January 14, 2025 • 59 mins
On this week’s show Chris and Aaron talk about: NES toy guns, modular synthesizers, Sonic 3 and Jim Carrey, Babygirl, Nosferatu, Greenland, and Facebook and facts. Please follow us on Twitter @TheWeedsmen420, Instagram @TheWeedsmenPotcast, and on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheWeedsmenPotcast/ Download the rest of our shows at ChristopherMedia.net
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Christopher Media. Let's make some noise from Asthma Core Studios
near Detroit, Michigan. It's the Weedsman Podcast. And now you
have smoked yourself retarded. He're the Weedsmen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Do you want to get hurt?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Welcome to the Weedsman Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm Chris, I'm Aaron. Welcome back. Yeah, thanks for coming
back after you know, we had a little break for
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
There it's twenty twenty five, and.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, well Tuesday is like our day, so like
the holiday's falling on.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, this year we were just like, yeah, there's a
lot going on. Yeah, my first holiday season with children involved.
Holy shit, that shit is exhausting. Yeah, well too, especially
because my girlfriend right now, she lives like an hour
and a half away. So it's like starting like the
Thursday before Christmas, it was like two days here, two
days there, two days here, two days there. Right, And
(00:58):
I definitely see now because we definitely did this. Why
at the end of the night, a lot of couples
at the end of Christmas night split a fucking bottle
of booze.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, wham yeap, good night. It's like a
full time job and you gotta be Santa Claus too
and all that shit.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh yeah, it was just it was I liked it,
don't get me wrong. Yeah, but yeah, it was just whoa.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I just uh, you know, I just get to
laid back now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
My sister still has young ones.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, yours are legally adults. But here mer Christmas. Here's
a bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, part of it was money. Yeah, and my oldest
told me that receiving gifts makes are really uncomfortable and
she'd rather not do it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Just say, you're broke.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't have the money to reciprocate. We get it.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You're in your early twenties.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, she's broke.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
No, the what was it?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Fire? Wow? Already the Christmas five years ago, when I
was unemployed and things were tight, I just told all
my family members, like, it's not happening this year, like
I owe you one, Like it's just they only my situation.
I said, I'm not gonna put myself into credit card
debt over this, and they all said, smart move, you're good.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. Absolutely, No. I don't understand people that go into
debt on the holidays. I mean, I guess I get it.
I get the instinct, but I don't get what people
go through with it and actually do it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I know it's hard up giving my lights on, do
you really need the gift car?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's like, and it's harder now than ever before. I mean,
just what? Who was I listening to listen to podcasts
and they were and it's probably a Pete hole. I've
been listening to some of the older Pete Holmes podcasts
that you made it weird and one of the people
that he had on his show, they were talking about
(02:57):
Christmases and getting gifts and he was like, uh, the
guests had gotten to Nes for Christmas. And he was like,
I couldn't believe that. I got that. That was a
huge reach. That was a huge ask to, you know,
for something that was what was like one hundred and
fifty dollars came.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No Christians, I got Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I asked for Natari Yeah, And my dad was like,
because by that point, like the gig was up. I
knew that kids are listening over your ears, I knew
about the Santa Charade what yeah, And so I asked
for an Atari twenty six hundred because then he was
only fifty bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I say, he's only fifty bucks, give me a guitar.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, my dad said. Because of that, and because somebody
found a deal on and S's it was like called
him on his lunch hour like hey, hey, you want
to pick you up one yea, I'll give you the
money and get back. It's like because but because yet
you were being responsible, I got you Nintendo and I
was fucking I was nine.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was like, yes, yeah, that was like that's that's
quite the upgrade.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, because that was like that was in the herd
of NES like that was right. So yeah, I had to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I had My grandparents had one first, and then all
my friends did. I like, I had a twenty six hundred.
But that was like well after, like I think Super
Nintendo was already out by then. And I but because
my friend was selling his, I got like a box
full of games with it. Probably gave him like twenty
five bucks, right, could probably double that now if I
(04:26):
still had it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Dude, I wrote that NES. So the wheels fell off.
I never even I didn't. I didn't no Genesis, no SNS,
like I wrote, put it this way. I went from
NES to PlayStation. That's how long I rode that thing.
Oh damn, it's like I'm going down with the ship. Also,
it was like, really I gotta buy I gotta spend
two hundred dollars every three years.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Fuck this shit, I'm playing this game they have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
There's no Mario card on the original. Yeah, but now
maybe it's equivalent dollar wise, but I still feel like,
you know, the top tier gaming system, like a PS
five is five hundred bucks, but like five hundred bucks
doesn't even really get you anything. Five hundred bucks doesn't
get you a game, right, you don't get a free
(05:10):
game with it or something you get you get old.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But then at least came with two games. You got
Super Mario Brothers and you got Duck Hunt.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yep. And my grandparents had the whole deluxe set with
the Robbie the Roller Robot or not Robbie Rob Rob.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now the what I from what I deduced.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Rob was bullshit.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You can play many games with Rob. What could you
play with Rob?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, you could play anything that was really slow and
timing didn't matter, which is not the forte of Nintendo games. No,
it's not what we think of. But Rob was meant
to he was if y'all don't remember, he was a
short lived accessory for the NES system that looked like
(05:57):
a little robot, a very eighties like short circuit style robot,
kind of wally looking, and he would he would you
would spin a top right or beIN a top yeah,
or what there was a motor maybe that spun the top,
but there was a spinning top and he would pick
(06:18):
it up. That was his only movement. He would pick
up the top and he would drop it on one
of two spots that would either be button A or
button B, and so.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So he was just a passenger between you and the
button right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You you'd play this maze game where they like these
things these pylons went up and down to like you know,
you had to like create a path for this guy
to run through and not even run through, walk very
slowly through. And he so you'd he would get to
a wall or of one of the pylons and you'dn't
(06:53):
then tell Rob to hit the A button. But you
couldn't tell Rob like you had to push the button
that made him push the A button. Like he didn't
respond to anything other than the button that you pushed.
So yeah, it was it was like, uh, it's like
Professor Farnsworth really long finger. What did he call it?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I forget, I haven't seen that in so long.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He had a name for it. He had some really
crazy name, and then I unveiled it. It was just
a cap for his finger that made it look like
it was really really long that he could point out
stuff with. He was like the pointer riser or something
like that. Yeah, this was pointless, though it was cool
as fuck looking. But that's it. Like we used Rob
(07:39):
once and then Rob when you know, Rob fought the Transformers.
Rob grabbed g I, Joe guys and shook him around
very very slowly.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And the Zapper lasted longer than Robbie. But eventually this
zapper was like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Nah, well, I mean they had duck and then what
was the Hogan's Alley? Hogan's Salley where the guys popped
up right, It was basically like a carnival. Yeah, and
I can't think of another fucking game that anyone played
with that.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean this was before I mean first person shooting.
I mean there were so many opportunities in first person
shooters with that thing. But then again, how you're going
to control it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
When exactly that's what I That's why I'm going through
the same process in my head while you're saying that,
and I was saying they should have just put a
d pad on the fucking.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I remember there was a gun that had a deep
pad on it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, so you could like actually walk around and like
you know, put it up on the barrel so you
could hold do it with the other one.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm not imagining this.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I bet you're right. It's funny, like Nintendo's thing was
like being on the cutting edge of the technology, but
it never fucking worked and nobody really cared about it.
The power glove was too expensive, impractical, not enough games
to support it, ugly, uncomfortable, or maybe I'm just making
(09:08):
it up, seeing is I It has to exist somewhere,
but who knows. It's just pictures of the og gray
one and then the newer one with the orange handle
after kids were getting shot. Oh that's right, the orange
one was Yeah, I remember that. I remember. I don't
(09:28):
maybe it was one of those urban legend things, but
I remember the story of like the kid in he
was in a playground and had a toy gun and
there was a cop that was like, well shit, this
whoever this person is, And it was the middle of
the night. Not in the middle of the night, but
it was nighttime and it was Yeah, from my memory,
(09:49):
it was that one case that they were like, it's
that all toy manufacturers have to like have like orange somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I guess the kid got shot. Remember he pointed it
out the police and a police shot back at him.
And after that, all the guns gotta have orange. Toy
gun's gotta have orange thing on him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And we are such dumb kids. We were like, this sucks,
you know. We'd take them off, like some of them would,
just like the cheap guns. So we tend to just
have like a little orange plastic part on it. We'd
like hack it off in our dad's garage or something.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The other day, over the Christmas thing, my girlfriend's son
comes in and he's got it, points it right at
me and it's like spoiler alert, it came out of
a vending machine. I'm shitting on my own story. I'm
how I'm.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Delivering it here.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, he points it at me and I'm like, and
there's no orange on him, Like, oh, hey, who gave
you that? Because he's got an uncle who he does
not have a gun safe. He has a gun room,
and there are like little guns. There's like little one
bullet guns that do exist. He points it at me
(10:58):
like I don't see the orange. Hey, where'd you get that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Me?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But day got out offending machine? All right?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, no shit, because it's not like I'm thinking, like,
I'm not saying we live in a society where this
kid could have just picked this gun up. I'm saying
he knows someone that possibly should have given him this
little gun.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, or he could have yeah, he could have got
his could have got.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
His hands on it over there. Yeah, right, let's shoot me.
That's not ship on the adult kids are curious, right,
it takes things. But yeah, but it was because the
reason I was like, hey, where'd you get that? It
didn't have orange on it. So I'm immediately thinking like,
oh whoa. But I'm guessing in the twenty five cent
toy market, their little lax on regulation.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right probably, I was just thinking, like the big I
guess Mega They just took Megatron out of production, right
because Megatron turned into a gun. Oh that's right, And
as like I'm thinking, like, so did they put they
didn't make any part of Megatron orange. I don't remember
them doing it. I think they just took a bent
(12:03):
over robot. I think they just canceled it.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, it took a robot ready to take it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Frankly, it's a really shitty design and it's not even
like a cool looking gun that a kid would want
for the eighties. It's weird. It kind of looks old school,
looks like something maybe like if you're in a James Bond, like.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It makes you sure that anything it's that Megatron's a bottom.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And it also I don't follow. It also transformed into
the most awkward looking robot ever. Do you remember what
Megatron looked like when he was in robot form? Look
it up. Super super wide spaced hips, really thin legs.
No Torso was to say with the cartoon or the
(12:47):
robot weird. The cartoon looked fine. The actual toy ye
had like this weird like metal dick sticking out.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh yeah, there's one where he's definitely oh that's not him.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't know. The robot's got a wide stance.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Aid stance in the restroom, That's what I say. Starry
screams like, hey, you know what I heard about him.
Megatron's got a really wide stance. If you know what
I mean? No, No, what the fuck is that one?
(13:29):
Where's the og the one that actually turned into a gun? Oh? Sorry?
How none of those are it?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Maybe I gotta put original?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Uh G one tried g one Megatron?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Oh maybe it is the wide Stance robot?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Is that one?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well? Dad, you also have one of these? You can
just show it to me.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah. I really can't find it. But they've really changed
the design so much.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Are we really that sensitive to guns? You gotta wipe
all of the old images of Megatron?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, Like, there's the original, the original gun, the deluxe
set with the scope and everything, and it was a eight.
It's totally like James Bond type of gun.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is this it?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No? I sort of got like he here he is?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I found him?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Whoa, he's got a dick?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah? He's going in a guy's mid section. He's like
an erect dick. First of all, he's just the most
awkward looking thing ever.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, and that's your like main guy.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Right, just walking around like you just swallowed a bottle
of ed pills.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And I think like it's been longer than four hours.
Like Later are on in like Later animated versions. He
would like turn into some huge cannon or something like that,
but they never did another official toy run. Like yeah,
and everybody else's vehicles, right, Autobots are mostly cars autos,
(15:18):
you know, most of the Decepticons were vehicles. Most well,
most of them are just the same fucking plane painted
different colors.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, that overseas animation and then.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Just uh yeah, there was no The cooler one was
what was the purple guy that turned into a laser
gun and he had like one big eye.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
That guy cyclops no shooting unis something because he's got one.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think he probably was. Okay, I thought I could
find it real quick. It doesn't matter. And even in
the even in the carrtoons, he rarely turned into the
gun because the weird thing about when he turned into
the gun because all the auto all the regular Transformers
were like huge, right.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
He probably had to be mounted onto something, right, you
don't just hop around it. He shrunk down, he would
transform into a gun. There's a scene in the transform
in the original Transformers cartoon where like him and Starscream
are standing there and he's yelling at the autobots and
then he flips up into the air transforms into a
(16:28):
gun and shrinks down to a smaller size and goes
into Starscream's hand and Starscream uses them just shooting. I'm saying, yeah,
it makes no sense, you know, teamwork, and I get
that transforming alien robots make no sense, but at least
makes sense in your own universe. I mean, I feel
we're already suspending disbelief with the whole robots turning into
(16:52):
They just got.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
They got a size relation issue with transformers. They don't know,
Like even in the Michael Bay move, those transformers are
fucking huge. There's no way that you could take the
same material that went into a car and build it
up into a sixty foot tall robot, right, it just
doesn't happen. Yeah, Like, and not to mention that a
(17:16):
semi has got a lot of air inside of it too,
So like, where's all this shit going? Where is it
coming from? I should say aliens man, no forest. I
Actually I have a couple Transformers toys in my studio.
There's uh, not original ones there. There's a little found
(17:37):
these blind box toys that you kind of assemble, but
they were really cool. They don't transform, but they look
like transformers and it's not just like, oh, you know,
clip a couple pieces together and then set it on
a shelf and look at it. It's a full on
like snap. There's at least like twenty pieces that you
(17:58):
snap together, and when it's done, you have an action
figure that you can play with in Poe's nice. And
it's actually got strong joints too, so it's not just
gonna flop over.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's cheaper since you got to do all the work.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's I mean, it's small. They're they're like two inches
tall or something like that. I got a I have
a One of them is an Optimist Prime, but he's not.
He's black with a big red sword. He's called like
like nefarious Prime or something like that, insidious Prime, Darth Prime,
(18:30):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm trying to have to be politically incorrect right now.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He's called dub Prime and dumber.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, you know that's that's tame compared to where I
was going.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, I don't even think that's racist. There's no white
people that he's dull.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, yeah, there's no Coolio. He's a dull hood.
Dub Beach was on the map.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I just finished watching Detroitter's which is a great series.
I highly highly recommend.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Keep hearing well, keep hearing about. It's been off through
the air for like what five.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Years outside of like, how great all the references are
in there?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I heard for us, it's like just well, just for
for us growing up when we grew up. Yes, I
think these guys also grew up at the same time. Issueded, Yeah,
I guess there's just tons of shit in there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, yeah, it's just I mean they have to put
in like five or six Detroit references in every episode.
It's just like it's it's kind of crazy because like
there's plenty of other shows that are like, oh, you know, Friends,
they're in New York and Atlanta's in Atlanta and whatever,
but they don't like love the city. You know, like
(19:50):
shit takes place in cities where the city is one
of the characters. But they don't like you can tell
everywhere that they filmed that was all in Detroit. There's
no filming you know, Georgia for Detroit or Toronto for Detroit.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know Detroit when you see it, if you're from here,
you know it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
All that shit's in Detroit. And they're like there they
work as in an ad agency and they're I think
they're at like GM or something. They get like some
big break and they asked for some burners, and it
like slows the meeting down because they spend like five
minutes coughing and sneezing because of all the bubbles getting
(20:31):
their nose, like we shouldn't ask for burners.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh no. And it's funny because I remember doing that
as a kid. After that first being like, you know,
your nose getting tickled.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But they had. So there was an episode where, uh,
there's like an award ceremony thing for advertisements and it
was hosted by I forget his name. He was like
the other dude on The Martin Show, and who was Cole.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Cole was okay, but.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It wasn't love No, no, no. His name is kind
of like Cole actually, but anyway, he was talking about
like for whatever reason ship how they had to share
their credit, you know, like Martin one, but we the
show won, but we had to share all that credit
with everybody who worked, you know, worked on the show.
We had to share it with Martin and with Cole
and I forget who you know, Gina Gina Yeah, and
(21:34):
and one of them goes Shane. He goes Shane was Martin.
Martin was Shan and they're like what how They're just
like mind's blown. Yeah, they pitched the little there's like
a two parter like Little Caesar's episode. I got myself
(21:58):
a Christmas gift, which you got to do that nobody's
going to get to, which really I got a Mac Minnie,
one of the new Mac minis.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Do you like it?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love it. I found a deal on it. Uhtain
Circuit City. They're gone, what's the best buy? No, the
micro Microcenter. Yeah, my work center's dope and they can't
sell it online for this price, but in store you
can get them for four ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, and I'm so glad I did it. I bought
it for my music studio. It's handling my I also
got some new software and it was just really tank
In my current computer, I was getting audio is breaking
up constantly, so I needed to do something. So I
am officially now a Mac. You' I've certainly, I mean,
(22:49):
I've got my iPhone here and my iPad. I've been
using these devices for many years. I've this is the
first time that I've actually owned a Mac computer.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Once you go Mac you'll never go back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I immediately, like I turned around and looked at my
DJ computer like it was a piece of shit, and
I was like, we got to get you a Mac too.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Fucking hate you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, they fucking Dell.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I went Mac ten years ago. Psh, I will never
not have a Mac. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And they last, that's the thing. They last.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And it's like ever but the iPhones, people upgrade because
they want to.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
My other Mac still turns on.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It's just it's so old. Apple refuses to run any
functional software on it anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Like, no, listen, you got a new one.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Eventually that is the thing, the way that they control
the operating systems. Eventually it would be obsoletely, I mean
it'll still run, but you can't get anything new for it,
which kind of defeats the purpose of having a computer
unless you just have it for one purpose. Yeah, the
max grat uh.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Like iPad right here, this is an iPad four. Oh yeah,
it still runs like a champion. This at this point
is a thirteen maybe fourteen year old iPad.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah. I had my two for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, it stopped accepting updates like five years ago. But yeah,
like it's still it's how they roll.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So yeah, I got I got that, and I got
some software called Modular that is emulations of Modular synthesizer racks,
you know, and all the cables that you plug into it,
and shit, oh the ones the mad scientist looking.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
One that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
They've been doing it with guitars for years.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, so yeah, well, I mean like they've been doing
it for since for a long time. The software is
not new, it's been out for a while. But I
just really wanted to, I know, synthesis. I want to
know a little bit deeper about it, because like with that,
it's not just like oh, like guitar pedals, you plug
(25:09):
it input output, input out put input output. You know,
you have to chain your audio path, but it's depending
on what you want it to do. And then in
addition to that, you have to chain your signals from
the keyboard because that's like the first thing I do
is like, oh, this is an oscillator, plug it into
this and make a noise. And I'm like, how come
(25:30):
I got no noise? Because it doesn't know what to
do with the MIDI signals that I'm sending it. I
have to patch to where I want to send that
note or that not even the note, the envelope, the
fact that the note's on or sometimes you patch it
and if it's a zero through oscillator, meaning like you
don't have to have an input, it's just droning and
(25:50):
you're like, I don't know how to turn it off.
So it's a little bit of a learning curve. But
it's been fun, and it's.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Been in saucers outside.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of shit like that, and
it is it's really inspirational because I mean, I don't know,
like I have all these other software emulations of these
great synthesizers that I love, and I've played around with
a lot, but you know, it's there's only so much
you can do with even like a really powerful synthesizer.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
And then it was kid, I sent you that meme
on Facebook ID, the McCartney meme.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, yeah, yeah with the yamahago, and we'll send him
a csad our most powerful.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
What a Beatle's gonna do with this?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And he does the Christmas song yeah, and they're like, ship,
that's all he did was like hit one key with it.
He's like, oh that's cool. Hey, it's Christmas time. Yeah,
that's right of song.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I guess too. He's got a song called Temporary Secretary
that it's people.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Just say it's oh yeah, I know that one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's a demo with him just fucking around with this
new synthesizer he got.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I guess this was a really big
season for the movie theaters.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I saw Sonic three.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Did you you saw a movie? Yeah, you saw a
new movie in the theater.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
In a theater.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I saw Sonic three too, and I quite enjoyed it,
although there was about fifteen or twenty minutes in the
middle where I just flat out fell asleep.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Oh wow, the.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Movie's a little too long, little saggy in the middle.
But Jim Carrey he was great.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
He showed he still got it, like when he tapped
into I'm a human cartoon character part of his brain.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Dude, he's phenomena.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There were a couple of parts where I actually laughed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, the fucking laser dance scene where they're trying to
break into whatever thing like, but watching that, like you
have to. But he's playing when he's playing his stomach
dro drums on his stomach.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Laser dance scene, I'm sitting there like you're watching a cartoon.
You're watching a cartoon because you're talking about I'm like,
want do you not cover your face? If this was real,
your next would be bloody stumps right now?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, bloody stumps on top of your necks. Based on
what the properties you just laid out about these lasers.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah. It establishes its own rules and then immediately
breaks down. Yes, it just keep like, which is something
that I usually hate in a movie.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I had to be like, you're watching a cartoon.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
This is for like six year olds, this is not
for you, like, and what you're really watching is just
Jim Carrey just do whatever the fuck he wants. He's like,
I want to do a dance scene for this, Like, fine,
and do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I was pretty impressed with the whole thing in general.
I thought, you know, it was enjoyable, even though I
I know I saw the first one, I maybe saw
half of the second one, couldn't tell you what happened
in neither.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
But I didn't know Keanu was.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I didn't know until the end.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I didn't known till I had to read about it.
I was like, everyone's famous, Who the fuck was shadow
well whose Tales Tails has to be someone famous?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Tails was? Uh was Tales?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh? No, I gotta look at I figured it's some chick.
It's again Kendrick or something. It's probably not. It's no.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh shit, it's uh god damn it. Google's broke. What
they say is right. Let's see if okay IMDb season. Oh,
I guess that's not who I thought it was. Colleen.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Oh, OH'SHAGANESSI O'Shaughnessy someone famous?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Or is that like the no game?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I don't know. Maybe she's really big in uh Ireland
voice acting and see what she's known for credits, Bleach,
Marvel Rivals, Sonic Shadows, Generations, Tales Tube, lots of Sonics.
She's the nobody she's apparently been doing Tales for a
(30:08):
long time. She's in She's not nobody. She does voices
on Lady Bogging and Cat Noir.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh, I guess I'm thinking the voice of the voice cast.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
She's not.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
She's the person who's not his name.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
She's the one there that actually does it for a
job on a regular basis. Yes, yeah, dude, Mobile suit, Gundam,
the Ultraman shit. Everything that I've listed that's just going
back two years. They're like, oh my god, this person
works a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Like I got over that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It was I stopped here in John Ralphao like five
minutes into the movie. Yeah, because I haven't seen any
Sonic movies. Get like, yeah, first five minutes, I'm like,
it's fucking gen Ralphio. And then you finally get into
the movie.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He does really good. Yeah, he's he's really good at
at voice act thing without being annoying.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
And hey, he found a way to get paid to
kids movies. Like I don't know if you saw like
a lot of the press for this, Jim Carrey came
out and said I did this for the money I need.
Really funny, like yeah, because it was all about how
he said he had retired, you know, he kind of retired.
He said he did that to get out of people's faces.
(31:22):
But he came, why did you do this one? He's like,
I needed the money.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
He straight up said it, right.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I hope they paid him a lot because he was
all over that fucking movie. There's so much fucking Jim
Carrey and he is working. Yeah. I saw quite a
few movies, and yeah, a lot of movies did really well.
Like I think it was AMC theaters reported that they've
had like their best year in like a decade.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I mean, you know, it's gotta be bad, and everyone's
talking about that. At the beginning of Sonic, the three
main actors are like, hey man, thanks coming to the movies.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, like, well it's been rocky, Like it's not bad.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I'll just say for the industry, right, but this shit about.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Like nobody wants to go to the movies anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Like that was COVID times. I'm trying to remember. I
didn't even see everything that I wanted to see. I
tried to get I didn't get a chance to go
see Queer. I heard it was all right, but I'm
a big William Burrows fan, so I wanted to see that,
and I like Daniel Craig. There's quite a few other
(32:29):
movies that I didn't get it. I did see Baby Girl,
and I highly recommend Baby Girl. That was not the
movie I thought it was going to be. And it's
not even like some big twist where like you know,
it ends and you're like, whoa, it was him. It's
(32:50):
just I don't know, like it just the word of
mouth on it is it's weird. You think it's kind
of weird.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Is you think it's gonna be one thing? Well, like
you think it's one thing and it's something else.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, Like they they set it up in the in
the commercials where it's like kind of a you know,
reversal of the sexes type of thing, you know, younger
man with an older woman, something that we don't usually
see in the movies. And and yeah that it might
(33:22):
be like the commercial scene to the trailers, wanted to
make it seem like really edgy, you know, and probably
and definitely you know, it's sexy. It's sexy as hell,
but it's not like it's not like fifty Shades of Gray.
It's about too, it's not about like neither one of
them is into this from the beginning. They're both finding
(33:46):
it out together. These two people encounter each other and
there's a spark but they don't know exactly why, and
they're kind of feeling it out and it's a power
struggle that goes back and forth, and it's yeah, it's
it's just so interesting in the and in a lot
(34:06):
of the like even the little choices that they make
because this is uh, this uh Nicole Kidman plays a
woman who runs this corporation and this guy that she's
fucking is an intern.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
So power balance.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, huge scandal right there. Somebody's gonna find out. And
when they do that, the person that finds out basically
uses that to blackmail Nicole Kidman's character, not in doing
anything bad or anything to actually act on a career,
(34:42):
to directory something that the character kept asking about throughout
the movie, like Hey, we're gonna sit down and talk
about my next steps and she never has time. Right, Well,
now she's like, okay, well, now you're gonna sit down
and talk to me about my next steps. But she's like,
I'm not gonna tell anybody else because what would be
the point. And you know, women tear down each other
(35:06):
enough in this world, and you've managed to build yourself
up into a very powerful position and I like that.
But now I'm trying to blackmail you, right, But she's not.
But she I mean, it's it's interesting the way that
she does it, like it's not it's aggressive, yes, and
in that it's definitely an aggressive act, but she's not
really blackmailing her. I mean she is, but she's more like,
(35:30):
I'm not gonna tell anyone and to thank me. You're
gonna have a conversation about where my career goes next.
Now obviously she's getting the promotion. Yeah right, But yeah,
I just think the movie is every bit as sexy
as as expected, but way way smarter than it needs
(35:53):
to be. And yeah, I actually I'm gonna watch it
again when it hits streaming. I think it's worth it.
There's not a lot of movies that I go back
and want to watch right away. Uh we saw nos
Faratu and my youngest.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
How is that my girlfriend wants to see it?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Uh So I'd have to say.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I heard it's well, because the thing is she likes horror,
and I heard it's like a fucking porno.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's not it's not.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I mean, I'm not seeing this with her. I told her.
She's like, this is me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I'm like, it's not, it's not. Really, it's it's not horror,
Like there's no gore.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Right, I'm just not a horror movie guy.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, it's it's a lot of it's eerie, it's suspenseful,
it's full of tension. It's sexy, but there's not a
lot of sex. There's like one nude scene. There's no
sex in it, it's not there's nothing gratuitous about the
movie at all. It's all just kind of mood. It's
(37:04):
not a gory type of horror thing. It's pretty good,
but probably my least favorite of Robert Egger's movies. Who
I think I've talked about The Witch before. I love
The Witch. I've seen it twice now, and it was
even better the second time around. Oh god, what was
the other He did something else that I really loved.
(37:25):
I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Like she likes watching weird shit, Like she tells me
about the movie she watches when I'm not around, Like
that's for you, Like, yeah, I have no interest.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
In watching stuff Like yeah, she likes weird.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Her and her dad, Oh the Lighthouse sit there and
talk about all these weird ass horror movies together, and
I'll just be like, yeah, I see none of these things. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
It sounds like she's got tastes Like like my daughter
and I that's we like seeing weird ass movies and
horror movies, and like, yeah the Lighthouses, the other one
that was Robert Pattinson, And.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
But they like being scared. I said, I have no
desire like they enjoyed like the adrenaline rush or whatever.
I have no Like I said, I do not understand
people who enjoy being startled.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I I can't even say that. I don't. I just
I am not how I'm wired. I'm not general. I
like movies kind of affect me in a way that
is startling or horrifying, but like you know, it's more
like a Cronenberg movie will do that to me. But
(38:40):
most horror, even with the jump scares and all that shit,
just doesn't affect me. Horror has got to be really
fun and kind of like I like Scream a lot.
Scream is really fun.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
It knows what it is, you know, I watched that,
But I was also like eighteen when that shit came up.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Everybody saw that though, like you if that that shit
hit when you were in high school. Everybody saw that
fucking movie.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
But that's like I look at it, that's like m
horror movie that was made for like public consumption.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, yeah there's blood, but nobody's like, you know, getting
a limb hacked off and held up to the camera.
But yeah, Nosferato is it's just creepy. It's just creepy.
In a really good way. It's fun, it's not I
don't know, it just it lacks something. There's some sort
of punch that it's lacking well, and I gotta say
(39:31):
that information.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Hey, the word of mouth online has shied her away
from it because she was all pumped for it to
come out on like Christmas, And as the days have
gone on and she's read about it, she's.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Like, I honestly, go wait for the stream. I think
that's probably a wise And like I wanted to go
see it in the theater because I was like, oh,
you know, horror movies like you got if you're interested
in a horror movie, Like, why are you not going
to see it in the theater with other people? That's
horror movies were made for that environment and this did
(40:02):
like nobody. It just didn't have that type of vibe
for the theater. I think it might actually hit better,
you know, when you're stream when you can stream it
on a big TV and shut all the lights off
and just get creeped out all by yourself. I tell
her to tell her to watch it alone with the
lights off. Probably dig it. It's worth watching if she's
(40:25):
into that shit, and if she's seen. If she or
if she's into Robert Eggers at all, I'm sure she'll
enjoy I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was like boo,
that was disappointing, but it just doesn't. Yeah, if I
knew what it was missing, i'd be making films that
were better.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But what do I know. I did not.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Another movie I did not see was the Uh it
was the last Sony Spider Verse movie, Craven the Hunter.
Oh yeah, yeah, I did not see Craving the Hunter.
I've seen. I went to see Madam Webb and even
even after I had read reviews and I was like, mah,
(41:06):
fuck it, I'll go see it. How bad could it be?
But this one I was just like, no, that's it.
I went and saw the third Venom movie in the theaters.
I was like, boy, that was a disappointing piece of
shit that had absolutely nothing to do with the first
two movies. So yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I mean, I've seen articles about how they're they're going
to be readdressing the the Spider Verse.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, well maybe it's not as fruitful as a.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Well, it's not as fruitful as it could be, but
they make money off of all these all these movies
have made their money back, even Madam Webb. None of
them have like tanked. They're just not making like Marvel
blockbuster type of money. But it's uh, you know. I
was listening to word Balloon podcasts and he, yeah, occasionally
(42:00):
he interviews people outside of the comic book industry. And
this was the old broadcasting buddy of his that used
to work on the score on FM radio in out
of Chicago and which, as you can probably tell, sports related,
and they were talking about the Bears and he was
(42:21):
just he was griping about how the Bears are never
going to get better, and you know why, There's no
fucking reason for them too. Why would they Every year
the fans come out, they buy tickets, they buy the merch,
their Bears fans till the end.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Fifteen years ago. Buddy, welcome to our world.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, welcome to the nightmare we have been living. Yeah,
And I mean he makes a great point like, if
people are going to keep going, why would you invest
in trying to make your team better if you're still
making money hand over fist no matter what you do.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
When we went the year we went on sixteen, That's
what everybody was saying, and.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Like you gotta stand up, and like they.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Keep put we keep showing up.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
They don't put a better product out because we keep
buying fucking tickets.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yes, so stop buying the jerseys, stop buying the tickets,
stop buying all that shit, and watch how quickly things
change to our credit.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
The owner just had to die.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, Pallac Patel. I guess is the the exec who
is overseeing all of the Sony Spider Verse stuff and
he's out, See Christmas, You're fired Jesus Christ. But like,
how do you oversee all of that and still hold
(43:41):
on to your job?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Yeah, the answer is you do not. I guess they didn't.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Make money on Morbius and Madam Webb. I don't know.
Well that's so slippery. I mean, you know, they like
to throw our out numbers like the budget was this
much and the money made this much at the box office.
But that's not the end. I'll be all the money
to make off of these.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
It's all about after they paid all the bills, was
there any money left over?
Speaker 4 (44:08):
And I'm just really the goal.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
And I'm sure there was not. Just from like an
opening box office weekend. I mean, it'd be nice when
you recoup all of your profits in one weekend. But
sometimes it takes all you know, a lot of streaming
rights and DVD and Blu ray sales and all different
types of licensing and whatever the fuck.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
T shirts business that has to produce. Now, that's to
produced quickly. If there's no profit, it is a failure.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Yeah, and you've got a really narrow window to get
all of your profit.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Yeah, your windows like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah, these things don't have a great big long tail anymore. Yeah,
they're not coming back into theaters next summer because everyone's
you know, still around the block to see Star Wars.
But Trump's really serious about this Greenland thing.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Huh whatever, he's sick for this ship that comes out
of his mouth. I don't believe it's just him being
him right.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Well, I mean I've seen people have been phrasing it
like Trump throws, Trump says, you know something about you know,
a military option. I just think he's fucking with Greenland.
And it wasn't that. It's that he was asked like
he was basically asked to say that he wouldn't use
the military to get Greenland, and he wouldn't do it.
(45:30):
When's the last time you asked Trump to say something
and he did ye, or do something in that.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Situation, I think he's fucking with people like I'm going
to say it. You want me to say something, and
I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, right, you don't show your hand. He's a master negotiator, right,
he knows, he knows at least enough that you don't
show your fucking hand. I don't know, though, I think
it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I mean, how awkward did yesterday have to be to.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
You're gonna warriers and shit, oh.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Just you got to you gotta verify that you lost
in front of.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Oh yeah, when you're the vice president. That's a risky game. Man.
A vice president running for president and loses, they have
to certify their the opponent's election results.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Josh Stewart said, this is like going to your own funeral.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yeah, And I was thinking, I think the only person
that's had to do it in recent history that we
know of at least what we've been alive, is Al Gore.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Yeah, I didn't really. I didn't get why Greenland was
even like strategically something to be concerned about. But I
guess what I was reading in Slate was that the
fact that the the the polar cap up there is
melting and have opened up new shipping lanes that are
(46:53):
usable where they don't have to like you know, have
an icebreaker to move through, and being where they're position,
you know, like Russia or China could easily have control
over those shipping lanes. And so he's thinking that if
we had owned Greenland that we would have more control
because we'd be more local. I don't know, I don't
(47:15):
know what the actual thinking is behind it. Slate seems
to think that he wants it because he thinks it's
really huge, which they point out it's slate well. Also
like they point out that on a traditional like flat map,
that's like it's warped, you know, like where does where
(47:37):
does all that extra land go when you wrap it
around a globe? Right, so you got to fold over.
If you took a map and cut it and wrapped
it around a globe, you'd have overlapping places. So what
they do for those, it's a projection. They're projecting a
globe onto a flat surface, which makes because Greenland so
(47:58):
much of it is up at the top, it makes
it expand to look like it's the size of Africa,
and it does. It looks like it's as big as
Africa on a flat map, but it's actually much smaller
than that.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
He just wants to meet Santa Claus. Yeah, I'm gonna
go up there, gonna make sure those are American toys.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
They have delivered to the whole world for the certification
they had. I mean, you know, January sixcess for what
happened last time. There's lots of extra security and barriers
and everything up and I mean storm helped. Yeah, but
also like, did anyone think that there were going to
(48:39):
be a bunch of liberals storming the Capitol yesterday?
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Well? Yeah, now they've counted everything.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
No, I mean, what are you going to say?
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah, well, I mean what would they have said?
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Nothing questionable? I don't know, Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
I mean, it wasn't as just plus. I mean, if
you were working security for the Capitol and you didn't
take extra precautions and there was just one nutbag that
tried to you know, do yeah, that's your fucking job.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I mean, if you're gonna try a soft coup like
do it with a better candidate like that's what I
don't understand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I it's like, on the one hand, I can get
the appeal if you're that type of person, the appeal
of Trump, if you're that type of person. But the zealotry, no,
I'm of.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
With the Democrats, the soft coup within their own party.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
No, they could have they could have picked anybody else better.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
They knew that's my blood pressure goes up. They knew
he was in that shape.
Speaker 3 (49:47):
In the primaries.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
They just just go out there, Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I think June was them getting caught with their pants down,
going fuck. We can't explain that away. We've been explaining
it away for four fucking months already, but you can't
explain away live television. Even Trump had the chance, like
you know what, Trump had the chance to pounce on
him and didn't because it was like he was like
(50:11):
he felt sorry, Yeah, you've created a fucking old man
who has no idea what's going on out here. But
this is no. It's like the fox, you know, the
fox walking up to the chicken and looking around like,
come on, man, really, like no one's here. I just
eat this chicken, Like no, I'm not evena eat this
chick this's a trap. I'm not eating this chicken.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, so I guess.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
The Zuckerberg social media platforms now are no longer going
to be participating in fact checking. Calm down, I am
calm I don't care what they did.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
They're dropping the independent agency that they were using to
do it, which the AP dropped a year ago. And
their thing like, yeah, we found that there's still human
biases in these things.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
Oh yeah, fuck it.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, it's useless, it's bullshit. They should get rid of it.
Or but this, as The Guardian puts it, a new
era of lies. Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an
extinction level event for truth on social media.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
This is why I hate the fucking Guardian.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
How do you kill something that's already dead? This is
like an extinction level event for the DODO. Where is
it point to where the truth is on social media
that we should save?
Speaker 3 (51:35):
And they're going to community notes, which is what X
uses and everyone's out of all up and iron about
community notes. Really, Uh, there's a whole giant website that's
community notes. It's called Wikipedia, and no one seems to
have a problem when it works.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, most people confess that they make all the jokes
about like you can't trust anything that you put on
there and all this shit, but like Wikipedia fucking works
and people know.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
It every now and then.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
You do still run across something Wikipedia that makes chuckle.
But if somebody catches it and fixes it.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Yeah exactly. I mean the fact that it's a living
document is part of what makes it work. So yeah,
I don't know, Like there's just no show me where
the truth is to save on social media, even with
they paid another company to find truth on social media
and they still couldn't find it. They still came up short.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
They couldn't just stuff Well yeah, he was saying that
they still came up with information that we still had
to go get fact checked again because.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
There is no the truth there just isn't.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
There's laws of the universe, but politics don't come into
play with that. Ideas of how we should live our
lives on this planet don't come into play with that,
you know, all the major things that we have to
make decisions about on this planet. I don't know. I mean,
why anybody decided to look to social media as the
(53:03):
truth in the first place.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
You know, because they weren't talked to reference in well School.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well Suck's biggest mistake with Facebook is putting news on
it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
I liked it as an aggregator, Yeah, but make sure
you're aggregating the right shit, Like that's what it should
have been doing. Like, that's what Google News is. I've
but at this point I've been curating my Google new
ten years. Everything is trusted. I know where it's coming from.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
I'm not saying that it was bad as an aggregator.
What I'm saying is it had no place there. It's
like you walk into a seven eleven You're like, why
is this reporter standing here shouting like what? This is
not the place. I'm just here to like get some
junk food and get the fuck out, Right, I'm not there.
I don't go to the seven eleven for my news, right,
(53:54):
I don't go to Facebook for fucking But you can
still like junk food and they get the fuck out.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Well, you could still share it, because as long as
you can share a link, you can still puss.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, you can share. I'm not
saying that he should have clamped down on people being
able to share news, but when he started putting Facebook
out there, as as a news site and an organization
that knew, you know, that was going to get to
the truth.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
No fixing.
Speaker 3 (54:26):
Instagram is going to show you the truth where everybody's filtered.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's you think it would be
more reliable because Instagram is all visual media, and still
it's like even less trustful than Facebook is. You know,
people can tell you figure you type whatever you want
into like nobody knows what the fuck We've.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Entered the age where I don't don't even trust video.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah no exactly. So what I'm saying, like somebody could
you know, type on Facebook like oh I'm at this
fancy restaurant, I'm doing this face anty thing or I
got you know, like they could make it up. Who knows.
But like seeing it even less trustworthy for some reason
because I mean they build in the tools to lie
(55:13):
to you.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
Yeah, they use them as a selling point.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah yeah, I mean maybe maybe this is the start
of a new era for social media in general, where
it can we can finally decide what it is right
because it was just a way to share things and
we figured that was limitless and it's not. Nothing's limitless Facebook, Twitter,
(55:38):
none of these no one platform can be the one
everything you know, like your soul source for information and
satisfaction when it comes to contact and getting relationships with
other people.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
I feel in one of the few Americans that doesn't
have a TikTok account left or that left it doesn't
have a TikTok account. But I find myself on fucking
reels on Facebook the same thing.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yeah, I don't do TikTok because I'm already addicted to reels,
so yeah, I have to Well, I can't say I
do it much, but like it probably causes me to
spend more time in the bathroom than I got.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
A millennial girlfriend too, So that's I get sucked into
these things. Like she sends me them, I send them back.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
Some of them are really funny and entertaining and sexy.
Speaker 3 (56:35):
I'm sure this is the thing. We use them to
talk shit about our kids a lot. Yeah, she can't
talk shit about the kids out loud in front of them. Yeah,
but here's shit.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
You have a very narrow window when they're don't when
they don't understand language, and you can call them an
asshole to their face and then you have to stop.
I've said it. I don't know this asshole won't start crying.
I've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Last week was a lot of the like it's like
the eleventieth day of vacation.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
Yeah, the kids are running around.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
The house, you know, just like the coldest fucking witch's
tit outside. Nobody's like they're all cooped.
Speaker 4 (57:17):
Up, and she's just like, I'm ready to sell the
children that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
Colder and a witch's tit and a brass bra.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
There's one I sent her as like this.
Speaker 3 (57:26):
Definitely, like every day between four and eight, my neighbors
probably think I'm killing my children, and all I've asked
them to do is to.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
Do their homework and eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
Yeah, it sounds like you're running a torture house.
Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, it's just some like some chick just calmly closing
all her windows. Chaos is happening around her. Yeah, man,
four year old, it's fired up, it's all over. Yeah,
a feral animal is in the house right now. She's
foorn like two weeks okay, still, yeah, she.
Speaker 4 (58:01):
Gets fired up. Like said, it's like a fucking deer
guy in the house.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
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Don yet,
Christopher Media. Let's make some noise from Asthma Core Studios
near Detroit, Michigan. It's the Weedsman Podcast. And now you
have smoked yourself retarded. He're the Weedsmen.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Do you want to get hurt?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Welcome to the Weedsman Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm Chris, I'm Aaron. Welcome back. Yeah, thanks for coming
back after you know, we had a little break for
the holidays.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
There it's twenty twenty five, and.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
You know, well Tuesday is like our day, so like
the holiday's falling on.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, this year we were just like, yeah, there's a
lot going on. Yeah, my first holiday season with children involved.
Holy shit, that shit is exhausting. Yeah, well too, especially
because my girlfriend right now, she lives like an hour
and a half away. So it's like starting like the
Thursday before Christmas, it was like two days here, two
days there, two days here, two days there. Right, And
(00:58):
I definitely see now because we definitely did this. Why
at the end of the night, a lot of couples
at the end of Christmas night split a fucking bottle
of booze.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, wham yeap, good night. It's like a
full time job and you gotta be Santa Claus too
and all that shit.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh yeah, it was just it was I liked it,
don't get me wrong. Yeah, but yeah, it was just whoa.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, I just uh, you know, I just get to
laid back now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah. Right.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
My sister still has young ones.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, yours are legally adults. But here mer Christmas. Here's
a bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yeah, part of it was money. Yeah, and my oldest
told me that receiving gifts makes are really uncomfortable and
she'd rather not do it.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Just say, you're broke.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't have the money to reciprocate. We get it.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You're in your early twenties.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Yeah, there's a couple.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, she's broke.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
No, the what was it?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Fire? Wow? Already the Christmas five years ago, when I
was unemployed and things were tight, I just told all
my family members, like, it's not happening this year, like
I owe you one, Like it's just they only my situation.
I said, I'm not gonna put myself into credit card
debt over this, and they all said, smart move, you're good.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah. Absolutely, No. I don't understand people that go into
debt on the holidays. I mean, I guess I get it.
I get the instinct, but I don't get what people
go through with it and actually do it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I know it's hard up giving my lights on, do
you really need the gift car?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
It's like, and it's harder now than ever before. I mean,
just what? Who was I listening to listen to podcasts
and they were and it's probably a Pete hole. I've
been listening to some of the older Pete Holmes podcasts
that you made it weird and one of the people
that he had on his show, they were talking about
(02:57):
Christmases and getting gifts and he was like, uh, the
guests had gotten to Nes for Christmas. And he was like,
I couldn't believe that. I got that. That was a
huge reach. That was a huge ask to, you know,
for something that was what was like one hundred and
fifty dollars came.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
No Christians, I got Nintendo.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
I asked for Natari Yeah, And my dad was like,
because by that point, like the gig was up. I
knew that kids are listening over your ears, I knew
about the Santa Charade what yeah, And so I asked
for an Atari twenty six hundred because then he was
only fifty bucks.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I say, he's only fifty bucks, give me a guitar.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, my dad said. Because of that, and because somebody
found a deal on and S's it was like called
him on his lunch hour like hey, hey, you want
to pick you up one yea, I'll give you the
money and get back. It's like because but because yet
you were being responsible, I got you Nintendo and I
was fucking I was nine.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I was like, yes, yeah, that was like that's that's
quite the upgrade.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, because that was like that was in the herd
of NES like that was right. So yeah, I had to.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I had My grandparents had one first, and then all
my friends did. I like, I had a twenty six hundred.
But that was like well after, like I think Super
Nintendo was already out by then. And I but because
my friend was selling his, I got like a box
full of games with it. Probably gave him like twenty
five bucks, right, could probably double that now if I
(04:26):
still had it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Dude, I wrote that NES. So the wheels fell off.
I never even I didn't. I didn't no Genesis, no SNS,
like I wrote, put it this way. I went from
NES to PlayStation. That's how long I rode that thing.
Oh damn, it's like I'm going down with the ship. Also,
it was like, really I gotta buy I gotta spend
two hundred dollars every three years.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Fuck this shit, I'm playing this game they have.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
There's no Mario card on the original. Yeah, but now
maybe it's equivalent dollar wise, but I still feel like,
you know, the top tier gaming system, like a PS
five is five hundred bucks, but like five hundred bucks
doesn't even really get you anything. Five hundred bucks doesn't
get you a game, right, you don't get a free
(05:10):
game with it or something you get you get old.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
But then at least came with two games. You got
Super Mario Brothers and you got Duck Hunt.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yep. And my grandparents had the whole deluxe set with
the Robbie the Roller Robot or not Robbie Rob Rob.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Now the what I from what I deduced.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Rob was bullshit.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You can play many games with Rob. What could you
play with Rob?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well, you could play anything that was really slow and
timing didn't matter, which is not the forte of Nintendo games. No,
it's not what we think of. But Rob was meant
to he was if y'all don't remember, he was a
short lived accessory for the NES system that looked like
(05:57):
a little robot, a very eighties like short circuit style robot,
kind of wally looking, and he would he would you
would spin a top right or beIN a top yeah,
or what there was a motor maybe that spun the top,
but there was a spinning top and he would pick
(06:18):
it up. That was his only movement. He would pick
up the top and he would drop it on one
of two spots that would either be button A or
button B, and so.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So he was just a passenger between you and the
button right.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You you'd play this maze game where they like these
things these pylons went up and down to like you know,
you had to like create a path for this guy
to run through and not even run through, walk very
slowly through. And he so you'd he would get to
a wall or of one of the pylons and you'dn't
(06:53):
then tell Rob to hit the A button. But you
couldn't tell Rob like you had to push the button
that made him push the A button. Like he didn't
respond to anything other than the button that you pushed.
So yeah, it was it was like, uh, it's like
Professor Farnsworth really long finger. What did he call it?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I forget, I haven't seen that in so long.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He had a name for it. He had some really
crazy name, and then I unveiled it. It was just
a cap for his finger that made it look like
it was really really long that he could point out
stuff with. He was like the pointer riser or something
like that. Yeah, this was pointless, though it was cool
as fuck looking. But that's it. Like we used Rob
(07:39):
once and then Rob when you know, Rob fought the Transformers.
Rob grabbed g I, Joe guys and shook him around
very very slowly.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And the Zapper lasted longer than Robbie. But eventually this
zapper was like.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Nah, well, I mean they had duck and then what
was the Hogan's Alley? Hogan's Salley where the guys popped
up right, It was basically like a carnival. Yeah, and
I can't think of another fucking game that anyone played
with that.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I mean this was before I mean first person shooting.
I mean there were so many opportunities in first person
shooters with that thing. But then again, how you're going
to control it.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
When exactly that's what I That's why I'm going through
the same process in my head while you're saying that,
and I was saying they should have just put a
d pad on the fucking.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I remember there was a gun that had a deep
pad on it.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, so you could like actually walk around and like
you know, put it up on the barrel so you
could hold do it with the other one.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm not imagining this.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I bet you're right. It's funny, like Nintendo's thing was
like being on the cutting edge of the technology, but
it never fucking worked and nobody really cared about it.
The power glove was too expensive, impractical, not enough games
to support it, ugly, uncomfortable, or maybe I'm just making
(09:08):
it up, seeing is I It has to exist somewhere,
but who knows. It's just pictures of the og gray
one and then the newer one with the orange handle
after kids were getting shot. Oh that's right, the orange
one was Yeah, I remember that. I remember. I don't
(09:28):
maybe it was one of those urban legend things, but
I remember the story of like the kid in he
was in a playground and had a toy gun and
there was a cop that was like, well shit, this
whoever this person is, And it was the middle of
the night. Not in the middle of the night, but
it was nighttime and it was Yeah, from my memory,
(09:49):
it was that one case that they were like, it's
that all toy manufacturers have to like have like orange somewhere.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I guess the kid got shot. Remember he pointed it
out the police and a police shot back at him.
And after that, all the guns gotta have orange. Toy
gun's gotta have orange thing on him.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And we are such dumb kids. We were like, this sucks,
you know. We'd take them off, like some of them would,
just like the cheap guns. So we tend to just
have like a little orange plastic part on it. We'd
like hack it off in our dad's garage or something.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
The other day, over the Christmas thing, my girlfriend's son
comes in and he's got it, points it right at
me and it's like spoiler alert, it came out of
a vending machine. I'm shitting on my own story. I'm
how I'm.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Delivering it here.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, he points it at me and I'm like, and
there's no orange on him, Like, oh, hey, who gave
you that? Because he's got an uncle who he does
not have a gun safe. He has a gun room,
and there are like little guns. There's like little one
bullet guns that do exist. He points it at me
(10:58):
like I don't see the orange. Hey, where'd you get that? Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Me?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But day got out offending machine? All right?
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, no shit, because it's not like I'm thinking, like,
I'm not saying we live in a society where this
kid could have just picked this gun up. I'm saying
he knows someone that possibly should have given him this
little gun.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, or he could have yeah, he could have got
his could have got.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
His hands on it over there. Yeah, right, let's shoot me.
That's not ship on the adult kids are curious, right,
it takes things. But yeah, but it was because the
reason I was like, hey, where'd you get that? It
didn't have orange on it. So I'm immediately thinking like,
oh whoa. But I'm guessing in the twenty five cent
toy market, their little lax on regulation.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right probably, I was just thinking, like the big I
guess Mega They just took Megatron out of production, right
because Megatron turned into a gun. Oh that's right, And
as like I'm thinking, like, so did they put they
didn't make any part of Megatron orange. I don't remember
them doing it. I think they just took a bent
(12:03):
over robot. I think they just canceled it.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Well, it took a robot ready to take it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Frankly, it's a really shitty design and it's not even
like a cool looking gun that a kid would want
for the eighties. It's weird. It kind of looks old school,
looks like something maybe like if you're in a James Bond, like.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It makes you sure that anything it's that Megatron's a bottom.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
And it also I don't follow. It also transformed into
the most awkward looking robot ever. Do you remember what
Megatron looked like when he was in robot form? Look
it up. Super super wide spaced hips, really thin legs.
No Torso was to say with the cartoon or the
(12:47):
robot weird. The cartoon looked fine. The actual toy ye
had like this weird like metal dick sticking out.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Oh yeah, there's one where he's definitely oh that's not him.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I don't know. The robot's got a wide stance.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Aid stance in the restroom, That's what I say. Starry
screams like, hey, you know what I heard about him.
Megatron's got a really wide stance. If you know what
I mean? No, No, what the fuck is that one?
(13:29):
Where's the og the one that actually turned into a gun? Oh? Sorry?
How none of those are it?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Maybe I gotta put original?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Uh G one tried g one Megatron?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Oh maybe it is the wide Stance robot?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Is that one?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Well? Dad, you also have one of these? You can
just show it to me.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah. I really can't find it. But they've really changed
the design so much.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Are we really that sensitive to guns? You gotta wipe
all of the old images of Megatron?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Come on?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, Like, there's the original, the original gun, the deluxe
set with the scope and everything, and it was a eight.
It's totally like James Bond type of gun.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Is this it?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
No? I sort of got like he here he is?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
I found him?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Whoa, he's got a dick?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yeah? He's going in a guy's mid section. He's like
an erect dick. First of all, he's just the most
awkward looking thing ever.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, and that's your like main guy.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Right, just walking around like you just swallowed a bottle
of ed pills.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
And I think like it's been longer than four hours.
Like Later are on in like Later animated versions. He
would like turn into some huge cannon or something like that,
but they never did another official toy run. Like yeah,
and everybody else's vehicles, right, Autobots are mostly cars autos,
(15:18):
you know, most of the Decepticons were vehicles. Most well,
most of them are just the same fucking plane painted
different colors.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah, that overseas animation and then.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Just uh yeah, there was no The cooler one was
what was the purple guy that turned into a laser
gun and he had like one big eye.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
That guy cyclops no shooting unis something because he's got one.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
I think he probably was. Okay, I thought I could
find it real quick. It doesn't matter. And even in
the even in the carrtoons, he rarely turned into the
gun because the weird thing about when he turned into
the gun because all the auto all the regular Transformers
were like huge, right.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
He probably had to be mounted onto something, right, you
don't just hop around it. He shrunk down, he would
transform into a gun. There's a scene in the transform
in the original Transformers cartoon where like him and Starscream
are standing there and he's yelling at the autobots and
then he flips up into the air transforms into a
(16:28):
gun and shrinks down to a smaller size and goes
into Starscream's hand and Starscream uses them just shooting. I'm saying, yeah,
it makes no sense, you know, teamwork, and I get
that transforming alien robots make no sense, but at least
makes sense in your own universe. I mean, I feel
we're already suspending disbelief with the whole robots turning into
(16:52):
They just got.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
They got a size relation issue with transformers. They don't know,
Like even in the Michael Bay move, those transformers are
fucking huge. There's no way that you could take the
same material that went into a car and build it
up into a sixty foot tall robot, right, it just
doesn't happen. Yeah, Like, and not to mention that a
(17:16):
semi has got a lot of air inside of it too,
So like, where's all this shit going? Where is it
coming from? I should say aliens man, no forest. I
Actually I have a couple Transformers toys in my studio.
There's uh, not original ones there. There's a little found
(17:37):
these blind box toys that you kind of assemble, but
they were really cool. They don't transform, but they look
like transformers and it's not just like, oh, you know,
clip a couple pieces together and then set it on
a shelf and look at it. It's a full on
like snap. There's at least like twenty pieces that you
(17:58):
snap together, and when it's done, you have an action
figure that you can play with in Poe's nice. And
it's actually got strong joints too, so it's not just
gonna flop over.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
It's cheaper since you got to do all the work.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's I mean, it's small. They're they're like two inches
tall or something like that. I got a I have
a One of them is an Optimist Prime, but he's not.
He's black with a big red sword. He's called like
like nefarious Prime or something like that, insidious Prime, Darth Prime,
(18:30):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I'm trying to have to be politically incorrect right now.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
He's called dub Prime and dumber.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, you know that's that's tame compared to where I
was going.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Yeah, I don't even think that's racist. There's no white
people that he's dull.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I mean, yeah, there's no Coolio. He's a dull hood.
Dub Beach was on the map.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I just finished watching Detroitter's which is a great series.
I highly highly recommend.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Keep hearing well, keep hearing about. It's been off through
the air for like what five.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Years outside of like, how great all the references are
in there?
Speaker 3 (19:17):
I heard for us, it's like just well, just for
for us growing up when we grew up. Yes, I
think these guys also grew up at the same time. Issueded, Yeah,
I guess there's just tons of shit in there.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, yeah, it's just I mean they have to put
in like five or six Detroit references in every episode.
It's just like it's it's kind of crazy because like
there's plenty of other shows that are like, oh, you know, Friends,
they're in New York and Atlanta's in Atlanta and whatever,
but they don't like love the city. You know, like
(19:50):
shit takes place in cities where the city is one
of the characters. But they don't like you can tell
everywhere that they filmed that was all in Detroit. There's
no filming you know, Georgia for Detroit or Toronto for Detroit.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
You know Detroit when you see it, if you're from here,
you know it.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
All that shit's in Detroit. And they're like there they
work as in an ad agency and they're I think
they're at like GM or something. They get like some
big break and they asked for some burners, and it
like slows the meeting down because they spend like five
minutes coughing and sneezing because of all the bubbles getting
(20:31):
their nose, like we shouldn't ask for burners.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oh no. And it's funny because I remember doing that
as a kid. After that first being like, you know,
your nose getting tickled.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
But they had. So there was an episode where, uh,
there's like an award ceremony thing for advertisements and it
was hosted by I forget his name. He was like
the other dude on The Martin Show, and who was Cole.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Cole was okay, but.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It wasn't love No, no, no. His name is kind
of like Cole actually, but anyway, he was talking about
like for whatever reason ship how they had to share
their credit, you know, like Martin one, but we the
show won, but we had to share all that credit
with everybody who worked, you know, worked on the show.
We had to share it with Martin and with Cole
and I forget who you know, Gina Gina Yeah, and
(21:34):
and one of them goes Shane. He goes Shane was Martin.
Martin was Shan and they're like what how They're just
like mind's blown. Yeah, they pitched the little there's like
a two parter like Little Caesar's episode. I got myself
(21:58):
a Christmas gift, which you got to do that nobody's
going to get to, which really I got a Mac Minnie,
one of the new Mac minis.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Do you like it?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I love it. I found a deal on it. Uhtain
Circuit City. They're gone, what's the best buy? No, the
micro Microcenter. Yeah, my work center's dope and they can't
sell it online for this price, but in store you
can get them for four ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yeah, and I'm so glad I did it. I bought
it for my music studio. It's handling my I also
got some new software and it was just really tank
In my current computer, I was getting audio is breaking
up constantly, so I needed to do something. So I
am officially now a Mac. You' I've certainly, I mean,
(22:49):
I've got my iPhone here and my iPad. I've been
using these devices for many years. I've this is the
first time that I've actually owned a Mac computer.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Once you go Mac you'll never go back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I immediately, like I turned around and looked at my
DJ computer like it was a piece of shit, and
I was like, we got to get you a Mac too.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Fucking hate you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Yeah, they fucking Dell.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I went Mac ten years ago. Psh, I will never
not have a Mac. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
And they last, that's the thing. They last.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And it's like ever but the iPhones, people upgrade because
they want to.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
My other Mac still turns on.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
It's just it's so old. Apple refuses to run any
functional software on it anymore.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Like, no, listen, you got a new one.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Eventually that is the thing, the way that they control
the operating systems. Eventually it would be obsoletely, I mean
it'll still run, but you can't get anything new for it,
which kind of defeats the purpose of having a computer
unless you just have it for one purpose. Yeah, the
max grat uh.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Like iPad right here, this is an iPad four. Oh yeah,
it still runs like a champion. This at this point
is a thirteen maybe fourteen year old iPad.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah. I had my two for a long long time.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, it stopped accepting updates like five years ago. But yeah,
like it's still it's how they roll.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
So yeah, I got I got that, and I got
some software called Modular that is emulations of Modular synthesizer racks,
you know, and all the cables that you plug into it,
and shit, oh the ones the mad scientist looking.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
One that makes sense.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
They've been doing it with guitars for years.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, so yeah, well, I mean like they've been doing
it for since for a long time. The software is
not new, it's been out for a while. But I
just really wanted to, I know, synthesis. I want to
know a little bit deeper about it, because like with that,
it's not just like oh, like guitar pedals, you plug
(25:09):
it input output, input out put input output. You know,
you have to chain your audio path, but it's depending
on what you want it to do. And then in
addition to that, you have to chain your signals from
the keyboard because that's like the first thing I do
is like, oh, this is an oscillator, plug it into
this and make a noise. And I'm like, how come
(25:30):
I got no noise? Because it doesn't know what to
do with the MIDI signals that I'm sending it. I
have to patch to where I want to send that
note or that not even the note, the envelope, the
fact that the note's on or sometimes you patch it
and if it's a zero through oscillator, meaning like you
don't have to have an input, it's just droning and
(25:50):
you're like, I don't know how to turn it off.
So it's a little bit of a learning curve. But
it's been fun, and it's.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Been in saucers outside.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of shit like that, and
it is it's really inspirational because I mean, I don't know,
like I have all these other software emulations of these
great synthesizers that I love, and I've played around with
a lot, but you know, it's there's only so much
you can do with even like a really powerful synthesizer.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
And then it was kid, I sent you that meme
on Facebook ID, the McCartney meme.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, yeah, yeah with the yamahago, and we'll send him
a csad our most powerful.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
What a Beatle's gonna do with this?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
And he does the Christmas song yeah, and they're like, ship,
that's all he did was like hit one key with it.
He's like, oh that's cool. Hey, it's Christmas time. Yeah,
that's right of song.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I guess too. He's got a song called Temporary Secretary
that it's people.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Just say it's oh yeah, I know that one.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
It's a demo with him just fucking around with this
new synthesizer he got.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I guess this was a really big
season for the movie theaters.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
I saw Sonic three.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Did you you saw a movie? Yeah, you saw a
new movie in the theater.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
In a theater.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I saw Sonic three too, and I quite enjoyed it,
although there was about fifteen or twenty minutes in the
middle where I just flat out fell asleep.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Oh wow, the.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Movie's a little too long, little saggy in the middle.
But Jim Carrey he was great.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
He showed he still got it, like when he tapped
into I'm a human cartoon character part of his brain.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Dude, he's phenomena.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
There were a couple of parts where I actually laughed.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, the fucking laser dance scene where they're trying to
break into whatever thing like, but watching that, like you
have to. But he's playing when he's playing his stomach
dro drums on his stomach.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Laser dance scene, I'm sitting there like you're watching a cartoon.
You're watching a cartoon because you're talking about I'm like,
want do you not cover your face? If this was real,
your next would be bloody stumps right now?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, bloody stumps on top of your necks. Based on
what the properties you just laid out about these lasers.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Yeah, yeah. It establishes its own rules and then immediately
breaks down. Yes, it just keep like, which is something
that I usually hate in a movie.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I had to be like, you're watching a cartoon.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
This is for like six year olds, this is not
for you, like, and what you're really watching is just
Jim Carrey just do whatever the fuck he wants. He's like,
I want to do a dance scene for this, Like, fine,
and do whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
But yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
I was pretty impressed with the whole thing in general.
I thought, you know, it was enjoyable, even though I
I know I saw the first one, I maybe saw
half of the second one, couldn't tell you what happened
in neither.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
But I didn't know Keanu was.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I didn't know until the end.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I didn't known till I had to read about it.
I was like, everyone's famous, Who the fuck was shadow
well whose Tales Tails has to be someone famous?
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Tails was? Uh was Tales?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Oh? No, I gotta look at I figured it's some chick.
It's again Kendrick or something. It's probably not. It's no.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Oh shit, it's uh god damn it. Google's broke. What
they say is right. Let's see if okay IMDb season. Oh,
I guess that's not who I thought it was. Colleen.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Oh, OH'SHAGANESSI O'Shaughnessy someone famous?
Speaker 4 (29:44):
Or is that like the no game?
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I don't know. Maybe she's really big in uh Ireland
voice acting and see what she's known for credits, Bleach,
Marvel Rivals, Sonic Shadows, Generations, Tales Tube, lots of Sonics.
She's the nobody she's apparently been doing Tales for a
(30:08):
long time. She's in She's not nobody. She does voices
on Lady Bogging and Cat Noir.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Oh, I guess I'm thinking the voice of the voice cast.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
She's not.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
She's the person who's not his name.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
She's the one there that actually does it for a
job on a regular basis. Yes, yeah, dude, Mobile suit, Gundam,
the Ultraman shit. Everything that I've listed that's just going
back two years. They're like, oh my god, this person
works a lot.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Like I got over that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
It was I stopped here in John Ralphao like five
minutes into the movie. Yeah, because I haven't seen any
Sonic movies. Get like, yeah, first five minutes, I'm like,
it's fucking gen Ralphio. And then you finally get into
the movie.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
He does really good. Yeah, he's he's really good at
at voice act thing without being annoying.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
And hey, he found a way to get paid to
kids movies. Like I don't know if you saw like
a lot of the press for this, Jim Carrey came
out and said I did this for the money I need.
Really funny, like yeah, because it was all about how
he said he had retired, you know, he kind of retired.
He said he did that to get out of people's faces.
(31:22):
But he came, why did you do this one? He's like,
I needed the money.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
He straight up said it, right.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
I hope they paid him a lot because he was
all over that fucking movie. There's so much fucking Jim
Carrey and he is working. Yeah. I saw quite a
few movies, and yeah, a lot of movies did really well.
Like I think it was AMC theaters reported that they've
had like their best year in like a decade.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
I mean, you know, it's gotta be bad, and everyone's
talking about that. At the beginning of Sonic, the three
main actors are like, hey man, thanks coming to the movies.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah, like, well it's been rocky, Like it's not bad.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
I don't like this.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
I'll just say for the industry, right, but this shit about.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Like nobody wants to go to the movies anymore.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Like that was COVID times. I'm trying to remember. I
didn't even see everything that I wanted to see. I
tried to get I didn't get a chance to go
see Queer. I heard it was all right, but I'm
a big William Burrows fan, so I wanted to see that,
and I like Daniel Craig. There's quite a few other
(32:29):
movies that I didn't get it. I did see Baby Girl,
and I highly recommend Baby Girl. That was not the
movie I thought it was going to be. And it's
not even like some big twist where like you know,
it ends and you're like, whoa, it was him. It's
(32:50):
just I don't know, like it just the word of
mouth on it is it's weird. You think it's kind
of weird.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Is you think it's gonna be one thing? Well, like
you think it's one thing and it's something else.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
Yeah, Like they they set it up in the in
the commercials where it's like kind of a you know,
reversal of the sexes type of thing, you know, younger
man with an older woman, something that we don't usually
see in the movies. And and yeah that it might
(33:22):
be like the commercial scene to the trailers, wanted to
make it seem like really edgy, you know, and probably
and definitely you know, it's sexy. It's sexy as hell,
but it's not like it's not like fifty Shades of Gray.
It's about too, it's not about like neither one of
them is into this from the beginning. They're both finding
(33:46):
it out together. These two people encounter each other and
there's a spark but they don't know exactly why, and
they're kind of feeling it out and it's a power
struggle that goes back and forth, and it's yeah, it's
it's just so interesting in the and in a lot
(34:06):
of the like even the little choices that they make
because this is uh, this uh Nicole Kidman plays a
woman who runs this corporation and this guy that she's
fucking is an intern.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
So power balance.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, huge scandal right there. Somebody's gonna find out. And
when they do that, the person that finds out basically
uses that to blackmail Nicole Kidman's character, not in doing
anything bad or anything to actually act on a career,
(34:42):
to directory something that the character kept asking about throughout
the movie, like Hey, we're gonna sit down and talk
about my next steps and she never has time. Right, Well,
now she's like, okay, well, now you're gonna sit down
and talk to me about my next steps. But she's like,
I'm not gonna tell anybody else because what would be
the point. And you know, women tear down each other
(35:06):
enough in this world, and you've managed to build yourself
up into a very powerful position and I like that.
But now I'm trying to blackmail you, right, But she's not.
But she I mean, it's it's interesting the way that
she does it, like it's not it's aggressive, yes, and
in that it's definitely an aggressive act, but she's not
really blackmailing her. I mean she is, but she's more like,
(35:30):
I'm not gonna tell anyone and to thank me. You're
gonna have a conversation about where my career goes next.
Now obviously she's getting the promotion. Yeah right, But yeah,
I just think the movie is every bit as sexy
as as expected, but way way smarter than it needs
(35:53):
to be. And yeah, I actually I'm gonna watch it
again when it hits streaming. I think it's worth it.
There's not a lot of movies that I go back
and want to watch right away. Uh we saw nos
Faratu and my youngest.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
How is that my girlfriend wants to see it?
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Uh So I'd have to say.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
I heard it's well, because the thing is she likes horror,
and I heard it's like a fucking porno.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's not it's not.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
I mean, I'm not seeing this with her. I told her.
She's like, this is me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I'm like, it's not, it's not. Really, it's it's not horror,
Like there's no gore.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Right, I'm just not a horror movie guy.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, it's it's a lot of it's eerie, it's suspenseful,
it's full of tension. It's sexy, but there's not a
lot of sex. There's like one nude scene. There's no
sex in it, it's not there's nothing gratuitous about the
movie at all. It's all just kind of mood. It's
(37:04):
not a gory type of horror thing. It's pretty good,
but probably my least favorite of Robert Egger's movies. Who
I think I've talked about The Witch before. I love
The Witch. I've seen it twice now, and it was
even better the second time around. Oh god, what was
the other He did something else that I really loved.
(37:25):
I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Like she likes watching weird shit, Like she tells me
about the movie she watches when I'm not around, Like
that's for you, Like, yeah, I have no interest.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
In watching stuff Like yeah, she likes weird.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Her and her dad, Oh the Lighthouse sit there and
talk about all these weird ass horror movies together, and
I'll just be like, yeah, I see none of these things. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
It sounds like she's got tastes Like like my daughter
and I that's we like seeing weird ass movies and
horror movies, and like, yeah the Lighthouses, the other one
that was Robert Pattinson, And.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
But they like being scared. I said, I have no
desire like they enjoyed like the adrenaline rush or whatever.
I have no Like I said, I do not understand
people who enjoy being startled.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I I can't even say that. I don't. I just
I am not how I'm wired. I'm not general. I
like movies kind of affect me in a way that
is startling or horrifying, but like you know, it's more
like a Cronenberg movie will do that to me. But
(38:40):
most horror, even with the jump scares and all that shit,
just doesn't affect me. Horror has got to be really
fun and kind of like I like Scream a lot.
Scream is really fun.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
It knows what it is, you know, I watched that,
But I was also like eighteen when that shit came up.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Everybody saw that though, like you if that that shit
hit when you were in high school. Everybody saw that
fucking movie.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
But that's like I look at it, that's like m
horror movie that was made for like public consumption.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, yeah there's blood, but nobody's like, you know, getting
a limb hacked off and held up to the camera.
But yeah, Nosferato is it's just creepy. It's just creepy.
In a really good way. It's fun, it's not I
don't know, it just it lacks something. There's some sort
of punch that it's lacking well, and I gotta say
(39:31):
that information.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Hey, the word of mouth online has shied her away
from it because she was all pumped for it to
come out on like Christmas, And as the days have
gone on and she's read about it, she's.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Like, I honestly, go wait for the stream. I think
that's probably a wise And like I wanted to go
see it in the theater because I was like, oh,
you know, horror movies like you got if you're interested
in a horror movie, Like, why are you not going
to see it in the theater with other people? That's
horror movies were made for that environment and this did
(40:02):
like nobody. It just didn't have that type of vibe
for the theater. I think it might actually hit better,
you know, when you're stream when you can stream it
on a big TV and shut all the lights off
and just get creeped out all by yourself. I tell
her to tell her to watch it alone with the
lights off. Probably dig it. It's worth watching if she's
(40:25):
into that shit, and if she's seen. If she or
if she's into Robert Eggers at all, I'm sure she'll
enjoy I enjoyed it. I didn't think it was like boo,
that was disappointing, but it just doesn't. Yeah, if I
knew what it was missing, i'd be making films that
were better.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But what do I know. I did not.
Speaker 2 (40:45):
Another movie I did not see was the Uh it
was the last Sony Spider Verse movie, Craven the Hunter.
Oh yeah, yeah, I did not see Craving the Hunter.
I've seen. I went to see Madam Webb and even
even after I had read reviews and I was like, mah,
(41:06):
fuck it, I'll go see it. How bad could it be?
But this one I was just like, no, that's it.
I went and saw the third Venom movie in the theaters.
I was like, boy, that was a disappointing piece of
shit that had absolutely nothing to do with the first
two movies. So yeah, I guess.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
I mean, I've seen articles about how they're they're going
to be readdressing the the Spider Verse.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Yeah, well maybe it's not as fruitful as a.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Well, it's not as fruitful as it could be, but
they make money off of all these all these movies
have made their money back, even Madam Webb. None of
them have like tanked. They're just not making like Marvel
blockbuster type of money. But it's uh, you know. I
was listening to word Balloon podcasts and he, yeah, occasionally
(42:00):
he interviews people outside of the comic book industry. And
this was the old broadcasting buddy of his that used
to work on the score on FM radio in out
of Chicago and which, as you can probably tell, sports related,
and they were talking about the Bears and he was
(42:21):
just he was griping about how the Bears are never
going to get better, and you know why, There's no
fucking reason for them too. Why would they Every year
the fans come out, they buy tickets, they buy the merch,
their Bears fans till the end.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Fifteen years ago. Buddy, welcome to our world.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
Yeah, welcome to the nightmare we have been living. Yeah,
And I mean he makes a great point like, if
people are going to keep going, why would you invest
in trying to make your team better if you're still
making money hand over fist no matter what you do.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
When we went the year we went on sixteen, That's
what everybody was saying, and.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
Like you gotta stand up, and like they.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Keep put we keep showing up.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (43:05):
They don't put a better product out because we keep
buying fucking tickets.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yes, so stop buying the jerseys, stop buying the tickets,
stop buying all that shit, and watch how quickly things
change to our credit.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
We didn't.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
The owner just had to die.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Yeah, Pallac Patel. I guess is the the exec who
is overseeing all of the Sony Spider Verse stuff and
he's out, See Christmas, You're fired Jesus Christ. But like,
how do you oversee all of that and still hold
(43:41):
on to your job?
Speaker 3 (43:43):
Yeah, the answer is you do not. I guess they didn't.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
Make money on Morbius and Madam Webb. I don't know.
Well that's so slippery. I mean, you know, they like
to throw our out numbers like the budget was this
much and the money made this much at the box office.
But that's not the end. I'll be all the money
to make off of these.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
It's all about after they paid all the bills, was
there any money left over?
Speaker 4 (44:08):
And I'm just really the goal.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
And I'm sure there was not. Just from like an
opening box office weekend. I mean, it'd be nice when
you recoup all of your profits in one weekend. But
sometimes it takes all you know, a lot of streaming
rights and DVD and Blu ray sales and all different
types of licensing and whatever the fuck.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
T shirts business that has to produce. Now, that's to
produced quickly. If there's no profit, it is a failure.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Yeah, and you've got a really narrow window to get
all of your profit.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
Yeah, your windows like two weeks.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
Yeah, these things don't have a great big long tail anymore. Yeah,
they're not coming back into theaters next summer because everyone's
you know, still around the block to see Star Wars.
But Trump's really serious about this Greenland thing.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Huh whatever, he's sick for this ship that comes out
of his mouth. I don't believe it's just him being
him right.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Well, I mean I've seen people have been phrasing it
like Trump throws, Trump says, you know something about you know,
a military option. I just think he's fucking with Greenland.
And it wasn't that. It's that he was asked like
he was basically asked to say that he wouldn't use
the military to get Greenland, and he wouldn't do it.
(45:30):
When's the last time you asked Trump to say something
and he did ye, or do something in that.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
Situation, I think he's fucking with people like I'm going
to say it. You want me to say something, and
I'm not going to say it.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, right, you don't show your hand. He's a master negotiator, right,
he knows, he knows at least enough that you don't
show your fucking hand. I don't know, though, I think
it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
I mean, how awkward did yesterday have to be to.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
You're gonna warriers and shit, oh.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Just you got to you gotta verify that you lost
in front of.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Oh yeah, when you're the vice president. That's a risky game. Man.
A vice president running for president and loses, they have
to certify their the opponent's election results.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
Josh Stewart said, this is like going to your own funeral.
Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yeah, And I was thinking, I think the only person
that's had to do it in recent history that we
know of at least what we've been alive, is Al Gore.
Speaker 4 (46:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Yeah, I didn't really. I didn't get why Greenland was
even like strategically something to be concerned about. But I
guess what I was reading in Slate was that the
fact that the the the polar cap up there is
melting and have opened up new shipping lanes that are
(46:53):
usable where they don't have to like you know, have
an icebreaker to move through, and being where they're position,
you know, like Russia or China could easily have control
over those shipping lanes. And so he's thinking that if
we had owned Greenland that we would have more control
because we'd be more local. I don't know, I don't
(47:15):
know what the actual thinking is behind it. Slate seems
to think that he wants it because he thinks it's
really huge, which they point out it's slate well. Also
like they point out that on a traditional like flat map,
that's like it's warped, you know, like where does where
(47:37):
does all that extra land go when you wrap it
around a globe? Right, so you got to fold over.
If you took a map and cut it and wrapped
it around a globe, you'd have overlapping places. So what
they do for those, it's a projection. They're projecting a
globe onto a flat surface, which makes because Greenland so
(47:58):
much of it is up at the top, it makes
it expand to look like it's the size of Africa,
and it does. It looks like it's as big as
Africa on a flat map, but it's actually much smaller
than that.
Speaker 3 (48:10):
He just wants to meet Santa Claus. Yeah, I'm gonna
go up there, gonna make sure those are American toys.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
They have delivered to the whole world for the certification
they had. I mean, you know, January sixcess for what
happened last time. There's lots of extra security and barriers
and everything up and I mean storm helped. Yeah, but
also like, did anyone think that there were going to
(48:39):
be a bunch of liberals storming the Capitol yesterday?
Speaker 3 (48:43):
Well? Yeah, now they've counted everything.
Speaker 4 (48:45):
No, I mean, what are you going to say?
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Yeah, well, I mean what would they have said?
Speaker 4 (48:51):
Nothing questionable? I don't know, Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
I mean, it wasn't as just plus. I mean, if
you were working security for the Capitol and you didn't
take extra precautions and there was just one nutbag that
tried to you know, do yeah, that's your fucking job.
Speaker 3 (49:15):
I mean, if you're gonna try a soft coup like
do it with a better candidate like that's what I
don't understand. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I it's like, on the one hand, I can get
the appeal if you're that type of person, the appeal
of Trump, if you're that type of person. But the zealotry, no,
I'm of.
Speaker 3 (49:34):
With the Democrats, the soft coup within their own party.
Speaker 2 (49:38):
No, they could have they could have picked anybody else better.
Speaker 4 (49:42):
They knew that's my blood pressure goes up. They knew
he was in that shape.
Speaker 3 (49:47):
In the primaries.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
They just just go out there, Grandpa.
Speaker 3 (49:51):
I think June was them getting caught with their pants down,
going fuck. We can't explain that away. We've been explaining
it away for four fucking months already, but you can't
explain away live television. Even Trump had the chance, like
you know what, Trump had the chance to pounce on
him and didn't because it was like he was like
(50:11):
he felt sorry, Yeah, you've created a fucking old man
who has no idea what's going on out here. But
this is no. It's like the fox, you know, the
fox walking up to the chicken and looking around like,
come on, man, really, like no one's here. I just
eat this chicken, Like no, I'm not evena eat this
chick this's a trap. I'm not eating this chicken.
Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yeah, so I guess.
Speaker 4 (50:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
The Zuckerberg social media platforms now are no longer going
to be participating in fact checking. Calm down, I am
calm I don't care what they did.
Speaker 3 (50:51):
They're dropping the independent agency that they were using to
do it, which the AP dropped a year ago. And
their thing like, yeah, we found that there's still human
biases in these things.
Speaker 4 (51:03):
Oh yeah, fuck it.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yeah, it's useless, it's bullshit. They should get rid of it.
Or but this, as The Guardian puts it, a new
era of lies. Mark Zuckerberg has just ushered in an
extinction level event for truth on social media.
Speaker 4 (51:22):
This is why I hate the fucking Guardian.
Speaker 2 (51:24):
How do you kill something that's already dead? This is
like an extinction level event for the DODO. Where is
it point to where the truth is on social media
that we should save?
Speaker 3 (51:35):
And they're going to community notes, which is what X
uses and everyone's out of all up and iron about
community notes. Really, Uh, there's a whole giant website that's
community notes. It's called Wikipedia, and no one seems to
have a problem when it works.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Yeah, most people confess that they make all the jokes
about like you can't trust anything that you put on
there and all this shit, but like Wikipedia fucking works
and people know.
Speaker 4 (52:00):
It every now and then.
Speaker 3 (52:01):
You do still run across something Wikipedia that makes chuckle.
But if somebody catches it and fixes it.
Speaker 2 (52:06):
Yeah exactly. I mean the fact that it's a living
document is part of what makes it work. So yeah,
I don't know, Like there's just no show me where
the truth is to save on social media, even with
they paid another company to find truth on social media
and they still couldn't find it. They still came up short.
Speaker 3 (52:29):
They couldn't just stuff Well yeah, he was saying that
they still came up with information that we still had
to go get fact checked again because.
Speaker 2 (52:37):
There is no the truth there just isn't.
Speaker 4 (52:41):
You know.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
There's laws of the universe, but politics don't come into
play with that. Ideas of how we should live our
lives on this planet don't come into play with that,
you know, all the major things that we have to
make decisions about on this planet. I don't know. I mean,
why anybody decided to look to social media as the
(53:03):
truth in the first place.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
You know, because they weren't talked to reference in well School.
Speaker 2 (53:11):
Well Suck's biggest mistake with Facebook is putting news on
it in the first place.
Speaker 3 (53:17):
I liked it as an aggregator, Yeah, but make sure
you're aggregating the right shit, Like that's what it should
have been doing. Like, that's what Google News is. I've
but at this point I've been curating my Google new
ten years. Everything is trusted. I know where it's coming from.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
I'm not saying that it was bad as an aggregator.
What I'm saying is it had no place there. It's
like you walk into a seven eleven You're like, why
is this reporter standing here shouting like what? This is
not the place. I'm just here to like get some
junk food and get the fuck out, Right, I'm not there.
I don't go to the seven eleven for my news, right,
(53:54):
I don't go to Facebook for fucking But you can
still like junk food and they get the fuck out.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Well, you could still share it, because as long as
you can share a link, you can still puss.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah, yeah, you can share. I'm not
saying that he should have clamped down on people being
able to share news, but when he started putting Facebook
out there, as as a news site and an organization
that knew, you know, that was going to get to
the truth.
Speaker 4 (54:24):
No fixing.
Speaker 3 (54:26):
Instagram is going to show you the truth where everybody's filtered.
Speaker 2 (54:30):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like it's you think it would be
more reliable because Instagram is all visual media, and still
it's like even less trustful than Facebook is. You know,
people can tell you figure you type whatever you want
into like nobody knows what the fuck We've.
Speaker 3 (54:49):
Entered the age where I don't don't even trust video.
Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah no exactly. So what I'm saying, like somebody could
you know, type on Facebook like oh I'm at this
fancy restaurant, I'm doing this face anty thing or I
got you know, like they could make it up. Who knows.
But like seeing it even less trustworthy for some reason
because I mean they build in the tools to lie
(55:13):
to you.
Speaker 3 (55:13):
Yeah, they use them as a selling point.
Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah yeah, I mean maybe maybe this is the start
of a new era for social media in general, where
it can we can finally decide what it is right
because it was just a way to share things and
we figured that was limitless and it's not. Nothing's limitless Facebook, Twitter,
(55:38):
none of these no one platform can be the one
everything you know, like your soul source for information and
satisfaction when it comes to contact and getting relationships with
other people.
Speaker 3 (55:51):
I feel in one of the few Americans that doesn't
have a TikTok account left or that left it doesn't
have a TikTok account. But I find myself on fucking
reels on Facebook the same thing.
Speaker 2 (56:04):
Yeah, I don't do TikTok because I'm already addicted to reels,
so yeah, I have to Well, I can't say I
do it much, but like it probably causes me to
spend more time in the bathroom than I got.
Speaker 3 (56:20):
A millennial girlfriend too, So that's I get sucked into
these things. Like she sends me them, I send them back.
Speaker 2 (56:28):
Some of them are really funny and entertaining and sexy.
Speaker 3 (56:35):
I'm sure this is the thing. We use them to
talk shit about our kids a lot. Yeah, she can't
talk shit about the kids out loud in front of them. Yeah,
but here's shit.
Speaker 2 (56:48):
You have a very narrow window when they're don't when
they don't understand language, and you can call them an
asshole to their face and then you have to stop.
I've said it. I don't know this asshole won't start crying.
I've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (57:04):
Last week was a lot of the like it's like
the eleventieth day of vacation.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
Yeah, the kids are running around.
Speaker 2 (57:10):
The house, you know, just like the coldest fucking witch's
tit outside. Nobody's like they're all cooped.
Speaker 4 (57:17):
Up, and she's just like, I'm ready to sell the
children that kind of shit.
Speaker 2 (57:22):
Colder and a witch's tit and a brass bra.
Speaker 4 (57:25):
There's one I sent her as like this.
Speaker 3 (57:26):
Definitely, like every day between four and eight, my neighbors
probably think I'm killing my children, and all I've asked
them to do is to.
Speaker 4 (57:35):
Do their homework and eat dinner.
Speaker 2 (57:36):
Yeah, it sounds like you're running a torture house.
Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, it's just some like some chick just calmly closing
all her windows. Chaos is happening around her. Yeah, man,
four year old, it's fired up, it's all over. Yeah,
a feral animal is in the house right now. She's
foorn like two weeks okay, still, yeah, she.
Speaker 4 (58:01):
Gets fired up. Like said, it's like a fucking deer
guy in the house.
Speaker 2 (58:05):
All right, Well let's wrap it up, all right?
Speaker 3 (58:09):
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before twenty on social media at Christopher Media dot nets.
Where you go, you hit the PayPal button like Kyle did.
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Speaker 4 (58:26):
Definitely he paid the internet bill for a month.
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Nice.
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Speaker 3 (58:41):
You still say happy.
Speaker 4 (58:43):
It's a weekend.
Speaker 2 (58:43):
You don't say happy, it's a week You have one
week to say yeah or outside the window.
Speaker 4 (58:47):
It is a seven for us.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
So new year, all right, right in the window and
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