The Rundown #3

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to The Rundown Episode
three. We have been trying.It's been Sorry for the lack of a
game last two weeks. First Imy first, I couldn't fucking do it,
and then Brian couldn't do it,and then Brian couldn't do it again.
And now here we are. Uh, and we're here at the very

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least finally. Yes, a longtime coming. I know y'all were waiting,
so yeah. Also, for thosewatching on YouTube, there's also an
audio version of the Rundown now availablewherever you get your podcasts as well.
That should be uh at the Spreakerlink the link that should be in the
Spreaker down below. But more towhat we were actually talking about, Uh

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there, I wanted to uh.A lot has happened in the last couple
of weeks. Definitely both that boththat I know about, that you know
about, and that we both knowabout. And so I don't think for
the next hour we're gonna be starvedof content. Therefore, I'm going to
lead. I'm going to lead usopen with the following video KA and I'm

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going to and you know, becausein a typical rundown fashion we hear.
I always make sure to show yousomething to deal you to as an opening
little thing that I do thinking.And we'll watch this together for the for
the folks h watching at home.You're only gonna get the here. You're

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not to be able to say anything, but it's you're gonna hear it.
So let's get ready, shall we? Fuck? You mean sound isn't
available? Eat my dick? Allright, Well, I guess we're gonna
do that one. I guess I'lldo grab the other one instead. Because
God is dead. I think yougot Universal. I think it. Yeah,
I think it'll Oh no, you'reright, it did get Universal.

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Oh no, I forgot about thatship, so we might as fucking well
lead into that as the starting thingwe're talking about. My fucking God,
I forgot about that ship. Yeah. Universal fu TikTok. And I find
it so funny because it's like TikTokfor music and rediscovery music or discovering it

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for the first time is amazing forpublicity, for getting people just to stream
your fucking shit. And it makesno sense that Universal is like X sure
TikTok. I don't know if you'reallowed to post Universal music on X But

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I mean just the idea of itis crazy. Yeah, but it's also
like like I wouldn't we wouldn't havethat like bomb at Mashal opening, like
as popping as it was, andit wasn't for that that. Have you
heard that ship? Yes, Iwatched Mashall Yo, that ship was fire.
I read I've read the entire Mango. It's great. Like I heard

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that, I heard that bed speakingbeing, I'm like, oh, fucking
Razor also posted an advertisement with thatmusic. It's like for their keyboard or
something, right, to show offit's mechanical, uh, mechanical keys something
like that. Well that makes sense, but you know it's it truly is
like really fucking unfortunate. Like actually, you know what, I actually don't

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think it's that unfortunate. It sucksfor anybody under the Universal umbrella. But
all of the independent beat makers andship that I've like, I follow and
I'm aware of, Oh, they'vebeen they've been relishing, they've been taking
fucking advantage of this ship. Well, I was gonna say, with this
Universal ship, it's definitely a doubleedged sword because the independent artist and creators

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who were making their own music thatdon't have to worry about always including other
people's songs in the sound it.You know, it creates a difference for
that and you get out there waymore. I just feel like, I
don't know, I feel like notlike Universal or anybody the top, like
ten percent of people signed to Universalare not worrying about this deal. But

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I worry about the independent artists whowere signed to Universal, like the up
and comers who just got a recorddeal and now they can't post their shit
on one of the most important socialmedia's Foreign music. Like that fucks with
the whole entire thing. It's alsoimportant because you have to remember TikTok is
the home of the prime demo ofthe thirteen to eighteen crowd, if you

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mean, because here's the thing,think about it. Like Facebook was the
home for people thirteen to eighteen yearsold twenty years ago. They're still using
Facebook. Instagram was that home formotherfuckers ten years ago, they're still using
it. TikTok is that for thepeople now, and it's in and and

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and and and it's gonna And thatmeans TikTok at least has it for a
generation. That's part of the reasonwhat YouTube is like struggling with right now
with you know, they don't havethe key demo anymore. That's why they're
pushing shorts so hard at at oursomeone people would even argue at the expense
of the you know, long termhealth of like other aspects of the platform,

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Like they're they're trying to be they'retrying to become twitch and they're trying
to become TikTok simultaneously, and whilethey're streaming advancements I'd say have been wonderful.
Even I will admit that, well, shorts have absolutely allowed me to
like grow my channel exponentially. WhatI'm I'm like, I'm not seeing you

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know, growth in my normal videosin like in the same way. Like
granted, they change the algorithm soit'll suggest my videos to people who watch
my shorts, which has been helpful. And did have a which and did
you know double or triple the amountof views I was getting on my average
on my average video anyways, whichis great. But the problem is is

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that people who are pulling up YouTubefor shorts are really just using it for
shorts. Like the crossover between shortsusers as video users is like a couple
percent ironically enough, I'm in thatlike one percent because whenever I go to

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shit, I drow on fucking YouTubeshorts and I'm just going and going and
going and going. But once I'mout of the fucking bathroom, I want
to actually watch some shit that's intelligiblethat gives me information. I especially like
get my news from YouTube. Iknow many people don't do that, but
well, I take it back,most people, most people over a certain

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age, don't do that. ButI will say this though, I will
say that YouTube shorts has a hasa benefit over TikTok in this In this
case, the short form content isjust that short term short form content.
TikTok is trying to be a livestream service, it's trying to be a

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shop. It's also trying to havelong form content a all of that.
And so like, here's the typesof There's two types of videos I like,
right, fifteen second videos that arejust oh, you're gonna punch me
in the gut with laughter, oror a minute plus video that is explaining
something to me, like that's vaguelyinteresting with a cadence that I like.

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And I have to probably scroll throughten bullshit videos before I can get to
one of those two that I'm lookingfor. Well, I don't know how
you and your girlfriend do your socialmedia, like you know, if you
guys hang out and go through eachother social media. But because me and

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no Elliott do that, I gotto go through like fifty fucking cat videos
just to get to one video I'minterested in. So I definitely know what
the hell you're talking about. Meand Meadows algorithms are are like this are
kind of similar because I didn't useTikTok for a while because when I was
a single man, it was justass ass videos and I just said,

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listen, I want to use TikTok. I want to watch TikTok with you,
and I can't. While there's likewhen with fat asses that aren't you
rolling across the street, take mytake my ship for an hour and and
like fix my algorithm please, I'mthinking it. And she did that,
and I've been golden ever since.It's been great. Yeah, I feel
that it's it's honestly like dead ass. Here's the thing, right it Honestly,

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if you let Noelia do that,your algorithm will like kind of like
blend you two together on some level, and its like as long as you
don't like the shit you know,she doesn't like, your algorithm will go
back to normal, just minus theshit that, like you know, is
a problem. Well, there wasan interesting thing with TikTok. We were

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doing, uh like, when wewere watching Dragon Ball Z and Attack on
Titan. I would grab her phoneand I would say into the microphone,
attack on Titan, Attack on Titan, Attack on Titan, and then I
kid you not, TikTok would throwout like ten videos in a row of
the attack on Titan videos. Warexplained all that shit, and I was
like, yes, isn't it fuckingwild? How like we just don't give

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me about like the complete lack ofprivacy that we are living in a world
of the world we're living in.It's fucking wild, isn't it. And
here's the thing. I'm not goingto change anything I'm doing because like the
amount of it, because like theconvenience is not fucking worth it. And
also I'm also depressed and I don'treally give a shift. And you want
to know the word, You wantto know why we're here because back when
you and me first access to theinternet, nobody said, hey, pay

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seventy five dollars for the full yearand you don't have to worry about ads.
If somebody would have said that,given our age, we wouldn't have
done it. But you know,if somebody would have given that option back
when the Internet was first coming tofruition, we wouldn't be in the situation
we are now because I think onaverage we see like over one hundred one
thousand fucking ads a day. Wedon't even recognize it, like it's insanity.

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Every time every adviys is like oneof the like ad bys are not
a good like that are not agood investment anymore. They're just you good.
They're just not you have to makeyou know you have. One of
the things that I've seen TikTokers startingto do with like the TikTok shop shit,
because like with the moment people,like a lot of people, the

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moment they see a TikTok shop linkor somebody like shilling some TikTok shop bullshit,
they scroll immediately. I do likeI I like, I I got
so fucking tired of TikTok shop thatI would go out of my way to
block every single person that had aTikTok shop thing that was shilling it,
and I had to stop doing thatbecause there're so fucking many No literally,

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and don't get me wrong, likesome of the products, sure they've looked
cool, but like in reality thatdoes not make sense. I'm not like,
you're just you're just that's making You'remaking fifty cents on the per purchase
by selling me some shit from AliBaba. It gives Temu express. You

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know what I'm talking about though,right, Yeah, It's just it's just
it's just dog shit. It's justlike dogship pro products that are just a
plastic shell and doesn't have any internalslike getting burned and shit. Like there's
no like, there are there peoplethat are using the TikTok shop legitimately,
absolutely, but the amount of actualbut the lack of quality control is genuinely
despicable. Well, like here wasthis was the issue that like eBay had

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when it was first coming out andAmazon had when it first came out.
It was like, how do youprove that you are legitimately buying these items?
Now? eBay and Amazon have customerservice, an amazing customer service,
not Amazon, but eBay definitely theywill help you out. Why does someba
steal the fuck around for everb forever. That shit has been around since I've

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been fucking alive forever. Amazon hastried to do everything to put eBay into
the ground, and they can't fuckingdo it because they have not improved their
customer service. What's it? God, I forgot who said it, but
like piracy is a customer service issue, right, and it's like exactly if
they got among gamers himself. UhAnd actually that kind of brings me to

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something else I want to talk about, but I won't go into it.
You're good, go ahead. I'mjust the fact, like, you have
to be better at customer service foryou to even worry about taking out a
competitor. Don't get me wrong,if you're in a monopoly s situation where
Amazon mainly is with like mom andpop shop, sure, but if you're

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going up against eBay, which hasthe reputation, has the reputation of customer
service and good customer service, andyou know these people are wanting to break
their back for you. When yougo to Amazon and you sign up as
an affiliate or you sign up asa drop shipper, you're on your own.
You have to do the marketing yourself. And you don't have like a

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B and like you're not the platformolder you like you have to get people
to go to your specific thing.Amazon's not going to push it forward towards
you. You have a like youknow, it's it's it's difficult, Like
there's like there's a reason why,like you know, like Linus tech tips
like fucking puts Amazon affiliate links likeall in their shit. Well, the

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other thing about EBA that I finda real like plus is it is strictly
on site. Your feedback percentage,like your rating is strictly on site.
So if you have a shitty experiencewith the seller, you write that and
it reflects it. It's like,hey, Joe Shmo sixty four, rip
me off with some Pokemon cards.I wouldn't buy anything from him. A

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lot of the time, you can'tlook at the profile of the seller.
You'll see the rating five stars.But then you'll experience some bullshit and you're
like, hey, how do Ifigure this out? And Amazon is like,
well, you've got the product,it's not broken. Get fucked.
There's nothing we can do. Yeah, but real, go ahead. I

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was I was just just to youfinished the topic, and then I'll go
off, all right, fair enough, So yeah, like it's it's it's
you know, like, yeah,I'm just excited to get into the pirate
because I'm very passionate about piracy likethat. But you know, it's it's.
It's at the end of the day, like I I I used to
do selling and stuff on eBay throughlike I used to like send like sell

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shiit for for like folks, forlike a dude or whatever, and he
paid me up front for the moneyto like you know, for the services
of doing so or whatever whatever.But the point is this is that it
was, like, you know,the the feedback, you like, like
the feedback is like such a scarilyimportant thing on eBay, and it's so

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easy to like buy good reviews onAmazon. It's it's dumb, it's insane,
you know. It's like, youknow, it's it's I wouldn't buy
anything from anybody that has less thanfive stars on eBay, but like stars
mean basically fucking nothing on on Amazon, you know, like you know,

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you could have a regular product that'sperfectly finding dandy the like routinely like on
eBay, the the rating is reflectiveof the seller and the product. On
Amazon, it's just reflective of theproduct. Definitely. Yep. Then that's
that's why I like eBay over Amazonon a lot of different decks, especially

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buying vintage like gear and equipment.Onto onto your next, Onto the next
aspect of the conversation. So Iknow you are not an anime watcher,
but do you know what's going onwith Funimation? Didn't? Uh? Didn't?
No? I don't. But alsodid you hear that they find that
they said that they sentenced to lifethe dude who bombed and killed the Fully

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Cooly studio. Oh no, Ididn't hear about that. Yeah, that's
I think it was the studio behindFully Coolly that got bombed to ship and
like like a guy came in andkilled a bunch of people and he got
prosecuted. But what's going on withFunimation? So Fundimation, right, they
had their streaming website for anime contentEverything under the Sun, almost exactly like

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Crunchy Role. Right back in twentytwenty one or twenty twenty two, Crunchy
Role purchase Fundimation. Fundimation was stillopen at that time. It's twenty twenty
four now and they're planning on shuttingdown fundmation. People who brought specials like
the Blu Ray additions of Attack onTitan, Dragon Ball Z. You know,

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jiu Jitsu Chasm insert anime name here. It's now being revoked, even
though you can sign up for yourFundimation account with Crunchy Role and it'll be
applied. So everything that you broughtis going away. And this brings me
to the thing of piracy. Ihate piracy, especially being a creator of

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some kind. I despise it inthe sense of I am giving now.
I don't understand necessarily the gaming aspectof it or the production side of film,
but I hate the idea of peoplegetting a product for free. That
being said, if shit like thiscontinues to happen, piracy is the only

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option. Don't get me wrong.I believe in physical media. I love
physical media. I know you loveit more than I do. But in
terms of this digital age and asthings progress digitally, piracy is going to
be the main issue. You ahoys, the cors he hoes in beggarss

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louis so literally like I'm gonna behonest, I think if you can afford,
if you if if if you arein a country where, the where,
the where, the product that youwant to where the product you where
the product you want to purchase canbe purchased legally, and it is not

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a crazy amount of money in yourexchange rate purchased legally, buy the buy
the either, uh and that moneythat you purchase is going to the rights
holder. So let me explain,right, So I view the third party

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dependo market as grade A bullshit.It shouldn't have to exist. Patched me
up just because I'm not okay,So so let me uh, okay it
so God among Gabe nol got amongGamers, owner and CEO of Valve.

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You know the the the the inand gave we trust. Hm said,
as we said earlier, piracy isa service issue. Customer service issue is
a customer service issue. And whatis in in in in the pinnacle of
this is going We're going to bein the topic of the next My next

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rant is going to be based aroundNintendo and I and plenty of and plenty
of Nintendo fans are current like andif you're a Nintendo fan, you kind
of know where I'm going with this. April the eighth, do you know
what happens April the eighth? Isit another Nintendo Direct? Nope, Nintendo
is shutting down the internet services forall games for the three DS and WEU

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series of games, except for PokemonBank that is getting a whole other year,
and then they're shutting it down nowhere. Now Here's the thing.
You have to remember that the threeDS and WEU era was the first time
that Nintendo has engaged with digital onlytransactions. Part of the online services that

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they're shutting down are the shops.You will not be able to connect to
the internet on three DS or weuse systems anymore, and people don't want
them to be third party only.Here's the thing. E A is A
is a despicable company for a multitudeof reasons, and that we all agree.

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But a lot of EA games areThere are a lot of EA games
that are considered abandoned where you knowgames that are you know that that are
just lost media. Uh. Forthose who want an example, Dark Spoor
is another even better example. That'sa game that you can't that was one

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of the first games that you couldn'teven play unless you I have that ship.
I have that ship on disc,my nigga, you can't even play
that shit anymore, can you?I know? It doesn't matter because you
need the online fucking access. Buthere's the thing though, Like you also
have your mass effects, you alsohave this, Like it's not all on

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EA origins access. It's on multipleconsoles, it's on Steam, it's on
it's on g o G. It'savailable. There are cracked versions of the
game you can get through g oG even, you know, so like
they're they're like a lot of themedia exists, some of it's gone,
some of it's here. We hatee A whatever. All all Nintendo ips

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are only on Nintendo systems and theyonly just let me say this real quick
post April eighth, the only wayto play it is if you downloaded it
beforehand, or if you if theymade some of the games available, you
can download them on the switch.But if they don't make those games available,

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they're they're not there. You're notable to put no. No.
So here's the thing about Nintendo.They did the same thing that they do
for everything, where it's like there'sno crossover, you can't get there's no
no. What I'm saying. Dothey not have three DS games and we
U games and virtual console? No? Fuck them. This is why,

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Okay, I know you're gonna makea ramp video. But this is just
what I want to say. FuckingNintendo needs to go third party like Sega.
Can you imagine a fucking Pokemon gameon the PC. Can you imagine
the fucking mods for that ship.They need to fucking do it. If
they like money and they hate theirfucking customers, I get why they stay
in fucking business the way they do. But please, please, I have

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been saying this shit for like tenplus fucking years at this point, Please
become third party only like Sega.Ah. Okay, they will not because
they're a Japanese company, and theJapanese have a very much a very a
very different outlook on the on theownership of like their ips than Americans who

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specific and Sony has released exclusives toyright. But you also need to also
understand that Nintendo live unlike Sony.Nintendo lives and dies by its intellectual property
property. It's run by old menwho do not who. You have to

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remember that during the heyday of thecontent creator, streaming promotion game thing back
during the later years of the Bombapresidency, like twenty thirteen fourteen fifteen,
this was the golden years of liketwitch and YouTube for video games in streaming.
Nintendo didn't didn't start allowing people tostart streaming their games without taking that

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and making using putt it, usingfootage from their games, without taking it
down every chance they got until halfwaythrough Trump's presidency in twenty eighteen, twenty
nineteen. Now, I remember whenthey margo on videos finally got dropped.
I remember that. Yeah, Butwhat I don't understand, Evan, And

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maybe you could help me understand this. Happy to if if the argument is
they live and die by their ips, how do they not make more profit
putting in on other consults. Ijust don't understand that because they get to

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have it's a control thing. IsIt's just it's just it's a cultural thing,
and it's a control thing Japan.Here's the thing you need to understand.
Japan. Nintendo is bigger than is, bigger than God. It is.
It is one. It is acultural staple, like it's huge.

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Not only that you and and andpart of the reason why they don't have
a really good outlook on like fanmatd content and fan communities and and you
know, people in their fans engagingwith their content, it's because it's because
Japan doesn't have any fair use loss. Their society doesn't have that con conceptually.

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There's a reason why whenever Japan liketries to do a cease and assist
in on something, they do itin international courts. That's why if I
was going to start a rom hostinglike like thing, I I p block
the entire entire I p block Japan, saying we're not servicing Japan. If
you want to sue us, you'regonna have to sue us in American court

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or or like if or or likeor like. If I was like posting
a YouTube video or some or alivestream or something, i'd eye people.
I try to eye pep blocked Japan. I don't stream to Japan. I
don't I don't like. Like theonly way you can go into Japan is
if you have if you use aVPN and pretend you're someplace else. I
deliberately don't want to because you guysdon't have to use y'all because you suck

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kill yourselves, you know, Butthat's you know, it's don't get me
started on the decadence and and andand the in the constant the generation of
Japanese society. It is Japan isin is a Japan right now is a
really great example of what America willturn into with time if if if if

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unchecked, like lead stage capitalism continuesand we don't do anything to solve it.
And I want people to understand somethingvery quick. I don't hate,
Just in case anybody gets this idea, I don't hate Nintendo, but I
hate their business practices. I hatethe way that they treat their customers.
I hate the way that they treatcommunity events and community you know situations.

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I hate the fact that they stopwhat's it going, you know online things
that use their rights where other publishingcompanies and other gaming companies don't give a
fuck, and they let it happeneven though they know that it's not sanctioned
by the official release of stuff.I just don't I can't understand why Nintendo
has such a dedicated fan base thatcontinuously gets fucked and then they turn around

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and continue to suck the teat fromfucking Nintendo. I understand, their games
are fucking amazing. I'm sitting hereas a Nintendo fan because their games are
great, and I'm saying they're sogreat they need to be on the other
shit. It's it's captive audience.Like at that point, like their ips

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become more valuable than the company themselvesand their consoles. Their consoles are fucking
four, five, six, seven, eight years back in the fucking past,
where getting rumors of a second console. Now that's up in the air,
and it's like, hey, y'allhave to I know, y'all don't
think that these other companies are reallyyour competition, because they've said that before,

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But you have to at least makea dedicated ten eighty P system or
at least one that could come closeto eleven forty P, because it's crazy
that we're still running seven twenty andI know the O led mom was no
O Lead is also seven to twenty. It's not even ten adp ye.
It just has a nice scream.So here's here's the big thing right here

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and here, and here's where itcomes with the piracy for me, Like
I don't I advocate if you areif if you if I cannot purchase a
piece of media from the rights holderor through a or through a distributor of

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representing the rights holder, i e. Like a Walmart or something, I
say it is morally okay to piratethat shit, it's not legally okay.
You shouldn't do it because it's acrime, But if you are a criminal
and you don't care about that shit, it's morally okay to do so.

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Because here's the thing. At theend of the day, I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna go pay six hundreddollars for a copy of Gotcha Force for
the GameCube. I'm not gonna gopay one hundred dollars for condemned origins on
Xbox. I'm not gonna go.I'm not gonna spend one hundred and twenty
dollars for a rough furbished copy ofPokemon Emerald. Literally, it's craziness functionally

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at the end of the day.And I don't real quick I just want
to say, I don't understand whythere hasn't been an Amazon with recycled games
like that would be even like strictlydedicated to it, because I think if
there was a gaming hub for gamersto access old games, maybe even emulated

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doesn't necessarily have to be sold,but an emulated website where you could play
name the game, you could playit. Oh my fucking god, that'd
be great. God, that'd begreat, and there were there have been
websites like that and they and theywere good. Here's the problem though,
right, Like, there is anold man who's like sixty something years old

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out of Canada. This man maintainedthe website for some people that were like
selling pirate like game systems and shit. H they didn't touch the people that
were like selling the game selling andshipping the games and shit. But they
caught him because he was They caughthim. They caught they caught him,

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and Nintendo sued him for something liketwenty million dollars. And because he's in
Canada and not America where you couldjust declare bankruptcy and like, I don't
got to deal with that shit anymore. He they they're garnishing up to thirty

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percent of his wages for the restof his life. And I think and
I and I think, and Ithink that can also be inherent is children
will also inherit that. And thereyou go, there you go to all
the Nintendo fanboys, I just wantto say, don't support such a shitty
company. I don't even say that. Like you if they're gonna put out

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a game that you want to get, sure, get it whatever, Like
it's your you're a captive audience.I'm sorry, but pirate where you can
or something I don't know, inminecraft of course, in roadblocks, but
real quick, I just want tocome back to the fundmation thing. They're
also increasing the price for country roll. And this is the other fucking thing

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about all of this. Why arewe losing content and then being charged more?
Because, uh, because streaming,the streaming service model has reached,
has has accelerated path. Like ittook what forty years for the TV companies

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to you know, kind of reachlike their their irrelevancy. Like they're like,
oh, we can't really offer anythingmore. I guess we just up
the price to make the number intoline, to make the line go up.
That's all they're doing at this point. They're like some of the like
some of these like streaming services,they just aren't profitable. It's just nobody
will fucking watch the television anymore.And so you have and so a lot

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of these companies have to streaming servicesbecause that's where the fucking audience is.
You know what, here's another morallyright situation, not legally morally right,
situationally right, you're talking morally morallynot legally, morally, Uh, what's
it? God? If you howabout this? If you pay for four

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or five fucking streaming services and thecontent that you really want isn't on that
one hundred, one hundred and fiftydollars price tag every fucking month, go
off because I'm so tired of hearingabout exclusive movies or exclusive TV shows that
are only coming to Amazon Prime orNetflix or Hulu, and it's like,
fuck you. If I want tosee the content, I already pay four

(34:39):
out of the five fucking big names, I might as well get access to
it. At this point, it'slike there's a part of me that feels
like, why don't we just fuckinguh hold on pause, I have to
go help Metal with something of youright back? Sorry, where were we

(35:00):
before I had to go bounce andfind something real quick? Uh that's a
good question. I really don't remember. But we're talking about we were talking
about piracy. We're talking about fundimation. Oh, just if it's a it's
more like, okay, if youpay for four or five streaming services to
pirate any other ship that you don'tpay for already. I remember where I

(35:20):
left off. What I was gonnasay was is part of the reason,
Like I think that like that thatwould be nice to have, but like
you know, there's a reason thefucking union had to fight tooth and fucking
nail to get streaming services included intheir royalties. Which it's just like,

(35:42):
yeah, but let's be so honest, all of those deals are already done
prior to releasing of anything. It'snot like you pirrating content hurts directly the
actor who does that performance. No, I'm I'm talking about fucking over the
studios because once again, all theyhave all like it's like it's the studios
are literally just like it's one ofthose businesses where I genuinely question, like

(36:13):
how why why not having them allbe worker cooperatives? Wouldn't just make the
world a better place, wet.I just it's one of those cases where
I wonder, why not just makingall of the television, like all the
movie like Hollywood studios and stuff,worker cooperatives. Wouldn't just make it better,

(36:34):
like everything better, because because it'slike, here's the thing, like,
there's just certain businesses that do notneed like most businesses, I would
argue, do not need like onea handful of motherfuckers at the top making
the decisions, and if they fuckthe business up, they get a golden

(36:59):
parachute and get to move on totheir next gig while everybody else is fucking
like, here's the thing. Andit's also also and I want to know
if you agree with this, ifthat small group of people were actually decorated
directors, for example, do youthink that would then better this situation that

(37:21):
we have going on right now,because I think, even if we don't
get rid of the full structure,if we just change one part of the
structure inside of it already operating,and instead of business people you make you
put directors who understand creativity and alsoselling fucking movies, then you get,
you know, a positive. Ialso think, like i'd also think about

(37:45):
all of the money that is juststopped up in shared dividends, executive payouts
and bonuses for the c suite thatare that like an obscene amount of money
that could just be reinvested into newprojects, paying fucking workers, making things

(38:09):
nice. It's just it's it's sorry, the socialist in me is coming out,
like and it's not like this islike this is like barely even like
socialists even it's like it's just likeit's still a capitalist system. Like I'm
just like, why the like it'sit's literally like it's still in a capitalist
system and shit here, it's justlike what's the fucking purpose of Like like

(38:31):
what's the fucking like just in Hollywoodalone, like everybody there's such a like
anybody like like some like executives ninetimes out of ten do not know what
the fuck they're doing. It's like, I just imagine, like creative in

(38:52):
Hollywood just want to Here's a hat. Every time I come up with something
cool that I put into this movie, and every part of the movie that's
cool, I've I've turned into alittle slip and so in this and you
guys can reach into this hat andgrab a few and grab and grab like
three or four, and then youcan hold onto those and when you go

(39:14):
to your little cocktail parties to getsixteen and talk to it, like your
little Epstein parties where sixteen year oldgirls suck your dicks while you have conversations
with your buddies, you can bragabout you I was the person who told
them to use this specific filter inthis specific movie. I mean, I
I am always finding it interesting inall of these different businesses that once again

(39:39):
we are seeing incompetence on the topbeing badly reflected on the rest of the
entire movie, you know, entityand on time and time again. I'm
always like, how come I justgo back to the fucking uh Teddy Rosevelt
thing when he's reading the fucking Jungleand being like like, I'm gonna do

(40:00):
something here. When are we gonnahave that moment again? I would be
genuinely like I think, because here'sthe thing, right, it's very it
and and for those who want tolike have like a very much more and

(40:22):
if you if for those listening,we're gonna we're gonna be in politics just
for a tiny little bit here,but it's good, be super long.
We're not we're not staying. Butthose who want to like hear like more
left or wing politics, uh comeyou come back through uh tomorrow on Sunday
The Red Rundown that I record withmy co host Jules Castillo or just Castillo.

(40:45):
She uh a dirtbag left fellow dirtbagleft you out of al Paso.
She uh me and her do apodcast called The Red Rundown on and that
releases on YouTube and on on onFriday Sundays at ten in the morning.
But what I was gonna say was, I just do not feel like like

(41:12):
I just feel like the I feelthat. Here's the thing. Very wealthy
people, a very the very wealthyclass of people are very much detached from
reality. So it's like there's adifference between somebody who just got rich,

(41:37):
like a like a DC young flyright like, versus a a sackler,
someone who's born into wealth multiple generationsover. You know what I mean,
Like it's it's the problem is isthat, like real quick, what I

(42:02):
mean when I say, like theseother businesses I'm talking about like a hospital
where everybody is literally on the sameplaying field because we as patients don't know
shit and the doctors and nurses arethe geniuses, right right. You can
go ten minutes down the street,fifteen minutes down the street to a hospital

(42:23):
and depending on what what you're ailingfrom, you can either be killed or
you could be cured. And it'sa fifteen minute car ride difference. Now,
what I'm saying is, let's takeit out of the you know,
film industry and gaming industry for asec strictly focus on hospitals. If this

(42:46):
shit was happening where let's say childbirthis the issue. You're a woman,
you come in, you're about togive birth, you have labor boom,
you're there for some reason, yourfeetus dies. It doesn't matter if you're
poor, indifferent, Right, ithappens. Right, But if you come
to the conclusion that this hospital wasnegligent on birthcare, and they've done it

(43:09):
time and time and time again,when I'm not a l Florida, what
I'm saying is I don't understand howpeople are like, Hey, this is
affecting rich, old, young,poor. We need to do something about
it. And it's primarily because richpeople like like like like Back in the

(43:36):
nineteen twenties, right, the waycities and towns were built is to get
to the factory that supports the town. Everybody goes along the same road.
There's the same main road that leadsto the factory. The rich people go
and their carriages to it, thepoor people walk to it. Everybody's on
the same road. Society was builtin the cities was built around. Yes,

(44:00):
rich people have their places, poorpeople have their places, but there
but there's still plenty of places insociety where they're rich and poor interact in
like you know, it's it's it'slike you know, the people like people
like like the factory owner, likelived it the next zip code over.

(44:22):
Nowadays, rich people don't live anywherenear like like the place the businesses they
know, they might not even knowthat they own that business, and they're
off the top of their head.The problem is is that in today's day
and age, rich people are sosay like the rich and poor people are

(44:43):
so segregated from each other that richpeople genuinely have drunk the kool aid that
they deserve to be in the positionthey are, and that they are stewards
of the economy, of their businessesand of the lower classes. They It
is very much a case of likethey believe their own hype. They've been

(45:09):
saying that, like they had aconservative notion of you know, they put
themselves up by their bootstraps, theyworked hard, they earned this. You
know, they are better and theyand they and they did better and and
and they believe it. They don'tThey think that they they they they think
that them having all of the moneymeans that like good, better things will

(45:30):
happen because they will do good thingswith them. But that it is it
is delusional and you have to rememberthat, like you're like, oh,
all of them can't believe that.There's like, there is the top one
percent of people. For if youif you split, if you split,

(45:52):
uh, you know, the percentageof people took one hundred dollars and split
that among like the percentage of peoplewho are like and poor, the top
one percent would get like ninety sevencents and the rest would get three cents
per something like that. Right,So so it's it's the top ten percent

(46:13):
have I believe ninety percent of thewealth, which so so say ninety dollars
because I was doing a one hundredoh sorry, so ninety dollars to them
ten dollars for divided between every otherdemographic on the bottom ninety percent of the
economy, the the middle class peoplewill have say eight dollars like like like

(46:37):
eight dollars, and then the bottomfifty percent will have two dollars like like
of wealth as a group. Nowhere's where it gets really fucked. The
top one percent, okay, hashas has like has ninety five percent of

(46:58):
them, and then the top inthe top zero zero one percent have most
of that. So it's like ifyou cut off the top zero zero one
percent, like like basically, iflike basically that's the fucking like if you
top cut off the top zero zeroone percent, that is like that fixes

(47:20):
the graph to such a degree thatit looks much more normal. Well,
here's the issue. There's no incentificationof CEOs business owners, like very very
successful business owners, to take anyhit on their profit. But if somebody

(47:40):
threw out the idea of, hey, you can only make fifty million dollars
a year in walk away profits,but hold on, if you line my
pockets as a politician, I'm gonnado X, Y and Z for you.
I just don't understand why that's notalso a fair tactic that's being employed
here, because I just think,don't get me wrong, not that that

(48:02):
situation would be much better, butI still believe that it would be a
net benefit compared to them walking awaywith one hundred and fifty million dollars every
single year and then they do nothingwith it. It goes into stocks,
it goes into this it's not liquidmoney. Well, you know, it's
not taxed. You want to knowwhy, Back in the fifties and sixties,

(48:24):
the average CEO pay was only thirtytimes that of their lowest paid worker,
because it were probably protections to makesure that profits didn't Oh no,
you know, you know what thesolution was. No, no, because
profits weren't that high. We weren'tnearly that set. What's it? God,
when you were offered a product,you had actual competition back in the

(48:47):
day. Oh no, no,no, no, no, let me
let me finish, because back inthe day, that was the most prosperous
continuous period in American history if youwere white, of course, but regardless,
you have to here's the thing.Do you want to know what the
price that the solution was to makecompanies invest in research and development, invest

(49:07):
in shit like pensions and high wagesfor employees. You know what that?
You know what the solution was forthat without having really any government intervention on
telling them, like how much youcan pay your shareholders and ship? Yeah,
the unions. No taxes. Aninety percent tax rate on corporate on
corporate profits. Do you know whatthat does? You know what that does?

(49:29):
You know what? You know it'sconsidered an expense payroll you know what
else is considered expense RND you knowalso is considered an expense like like like
expanding the business. Those things youwrite off on your tax. That's all
those tax loopholes and shit that wehave. Those tax loopholes some were obviously

(49:50):
made, like during Reagan's fucking timeand shit. But like a lot of
those tax loopholes existed, you know, to to incentive like saying you can
write this shit off right, thisshiit off, right, this shiit off,
to incentivize companies to spend the moneythat they earned internally to pay people
better wages, give them better benefits, and and and and growth and and

(50:13):
and invest in their people. Andso what happen. Here's the thing.
When but when you lower that liketo thirty seven percent, which is what
it's I think it's currently at rightnow, that money, they don't have
a reason to put it back intothe business. They because the only people
that suffer, the only people thatsuffer with like a ninety percent tax rate

(50:37):
are the shareholders because they don't getto get They don't because they because because
anything that's left over after all thoseexpenses is it's termed from gross to net.
The net's lower because of because theybecause they tax that shit. And
so wow. Even so, sowhat you're actually saying is we shouldn't add
the civil rights movement because they startedincreasing rate tax rates at nineteen sixty three

(51:00):
with Lyndon Baines Johnson. Wow,I can't believe you would say that on
Black History Month? What are youtalking? Get it? What's it go?
All? When they started raising thetax rates aget, it was because
the Lendon Maine Johnson LBJ was theBOSSO, the one who did the civil
rights movement, so he was prettymuch like, hey, we either got
a quality for black people or wegot good corporate taxes. At the high

(51:22):
tax rates started under FDR. Nono, no, no, no,
I'm saying when they started to increaseagain, sorry, when they started to
decrease again. So they so therewas ninety percent obviously is really high,
and it's from nineteen forty four.Just let me say this, nineteen forty
four to nineteen sixty three, that'swhen the ninety percent tax rate was.

(51:45):
Nineteen sixty three they started raising outhigh way. That was one of the
most the most prosperous and continuous prosperouseras of economic activity in the history of
the human race. By the way, we were also involved in two of
the most profitable wars at the timeare war economy. But but but again,
like, regardless of how we madeour money, like, you know,

(52:07):
the tax structure argument remains the same. But I just wanted to get
your take on something. I'm sorryI'm going on a little bit of attention,
but genuinely, you know, innineteen sixty three, after fucking Kennedy
got his dome ripped the fuck off, you know, LBJ was like,
how do we deal with these fuckingblacks? And you know, the idea,

(52:30):
you know, the idea from Democraticbecause he was Democrat. Right,
yeah, he was a Democrat.Okay, but this was back when the
Democrats are still racist as shit,so not to today. So you got
to remember that not today Democrats.The party switch wasn't complete. The party
switch between the North and the liketo the like between the North and the

(52:53):
South was not complete until Reagan.Yeah, and Grant granted all of the
race that's moved to the Republican Party. After after this, there were no
more. The concept of the Dixiecratwas kind of dead after Lyndon B.
Johnson's presidency. But I'm saying,like, since this is when the tax

(53:15):
rates started to decrease. Do youthink that you know the idea of,
hey, we either keep these ninetypercent tax rates or we deal with this
civil rights stuff. Because I gottabe honest, Aside from that, at
the time, what could have LBJoffered anybody to be down with the silver

(53:38):
rights moment? Here you gotta well, here's the thing, like this is
like the economics and like the economicsin the social aspect of this are separate.
It's not like he was like likedebating like like baking companies, like,
oh, low your tax rate ifyou stop fucking lobbying. No,
no, no, no, I'mnot saying that he was out. I'm

(53:59):
saying inside politics in Washington, dC. When he was faced because when
he took over from Kennedy, hehad like two years left. It was
already two years that Kennedy served,So he had to worry about reelection.
And as it's surmounting with the civilrights movement getting worse and worse, with
the Selma riots and everything, theSelma March turning into fucking you know,

(54:21):
police brutality and everything like that,I do find it very possible for him
to get re elected. He hadto kind of incentivide, incentivize this Republican
esque economic plan for the future.That's what I'm saying, don't I don't.
I haven't looked into that specific thing, so I can't you know,

(54:42):
speak on it. But sure,for simplicity say sure, sure, I'm
also not trying to do that.But here's the thing, Like it was
like it was still above sixty sixties. It was like still sixty seventy percent,
which is still really high, andyou know, it's still you know,
but this was also like a timeperiod like this is in in income

(55:04):
and businesses still reinvested most of theirlike stuff because again, you know,
high taxes means you know, likeif you lower if you lower your tax
burden, you can have a highernet And you know, point is this
is that it wasn't until the devilbecame president, Ronald Reagan, that that

(55:29):
that we really that are that LikeI honestly, like unironically, I blame
the doubt, like the the continuedand shittification of the United States solely like
I put I put the I putthe beginning of that decline solely at the
feet of Ronald Reagan in the conservativemovement. I I don't disagree. I

(55:52):
just feel like it starts earlier.That's my only thing, because I feel
like, like, give you anexample, I feel like you would have
never had an acceptable You wouldn't Americawould have never been accepting of uh.
I don't want to say the Tword, and then everybody's like, oh,

(56:12):
my fucking god. But I don'tthink people were ever going to be
as accepting of Trump if they didn'thave a situation like Nixon in the past.
That's what I'm saying. I'm saying, like the shadiness of politics.
I think it really started to getbrought out of the shadows with Nixon.
And I know you so I actuallyno a bit about this. You're not
incorrect, and I get your vibeabout this because the aftermath of Nixon,

(56:37):
the conservative movement in this country lookedat this shit. Specifically Rupert Murdoch looked
at looked at the h the impeachmentof Nixon in to said, the media
fucked us. We like, wecan never let this have happen again.
We need to have like our owncontrol and narrative and low you know,

(57:02):
conservative talk radio like they started investingover the course of the next twenty years
and like they started, and theythey firstly worked towards getting Reagan elected,
and then in the aftermath of Reagan, they started you know, conservative talk
radio, conservative newspapers and magazines theyyou know, and and and it's kind

(57:22):
of and they they wanted to havean information sphere where they controlled the narrative
so if somebody of somebody in theircamp was being a fuckhead, they could
prevent them from getting nailed to thewall. Which is how you get these
two information universes we live in today. There's you know, it's you know,

(57:44):
the the Fox News, Rush Limbaughand and uh, you know,
you know, concerned in like theNew York Post are like are prime examples
of of of that of that wishto never have another Nixon again. I
mean look at from an economic butfrom the economic policy standpoint, oh,

(58:09):
I'll say it's yeah, it's gotit's gotta be. Because it's like even
if Lyndon B. John even whenLyndon B. Johnson lowered the tax bill
a little bit, there's still verystrong unions in this country, and fucking
Reagan recapped them along with the taxrates, which gave corporations the ability to
just run fucking wild Okay, lastsubject that I want to talk to you

(58:32):
about, Okay, because I wannaHave you heard the name Justin moment,
Justin Moan? I have not.This is something, this is something that
I know nothing about. Okay,Well take a seat, Evan, because
this is not a very This isnot a very Sunshine and Daisy's type story.

(58:58):
I would even I even refrained fromlooking it up. I'll just tell
you Justin Mohane is a that's aname. I think he was Moan.
I think it was thirty seven yearsold. I think that's his name,
Justin something like that. Last nameis m ohn mom Right. He has

(59:21):
a quite a downfall after college ofnot being able to, you know,
really find his footing. He hasto move back in with his parents past
thirty. That's never a good situation, you know. He he has a
college degree. He feels like thegovernment has fucked him because of predatory loans.

(59:44):
Now I don't necessarily disagree with himon that idea. However, his
his going about it is quite wrong. So he tried to sue the federal
government ten four times for ten milliondollars. Mind you, his loans were
co signed by his parents and fullypaid off by his parents after the first

(01:00:08):
after the fourth and final trial.I don't know what happened, but something
in him snapped and he decided togo after his father. Mind you,
his father is a federal worker.Now when I say federal why I heard
this? I I know that Iknow this story. Oh the fucking oh

(01:00:30):
lord, this man cut off hisdag and head. And he was a
civil engineer. It wasn't like hewas working in fucking politics. He was
a civil engineer. Evan and forfifteen and also because we don't have many
of those, he posted a fifteenminute video where he shows the beheaded head.

(01:00:52):
He says, so we're he wastalking about like it was like one
of the He was like, he'slike he loves local government, hate federal
government. He shout out his newJersey senator or mayor or governor, I
forget which one. And he saidto his cronies, the twelve people that
were watching him live, he said, we are I am the president,

(01:01:13):
and I am declaring martial law withtwelve people. Now, I am all
for going against the government for predatorystudent moments, But mister moan, we
can't be head people. I heard, I heard I heard that he was
like also going on about like howlike the federal government is corrupt and shit,

(01:01:37):
and it's just I heard it likequoted like Tim Poole or some shit
like probably I didn't watch it thewhole fifteen minutes. I have time on
my I don't have that type oftime on my hands. I'm good.
Also, I don't want to seesnuff, thank you very much. Sadly,
I already watched it because I'm thetype of person who I'm like,

(01:01:58):
Okay, if the video is there, I do want to see it.
I know how. I'm surprised you. I'm surprised you two kept it up.
That sounds like some life. No, no, not anybody who wants
to go there USA Crime dot com. That's all. Okay, you don't
even have to put that in thedescription. I'm good, No, I'm
good. Yeah, I think youwould get deep onetized. But yeah,

(01:02:23):
yeah, but that's like the fuckinglike man the like. And I also
remember hearing that he was like alsolike a ma guitar too. Also,
he gave in his marijuana his medicalmarijuana card the day before he brought the
gun. He also received the gunthe time at which he purchased. I

(01:02:45):
thought you were supposed to wait aweek. Do you hear that the parents
of, like the parents of likea school shooter or some ship are getting
are getting part time for failing tolike pair and ship and prevent their kid
from doing that ship. Do youknow which kid? Let me google a

(01:03:07):
real quick, parents charged because Ithink I'm I think I remember hearing something
like this because if he did hishomework or if he did his chores,
he could go out and shoot somethinglike that, and then he did the
school shooting. So yeah, theCrumble's the miss, the miss the Michigan

(01:03:28):
shooter Ethan Crumple. Yeah, they'reuh Crumbly rest in peace, rest and
piss piss Tess grit think. Yes, well, no he didn't. He
didn't kill himself. He turned himselfin and like his his journals and ship
were leaked. And I'm like,first of all, it's like the most

(01:03:50):
anime main character syndrome bullshit on theplanet. And second list is really,
we should we should sanction, Wesanction lonely ask fucking eighteen year olds to
go get fucked because I'm so overthis. If they just got a little
taste of pussy, there would beno school shootings. Genuinely, you know,

(01:04:11):
it's a really good you know,it's a really really fucking good correlation
or like correlation for school shooters.Antidepressants, misogyny, And how do you
get rid of misogyny. You haveto experience women, You have to be
around them. The idea that mennaturally grow into misogyny is so backwards,

(01:04:34):
the idea that men it's it's asocialization thing. Yeah, if men are
surrounded by masculine men twenty four toseven who are not allowed to be humans,
then misogyny is going to happen.Yeah, Misogyny isn't birthed, It
is taught. It is something Itis forced upon you by society. And

(01:05:00):
you know, if if you don'tknow any funck, if if nobody ever
tells you, like like once youfind it. Here's the thing. If
you know that there's another people,it show you that there's a different way,
and you choose not to go thatway, that's on you. Yeah,
then you are insert adjective here.But if you don't have let me

(01:05:21):
take this back, if you don'thave that experience, if you then get
opened up to that experience and youstill deny it. You're still an asshole
and you're still a racist or misogynistor way absolutely, which which is?
Which is? Which is? Youknow which which? In the age of
the internet, like you have toput in work to not experience that ship
because I'd say it depends on whatside of sect you are. That's a

(01:05:47):
good point. That's a good pointbecause the Internet is really good at becoming
a what do they call it whereeverybody just agrees with you. Yeah,
an tunnel vision probably not, butit's okay. The bubble exactly. You
stick in your bubble and I don'tknow if the Internet really allows you to

(01:06:12):
break out of that bubble once you'rein it. I made the argument that
you have to do real, realwork in the real world to get out
of the bubble that social media andthe Internet puts you do. And it's
in the at the end of theBut at the end of the day.
Here's the thing though, right,Like if you grew up in a household

(01:06:33):
with a mom and other women,like I've like in like you know,
it's like like in your young man, you grow up like and still be
a misogynist like your parents fail yourparents, your mom and your Dad failed
you you know what, I wantto let me see your opinion on this,

(01:07:00):
go for it given my because youknow me so well, given my
background. Do you think AI HighSchool's number one fuck boy for twenty sixteen?
Yes, I know. Do youthink it is? I don't know.
I think when I was younger,I would make the argument that for

(01:07:24):
men and women, like with mygrandparents, you have to go equally as
hard on them. I'm saying inlike an argumentative sense, I have come
to the conclusion that at times thethreshold that I'm not I hope I don't
sound fucking you know, misogynistic orbeing like women are weaker, Da da

(01:07:46):
Dad. But I have found thatin arguments, in yelling, women tend
to shut down quicker than men do. And I think there is a a
ability that at times some men havewho are interested in arguments and interested in

(01:08:08):
getting into that type of headspace,that they are accepting of it, and
they know that it doesn't necessarily meansomething about themselves. It's the subject.
So if I may here help me. But I can see how you think
it's that way. But here's thething you have to remember, right,

(01:08:29):
it's specifically straight women here straight womenare attracted to a demographic that they like
but is also simultaneously the number onecause for their harm, abuse and death.

(01:08:53):
Well, if I here, letme finish. I'm going somewhere with
this. Bear with me, Bearwith me. I just real quick,
They're very go for it, okay, just because I just want to finalize
the point. I was just goingto say that at times, concession meaning
like not being over physically overbearing,physically intimidating, is more uh, you

(01:09:16):
know, more equal than constantly goingone hundred per one hundred percent in the
top right. I I don't know, I don't know what you meant by
that. My apologies, but letme just wrap this up because I was
I was about to get my pointwith with me saying that you have like
it's also you have to remember thatyou might think that like women shut down

(01:09:41):
in arguments, not because it's notbecause like they're more dots all or less
thing metow and I will go,like if we're if we're arguing about too,
we'll go back and forth, backand forth. But you know,
it is a case of your likeit's a defense mechanis and they very and
you and it very well might bea case of like you are safe,

(01:10:04):
you're a safe person to them,but like it is very much like I
am not feeling safe at the momentin this conversation. I'm going to shut
down. I'm going to shut downbecause you know that type of stuff.
It's it's, it's, it's,it's it's a it's you know, patriarchy,
it's it's, it's, it's it'sa patriarchy thing. And and and

(01:10:26):
also you have to remember that wellvery ugly. I think, go for
it. I was just gonna say, I think the patriarchy mentality was more
so when I was younger on thesense of let me go as hard as
I can, because you should benot accepting of this behavior, but you

(01:10:46):
should be willing to meet me atthis at this challenge, like I'm opposing
a challenge. I would also arguethat living in the house that you were
living and growing up, you hadto argue that hard if you wanted to
feel seen even be heard, Oh, without a doubt. And yeah,
I think it's more that than anything, because yeah, that I would say

(01:11:10):
it's fifty fifty because just like it'smy upbringing, it's other people's upbringings as
well. And when you are havingsuch a culture shock of different unbringings,
it's like, Hey, I dothis one way because this is how I
was raised. You do this oneway because this is how you were raised.
When we're in the middle of it, is it better for me to

(01:11:32):
try your like your tactic? Andmaybe you tried mine and obviously not because
that's just gonna end up, youknow, being an argument. But I
but I have seen the h what'sgoing like when the shoe is on the
other foot and the attempt to bemore like my tactic does happen, I'm

(01:11:57):
gonna lie. I definitely feel alittle better because I'm like, hey,
at least I know where niggas stand. You know what you're reading about?
Gee here? What like? Whatthe why is everybody mad at Larry David?

(01:12:24):
People should be mad at him.He went on the Today Show type
thing and he choked out, Almo, that's funny as shit. You haven't
seen that video. Please hold on, I'll pull up Clarry David tax alm

(01:12:44):
Almo. No. Granted, Ilove Almo. No, no her Almo,
but that sounds funny as shit.Hold on, let me pull this
up. Yeah, throw that onthe stream because it's on YouTube, they'll
let you play it. It wassupposed to be a gag Curb your Enthusiasm
star Larry David jokingly attacking Elmo onMorning TV. But boy has it.
I I did a fire storm.There's big reactions that sounds like that sounds

(01:13:12):
like this is exactly what fucking LarryDavid would do. Though I've seen it
enough because this is a show that'sfucking curb your enthusiasm, Like what the
fuck you expect? Right? So, like here's so like Star Trek Next
Generation actor Will Wheaton rages at LarryDavid for Almo attack appalling, unforgivable,
despicable. Get off your fucking highhorse. It's a goddamn hand puppet.

(01:13:40):
And then I and then and thenI'm on Blue Sky, right because Blue
Sky is just Twitter, but betterwithout without having a fucking man child running
the sinking ship into the sinking shipin the ground. But uh yeah,
but I'm on Blue Sky. Andlike somebody says, like posted this and
said, Larry David is gonna comeout of retirement and make it episode about

(01:14:00):
this fucking weenie We'll Wheaton. Andthen somebody quote tweeted that and said every
day we are reminded of the importanceof logging off. I mean, how
do you feel about this, uh, creating a controversy out at every fucking
thing, whether it deserves it ornot. I think I think a lot

(01:14:24):
of it is just I think alot of it as motherfucker's reaching. Like
do you remember like the Grammys theother like like last year where like Bruto
Mars was smoking on stage and likethere was like thing Peace after thing Peace
shitting on him for it, AndI'm like, who hairs, It's not
like it was doing fucking crack onthe stage. Yeah, gives a shit,

(01:14:44):
you know, Like I certainly didn'tgive a damn. Like, I
mean, we had how how I'mnot that this was our generation, but
how many generations ago was it whenfucking Jimmy Hendrix and all these niggas who
were doing Heroin were walking on thestage, Yeah, fucking kochspoons around their
neck and ship? I mean,can we stop real quick? That also
brings me to the avatar of theLast Airbender, the live action one coming

(01:15:08):
in that please let me let's talkabout it, because meatow doesn't Meadow is
like Meadow is do you want toget her in here. No, No,
she doesn't want to talk about itbecause like like like fucking Israel Palestine
has her brain so fry at likehow awful that is, which is fair,
but I'm so fucking dead brain likepolitics, brain and ship that I

(01:15:28):
need light shit like Avatar Like it'syes, it's negative, but it's like
less negative than all this ship,so it feels better, you know.
So I need and I needed somebodyto talk to you about this. Bro.
I just don't I don't understand.They want to go after Digital Creators
let the project years ago, soevan, they want to go after Game

(01:15:51):
I know you probably know this,but they want to go after Game of
Thrones. Audience members to attract attentionto the live action Avatar The Last Airbender,
hold on, wait, Soka.Soka no longer has the arc of
him being aware that women can alsobe badass. The whole entire reason for

(01:16:12):
Katara opening up Aang and getting himout of that fucking glacier was because he
was. She was pissed at Sokkabeing like women are gatherers only Kyoshi Warriors.
Hello, Suki Suki. That wascrush dude, Like, here's the
thing the then getting rid like here'sthe thing. I understand like like that

(01:16:36):
type like misogyny and stuff. Buthere's the thing. It was never framed
as a good thing. He wasalways framed as the butt of the joke,
and it was never considered a positivething. In fact, his his
his casual misogyny was then later rectifiedby him getting like having his masculinity fucking

(01:16:57):
shredded by the Kyoshi Warriors and thengrow like growing a fucking pair, becoming
a real man and adopting their waysand saying teach me, I want to
be better in him earnestly doing it. It's like wearing a fucking dress and
still kicking ass. Socca like it'sSocca. Is a really good example in
media of like growing, of likegrowing and like of like of like like

(01:17:21):
of like of someone who is ablatant misogynist and not be in like going
through an arc to not to beone anymore, you know, like in
growing as a as a person,to like not to stop viewing women as
objects and inferior, which they're not, you know, so pointed. So
another thing another thing, right,they're trying to make it more for an

(01:17:45):
adult audience, which I'm just likethat. I just want to talk about
that really quick. Why can anadult audience not differentiate the difference between a
good character and bad flaws? Butchildren for years could? It makes no
sense. It's also like why also, why can't adults be partial to childlike

(01:18:13):
whimsy? Has Been Hotel is areally good example of this shit. I
wish I could get into it.It is too musical esque, still looks
great, fair enough. I respectit. Yeah, it's like has Been
Hotel's a really good example of likewhimsy for adults and it works like you
and you don't even like and likeAvatar dealt with like adult themes and shit.

(01:18:38):
You can be if you want tohave like the adult themes and shit
an Avatar, be more explicit aboutit. Be more like explicit over like
the genocide of shit that's happening.Be explicit over the war crimes, and
you know, like the like theproblematic nature of Northern Water tribe, like
patriarchical culture, and you know,they're getting rid of the propaganda thing with

(01:19:00):
the fucking Rock Nation, and I'mlike, why, why why are you
doing this? How come the EarthNation? How come the Earth Nation?
When I was a child was walkingaround and telling everybody fucking propaganda that the
ship was not going down, Butadults who were supposed to be more mature
can't handle that. I didn't knowthat they were. I didn't know that
they were. They were getting ridof that aspect of the Boston say arc.

(01:19:24):
Yep, it's no longer going tobe believable. They're not gonna deny
it. And you want to knowwhy the creator the showrunners said it was
because it is harmful for states tohave propaganda and it is not good for
our media. Are you not teachingus? Are you not teaching us that
propaganda is bad by showing it?You want to know how I learned propaganda

(01:19:47):
was bad watching Avatar The fucking LastAirbender. The bossing say saga like,
like the how unsettling and awful itfeels within bossing say like, is apps
so fucking lutely like a great exampleof like under under what fucking planet?
Like, Like here's the thing?Oh, like, we're you're not glorifying

(01:20:09):
it, it's it's you're like,you're you're It's at no point in the
show is it. Is it shownto be a good thing? It's exist
Like are you condemning its existence,like this ship exists, like we as
kids were able to recognize that propagandawas bad. And and you're saying,
oh, states shouldn't be doing this, like like, yeah, I agree,
they shouldn't, but they do andand and and and and and the

(01:20:30):
framing here is showing it as bad. Showing it at all is not a
negative thing you are felling. Ostensibly, the story of Avatar the Last Airbender
is ostensibly a a anti war pieceof media. It is it shows how
war hurt, how war hurts thepeople that are being warred against it hurt.

(01:20:55):
It displays how people are being harmedthat are doing the war, and
it shows at everybody, at everypoint in this is suffering, except for
the motherfuckers, the individuals in powerperpetuating it, the generals, the fire
lord, the nobles. That's it. Yeah, And I think and I

(01:21:18):
think it also showed like the onlypeople who didn't have to worry about this
type of shit, about this typeof struggle were the people who were living
peacefully in the fire Nation. Butevery other peace of this world was either
genocided, destroyed, forced into submission. And how on earth are you seeing

(01:21:41):
all of these childish. And Ionly say they're childish because they were put
in the child version of this fuckingmedia. How can you take all these
childish ideas and then say that they'retoo adult for an adult audience. The
other thing, Aang is supposedly goingto be serious from the beginning. He's
not gonna want to fuck off andplay. And again, one of the

(01:22:04):
main staples of Avatar is him realizing, oh shit, I might be twelve
even if I was child the lossof childhood innocence. I need to fight.
I'm the only one who can.He needs if you don't come to
that realization, especially if younger teams, because I'm guessing thirteen to eighteen is

(01:22:30):
also a demographic that they want towatch this fucking show. How do you
not create that story for a newgeneration of kids growing up that one day
you have to accept, Hey,I'm grown up, even if I don't
feel that way. Also, alsolike they also like if you're getting rid
of it. Also, here's anotherfunding aspect. Let's just bring it back

(01:22:51):
to the to the the Aang gang. They're getting rid of the piar like
the foce motherhood role that Katara wasforced in and getting rid of that whole
subplot and narrative and that nature ofher character. What the is she?
Because what it is sexist? Butbut it's also like a reality that plant

(01:23:13):
that many of women all over thisworld and in this country, by the
way, I was saying it wassexist, like that's the reason why.
Yeah, it's also what does she? That also means she's she's not she's
good? Like, what's her beefgonna like? What's her conference with tof
gonna be that? Because tof like, as a person chase under the maternal

(01:23:39):
and paternal tendencies of her family,she does not TAF is about to be
a black deaf person. She's notlike she's just she's gonna she's she's gonna
hear the vibrations in the earth insteadof see them. I mean, why
do they do this every time?Halo was another fucking example of this.

(01:24:01):
Thank god I didn't watch it,but like frist episode fucking helmet off,
I don't get why they keep doingthis. My here's my thing. You
know what it probably is. It'sI think it's two things. It is
either two things or a combination ofthe two things. Apathy for the subjects
matter, an ego apathy. Inthe case of fine, I'll like some

(01:24:27):
the Netflix came to me with this, I'll direct it. Fine, I'll
make some edits so I feel butI'm gonna make some edits to so I
feel more comfortable with this ship.And the second is ego saying I'm a
big shot director, I'm a bigshot writer. I know what the fuck
I'm doing. It doesn't matter thatthis ship is is a fucking staple and
it has already been written and Ijust have to make some light changes to

(01:24:47):
adapt it to film. I'm gonnalike, I'm gonna put my funck.
I'm gonna like put my I'm gonnaput some effort in this I'm gonna make
I'm gonna like, like I knowbetter. It's it is. It is
apathy towards the subject matter and egolike there is a there is a reason,
like like there is a reason whythe Marvel movies did so well for

(01:25:10):
as long as they did, andthey still do well even if now they're
just uh committee like like movie bycommittee slop like it is it is simply
because they did ay. They theyfollowed the broadly the storyline of the comics.

(01:25:30):
They didn't deviate too much. Theymaybe changed some stuff to make it
more age appropriate for a PG audience, and they just kept it pushing like
it's it's why the fuck did HenryCavill leave The Witcher? Why the fuck
did Henry Cavill leave thee of theWitchard It's because the motherfuckers that wrote it
did not respect the subject matter.And because they didn't fucking respect the subject

(01:25:56):
matter, they wanted to like andHenry Cavill did. He was like,
I can't fucking do it. AndI'm sure fucking four is doing a great
job as Hanry Cavill. But everybody, as as as garylto Rabat, but
as far as I've seen from everybodysaying, they're like, ain't fucking same
thing with Game of Thrones. Thosetwo douchebags were so excited to have to
go work for Disney and get theirnext big fucking payout working for Star Wars

(01:26:18):
that they fumbled. Not only didthere, I think their their deal get
canceled because of how they handled thelast season of Game of Thrones. Mhm,
they or what thing for Disney areyou talking about? I think I
think Disney offered them head writer positionson two Star Wars projects. Oh and

(01:26:44):
then they saw that, like andyou know what, We're gonna stick with
David Favreau, please and thank you. I mean, say what you want
about David Favreau, but like Key's, he's kind of killing it in the
Star Wars world. I'm not gonnalie I I I am not a Star
Wars fan. I hate the StarWars movies. I don't hate them.
I don't hate them. I'm justI'm so uninterested in all the Star Wars

(01:27:08):
movies except for the prequels, becausethe prequels have like the political intrigue and
like subtle world building. I like, did you like the Clone Wars the
animated series? I never watched itbecause I would have told you I saw
clips and I would have and fromthe clips I've seen, I know I
would have loved it. I justI'm not a you know me, I'm

(01:27:28):
not a TV guy. But partof the reason why, part of the
reason why I just say that,uh Favreau is so good for fucking uh
Star Wars. Like Ahsoka, Maybea lot of people didn't like it,
but in terms of being a trueStar Wars fan, from the Clone Wars
animated series. It is a fuckingperfect continuation of that story. Good good,

(01:27:51):
like like like the bring they bringback hating Christensen at so you actually
feel like a Soa and Anakin areon fucking screen like that, feeling alone,
that feeling a nostalgia being like,holy fucking shit. And they also

(01:28:12):
take the little girl from Barbie puther in the makeup of Ahsoka, so
it's actually young Ahsoka with adult Anakin. Like that shit was so fucking cool.
Yo, you don't get those momentswith Marvin. You don't get those
moments with these fucking remakes. AndI don't get why because the people that
they hire to write them are notfans of these media. Not that I

(01:28:35):
don't get why, I definitely getwhy because, like, just to take
your two points of apathy and egofor a second, the main actor who
played master Chief in the Halo series, I think it's Fankas or literally that
hold on, wait bear with me, literally, either him or the director

(01:28:55):
of the show touted how they didnot watch or listen or play the games
at all. That was the firstfucking mail in the coffin. The second
one is after they took off hisfucking helmet, which again, over the
course of five or six master Chieffucking games, he has never done.
I don't think he did it inthem novels either. No, No,
because he's not supposed to. He'sa fucking marine. It's a part of

(01:29:18):
his fucking you know uniform. Whatmarine do you know would go into war
out of uniform? Yeah, exactly. But they were coming out about out
about how the fans don't understand themedia because what they made is really supposed
to be what Halo is. Andnow they're going back on all that and

(01:29:40):
for season two they're actually trying togo They're doing the Reach game, so
they're trying to actually go into it. But problem is is that a lot
of all the people that are inthe positions to do the writing now or
oldest shit, and they're all becausethey're oldest shit, they don't view video
games as an important and viable storytellermedium. Because they don't view video games

(01:30:01):
that way, they don't respect theintellectual properties that come out of that medium.
Hence why things that like, hencewhy we're hence why you know it's
ship? You know what video gamemovie is coming out this year right which
one Borderlands I'm oh, no,I'm so scared because you know how much

(01:30:23):
of a Borderlands fan I am.I'm going to be Who's Kevin Hart?
Kevin Hart part is going to bedeep voiced, mild mannered, calm roll

(01:30:46):
it. You know what I actuallywant the Borderlands franchise. Get the cast
tho stuff. I want to seewhy why? What? What? What?
I need you to say that againfor me, one more time.
I need to hear that again.Kevin Hart is gonna play Roland, the

(01:31:12):
soldier from Borderlands. I hate everybody. I would rather them. I would
rather them get like fucking Crispy inthe side. Chest said, get Chris
fucking Brat to play rob Please lookup the cast list. I want you
to have a full I'm I'm JamieLee Curtis is in it. Please tell

(01:31:40):
me she's not playing Little Jamie LeeCurtis is in it. I don't know
who she plays. But border LandsMovie asked, why do you want to
hurt me? Brian? Why?Why? Why? Why do you want
to hurt me? Why you wantto hurt me? Yo, you're kidding,

(01:32:12):
You're kidding. Not the not thelittle girl from Barbie. She's really
gonna be tiny Tina. That's crazy, that's crazy. I don't see that
at all. Gina Gerson, whois she? You know what? I
can see her as Moxie. That'sfair. This this someone was smoking crack.

(01:32:35):
I'm not saying Pevin Hart can't becan't act like he I mean he
can't in certain roles, but hebut he's fine, but like pressed down
on the show more. I wantto know who does Brick Jamie Lukepurnis has
Patricia Tannis. I see that thathim and Floor. Okay, that's Creey,

(01:33:01):
that's fine. Oh he's gonna beCraig. Fuck. Yes, I
love ka. Oliver Richards is cromIs such an unrelevant character, but whatever,
fine? Cool. Kate Blanchett isLilith if sure, I can see
it? Who the fuck is LarryHe's literally Justice Soldier. It's like,

(01:33:27):
oh so it's like he's like SteveAle, like that dude, like what
literally clap trap? Is Jack Black? Yes? Yes, actually that's fucking
amazing. Yes, that might actuallysaved this fucking movie. That's amazing.
That is fucking amazing. Their genderbending knocks. Okay, go off?

(01:33:55):
Who the fuck played Cable in Deadpool? That? Who should be playing General
Knocks because General Knox is a gruffman, suicidal, depressed old man in
the giant robot suit. Ben byDavis's Marcus. I can take that.
Charles Charles below as Hammerlock, Okay, whatever, Fine, you know that's

(01:34:16):
a nigga with the cut off armright, the half robot one? Yeah,
sure like that. I'm I don'tcare about like I like. I
think I'm just like yo. BenjaminByron Davis is what's his name? Dutch?
In Red Dead Redemption two, StevenBoyer a scooter. Yeah, I
can see that. I don't thinkthey have brick in this one. R

(01:34:42):
ip hold on, Okay, youknow, no brick no more? Are
you fucking kidding me? Yeah,that's right. They don't have the sniper
either. Yep. Oh, Ineed to look at this on IMDb.

(01:35:06):
Is in the second game? Mhm, a box on all their houses?
What fucking story are they telling?If they're telling the first game? This
is so far out of goddamn whackit's not even funny. Like, are

(01:35:30):
they trying to do something between thefirst and second game or whatever? Probably
if they can't, they can't.You want to know why they can't Because
General fucking knocks is dead before theend of the first game at the in
the third deal c what are theydoing? I'm in pain. I'm even

(01:35:56):
if miss Janina Gavincar is playing Generaleven like which which by the way,
doesn't necessarily make sense for that characterbecause you're fundamentally changing it, like like
I'm not saying General Knox. Likemaybe if they gave her like like like

(01:36:16):
like you know, butch haircut andlike some scars and made her grizzled and
made her smoke a cigar, youcan see it. That's fine, But
I don't know if they're gonna dothat. And I'd be fine if they
did. But it's like, evenif that's the case and they do it,
and they do and she and shedoes do justice to the character,
which I'll hold confidence because I don'tbecause I'm not about to be make a

(01:36:36):
judgment on that. What the fuckis the plot of this movie? What
the fuck is the plot of thismovie? You have Roland and Lilith.
You have and it's it's live action. This is an anime. I know
it's live action. I don't knowhow to fuck They got Roland as Kevin

(01:37:03):
Hart. That's crazy. Who's dick? Did he have to suck to get
that gig? Why does he wantthat gig? He looks nothing like him.
He's the smallest black man out there. To be fair, Roland's a
midget. Kevin Hart fits that Billfine. The problem is his voice.

(01:37:25):
And I don't know and like Rolandis a neutral, mild mannered, not
excitable person. That is Kevin Hartdoesn't really play those types of characters.
What are you talking about? Man? He was that type of character in
the Jumanji series he was playing.Kevin Hart was playing the role of a

(01:37:48):
thirteen year old girl who got transportedinto Jamanji. Like, I don't want
to hear it. So I'm Imy days ruined. I want to go
die. I hate everything. Whycan't I have nice things? I hate?
I hate, I hate, Ihate it, I hate it,
I hate it. Fuck you,Brian, I didn't need to know about

(01:38:08):
this. I hope you stub yourtoe when you walk to the bathroom tonight
to know the ppico pits. Fuckyou, I do it, I do
it. I do it. Jackback blackest clap trot, though, great
choice. Here's the thing, Like, here's the thing. I'm completely okay

(01:38:33):
with Jack Black at clap Trap becauseJack Black gives a shit about the characters
to do it. Now. Granted, Jack Black's a fucking gamer, capitol
G gamer, so like I wouldn'tbe surprise. I know that, I
know that his prep for this wasplaying the Borderlands games. I don't think,
I don't. I'll think Hivin Heart'sgonna do that ship Bobby Lee probably

(01:38:57):
did. But he's also you know, fucking Steve, Like, who's the
fuck is Larry? Also? Whatlike Crum is like such a nobody in
the Borderlands games? He is literallya fucking perrot that you should judge Jacobs,
meaning the gun seller Jacobs, likeare you are? You are?

(01:39:20):
Is? He supposed to be playingHammerlock's partner, but now that's not a
plotlight till the third game. Well, I'm saying, if it's like the
first or second game, that hasto be the seller of the Jacobs weapons.
I guess. So maybe he's justan NPC basically at that point,
I guess, But I thought hisname was Marcus. Marcus is here already,

(01:39:45):
Marcus is being played by Benjamin H. Byron Davis, which you know
what I can see that give hima gold tooth, like shave his beard
down the center. It'll be good. But like, I just God,
that hurt. That hurts. Thathurts me. I I I hate you.
But then I need to know whoJacobson Borderlance is because I don't remember

(01:40:10):
she does. I will say GinaGerson definitely, I think will make a
good Moxie. Oh Wayne right Jacobs? I remember that nigga? Yeah,
Wayne right? If he's playing Wayneright Jacobs, that's fine. But here's
the thing. This movie's all overthe fucking place. Yeah, yeah,
it is. If the commander fromthe first game that died in the DLC
is still present while the third gameis going on, huh are they?

(01:40:34):
And then you have Kreagan there,which is Borlance two. That wasn't Borylance
one that much? I know,Yeah, I'm I. I I have
opinions, and I am upset andI hate this and I want to die
and like, and this has goneway over because I know that everybody in
the in the fucking audience right nowthat is listening is waiting for a fucking

(01:41:00):
god damn turnament to start, whichI'm supposed to start twenty two minutes ago.
And I feel bad. So weprobably should end this. Why do
you, guys, why do youwant to hurt you? Brian? Why
do you show me this shit?You literally had the clip this section and
just post it. I already did, I already clip. I already got
the clip. I'm good, allright, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you

(01:41:23):
so much for listening to the rundown. I've got a Winston Cup to go
run, and I swear to fuckingGod if Chars not here, He's the
only reason we're playing this shit.Wow. Thank you guys so much for
watching for me. Follow me onsocial media. No dout two underscore Brian
at No doub two underscore Brian.I love you, Evan. I hope

(01:41:44):
you have a good tournament. Yep, ladies and gentlemen. I also have
an announcement for those listening before Marchfirst, twenty twenty four. I am
doing the Sabbath on March the twentyfirst at six pm. And that sabbath,
your boy is broke. I havenegative money in my bank account.
Yeah, boy needs the help.So I'm doing a sabbathon on the twenty
On the first of March, Fridaythe first, at six pm. I

(01:42:09):
have an entire web on my webapp, I'm building out an entire tip
page with like that will allow witha tip menu that allows you to not
only add time to the to thecap timer, but also allow you to
engage with the stream in meaningful ways, including paying ten dollars and fifty cents
to immediately make myself kill myself ingame, which should be fun. But

(01:42:30):
regardless that, keep keep an eyeout for that in market calendars. Thank
you so much for listening to therundown. Number three will be back next
week. You and I Brian,Brian, don't leave just yet. After
I stop recording. You and Ineed to take five minutes to pick a
time when we're recording, so wedon't have two and a half three weeks
of like no bosting, but havea goal on everybody, Go Go,

(01:42:56):
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