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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Days
of Arzites. I'm Jack O'Brien. That's Miles Gray. I am back.
He's glad to be here. I missed you guys. I
missed your years, Miles, I missed her face. Yeah. This
through this one dimensional or two dimensional flat screen we
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call zoom or whatever whatever happen. All right, let's tell
our listeners what is trending right now. Hashtag white Lives
Matter is trending. Whoa, whoa, you're just starting the show
off with that. That's right. Hey, wow, he's back. Yeah,
it's this is so funny. We talk about the the
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avengers of like generations and interests that have come together
in solidarity with black Lives matter. Um and despite K
pop fans being you know, they like to docks and
straight up harassed people who don't funk with their their bands,
but on some level they're they're all together on the
same page when it comes to drowning out racist hashtags.
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So white Lives Matter is trending because people caught wind
of it trending for the wrong reasons. Um. And then
k pop Twitter just did its thing and just flooded
it with fan cams, a bunch of just you know,
people saying, you know, racists are dumb, Black lives matter,
and so to the point where Twitter, because of all
the accounts are seemingly like related to K pop, it's
treating it as a trending music topic. So that's what
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they did. K pop Twitter did their thing. It's so weird.
It's so weird, honest. I feel like the next move
is like if these young kids are out here obviously
learning how to like because this is a response like
older people like getting off on a thing trending, and
then you know, younger people like dude, watch this ship
fuck your hashtag by uh, next step like yo zoomers, man,
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you gotta start like, you know, sucking with your your
parents set top boxes and like sucking blocking the website
addresses so they can't get to Fox News and all
this bullshit and then be like, I don't know what's
talking about. I think you shoul it's broke. And then
they've heard of frustration. I've heard of that. I've heard
of people doing that like blocking that channel, like using
the child block to block the channel and their parents
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home television. Uh and yeah that that always seems like
just a fun way like speedbump to put in the
way of you know, racism. But the like things like
this makes it makes me think like maybe maybe that
can actually be an effective method since that is like
one of the things that we have on our side
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is you know, knowledge of how technology works. Yeah, well
I think that's why too. Like a lot of the
conservative messaging is like so weird to younger people. Like
obviously you can get red pilled on Twitter or through
all kinds of videos and things like that, but just
a lot of like what the party like just the
you know, it's not vibing or not vibing with the
youth as much, to the point where now like they're
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like you know, funk racists or like even you know,
people all over the world are participating in this, so
we'll see, we'll see what happens with them. Mixer is
trending the people making cocktails. What are we talking about here?
Doesn't mixer baby? It was like, you know, like a
place for gamers to broadcast you know, their gameplay sessions
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like Twitch. You know, but Jack, you already know about this.
I don't even know why you're asking what mixer is.
I knows I'm playing dumb so that the people I know,
you know an audience, and I don't have to tell you,
and you knew it was called Beam way way back
before it was Mixer obviously, and now Microsoft is shutting
it down. Uh. You know the thing that I think
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a lot of people I'm giddy about it because DJ
Daniel game master in Chief at the show here. You know,
when the Mixer first came out, there was a lot
of news because this gamer named Nina, streamer named Ninja,
was moving over to Mixer from Twitch, and he was
like one of the biggest dudes on Twitch. And so
this when he went to Mixer, people like, WHOA, what's
gonna happen with Twitch or whatever? But really they just
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they just handed this man up thirty million dollar a
year deal basically to leave Twitch. And now that Mixer
is folding, he could go back to Twitch. But basically
Mixer is now emerging with Facebook Gaming, and there were
even like rumors that Facebook when they were starting Facebook Gaming,
we're trying even like offer like streamers like Ninja and
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this other guy's shroud like even double what they got
from Mixer. So we're talking like sixty million dollars a
year to stream. Well see, and that's why I hate
to tell you this job, but I quit. Okay uh
and you can follow me on twitch dot tv slash
Miles of Gray, where I would just be doing nonsensical
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voices while playing g t A. Well, what's your what's
your gamer character? I'm sorry, what do you mean? Oh?
Like my persona? Like it depends on the game, you know,
like sometimes if Red Dead, maybe I'll get a little
bit of a drawal going and I'll be a little rascally.
But you know, I mean, you are a rascal. I've
always said that, thank you, thank you, all right, I'm
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a rascal on a rascal that is a wild amount
of money. So Mixer is just folding and Facebook is like, hey,
we'll pick it up. Or did Facebook a choir mixer? No?
They they're like you are ours now, like this is Facebook?
Facebook does entered the mixer headquarters like a swat team. Yeah,
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they're just it's just it's you getting near Facebook and
they're like, wait, they're doing the thing. We're trying to
rip them off better than okay, let's just buy them
and now now we are them. Yeah. Uh that's that's
wild stuff. I'm sure for some old people who aren't
as familiar with gaming and streaming services, I am. Uh.
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Joel Schumacher is trending R. I P Joel Schumacher. He
is the director of such films as The Lost Boys,
The Batman, Almost Fire saying almost fire down, Robin falling down.
But he was I always respected him for how candid
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he was about Batman and Robin being a total disaster,
and he like owned every decision, was like yeah, no,
that was me. Uh yeah, I just really really really
blew it. Um. But he So he started out as
a costume designer and then uh you know, wrote a
couple successful screenplays, moved on over to directing and had
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a very very successful directing career. Yeah and yeah openly
gay director to or there was a thing of talking
about how with Batman and Robin Um like George Clooney
like had said that he was playing Batman as gay
in that like yeah, like in an interview with Barbara Walters,
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because he was, you know that there was everyone in
that bat Batman and Ron like it's all what's going on?
Like yeah, so what this Every movie he did was
so usually like fucking it was a movie. Now, I'm
curious about Falling Down as a kid. I loved it.
I gotta I have to figure. I don't know, and
I don't think it's gonna track now. I can only
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imagine what a white man who got so angry at
everything he blew up a town movie is like yeah,
but I do remember he was talking very sweetly to
like a young black kid who was like, well, what
you doing with that buzuka? And he was like shooting
constructions and he was like, hey man, I'm just kind
of a I'm a renegade bro. And then then there
was like the racist dude who was selling him the
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like army surplus stuff who had to escape. So I
don't know again, but these are movies in the nineties.
I don't think that there's not many films in the
nineties at track now up there's any movies three years
ago the track. So I went the screening of his
movie Tigerland, which was the first time he worked with
Colin Farrell, and then Jose Schumacher did an interview afterwards
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and was very funny and uh said that Val Kilmer
was a psychopath. Um So, really, I don't know if
that is if he was being technical or flippant, but yeah,
he said that he he was always surprised that when
he turned on the news that Val Kilmer wasn't hold
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up in a trailer somewhere with automatic weapons like firing
at the police. I mean, he's wild to think, like
between the Batman movies, he made a Time to Kill
That's right, you know what I mean, what a sandwich
of films like these bad people like and then you
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make one of the sweatiest film I think, what is
the sweatiest film of all time? Some comedians said that,
but it's so true, like everybody's is glistening. Uh, just
to give you that that summer Southern that heat. But
McConaughey's hair is always just a little bit wet. Yeah
he yeah, that was her. Plat looking extra sweaty too. Yeah,
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I mean, Oliver Platt has never not looked sweaty. But yeah,
even in Three Musketeers he looks sweaty. Ship, that's amazing
that he was in Three Musketeers. They're like, who should
we get for the swashbuckling adventure Oliver Platt. That just
shows you the strength of that brand, though, Like that
guy was just kind of like a like with like,
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was he like a precursor to Jack Black of kind
of like less like leading guy thing who was just
kind of witty and was like, you know, Oliver Platt
kind of gives you some spice and edge or some ship. Yeah,
I'd say it's like somewhere between Jack Black and John Malkovich,
like because he was like sort of character actory a
little bit um, but yeah, somewhere somewhere in there for sure.
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Like he was he was definitely fun. You knew you
were in for a good time. When absolutely, I'm sure
it's the same when he shows up to a party too.
You're like, dude, when Ali shows up, broke, buckle up,
buckle up. Oh he's Canadian. Okay, alright, shout out to
the Canadian. To Canada my new home. If Trump wins
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New Zealand made. I don't know about you, but I'm
going to New Zealand. Uh. I think I think I
also claimed I was going to move to Canada if
one election that did not follow through on that. But
this is this is different this time as we call
a liberal bid. Yeah. Uh and then uh, Andreas Guardado
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is trending. Brianna Taylor is not trending anymore. It's not trending. Yeah,
should be to get her trending again. Her murderers are
still walking the streets. There wasn't the quote unquote police
report that they had released. We just have, you know,
every every week we're looking at more and more cases
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of just how the police are allowed to kill people
undisturbed and then use these bizarre they're not even cover
up tactics, they're just not investigating or just not sharing
any information and not holding their own officers accountable. So, um,
I don't know. You know, Andre's guard Outo is a
young man who's killed in Los Angeles by the L. A.
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Sheriff's Department, And he was a security guard, was a
security guard outside of an auto shop. He was patrolling
as part of his job as a security guard and
the police said he had a gun and they shot
him and killed him. And there's and we don't have
much evidence to show what happened. But the why, why
don't we just check the police body camp footage? They
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don't have them. They don't have them, they don't. But
what's funny is you have Alex Villanueva of the L. A.
Sheriff's Department on Fox News this morning, being like and see,
this is why we need funding. It's like, shut the
fuck up, dude, don't even this has nothing to do
with that, But you're just gonna use these really insincere
rhetorical points to try and keep the ball moving. You
don't need funding. And on Fox News they were trying
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to act like that the Sheriff's Department is entire for
the responsible for like the entire county, as if there
was no l A p D or Burbank p D
or s Santa Monica p D. Like they were like,
you know, this is the entire county and we're are
just sir, don't be so ridiculous, and again showing these
like one side versions of reality to an audience that's
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definitely willing to hear them. But uh yeah, I mean
this is why we absolutely need to keep the pressure
on two just to demand, defund, dismantle, whatever you want
to call it. But what we have is a very
very clear problem with cops that are killing black and
brown people. Um it's it's anybody. I mean, the amount
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of people that have already there, there's still killing is happening. Uh.
An officer involved shooting since George Floyd's death, Like this
is just until we until we fix that problem. I
can't see anyway this would change. Like while they know
we're paying attention, they can't can't stop themselves again because
I think too it's like I'm saying, like white supremacy,
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it's like a virus. It's like anything that lives. If
it feels threatened, then it will do what it can
to reassert itself, to just show vitality that it's living.
And you're seeing that with lynchings that go unsolved where
because I don't know well of all the excuses coming
out of Palmdale, uh and likelie everywhere, it doesn't I
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mean it makes sense in the sense that the way
the police have been responding is petulant and violent and
you know, clearly defensive and violently so um and the
you know, the east that they have to play right
now is that they you know, they are the ones
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who are supposed to be that who we are UH
entrusting to protect the populace. And if they're going to
you know, murder people, then there's that there's not much
we can do under the current system. This is why
we need to push and push and push another tweet,
I saw it, Wow the funk are they in the
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labor movement? That's really I was. You know, that's really
another thing that really needs to be sorted out. These
people are not workers. Why are they in the labor movement?
Why are they? How are they? How? Like? Because all
all I've seen that union do is give them outsized
power and influence and untouchable income. That's another thing. I
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mean these again, this is why this whole last month
has begun a very what I hope is a deep
examination for people at every level when to themselves into
their own communities, think about what is going on like
and how can we make this run better? That isn't
that we're not just reading about some person, a kid
who's doing his job, like he had two security jobs,
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trying to go to school and then he has to
get murdered. Come on, we need justice. We need justice.
Don't let Brianna Taylor's name uh fall out of the
zeitgeist and or any of them. You know, it's sad.
I feel like we have to say not We would
have to say like a thousand names every show. We
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have to say at least one that's of what we know.
Let's not even forget people who might be you know,
been maimed by police, are disabled as a result, or
something like that. There's so many more, and it's just
that's why I think hopefully a lot of people just
keep that energy on the real thing here is that
at the end of the day, we need to come
together to dismantle these systems and actually do what we
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have to do. And yes, even Anna just puts in
the chat Elijah McClain, that young man who has killed again.
Horrific these some of these cops are just out here murdering.
You know, that's all it is. And you you know,
you can show me a thousand and one clips of
like the cops that you know played well fucking one
on one in the street with the kids when when
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someone complained about their playing ball in the street, or
some one saving a baby's life, but don't like, you know,
the media has done a really interesting job of shoving
that back into people's faces to try and act like
as if this is an actual conversation happening where yes,
people are marchings like but also look at what the
police do. Well, guess what I saw. I saw hundreds
of thousands of people saying that the police ain't ship
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so you can show me to videos and then doing right,
because what I'm seeing are way more people who are
of a completely different belief and they don't. That is
not going to sway them because what we're looking for
is just just treatment and not to be criminalized for existence.
It's real simple, all right. With that. Those are some
of the things we're that are trending right now. Um.
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Fireworks are also trending. We will probably cover those in
a later episode, but hit me with on Twitter if
you have theories on why uh firework reports or complaints
are surging so much. Um, and uh yeah, I'm gonna
be really searching that story because I'm noticing it for um.
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All right, that's gonna do it for today. We'll be
back tomorrow with a whole other episode. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, wash your hands,
and don't do nothing, and we'll talk to you them.
Bye bye. M