Best of 2022: Brie Larson Kills Hobos

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Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special featured 1990s alt-country darlings, the old 97s, and
I was like, yay!
Or like Kevin Bacon.
Or Kevin Bacon.
Like from the 80s, like the 80s.

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Who are they aiming for?
Yeah, let me see.
You know, you have all those 17-year-old kids that are big, old 97 stands.
Yeah.
All three of them.
All three of them, yeah.
They're all from like Idaho.
Yeah.
But it has made it tough because it's really hard to realize when things happened in the
past now.
Like, I don't know what happened in 2022.

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I don't know if it might have been 2020 when it happened.
I do struggle with that.
I do struggle with like, is that this year?
Oh, it's a big ball of three years of just, bong!
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So like nothing actually happened.
It either happened three years ago or two months ago and later.
Like, there's no...
In my mind, January 6 happened every year since the election.

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Since like 2016, there's been a January 6.
We've had that convenient, you know, court hearing, you know, the hearings that remind
you of it.
So you're like, that was last, this like, year.
It could have been this January or if they're still holding...
Exactly.
Yeah.
These things.
Oh, no, no.
Two years ago.
Yeah.
Great.
Okay.

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Okay.
I like that my response...
I've been talking with people about, you know, favorite movies of the year and I've had some
people say, well, the Marvel movies have been kind of weak this year.
I'm like, no, the Spider-Man movie was pretty good this year.
The far, far, no way home from 2022.
Yeah.
But we're talking about like, we're talking about like two weeks before 2022.
It was still the big, like, biggest release of 2021 and it landed on Christmas.

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Come on, man.
Like you can't...
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean...
Actually, we got a just a cornucopia of rich media this year in a way that even I don't
really fully appreciate until you look back on the year and you're like, wow, we had some
freaking bangers this year.
Yeah.
Forgot that Stranger Things came out again this year.

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Yeah, that was this year.
But that's what this episode is going to be all about.
We've been trying to remember.
Man, I think that was this year.
We need some member berries, folks.
No, this is the Year in Review 2022 episode of Geek's Son of the Influence.
We're going to be talking about our favorite movies, favorite TV shows, memories from 2022

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for the end of the year, what we liked, what we didn't like from 2022.
So buckle up and get your member berries ready.
Yeah.
We are hitting Year in Review from Geek's Son of the Influence.
Welcome.
We're going to be talking about the year in review.
Woo.
Did y'all tie that shit out?
That was kind of scary.

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What day is it?
This year, some really great parts of this year.
Also, it's just like, I don't know.
I'm just waiting for the end days at this point.
Yeah.
Something's got to give.
That's not just all the depression.
The constant end of the world from the beginning of this year, it's not just that.

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It's just you're getting old and you're starting to realize that you're getting old.
So welcome, my friend.
I have been holding this seat for you for a while.
Keeping it warm.
There is a calm that kind of comes over you when you reach a certain age where you realize
that you don't matter anymore.
Not at all.

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That you're not special.
You're not special.
Nobody's looking out for you anymore.
Even the movies and TV shows that you come to know and love, you start bitching about
and it's the fucking new bullshit.
Yeah, you're in your 40s.
The cartoon movie that you are watching isn't focused on you anymore.
You don't even know what the culture is.

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I don't care about this teen and her problems.
Good, because you're in your 40s.
You're not the target audience anymore.
It would be so creepy if you did.
I think those demos are like late or early 20s to mid 30s.
So we're out of a lot of the demos of what they're targeting for advertising or anything

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like that.
So if we complain, we don't fucking matter.
Yeah, they don't care.
They don't care.
Shut up, old timer.
It's like give your money to your children to go see us.
Yeah, you can fuck off.
Exactly.
Something didn't get communicated between the last time this happened and now about
like, no, this is why our parents gave us money and they told us to fuck off and go
do the thing.

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No, I think what it is is that there's this like, you know, when you're in line at a gas
station and there's the old fucker that has lottery tickets at the front that like scratchers
and it's taking 20 minutes to go through and everybody else is like, just go.
Yeah.
That's what's happening with culture is the boomers have scratchers.
And they are waiting at the front of the line.
They refuse to relinquish control of just pop culture, business, just the world in general.

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And so Gen X is like, it's we're like 10 years past when we should have taken over this shit.
Come on, guy.
We gave you top gun, man.
Just let our shit through.
Hold on.
I think I got one more scratcher in my pocket.
And Gen X is at the point where now the millennials are like, our shift's about to start actually.
And Gen X is like, so just fuck us then, I guess.
How weird is that?
How weird?

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Gen X, it's gone.
We are no longer the main characters at all.
Millennials are the adult main characters.
No, Gen X has always been Meg from Family Guy.
Just like, shut up, Gen X.
Don't go sit in your room and listen to fucking records.
That's the other reason why we haven't taken over the reigns either, because we all want
to.
Yeah.

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We just got used to fucking off and watching movies and like listening to records and like
delving into pop culture.
And so now that that's gone too, but we don't get the other part, like the rich, the affluence.
We're like, oh, so just, so just nothing.
So cool.
So I just, I just work at Lowe's.
You get to have $20,000 worth of fun copops to show for it.

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So it's a balance there.
Yeah.
Retirement package.
The beanie babies of Gen X.
God damn it.
That is so true.
It's so fucking sad.
It is.
Yeah.
They're going to have probably the same retail value, resell value as beanie babies did.
Don't tell Scotty that.
I believe he has a room with a wall of them.

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So yeah, it's okay to have a copy.
Just don't expect to make any.
Yeah.
And as I was saying, I still think they look cool, but if you're like, this is my retirement
fund, you might be in trouble.
I do that with my comics where I'm like, Ooh, this comic's worth $80.
I'm never selling that comic.
That's not going anywhere.
If you had a squish between plexiglass and your vault.
I don't want to be like in a Mission Impossible thing, like on razor wires, like hanging from

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the ceiling, turning a page with tweezers just in case I rip it or something.
Actually that's more like National Treasure.
It's National Treasure.
Sorry.
It's in the cage.
Headed to latex.
Wait, wait.
Which National Treasure?
Because there's now a-
We've got to steal the first appearance of Wolverine.
Another generation National Treasure.
So you got to tell us what you're talking about.
I don't care.
There's no New Cage.
I don't care.
Speaking of the worst of 2022, I tried to watch the first episode of the National Treasure

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show.
No?
It was fucking garbage.
Yeah, it's not good.
Let that suck because the other series that came out pretty close, Willow, I-
I love it.
That's what I'm saying.
So, National Treasure.
It's a treasure.
You can suck.
I don't care as long as Willow is good because I don't have a connection with National Treasure
the way I do Willow.
So are you watching Willow currently?

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What's that?
Are you watching Willow?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Same.
And I much rather this way than switched.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Willow sucks, but that National Treasure series is charming.
It got me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now Willow's a blast.
An absolute blast.
I'm really excited.
I'm kind of bummed that we're winding things down on regular releases of the episode because

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I remember even like two or three years ago they were being mentioning of a series starting
and Smash being like, when Willow comes out, man, I gotta be on that episode.
Now I'm like, yeah, so about that episode.
It doesn't finish until like the end of January.
Sorry.
It's close.
Maybe he'll be a geek father.
He's splitting in a miss.

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Right?
The Q3 show can be all Willow all the time.
Right.
Now that we're like a quarter of the way through the episode, let me introduce the panel.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Real quick from my co-host on Smack My Pitch Up when we eventually decide to start doing
episodes again, Tondi is here.
Someday soon.
Hey kids.
Hey.

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We've got Mouths of Madness and Beautiful Disasters co-host Fuck You Hunter.
What's up bitches?
And of course my partner in crime here and the host of Mouths of Madness, we've got Lowdown
Brown.
What's going on everybody?
Yay.
Yay.
I'm excited.
So I have yet to start watching Willow.
It's on the list.
I just have not started watching it yet.
I kind of want to go back and watch the movie first.
I feel like that's a good time.

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Well I know you like to binge if you can, so.
Yeah.
I like to at least get like three or four, maybe five episodes in, like as it's releasing
weekly before I start it.
That way I'm always kind of behind it, you know what I mean?
Yeah, gotcha.
Yeah.
Because limited time to watch TV, so if I can etch out like three hours or two hours,

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you know what I mean?
I got like three episodes.
Man, 2022 was the year of like Val Kilmer vehicles that get remade and then they have
to do some kind of like homage to Val Kilmer.
So is it a spoiler if you mention Val Kilmer about the Willow series?
Because I was wondering if he was going to be in it.
I mean he's not in it.
It's not like old, like almost dead Val Kilmer as Matt Mardigan.
Okay.

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Like no, but they do a thing in it and I won't mention why.
They kind of like pays proper respect to the character.
Okay.
That's cool.
That he's brought up lovingly and often in the series.
Got you.
The man who just loves the Willow series, I mean because you talked about it after like
the first episode.
Yeah.
I'm into it.
Yeah, the first episode was good.
Look, you don't have to do much to please me with the Willow series.

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You have little fucking people running around doing magic and then you got big people making
fun of the little people and doing magic less good and then that's it.
That's all you have to fucking do and then there's like fucking, they have to go on a
journey of discovery.
Great.
Great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be anything all that impressive.

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Are there monsters?
Yeah.
Is the wand shown at any point?
Yep.
Great.
Done.
Gotcha.
Hey, I was all about Zenan, the legendary Hercules adventures in the 90s, so I'm down
to one.
Man, you try to, Hercules more than Zenan does not age the best.
It's just as awkward.
Xena still has some kind of like kitschy charm to it to a degree.
Yeah, cause she's a badass.

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Well, it's also Lucy Lawless.
I'm saying it's Lucy Lawless, dude.
Come on, man.
Charming.
No, we had some pretty cool stuff this year.
We did.
We did.
We did.
I agree.
The best movie category.
I'm definitely intrigued to see who is wrong and didn't pick the Weird Al movie.
So three of the four?
Yeah.
No, no, no.
Like the Weird Al was amazing.

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Don't get me wrong.
Very fun movie.
For me, it was hard until I was like, no, it has to be this one.
But I mean, I'm interested.
What did everybody pick for best movie for 20 years?
I feel like everybody knows what my best movie is because I've been selling it all year long.
So there's two things.
There's a best movie and a best cinematic experience, but that's the movie.

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So I'm going with the best cinematic experience.
Top Gun Maverick was my favorite movie.
I'm telling you now on the same fucking page with that.
I was cinematic experience.
Yes.
Now, I struggled between some experiences for me personally.
And this is like best movie, then best movie with a bias to it was Batman.

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Batman was very good.
Batman was really fucking good.
And I would say that might be as much as I really did enjoy Wakanda forever.
As far as like superhero movies goes, the Batman might be the best superhero movie of
the year.
I do think that is true.
That would be true for me if it were tighter.

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It's a little long winded for sure.
But in this, but again, in the same instance, even though I do love both movies, Wakanda
forever was a little like long winded at times too, I think.
Yeah, no, definitely.
In order to pay homage to, but it's still made a long winded, you know.
Oh, definitely.
No, I think I agree.
I think that the Batman was probably the best superhero movie.
Yeah.

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I think my favorite superhero movie was Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange can't be fun.
Batman was probably the best superhero movie.
I got one out of left fucking park and it just came on Netflix and I raved about when
I saw it.
I loved I love fucking bullet train.
I'm sorry, but I finally watched it.
That is hilarious.
That was that was a movie that I was just like, I know there's probably stuff that might

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I've seen that might be a little bit better than this, but I'm having so much fucking
fun watching this movie.
It's so hard, though.
Well, and that's the thing is that fun, but it's not great.
It's not.
It's that movie is that blast, though.
Yeah, no, I agree.
I enjoyed it, too.
But it's just it's doing is doing like and maybe but that's what maybe it is, is that
I just needed some work.

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I needed something not so fucking heavy.
Like I just like it's like, they just don't give a shit.
The director is like, I really like Guy Ritchie, but I'm not Guy Ritchie.
Yeah, that's what that's what bullet train was.
I mean, it's like it's like Guy Ritchie by way of Australian dude.
I'm sorry.
I knew it was New Zealand dude.
Taika Taika.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's not definitely does have like Snatch, Lockstock, you know, Rock and Roll of Fields.

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Well, it's the ensemble assassin thing going, which, you know, you have smoke and aces.
Yeah.
Where I mean, we've had this movie before.
But Ryan Reynolds cameo, though.
Come on.
Oh, great.
Come on.
I'm getting kind of impatient with movies over two hours.
I know that sounds funny, but I think that was one of the other things that way a little
bit.
Yeah, I think you need to really properly justify why you're over two hours for me.

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Ding ding ding bullet train, for example.
That's an easy 90 minute movie if you wanted it.
And that's they kept it 90 minutes.
They didn't go.
Yeah.
Oh, no reason.
Bullet train.
Don't make that a long movie.
Yeah.
And you know, you know who didn't get the memo on that?
Damien Leone.
That's what I'm gonna say about Terrified 2.
It did not need to be two hours, 10 minutes.

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Fuck that.
I'll say the other one I had, I guess, is Honorable Mention or whatever like that.
But everything everywhere all at once.
That is my pick for the best year because we're talking about cinematic experience.
I'm so glad I got the chance to see that in the theater because what they did for the
especially for the budget they had.
Yeah.
That was just planning ahead, like intensely planning ahead to be able to pick up like

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they did pick up shots where they just wandered around the city with this camera for months
and then compiled that for just a scene that was like 12 seconds.
I think you saw it close to right after it opened, right?
Right after it opened.
See, I didn't see it for probably about two or three weeks and I'd heard everybody raving
about it and I went in and was still fucking blown away.
I was like, fuck, I was expecting to be I had trusted sources that said it was good.

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Still wasn't expecting to be that level.
No, it's a great experience.
It's a great experience.
It is it hits so many different like emotional places for me.
There's the generational trauma aspect of it that hits like even if somebody that is
definitely not somebody that can properly identify with the main characters.
Like this is like an immigrant couple that has a kid that is an American like American

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sensibilities but they don't and that challenge of trying to understand one another.
My mom was from Connecticut.
Yeah, that's not really something I have to worry about so much but like even so you do
have an understanding of challenges between generations and there's enough there's enough
connective tissue in that story that everybody can at least relate to it to a degree and

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it's hitting that it's hitting humor.
It's hitting like even the idea that the feeling of like pointlessness of the universe, the
nihilistic nature of the universe is hit very, very directly in this movie.
It takes a lot for me to almost be crying laughing and there are a couple parts of that
movie I'm like gut just like here's I'm just laughing.

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I like lost it that first time I watched it but then there's also moments that are like
tear jerking Lee.
Yeah, you know and like intense and powerful as fuck.
Now it's a Golden Globes so it's not really that important but I don't know if you saw
who got nominated from that but fucking short round I know supporting actor nomination deserves
it.

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He did a great job which is he hasn't done anything like that and I think he was in production
or something when they pulled him in.
Yeah, he did a lot of behind the scenes stuff at that point and he decided like two weeks
before he put his hat in the ring for this movie to get back in acting and then he put
his hat in the ring was like hey this looks like a cool movie they're like great you're
on you're good and then yeah gets nominated for shit because he's incredible.

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Yeah.
It's amazing but everything everywhere all at once is proof that there's still original
ideas that can exist and be successful.
And from a studio I mean A24 that like more is horror related like you go okay I trust
them now with their horror properties.
Now when it's Oscar with a non-horror related property.
Right.

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In Moonlight so.
Yeah but I'm just saying.
I'm just saying that it is known for horror but they have a lot of other.
Indie style.
Yeah very indie style.
But before we leave this category there is one more movie that I want to put up as the
third pillar of movies for 2022 which is RRR.
Yes.

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Holy shit.
Yeah.
That is such a fucking good time.
Also just like this was the year of roller coaster movies that broke out of the kind
of studio IP framework that we had been living in for so long and RRR was a pleasure but
it was like it was a spectacle like Top Gun but a completely different sensibility is

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represented like completely different and there is nothing cynical in it.
It's just about dude bro love and complete ridiculousness.
It's guy love.
It is 100%.
It makes you realize how much of like and I'm not saying that there isn't toxic masculinity

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in like other cultures outside of America but like the things that are like no homo
kind of shit in the US is not a problem elsewhere.
It's like dudes being like I love you like let's hold hands and it's not seen as any
kind of weird issue whatsoever in other countries.
The United States you try to pull that shit with the wrong person they're gonna be like
what the fuck man except our group of friends.

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But yes the level of fraternal brotherhood that these dudes build and then break and
then build and then destroy like the entire British Empire with the strength of their
mighty thus.
It is and this movie is long as shit too.
It's like yeah like four hours and it does not feel like a long as shit movie because

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it is just.
I just want to rewatch it.
Yeah it is incredible.
I hate to watch it.
It's a group watch.
It's definitely a group watch.
It's like you're the most powerful fighter I've ever met and like I'm a better person
for having you as a friend of my brother from another mother and just like.
There's a freaking dance battle to save the universe.
Like they unleash tigers at one like it's fucking wild.

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Oh the shitty CGI animals.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Incredible.
They did R it's called RRR.
RRR.
And it's on Netflix right?
Yeah.
Okay.
It is a blast.
It has the guy go into the crowd and just beat the shit out of people for like.
The whole crowd.
Yeah the whole crowd.
Like there's like what like a hundred people piss the fuck off at least.
Oh no there's like two thousand people.

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Okay but I'm just saying he goes in there and just all right I'm gonna punch you, punch
you, punch you.
He terminators through the crowd.
Yeah.
Oh it's such it is such an amazing movie.
It's got Ray Stevenson in it too randomly.
Yeah.
The streak?
The Punisher is in there.
The Punisher is in there as like a British officer.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.

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I think I'm gonna Ray Stevens.
Who's the guy who was the streak?
Yeah Ray Stevens.
Yeah.
I'm thinking of Stevens.
Oh yeah they call him the streak.
Look at that look at it.
He framed it he's free.
Yeah that's the reference I'm throwing at.
I was like okay.
Yeah RRR for sure definitely needs an mention.
That's such a blast.
I need to watch the Bollywood movie that just dropped on Disney which is like their cinematic

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universe superhero universe that they're opening up that.
I saw that some movies I didn't see where they dropped but I did see that some Indian
movies come out.
More and more the streaming services are starting to bring in like titles from outside of the
states and I'm here for it like I've never been bothered by reading subtitles and like
talk about you if you want to find some original content break out of just the US movie market

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and you're gonna find some different takes.
Can we throw out there real quick just my top streaming movie went on just streaming
service and you know Horror They Fall was probably.
So much fun.
Probably yeah it came on Netflix like but by far of all the streaming movies that come
out top notch.
You want to do a western that has like a like an exploitation kind of vibe to it.

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I mean fuck and done very well shot like pretty movie.
That's beautiful.
It didn't do for me.
A white town is literally a town painted white.
It's like.
Very clean western.
Yeah.
Clean bright like shining western.
It was very clean and some of the dialogue I feel like was a little off step but I enjoyed

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it.
I need to watch it again.
Yeah.
Because enough people.
I enjoyed it but it wasn't it's not a perfect movie.
How many movies that premiere on a streaming site are you just like you should check this
shit out because.
It happens from time to time.
Yeah.
Every once in a while.
I saw one on Netflix called The Immaculate Room that I thought really impressive for
just a two-hander random two-hander in a room which is how you do cheap movies.

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Yep.
Two handers in a room.
I'm like trying to figure out I have a couple ideas for scripts that I'm working on that
are actually considering having no budget as part of the the the framework of the movie.
So sometimes you gotta but you know and sometimes having those limits is what creates something

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interesting and different like the movie Coherence.
Yeah.
It came out a few years ago that has literally no budget.
Like there's no it's shot bad.
Like you can tell they didn't do a lot of takes.
I think the biggest name in it is the dude that played Xander and Buffy.
It's like the biggest name they got and it's a great little film.

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Great little indie.
Or was it came out last year on Hulu Boss Level?
Yeah Boss Level was awesome.
It was like if you were it was like free guy if you were stoked about being in the Grand
Theft Auto universe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I think as far as for movies that went like straight to streaming.
Prey.
I was gonna say Prey.
I would take Prey over that West.

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Heart of Fall?
Yeah.
You know what?
Yeah I would too.
I just had the thing where oh yeah that was awesome this year.
Whoops.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
I did really enjoy the new Hellraiser but like Prey was like fucking.
Yeah no.
I will say Prey does take a step over Heart of Fall.
I completely forgot about that.
The movie is so good that you're mad you didn't get the opportunity to spend 12 bucks to go

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to the theater to see it.
You're not going to get it on IMAX.
You're seeing it on your 50 inch television or whatever.
That would have been such a good IMAX movie dude.
Especially with the noises and the stomping.
Oh dude it would have been so good in IMAX.
God damn it.
Fuck.
How the fuck did I forget that movie?
Yeah.
Yeah Prey definitely a good call there.
We also have best series.
We were talking about one at the very beginning of this episode for sure.

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Yeah I mean we had to call out the last episode we did with Andor.
That fucking show was amazing.
Andor was so good.
So good.
You called out the one like I forgot it came out this year.
Yeah fucking Stranger Things season four was badass.
Yeah.
Stranger Things.
Fucking awesome.
There were a couple challenges I had with the last like two well season two is probably

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the weakest season even though it's really good.
But comparatively it is.
Season three I was worried that even though it was a good season I was worried that if
it got any more kind of sidelined with Kitsch and stuff.
That Kitsch it would be not as much of a.
Kitsch then I wouldn't be as into it before kind of corrected a couple things and got
back.

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And gave you so much like that.
It was a perfect for me to me a perfect example of how to move a story forward while focusing
in the past.
There's a lot of that in season four where they're you know because the reason where
we're at is because of the past but in order to find out what's going on.
It was I thought it was a brilliant just using that you know because a lot of times people
they they muck that up.

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Yep.
And I just thought that was really clean and I'm not gonna lie like I really really really
really fucking Doug Wednesday.
It's so good.
I've been so good.
I watched the first couple episodes and I was not that impressed with it.
I powered through that like nothing it was I didn't.
Part of the fun of the Addams Family was it was the spooky people against the rest of

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the world that wasn't spooky.
So when you put a spooky people in a spooky people place that's against the whole town
that's against spooky people.
Yeah but then the spooky people are being shitty to the other spooky people.
I'm like you're friends.
So you mean society.
That's how that that's how reality works.
Then it kind of it did kind of take away from what the original like concept of the Addams

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Family was trying to portray for me.
But as things went along you started to see that they were kids.
They're all teams that they're all gonna yes you're gonna shit on each other and what
saved it for me was that there was a little bit of more bonding between the freakies.
Yeah.
Yeah.
As the series went on.
So every echelon of freak or every so like every group I look at now in high school is

(26:31):
like a group that was technically extreme in the thing was what created the group.
But like none of them knew how to exist in society outside of that that one thing.
And I feel like in that school everyone was a part of the freaky side you know or the
monsters and all that.
But they were still in their own group and they didn't know how to exist outside of that

(26:52):
one group without being a fucking asshole.
I didn't like that they made it normal that werewolves exist and shit like just people
know that these creatures exist.
Bugged me.
Like that was kind of the thing with Addams Family is that everybody just kind of took
them as just kind of a weird family because.
Yeah I see what you're saying.
Yeah yeah.
Because they didn't believe that you know these supernatural creatures and stuff did

(27:15):
actually exist.
So they're like no they're just I don't know they're really into I don't know like goth
shit I guess.
I don't know.
I do I can see what you're saying there.
Yeah like if you go back and watch it it brings it to you like yeah they just thought they
were fucking weird.
But that being said you know I still say that that was a complicated thing to kind of deal
with as a fan of the original series and then also of course the classic movies from the

(27:40):
90s.
Well you don't like the Tim Curry sequel?
No.
Definitely not.
Oh I just had to throw that in there.
But was it like Darryl Hannah or something was the mom?
I don't yeah.
Yeah it was so bad.
I just looked it up the other day.
It was so bad.

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Okay so that I can keep in my brain that Darryl Hannah played Morticia.
I'm remembering when my credit card bill is due apparently is impossible.
That movie just offended you so much I think.
That's what it was.
What?
No but like it did win me over at the end I really did enjoy the series ultimately.

(28:21):
I think was it Jenna Ortega is a blast to watch especially that dance.
I know everybody's all about the dance but it was when she starts doing like the creepy
hand shit in the dance I'm done for.
Yeah it was fun.
And she like did that like last minute.
I think she had like I watched an interview she said like I didn't prep shit Tim just

(28:43):
like and she was like you know Tim were in the director.
It was like I trust you got it we don't need to go over it and she's like I haven't done
anything it's like two days away.
She's like dynamited.
Is this probably the potentially the best thing Tim Burton's done in how many years?
Maybe 16.
Was that?
Big Eyes was a was decent.
I liked Big Eyes.
That's about 10 years ago.

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And Miss Peregrine's cool for children.
Was that him?
That was also about 10 years ago.
Yeah.
Was that 10 years?
It's 2022 bro.
Back in my day.
Back in my day.
I have to say like this is probably the most positive feedback he's had on a property in
a while.
That's true.
In a while.
That's legit.
Once his face is fester was fun.
You know what?
I was really fucking fun.

(29:24):
I was completely fine with that.
Yeah.
And I've Fred Armisen is a hit or a miss for me sometimes.
Sometimes he's funny as shit.
He was a Portlandia right?
Yeah.
His stand up special like stand up for me.
And Dr. Mitch Trinnell.
Musician or whatever it's called is I've it's just not funny.
Yeah.
I don't find it funny at all.
That Portlandia shit that he did.
Portlandia is fucking incredible.
To me his best contribution is documentary now because if you've watched enough documentaries

(29:50):
they are dead the fuck on and he that's where I think he works so well with that kind of
show because he's parodying.
Yeah.
Another series that it ended the series but god damn it went out hard fucking Ozark.
Holy shit.
Oh yeah.
I forgot about Ozark finishing this.

(30:10):
Yeah that shit was yeah that was beast.
Well I'm going to jump over that one.
I also love Jason Bateman so.
And fucking Better Call Saul like finished up and.
It did but it hasn't been streaming yet so.
I understand.
I understand.
But I'm just saying one of my favorite ways of showing it was Breaking Bad and he stayed
with it with Better Call Saul and you knew like you have cheat sheets you already know

(30:35):
what happens with Breaking Bad but even with that it still had a really strong finish.
I mean that is the reason I went into it because they already had kind of announced when it
started that it was going to lead up to when he meets Walter White.
Yeah.
And I'm like I'm excited to see that ending.
Yeah.
Like that or that that merge of show so.
I've had many people tell me that it was fantastic.

(30:55):
My brother keeps trying to get me to watch Better Call Saul and my son actually started
watching Better Call Saul so I know it's good.
Very nice.
And I mean.
Nice recovery.
Do you have a solid cast in that movie in that series too throughout the from the start
you have a really strong cast too that's that's yeah.
Yeah.
And then just the blending of current day where it's in black and white and then you

(31:15):
know building up to where he became Saul.
That finale pretty much kind of interconnects the two.
So yeah.
There are two more series that I definitely want to mention before we close out as far
as best of one just at least want to make a mention of that it was a surprise out of
nowhere was Little Demon.
I really enjoyed that series.
You had a chance it's animated series on Hulu.

(31:37):
Oh no.
Yeah.
OK.
I've seen the thumbnail for it.
I haven't watched it.
It's very much got Rick and Morty vibes all over it but it gets fucking dark as shit.
And I mean like full nudity.
I mean like the mom is like is a like witch that fucked Satan and had the Antichrist and
so she's still like and now they are trying to share custody of the daughter and she's

(32:03):
like shoving shit up her vagina to like transport to hell and stuff.
I mean like it gets fucked up.
Fuck.
OK.
All right.
I might have to check this out.
This is crazy.
It's crazy.
Crazy off chicken heads to create pentagrams to like what was this called again?
Little Demon.
Little Demon.
It's fucking wild.
Like I mean I'm really surprised that this is stuff that I wouldn't even necessarily

(32:24):
expect on Adult Swim that they're doing on my episodes.
Nine or ten like half hour episodes.
It's pretty consumable and I apparently did pretty well so hopefully there'll be a second
season but it's so much fucking fun.
And twisted as shit.
Satan can only come to earth by getting in the body of a recently dead creature so he's

(32:47):
like a chicken whose head is barely hanging on by a skin flap at one point, head keeps
falling over.
He's like a worm or like just dead bodies left and right.
The Vatican sends an assassin to try to murder this girl and this dude's just like, nothing
I love more than murdering little girls.
It's fucking yeah it's very much worth a watch.

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Oh a few things.
One and I forgot that this came out this year because of the time thing that we were talking
about but the boy season three.
Yes.
Was.
Oh.
So well done.
So well done.
My favorite show this year was actually Primal.

(33:30):
I've heard really good things about that.
Primal is art.
It is art.
It is just a wonder to behold.
They are doing something with intention and the execution is damn near flawless.
Highest recommendation for Primal.
Basically animation that is almost completely visually driven with no dialogue and just

(33:56):
exquisitely violent because it's about the Primal world of animals and cavemen or whatever.
But yeah.
Fantastic.
Also, and I did not get the chance to see anything beyond maybe the first three episodes
because it was appearing on Hulu and I missed the cutoff.
It actually, no it was Amazon.

(34:17):
It stopped playing as I finished the second or third episode.
As I finished the third episode they had it up for a month and it was at the end of the
month.
So that was the end of the month when I finished the third episode.
But Gangs of London is, it's from the creator that did the, what are the movies that take

(34:40):
place in Myanmar?
The Raid.
The Raid 1 and the Raid 2.
Nice.
I'm sorry what?
The Raid, right?
Hey, hey.
Now like please tell me more.
Yeah, once again exquisitely violent and I think it's on, it's on one of the premium
networks and then plays on.
And which one was that again?

(35:02):
It might be Showtime.
Okay, but what was the name of the show?
Gangs of London.
Nice.
I like how we're all writing down notes of the shows or recommendations.
I made some notes just for recommendation, just for notable mentions or whatever.
And there's one I found by David Simon, We Own This City.

(35:22):
It's got Jon Bernthal.
It's supposed to be like a, some people say it's like postscript to the wire, but it's
not.
It's based off a nonfiction book written about one of the most corrupt police squad, group
in.
Oh, I remember seeing the trailer.
It's on HBO Max.
It's really fucking good and it's Jon Bernthal, dude.
He brings it.

(35:42):
Every time.
Every fucking time.
It's really good.
I definitely recommend checking that out.
And the biggest surprise to me that I think I would love and follow along just as much
as I did not being in the restaurant industry is The Fucking Bear.
That fucking show crushed, bro.
It fucking crushed, dude.
That was fucking fantastic.
I did not expect to just like, just focus.
I was like, like bam, bam.

(36:05):
I plowed through that fucking shit.
Yeah, everybody's been talking that up.
What I love is that all the people that have worked in restaurants before pointed to the
same exact fucking moment of The Bear as an example of, okay, they've done their research,
is when he's sitting on the pallets in the back having a conversation with someone and
he's got like the to go soup container, like the catering cup that he's poked a hole in
and put a straw in and is using as a drinking cup.

(36:28):
And everybody that's worked in restaurants is like, ooh.
Oh, they know what they're doing.
And final mention of a show that I just love the fuck out of is House of Dragon.
Fucking.
Yeah.
I gotta throw that in there.
For everybody that hated the fuck out of how Game of Thrones ended.
They're like, I refuse.

(36:49):
Give fucking House of Dragon a fucking chance.
That's why people won't watch is because they're so butthurt about the last season of Game
of Thrones.
You mean someone like Sean?
No, I didn't say names.
I didn't say names.
I will.
I'll fucking say it.
But no, but like that show did such a good job of just, I think it was the smartest thing
in the world to move through time and not try to make like a story where there's no

(37:11):
change in environment or anything happening in the universe to just create an episode.
Yeah.
Like, you know, Matt Smith fucking brings a man.
God damn it.
We always we got to bring up that dragon scene again in the last episode.
Yeah.
You got this giant ancient ass fucking dragon and a little baby dragon.
And that's got to be one of those horrific fucking shots ever filmed.
It's just that is like doom is all that is.

(37:34):
It spells doom.
So yeah, last one I just want to throw is third season was this year.
My favorite dark fucking comedy that I keep telling everybody check out.
But fucking Barry is.
Oh yeah.
So I watched a couple episodes and it didn't catch me.
It's a of the first season or you talking about this season?
First season.
Oh man.

(37:55):
There's an episode.
Just give him more of a chance.
You get to I think it's the fourth or fifth episode.
See that's right.
That's and that's what I tell people about Andor and they don't want to listen to me.
Yeah.
I heard Andor described as one of the dudes say he's like, it's I just don't want a 24
Star Wars.
Oh, that's painful, bro.
Oh, that's rough.

(38:16):
Come on.
God damn it.
That's fucked up.
That's fucked up.
That's what that is.
That's a little bit.
God damn it.
Yeah.
But one thing that we have not mentioned that I know was brought up before we recorded,
but it may be because it was in March and March seems like 30 years ago.
It does.
At this point.
We've got to make a mention about Peacemaker.
Oh shit.

(38:36):
Yeah.
Fuck.
God damn it.
How do we fucking forget that?
Yeah.
Peacemaker.
It made like the dance alone.
We had to wait until Wednesday came out to have a new dance to.
Yeah.
And like I added that song to my Spotify.
So like it pops up and I'm just like, wigwam, do you want to taste it?
Do you really want to really want to taste it?
That's a bop, man.

(38:57):
It's a bop, dude.
Yeah.
And talk about just a straight up like gruesome, like unapologetic, but funny shit and heartfelt.
Like it has some really hard.
It's got some hard.
The rewatch.
The rewatch value on that because I watch it and then I watch it again with my son and
like the rewatch value is fucking tight.
That show is so well done.

(39:19):
Incredible show.
Playing as I mean, as James Gunn has want to do with like super and even Guardians of
the Galaxy, to a degree is like making fun of the superhero like stereotype.
Yeah.
With the way that he does things and he does such a good job at it of that.
Here's this dude that's kind of a racist, but he's like, but it's because of his dad.

(39:40):
But that's the thing is he's not like in his heart, a racist.
It's how he was raised where when he gets exposed to other stuff, he's like, oh shit,
man, like I didn't I didn't mean to like hurt your feelings or anything or like he doesn't
understand.
I understand that that's like not OK.
So he's bisexual racist who doesn't understand that he's also like saying sexist things to
women like he he's just doesn't pick up on what he's doing.

(40:02):
They made him bisexual.
I know.
Pissed off a lot of Snyder verse dudes and I was going to make it work and make Peacemaker
woke now.
Yeah.
Sometimes you got to suck a dick, man.
It's fine.
And vigilante his you know, his sidekick is so many.
God.
I did and I brought this up on the Peacemaker episode.

(40:24):
I liked vigilante more for some reason when he was wearing the mask than when he wasn't.
I don't know.
It was weird, dude.
Really?
When he's in jail with his dad, it's just come on.
Oh, that part was OK.
That's what I'm talking about.
Like when you first see him and he's like, no, I don't get my dick out, dude.
I'm serious.
Like, just check it out.
But it's like when he's wearing the mask, it has a whole Deadpool effect.

(40:45):
I thought it was really kind of that.
I can see that.
You know, that's all I mean.
Or yeah, that's all.
Yeah.
And I feel like once he took the mask off, he just got like kind of annoying at times.
I can see that after that.
It could have the jail scene.
And then after that, keep keep the mask on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And when they're having fun shooting up shit in the you know, the first time you see that
he's wearing the mask and they're just like blowing shit.

(41:06):
I realize, by the way, how good Peacemaker is as as we're talking about it.
You know what the fuck I'm going to do when I get home tonight?
Probably watch it again.
Yeah.
Touch yourself.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So why are you watching Peacemaker?
That's right.
I'm like, do you want to taste it?
Yeah.
What was the song that John Cena was like, where Dan's doing his tidy ways in the first
episode?

(41:27):
That's where you stroke it.
OK.
No, no.
So, you know, I think like a man, mate, this is a good spot to take a break in about 50
minutes in.
Oh, my God.
Shit.
We'll be back to talk about the less like framed versions of best of 2022, like celebrity
gossip shit and all that dumb shit.
So yeah, like, I don't know, I'm billionaires that bought Twitter or slaps around the world

(41:51):
that we can discuss.
Oh, I got to know there's a bigger one.
There's one that takes everything.
I mean, that we can't argue with.
I mean, it can't be like a hip hop artist that said he liked Hitler.
No, not at all.
Totally not.
Not even if they remotely remember that.
What are you talking about?
2022 has been weird, man.
To be continued.
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Yeah, yeah.
Tarzan was one of the scars guards, wasn't it?
Eric Scarsgaard.
Yeah, it was there.
It's Alexander.
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And then we'll be on to the rest of the show.
Fuck you, Amazon.
We go to hell.
You are hell.
He is a new.
We've been waiting for that.
So he was first up on Amazon.
Yeah.
That's why I smiled before I hit record.
I was like, ooh, you were a little giddy.
I was just like, all right, here we go.
A reminder.
I don't have to plug them.
So yeah, next.
Next part is what really fuels our, our not just alcoholism, but geek rage and excitement

(47:38):
on these shows.
We're talking about what we're drinking.
Hey, we're fucking.
We're fucking drinking.
We're getting drunk.
You want to know?
Well, here you go.
Hey, we're drinking.
We're getting drunk.
Anyway, yes.
What we're drinking, we've got a few shares here for the holiday season of 2022.

(48:00):
Kind of a hard thematic thing to do unless you're drinking like a different beer for
different months of the year, which, you know, I don't have the energy after the GY brunch.
It's the season of festivities.
Absolutely.
We did Dave yesterday before we recorded this, we did the GY brunch that we do every year
and we handed out the Danimal trophy named after the day animal.
Fuck yeah, Dan.
Yeah, to fucking Dan to fucking Dan.

(48:23):
Yeah.
And this year in celebration of their work on GY shows, not just this show, but then
also becoming the new co-host or what an a new co-host on beautiful disasters and help
on other shows.
Murphy Lawless, the Danimal from Fuck You Hunter was the previous year's winner.
Yes.

(48:44):
Yes.
It was it was well-earned and it was an awesome handoff.
I don't know.
It was good.
It was great.
It was a beautiful moment.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know what I'm trying to say.
Giant group hug with a hug with the soft, creamy center being Murphy.
But that also means that I'm drinking a little slower today.
And a lot of booze was imbibed yesterday.

(49:06):
So as we do.
Unfortunately, we have some quality over quantity this evening.
First up with being something low down brought.
Yeah.
So, you know, I'm going to roll out their year with as I do East Coast Local Baby, got
Midnight Brewery out of Goochland, Virginia, which is 25 minutes outside of Richmond.
Their Christmas at Midnight.

(49:26):
This is a staple for me this time of year since they first dropped it.
I fucking love this beer.
It's yeah, it's amazing.
It's like it's like equal to Kentucky Christmas morning to me as far as like something I have
to drink this time of year when it comes out.
Fair enough.
Which I'm surprised.
It sucks we didn't have enough time release wise to bring that as a share.

(49:49):
Because this year's is really good.
I had it at Hardewood at Puncture Presence.
It is they I think they finally figured out the big fucking brew process at the new West
Creek place.
It's so good.
Fuck yeah.
Hell yeah.
Which I'm happy for because it did not taste good last year.
Well this is this is pretty good in itself.
Christmas at Midnight.
Yeah.
They've got the two big beers I love by them is their Oktoberfest and their Christmas at

(50:11):
Midnight and they've got obviously ones in between.
We've had shares.
Rockville Red.
Not my job.
Not my job.
They've got other good sessionable beers but like they really shine at these.
What's the ABV on that?
It's like 7%.
So it's not like a terrible you know.
Yeah.
It's a little higher than normal but yeah.
It's not going to ruin your life.
No.

(50:33):
The other one though we got yeah that motherfucker.
Tandi was nice enough to bring this Belgian Abbey ale here.
Yeah.
It's just some St. Bernardus.
I like Belgian ales and I saw that they had a Christmas ale.
I don't usually like Christmas stuff that much flavor wise but I'm enjoying it because
I like Belgians.

(50:53):
I was expecting like you know nutmeg or something in there and I'm not getting any of that
but it just tastes like a good Belgian.
So I'm all about it.
I get just the subtlest hint especially on the finish of like some spiciness in there
but like holiday spices.
That might just be the alcohol content.
Yeah that might also just be the other.
Fun burning.

(51:14):
10%.
Truth.
10%.
That's why I'm like that bitch crosses dick kicker.
That crosses into dick kicker.
Yep.
Absolutely.
We haven't had a dick kicker in a minute actually.
No and we even longer with like what was the other there was like one other echelon where
it was like.
A castrator.
Yeah we haven't had a castrator.
It's been a while since we've also gotten old.
Like a quad.

(51:34):
I forgot about the castrator dude.
It was like 13% like oh god.
That's a lead on the mic at the end of the show time.
That's a Hunter and I are gonna finish the episode cause Hobbit's passed out episode.
You mean that Justice League one?
Yeah the Justice League one.
Never live down the Justice League episode.
Hey dude I still get shit for puking on Star Wars so whatever man.

(51:56):
You puked during the episode?
I got up went to the bathroom broke the door to the cabinet puked and then someone woke
me up later on that night.
That's how that went.
The good old time.
Oh being my youth.
Or again the early days of G.O.I. nights with this motherfucker blatantly drunk and we realized

(52:18):
that once he started not understanding the pattern of the words.
You're out of time.
Yeah.
We're all out of time.
I'm so fucking stupid.
He's out of time and you're out of time.
It's one of those rare occasions where I think Steven might be shitfaked.
I was shit out on that episode.

(52:39):
It was after we hit like.
No we called you out on the episode like what are you talking about?
Just like that.
That's where the opposite happened where I think someone's gonna have to take over.
Steven's too drunk.
Yeah for nights.
I was too drunk for nights.
Yeah it was a rough day afterwards I'll tell you.
Now I did want to before we get done with this episode dig into just kind of the craziness

(53:03):
of 2022 that we alluded to before we got to break but I really want to dig into like what
craziness in the world did you think was like a top for you in 2022?
Like what celebrity pop culture moment you know?
Not floods or famine or anything like that.
Not the important shit.

(53:23):
I don't think that actually affects people.
I don't feel like raiding tsunamis.
Yeah can we not go to that?
But I mean as far as stuff that ultimately doesn't actually matter.
I'm going to just route out the gate, drop with the biggest one.
Can we just talk about Kanye please?
The motherfucker is just.
I feel like that's a give me.

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Like that's the first thing that came.
Celebrity?
Oh yeah it's gotta be.
There's like I think you remember the Will Smith slap happened because Kanye has been
so bat tits crazy.
Exactly like I thought about it when we released the topics and I was like oh Will Smith.
I'm like oh no Kanye yeah totally.
Well Kanye is doing the I'ma let you finish to society right now.

(54:07):
I'm like no but wait I got something else crazy to say.
Kanye being insane is it's not practically bigger than but it is in the media space it's
bigger than Elon Musk trying to burn Twitter to the ground because it is so insane.
The interviews he's done are so insane like it scares me.

(54:30):
I feel bad for the guy though because he's like unchecked insanity.
No but see the thing is though that like bipolar doesn't make you a Nazi.
Like no that's true that's true it doesn't.
Oh I forgot my bipolar medicine now.
When you see.
What the fuck.
Fucking Alex fucking Jones walking back your statement is when you know that you've gone
too far.

(54:50):
Yeah.
And that's what's so funny is that him leaning really right on all this shit and the right
wing being like oh yeah see we got we got one.
We got one.
Like oh no no no no.
He's like wait wait no no no no no.
Then he's just saying stuff and they're like whoa whoa whoa.
Because I think Kanye is like yeah I'm like I'm right wing because I'm like racist now
and everybody on the right wing is like we got one.

(55:11):
Oh no no no no we pretend we don't believe that.
We don't say that.
We don't say that.
That's the part we don't say out loud.
Kanye come on.
You say the quiet part loud.
You don't need to.
Yeah.
And it's just really calling attention to the fact that like even on the Alex Jones thing
he's just like ah no I don't know about like not willing to alter like go full no that's
not what we do because he doesn't want to alienate his racist audience.

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So he's like ah ha ha funny joke there Kanye.
Yeah.
I will say though the Kanye thing is fucking crazy.
We talk about the slap and that was one of those that people heard about the Kanye shit
at different times wherever.
I remember fucking showrunner page as soon as you're watching the Oscars and the fucking
slap and we all witnessed that shit all at the same time and what the fuck just happened.

(55:57):
I don't know if I've reached my phone faster.
I didn't know if anybody else was watching it.
That to comment on the group page or the group chat but also on Twitter I was like that's
called a Twitter.
It was super slow mo like a Zack Snyder film of me like clicking the fucking Twitter app.
So were you the Wonder Woman of the slap?

(56:18):
I don't know exactly what that's supposed to mean.
Slow Zack Snyder movement I just picked her as the comparison for you.
I mean not of the slap but of the slap response.
It wasn't just not but it was a whole world.
I know I know.
At the same time.
Can you give me this?
Can you give me this?
There has to be some record of DVRs being backed up a minute at that exact moment because

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it's like in Titanic when the person falls off the back and hits the rudder and like
flips down.
The number of times I've rewound that.
Because it was like the only enticing part of the movie.
When it first happened we were all like okay Oscars yeah Will Smith played Ali now he's
slapping the shit okay and then you realize oh wait.
It was the damper around the world.

(57:00):
This wasn't a bit because Oscar bits are pretty fucking terrible and this was when they cut
the sound off and you see Will Smith continuously yelling like keep my wife's name out of your
fucking mouth.
And then thank you overseas where all the overseas telecast didn't bleep that shit out
so we got to instantly hear what he was saying on Twitter like what five minutes after the

(57:25):
fact so.
You know I love that then the Oscars had to continue.
And then everybody like everybody in the audience in the Oscars were like ha ha ha ha.
I think there was even a comment of the next person that won or the person that actually
won the award that Chris Rock was there.
Yeah it was like yeah so this is weird.

(57:49):
And then to have him win and they go up there and you're just like he's still in the building
okay.
Like I mean like I was shocked he never got removed.
Yeah they're like what do we do I don't know what we do he's Will Smith.
And then he ends up winning an Oscar later that night.
And then he's just doing this crying and rambling about like apologizing to everybody except

(58:13):
the guy he physically hit.
Sorry everybody I included everybody right I got everybody in that you know how.
Oh man I forgot to mention this or that.
How about just when you apologize you mentioned the guy that you slapped in front of thousands
and millions of people.
Okay.
That's just maybe you can even.
Even if you think that you do have a justification for your actions like that there was a conversation

(58:38):
about how Jada like can't grow her hair.
And so like Will Smith believes that you know Chris Rock knows this information and is actively
making fun of her like medical issue.
Let's say that's all the case and that's all true and everything you can still be like
hey that behavior isn't appropriate for this like situation and I have to apologize for

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what should have been a conversation later became a bigger issue.
It didn't happen.
He went up there and it just didn't happen.
He laughed.
That's the thing that threw everybody off is that he laughed looked at his wife.
But then Jada looked at him and he was like oh no I'm in trouble.
Shame.
I don't want that to be the focus of this year in review.

(59:25):
It's more of just that we don't it's so rare for everybody to witness something at the
same time.
Yeah.
It's like Chris Rock.
He went with his first first literally hand.
Yeah.
And he was surprised that anybody was like.
But we can talk about it and it's not like.
He was like oh shit Will slapped the shit out of me.
Will Smith slapped the shit out of me.
My man was the audience and he had 3D glasses on and it's coming at him.

(59:51):
And then just you know the Chris Rock big eye thing that he does just wow.
Still not really processing the fact that that actually happened was incredible.
But yeah.
I think there's some other shit we're missing celebrity wise.
Oh no I've got a list.
Don't worry.
No thank you because again this year's been somewhat of a tire fire.

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There's the Johnny Depp.
Oh Amber Heard yes there we go.
There we go.
Yeah.
That just keeps building to be like it's that back and forth where you see people that
like that they definitely don't care about the truth.
They just want to be right.
And they're both like nasty pieces of shit.
Like first off Johnny Depp's a piece of shit and then it's like oh actually there's video

(01:00:33):
and audio and stuff that Amber Heard's actually a piece of shit.
Well she's leaving pieces of shit everywhere.
That's what she does.
Amber Heard's a piece of shit and actually now there's new information that actually
Johnny Depp like adjusted some of the audio and video stuff to make it look worse than
it actually was.
And then they both suck.
How about that?
Like they both suck.
Does she take a shit on his pillow?
Does that determine?

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I think that it.
I think it did.
That was something I was not expecting.
She didn't argue with that.
Like she didn't say.
Of all the stuff that was the thing.
Wait what?
She dropped a deuce on his pillow?
And then she bragged about it?
Yeah.
That caught me off guard.
I was thinking like bottles be thrown, shit be talked about.
I took a fucking deuce on your pillow asshole.
Didn't expect that from the chick from Aquaman right?

(01:01:16):
I saw so many friends that were like trying to defend one side or the other for a certain
point and then there was enough times where it flipped back and forth between who's actually
the monster.
I've had enough.
They were like see no, fully vindicated Johnny Depp and then a month later it was like Johnny
Depp like tampered with photos and stuff to make it look like a thing.
You should have known better at this point.

(01:01:36):
Johnny Depp already had a history of being a piece of shit.
I feel like that part was a foregone conclusion.
All we were waiting for was to find out if Amber Heard was actually a fucking monster
and she was.
Yeah she also is bad.
So wait, the really shitty person was with the other really shitty person and it didn't
work out.
Speaking of shitty person with shitty person, Bennifer 2.0 is another thing that happened.

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This doesn't affect me at all.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't want to really shit on it because whatever.
The only thing that's entertaining about that to me is that Ben Affleck is the saddest man
in the world for some reason and even in this marriage with his impossibly hot wife, his
great career and the fact that he's still in shape and fairly handsome even though he

(01:02:22):
drinks like a fish and dude is just like the most like forlorn morose motherfucker on the
face of the earth.
Morose motherfucker.
I'll say this, creatively I think it's a bad thing because he did better after they broke
up.
He fucking directed movies.
Oh no they're gonna break up.
He's a serial adulterer.
He got a cheat on her.
And then we're gonna get some more good movies like The Town and shit like that because that

(01:02:46):
was his most creative was after she dumped him.
And then Jennifer Lopez is gonna have her lemonade record that comes out and then everybody
wins.
And somebody else will sing it forward.
I gotta say though like I mean unless she is just batshit and you cannot fathom one
more second with her to put you to fuck her like why the fuck would you cheat on that

(01:03:07):
juicy gorgeous fucking woman?
Cocaine's a hell of a drug dude.
It's a compulsion.
Yeah it's gotta be something.
I mean like she is.
It's not a justification.
I'm just saying it's gotta be something.
Well you know there's the you know this because you're a man of years.
You know that anybody can get tired of anybody but also in a relationship where the power

(01:03:30):
structure of the relationship is that both people are like really functionally 50-50.
Like the denial of whatever is gonna be hard like Jennifer Lopez be like you know what
I just I don't feel like it or you didn't take out the trash and that's fucked.
She has enough power that she can easily carry that off.
And so Ben Affleck's like but I'm still virile and strong.

(01:03:51):
Plus there's also like there's this line of like why would you settle for a cheeseburger
when you've got like a filet mignon at home but like these are there aren't cheeseburgers
throwing themselves at Ben Affleck.
Like both of them are getting like prime rib.
Yeah.
I always say they're getting fucking Kobe beef.
Yeah right.
They're getting fucking like Kobe.
There's some good cuts being thrown.

(01:04:11):
Yeah they're getting slung.
And also I mean and this isn't justifying cheating by any stretch.
Oh no no no no no no.
It's important to be faithful.
That's a little harder when you're like famous and hot.
And so just like everybody was like I will fuck you in the trash bin behind the thing
just wherever.

(01:04:31):
Word?
Cool.
Yeah it was like nice to meet you.
In the back of a Volkswagen?
Put it in.
Yeah somewhere in place of comfortable.
Like you pretty much have carte blanche on whoever you want as a sexual partner.
That knowing that fundamentally knowing that has to be really difficult when you're on
like say a press tour for two months and your wife is on like a worldwide fucking music tour

(01:04:55):
or some shit.
And people somehow keep getting past security to knock on your door.
Like security why you?
Well come in we'll get you your phone call and get you to the right place.
And then you'll get your insurance or.
Oh whoa.
She could be 18, 19, 20 she could be in college.
True yeah.
All right anyway.

(01:05:15):
The trick with Ben Affleck is you just bring a Dunkin Donuts coffee to him.
He'll be forever grateful.
Kanye West, Mick Maldonia.
So just a few here for the most part.
The thing is though like.
Oh yeah the queen died.
Oh yeah.
Yeah the queen died.
Oh whatever.
But no but like and that even speaks to this.

(01:05:37):
We just said but like the one in the middle.
The second one we talked about Amber Heard's item that took up so much of our year as far
as celebrity.
It's time wise yeah that trial scene.
Time wise yeah just forever.
I mean it was a top tier story but Ezra Miller's fucking breakdown.
Lost his fucking mind dude.
And I mean you got a movie that's just sitting on the shelf done.

(01:05:59):
Millions of dollars just sitting there.
What the fuck do we do?
What is the actual.
Because that's one of those things that just through the COVID era I feel like Ezra Miller
has been doing like weird dark evil stuff for like four years now.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Like he kidnapped that girl in 2019 or something or whatever.
He attacks some chick like at one of the cons and like he smiles and then.

(01:06:20):
Yeah that was in like 2016.
His bodyguard.
Yeah but his bodyguard's like let's get you off the fan.
And people joke about like DC has bad luck with like Amber Heard and where they're having
to like redo a whole bunch of shit.
And now like Ezra Miller where they can't really redo the Flash movie without The Flash.
And they're like they have bad luck.
No I just think Disney has better like assassins and handlers.

(01:06:42):
Like you know that fucking.
Robert Downey Jr. probably eats people.
Like he's a human cannibal.
Brie Larson's killed somebody.
Brie Larson has murdered hobos.
For sure.
You know there's some weird dark secret shit going on.
Tom Holland is actually a lizard person.

(01:07:02):
Yeah he's the last studio that still has studio fixers.
Yeah there's fixers.
You heard it here first folks.
But Disney's been around long enough and been successful enough with the.
Brie Larson kills hobos.
That's the name of the episode is Brie Larson kills hobos.
We might get sued by Brie Larson.
She is that chick.
Uh Geese of the Woods has a season 6.
I mean it would be almost worth it for the.

(01:07:23):
For the uh.
Impressed?
Just kidding we're continuing to do the show.
What are you gonna get from us?
But now they need to go ahead and replace Ezra Miller's face with Tig Notaro and then
just be about their business.
You know where DC wouldn't have to worry about this at all if they just went ahead and tried
to work out having Greg Gustin be in the fucking Flash because he's awesome.

(01:07:44):
Oh you mean the guy from the show?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
The guy that already plays the Flash?
Yeah that guy.
That guy.
Yeah him.
Nah.
Nothing can happen for Mr. Ezra.
I'm sorry.
Logic.
I don't know.
He's amazing.
He is awesome.
He's amazing in his Peter Parker version of the Flash.
True.
And I love him too.

(01:08:04):
I think he's incredible but that's not how the industry works at all.
No.
Doesn't mean the industry's smart.
That's it I just I want to like pick out what deep dark secret shit all the Avengers have.
Besides Paul Rudd.
Paul Rudd is perfect and you can never tell me any differently.
Uh.
Uh.
Okay.
Okay.

(01:08:25):
Chris Hanforth is the midget tosser or something.
No Paul Rudd just has a portrait of himself that looks really gross up in an attic somewhere
and that's.
But if you open the door behind the portrait then you'll find Paul Rudd's pizza restaurant
that has kids underneath the restaurant.
Oh Jesus Christ.
That's just him.
What?
Yeah literally we know that Paul Rudd owns a little pizza restaurant in DC.

(01:08:45):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Paul Rudd was at the heart of every Q conspiracy and we never knew it.
Paul Rudd opens up like stocks for some secret comedy called Adrena Chrome.
What?
Paul Rudd is Q actually.
He's the JFK Jr. we've all been waiting for.
And if we pay enough money we can be verified as Paul Rudd and make those announcements

(01:09:06):
thanks to how Twitter now works.
Yeah absolutely.
Yeah just throw your cash together.
One of the more depressing things of the year but on a personal level.
Yeah the Twitter thing is fucking buck wild and it was called out pretty early on with
the Twitter thing that like a lot of people expect he's intentionally tanking Twitter
to write it off and like actually make a profit from his taxes on like producer style.

(01:09:30):
Like this is a fucking Mel Brooks production.
I don't know it's either that or he is like how has he lasted this long?
Like without doing something this fucking stupid.
He's been out of touch for.
This is unintentional.
But I mean he's not very in touch with I mean this is just.
I've been following the Twitter files drops that he's like exposing all the corruption

(01:09:53):
behind Twitter and it's so anti climactic.
It's regular business practice.
They went back and forth and this person went to this person and they decided to block this
really really fucked up tweet.
Okay so what's the.
Oh that's it.
That's the that's the bomb drop.
Okay great.
Block the tweet.
Cool.

(01:10:13):
Block the tweet.
Yeah this person that has made like death threats to people they decided to block and
like end her account.
But this time she wasn't as threatening.
But.
Like she threatened to murder people.
I don't know what.
Yeah.
I was like.
My that.
Meanwhile like the you know verification shit and you've got companies losing a fuck ton
of money because people can just say they're that and then make announcements.

(01:10:35):
I mean was it the insulin company that like.
Oh lost so much money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
That's.
Which.
Kind of dangerous.
It's insulin.
Yeah.
My favorite recently was that.
Insulin?
No.
I mean it's like.
There was somebody.
Right.
And so he got banned and he got taken off and stuff.
I'm not arguing that.

(01:10:56):
You know what.
That.
That could be potentially a safety issue or whatever.
I think he overreacted for sure with that a little bit.
But like if you block the account.
Okay fine.
That's fine.
I'm not you know that.
I see that's fair.
But the fact that he's preaching free speech the whole time while he's doing it is fucking
obnoxious.
But then also any reporters that were reporting on the story of the dude being blocked by

(01:11:17):
Elon Musk got blocked.
Like got their account removed.
Every move he's made is purposely anti free speech for whatever reason.
I don't know if it's a specific ideology that he's glomming onto the modern time or if he
is trying to tank Twitter on purpose as you said.
But yeah he is not making any moves that are like good for the idea of free speech.

(01:11:42):
Well then there was the Twitter spaces thing that happened where apparently there was something
in Twitter where even if your account was removed or blocked you still had access to
the Twitter spaces thing.
So a bunch of journalists got together, blocked and unblocked journalists to talk about what
the fuck is even going on here on Twitter.
Elon Musk rolls into this chat of like 30, 40 journalists that are talking about journalism

(01:12:07):
in an age where Twitter is owned by Elon Musk.
And he's asked like three questions.
The third one being relating to like you're talking all this shit about like how bad Twitter
was for hiding this Hunter Bytans laptop pics of his own dick and stuff that was happening
and how bad it was.
How is this different?
Like how is this not censorship but that is censorship and he then left the call.

(01:12:30):
We couldn't answer any of the questions.
And then took down all of Twitter spaces because he was trying to figure out how to remove
the journalists that were on that call that had been blocked and the team that normally
handled that had been fired.
So he had to take down the whole Twitter spaces for most of the day to get that tweak fixed

(01:12:51):
before putting it back up.
Oh fuck.
Yeah.
Because a team that handles everything has been fired.
Yeah.
It's like he literally gave the prime example of why whenever a company buys a section of
a business or some large quantity of something, they at a minimum appease the current masses

(01:13:16):
of employment because if they leave they can't run shit.
And then what they just bought is useless because they can't run it.
Like no money.
Sorry.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Like if he had just invested his own money and this was just some kind of I'm an agent
of chaos and a bored rich person and this is how I get I can jerk off and come or whatever.

(01:13:39):
I can understand that.
But it's not just his money that's invested.
He's got to pay people back for the money they invested in his, he's got to show a profit.
So I don't understand what he's doing.
I love that.
Whatever what you wish for.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
I pulled up Elon Musk's Twitter and I love that this, I don't know if it was mentioned

(01:14:00):
or not on the episode.
He did a poll should he step down as head of Twitter, he will abide by the results of
the poll and currently close to 60% of it is yes.
He also does it.
He also, oh no, it's his final results.
So that's the final results.
Okay.
So there you go.
Yeah.
Like at the very bottom by the votes it says of that post, it says final results.

(01:14:20):
Yeah, final results.
So yeah, I guess he's going to step down as a 17.5 million people voted in almost 60%.
Yeah.
And the next result responses him whining as the saying goes, be careful what you wish
for as you might get it.
It was just.
Well, the speculation I heard was that he put that up because he had already planned

(01:14:41):
whatever it was going to look like.
Those who want power are the ones who least deserve it.
What the fuck?
This guy.
Yeah.
His post.
And that's why I'm bringing this up because we're right at the tail end of the episode
and at the tail end of the episode, we do a little segment that I thought would be fun
using Elon Musk's tweets for.
Okay.
All right, here we go.

(01:15:02):
Okay.
All right.
Because we're talking about a little end of the episode bit that we call making a drunken
scene.
Yes, yes, yes.
Barely.
Good place, sir.
Where's this Elon Musk?
What happens for a swamp?
Musk is an embarrassment to all bureaucrats.
I'm just going to scroll through.
If there's a tweet that you see that you really want to do, you're going to be able to get
a little bit of a feel for it.

(01:15:25):
Musk is an embarrassment to all bureaucrats.
I don't know, best Elon Musk impression or whatever voice.
What is an Elon Musk impression?
I don't know.
I don't even know.
Yeah, I don't know.
He just sounds confused most of the time.
I don't know if that's an actual accent of just confused, but.

(01:15:45):
You can't really make fun of his presentation because I think he's like hardcore autistic.
Yeah, he is.
And so yeah, that's not do that.
Is he?
Oh yeah.
I have no idea.
Yeah, very, very much.
So is that so is that is any of that coming to account for his actions with all this
is the fact that he doesn't maybe fully understand?
No, he's he's fully an adult who's responsible for the moves he makes.

(01:16:08):
He he not understand.
He understands.
Hmm.
He just he's he's Trump asking that he doesn't have to have accountability because he's a
billionaire.
Hmm.
Do shit.
Yeah, I get that part.
I just I just didn't know if like.
What are you sorry the handgun with the astronaut's got all kinds of memes that you're like, it's
like him carrying the sink into Twitter's offices.

(01:16:30):
OK, I mean, he's literally like just this fucking adult man that's a troll, an Internet
troll that has billions and billions of dollars getting off.
I just yeah, I used to eat people, but I got bored of that.
That's how I know we're in the worst timeline because a guy that is basically an Internet
troll is in charge of our rocket ships and one of the largest forms of social media communication

(01:16:54):
in the world.
And he's in charge.
Yeah.
Also on until this, he was on track to be the world's first trillionaire.
Not anymore.
No, I said prior to this, he was on track to being the world's first trainer.
I'm too busy running Twitter.
So now Herschel Walker will be in charge of SpaceX.
Oh God.
Oh, it was explained space, we got to talk about werewolves and vampires.

(01:17:18):
I didn't know werewolves could kill vampires.
I didn't know.
I know.
Oh, and then your kids knock on the door and you're like, nobody home.
Don't move, honey.
Just pretend we're not here.
Has anybody actually watched, though, the again in front of, you know, his followers,
the whole breakdown of Fright Night?

(01:17:39):
I mean, it's Friday night.
He's just incredible.
It's amazing.
They just sit there and like I've watched cut versions of it and they're like, we had
to cut some of this out because it just kept going on.
But if you're in that crowd.
So that's something I guess.
So this is the one I'm going to do here for Elon Musk.
This is from December 15th.

(01:17:59):
Elon Musk Twitter drunken scene.
Here we go.
If anyone posted real time locations and addresses of New York Times reporters, FBI would be
investigating.
There'd be hearings on Capitol Hill and Biden would be giving speeches about end of democracy.

(01:18:23):
That's a thing.
Yeah, that just happened.
I love the like what about isms shit and they're like, if this then this bullshit of like,
no, but if it was this way around, then we do.
Fuck you.
What about what about what about?
Yeah, it's so fucking annoying.
All right, let's see if we find a lot of retweets.

(01:18:44):
Yeah.
And anytime he gets in hot water, he just retreats a bunch of shit about SpaceX.
It's so fucking funny.
You can like time it.
I guess I'll do this.
Yeah, do it.
All right.
Any account doxing real time locations info of anyone will be suspended as it is a physical
safety violation.

(01:19:06):
This includes posting links to sites with real time location info, posting locations
so we travel to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a city problem.
So it's okay.
Great.
Great.
Solid.
All right.
Oh, here we go.

(01:19:28):
Regular.
All right.
Should I step down as head of Twitter?
I will abide by the results of this poll.
Lovely.
Yes.
True like evil villain energy.
I thought it was a little shock harder for a second.
There were a few things.

(01:19:49):
Thanks, Ruben.
Oh, this is where he threatens to put Fauci in jail.
Yeah, here we go.
I want to go that one.
Where's that?
The December 12th, like it's bratty.
Under pressure from hundreds of activist employees, Twitter deplatforms Trump, a sitting
US president, even though they themselves acknowledge that he didn't violate the rules.

(01:20:15):
And I read all of these Twitter files.
And this one I remember specifically is that what they suggested is that they were giving
different rules to Trump being a lot actually easier on him than other people.
Because he's sitting president.
Like it was a it was a judgment call on some of these tweets.
And so it's a nothing burger.

(01:20:35):
That was that's a prime example of just how much of a fucking whiny little bitch brat
fucking whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know where I'm going.
You know where I'm going.
I'm surprised it took that long to get to one, though.
It was only December 12th, but I figured there had been one like yesterday.
It's just another reminder.

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And this is happening over and over again, whether it be political people or people in
industry that are too big for their britches and don't have any kind of real realistic
view of the world where they think if you're shitty and rich, you can just say stuff and
people will get behind you and support you.
But like, no.
Yeah, some will.
For sure.
Absolutely.

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You're having them.
I mean, you still have that the disgusting Elon Musk fans are like, yes, Elon.
Yeah, Elon, you're right.
You're so right.
So right.
Glaze me like a donut.
I mean, it's you know what?
We need to change the rules so Elon can run for president.
I've seen a lot of God.
Oh, fuck.
No, fuck.
No.
We thought we thought Trump was bad.
Musk?
No.
Oh, shit.

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But like, that's like a whole level I don't even want to think about.
Like that there's no there's nothing behind a lot of the time these these people's like
views on things besides I'm allowed to do whatever I want to.
And so when that falls apart, they're surprised.
They're like, yeah, you're like taking away people's like ability to, you know, communicate
with each other, the people's fundamental human rights in some in some instances.

(01:22:01):
And then you're surprised that people are mad about it.
You know, it's crazy, though.
And this isn't this is no way like anything slightly remotely positive to Musk.
It's like we felt society when that is the way that people were able to communicate with
loved ones and family, too.
It's like sucks.
It's supposed to be an app.
It's it's all supposed to be an opportunity.

(01:22:24):
It is also supposed to be.
Let's say we who bastardized most things that are supposed to be good.
Well, the people that are interacting with things because people do that.
Exactly.
Like we but we also establish what's good.
So you know, I think it was George Carlin talked about this decades ago about 24 hour

(01:22:45):
news channels is that the problem with those channels is that you have these two boxes
that pop up and there's a guy that's like a scientist that has been doing his job for
like 30 years.
And that's like his entire life is to know that this one tiny thing, this one type of
science, this one very specific study thing that he's devoted his entire life to.
And that's like he is the person in the entire world that knows the most about this thing.

(01:23:10):
And then you've got this fucking wacko in the other box that just decides that that's
not true.
And they put them up there like they're equal.
And they're like, OK, scientists, if we don't do anything about this, then, you know, there
could be a lot of lost life.
And OK, what about you, Mr. Crazy Mc Jones?
I like, I think that he's part of a space alien conspiracy with the lizard people.

(01:23:32):
Oh, that's interesting.
And they treat it like there's an equality there.
Your opinion is as valid as anybody else.
You mean don't look up.
Yeah, basically.
Perfect example.
But that's what we're running into with the Internet is that, yeah, with something like
Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, there is a level playing field between celebrities
and nobodies, you know, people that just regular schmoes like us really.

(01:23:54):
As far as how how much you can achieve reach.
Yeah.
And the problem with that, though, is that there's this immediate animosity towards people
that have a natural popularity to start.
I see it in podcasting all the time, too.
Well, there are celebrities, so of course they're going to be successful with podcasting
right out of the gate.
Why are you mad about it then?
If you know that, then why are you?
And that's not always the case.
Yeah, but like, don't don't take it as a chip on your shoulder thing, man.

(01:24:18):
It's not it's not it's not a thing against you.
It's just the nature of doesn't affect your success.
And, you know, they put a lot of work into the initial success they got, probably.
So maybe that carryover thing.
It's like they they they did the work in that other level that before they reached here.
That's what's happening with Twitter is that there's you know, there's the Elon Musk that

(01:24:40):
supposedly are taking down like the the the natural order of things.
And so all the douchebags fall behind.
It was the same thing with Donald Trump.
And unfortunately, same thing with fucking Snyder, where there was like the PG 13 standard
for fucking superhero movies.
And DC started pushing an edgier, darker mode and they got Snyder to be involved with that.

(01:25:03):
And this isn't shitting on Snyder.
This isn't shitting on either even Warner Brothers.
But then it's like, oh, he's going against the status quo.
So I support him for everything that he does and become simps for fucking Snyder when that
or Snyder, that's not what he was planning on doing.
That's he wasn't trying to subvert the status quo.

(01:25:24):
He just likes slow motion and blood.
He likes slow motion and hero shots.
Yeah.
More than anybody in the history of movies.
He likes slow motion like J.J. Abrams.
Like Lenslayer.
I was silly thinking the exact same thing.
But you know, they create these false idols of like subverting the dominant paradigm in

(01:25:44):
society and it's not true.
It's usually just selfish douchebags that are doing whatever they want to without consideration
of other people.
And they're aggrandized and made here worshiped out of.
And then it falls apart and then everybody is surprised.
It's the idea that just because you have a difference of opinion, it needs to be taken
as just as valid as any other opinion out there in the world.

(01:26:07):
When the Elon Musk don't know how to run a Twitter.
Halle doesn't know how to run a Tesla.
He got the other people to make decisions for him to make him successful.
What happens when you're like not just rich?
What happens to the response to somebody that was the guy in the other box that was just
a whack job where it's like, well, that's just like your opinion, bro.
What happened to that response to that shit?

(01:26:27):
Well, because it was like valid.
That's the argument I see all the time with something was like, well, you can't just discredit
my opinion because it's different than your opinion.
Your opinion is insane.
It's like, bro, I guess that.
So whose opinion is more entertaining?
And that's a sad thing is that the crazy guy, look at the crazy guy.

(01:26:49):
And eventually, you know what?
Some people at the Trump factor where some people go, maybe the crazy guy, because he's
entertaining is right.
But you have no bias based on that.
But he's funny.
He's entertaining.
It doesn't matter.
It's funny you mentioned, you know, hollow courts.
Like, yeah, like somebody comes out with a hollow worth theory where fucking Godzilla
and King Kong are fucking battling and there's bones and shit and like, yeah, that happened.

(01:27:12):
There's a movie about it.
Now, that's a movie.
That's a movie.
Exactly.
There's a movie about it.
But everyone's like, uh huh, see, there's a movie about it.
See, see?
Fuck out of here.
There's still flatter people.
I mean, come on.
I mean, like how?
How?
Where we are with satellites and things like that.
Yeah, but it's a flatter.
We live in a society.
This is a crossover, so I can pitch up.

(01:27:33):
In a world.
In a world.
We fucking- We, but literally we live in a society where there was a fake account called
Birds Aren't Real with the idea that like, birds are actually surveillance drones for
the government.
All birds.
Oh my.
Yeah.
Oh god.
Fucking pigeons.
It's such a hilariously stupid, like, conspiracy theory that it was a fun satirical page for

(01:27:54):
them to do until people started believing it.
And then it's not a huge number of people that believe it, but some people are like,
but how do you know, though?
Yeah.
And that's the argument that conspiracy theorists sometimes use with this shit is like, but
how do you know that it's not true?
I guarantee you it's not fucking true.
I'm gonna stand on a fucking,
I'm gonna go out on a limb.
We're right in the direction of idiocracy.
We're so close, man.

(01:28:14):
Gatorade, bro.
Yeah. It's Gatorade.
You can't just discredit somebody else's theory
just because you don't agree with it.
That one I can. Electrolytes.
It's kind of electrolytes.
That one I definitely, your specific,
your thing, yes, I will.
But when does the talking rational
and making sense become boring?
I mean, the whole thing is in an idiocracy,

(01:28:35):
he's trying to put it, he's like,
this guy sounds boring.
I don't care.
And like, when is that?
But it's getting bigger.
It's getting worse.
Well, and also it's getting to where people
start believing the shit that they're making fun of.
Like that's what happened with 4chan and the alt-right.
Is that it was a bunch of 4chan fucking trolls
that started just posting racist memes to each other

(01:28:56):
and then started playing it being an alternate right wing
and then leaning into that satire
to the point where they started believing their own bullshit
and becoming an actual movement of Nazi sentiment.
Oh no, we indoctrinated ourselves.
Yeah, they literally convinced themselves
that they were Nazis.
Self indoctrination.
Yeah, that's the fucking thing that exists now.

(01:29:17):
Oh man.
It's buck wild to see.
And the thing is, especially,
maybe especially when you indoctrinate yourself
with your own satirical take on a thing,
real hard to convince yourself otherwise
that that's not correct.
That's right, I mean on the plus side,
the whole Musk debacle has given us a plethora

(01:29:38):
of new social media networks.
Like for instance, you can find me on Mastodon and Hive
and Quorum and Pow Wow and Key Party.
So Key Party.
Yeah, you look up Jonathan Blade on any of those sites,
boom, I'm right there.
I will be looking up Key Party specifically.
Key Party.
I'm on Mastodon, I have not done exploration

(01:30:01):
on the other stuff quite yet,
but what I'm finding is smaller groups,
like I'm on a couple new Discord channels
that are a lot of fun.
Discord is actually the way to, like for a network,
Discord is the way to go.
You have a heavily curated audience
who actually has an interest in interacting.
It's not good for promotion,

(01:30:23):
but I think as like an entity, an existing entity,
Discord is the way to go.
I think I'm gonna redo that.
I tried to open up Slack for GUI showrunners
and like regular panelists and stuff and nah.
No one's doing shit on that.
But yeah, I guess that's the end of this episode,
talking about 2022 and being old men about it.

(01:30:43):
And things that are important to old people.
Hold on. Yeah.
I noticed you were being one of the biggest disappointment
real quick, pop culture wise, Halloween ends.
Man, what?
I thought we were, man.
Yeah, I'm not letting that get away.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
Fuck you.
You five, six team writing piece of shit.

(01:31:06):
Fuck. God damn it.
All right. All right. We're good.
Oh, God. Only one.
That's that is not nearly as much of a disappointment as my man Taika
taking a fucking hell with love and thunder.
That's definitely second to Halloween ends.
That is that was such a fucking disappointment.
I realize how much I did enjoy it because it's been free.

(01:31:28):
It's been on Disney Plus.
I'm not watching that movie.
I'm not rewatching that movie.
That is a tire fire of a movie.
I'm not rewatching.
I rewatched Halloween ends for Mouths of Madness, and that was rough.
And I had to do that.
I realized I don't have to watch love and thunder ever again.
OK, we are way over time.
Let's button this up.
But yeah, thank you so much for listening to this episode of Geeks

(01:31:50):
under the influence, our last episode of twenty twenty two, not our last episode
ever or of regular releases.
We are going to be doing our final free play episode of regular releases
at the beginning of twenty twenty three to, you know, shoot the shit
and talk about whatever and and say goodbye.
And then occasionally having a few releases a year after that.

(01:32:14):
But this is our last of twenty twenty two.
I want to thank everyone here and all of our other panelists
from Geeks under the influence for a great brunch.
Emotions were had.
There was celebration in the air.
It was a great fucking time.
It was lovely.
And it's because you got to put that picture up on the page or.
Well, I'm going to double check about the video before that gets posted,

(01:32:37):
just to make sure that everybody involved is OK with that being posted.
But like there's pictures that for sure
we're going to put up on our social from brunch.
I've been just too hung over today to do anything on social media.
But yeah, we'll check that stuff out and we'll find you next time for
the last main episode.
Yeah. Geeks under the influence.

(01:32:57):
But there will be a bit of a break through the holidays.
Yeah, we got all the shit to deal with first.
So check us out probably sometime around mid January, I think.
Yeah. When we're looking to release.
So so we'll see then. I'm Mike the Hobbit.
Lowdown. Join us or die.
Shut the fuck up, Hobbit.

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GUI podcast dot com.
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