WEBVTT - Bisexual Superman Is (not) Destroying America 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.560 Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:24.920 Welcome Together Everything, So don't don't don't h Hey, guys, goodbye. 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:31.040 Good I don't know why you say goodbye. I say hello, okay, hello, 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:39.480 welcome backs. Are getting better all the time. Year two 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:43.559 of this one year long series, we're really starting to 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.479 find our groove in starting the episodes. Just talked over 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.520 me as I said the name of the show. We haven't. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:57.080 We don't have a name. Hello, I am blanking, this 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:02.760 is blank. You're You're right. Whatever you said about how 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:04.560 this is welcome to Worse Your Ever, you were right. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.720 I just needed to get into my joke. Yeah right, Yeah, 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:16.959 that's that's good teamwork, right there. Teamwork makes the dream works. Yep, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.840 that's how that works. How how how are you guys doing? 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:27.520 Terrible afternoon? Terrible? Why? Because I spent my weekend up 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.839 in a desolate mountain stalking blacktail deer and now there's 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.319 the internet and I'm getting emails and texts. So the 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:41.640 good part that was incredible part that I thought you 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:43.720 were about to set up a story as to why 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:50.760 that was a reality email after coming back from something 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.680 that you enjoyed. I don't never check your email, throw 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.600 your phone in the ocean, light your laptop on fire 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.160 bomb a power substation. Sorry, I just think you should 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:06.960 just no go take out your internet, your local internet, 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.440 so there's no pick it out recourse. You find Mark 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:17.919 Zuckerberg in his home, find and take him out al gore. Um. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.639 I guess it only works from me, though, because when 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.600 my power goes out of the internet goes out, I 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:29.480 don't have cell reception. Um. So that would be I know, 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:35.960 unless it's an emergency in which I'm fucked coming back to. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.000 That's why I get Well, you have to give me one. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:48.760 Christmas is coming, Robert. Okay, all right, Katie, you said that, like, okay, 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:53.640 all right, slow down. Now you asked for it. You 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:59.799 said machete, So you're getting an illegal rifle either one. 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.959 So what it's like she asked for a kitchen knife 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.840 or like a butter knife. Funny, funny. I didn't get 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:10.960 a machete from buck mobile missile launcher for anti air application. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.800 I have a confession that's not a joke, which is 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:20.760 I don't have any kitchen knives. Wait, how are you living? Okay, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.600 I should take that back. I've got like butter knives. Um, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.239 it's not a kitchen knife. I know that's a stick 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:34.560 that you used to pry things. Okay, gentlemen, you are correct, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.600 of course you are correct. I went through a big 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.880 breakup recently and I had to buy all new kitchen 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.560 stuff to knives, and I was like, honestly, it's been 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.640 at the point when I was thinking of buying knives. 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:48.120 I was like, it's been a month and a half 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.640 and I haven't needed these knives. It circles back to 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:57.280 your breakup registry idea. I know, such a good idea. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.000 I broke up next time ago and I still only 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.560 have a single pan and I stole that pan from 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:07.720 my last room. Yeah yeah, yeah, Um, the butter knives 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:12.720 are my exes, it's true. Um, so yeah, I don't 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:17.040 have but I will kick them. No, it's not it's laziness. Um, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.280 it's time for me to get knives. Mom, are you 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.640 listening Christmas? I don't know. It's the kind of thing, 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:29.200 you know, behind the bases people. Sophia Alexandra asked for 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.000 knives from listeners and they sent her a bunch of knives, 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.240 some of them loose in a plastic or in a 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.719 paper bag. Oh my god, is that going to happen? 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:43.239 God willing, guys, I could use some knives, send Katie 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:49.440 di loose knives, loose loose knives in sacks with insane 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:58.840 handwritten notes my or clippings for magazines. Yes, clippings from 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.839 magazines used any I used to cut those up. Yeah, 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.599 you get on it. Folks. Do we have a job today? 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.400 What is our job? We've been vamping for five solid minutes. 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:16.120 Well about time to go to ads. Then talk about 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.560 the news here? What's up in in general? I mean, like, 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:27.400 not exclusively, is this jogging your memory at all? But 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.120 what we do here? What? What do we do? Who 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:38.640 are we talk about the news? Mostly? Okay? So the 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.200 Tonk and Gulf. A lot of people are debating whether 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.640 or not, you know, we should invade Vietnam, and I 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.760 don't think we have any choice, uh, Cody, Okay, I 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.360 would say we probably have a choice, but um that's 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.120 just me. I'm uh. I would say we definitely have 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:03.080 a choice. Well, and the choices do it? Yeah? Fast 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.800 forward a bit. There's some more current events that have 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.680 happened in between then and now. Cody explained to me 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.640 the Superman. I understand that he's by now, and some 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:19.760 people are very angry. People like me are going Superman Fox. No, 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:26.559 they are rightfully angry. Can I read what Garrison wrote 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:29.840 for us? Because I think it's really good? Okay, the 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.880 new comic book Superman, Jonathan Kent, Clark and Lewis's son 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.800 loves to kiss boys. That's all he does now, fly 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.160 around and fight cute boys to kiss. That's the whole comic. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.840 Because this is based and cool. It's obviously triggered the 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.280 little Gama snowflake cons who get grossed out by hot smooching. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.200 And I thought that was just really good in dicinct 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:55.720 way of phrasing it. Yeah, come along, I'm so glad 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:01.680 to see him. Um yeah, finding his own and that incredible. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:06.640 Superman's by now. But also like Superman is Mark's son, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:13.200 my question, being an alien, is Superman even by or 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:17.320 or do Superman might not have a sexuality that registers 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:21.880 on traditional human scales because he's not a human. Uh well, 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.200 I've got so many things to say, but I wish 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.320 I didn't have so much to say about bisexual Superman 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.240 um because Superman is an alien um and but he's 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.320 a male alien and he likes to women, and that's 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:40.840 important human women. Okay, he likes Um, yeah, he had 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:46.600 a son who's sexual. Actually, there's an exceptional exceptional science 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.720 fiction short story. Um, who is it by? It's it's 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.480 it's the one analyzing what super how Superman's come would 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.200 function and pointing out the fact that, based on the 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.720 other things we know about him, his semen would penetrate 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:03.000 low Us Lane fatally and then continue out on throughout 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.960 the universe like endlistening, definitely life. It's a fact from 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.920 all rats. It's called Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. No, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:16.080 it's by Larry Niven Google Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.920 It's an incredible tonest I might not see fiction writer. Um, 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.080 but that's so like, but that's all that's also so 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:24.960 that's like kind of beside the point. But it is 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:29.280 like because he's an alien and she's a human woman, 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.640 and do you have a problem with that? No? Okay, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.320 all these all these dorks love Star Trek, all the 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.920 aliens and humans are fucking and sucking in that. Like 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.080 there's it's whatever, Um, And I wish we didn't have 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:47.480 to talk about this, but politicians are because that's just 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.240 where we're at. That's what we talk about now, that's 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:55.640 what people running for office and people in office complain about. Um. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.360 Wendy Rogers and Arizona State Republican who has uh spread 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:05.000 election disinformation in the past. Her tweet reads Superman loves 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.440 Louis Lane. By the way, did not did not correctly 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.360 say Lois Um. So she's right on the money. There 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.720 does love Louis Lane. Um. Period. Hollywood is trying to 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.000 make Superman gay and he is not. Just renamed the 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.360 new version Superman so we can all know the difference 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:28.000 and avoid seeing it. Um, Superman because gay people have 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:33.000 lists and she hates gay people joking. Yeah, that's exactly 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.880 what she's saying. Yeah, because it's because I really wish 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:40.079 I hadn't asked. Yeah, you didn't get it because it's 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.600 not funny, and also like it doesn't reflect your worldview. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:47.239 So you're not gonna go oh because the list thing. Um. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.319 So she's clearly it's all it's just you know who 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:56.600 also has lisps? God? Yeah? Oh yeah, Okay, I thought 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.200 you were doing an ad pivot and I was gonna 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:05.080 be like, Katie, that's not God does though, um, God 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:11.400 as universals. I just accidentally started playing the talking Heads 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:17.280 in my earbuds. Um. Uh, this must be the place 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.640 I was gonna say, that's a great one. But is 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.360 there a single talking Head song that isn't completely perfect? Um? 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.160 I I can't think of one, so um, leave it 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.199 in or cut it? I don't care. I've stopped music cody. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.839 One rule for my podcasts and any podcast I'm on, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.280 and it's if someone mentions talking Heads, nobody cuts that ship. Okay, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:48.440 can play, um just a clip of that song? Yeah afterwards? Sorry, 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.480 David burn solo stuff is also wonderful. Any continued? Um, 0:10:53.760 --> 0:11:00.520 all right, okay, okay, we hate it. Fire. It's also 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.120 like bisexual, so like so like the thing is okay, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.280 So then there's like a lot of other like Josh 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:10.400 Mandel's running for senate in Ohio, good luck Ohio. Um, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.200 bisexual comic books for kids? They are literally trying to 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.200 destroy America. Not sure how, IM not sure what that means. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.680 I just know that, Uh it's homophobic. Um, Josh Barnett, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:22.840 A lot of Josh is up in here. Why does 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.959 Hollywood have to ruin everything? Uh? Well, first of all, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.400 it's not Hollywood's a comic book, so you don't even 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.960 know what you're talking about, but also what is ruined here. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.920 I would love to actually play this clip on Laura 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:38.520 Show with I don't know some twerp because it's fascinating 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.000 and it really gets to the core of what's actually 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:46.440 going on here, which is homophobes trying to pretend that 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:50.000 they're not um by saying that they don't want to 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.720 know at all what the sexuality of anyone is UM. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.880 So we're gonna play it real quick. It's very short, 0:11:56.360 --> 0:12:00.959 so uh apologies ahead of time. Man bisexual d C 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:07.160 comic book toy that was announced today that that comes 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.440 after a gay Aquaman, a bisexual boy Wonder Robin, and 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.319 a gender fluid Loki. Call me when they have a 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:19.240 gender stable aisle with superheroes whose sexualities we know nothing about. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.400 Why are they sexualizing superheroes? You know, I was a 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:26.680 Batman and a Superman, Spiderman kid. I love those heroes. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.920 We just wanted them to get the bad guys, not 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.280 a venarial disease. Anyway, leave our comic book heroes alone. Lord, 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:38.360 we don't want to hear any more about what they do. Okay. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.840 I have so much to say about this. This is fascinating. 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:48.439 It's unbelievable the worldview these people pretend to have so. 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.640 First of all, the idea that we have not ever 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.439 known the sexuality of any superhero is laughable. The idea 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.440 that we only want superheroes to fight crime is laughable. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.160 Stories require an emotional human element. That's why every single 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.920 one of these fucking characters has a love interest. You know, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.880 Superman loves Lois Lane. You know, spider Man wants to 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.440 marry Mary Jane, and they end up doing it, and 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:14.880 you cheer for them because they did it. They got 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:19.400 their romantic interest. It's the most famous scene from the 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.560 first spider Man movie. It has nothing to do with 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.720 Spider Man's powers and everything to do with him doing 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:27.080 that upside down kiss with What's that's what we want 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.400 out of these If it was just one fighting crime, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:36.040 boring as fuck, what would be watching sexualized superhero Well, 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.240 actually we very much do. Two of the most famous 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.320 superheroes are Batman, a billionaire playboy, and iron Man, a 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.960 billionaire playboy. Their character description is that they fuck women constantly. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.559 We aggressively know what their sexuality is. It is unbelievable. 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:58.640 Don't tell me that, like Catwoman isn't some sort of 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:06.080 fetish old Batman movie, cat Woman, absolutely Fox. They all 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.120 fuck and we all know who they fuck. So they're 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.920 not actually saying we don't want to know their sexuality. 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.720 They're saying we want them to be straight. We don't 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:16.480 want them to be gay. We don't want to see that. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.000 We want them to be ignored. We want to put 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:25.080 them all away, associating um, you know, diseases. That's a 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:30.680 whole other Yeah, that's straight. People don't have straight sex 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:35.240 doesn't won't get me v D. Yeah, it's it's unbelievable. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.440 Talk to talk to Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend about that 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:43.440 is remarkable because when you were first pitching this as 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.000 a topic, I was like, I don't think there's that 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:46.960 much meat there, but here we are. There's lots to 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.280 chew on. It's this one clip. This one clip like 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.240 says it all. It's what they're doing. One of the 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.400 things that pisses me off most about this, as someone 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.640 who doesn't even like comics as a general rule, Superman 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.040 has been a cobby, and he has been I'm fairly 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.920 certain a zombie. He has been a fascist. He has 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:11.600 been every single possible thing other than bisexual at this 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:16.000 point in the factions of Superman comics there and it's 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.240 a sons whatever, man, I don't give a ship. Comics 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.960 are ridiculous. And one of the things about comics is 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:25.360 that because the potential audience for them is so wide, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.560 eventually every character will be almost every conceivable kind of thing, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.840 because that's just what comics do, because you can only 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.280 tell so many stories about them punching people. So you 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.520 make Batman and I don't know a fucking hipster brewing 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.240 I p a is in Portland, Like everything gets done 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.600 in comics. It's fine there, comics they're called there's like, 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:49.720 what if is an entire genre comic book for these people. Well, 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:55.160 so everything that you guys are saying is, of course true. 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.560 I think that to me, what really the meat of 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.640 it that pisces me off so much about it is 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:05.760 this um, fake outrage and repeated framing of this is 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:11.320 the destruction of America, this old, hackneyed line of thinking 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.960 that people abandoned a long time ago. You know, in general, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:21.240 you know, this this sexuality thing. But when literally things 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:26.480 are happening all around us that they these politicians have 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.280 the power to do something about and instead they're talking 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:35.240 about this and adding distraction after distraction so that people 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.200 aren't talking about what they aren't doing. Yeah, it's exactly, 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.640 it's a way, it's complete, it's a complete ways of time, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.560 culture war bullshit. But also like it is this them 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.440 being openly homophobic while telling themselves that they're not. It's 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.320 that sort of thing like I don't care what happens 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.720 in your bedroom. I just don't want to know about it. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.400 You do care, because when you do know about it, 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.960 you get mad. And if you knew if you see 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.400 Superman fuck a woman, if you see any the superheroes 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.120 fuck like in a straight way, they will not say 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.520 a single word because to them, that's not that's not 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.680 shoving it down their throat. That's just the way things are. 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.960 That's like the normal way. But they don't want to 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:14.760 see the other thing because if you if you say, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.280 like Superman is bisexual, then like it I guess it, 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.840 Like the image pops into their head and like they're 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.399 just like you, um, and it's just it's like a 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.800 gross dishonest way of framing like I'm not I'm cool 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:27.720 with gay people. I just don't want to see it. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.200 If you don't then you're then you are are You're 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.800 not actually cool with it because you don't want them 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:36.520 to exist. You don't want society to acknowledge the existence 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:41.480 of anybody other than Batman. Uh he sucks thousands of 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.800 women every year. Um, but that's not shoving sexuality down 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.400 your throat. That's just the way things are. And just 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.439 like again the idea that like we don't want we 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.800 want superheroes to just fight crime. We don't want them 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:58.960 to like talk to other people. Always full interesting part 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.880 of any super or a story is the fighting crime part, right, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.320 Like it's like, okay, all the emotional stuff it leads 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.080 up to some punchy fight. Okay, great, but like if 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.880 you get rid of that, Yeah, that's the reason why 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.680 I don't know the Batman versus Alien thing was only 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.040 ever as short because that got everything, Like nobody wants 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.480 to see more of that ship. It's like why we don't, 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.520 like we don't do the Nolan type Batman movies anymore 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.639 because okay, we did it, we saw him fight the 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.520 fight crime. Let's do some weird ship. That's apparently what 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.160 people want. I don't want it because I don't watch 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.440 superhero movies. But like I know what people want because 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.320 I watch What's Successful now and that nobody wants Batman 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.919 stopping muggers. They want Batman shooting lasers at Superman. I 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.440 feel like there's lasers in the New One, the New 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:47.679 Extended Zach whatever his name is, Snyder, that make people happy. 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:52.400 And it seemed ridiculous, so whatever. Like I wonder if 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:57.720 Batman's behind Havana syndrome anyway, why not make Batman be 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.960 Havanna syndrome. Have Batman declare a one man more on 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.399 the entire international security apparatus. Let's do it. Also, I 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.119 love this, uh this this onion headline gets to another 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:11.640 point that I think it's really funny. Is a bisexual 0:19:11.680 --> 0:19:15.719 Superman ruins comic for fan who preferred smoldering, homoerotic undertones. 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.399 It's like, yeah, for years, like it's just it's just 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.160 it's just nonsense. I like, I like Spider Man uh 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.240 at best when he's just swinging through the city and 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.520 then uh swipping criminals and then going to the next 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:33.720 criminal to twip and then going to the next criminal 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.920 of twip. I don't know, uh high school or like, 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.040 it's just unbelievable. I just want a Spider Man, who 0:19:41.080 --> 0:19:43.919 before he does every power thing, you know, he shoots 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:46.280 his webs, he swings, he uses a super strength. I 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:50.320 want him to say I don't fuck. Yeah, that's what 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:54.520 they need to not feel challenged. Also, if like, if 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.560 there was a fucking superhero who is a sexual, they'd 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.560 be like, what, I don't But this is like, that's 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.600 that's what we want, right, isn't that what you want? 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.199 You want when we have like the fucking Vision is 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.520 what like a robot alien thing and we make him fun. 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:11.920 We had to sexualize. We want them all to fuck. 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:14.679 We need our superheroes to fux, So why don't they 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.080 fuck a bunch of different things? It's fine, I believe 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.240 that was in the comics code. Right, they have to fund. 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:25.080 We do have to also take a break. Absolutely, we 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:29.240 should probably say something less ridiculous. Yeah, I'm sorry we 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.640 even had to talk about this. It's just like politicians 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.960 are talking about everyone's talking about it. It's just embarrassing 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.919 in a way to be Let's let's talk about that 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:40.760 when we get back, how embarrassed we are for how 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:43.400 much we just talked about it. But you know who 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:48.280 Fox everything of all genders and and no genders who 0:20:48.320 --> 0:21:01.240 just fucks the products and services that support this podcast indiscriminately. Ever, 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:06.800 oh we're back. So before we actually move on to 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:08.679 the actual news, I want to talk about what we 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.560 just did, which is talk about fucking moral panic over 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:18.159 bisexual Superman son, which is stupid and not news, and 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.359 we talked about it instead of talking about I don't know, 0:21:20.480 --> 0:21:23.400 the Mexican government trying to declare war on the Zapatistas, 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:27.800 or a million other bishar al assad being brought back 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.879 into inter poll a billion different like things that are 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:33.840 life or death for huge numbers of people around the world. 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.400 And in part of it, it's because I didn't prepare 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.080 things on either of those because I was reading people 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:43.240 yell about Superman on Twitter, and that's that's an indictment 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.359 of me, for sure. But it's also like, it's why 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:50.080 these this stupid ship happens. It's the tactical reason behind 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:54.080 like pushing these kind of bullshit moral panic. I don't 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:58.160 even know exactly how these like bullshit culture war like nonsense, 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:02.240 and like I get that, I get why there's there's 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.520 feel for people to be like fetching about identity politics 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:08.520 stuff and they're wrong when they're saying, like, we shouldn't 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.960 be arguing about you know, trans rights or whatever because 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:13.600 it's you know, it's I pol and we should be 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:17.200 talking about class like that's incorrect. But the reason that 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.879 that those arguments have a little bit of weight is 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.479 that we are we are wasting our brains on this 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:28.600 fucking more on on on on culture war bullshit. And 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:30.960 this is culture war bullshit. Right, trans rights is not 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.840 culture war bullshit. That's life and death and incredibly important 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:38.879 arguments about like whether or not bisexual Superman is something 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:41.919 we're talking about at all at all. But you also, 0:22:42.520 --> 0:22:45.320 it floods the zone and both the mix of people 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.159 laughing and like you now you have to deal with 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.000 the fact that like, okay, the whole right is using 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:51.960 this as an excuse to like attack this group of 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:53.840 people that or they're trying to get these people fired, 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.280 and like some sort of defense seems like it's necessary 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:59.480 and it's I hate it, um, but I don't entirely 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.000 know how to out maneuver it, especially since we just 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:04.120 talked about it for twenty four ula. Well, I think 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:09.439 that it's it's just being aware of that happening, and 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:13.920 like like even as and like, yes, we're having this conversation. Um, 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:18.040 there are plenty of things to be said about what's happening, 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.119 and it doesn't mean anything, it doesn't, but we are 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:22.720 buying into it. But it's happening. But at the same time, 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:27.480 we know that this is kind of like cover they're active. 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.600 They're using this to not talk about all the things 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:34.240 that are happening around us right now, or to cloud 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:37.960 the discourse so that there isn't enough room or oxygen 0:23:38.160 --> 0:23:41.760 for the other stories that are vitally important to breathe. 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:49.679 And yeah, so good point that I am reiterating, and 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:51.960 like it's it's just frustrating because like yeah, like if 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.560 like they're they're doing it, they're doing it no matter what, Um, 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:57.960 even if we didn't do this segment, And like part 0:23:58.000 --> 0:23:59.720 of me is like we can just ignore it and 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:03.800 then make it. But well, right, because like it is 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:08.240 literally just like them like normalizing this this fun way 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:10.760 to be homophobic, and it's like, well, you've got to 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:14.720 at least mentioned that that's what they're doing. Um, so 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:16.400 that I don't know, maybe if you know, if your 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:20.320 uncle is complaining about bisexual Superman, you can have a 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:22.720 reasonable chat with him and point out how these people 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:25.720 were fucking wasting his time. I think that you also 0:24:25.760 --> 0:24:29.080 include yeah, yes, exactly, like there's no point in having 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:31.600 this conversation when these other things are happening. And why 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:36.959 why did Josh Mandel talk about how bisexual comic books 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:42.239 are is destroying? Well, I know what does that mean 0:24:43.520 --> 0:24:48.879 while also endorsing conspiracy theories about January six then and 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:52.680 conspiracies about George Sorrows and the deep State. Now, what's 0:24:52.720 --> 0:25:01.600 actually destroying America? Superman son or Robert Anyway, we should 0:25:01.640 --> 0:25:06.000 talk about other things now, sexual half alien, half human, 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:12.720 fucking god, talk about whatever you say, Thank God? All right? 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:18.919 Not um Southwest Airlines, not the region, the airline, not 0:25:19.000 --> 0:25:22.080 the region, not the second best region of the United States, 0:25:22.160 --> 0:25:25.879 for sure. So Southwest Airlines canceled more than three or 0:25:25.920 --> 0:25:30.520 fifty flights on Monday following uh oh yep, this is 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:38.440 cancer culture. It's finest uh a weekend of major disruptions 0:25:38.440 --> 0:25:42.040 that it blamed on bad weather and air traffic issues. 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:48.720 But it turns out it's it's much bigger than that. 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:53.320 The disruptions became because there's like a strike. People are 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:58.240 refusing to show up to work in protest of the 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:04.560 vaccination mandate. But it that's not quite the accurate story. Um. 0:26:04.600 --> 0:26:11.359 Apparently that it's more about the union, the the what 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:17.720 do we call them, the gentleman that fly, the pilots, Yeah, 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:22.760 I can the gentle people, the gentle people that fly 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:27.080 the fly I call them sky pimps, the sky pimps. Yeah. 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:34.280