Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, A production of I Heart
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Speaker 1: You can't know steal beams. Nine eleven wasn't inside John O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson flew those planes into that tower speaking in nine eleven,
Speaker 1: Gilbert Godfrey died Wait what yeah, he just died just
Speaker 1: now after a long yeah years old. Can you explain
Speaker 1: why that joke is so Gilbert Godfried? When people we
Speaker 1: have a decent number of folks who are younger who
Speaker 1: were either not born when nine eleven happens happened or
Speaker 1: were too young to remember it, everyone lost their mind
Speaker 1: to a degree that like is not understandable or fair. People.
Speaker 1: People went completely fucking insane, and it's part of why
Speaker 1: so many terrible things were done. And there was this
Speaker 1: like fascist e religious significance lint to nine eleven and
Speaker 1: the deaths that justified just outrageous crimes across the globe. Um,
Speaker 1: And you couldn't like talk about it without referring to
Speaker 1: it like the Crucifixion of Christ. For years it was
Speaker 1: just a really fucked up the way in which nine
Speaker 1: eleven went down in our collective memory. And Gilbert Godfried,
Speaker 1: God bless him, day after nine eleven gets up and says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I gotta get back to work, and
Speaker 1: he goes up on stage, does his stand up and
Speaker 1: just just jokes about nine eleven like right after the
Speaker 1: and and gets canceled for it doesn't work for like
Speaker 1: a decade. Um just blown out of the water. But
Speaker 1: by god, he was ahead of the curve because now
Speaker 1: we all joke about nine eleven. It's the funniest thing
Speaker 1: in the world because it has to be NonStop laugh
Speaker 1: when seriously, we killed a million people. M hm h
Speaker 1: you hard, Yeah, that's sad um it is it is.
Speaker 1: He was a very talented Comedian's very funny, and it
Speaker 1: seems like a nice man. His uh yeah, his nine
Speaker 1: eleven so was very funny. His his Aristocrats stuff is
Speaker 1: very funny. What did he what did he say? What
Speaker 1: is his nine eleven stuff? Just a bunch of nine
Speaker 1: eleven jokes, just a bunch of really good nine eleven jokes.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can find if you have to catch
Speaker 1: I have to catch a flight to California. I can't
Speaker 1: get flight. They said, they have to stop at the
Speaker 1: Empire State Building first. What a hero, Yeah, he knew.
Speaker 1: He's like I if I am, if I do the
Speaker 1: worst jokes possible, then eventually people will start laughing. M Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's a bumber. What else is a bummer? A long
Speaker 1: illnesses all His family said he'd apparently been sick for
Speaker 1: quite some time. What else? A gunman wearing a gas
Speaker 1: mask set off a smoke bomb and shot ten people
Speaker 1: in a New York subway car. Yes, the jokes don't
Speaker 1: stop coming. Yes, the yucks. Um, it looks like developing story.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, as of the moment, it's unclear if
Speaker 1: anyone died. Um. That very likely may have changed by
Speaker 1: the time you hear this episode. Hopefully not. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: looking at right now. The most recent stuff we have
Speaker 1: is UM five people in like critical but stable condition,
Speaker 1: and I guess six others injured by shrapnel from bullets
Speaker 1: and other sources. Who knows what that is. Sometimes bullets
Speaker 1: go through people, or fragments of them break off or something.
Speaker 1: Hopefully no people will die. Um. Obviously, there's apparently been
Speaker 1: kind of an increase in or at least the narrative
Speaker 1: that's forming is that like crime is surging, uh in
Speaker 1: in New York's public transit, and you know, we got
Speaker 1: to add more cops, which we don't. That would not
Speaker 1: have solved this. And I can say that because they
Speaker 1: just added a thousand cops to patrol. They have a
Speaker 1: ten billion dollar budget, which is larger than the military
Speaker 1: budget of the nation of Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 1: It's so frustrating when they spin this around, um as
Speaker 1: some sort of indictment of defund the police. Uh, when
Speaker 1: we have not defunded the fucking police. There were so
Speaker 1: many cops in the subways and they didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: Military harassed vendors, and the harassed vendors and homeless people,
Speaker 1: people who like jump over the turn some tickets. One
Speaker 1: report of a cop who came on the scene and
Speaker 1: asked someone for their cell phone because his radio didn't
Speaker 1: work to call in the shooting. So um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, they just added a thousand fucking officers. One
Speaker 1: of the things they promised that there would always be
Speaker 1: an officer at like every stop. Um U. It seems
Speaker 1: like it doesn't matter if someone's going to do a thing. UM,
Speaker 1: we don't yet know. Obviously, we'll talk about Biden's made
Speaker 1: a new gun control kind of push. We don't know
Speaker 1: yet the degree to which, like this was an illegal
Speaker 1: or illegally owned firearm or what kind of gun. It
Speaker 1: was no way to know UM at this age. At
Speaker 1: the moment, the perpetrator, who's described as a blackmail with
Speaker 1: a heavy build wearing a green construction type vest in
Speaker 1: a hooded sweatshirt, UM has not been caught. Also, that
Speaker 1: may not be the guy's description a lot of One
Speaker 1: of the things to note is in the immediate wake
Speaker 1: of this, there were claims of explosive devices left behind
Speaker 1: and claims of multiple shooters, which is the case with
Speaker 1: basically every mass shooting, and it's almost never the case.
Speaker 1: There's almost never unexploded devices, and there's almost never a
Speaker 1: second shooter. But when there is a shooting, people generally
Speaker 1: who are on set generally tend to feel that like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, there was more than there were a
Speaker 1: bunch of shooters or whatever, or it was a machine
Speaker 1: any understandable people like people are not used to being
Speaker 1: shot at in a panic. I'm not putting any blame
Speaker 1: on them. It's just as a consumer of media, when
Speaker 1: you hear initial reports from a shooting like that, take
Speaker 1: them with a heavy grain of salt, because every any shooting, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like almost like was like, didn't suggest we even
Speaker 1: bring this up because it's as the information comes in, Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least like at least wait a day, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's like some of the reporting is saying that
Speaker 1: the New York City Police are not investigating this as
Speaker 1: an act of terrorism. I found I've read other stuff
Speaker 1: that says, well, no, they think it might be. They
Speaker 1: just don't know enough yet to say if it was,
Speaker 1: which seems totally fair, you know, not not that I'm
Speaker 1: like that seems like it's reasonable to say, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we have no idea why this happened yet, of course
Speaker 1: you don't. It's just people. It just happened. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: also like, what's yeah, the operating definition of terrorism something
Speaker 1: like this isn't this isn't a case of classic terrorism,
Speaker 1: Like so I don't, like, how do you know? You
Speaker 1: don't yet? Shut up? Maybe it is maybe, well classic terrorism?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Does that mean? Brown is a
Speaker 1: religious based. I don't know what they meant by that,
Speaker 1: but um, I don't know the people shot subway. It
Speaker 1: seems a little terrifying. Yeah, it sucks. It's real bad.
Speaker 1: It's definitely bad. I think we can pretty safely say
Speaker 1: it is. It's bad. Um, but nobody knows. One of
Speaker 1: the witnesses went straight to work right after. Oh and
Speaker 1: Uber put surge pricing in Outside of us they shared?
Speaker 1: Did they shared? Did? That's just fucking disgusting. Um, talk
Speaker 1: to us about shadow bands and shadow guns, banning shadows?
Speaker 1: Oh you mean ghost ghost gunshot guns? Again, this is
Speaker 1: the like when Democrats talk about guns, they always get
Speaker 1: a lot wrong. Um, which doesn't is an argument, is
Speaker 1: not an argument against policy. It's just like, well they
Speaker 1: don't they don't physically understand the devices that they're talking
Speaker 1: about generally. And that's so first, let me explain to you,
Speaker 1: like what ghost guns are, because they're actually not one
Speaker 1: thing when Biden talks about them. The specific thing that
Speaker 1: he's banned is there are kits that you can buy
Speaker 1: online that include basically what's called an eight percent lower.
Speaker 1: So like I've like I have a bunch of a
Speaker 1: R fifteens, right, Um, I could take any one of
Speaker 1: my A R fifteens and I could go online or
Speaker 1: with a three D printer, I could print out pieces
Speaker 1: to put around the barrel that I could attach stuff
Speaker 1: like a scope to or a light to. Um I
Speaker 1: could make a new stock. Right that I could. I
Speaker 1: could take off the olds to put that stock on.
Speaker 1: That stuff is not regulated. Right, A stock is not
Speaker 1: a gun. You don't have to give your background or anything.
Speaker 1: You don't have to like give your I D. You
Speaker 1: can just go buy a stock or whatever and put
Speaker 1: it on a gun. Right, that makes sense. It's a
Speaker 1: piece of furniture. You can't kill somebody with a stock.
Speaker 1: But because guns are so modular and you can take
Speaker 1: pieces off of them and replace them with other pieces,
Speaker 1: the government has had to define what part of the
Speaker 1: gun is the gun because when you buy a gun
Speaker 1: in most of the United States, discounting places like Texas
Speaker 1: where things like face to face sales are legal, when
Speaker 1: you buy a gun, you have to go through a
Speaker 1: background check. Right, you have to fill out a form
Speaker 1: four four seven three. UH. You have to say that
Speaker 1: you're not on drugs or you know a felon or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they do a background check to make sure some
Speaker 1: of that's true. And the background check system is also flawed,
Speaker 1: but we don't need to get into that right now.
Speaker 1: But in order to make that whole system possible, they
Speaker 1: have to define what part of the gun is the gun.
Speaker 1: And for something like an A R fifteen, because it
Speaker 1: varies from gun to gun, this is all very complicated.
Speaker 1: For something like an A R fifteen and for most
Speaker 1: similar modern weapons, it's a piece called the lower receiver.
Speaker 1: And the lower receiver is kind of if you look
Speaker 1: at a picture of an A R fifteen, the middle
Speaker 1: piece of the gun, the bottom half of that middle
Speaker 1: piece basically is the thing that is legally the gun,
Speaker 1: and it's basically there's nothing in it, Like you can
Speaker 1: buy a lower receiver that is incapable of harming anyone,
Speaker 1: is anything but a club. But the lower receiver is
Speaker 1: what you put a bunch of springs and the trigger
Speaker 1: into and stuff, and then you attach the upper receiver
Speaker 1: and like a barrel to that, and then you have
Speaker 1: a functional gun. But the only part of it that
Speaker 1: is a gun for the purposes of regulation is the
Speaker 1: lower receiver. Um some people realized because the way guns
Speaker 1: are so because gun laws are generally written by people
Speaker 1: who don't understand guns. They're they're they're pretty poorly written.
Speaker 1: A good example of this would be since the bootlegger days,
Speaker 1: sought off shotguns are illegal, right unless you get it
Speaker 1: something called a tax stamp and go through a special process.
Speaker 1: You cannot have a shotgun that is shorter than a
Speaker 1: specific length. I think it's a twenty six inches or something.
Speaker 1: Don't quote me on that, but there's a specific length
Speaker 1: under with which a shotgun cannot be right, But you
Speaker 1: can go to a store and basically any state in
Speaker 1: the nation, including California, and you can buy what is
Speaker 1: effectively a sought off shotgun. It is identical to a
Speaker 1: sought off shotgun, it functions identically to a sought off shotgun,
Speaker 1: but it is not legally a shotgun, and thus it
Speaker 1: is not specially regulated, and so it's just a normal
Speaker 1: gun and you don't need an extra thing to buy
Speaker 1: it because in the law, a a shotgun is defined
Speaker 1: as a gun with is a weapon with bore, weapon
Speaker 1: with a stock, So they just never made these with stocks.
Speaker 1: It just has a pistol grip and it's super short.
Speaker 1: So a gun that would be if you were just
Speaker 1: to take the same weapon, but it had it was
Speaker 1: made with a stock, and you were to replace that
Speaker 1: stock with a pistol grip, you've committed a felony. But
Speaker 1: if you buy it with a pistol grip and it's
Speaker 1: only ever had a pistol grip, then it's not a
Speaker 1: shotgun and it's just a normal gun and it's fine.
Speaker 1: So again that doesn't make any sense, right, It's very silly.
Speaker 1: So all sorts of loopholes like this exists, and the
Speaker 1: ghost guns that Biden regulated recently um exist in this
Speaker 1: kind of gray area where people were taking lower receivers
Speaker 1: and making them. But there's like two holes in a
Speaker 1: lower two or three holes in a lower receiver that
Speaker 1: you need to have drilled into it in order to
Speaker 1: put the pieces into it that make it into a gun.
Speaker 1: And if the lower receiver doesn't have those holes, it's
Speaker 1: not legally a gun. So companies were making what we're
Speaker 1: called eight lower receivers, which is the lower receiver with
Speaker 1: everything but those holes, and they would sell them with
Speaker 1: a parts kit and with a k to make those
Speaker 1: holes and put them in the lower receiver to make
Speaker 1: it into a gun, and then it's effectively a gun.
Speaker 1: But you can just send it in the mail to
Speaker 1: who the funk ever, because it's not legally a gun. Right,
Speaker 1: So that's one kind of ghost gun. There's a number
Speaker 1: of Like you can also three D print a lower receiver,
Speaker 1: and that's also technically a ghost gun in the way
Speaker 1: that fall what Biden's talking. Biden has not regulated three
Speaker 1: D printed arms now. He has specifically banned these kits
Speaker 1: that people were selling, right, So that's the thing that
Speaker 1: has been regulated just now. There's another thing. The a
Speaker 1: t F also released kind of a new definition of
Speaker 1: what a silencer is. We don't need to get into that.
Speaker 1: It's still like, even as a gun guy, it's unclear
Speaker 1: to me exactly what they've done because the language on
Speaker 1: this kind of stuff is often so like arcane and weird.
Speaker 1: Gun nerds are still kind of actually trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what that particularly means. But all that has been
Speaker 1: done right now is this one specific kind of thing
Speaker 1: that people call a ghost gun. You can't sell anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean you can still sell those kits, but they're
Speaker 1: now regulated as firearms, so will have to fill out
Speaker 1: a four four seven three into a background check and stuff. Right,
Speaker 1: That's all that's happened. It's it. That's all that's happened. Guys.
Speaker 1: That's a big the It's not going to do anything.
Speaker 1: I don't it's not going to do anything. It's a
Speaker 1: minor gesture, which is not a bad gesture, but it's
Speaker 1: not going to do anything, and it does not pertain
Speaker 1: to the issue. And yeah, it's not a it's not
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to is likely to save
Speaker 1: any lives. Um, I don't. It's not something I'm hugely
Speaker 1: concerned about particularly either. But it's it's also just like
Speaker 1: as the president, he has the ability to do this thing,
Speaker 1: whereas other gun control regulation you have to like Congress
Speaker 1: and stuff has to be involved. So this was a
Speaker 1: thing that he could do right in order to say
Speaker 1: that I'm taking action on on gun violence, you know.
Speaker 1: So that that's why this was done. It is because
Speaker 1: there's not much he can do about anything at all. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: as the especially about guns, because there's you know, Constitution
Speaker 1: and stuff like, this was the thing he could do
Speaker 1: to say I've taken action and on ghost guns because
Speaker 1: it's a thing that scares people. I don't expect it's
Speaker 1: going to have a huge impact on anything. Um, it
Speaker 1: seems like the start of because again it's mid terms, right,
Speaker 1: It's midterm right. Uh, So like he's done this and
Speaker 1: also has started to speak up about gun regulation and
Speaker 1: like universal background checks, like the things that never get done.
Speaker 1: So it seems like I'll do I'll do this, I'll
Speaker 1: do this, talk about the things that we could do,
Speaker 1: but we just need more people, uh in Congress. Well,
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a number of things that are like, uh,
Speaker 1: frustrating about this from just a pragmatic point of view,
Speaker 1: because like there's a bunch of articles coming out right
Speaker 1: now that Biden has the least support among young people
Speaker 1: of a Democratic president and like our fucking lifetimes, um,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem to be he's not They don't
Speaker 1: seem to have any idea how to fix it, and
Speaker 1: that clearly are talking to the wrong people. That the
Speaker 1: things that young people want is like forgive student loans,
Speaker 1: give us fucking something on healthcare literally, and release people
Speaker 1: from prison right and legalized the thing in the world
Speaker 1: that's the easiest thing in the world. We would all
Speaker 1: be excited. You don't even have to do anything about
Speaker 1: Democrats would be excited about that. Not everything very frustrated
Speaker 1: by um, all of the conversations around this and seeing
Speaker 1: what's happening. You know, we've talked about it, but yeah,
Speaker 1: Democratic voters are fucking apathetic young people, all of us
Speaker 1: right now, the real progressives, the people that want it done,
Speaker 1: because all we've seen over the past couple of years
Speaker 1: is a person stepping back from his campaign promises and
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party incapable of winning any kind of a fight,
Speaker 1: messaging any not doing or saying the right things, and
Speaker 1: instead walking back. Right now, right now, we are facing
Speaker 1: all this, these these huge energy questions, and instead of
Speaker 1: turning to green energy, we're we're looking for oil in
Speaker 1: other places, releasing oil reserves. If you're going to do that,
Speaker 1: at least say also what we're gonna do is invest
Speaker 1: in these technologies. Make a case as to why we
Speaker 1: have got to stop depending on on on foreign oil,
Speaker 1: on oil in general. How would this this can't it's
Speaker 1: not sustainable. No, there's not doing anything. He's not doing
Speaker 1: anything like that. He's just capitulating and for and and
Speaker 1: pretending like you never said it, um, And I'm sick
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know, I don't know. Why do
Speaker 1: we keep voting for people that aren't going to do
Speaker 1: ship because they very accurately say, well, your other choice
Speaker 1: is a guy who said he wants to murder you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know, and I tweeted this and like, people
Speaker 1: don't necessarily agree with me. But I was just in
Speaker 1: the mountains for the weekend and talked to a lot
Speaker 1: of conservative people who have why range they care about
Speaker 1: issues or whatever, they can care about climate change. Everybody
Speaker 1: I talked to does, and I'm link I don't know
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party ever will. But if they decided to,
Speaker 1: if they decided to make it a thing like yep,
Speaker 1: we're gonna make new jobs with green technology and and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, motherfucker, everybody would vote for them.
Speaker 1: Because Den's won't do it. You don't have the background
Speaker 1: for a long time. It's so because again, you have
Speaker 1: number one, these issues that are very popular among the
Speaker 1: young people. The Democrats are trying to offer, one of
Speaker 1: which is at least simple fucking change, even if you
Speaker 1: can't get it through Congress because the Republicans decided to
Speaker 1: be dicks. You can ram Republicans for being dicks, and
Speaker 1: Biden can order the d e A to alter the schedule,
Speaker 1: like their ship. He can do as president that will
Speaker 1: at least reduce the degree to which people are getting
Speaker 1: fucked for because of pot stuff. Um. Meanwhile, like he's
Speaker 1: I don't know this, like the gun stuff. Part of
Speaker 1: part of why it's frustrating is that this is not
Speaker 1: to deal with the problems, the very real problems of
Speaker 1: gun violence. Um. Because again there's four million fucking guns
Speaker 1: in this country. Uh, and you know there there they
Speaker 1: will remain very available after this, as will ghost guns. Um.
Speaker 1: But another part of the issue is just that like
Speaker 1: as a tactical move, gun control support is the lowest
Speaker 1: it's been uh in like a decade. Um. For some
Speaker 1: for some information, like how that's changed. In two dos
Speaker 1: nineteen of Americans told Gallop they wanted stricter gun laws,
Speaker 1: and in November of Americans said they wanted stricter gun laws.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's plummeted, and it's plummeted, particularly among a
Speaker 1: lot of young people for a variety of reasons. We
Speaker 1: don't need to make a big gun control argument here.
Speaker 1: That's certainly not my intention, but it's just worth noting
Speaker 1: that like this is contentious and not super effective and
Speaker 1: provides AMMO to Republicans as opposed to do something, Moe
Speaker 1: fucking pot. Bro, it's the easiest, it's the and you
Speaker 1: know what, you know what, it'll save more lives if
Speaker 1: you consider people thrown in prison for years and years
Speaker 1: and years to be like loss of life. It will
Speaker 1: save more lives. Just fucking do it, bro. No one
Speaker 1: else is going to save some more lives. Robert the
Speaker 1: Washington State High Patrol. Maybe, but these ads together everything,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, boy, Yes, we did a break, we did
Speaker 1: some talking and we're back. We're back. We're back now.
Speaker 1: Now you what do you want to talk about? Davis
Speaker 1: Sereni The truth about parajuana, the violent drug. Oh gosh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I have been seeing there have been some very fun
Speaker 1: posts of people trying to revive pot panic. That's always
Speaker 1: a hoot. It's the they call it the Devil's uh gun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's I like when people try to point out that, like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, people have withdrawal symptoms from pot and it
Speaker 1: is addictive, It's like, yeah, motherfucker, you know what else
Speaker 1: is addictive? Fucking cross fit. We don't throw people into
Speaker 1: prison for doing it. Um, you know what's addictive? Driving
Speaker 1: too fast on your motorcycle. We don't. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: you do throw some people in prison in there, but
Speaker 1: it's whatever, you know, it's addictive little glowing shapes and
Speaker 1: colors that you have to match up, and then when
Speaker 1: they match up, you get little coins, little artiitial coins,
Speaker 1: and the dings go off and it says, be a
Speaker 1: good job, and then you play the next level and
Speaker 1: you keep going and going and going. A lot of
Speaker 1: things are addictive. Maybe maybe human beings, uh, I can't
Speaker 1: exist without addictions to some extent. It's just figuring out
Speaker 1: which ones are you can continue to be a productive
Speaker 1: human being and a good member of your family. An
Speaker 1: empathetic way of looking at things, Robert, Yeah, simple, it
Speaker 1: is that we all maybe have a struggle and we
Speaker 1: have something that we rely on, but we judge or
Speaker 1: um incarceerate people for being human especially Yeah, anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't know how we how we feeling. Folks do think
Speaker 1: that we should talk about the matrix resurrections. Who wants
Speaker 1: to want what we're about to do? I haven't seen
Speaker 1: this movie, so I will preface this by saying I
Speaker 1: have yet to see the I have a pretty fun movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: so the only one that's seen this movie. Perfect because
Speaker 1: I'll have questions for you throughout this. So this I
Speaker 1: don't know if our listeners are aware of. There's a
Speaker 1: guy an He also goes by Leo. Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I do yeah, so you might know him as as
Speaker 1: David uh David m j riney. Um. Anyway, do you
Speaker 1: want to give some you're gonna give some background on this?
Speaker 1: You can do you remember us talking about him at
Speaker 1: Cracked back in the day vaguely there's he's a character.
Speaker 1: He is uh, he's not a character's actual human being
Speaker 1: that if I'm gonna go that hard. It's made YouTube
Speaker 1: videos in the past. I would say he's the most
Speaker 1: decade for a long time video views. Now, um, I'm
Speaker 1: first of all blown away that uh okay, okay, So
Speaker 1: first of all, he's a big big guy. Not big guy.
Speaker 1: He's like you made videos about like gamer Gate and
Speaker 1: like a yeah um and like he's just and it's
Speaker 1: very like stereotypical, kind of like neat headed approach to
Speaker 1: analyzing anything, talking about anything. Um. He has a if
Speaker 1: you if you're familiar with h Bomber Guy, Harris has
Speaker 1: a great video on this first couple of a couple
Speaker 1: of them, um where he sort of goes through his
Speaker 1: videos and aside from pointing out that he has one
Speaker 1: skull that he moves from room to room for his shots,
Speaker 1: for a little bit of like context on this guy.
Speaker 1: He he looks like Anton LaVey and he dresses like
Speaker 1: a Canadian military reenactor. So he'll usually have like a
Speaker 1: leather vest and like a fucking he's a bald dude.
Speaker 1: He'll have like a cavalry cap on or a fedora
Speaker 1: in a suit, and he's always dressed in some like
Speaker 1: obnoxious like again like a suit in a fedora or
Speaker 1: or whatever. And he's he'll sit in a chair that
Speaker 1: he's like posed everything in his room carefully. He's like
Speaker 1: a weapon, yes, and embarrassing scotch and it's you every
Speaker 1: now and then. You can see the bottle. It's like
Speaker 1: a gigantic it's from a gigantic, shitty cheap plastic bottle
Speaker 1: of terrible scotch that he fills with ice and he
Speaker 1: never actually drinks it. Yeah, he has. It's like he's
Speaker 1: a up guy. Um when he really wants to, he
Speaker 1: really wants to emulate and just sort of project this
Speaker 1: idea of like I feel like he's like a theater
Speaker 1: geek guy that or like like he was never allowed to.
Speaker 1: He just wants to. He wants to project his idea
Speaker 1: of masculinity. Um, if you imagine, like it's a low
Speaker 1: five version of I think like a pragger, you are
Speaker 1: like a daily Wire like roundtable discussion where like everyone's
Speaker 1: in a leather chair and there's everyone's wearing like they're
Speaker 1: smoking jackets and they're all pretending to like cigars, and
Speaker 1: it's just this idea of what they think they should
Speaker 1: look like. And it's him, but it's like really low budget.
Speaker 1: I was actually watching this originally and I was like,
Speaker 1: why are we going to talk about ten year old
Speaker 1: review of like the Matrix Revolutions, But no, it's about
Speaker 1: the newest one. This video came out in December. It
Speaker 1: looks like it's ten years old. It's incredible. He's not
Speaker 1: bought got any new furniture or anything like that. Everything
Speaker 1: about it he might have moved. It looks like, Um,
Speaker 1: he's got the same skull. He's still pretending to drink,
Speaker 1: uh drink. It looks like he's drinking white Russian this
Speaker 1: time though, Um and uh smoking cigarettes in a proper
Speaker 1: kind of way. It's just very performative and funny, just
Speaker 1: aesthetically that and he talks about feminism a lot. He's
Speaker 1: like very big in like the Anita Sarkasian days, you know,
Speaker 1: complaining about women, complaining about video games, and just like
Speaker 1: that kind of guy. So he has this review of
Speaker 1: the new Matrix film, The Matrix Resurrections, and he thinks
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty good, despite what all the antis g
Speaker 1: ws ws might have to say about it. Um So,
Speaker 1: I've not seen the New Matrix yet. I want to.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's really good. I look forward to it.
Speaker 1: I'll see it eventually. I've watched this review from start
Speaker 1: to finish. I know he's wrong about so many things
Speaker 1: he says. I will have questions to follow up having
Speaker 1: not seen the movie. But so if you can help
Speaker 1: me out out with that, Robert, you have, Cody, why
Speaker 1: are we talking about this bad film review with two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty views from a fascist? Who the reason?
Speaker 1: So this guy the thing that brought him to prominence.
Speaker 1: There's a woman named Anita Sarkesian who did video game
Speaker 1: reviews from like a feminist perspective, and it's got a
Speaker 1: bunch of people very angry, and their anger wound up
Speaker 1: playing a role in the election of Donald Trump. It's
Speaker 1: a stupid story. It's Davis Serini and this other guy
Speaker 1: who I don't want to name because I'm kind of
Speaker 1: worried that he's, uh, will hurt himself. Um, wound up
Speaker 1: crowdfunding a documentary called The Sarkesian Effect, where they got
Speaker 1: like tens of thousands of dollars to try to make
Speaker 1: a documentary that's supposed to be like showing the dark,
Speaker 1: evil sides of this, like the sinister reality of this
Speaker 1: lady who is again like talking about video games on
Speaker 1: the internet. Um, and then it they they never really
Speaker 1: made it because they immediately had a fight and spent
Speaker 1: the money on cars and released like the shittiest like
Speaker 1: it's all very funny. But he was kind of in
Speaker 1: the era before the alt right really got formed. He
Speaker 1: was fairly prominent. And then h bomber guy did a
Speaker 1: video laughing at the fact that he was very like
Speaker 1: pointedly posing the same toy skull behind himself and every
Speaker 1: shot where he would like do a monologue. Um, and
Speaker 1: it was it was such a good own that he disappeared.
Speaker 1: He just he got torpedoed off of the internet. It's
Speaker 1: extremely funny the degree to which he just got blown
Speaker 1: out of the water. And now after ten straight years
Speaker 1: of making videos and writing articles and ship his his
Speaker 1: ship gets like two hundreds something. It's just incredibly funny.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful sight to see again and again. It
Speaker 1: looks like it was made ten years ago. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like that's one shot, which I love.
Speaker 1: It's one shot. It's like good Fellas. Yeah, yeah, exact
Speaker 1: exactly good Fellas. We make a show that's primarily one shot,
Speaker 1: but we have we cut the things. We cut the things.
Speaker 1: We also like a puppet. You've got it clots, can't
Speaker 1: bought a camera. Prepare do some research, like minimal research.
Speaker 1: There's a section in this cody I've ate on what
Speaker 1: the director might think about stuff. You're capable of handling
Speaker 1: more than a tiny skip of sip of scotch over
Speaker 1: the course of an hour and a half. You know
Speaker 1: what I really am. It's oh my god, it's so
Speaker 1: funny to wash him pretend to drink. He was a
Speaker 1: pioneer of a kind of content near and dear to
Speaker 1: my heart, which is when a right wing ship heads,
Speaker 1: sits in their car with a glass of scotch and
Speaker 1: a cigarette and smokes in their car while complaining about
Speaker 1: a movie. It's so groundbreaking in that field. It's still art.
Speaker 1: It still gets me. It's still still you know, they're
Speaker 1: still playing the hits and we appreciate them for it. Now,
Speaker 1: is there any real pragmatic reason us to be talking
Speaker 1: about Davis SERNI absolutely not, But it can't hurt anything.
Speaker 1: He's had his stab at being a prominent right wing
Speaker 1: influencer and he failed because he's just too silly. So
Speaker 1: it's sometimes fun to laugh at him. I miss laughing
Speaker 1: at these guys, and he's like the last member of
Speaker 1: an era where like it was fun to laugh at
Speaker 1: them because they there was no chance of them actually
Speaker 1: really hurting people. And I don't think Davis is capable
Speaker 1: of hurting anyone anymore. Yeah, there's that's but whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: But this video in particular, it's it's mostly innocuous and
Speaker 1: only funny. There's some like language he uses where I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: did you say that did? But like there's no there's
Speaker 1: very little like most of these, you know types of guys,
Speaker 1: especially prominent ones now are like really pushing, like very toxic,
Speaker 1: bad lies um and this is just a guy watching
Speaker 1: movies wrong. And he admits in the opening of the
Speaker 1: movie that he has for his entire adult life patterned
Speaker 1: way he dresses off of the first Matrix movie, which,
Speaker 1: if you see pictures of this guy is the funniest
Speaker 1: thing in the world. Died when he said that it's incredible.
Speaker 1: I can't funny. He looks like if Anton LaVey shopped
Speaker 1: at Ross. I feel bad for him. I do. I don't.
Speaker 1: He's he's a really bad person. Like he's very racist,
Speaker 1: he's very sexist. Here's he's he's The most famous picture
Speaker 1: of him is him sitting in a chair with his
Speaker 1: scotch that he doesn't drink in a cigarette and a
Speaker 1: T shirt that says, this is what a patriarch looks like.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, he's an incredible Oh my god, that's really funny.
Speaker 1: It's also like it's perfect. It's this again. This sort
Speaker 1: of like ten year old sort of like idea of
Speaker 1: a guy and he survived somehow, and he's still he's
Speaker 1: still that guy. And like like if you watch this,
Speaker 1: if you didn't know who he was, you would think
Speaker 1: this guy is doing a bit. This is like a
Speaker 1: funny bit about this type of guy from ten years ago.
Speaker 1: It's a get right, like I I don't know the
Speaker 1: source material maybe, but there's like clearly satire going on. No,
Speaker 1: it's a real guy and this is these are his
Speaker 1: real thoughts. Um. And so I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know where to start because this is it's such
Speaker 1: a funny. There's so many misinterpretations of this movie again
Speaker 1: that I haven't even seen. Um, there are complaints he
Speaker 1: makes in this in this video throughout the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating because he's complaint. He complains about people's false
Speaker 1: readings of the Matrix trilogy. And there's this like talking
Speaker 1: about how like you you put your own like opinion
Speaker 1: on it, which like, hey man, watch your own review
Speaker 1: real quick. But uh complain like you know, people like
Speaker 1: oh they get about like capitalism and like commodification of
Speaker 1: X and Y and and the sort. He doesn't talk
Speaker 1: about the trans of it all, which is interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: but in very he talks a little bit, gets a
Speaker 1: little bit um, which is the really dicey stuff. I
Speaker 1: would say, um, but but honestly, even then, not that
Speaker 1: bad for a fascist today. Right. Yeah, it was like
Speaker 1: I was like, one thing he said, maybe go like,
Speaker 1: oh man, really, and then I was like, I guess
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not worse than what other more prominent
Speaker 1: people say publicly. Um. But it's funny because he talks
Speaker 1: about this and then there's a brief period where he
Speaker 1: talks about how in the early two thousands there was
Speaker 1: this move towards more freedom, which is like a hilarious
Speaker 1: thing to talk about, like post like an incredible thing
Speaker 1: to claim about the way society was moving. And then
Speaker 1: he talks about like, you know, it was also the
Speaker 1: height of these movies like like The Matrix and like
Speaker 1: and like fight Club, and it's like, man, it was
Speaker 1: in which only Gilbert Godfried stood up for liberty. That's
Speaker 1: that's right. The hero in American Clay like talking about
Speaker 1: how like people are like putting these like fake like
Speaker 1: anti capitalist, uh perspectives on these movies and then talking
Speaker 1: about Fight Club for a while is so funny to me.
Speaker 1: There's like there's literally a scene in that movie where
Speaker 1: they show the prices of everything in the guy's apartment
Speaker 1: and he like half the movie takes place in his
Speaker 1: like soul sucking office where he literally beats the ship
Speaker 1: out of his boss and like it's just like what
Speaker 1: a weird disconnect um to to have that. Um. And
Speaker 1: then there's a whole section where he talks about how,
Speaker 1: uh it's incredible actually, so he's talking about this movie
Speaker 1: and he talks about it as if it's a remake.
Speaker 1: He first to it as a remake a bunch, which
Speaker 1: is very weird, and then he talks about how like
Speaker 1: you know, and they're all these remakes these days, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, I understand the pushback against this movie originally,
Speaker 1: like you know, there's so many, so many your remakes
Speaker 1: these days. And then he as an example, he talks
Speaker 1: about the Marvel movies, which I get, I understand if
Speaker 1: you're saying, like, yeah, they're a little like they kind
Speaker 1: of repeat themselves and like it's kind of like the
Speaker 1: same sort of thing over and over. They're not remakes,
Speaker 1: it's a series of movies. Um. And then he's like,
Speaker 1: but there's a recent era of remakes that I think
Speaker 1: is really really uh like proves the sort of like
Speaker 1: creative spark is alive again. And his examples are the
Speaker 1: first one is Doom, which fair enough, um, I would argue.
Speaker 1: First of all, he says he didn't see it, so
Speaker 1: he has to see it yet. Um and also claims
Speaker 1: that well, also, like I would say, if he did
Speaker 1: see it, he probably wouldn't like it because he'd be like,
Speaker 1: but they they made it political or whatever like that
Speaker 1: would be a complaint. But he hasn't seen Dune. Um.
Speaker 1: And then he says, another example of a really great
Speaker 1: remake these days is Ghostbusters, not the feminist Ghostbusters, but
Speaker 1: the new Ghostbuster that summer. I haven't seen it. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it. Your Ghostbusters haven't. If you love it,
Speaker 1: it's fine if you like it whatever, it's that's great
Speaker 1: this movie and says it was, it was really really great. Um.
Speaker 1: But again that you enjoyed a thing. Not a remake,
Speaker 1: my friend. Uh, that's a sequel. It is a sequel.
Speaker 1: That one is. It's a direct sequel. It was called
Speaker 1: After Life for a reason because it's does in fact
Speaker 1: have the original characters come back to the extent that
Speaker 1: later on in their lives. Um. And uh, So I
Speaker 1: thought that was interesting. And then his final example was
Speaker 1: Blade Runner, which again is not a remake, it is
Speaker 1: a sequel. It says right in the title that it
Speaker 1: takes place in a year after the original movie. It's
Speaker 1: literally in the title that it's not a remake, and
Speaker 1: that's like a really specific nitpick, but I just thought
Speaker 1: it was very funny. I would argue it's an important
Speaker 1: just like just like yeah, just like not talk about
Speaker 1: remakes correctly. Also saying that claim. His claim is that like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's like aside from like you know, he
Speaker 1: like talks about like the presidents and movies in the
Speaker 1: same breath where he's like, yeah, we had Clinton and
Speaker 1: Bush and then we had you know, the lame duck Trump,
Speaker 1: and now we've got Biden, but also we have this
Speaker 1: creative spark of movies and remakes. And it's like those
Speaker 1: thoughts don't go together. What like you and you could
Speaker 1: talk about politics and art and the connection between the two,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't. He just says that we had presidents
Speaker 1: and now we have these remakes. Um. And I would
Speaker 1: also pose it that a remake directly negates your claim
Speaker 1: that there's a creative spark. If they're remaking movies, then
Speaker 1: there isn't a creative spark. And you could say that
Speaker 1: there is by citing other movies that are original movies
Speaker 1: that are good that exists now. But he's saying that
Speaker 1: we have a creative spark in Hollywood now because of
Speaker 1: Ghostbusters Afterlife, And I just don't know what to say
Speaker 1: to a person like that. I don't know how that
Speaker 1: person's brain exists in society. So there's two kinds of
Speaker 1: people who are profoundly wrong. There's the kinds of people
Speaker 1: who are wrong, and you you have to deal with it, right,
Speaker 1: you have to either try and convince them of that
Speaker 1: they're wrong, or you have to deal with the consequences
Speaker 1: of their being wrong. Right, Yeah, politicians, cops, whatever, fascists,
Speaker 1: I mean, some fashions, and then you get and and
Speaker 1: David Sereni is a fascist, but he's someone where it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter that he's wrong, Like he's incapable of being
Speaker 1: taken seriously even by the people on his side, and
Speaker 1: we can just we can't just marvel at what a
Speaker 1: what a weird goblin he is. And I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I I can't get enough. I completely
Speaker 1: it's delicious. I like watching this entire thing again. I've
Speaker 1: not seen the new movie, and I'm like, well, that's
Speaker 1: hilariously wrong. Well that's a gross misreading of the movie
Speaker 1: that I haven't seen yet, Like it's so obvious it is.
Speaker 1: It is really funny because the question I keep having
Speaker 1: is he's like trying to analyze this movie in a
Speaker 1: way that number one makes it really clear. Oh, you've
Speaker 1: never read or listened to a single thing that any
Speaker 1: of the Wachowskis have said about it. But also you've
Speaker 1: never liked, You've never liked looked at the movie and
Speaker 1: and just like looked at the things that are on set,
Speaker 1: like the copies of the books, and Neo's off has
Speaker 1: been like, Oh, I wonder if that might have anything
Speaker 1: to do with like this stuff, Like for somebody who's
Speaker 1: obsessed with these movies, he's I don't think he's he's
Speaker 1: never had a real thought in his head about them
Speaker 1: other than they're cool. They're neat, No, they're cool, and
Speaker 1: they firm his priors right, Like it's just like I
Speaker 1: can I can push my view through this movie. Hey boys,
Speaker 1: I hate for my only interdirection to be such a
Speaker 1: buzz skill, but it's time for an ad break that Robert.
Speaker 1: You know what Davis SERENI will never have is sponsors
Speaker 1: because nobody cares for he has to say about anything
Speaker 1: except for people like us who want to laugh about it. Well,
Speaker 1: he's just so against uh I guess for the capitalization
Speaker 1: or modification of or he's against it. It's unclear. It's
Speaker 1: unclear to break capitalism. But yeah, we're going to add
Speaker 1: break now together everything, So don't don't don't back from that.
Speaker 1: And I am back to resuming listening to you guys
Speaker 1: talk about this. We are we are talking about the
Speaker 1: only issues that really mattered, which is laughing about this
Speaker 1: weirdo and his bizarre takes. Again, if you think we're
Speaker 1: punching down, there's a bunch of videos of him, like
Speaker 1: saying the in word and and being being a hearty.
Speaker 1: He was talking about tewish conspiracies. He's terrible person again,
Speaker 1: horrible man y. But just don't feel bad for him. No,
Speaker 1: don't make a mistake that I made looking at him
Speaker 1: being a drip. It's such a drip. Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I couldn't watch this video. I didn't realize. I half
Speaker 1: thought it was a joke when you sent it. Use
Speaker 1: he was so unpleasant to look at, and I was like,
Speaker 1: we can talk about this sign and that's mean I
Speaker 1: don't mean unpleasant to look at, like, oh, physically, I
Speaker 1: just mean everything that he's putting out there, it's I
Speaker 1: don't want to do with his body. He's unpleasant to
Speaker 1: look at for the choices he's made of how to
Speaker 1: present himself. Then he chooses to wear the fact that
Speaker 1: he decides to always pose in front of a plastic
Speaker 1: skull while holding a glass of scotch that he doesn't
Speaker 1: drink it repeated for smoking cigarettes in his own house.
Speaker 1: I guess my mistake was thinking that we couldn't possibly
Speaker 1: be talking about this. We are absolutely are. So I
Speaker 1: kept that and I am enjoying listening to you to
Speaker 1: talk about it. We are talking about the ship out
Speaker 1: of this ye, So don't let me stop you. Also,
Speaker 1: I just can't stress enough that it is thirty minutes one.
Speaker 1: Take him flipping through his little journal and like slowly
Speaker 1: remembering the points that he wanted to bring up and
Speaker 1: talk about. Uh, there were a few. I had to
Speaker 1: pause it every once in a while to laugh, uh,
Speaker 1: and to like jot something down. And every single time
Speaker 1: I would unpaus it, I thought it was still paused
Speaker 1: because he physically like doesn't move for periods of time
Speaker 1: when he's thinking about what he's about to say or
Speaker 1: like trying to remember what he's Again, he's been doing
Speaker 1: these for ten years and he has he never learned
Speaker 1: to edit. That's ten minutes learning how to do like
Speaker 1: a cutth like download I movie. Man, It's like you
Speaker 1: would think that, like, like, how many views did you
Speaker 1: say he gets? You think after doing this for so
Speaker 1: long and continuing to not have success, um in the
Speaker 1: you know, like a successful channel would would grow your audience,
Speaker 1: right you You you would think that you would be like,
Speaker 1: what can I do to make this better? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: editing people enjoy editing? Yeah, you know he's Um, he's
Speaker 1: a narcissist, I think. So he does have to he
Speaker 1: has to have his opinion out there, and he he
Speaker 1: has to portray himself as this like badass right wing
Speaker 1: revolutionary thought leader, military historian. He really wants to portray
Speaker 1: himself as like tough. So he made this. He's Canadian. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he lives in Vegas now if I'm up
Speaker 1: on my ARENI but he's Canadian or your loreny. So
Speaker 1: what before he before like gamer Gate happened. One of
Speaker 1: the things he did before kind of became prominent is
Speaker 1: he got a bunch of funding from the Government of
Speaker 1: Toronto to make a short film, Like it was like
Speaker 1: ten thou dollars that they gave him. Apparently, Garrison says,
Speaker 1: this is something the Government of Toronto does a shitload.
Speaker 1: Is just like that out terrible art fund or art
Speaker 1: funding for which is fine. I have no problem with
Speaker 1: this um and I have no problem with the fact
Speaker 1: that gave it to Davis Sereni because the resulting movie
Speaker 1: is very funny. So he made a movie. It's like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes. It's called are you ready? Have you seen
Speaker 1: his movie? It is called Lust in the Time of
Speaker 1: Heartache Boin and the whole movie, the whole movie horrible
Speaker 1: sound quality, by the way, Like he doesn't know how
Speaker 1: to mic people. So it's like him giving a narration
Speaker 1: about how like fall in the modern world is, and
Speaker 1: like men and women don't know how to get along,
Speaker 1: and like women are you know, shallow, and men don't
Speaker 1: understand how to take control. And it's like him giving
Speaker 1: this like speech while walking around in a suit and
Speaker 1: a fedora past like groups of men and women having
Speaker 1: hackneyed conversation that you can Yeah, well, I'm getting to
Speaker 1: the movie having Hackney conversations that you can barely hear
Speaker 1: because again he doesn't know how to mike people. And
Speaker 1: then it's like the halfway point, after he's finished this
Speaker 1: rant about like struggling in YadA YadA YadA, like just
Speaker 1: really dull, fascist bullshit, a bunch of the men who
Speaker 1: have been like he's been walking past on the street
Speaker 1: attack him with ninja weapons and he pulls out Size,
Speaker 1: and then it's like a ten minute fight choreography of
Speaker 1: him with Size fighting guys with swords and bats, and
Speaker 1: it's really bad. It's really he doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: do blocking. He doesn't like, he clearly hit, He clearly
Speaker 1: got the funding from Canada so he could buy a
Speaker 1: bunch of ninja weapons for himself to make a movie.
Speaker 1: Then it's the funniest fucking thing in the world. Sounds
Speaker 1: like something you make when you're like, yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: when he makes this thing, it's a it's a high
Speaker 1: school uh learning, Like, Oh, if I jump off this
Speaker 1: roof and I put in reverse, it looks like I'm
Speaker 1: forced jumping onto the roof, like it's that ship. But
Speaker 1: a three year old man year old man who needed
Speaker 1: the government of Canada's funding to buy a pair of
Speaker 1: Size I was an incredible mind funny. Um, I didn't
Speaker 1: know about that movie now I now, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to find out what he thinks about the matrix. I swear,
Speaker 1: I there's okay, there's two other things I needed to
Speaker 1: mention about this incredible review. Um, and you can correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong about this, as you've seen the
Speaker 1: movie and I have not. That's right. So one of
Speaker 1: the main things I think that is worth discussing is
Speaker 1: well aside like misunderstanding and like it's like it's constantly
Speaker 1: he's constantly contradicting himself about like what the movie is
Speaker 1: about and what like. He didn't like people misinterpreting the
Speaker 1: original to be about. Um, which is this a very
Speaker 1: fun little disconnected to sort of see like dance around
Speaker 1: in his eyes. But he does start to talk about
Speaker 1: Lana Wachowski and how like just because she's trans although he's, uh,
Speaker 1: he doesn't I don't think he says she but like no,
Speaker 1: he says, we all know who they are and what
Speaker 1: they are. That was the one that was like, wait
Speaker 1: a second, you're disgusting. So he's talking about Lana Wachowski
Speaker 1: and how like just because of who she is doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that like that's what the movie is about. Like
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean like that's what she's putting like into
Speaker 1: the movie. Um, like that's us playing identity politics by
Speaker 1: assuming that she thinks this. And it's is such a
Speaker 1: funny like thing because he he's wrong here, but also
Speaker 1: he's right in that, like yeah, that's what people have
Speaker 1: been like saying, like he talks about the bugs character
Speaker 1: with the purple hair, blue hair or whatever. It's like
Speaker 1: people say she's like the s j W character because
Speaker 1: she has blue hair, but like not everybody has blue
Speaker 1: hair is like that. It's like, man, watch one of
Speaker 1: your videos from eight years ago. That's all you did,
Speaker 1: like like five minute like cringe compilations of people with
Speaker 1: blue hair and calling them s j wes. What do
Speaker 1: you what is this growth? That's it's like anti growth.
Speaker 1: It's so weird to see him talk about it. Um,
Speaker 1: but the important thing, and this is where I need
Speaker 1: you to help me out, Robert, because he's talking about
Speaker 1: because he makes like these passing uh mentions about society
Speaker 1: and how this movie is about like the libs and
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Pretty sure it's made before the pandemic but whatever,
Speaker 1: um and how it's like it's about like the libs
Speaker 1: and the bots and like the NPCs and uh, you
Speaker 1: know you can, sure you can pick your own gender
Speaker 1: or whatever, but you've got to wear a mask and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. And he's like very flippant about the
Speaker 1: gender and stuff like that. And then he starts talking
Speaker 1: about the movie being about the separation of man and woman,
Speaker 1: and I assumed, like part of this is about it's
Speaker 1: like Neo and Trinity and like their separation and bringing
Speaker 1: them back together. And he talks about the separation of
Speaker 1: man and woman and the yin and the yang and
Speaker 1: how like if you know when you're when you have
Speaker 1: the separation, you can be controlled. But when you have
Speaker 1: when they're the union, there's a union between the man
Speaker 1: and the woman, Uh, then then that's when you're like
Speaker 1: you're truly free. And I it's just like every step
Speaker 1: of the way during this review, I'm like, you're so close, man,
Speaker 1: You're so fucking close to knowing what the movie is
Speaker 1: talking about of this like the separation of man and
Speaker 1: woman and like this union by this trans director and
Speaker 1: how if you like like the freedom that can be
Speaker 1: gained from like rejecting this idea of like the separation
Speaker 1: between man and woman. And again, I haven't seen the movie.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can speak a little more to that, but
Speaker 1: it seems like just like the most basic reading of
Speaker 1: the movie being taken and made to be like yeah,
Speaker 1: man and a woman should be like together and married
Speaker 1: or something like right, am I am? I? Am I
Speaker 1: misreading that? Am I misinterpreting what he said in the review?
Speaker 1: I don't think you are. I think I just remember
Speaker 1: remember watching that and being like, you're a little bit further,
Speaker 1: just like like why are they constrained? Why? Like what
Speaker 1: is what is constraining them? Why do they not feel
Speaker 1: free by this dichotomy of man and a woman? Like
Speaker 1: just like what what do you think talking about Davis? Um?
Speaker 1: So maybe I don't know, Maybe maybe I need to
Speaker 1: watch the movie and i'll i'll, I'll get it a little.
Speaker 1: That'll that'll give you you should watch the movie to
Speaker 1: gain a whole new appreciation for Davis. SERENI like like
Speaker 1: but like right, like yeah, like the thing about Davis
Speaker 1: so like some of it's that like okay, you could
Speaker 1: choose to do death of the Author, Like that's a
Speaker 1: perfectly valid way to look at art, Like it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what It doesn't matter what the what the person
Speaker 1: who created it intended. What matters is like what what
Speaker 1: can be like taken away from it? Right and like my,
Speaker 1: you know, the interpretation of the person watching like it
Speaker 1: doesn't I don't need to go to the I don't
Speaker 1: need to like look up what the what the creator
Speaker 1: says about, like why they made this and what it meant.
Speaker 1: Like Lord of the Rings can be about World War
Speaker 1: One if that's the thing that you you you take
Speaker 1: out of it or whatever, Like, it doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: token yelled about that his whole life. But if you're
Speaker 1: going to say, like this is not what Lana Wichowski meant,
Speaker 1: then you do kind of have to look at what
Speaker 1: Lana Wachowski has said about the things that she's made
Speaker 1: you like, yeah, it's it's wild, like and he's even
Speaker 1: he even alludes to like and you know, maybe she
Speaker 1: said stuff about this. I don't know, buddy, it's a
Speaker 1: thirty minute video. You gotta you gotta google for a
Speaker 1: second to see what this person has said about the
Speaker 1: world and like her worldview a sound a literal second
Speaker 1: um like she's alive you can find out. Um, it's
Speaker 1: just so funny to watch that movie again that I've
Speaker 1: not seen and be like, this is about the pandemic
Speaker 1: and what I think about, like men and women and gender.
Speaker 1: To close us out talking about Davis Areni, I just
Speaker 1: looked up he's blocked me on Twitter because his profile
Speaker 1: picture used to be him on a trip to the
Speaker 1: US shooting a hand I'll think at Arene, so his
Speaker 1: his Twitter used to be his profile used to be
Speaker 1: him holding a handgun, and the way he was holding
Speaker 1: it was with like he had one hand around the
Speaker 1: gun in another hand under it. It's called a teacup grip,
Speaker 1: and it's not how you're supposed to hold a handgun.
Speaker 1: People did used to do it. It doesn't. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons why it's bad, and I like pointed
Speaker 1: out this was like eight years ago. I made fun
Speaker 1: of him for it because he brags about having been
Speaker 1: like a Canadian soldier, and then he went on this
Speaker 1: whole rant about that's how they totally how they teach
Speaker 1: you to hold a gun in Canada, and I didn't
Speaker 1: pulled up a bunch of Canadian military training documents to
Speaker 1: show that he was wrong and probably lying about having
Speaker 1: been in the Canadian military. File picture is him in
Speaker 1: a cowboy hat and but um in the snow, but
Speaker 1: he's his back is turned to the camera. Are you
Speaker 1: seeing his pronouns? Katie? And you can't his hand in
Speaker 1: so he's either pissing or holding a gun. His pronouns
Speaker 1: are daddy, sir. No one's ever called you either, ever,
Speaker 1: ever ever unless it is sir. You need to leave.
Speaker 1: You're making a scene. You can't smoke here and record
Speaker 1: your videos. Not No, I'm not followers shaming. But again,
Speaker 1: the man has three thousand followers, he only has five
Speaker 1: gab his I just found a Medium post where he
Speaker 1: apparently wrote a seven thousand word essay on how our
Speaker 1: institutions are clus your be capture collapse theory. He has
Speaker 1: four followers on Medium. Very funny. Again, he's dedicated his
Speaker 1: whole life to this. That's I guess that's the point
Speaker 1: is it's like it's sad, it's like it's not do
Speaker 1: not feel bad, but man, no, it's just funny to
Speaker 1: see a fascist try really hard to have an influence
Speaker 1: on the world and completely fail because everybody thinks he's silly.
Speaker 1: It's really funny. It's just really funny, and sometimes it's
Speaker 1: nice to just laugh at that, to just laugh and
Speaker 1: a terrible person failing, just failing in like the in
Speaker 1: like the silliest way too, like just wrong about everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and like half of its like horrendous stuff and
Speaker 1: the other half is like, well, you're just a silly man.
Speaker 1: You're just a silly, silly man. But the important thing
Speaker 1: is that the creative spark is back in Hollywood now
Speaker 1: that they made very questionable things. Oh no, he's oh
Speaker 1: he's he's a heart questionable. That was a nice way
Speaker 1: of phrasing it. But um, just scrolling through his media
Speaker 1: posts and no, thanks, Um, I think we've done it
Speaker 1: here today. I think we've got it. I think this
Speaker 1: is clearly what the people wanted was for us to
Speaker 1: talk about the news for ten minutes and then Davis
Speaker 1: SERENI for forty anybody that's still listening as a hero
Speaker 1: and let us know what you think this fuck. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just glad that we finally got back to
Speaker 1: the basics what we wanted to do with the start
Speaker 1: of the show, which is make fun of Davis Serene,
Speaker 1: a guy no one listening to this the original pitch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we went to our bosses at my Heart and said,
Speaker 1: let me show you this fucking guy. Eventually he's gonna
Speaker 1: keep making videos and one of them. Look, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna say anything about him for a couple of years
Speaker 1: because it's not quite as funny as it's going to
Speaker 1: be if we let him have done this for a
Speaker 1: decade without any kind of impact. He's actually been doing
Speaker 1: this for quite a while, all Right, I just go
Speaker 1: just like go look for the video because it really
Speaker 1: does look like it was made in it's ro it's
Speaker 1: so funny. We're taking two weeks off and then we'll
Speaker 1: be back. Yeah, we're taking two weeks off, then we'll
Speaker 1: be back. In the meantime, go look up h bomber
Speaker 1: guys videos about Davis SERENI definitely do that. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: like it's just it's such a beautiful, amazing, hilarious primer
Speaker 1: to this. I'm going to do that while I'm sending
Speaker 1: these files to Daniel do it. That's great? You know
Speaker 1: what else? Bye? So great? I read Dan Worst Year
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