocomo just soulless.
Speaker 1: Everything's flat, everything sucks shit. Maybe I'm overreacting to one
Speaker 1: country singer agreeing to play at his inauguration, but I uh,
Speaker 1: I've been I've been feeling this like the the eighties
Speaker 1: because I grew up in the eighties. I was like,
Speaker 1: my first memories are yeah, I'm old, my first memories
Speaker 1: are this. You know. The first movie I saw at
Speaker 1: a theater was Rocky for a movie where like he
Speaker 1: beats Communism with boxing, with punching, and then the Communists
Speaker 1: are like, yes, thank you, thank you for be doing that.
Speaker 1: We actually like you better. Anyways, I feel like that's
Speaker 1: where we're headed. It will be entertaining because we have
Speaker 1: people like the lead singer of the Village people who
Speaker 1: will also be performing at the inauguration. Because of Trump's
Speaker 1: little jack off hand motion dance that he does like
Speaker 1: to Ymca has become a meme so much so that
Speaker 1: YMCA was like topped the charts for dance music like
Speaker 1: over the holidays.
Speaker 2: That's concerning. And then is so that is that? How
Speaker 2: what's his face from the Village People?
Speaker 1: His name, yeah, oh yeah, I have no idea. We
Speaker 1: have it here in this story. His last name is Willis.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Victor Willis.
Speaker 2: Of course willis the.
Speaker 1: Village People's Victor Willis.
Speaker 2: Well, he's the village person.
Speaker 1: I guess he's the village person because he is the
Speaker 1: last remaining member of the original Village People. And we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before that he threatened to sue anybody
Speaker 1: who calls the song YMCA a gay anthem in the media,
Speaker 1: and not just threatened to sue them himself, but said,
Speaker 1: my wife will sue you, thus re underlining the fact
Speaker 1: that he is straight, has a wife and she will
Speaker 1: sue your ass. Anyways, you can, you can look out
Speaker 1: for for them, because they did change there too. They
Speaker 1: they said they weren't gonna perform at Trump's inauguration, and
Speaker 1: then they they went back on their word while also
Speaker 1: being like and if you choose us for being gay,
Speaker 1: so help me God. So just be cool, watch the
Speaker 1: Village People at Trump's inauguration and appreciate, like how masculine
Speaker 1: and uh, not gay. They've ever been ever. Yeah, nobody's
Speaker 1: actually ever said.
Speaker 2: But there masculinity is like so awesome.
Speaker 1: It's so good like that's what we're all like realizing,
Speaker 1: like it's so good like all around, it's not it's
Speaker 1: rarely uh has impulse. Yeah, let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and talk about the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: and you know, they're questioning around the concept of internet porn.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, and earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case
Speaker 1: known as Free Speech Coalition Versus Paxton, which is the
Speaker 1: one involving a porn industry group challenging Texas's age verification law,
Speaker 1: which that law very similar to a law that the court,
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court struck down in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: But of course this is the new right wing, Christian
Speaker 1: nationalist Supreme Court, so things done changed around these parts.
Speaker 1: And the problems with it include privacy risks, you know,
Speaker 1: having to scan all of your information into the Internet
Speaker 1: to view pornography, and it could also be used as
Speaker 1: a pretext to censor information related to abortion, gender affirming care,
Speaker 1: safe sex, LGBTQ identity. You know, once we're giving these people,
Speaker 1: this version of the federal government the ability to say
Speaker 1: we're going to hide this behind a thing that you
Speaker 1: have to show your ID too, and also not be
Speaker 1: capable enough of like keeping your information private, it certainly
Speaker 1: limits the sort of information that people are able to
Speaker 1: find on the Internet. The information we were able to
Speaker 1: find based on the questioning was that amy Cony Barrett's
Speaker 1: family can't stop jacking off. That was one glimmer of
Speaker 1: you know, entertainment that came out of this because amy
Speaker 1: Cony Barrett complained about content filters, the way that many
Speaker 1: people deal with the issue of you know, pornography being
Speaker 1: readily available to young people anywhere on the Internet. A
Speaker 1: lot of people use content filters where they say, okay,
Speaker 1: internet at our house is not able to access these sites,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a preset group of sites, similar
Speaker 1: to how workplaces have like adult content filters that like
Speaker 1: will make it hard for you to go to porn
Speaker 1: hub while you're at work. And she was like complaining
Speaker 1: about how the content filters. She's like, as a mother
Speaker 1: of seven, I can say from personal experience that filters
Speaker 1: are difficult to keep up with. So just dry snitching
Speaker 1: on her family for like being at the cutting edge
Speaker 1: of like accessing internet pornography.
Speaker 2: Just hacking through.
Speaker 1: We're perverted hackers. As the mother of seven perverted hackers,
Speaker 1: I can tell you that it's pretty pretty hard. But
Speaker 1: this is basically a user experience complaint from somebody who's
Speaker 1: probably like really bad at computers. She's like, this is
Speaker 1: so confusing, I don't know how to do and that,
Speaker 1: which is like where this should be handled, you know,
Speaker 1: at the level of like make a better product people,
Speaker 1: But insaid She's like, and therefore, the federal government should
Speaker 1: be in charge of banning what people can see, and
Speaker 1: we should get access to the private information of anybody
Speaker 1: who looks at porn, which seems good. She seems good
Speaker 1: and right because whenever, as the old saying goes, whenever
Speaker 1: the federal government is asking for information or taking new
Speaker 1: powers over you, you should not suspicious. You should just
Speaker 1: go with it.
Speaker 2: Just they've always.
Speaker 1: Been good and known what they were doing, all right,
Speaker 1: A couple quick stories. Drake is so before I think
Speaker 1: Drake was suing Kendrick Lamar and uh.
Speaker 3: No Spotify No no no no no, he was right,
Speaker 3: no no, no, no no no. Jack no, okay, So
Speaker 3: what's then before Drake was suing somebody for like payol
Speaker 3: up for accusing them of like inadvertently inflating.
Speaker 1: Not like us. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: He filed a case in New York and went to
Speaker 3: Texas and he dropped the New York one and he
Speaker 3: is going forward with the defamation case in Texas.
Speaker 1: So he's accusing Universal Music Group, his label of defaming him. Uh,
Speaker 1: which Universal is kind of like a clap that, like
Speaker 1: they publicly responded in a way that was like that
Speaker 1: seems a little spicy for a company that's trying to
Speaker 1: where this is like one of their main clients. Like
Speaker 1: I kind of almost respected it because they were Like.
Speaker 1: Throughout his career, Drake has intentionally and successfully used Universal
Speaker 1: Music Group to distribute his music and poetry, and poetry
Speaker 1: to engage in conventionally outrageous back and forth rap battles
Speaker 1: to express his feelings about other artists. He now seeks
Speaker 1: to weaponize the legal process to silence un artist's creative
Speaker 1: expression and to seek damages from Universal for distributing that
Speaker 1: artist's music. And can I say I love this clap
Speaker 1: back because it is it is straight to the point
Speaker 1: and it is factual. It is based entirely in reality.
Speaker 3: When they went back to back on Meek Mill, yeah,
Speaker 3: there was no talk of this. When he got bodied
Speaker 3: by push a T. He didn't think about filing a
Speaker 3: lawsuit because he just stopped it taking his like a
Speaker 3: lower tier artist, and it didn't get the reach that
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar did.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I get why his feelings are hurt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just just does not seem to be the word are
Speaker 1: dealing with. It is the unlike it all is so wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like a playground feud where like two
Speaker 2: kids are just like or however many are together, like
Speaker 2: you know, scrapping, and then the one loser kid is
Speaker 2: like I'm telling I'm telling the teacher on you. Also
Speaker 2: speaking of very generic names, universal music.
Speaker 1: Group, universal music.
Speaker 2: Group, generic ass name.
Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome to Universal Music Group. Yeah, it's does not
Speaker 1: seem to be going well for him that he's resorting
Speaker 1: to this. It is like, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone's taken a bigger l like maybe ever in
Speaker 1: the history, like somebody who's so famous, Like what has
Speaker 1: happened to Drake in the last year is kind of
Speaker 1: staggering that there's going to be a Super Bowl halftime
Speaker 1: show that is essentially based around the theme of him
Speaker 1: getting completely ethered in a way that's like way worse
Speaker 1: than ether.
Speaker 3: Also, he's beefing with Lebron right now because Lebron went
Speaker 3: to the pop out, I guess. And yeah, and now
Speaker 3: he's saying wild shit about a truly beloved figure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another battle that he's not going to win. Beloved
Speaker 1: by many. But I feel like a lot of speaking
Speaker 1: of the Caucasidy, a lot of white basketball fans for
Speaker 1: some reason don't love Lebron.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: So uh okay, Drake, all right man? And who yeah,
Speaker 1: because he's also like he was beefing with various NBA
Speaker 1: players who showed up to the thing, to the pop out,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know, it's.
Speaker 2: An embarrassing person.
Speaker 1: It continues to be and be friends with me exact
Speaker 1: not fair with the fuck all right. Well, those are
Speaker 1: some of the things that are trending. Caitlin, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for joining us this week.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me well.
Speaker 1: Miles is out. Miles continues to appreciate everybody's support as
Speaker 1: help trying to put everything back together, and he'll be back.
Speaker 1: He will be back. But Caitlin, where can people find you?
Speaker 1: Follow you all that good stuff?
Speaker 2: You can follow me on Instagram at Caitlyn Toronte. You
Speaker 2: can check out the Bechdel Cast and check out our
Speaker 2: upcoming live shows. We've got one in San Francisco on
Speaker 2: January twenty third, is a part of Sketch Fest. It's
Speaker 2: a show about Titanic, so you're gonna need to see that.
Speaker 2: Considering that Jamie and I have never talked about Titanic before,
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I wonder where you guys fall on that one.
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Where are you guys on other stepping out of that
Speaker 1: fake that fake idea that we don't know that you
Speaker 1: love Titanic? Where are you guys on other Cameron stuff?
Speaker 2: Are you generally pro kind of Terminator and especially Terminator two?
Speaker 1: I was just describing Terminator two like they're a handful
Speaker 1: of movies. Like knowing my six and eight year olds
Speaker 1: like pretty well at this point, I'm like they're.
Speaker 2: Glad to hear it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like they we we hang out a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of a good dad. We've hung out like a
Speaker 1: number of time, like yeah, hours every month.
Speaker 2: Pretty and then and then you're gonna put them into
Speaker 2: the village.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna the village them. I won't be
Speaker 1: there as much as I'd like to be because I'm
Speaker 1: mainly gonna be dressed as a wolf running through the woods.
Speaker 1: But the like, there are movies that when I think
Speaker 1: of that, I'm like, once they like, they're going to
Speaker 1: like those movies so much it's going to change their
Speaker 1: whole personality. And the the movie I had that thought
Speaker 1: about before was Avatar two. And then I started talking
Speaker 1: Terminator Too with them over breakfast this morning. Ok. They
Speaker 1: were like fucking wrapped. They were like what wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: my specifically my eight year old, but like my six
Speaker 1: year old, but like the fucking liquid metal of it
Speaker 1: all was he was just like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: just I think I started doing it because I I
Speaker 1: think I was talking to you about how how like
Speaker 1: one of the first ways I experienced movies was my
Speaker 1: dad going to see like Rambo and like describing it
Speaker 1: to me. Okay, oh no, like what a fun way
Speaker 1: to experience a movie.
Speaker 2: That was someone just describing describing a movie?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But anyways, I'm glad to hear
Speaker 1: you also enjoy Terminator.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a big Terminator head. Aliens is a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. I need to rewatch the abyss. But all
Speaker 2: this to say it is true. I have seen Titanic before,
Speaker 2: not only once before, but maybe a hundred times before.
Speaker 1: It may maybe and there's no way to say.
Speaker 2: Hard to say, but anyway, the show in San Francisco
Speaker 2: and January twenty third is on Titanic. We have a
Speaker 2: show in Portland on January twenty sixth on Shrek. So
Speaker 2: both of these are part of our Shrek Tannic tour,
Speaker 2: you know, copyrighted trademarked Shrek Tannic of course. And then
Speaker 2: our La show has been rescheduled to March second, and
Speaker 2: that's a live in person show as well as a
Speaker 2: live show. The Portland show is also being live stream,
Speaker 2: so you can get live stream tickets. So that's the
Speaker 2: main thing I want to plug all of these upcoming
Speaker 2: Bechdel cast shows. You can get tickets at link tree
Speaker 2: slash Bechdel Cast.
Speaker 1: Have you thought about having robo wars at your Bechdel Cast?
Speaker 2: Oh you mean like real steal real? Right?
Speaker 1: And now see I'm helping you out and these are
Speaker 1: references you can use in your day to day life.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, all right.
Speaker 1: Those are the things that are trending today on Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show.
Speaker 1: Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves,
Speaker 1: get the vaccine, get your flu shots, don't do nothing
Speaker 1: about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bye bye,