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All right, everybody, welcome to the cash exchange podcast.

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Welcome to this episode.

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I've got celebrities, Avengers Endgame and common decency.

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Can you find that through line?

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Celebrities, Avengers Endgame and what was the last one?

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Common decency.

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Common decency.

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Things that just get worse and worse as time goes by.

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Yeah, yeah, that's one way you could go.

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Specifically things that were ruined by the Internet.

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Things ruined by the Internet.

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Just going, just running down the list.

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Celebrities, I think that since celebrities have a more prevalent platform to state their own opinions on,

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their respectability level has gone into the toilet.

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So this is actually a thing that I wrote a decent amount on when I was looking up stuff for this episode or trying to brainstorm.

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And celebrities are one of the things that I am so grateful for the Internet ruining.

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Yeah, because before, like take your, your Carrie Grants, your John Wayne's, your Jimmy Stewart's.

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They played a part.

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They read a script.

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They performed that script.

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And then that was it.

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And then if they had something crazy going on in the background,

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nobody cared because nobody really knew about it because it wasn't in your face.

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Unless, I mean, there was obviously tabloids and stuff back then, but I think for the most part,

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the person day to day isn't saying, oh my, did you hear what Jimmy Stewart got going through?

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Or like Rock Hudson.

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Rock Hudson was a huge, like ladies man actor.

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And turns out that he was gay and he died of AIDS.

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But no one knew that because there wasn't the Internet for him to virtue signal on about how great it is to be gay.

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And then, and then talking about how great it was to have AIDS because how empowering it was for him to be afflicted with such a terrible disease that he could be a spokesperson for

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and make money on the side by having AIDS from people with AIDS or people that wish he didn't have AIDS.

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There's no go fund me's.

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No go fund me's for Rock Hudson and his AIDS.

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That's not necessarily a big part of this topic or this episode, but I'm also so annoyed by crowdfunding.

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Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's a thing that existed outside of like the little change jars at restaurants and stuff before the Internet,

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but crowdfunding is one of the things that the Internet ruined.

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Remember when we could trust those like those little those little standees that you just put the little quarter in and like we went to a Chinese restaurant a month ago or so.

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And there was a jar that was in the breezeway.

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So it wasn't actually like where people at the host stand and stuff could see it is in like little breezeway.

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And it was a jar that was just filled with like bills and coins and stuff.

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And I was like, there's no way they trust this to just sit here because that's the role we live in now that first off, you you're not going to trust that that money is going to go to them in the first place to whoever's on the little picture and that little blurbs written about.

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They could already be dead for all we know.

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But I go and just like, nudge it, nudge it a little bit, screw to the screw to the counter.

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So my first food service job, we had a tip jar that eventually we had to it got several different homes and just like the six months that I worked there because we couldn't screw it into the counter.

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And it got stolen twice on shifts that I worked.

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I don't know how many times I got stolen the actual like time that I was there.

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We didn't make more than like six, eight bucks a day.

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At that point, it feels like a to go tip jar.

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It was so it was like this big like pickle jar kind of thing.

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And it was just no one ever tipped us.

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I don't think you're supposed to tip pizza making people unless they deliver your pizza to you.

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Yeah, like who tippings going to be its own thing to us about tipping.

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So do I and I've been tipped for 11 years now.

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The only thing that the Europeans got right.

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Okay, I wouldn't go that far.

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No, so celebrities, no one, no one cares about your opinion.

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I think that that's one of the kind of good things that happened because of cancel culture eventually because there was a lot of nonsense that we had to go through where people were getting canceled for nothing.

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And on the same like wavelength people that were getting canceled for super egregious things, but they were put all on the same kind of like playing field.

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Yeah, but it was like you could do Epstein, diddy levels of evil things.

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And you were on the same level of a guy who said something offensive about trans people.

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I'm not condoning saying offensive things about trans people, but I don't think that those are on the same level of like we need to steal their careers from them.

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And so I think because of that, everyone is taken celebrity as this kind of like the Imagine cover by Gal Gadot.

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That's the first thing that comes to mind.

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Yeah, you understand your platform.

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You understand that you're not one of the people anymore.

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Stop acting like it.

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I will say that that was Gal Gadot's greatest role.

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That's the one she played best.

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I was during Wonder Woman, not 1984 because that was so bad.

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So you liked her in this one role, but only half of the time that she portrayed that one role.

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She was fine in Justice League just because I hated the Justice League movies does not mean that she didn't do a good job.

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Also, I think I hated Wonder Woman 1984, whatever.

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Is it 1984?

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I hated that movie, but I don't know that I hated it because of her performance.

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I think it was just a really poorly written movie.

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Also, it was in the era of like.

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She molested a stranger who had no autonomy.

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Although I do love Chris Pine.

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Oh, so that makes it okay.

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No, absolutely not.

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That was a statement about the movie.

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That was not a statement about molestation.

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You heard it here first that as long as it's Chris Pine, molestation is okay.

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Wow.

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Oh my.

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It's going to be a sound bite for our TikTok that's going to get me canceled immediately.

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Hey, I mean, someone's got to fill the Gypsy Rose Void.

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You don't hear those anymore.

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God, I'm tired of hearing about Gypsy Rose.

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And then we're about to lose out on all the all the Grinch ones.

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Some's got to be there from December 26th to January 19th when it all gets torpedoed.

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What's happening with the Grinch?

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I mean, it's just the once Christmas is over, no one's going to be using the Grinch sounds anymore.

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I don't see any Grinch stuff on my TikTok right now.

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That's where our algorithm splits.

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Yeah, you're not that big of a Christmas.

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I have watched so many Christmas movies this season.

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You've never seen the most important Christmas movie of all time.

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I don't like the sad ones.

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I'm not going to watch Christmas shoes again.

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I didn't even know that was a movie.

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I would never watch that.

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It is heartbreaking.

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It's got the Brad Paisley's wife in it.

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Kimberly Williams.

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Yeah, no, I don't like the song while I watch the movie.

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I mean, sure.

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But it's a wonderful life is not only this was corroborated with Matt Walsh who said,

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it's a wonderful life is not only the best Christmas movie.

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It's one of the best movies of all time.

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Wait, who is Matt Walsh?

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Am I racist?

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No.

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What is a woman?

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What is a woman?

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What is it?

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What's his woman one?

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I don't know.

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What makes a woman?

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I'm going to go ahead and throw out here back on the subject of things the internet ruined that he is currently searching for his phone so that he can Google it.

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And one of the big things ruined by the internet, we're not allowed to not know things anymore.

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Making know what all's worse.

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Making know what all's worse.

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I got that on here.

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Yeah, I just want to be confidently wrong about something and not have someone challenge me.

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I was having a conversation with your son the other day about whether Bulbasaur.

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What is a woman?

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Sure.

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I was having a conversation with your son about whether Bulbasaur was a turtle because Bulbasaur has the big leaf thing on his back.

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So it stands to reason that he's a turtle.

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And he got on me all day about Googling the fact that he was not a turtle.

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Squirtle's a turtle.

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I know Squirtle's a turtle.

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I thought Bulbasaur was also a turtle.

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He's not.

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But why?

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Because eventually I caved and I did look it up.

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I wanted to know what Bulbasaur was.

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What is he?

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I thought it was a frog, which also makes sense.

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Okay, yeah.

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But it was a thing I didn't need to know.

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I could have gone the long haul thinking that Bulbasaur was a turtle.

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But now you do know.

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And now I do know.

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And if that ever came up at trivia, you are better for it.

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You know what, sure.

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So celebrities, we don't even know what you think.

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You have not lived a normal life.

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Most of you are nepo babies.

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You have either come up from living a completely, not really sheltered.

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But like if you came up as a child star, you have a completely different experience than

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what most normal people have.

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And so it's going to skew your view.

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And you don't want to be trained about this.

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But the short and sweet of it is you haven't experienced the same life as most people.

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You can get on the internet and you spew your words.

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And then you also have an agenda for it's very self serving.

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Like you have this audience that you want to appease and that you want to appeal to in

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order to sell whatever your thing is.

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And so you're going to go with that hard.

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And it's very obvious.

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And the people that want to hear it are going to you go girl.

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And the people that don't want to hear it are just tired of hearing it.

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Yeah, I think that one of the grossest things about like a celebrity's presence on the internet is you can

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tell that so much of it is not even written by them.

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And there are people, there are plenty of people who aren't necessarily as like media savvy who probably

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wouldn't be able to see the difference.

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It's the same thing as like AI generated videos and stuff that they're getting like the deep fakes

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and stuff are getting better and better and less different from reality.

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And so it's so gross and inauthentic that these people are just lending their name to someone else

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writing their tweet, which are affecting these people's fan bases.

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Yes, because all this stuff is written by staff.

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I highly, highly doubt that you're going to have your Kim Kardashian's your just anyone that is Kim Kardashian isn't

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even as egregious as some of the other ones like Kim Kardashian just she's honest about hey, I'm just here to sell you

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shit. Then you get people like oh, name Rob Reiner.

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Rob Reiner is one of the most annoying people on Twitter on just on the internet in general.

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He's very outspoken, which fine.

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That's that's great.

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But then he wants to throw these hissy fits and say, oh, I'm leaving Twitter.

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Oh, I'm leaving the country.

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Oh, I'm doing this.

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I'm doing that.

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Does he do them?

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Does he do them?

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I've not seen a single thing of Rob Reiner's on the internet.

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No, like I've seen him in obviously movies and TV and stuff, but I know exactly zero things about his personal life.

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I mean, it's a trap that everyone falls into you get your own echo chambers, especially on places like Twitter.

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But when there's some bleed over it's like good Lord, like I'm not afraid to unfollow people if I just feel like our ideas don't

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align anymore, like, oh, I'll take into consideration where they're coming from.

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And if they have some experience that I don't have, I'll look at it from through that lens, but they sit here and just tell you that you're stupid because you don't think this thing that they think.

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And Rob Reiner's been one that's been in the scene in the Hollywood scene for 50 years, 60 years.

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So there's no way he sees the world through the same lens as all these other people that he's going stupid.

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And if the internet didn't exist, he would just be off making movies and cameoing on New Girl and and all that kind of stuff.

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And maybe there would be an article every now and then coming out about Dom opinion that he has, but it wouldn't be as prevalent and it wouldn't be as annoying.

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And you could let it slide if it was once or twice, but just every every cycle, there's something new.

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There's him complaining about something and calling half the country idiots.

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You know, whenever I was younger watching like movies and TV and stuff, I thought that the people with like the sandwich boards that said like the end is nigh would be a lot more prevalent in society.

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The same way that like I thought quicksand and TNT and stuff would.

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And those people are way less fun because it's just the people with nothing better to do with their time on the internet.

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Everyone is just convinced that the sky is falling for whatever reason.

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Have you ever seen the sandwich board in Die Hard 2?

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I have. It was also in an episode of Rick and Morty.

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Not raised the same way.

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That's the wussification of this country.

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Again, we're not that kind of podcast. I know we have a Trump Trump sound bite.

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I'm so happy we have that.

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Me too.

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So enough bitching about celebrities.

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Movies.

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I think movies are one of the top things that has been ruined by the internet.

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I agree.

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I have. So I have three reasons that I came up with that movies have been ruined by the internet.

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We are incapable of keeping the endings to ourselves.

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And so things get spoiled just all of the time.

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And I think that is very purposeful.

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Like I think that like I have this information.

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You want to hear it? Oh, you don't?

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Oh, what are you gonna do if I tell you?

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I want to know the thought process of like what has to be going wrong in your life for you to be like I really enjoyed this thing.

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Let's ruin it for everybody else.

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What comic book guy nonsense is that?

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You fell in your head as a child.

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Your mother didn't love you.

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You're just an ass.

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I will say that it was sort of fun whenever there were like big Avengers movies that did not suck.

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That would come out and people would be posting like memes and stuff of spoilers without context.

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I always really enjoyed those.

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And then you go back and like oh, okay, I thought I meant but no, now you'll just get straight up.

241
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It's ruined.

242
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And you it's twofold.

243
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So leading up to the movie coming out.

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It's not as prevalent, but there are chances for you to have something spoiled for you like, oh, this person was filming in this movie and they're going to make a surprise appearance and all this other stuff.

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And so that that can be ruined and that's not really so much plot driven.

246
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So I mean, if you know someone's going to appear in a movie like it sucks that it got ruined before you saw it and you lost that element of surprise.

247
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But at the same time, the movie as a whole isn't necessarily ruined.

248
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But then when it comes out, you have to go see it like immediately so that nothing else gets so that nothing gets ruined and that you you feel like you get your money's worth out of it.

249
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So I feel like it has been long enough and now it is on a streaming service.

250
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So if you haven't seen it kind of on you deadpool and Wolverine.

251
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Yeah, I got like the big like cameo plot twist kind of thing ruined the day that it came out into theaters.

252
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So if you are not familiar and you still plan on seeing this movie at some point, maybe just turn down the volume for about 30 seconds.

253
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So Chris Evans is in it as you think is Captain America.

254
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And it's like reference that he's Captain America a bunch of times and then he does the flame on thing and he's actually Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four.

255
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Which was great.

256
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It was a great thing that I think would have been a lot cooler if I didn't know that that was going to happen going in.

257
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I didn't know that he was in it.

258
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I also knew that Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Garner and Channing Tatum were coming back as their their overalls.

259
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I knew that Wesley Snipes.

260
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I didn't know about the other ones.

261
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And that was just a buzzkill.

262
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Like it was such a cool thing to see, but I think it would have been a lot cooler if I didn't know ahead of time that like we just need to wait until this thing happens.

263
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I mean, I don't want to spoil it.

264
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This is a relatively new movie, but we went and saw Wicked.

265
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Yeah.

266
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And we saw it two days after it dropped.

267
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And I had no idea that this cameo was going to be part of the movie.

268
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I hadn't heard anything about it.

269
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I haven't seen the movie, but I think I know who you're talking about.

270
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And so we saw it and then we saw this cameo.

271
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We're like, oh, no way.

272
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So we were actually surprised by it.

273
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And then afterwards when people started seeing it, when more people started seeing it and we like on Tick Tock and stuff and people were referring to the surprise or the cameo.

274
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They weren't actually spoiling it.

275
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I thought that was nice and I still don't think that I've I've seen anyone on any kind of social media that's outright spoiled what the cameo is or what the surprise is.

276
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I mean, you can cut this out if you want to.

277
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But are you talking about a Dean of Manzell and Kristen Chenoweth?

278
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Yeah.

279
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Yeah, we had no idea.

280
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Saw it everywhere.

281
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So Chenoweth posted a bunch of stuff on Tick Tock, Instagram, Twitter, something.

282
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And we were talking about giving Ariana like a matching Glenda jacket.

283
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And so they were like, oh my God, I loved when her and Adina and did all of this.

284
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And I yeah, I was on Wicked Tick Tock for a second there.

285
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And a lot of people were talking about the cameos being like this magical moment.

286
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I'm not big invested in Wicked anyway, but it would have been really upsetting if I were a theater kid like waiting to go to this movie.

287
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I'm not either.

288
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I knew the two songs because the children in this house.

289
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It's Defying Gravity and what the wizard and I know popular popular, which I mean, it's cute when they sing them to a point after the third go around.

290
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Or like, all right, let's let's let's move it on and Defying Gravity is a big belt song.

291
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That's a tough one to task a kid with.

292
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Uh huh.

293
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I mean, maybe for Christmas, they need some vocal lessons if they're going to keep it keep attempting.

294
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But it wears it wears on your brain after not a long time.

295
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But I think one of the reasons that it might not have been spoiled for me was because I shut out all marketing before the movie because Cynthia Arriva and Ariana Grande were so insufferable during the marketing towards the end for the movie that I could not stand it anymore.

296
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And I knew that if I kept watching it that I would not want to see the movie.

297
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So that's actually what happened to me.

298
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I saw so much of the God awful press tour that they did and so much of like the conversation around it that it just kind of ruined me wanting to watch the movie where they were always touching each other and sobbing.

299
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And they got 15 matching tattoos.

300
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If there's a lot of them.

301
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Yeah, there's one where they got matching tattoo on opposite alms that way whenever they held hands, the tattoos would be touching.

302
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Which there is nothing more indicative of theater kid than all of the nonsense that's happened around the movie Wicked.

303
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That also circles back though to the celebrity thing because there have been so many press tours recently that have just gotten a lot of heat because of how insufferable they are weird and insufferable.

304
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All these celebrities are and they think that it's normal behavior.

305
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Like the the wicked stuff was so annoying.

306
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The it ends with us stuff like who at some point who cares.

307
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You're here to promote a movie.

308
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Yeah.

309
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And you pretend that you're at least here to talk about the movie.

310
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Yeah, like we don't need brown.

311
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Like brown beauty.

312
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:41,040
Yes, we don't need that.

313
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And also we don't need to rewatch an interview with Lake Lively from 06.

314
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Is anyone has anyone ever been in doubt that she's a mean girl?

315
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I don't think she's ever tried to be anything else.

316
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I don't think so.

317
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And I think that when you watch, like when people pulled it up, it wasn't like, say, see, this is a pattern.

318
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It's just like, let's keep on digging.

319
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,040
Like everyone's everyone's jumping on her now.

320
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Let's let's dog file.

321
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:13,040
The reporter that posted again, she was like, this is like, this is how she's always been.

322
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Like, sure.

323
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But it's also been 18 years.

324
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,040
Maybe maybe we don't need to rehash that.

325
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,040
Like, I don't see what this is doing for you or for anyone.

326
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Yeah.

327
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:29,040
Another aspect of movies being run by the Internet is just thinking about like, like classic

328
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movies that are now ruined because of like, listicles, because of watch mojo type stuff.

329
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Top 10 movie endings we didn't see coming.

330
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Stuff like that.

331
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Like, thinking forward, like whenever the kids are old enough to watch the sixth sense

332
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and not have that realization.

333
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:58,040
Yeah, that because they're a little already know, because it's so ingrained in pop culture because of the Internet.

334
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It won't be a surprise and it won't be as impactful of a movie as it could have been if they didn't have that already spoiled for them.

335
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:16,040
And I mean that that goes for any of him night Shyamalan movies up to and including him night Shyamalan presents avatar the last airbender.

336
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Which has been a couple episodes since I brought up him night Shyamalan presents avatar the last airbender, which I think the twist for that one was it's just awful.

337
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I mean, most of these stuff is really surprised to this.

338
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It's watchable awful though.

339
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:32,040
No, no, it is not. You haven't seen it.

340
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,040
I haven't. No, I haven't seen it.

341
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:38,040
I've seen old. I've seen trap. Have you seen trap yet?

342
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Old was stupid. And yes, I did watch trap. I actually enjoyed that one.

343
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:48,040
The next thing that I had for for movies and why movies are ruined now was streaming services.

344
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I miss having like 50 options at blockbuster or like Hollywood video.

345
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Now it is just a chore to find something to watch.

346
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You end up giving up and just watching something that you have seen a thousand times.

347
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:14,040
I could not tell you how many times I've rewatched the same like five sitcoms because I just do not feel like scrolling through all of the streaming services I have and all of the TV and movies on the streaming services.

348
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:22,040
I get excited when I get a recommendation from somebody to watch something because then it's already already picked for me.

349
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:28,040
But if I'm just sitting there, hey, these are movies you may like and I go through 50 options.

350
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,040
I can always find a reason to not watch it.

351
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:35,040
I'm not in the mood for this one. This one takes too much concentration.

352
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:39,040
You end up just sitting there and rewatching family guy or something.

353
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:48,040
On a side note to that, I also think that the internet has ruined wanting to watch new things because if it gets to a certain level of popularity, I am just exhausted with the conversation.

354
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,040
I don't want to watch this horse material.

355
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,040
Like what?

356
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,040
So this one's not particular to me, but like Breaking Bad.

357
00:23:54,040 --> 00:24:01,040
A lot of people did not watch Breaking Bad because it was just talked about so much and it was talked about as this like incredible moment in culture and TV.

358
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,040
And it was just this thing that you absolutely had to watch.

359
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,040
It was the greatest show ever made kind of thing.

360
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:12,040
You talk so hyperbolically and you hear that message so many times like the thing itself will just never live up to that.

361
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,040
It happened with Nate and the boys.

362
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:20,040
I tried to get him to watch the show for a long time and I was the problem in that situation because I was hyping it up more than it needed.

363
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:29,040
And then whenever he watched it, he was just kind of like not necessarily disappointed, but I think that there was some kind of expectation that was set because of the way that I was talking about it.

364
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,040
But it just was never going to be good enough.

365
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:35,040
Yeah, I mean the first, the first two seasons.

366
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:36,040
Real good.

367
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:37,040
The boys are Breaking Bad.

368
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,040
The boys.

369
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,040
Breaking Bad I think was good all the way through.

370
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,040
It is a lot to take on.

371
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,040
I've been wanting to restart it.

372
00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:49,040
I've talked to Emily about restarting it because she's obviously never seen it, but I don't think it's, I think that she would tap out pretty early.

373
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,040
I don't think that's her cup of tea.

374
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:51,040
No.

375
00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:58,040
And it's weird because I was just in Albuquerque and there's still Breaking Bad everything everywhere.

376
00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,040
Yeah.

377
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:17,040
Like even their billboards, their digital billboards, which have PSAs, little insider baseball, if ad space isn't sold and they just do like a PSA of something that's usually for like one of those Pass-It-On campaigns or UI stuff or anything like that.

378
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:25,040
This one was about litter and it's just Brian Cranston's Heisenberg face and it's a keeper litter out of my territory.

379
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:26,040
So weird.

380
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,040
Yeah, it's a weird crossover.

381
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:36,040
They're everywhere and Breaking Bad still holds a huge stranglehold on all of Albuquerque.

382
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,040
That and Better Call Saul.

383
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,040
I need to go back and rewatch or finish Better Call Saul.

384
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,040
In my opinion, Better Call Saul is better than Breaking Bad.

385
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,040
I really like the part of it that I watched.

386
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,040
I think I made it like a season and a half in where I stopped.

387
00:25:53,040 --> 00:26:03,040
I got properly distracted by another show.

388
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:09,040
Oh, when it comes to those like Pass-It-On posters, there's one of them that annoys the hell out of me.

389
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:17,040
It's in like all over DFW and it's a like blind person and it says vision, pass it on.

390
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:22,040
Which feels like someone should have thought maybe that's not.

391
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,040
Who's the person on it?

392
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,040
I don't remember.

393
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:31,040
I'm not going to look it up because that is the whole point of this episode.

394
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:40,040
But next time you're out, if you see one of those like pass it on things, it's not the Dolly Parton one because the only ones I see at this point are the vision one and Dolly Parton.

395
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,040
There's an old one with Garth Brooks on it.

396
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,040
Is it actually Garth Brooks or is it Chris Gaines?

397
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,040
No, it's actually Garth Brooks.

398
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:58,040
I have only seen in one location on the way to San Antonio.

399
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:04,040
If you're ever traveling south to San Antonio, you should see if you can spot it.

400
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:16,040
And if you do, give me the general location and I'll give you a coupon to the merch store that doesn't exist yet but we'll...

401
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,040
I don't want weird merch.

402
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,040
I don't know what specifically I want but I don't want like t-shirts and sweatshirts and stuff.

403
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,040
Like your muffs?

404
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,040
Stuff bands?

405
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,040
Yes, absolutely. I'd be down for that.

406
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,040
Cash exchange like warmers.

407
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:37,040
Maybe we can step away from the sweat into the oldies section but...

408
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:43,040
Cash exchange, lingerie.

409
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,040
I have questions and I want no answers to them.

410
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:51,040
Okay, what are your questions? I won't answer them.

411
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,040
Nope, never mind. No questions.

412
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,040
I don't want to speak them into existence but...

413
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,040
Face these with our face on them.

414
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:03,040
Alright, so I'm getting answers anyway.

415
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,040
You know what? I'd be down for that.

416
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,040
It's insane but...

417
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,040
I mean the options are limitless.

418
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:20,040
I was thinking more along the lines of like the Y-Files has like the plushies and Go Heckelfish and all that kind of stuff.

419
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,040
Have you seen my Heckelfish?

420
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,040
I haven't seen him, no. Because he was still on back order or something whenever you got the actual gift.

421
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,040
Oh yeah, he's a... I'll pull him out for really...

422
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,040
Yeah.

423
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:38,040
Anyway, another thing that... Are you still... Do you still have stuff about movies?

424
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:51,040
I have one thing about movies but I'm saving that towards the end where I give a counter argument for the internet ruining everything.

425
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,040
Proceed.

426
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,040
Okay, in that case, shopping. The internet has ruined shopping.

427
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,040
Yeah, that didn't even make my list.

428
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,040
And on the same plane, it has ruined patience.

429
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,040
Yes.

430
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,040
I have to get everything today.

431
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:16,040
Or have someone drive to my house at five in the morning to drop it off. That way I make sure that it's there when I wake up.

432
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:24,040
I am so bad about this. I'm working on it. But I have a bad habit of like an...

433
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:31,040
The pipeline of like, I could use this thing to... I need this thing to... I'm gonna buy this thing as long as it'll be here tomorrow.

434
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,040
It's so short. It's ridiculous.

435
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,040
I spend so much money on things I do not need.

436
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:42,040
One of the worst things I do is I will need something. I'd like to get it here soon.

437
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:47,040
And it gives me the option to get it here tomorrow by 10 o'clock, 10 p.m.

438
00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:59,040
Like what? This is 2024. We're almost in 2025. That just won't do. That is not okay. What am I? Some sort of peasant?

439
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:08,040
So what I do is... I don't know. It's like 12 bucks. Well, if it's 25 you can get it same day.

440
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:16,040
Okay. Well, looks like I gotta find 12 more dollars to spend or 13 more dollars to spend to get it here today.

441
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:21,040
Because I need this thing. I can't use it until tomorrow. But I wanna make sure that I have it in my hands.

442
00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:26,040
What if something happens? What if there's another supply chain disruption?

443
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:31,040
And I can't get this thing until two days from now. God forbid.

444
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:37,040
And so I end up spending... The limit is 25. You get 25 and then hey.

445
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:44,040
And then you end up putting $30 in and they're saying, yeah, but only 17 of this is part of that 25.

446
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,040
Ah, damn it. But I need that other thing. Okay.

447
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:54,040
And so I end up with a $70 basket just so I can get this stuff here today.

448
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,040
I do that all the time.

449
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:04,040
On the same plane of that, I have a also terrible habit of like you have two options.

450
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:12,040
You can get it here from 2 to 10 p.m. today or you can get it between 5 and 11 a.m. which is fine.

451
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:19,040
That timeline doesn't make any sense because it would not be a problem if I were to get something from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.

452
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:25,040
But every single time without fail, I will opt for the 5 a.m. to 11 a.m.

453
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:33,040
But all of the packages in my apartment go through a package locker that is only accessed whenever the leasing office is open.

454
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,040
And it does not open until 10 30.

455
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:42,040
So I'm really just like crossing my fingers that they can make it into my building.

456
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:46,040
That it gets there in that window from 10 30 to 11.

457
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:51,040
It is the dumbest possible logic and it works out for me most of the time.

458
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:58,040
Sometimes I get phone calls from the Amazon drivers at 6 in the morning and I'm not going to answer them.

459
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,040
It's 6 in the morning.

460
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:05,040
That's a you. That is something you need to work on.

461
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,040
The internet has ruined me. I have ruined me.

462
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:18,040
I want it here but you can't be bothered to go downstairs to retrieve it from this poor Amazon worker that just wants to get on with his day.

463
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:19,040
Yeah.

464
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:25,040
And instead he's calling your ass waking you up and you can't be bothered to even talk to him.

465
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,040
I'm a monster. I'm sorry everyone.

466
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,040
Oh man.

467
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,040
So usually.

468
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,040
You're the reason they're all going on strike.

469
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,040
Are they going on strike?

470
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:41,040
I think there's something about an impending strike.

471
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,040
Which I don't think that they're a union. I don't think most of them are union.

472
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:50,040
I think there's a couple but I don't know what a strike would look like for non union.

473
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,040
I'm just going to fire you.

474
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:56,040
That would honestly be so great for my bank account on a just real selfish level.

475
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,040
You would hate it.

476
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,040
I would learn to deal with things.

477
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,040
No you wouldn't.

478
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:06,040
No you wouldn't. You'd be picking at scabs that aren't there.

479
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,040
You'd be tweaking hard.

480
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,040
Prime dammit.

481
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,040
I have an optimist. I think it'd be okay.

482
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,040
Okay. Well let's put you on an island.

483
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:27,040
Let's put you somewhere out of a major city center where the only option you have is two day shipping.

484
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,040
Let's see how well you last there.

485
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:34,040
I do think about it still pretty regularly that I'd like to have a flip phone.

486
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:38,040
Because there are a lot of things that like I shouldn't have access to.

487
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:45,040
And I am convinced that if I didn't have access to them that I would just be better.

488
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,040
I would just be more of a person I think.

489
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:55,040
Like if I didn't have access to Amazon and I had to just like be more creative with the things that I already had

490
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,040
instead of getting something that's a little bit different from the thing I already own.

491
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,040
I think my life would be better.

492
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:07,040
I don't know. We still got to have that experiment.

493
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,040
But so far we haven't made a dime off this podcast.

494
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,040
Not yet but we're getting there.

495
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,040
We're getting there.

496
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:22,040
Like, subscribe, share, listen. Listen seven times. Listen nine times.

497
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:25,040
Put us on in the background just throughout the day.

498
00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,040
Let us be one of the things that makes the internet better.

499
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,040
That's all we're striving for.

500
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:38,040
Let us help you by building a better internet for your children and your children's children.

501
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:46,040
We want to be the UNICEF of podcasts.

502
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:51,040
I don't think they give out the little Halloween collection boxes anymore.

503
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,040
But I do believe that UNICEF is still a thing.

504
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,040
Well, hey, maybe that can be our thing.

505
00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:01,040
We will give out Halloween boxes with every order of this non-existent merch shop.

506
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,040
I love that for us.

507
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:07,040
I don't really have too much to say because I think all that's already been said.

508
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:14,040
But one of the things that has been ruined by the interwebs is dating.

509
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:15,040
That was on my list too.

510
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Brinder, Tinder.

511
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:23,040
There's not a specific reason I mentioned Brinder first.

512
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:29,040
I beg to differ. That was a Freudian slip.

513
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,040
I went alphabetically.

514
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:32,040
That's my story.

515
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,040
Bumble?

516
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,040
Bumble.

517
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,040
You didn't go alphabetically. You chose Grinder.

518
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,040
No, I didn't mention Bumble.

519
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:49,040
Bumble, I think, is out of all of them. I think that one is the least skeezy.

520
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,040
I agree.

521
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:54,040
Grinder, you know what you're looking for on Grinder.

522
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,040
Tinder, you know what you're looking for on Tinder.

523
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,040
It's the straight version of Grinder.

524
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,040
I was on dating apps for a very, very brief window.

525
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:11,040
And I would never go back to them because the short time that I spent on them just made me feel so gross, so consistently.

526
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:19,040
People would reach out with just out of pocket nonsense, which is not a thing I want to invite into my life.

527
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,040
Well, yeah, that's the female side of it.

528
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:27,040
I mean, I was on the male side, but I didn't throw out anything gross.

529
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:31,040
Really, you're just... it's all such a numbers game.

530
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:39,040
The best case scenario, I think, whenever I was on the dating apps was just like cheesy one-liners.

531
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:43,040
In which case, I really don't have a good thing to say back to that.

532
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:47,040
It's a better thing than some of the other messages I got.

533
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,040
I mean, I think we're probably more straightforward, but...

534
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,040
Weeners?

535
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,040
Something along those lines, yeah.

536
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:57,040
Bumble? I've been very successful on Bumble.

537
00:36:57,040 --> 00:36:59,040
Really?

538
00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,040
I thought it was Tinder.

539
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:06,040
Nope, I thought it was. That's where I met the Misses.

540
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,040
Sometimes, internet dating works.

541
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,040
Because it put the ball in the woman's court.

542
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:15,040
And it took... it takes a lot of the stress off the dude.

543
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,040
But then, the women can just be like, hey.

544
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,040
Sure.

545
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:26,040
Yeah, but if a guy were to do that on Tinder, you'd get no response.

546
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:30,040
I beg to differ. They were more likely to get a response than the...

547
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,040
With just a hey? Did you ever meet anyone?

548
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,040
A couple of them.

549
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:44,040
I got mild Patrick Bateman vibes from one of them.

550
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,040
Which, yeah, it tracks for a lot of the people that are on Tinder.

551
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:56,040
The only thing I had on dating was my only, I guess, sub-topic was,

552
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,040
Thank You Next, Darianne Grande song.

553
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,040
Oh, yeah.

554
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Because I feel like that's all internet dating is.

555
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,040
Alright, what else you got?

556
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:11,040
Events.

557
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,040
Events are always spoiled.

558
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:26,040
I think most prevalent in my life because I have an inordinate amount of Swifties in my household.

559
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,040
Sure.

560
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:36,040
That any changes on the Ares tour is hot news.

561
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:38,040
It's big time.

562
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:43,040
And we went to the Ares tour of...

563
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,040
Lai...

564
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,040
Mei...

565
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:48,040
I don't know, two years ago.

566
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,040
It was like her fourth or fifth show.

567
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:58,040
And so there was stuff out there that could have spoiled the experience,

568
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,040
but not nearly as much as there is now.

569
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:05,040
And then Swifties on their own have to look into every single detail.

570
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:19,040
They have their boards up in their room and they're trying to trace everything with red yarn to see where it all connects and all that as it is.

571
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:33,040
So, I mean, if we had gone later into the run, then I think it would not have been a great experience,

572
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,040
which if you haven't...

573
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:47,040
I mean, it's too late now, but you definitely saw one of the greatest performances ever if you saw the Ares tour in person.

574
00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:50,040
It is bananas.

575
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:57,040
I agree with events as a thing that the internet ruined, but I would disagree specifically on the Ares tour.

576
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:58,040
Why?

577
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:08,040
So, I'm not really a Swiftie, but I do see a lot of Taylor Swift things on the internet.

578
00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:15,040
And I think it was so cool to see all of these people that were doing the Ares tour as this big cultural event kind of thing.

579
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:21,040
So people that were making the friendship bracelets and were making the little flashlight cover things.

580
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:27,040
And the people that were making custom outfits and stuff because they were so excited to be able to go to the Ares tour on theme.

581
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:30,040
I think that was a really cool thing to watch.

582
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:36,040
I didn't go to the Ares tour and had no intention of participating in any of that stuff, but I think it was cool.

583
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,040
We were on the flow.

584
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,040
Yeah?

585
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:44,040
And it was perfect because we were on the floor in the very back row.

586
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,040
And so we could just get up and go to the bathroom.

587
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:53,040
You have never seen a men's room more empty than at the Ares tour.

588
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,040
It wasn't even just women sneaking into that one because the line was so long.

589
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,040
They had security guards for the bathrooms.

590
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,040
Really?

591
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:06,040
I don't know why, but the women's line was 50, 60 people deep.

592
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,040
I'm just bopping my way to the men's bathroom.

593
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:15,040
Go in, take care of my business, come out, and I'm back before the song's over.

594
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:24,040
But it was definitely one of the best, not even just concert because it's like an entire experience.

595
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:28,040
One of the best that I've ever been a part of.

596
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,040
And got to see Ethan Hawk and Maya Hawk.

597
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:31,040
Yeah.

598
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:32,040
Selena Gomez.

599
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,040
Selena Gomez's little sister.

600
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,040
Selena Gomez's little sister is the one that got the hat.

601
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,040
So, yeah.

602
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:41,040
Got the hat?

603
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,040
Yeah, she.

604
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,040
What song is it?

605
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:47,040
I don't know what song it is.

606
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,040
I'm going to get my ass kicked later whenever this is listened to.

607
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:55,040
And I can't remember the song, but she has a hat that she gave away at every show.

608
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,040
And you always give it to someone special.

609
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,040
And this one is Selena's little sister.

610
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:05,040
I watched Trap, so I'm going to assume it's that kind of thing.

611
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:12,040
It was like a special song at the end that she does that needs a participant.

612
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,040
Oh, yeah.

613
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:15,040
Yeah, something like that.

614
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:24,040
Except as far as I know, Selena Gomez's little sister's dad isn't a serial killer.

615
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:25,040
We know that for a fact.

616
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:26,040
We don't.

617
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,040
We don't.

618
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:34,040
But congratulations to Selena for becoming engaged to that.

619
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:40,040
Benny Blanco.

620
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:48,040
On the Benny Blanco note, there is a weird thing that I saw on the Internet the other day.

621
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,040
And I hate feet.

622
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:53,040
It feels important for me to preface that.

623
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:58,040
Benny Blanco has the weirdest toenails I've ever seen.

624
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:08,040
And not in a like, they're just gross, but like he gets pedicures regularly and they are bizarre.

625
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,040
Like he did carpets.

626
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,040
He did best made pickles.

627
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:17,040
He did a whole line of fruit.

628
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,040
I don't know who he is outside of Selena Gomez.

629
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:22,040
Music producer.

630
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,040
Oh, yeah, he stole my girl.

631
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,040
Oh, that's why you don't like him.

632
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,040
Yeah.

633
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,040
Sure.

634
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaking of music producer though, music is another thing that's been ruined by the Internet.

635
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Albums.

636
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,040
No one listens to a full album anymore.

637
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:48,040
Every song that is put out is made to be a single and stay a single.

638
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:57,040
I don't even know why artists bother putting out full albums anymore.

639
00:43:57,040 --> 00:44:06,040
Because like there used to be a time where if you liked a song, the only way you could get it was you had to go buy the CD by the cassette by the whatever.

640
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:14,040
And then you'd be stuck with like say you wanted two songs on it, but you'd be stuck with the other eight.

641
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:21,040
And so you'd listen to those two, but then you'd start listening to those other ones and then you'd get a bigger picture of who this artist is.

642
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:35,040
And then you would have this, this bigger catalog of music and more of a diverse understanding because you're not just focusing on these two songs that are.

643
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:41,040
Just singles because they're going to get good radio play.

644
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:45,040
And like hidden tracks, that's all gone.

645
00:44:45,040 --> 00:45:00,040
Even now, if you go back to say you have a CD from early 2000s, there's a chance that at the end of a song, there was like a bonus track.

646
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,040
It wouldn't register as its own song.

647
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:13,040
So the only way you'd be able to have that is by knowing that by having the CD and being able to play it through that first song and then listen to the second song.

648
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:18,040
That's all gone because of the way people listen to music now.

649
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:27,040
And I love listening to music. I love listening to full albums, but I know that I'm in the minority on that.

650
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:44,040
I've been trying to get back into listening to the whole album because I was getting so frustrated with Spotify because I would be listening to something and like, inevitably I felt like my settings kept changing and so it would just like do the AI generated

651
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:49,040
playlist of whatever it thought that would fit with the song that I was listening to.

652
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:59,040
And so I would just be listening to things that were probably in the same ballpark as the song I actually wanted to listen to or the album or the artist or whatever.

653
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:08,040
And it would just take such a detour so fast to stuff that I always felt was just kind of like the flavor of the week, not something that was actually recommended for me.

654
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:17,040
So it would be like I had never listened to Sabrina Carpenter before, but it would just throw just 15 Sabrina Carpenter songs because they were popular.

655
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:27,040
Not because it was something that I would necessarily enjoy, but just this is the thing that's going around right now. So you're going to listen to it.

656
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:44,040
Yeah, which ends up just pushing out the same stuff and then you just get into a cycle of just all the same stuff being regurgitated over and over again versus having new things to experience and being able to expand your knowledge.

657
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,040
Are you ready to speed some speed rounds?

658
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,040
Sure, I got.

659
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:55,040
Okay. TV, series, finales, these and finales, all that stuff.

660
00:46:55,040 --> 00:47:05,040
If you don't watch them day of, then you run the risk of it being spoiled, especially for a series, especially for a series finale.

661
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:15,040
This show that you have invested so much time in and then for it to just be spoiled because some ass hat posts about it and you happen to see it.

662
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:24,040
I found out who won Game of Thrones or like who ended up, I don't really know how Game of Thrones works, but I figured out the finale the night that it aired.

663
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:28,040
Yeah, which was so dumb. If I had been a Game of Thrones person, it would have pissed me off so much.

664
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,040
Oh, it pissed me off. I watched it live. I hated it.

665
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:43,040
I mean, that whole season was a train wreck. So it's not really surprising the route it took, but yeah, just a slap in the face to all these people that invested so much time and energy in this show.

666
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:50,040
I didn't even mean the actual ending. I meant like the fact that I knew about the ending without watching the show, like day after day after or whatever.

667
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:51,040
Yeah.

668
00:47:51,040 --> 00:48:01,040
I think it was ridiculous, but that was something that a lot of people had invested eight seasons into somewhat begrudgingly from everything I've heard about the eight season.

669
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,040
Yeah, awful.

670
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:14,040
If there was a way that you could watch like the first six seasons and then just sit down with a pen and paper and just write out how you think it ends.

671
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:19,040
You could do a way better job than how it actually played out on TV.

672
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:29,040
I mean, I'm not a fan of sports. I can't tell you how many times I've been watching something and then I get a notification on my phone saying, games over, this was a score.

673
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,040
Oh, yeah.

674
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:48,040
And so I know that if I'm watching a game that I'm really invested in to just put my phone away, which I mean has been good because then I'm actually focusing on what I'm doing and actually enjoying it versus just trying to move on to the next thing.

675
00:48:48,040 --> 00:49:08,040
There's been countless times where that's happening, where I've had the whole thing ruined because of a notification or because of something along those lines like an injury report, a whenever I was playing fantasy, a fantasy alert, or just notifications

676
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:22,040
and hey, this is the end of the game. This was a score. And then you got issues with trades and all this stuff and all these rumors going around about what athletes are going to wear.

677
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:27,040
And then this all rolls back into the whole celebrity aspect from the beginning.

678
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:36,040
The athletes that think that because they throw a ball good that we care about any other aspect of their lives or their opinion on anything else.

679
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:59,040
And some of them, I mean, some of them do come out and make a stand or make a show that they are more than just an athlete that they are able to think critically about certain issues and then are able to guide policies and stuff like that.

680
00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:24,040
But for the most part, you just you just you throw or you run or you jump and then once that is over, just go off and enjoy all that money you made by running, throwing and jumping and just pop in every now and then to say, Hey, I'm still here and then move on with your life.

681
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:35,040
I'm not I'm not big into sports, so I don't see any of that side of the Internet. I could see how all of that would be a really frustrating thing to be around.

682
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:48,040
And then there's there's stuff like tick tock that perpetuates stereotypes perpetuates certain kinds of isms, psychisms, racism.

683
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:57,040
Yeah, but it's all literally anyone has a platform to spew whatever they want.

684
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:05,040
Most of the times without repercussions, but then these people get into certain echo chambers.

685
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:09,040
And then it's just one person saying this stupid thing.

686
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,040
Another person saying, Yeah, I agree with that stupid thing.

687
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:22,040
Another person saying, Yeah, I agree with those two stupid things. And then it's just a big mishmash of these dumb, stupid people that have a voice just because they have numbers.

688
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,040
Yeah, they don't actually have anything intelligent to say.

689
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:30,040
They just have all these people that say, Yeah, I'm just as dumb as that guy.

690
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,040
So we must be on to something here.

691
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:39,040
And that's another thing that came from the Internet, because these people would not run into each other in real life.

692
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:54,040
These people wouldn't, wouldn't form I guess, wouldn't is a strong word to use, but most likely wouldn't have as much access to other people who have the same same stupid opinions as they do.

693
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,040
But the Internet creates a community.

694
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,040
An echo chamber of nonsense.

695
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:00,040
Yes.

696
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,040
And now to bring it all around.

697
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:05,040
What has the Internet made better?

698
00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:08,040
What has the Internet helped improve?

699
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:15,040
And yeah, I mean, you can, you can give me all the, well, the Internet has made medical records easier to find.

700
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,040
And I would point you back to our Gipsy Rose episode.

701
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:19,040
I would never go with that one.

702
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:23,040
You could say, Well, the Internet has helped create communities.

703
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:27,040
And I would refer you back to 30 seconds ago.

704
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,040
Well, the Internet has whatever.

705
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:32,040
I think that the communities is kind of a double-edged sword.

706
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:45,040
There are people that are emboldened to do just ridiculous things. The most recent one that's come out of all the political stuff that's happening was the Your Body, My Choice, the discussions that were happening.

707
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:51,040
And that created this community that is just the worst human beings I think you'll ever meet.

708
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:59,040
And it's, it's sickening genuinely that there are people that would everything that is an okay thing to say out loud.

709
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,040
And it's because they're not saying it out loud.

710
00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,040
You're allowed to be as stupid and wrong as you want on the Internet.

711
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:11,040
But I do think generally speaking that community is an incredible thing that the Internet has given us.

712
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:16,040
Whether you type it or whether you say it, it's still wrong.

713
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:20,040
There is not a more appropriate use for the Donald Trump sound fight right now.

714
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:30,040
But anyway, if you think of like our dad, like he gets to talk to all of his family members whenever he wants to, but they're spread out across the world.

715
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:33,040
Realistically without the Internet, it would have been snail mail.

716
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:38,040
And those people travel, like a lot of our family members travel country to country pretty frequently.

717
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:46,040
And so being able to like know what's happening with them, stay in contact with them is kind of incredible.

718
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:53,040
Yeah, I mean, that aspect of it that I guess communication for the right reasons or community for the right reasons.

719
00:53:53,040 --> 00:54:06,040
But I think it's a very slippery slope to fall into the more nefarious communities or just people that feel like they need a need a community.

720
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:16,040
And they end up falling into one that doesn't have their best interest or doesn't have a healthy outlook on everything on life.

721
00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:32,040
And therefore ends up being detrimental and ends up alienating them more from real people in their lives than it would have if if they hadn't tried to pursue it, pursue the community that they ended up finding.

722
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:38,040
I don't want to negate the thing that I just said about community because I do think it is one of the good things that's come out of the Internet.

723
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:43,040
But that is also the specific thought process that happens before a person joins a cult.

724
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:48,040
I still stand behind my my take on this that it is a good thing that communities are made.

725
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,040
And yes, there are some awful ones that have been made.

726
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:58,040
But I think it can be. It can be good, but it has to everyone involved has to have good intentions.

727
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:08,040
And I think that finding that is becoming more and more rare where there's not one bad Apple that is going to spoil a bunch where because all it takes is the suggestion from one person.

728
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:14,040
And then that seed starts to grow and then all of a sudden all of you have this whole group of nasty people.

729
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:20,040
It's hard to not or to find something that's just like an unadulterated good thing when it comes to the Internet.

730
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:26,040
But I think that accountability is also one of the good things that's come out of it, not universally, just like communities, not a universal thing.

731
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:33,040
But I think that holding people accountable, the Internet conversation is something that can cause actual action.

732
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:40,040
In a lot of cases, it's really impressive that people banding together to stop a terrible thing can actually stop a terrible thing.

733
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:47,040
There were a lot of TikTokers who have platforms for their kids, which I am wholeheartedly against.

734
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:49,040
Yeah, no, that's gross.

735
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:53,040
Your children are unable to consent to the things that you're having them do.

736
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:58,040
And you are aware of the things that are happening around them.

737
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:04,040
Like you're not you're not stupid, you're playing the algorithm perfectly and you were kind of a monster.

738
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:14,040
In a lot of those cases, like there have been actual TikTokers and stuff that have been arrested and had CPS called on them and stuff has actually happened for the better because of it.

739
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:22,040
Because they were doing shady things and weren't able to have that plausible deniability of like, I don't know what people are saying about my three year old.

740
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:29,040
And then you also get situations where, you know, at the squirrel, it's merked by the state because of busy bodies.

741
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:38,040
And the original story was that it was a woman from Texas that is the one that got herself involved in this thing in New York State.

742
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:42,040
I think that turned out to not be true either way.

743
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,040
You know, the squirrel is still dead and he wouldn't do anything.

744
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,040
Yeah, I have one more question.

745
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:49,040
What is something that you believe the Internet killed that you'd like to bring back?

746
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:50,040
I think it killed.

747
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:58,040
So while you're thinking, I did have an example that was just like kind of the through line and all of the stuff I was looking at looking for this episode and it's shame.

748
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:03,040
I desperately wish that we could just bring back shame to people.

749
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,040
That would be fantastic.

750
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:09,040
It is absurd to me, the things that people are willing to put online.

751
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:16,040
And I'm talking about you talking shit about your partner, ex-partner, your parents, your siblings, whatever.

752
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:17,040
Your children.

753
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:22,040
On the Internet, you crying on camera because who is that for?

754
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:23,040
It's not for you.

755
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:26,040
You don't feel better because you posted yourself sobbing.

756
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:30,040
No, it's you hoping that you can get enough people to say, well, I hope you're okay.

757
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,040
I hope everything's all right.

758
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,040
Like you're fishing and it's desperate and gross.

759
00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:36,040
It is.

760
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:43,040
And the people that just like spend all of their time on social media being like, hey, look at me and how great my life is.

761
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,040
If it was, you wouldn't be posting about it all of the time.

762
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,040
You wouldn't need validation from other people that you have a great life.

763
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,040
You could just have that great life.

764
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:55,040
You wouldn't need that from other people in order to feel better about yourself.

765
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:57,040
I want to bring back shame.

766
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:58,040
I'm tired of it.

767
00:57:58,040 --> 00:57:59,040
I want to bring back anonymity.

768
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:01,040
We not have anonymity because of the Internet?

769
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:02,040
I don't think so.

770
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:03,040
Really?

771
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:12,040
I mean, I think that going to say you're going on a date and people can look up your entire life beforehand

772
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:19,040
before you even get to get to establish who you are at now with this person.

773
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:22,040
They already have this preconceived notion of who they think you are.

774
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:27,040
And I'm not saying like, hey, he's a murderer, but I don't want them to know that.

775
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,040
So I'm just not going to talk about that part.

776
00:58:29,040 --> 00:58:32,040
And the Internet's not around to let her know that I'm a murderer.

777
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:41,040
But I'm just saying in general, I think that it takes away, it forces people to have a preconceived notion about you.

778
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:49,040
And it causes them to scrutinize how you say or what you say, what you do against that light.

779
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:58,040
Versus if you were a blank slate, then you would be able to say, you would be able to say, hey, this was me before, but this is me now.

780
00:58:58,040 --> 00:58:59,040
That's fair.

781
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:05,040
I was listening to a TED talk, I think, recently, and it was talking about like how you present yourself to the world.

782
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:15,040
And one of the things that she was saying was that if you were trying to do like an online dating thing, this is what you would do to attract these specific kind of people that you're looking for.

783
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:20,040
And I think that is so manufactured.

784
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:25,040
And it's something that we've just come to expect for just everything in our lives.

785
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:42,040
And so that like, if we are trying to make genuine connections, then it feels like it's necessary for us to look up the other person because what they have is not or what they have posted or whatever is not indicative of the person that they are.

786
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:52,040
But the things that they can't change about themselves, the, for some reason, the addresses that are public and all the historical stuff that you'd rather not be.

787
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:58,040
That you would rather not show up when you Google someone is just like front and center.

788
00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:01,040
I would also like to bring authenticity back.

789
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,040
Honesty.

790
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:18,040
Yeah, I mean, I think that even without the internet that would have been that would have been out the window just with which you might be able to make the argument that the internet is the reason that we are the way we are.

791
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:26,040
But I think that people feel isolated.

792
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:35,040
And so in order for people to not feel isolated, they have to join these pre built communities, these pre built communities feel like they have to have a purpose.

793
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:41,040
That purpose is whatever is going to be the loudest and get them the most attention.

794
01:00:41,040 --> 01:00:56,040
And the whatever is the loudest and gets the most attention is the one that's going to be most against the grain, which is going to cause these people to all develop this need to be so against the grain.

795
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:03,040
And so obtuse in thinking that they're going to.

796
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:11,040
They feel like that would give them the loudest voice that would make them feel the most heard that would make them.

797
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:29,040
Feel like they are the most important and then once they get that they have to keep feeding into that in order to get that same feeling and feel like this community is giving them everything they need even though deep down they know they don't need that and then they know that it's not doing anything for them because they're not being authentic to themselves.

798
01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,040
They're being authentic to this community.

799
01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:37,040
Who is trying to be authentic to each other.

800
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:55,040
And they're just circle jerking it all around until just someone finally decides hey, y'all are stupid and starts breaking away and then that community separates but then this all these people go and find these new communities find these new causes that are just as stupid.

801
01:01:55,040 --> 01:01:58,040
And do the same thing.

802
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:02,040
There was a conversation that I was having with a coworker pretty recently.

803
01:02:02,040 --> 01:02:15,040
And we were talking about Charlie Kirk and even some Crowder even Crowder and the change my mind guy.

804
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:17,040
Yes, the change my mind guy.

805
01:02:17,040 --> 01:02:27,040
And we were talking about how the conversation surrounding those was so different because this man is the co the co worker I was having conversation with was like 50.

806
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:36,040
So his perspective on it was like he's these men are just showing these young stupid kids what the real world is like.

807
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:48,040
It's like if you're optimistically 40 and you're yelling at 18 year olds for not being worldly, you've already got some kind of like baked in problem.

808
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,040
Something is something's wrong in your brain.

809
01:02:51,040 --> 01:02:56,040
Like 18 is when you're supposed to be figuring out everything.

810
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:00,040
I'm probably wrong about some things, but your whole platform is just being the loudest voice in the room.

811
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,040
And your whole community is built on being the loudest voices in the room.

812
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,040
You're not right.

813
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:09,040
But I think that's the same for both sides.

814
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:13,040
I think that the 18 year olds to think that they're the smartest people in the room.

815
01:03:13,040 --> 01:03:18,040
Every 18 year old has always thought they were the smartest person in the room.

816
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:41,040
But now, thanks to the what I like to call the Huck to effect, the loudest, the most boisterous ones are the ones that have the biggest chance of being able to catapult themselves out of their mundane lives into some sort of internet cloud.

817
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:42,040
Yeah.

818
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:45,040
And being able to profit off that.

819
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:57,040
So they want to have these opinions that just they want to scream science at you until it doesn't fit anymore.

820
01:03:57,040 --> 01:04:00,040
Yeah, just as long as they can scream something at you.

821
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:05,040
But the point of those videos is never to inform anyone about anything.

822
01:04:05,040 --> 01:04:13,040
Like the the whole to be fair, I haven't watched a lot of Steven Crowder or a lot of Charlie Kurt.

823
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:19,040
A lot of it is just if I scream my point, it is somehow more valid than if I'm just telling you that you're wrong for this.

824
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:32,040
I think one you need to recognize that what gets posted by Charlie Kirk or Steven Crowder is all what they want you to see.

825
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:41,040
It's it's them curating for their audience, what is going to be most beneficial and profitable for them.

826
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:42,040
Right.

827
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:50,040
They're going to give you the ones where the kids are just stupid and just have stupid opinions and have nothing to back up those opinions with.

828
01:04:50,040 --> 01:04:54,040
And so those are the ones that you're going to be seeing.

829
01:04:54,040 --> 01:05:07,040
If you were to sit down and actually watch the thing in person, then I think that you would be surprised by how much there is actually an honest discourse between the two people.

830
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:08,040
Right.

831
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:19,040
And but because of the Internet and because of how profiting off that kind of stuff works, that's not the stuff that you are.

832
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:23,040
That that's not the stuff that is put in front of your face.

833
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:28,040
It's it's the stuff that well, you're stupid because of this.

834
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:32,040
Well, actually, no, you're stupid because of this.

835
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:56,040
Okay, so bringing all around to hopefully level level the playing field out some the two instances that hit home for me most of things that the Internet helped was in, you know, what happened on April 20, 1999, or 2099.

836
01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:57,040
What?

837
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:58,040
Columbine.

838
01:05:58,040 --> 01:05:59,040
Was it?

839
01:05:59,040 --> 01:06:00,040
Was it not?

840
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:04,040
Well, I hope not because this is going to take a completely different turn.

841
01:06:04,040 --> 01:06:08,040
I know I know what happened on a 420.

842
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:09,040
Yeah.

843
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,040
Why do I know that?

844
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:18,040
Okay, well, you know, another thing that happened on April 20, 1999.

845
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:20,040
I do not.

846
01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:30,040
The saga begins was recorded the weird Al Verde of American pie based around the Phantom Menace.

847
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:33,040
But now I don't even feel like I want to talk about it.

848
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,040
Sorry for being a real big buzzkill guys.

849
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:55,040
Anyways, the only way Alfred Yankevic was able to record it was by reading spoilers on message boards of what the Phantom is to be because the Phantom Menace didn't come out until May 19 of 1999.

850
01:06:55,040 --> 01:07:11,040
The album that was on Running with Scissors was released June 29, 1999, but he had the song written in April and recorded and ready to go a month before the movie came out.

851
01:07:11,040 --> 01:07:12,040
Oh, okay.

852
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:16,040
And it was because of Internet spoilers that he was able to write it.

853
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,040
Interesting.

854
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:27,040
And then the last one was by John McLean, loved by George Lucas and Don McLean, the guy who's saying American pie.

855
01:07:27,040 --> 01:07:35,040
His kids listened to it so much that sometimes it would trip him up when he was performing and singing American by.

856
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:37,040
Okay.

857
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:43,040
And then my last one, this one doesn't have as big of an effect on my luck because I probably wasn't going to see it anyways.

858
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:45,040
But the live action Snow White.

859
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,040
I think that happened because of the Internet.

860
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,040
Well, they decided to...

861
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,040
Is this one with like Rachel Ziegler?

862
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:55,040
Yes, that nightmare of a person.

863
01:07:55,040 --> 01:07:57,040
I don't know anything about her.

864
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,040
Or do I care too?

865
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,040
Oh, do a little shallow dive to see what happens.

866
01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:02,040
Thanks.

867
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:04,040
See what you find.

868
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:11,040
So they announced that they were doing this live action Snow White.

869
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:30,040
And then Peter Dinklage came out, the famous thespian, known for playing Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones.

870
01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:41,040
And then he got the role because he's a dwarf and the character is a dwarf.

871
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:53,040
Came out and said that Snow White shouldn't be remade and they shouldn't use dwarves as acting.

872
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:58,040
They shouldn't give those seven jobs to dwarves because it's offensive.

873
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:03,040
Even though this man made his entire career off of playing dwarves.

874
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:06,040
Got these jobs because he was a dwarf.

875
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,040
Not all of them.

876
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:13,040
But his most prominent roles were because he was a dwarf and it was a role meant for a dwarf.

877
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:19,040
Coming out and saying that dwarves should not have these jobs.

878
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:24,040
It's offensive for you to cast dwarves in Snow White and the seven dwarves and we need to move past this.

879
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:28,040
This is 2025.

880
01:09:28,040 --> 01:09:29,040
I don't know 2022 at this point.

881
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:37,040
This movie has been in production off and on for like three, four years now.

882
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:53,040
And so other dwarf actors came out and said it's real cute for Peter Dinklage to take all these dwarf roles and then shut the door behind them and say dwarves shouldn't have specific roles.

883
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:55,040
Dwarves should.

884
01:09:55,040 --> 01:09:57,040
Actors should be actors.

885
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:00,040
It shouldn't matter if they're a dwarf or not.

886
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,040
So you got Horned Swaggle.

887
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:05,040
It was from the WWE.

888
01:10:05,040 --> 01:10:07,040
He's a dwarf.

889
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:11,040
He came out and he's like, what the hell are you talking about man?

890
01:10:11,040 --> 01:10:12,040
And they got beef.

891
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,040
They got any tiny little beef.

892
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:21,040
And anyways, so this all exploded because of the internet.

893
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:27,040
And so after that, they decided to nix the dwarf idea.

894
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:41,040
And they're going to go with a DEI wet dream of not dwarves, but just people.

895
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,040
Okay.

896
01:10:43,040 --> 01:11:07,040
There's seven random people that live together and the people they chose for this is just there's one still photo of this cast from when they were shooting these scenes.

897
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:15,040
And it's just wild that this is the direction they decided to go in.

898
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:24,040
And so the internet got all up in arms and said, hey, what the hell is this?

899
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:25,040
You can't do this.

900
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:30,040
And so then Disney had to course correct again.

901
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:43,040
And then decided to make the seven dwarves dwarves again, but then also make them into these polar express ask uncanny valley nightmares.

902
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:44,040
I hate this.

903
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,040
Yeah.

904
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:52,040
And every time anything about this movie has been put on YouTube or anything or they've made any like official posts.

905
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,040
It's been disliked into oblivion.

906
01:11:55,040 --> 01:12:02,040
I sincerely hope this is the thing that stops Disney from making live action reboots because you know this thing was expensive as hell.

907
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:03,040
Oh, it's fun.

908
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,040
And it keeps racking up costs.

909
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:08,040
And it is going to bomb so hard.

910
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:09,040
Because we're just tired.

911
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:12,040
I think as a whole collective.

912
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:15,040
Like before all this stuff happened.

913
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:20,040
Plus, I mean, you got all the crap with Rachel Zegler and her.

914
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:25,040
It's worth looking into because she seems like a nightmare to be around.

915
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:35,040
But like before I might have like seen that I have curiosity, but now I have absolutely no interest in seeing any of it and just want to stop hearing about it.

916
01:12:35,040 --> 01:12:43,040
But because of the internet, I can't because it's it's still all over the place and will be until it's released or it's not released.

917
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:53,040
And Disney just decides to take the tax break from all the money they lost on it.

918
01:12:53,040 --> 01:13:00,040
And then real quick, one more thing saved by the internet is the terrifying original version of Sonic.

919
01:13:00,040 --> 01:13:02,040
I believe that was fake.

920
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:03,040
You think it was marketing?

921
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:05,040
I believe that it was absolutely marketing.

922
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:12,040
Because if you make absolutely, I think that they knew that if they made something because of who their target demographic was, which was all the people that are chronic.

923
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:21,040
They're online, if they made a design that was so just offensively stupid, but the internet would come after them and then they were very for children.

924
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:28,040
And they would look like the good guys because they were they went back to the drawing board and did the thing that everyone wanted.

925
01:13:28,040 --> 01:13:29,040
They listened to their fans.

926
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:35,040
But really no person in their right mind would have greenlit that.

927
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:38,040
Duma ass Sonic.

928
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:41,040
Like actual teeth and do you think people are going to watch that?

929
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:42,040
Movie?

930
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:43,040
I wouldn't have.

931
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:46,040
He had too many human features.

932
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:57,040
But that on top of being able to get Jim Carrey, who has said that he's retired, but the only thing that he keeps coming back for is the Sonic sequels.

933
01:13:57,040 --> 01:14:00,040
Well, he said that he came back this time because he was broke.

934
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,040
What?

935
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:02,040
He said that he needed the money.

936
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:03,040
I didn't hear that.

937
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:04,040
For the third one.

938
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:05,040
Yeah.

939
01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:06,040
Huh.

940
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:14,040
Someone asked him what role he'd be willing to or he's always wanted to revisit.

941
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:15,040
Guess which one was.

942
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:19,040
The Grinch.

943
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:23,040
The CIA torture training film.

944
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:24,040
Yeah.

945
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:26,040
They said that there's so much.

946
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,040
There's so many advances now in CG and all this stuff.

947
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:40,040
But I think that one of the things that makes the Grinch such a great movie is because of the practical makeup and everything CG.

948
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:44,040
I miss so much when everything's were practically done.

949
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:47,040
Like the Jurassic Park movies versus Jurassic World.

950
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:48,040
Yeah.

951
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:49,040
I hate those films.

952
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,040
And it's not just because I hate Chris Pratt.

953
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:52,040
I do hate Chris Pratt.

954
01:14:52,040 --> 01:15:00,040
But the CG dinosaurs versus like the actual practical things they did in the original Jurassic Parks are just so starkly different.

955
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:01,040
Yeah.

956
01:15:01,040 --> 01:15:05,040
One last good thing that I had that came from the Internet.

957
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:06,040
Learning.

958
01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:10,040
Learning has become so much easier because of the Internet.

959
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:11,040
That's true.

960
01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:14,040
I got my degree because of the Internet.

961
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:15,040
Yeah.

962
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:16,040
I am.

963
01:15:16,040 --> 01:15:19,040
I taught myself ukulele and I'm teaching myself guitar because of the Internet.

964
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:22,040
Because I wouldn't have the resources that I'm using right now.

965
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:23,040
Otherwise.

966
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:24,040
Yeah.

967
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:25,040
So then what's the final verdict?

968
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,040
Has the Internet ruined everything?

969
01:15:27,040 --> 01:15:28,040
Has it?

970
01:15:28,040 --> 01:15:33,040
Have we ruined ourselves because of the Internet and the Internet really had nothing to do with it?

971
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:36,040
Or is it somewhere in the middle?

972
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:42,040
I think because of just how all encompassing the Internet is you can't say that it's good or bad.

973
01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:46,040
There's way too much nuance to put it in a box like that.

974
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:49,040
So I thought I'd have to say that it's in the middle.

975
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:53,040
But it leans more on the worse side of things than the better side of things.

976
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,040
I think it's ruined a lot more than it's helped.

977
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:57,040
Do you think we'd be better off without it?

978
01:15:57,040 --> 01:16:01,040
I don't think there's an option to be without it now.

979
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,040
So I don't know that I would think of that as like an actual choice.

980
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:05,040
Yeah.

981
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:15,040
Because so much of my, I couldn't tell you the last time that I went a day without my phone or my some kind of Internet connected device.

982
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,040
I don't think I've ever been on a phone either.

983
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:21,040
Whenever I go on vacation, I try to be a, I try to be as present as possible.

984
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:31,040
And so I'll try to not have my phone or whatever, but even still, like I'm realistically going to have a hooked up to my car for music, or I'm going to take a picture every once in a while.

985
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,040
Mine feeds my fish when I'm at it down.

986
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:35,040
Oh, that's cool.

987
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:43,040
Okay, so the only reason the Internet ruined anything is because humans ruin everything they touch.

988
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:46,040
I wholeheartedly beg to differ on that one.

989
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,040
I don't think we ruin everything.

990
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:49,040
What have we not ruined?

991
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:57,040
What has unequivocally been not ruined because humans have gotten their grubby little hands all over it?

992
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:59,040
Also an impossible question.

993
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:02,040
Humans shape everything that we are and everything that we do.

994
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:06,040
You can't say that it's all good or all bad because everything has nuance.

995
01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:11,040
But there is enough good to say that there is, that we don't ruin everything.

996
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:16,040
We don't want to be living on this planet if I thought that humans ruined everything.

997
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:20,040
The level of pessimism that I don't think I'd ever want to combat.

998
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,040
Grand Canyon.

999
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:24,040
We didn't have anything to do with that, but we ruined it.

1000
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,040
Did we?

1001
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:35,040
By creating trails for donkeys to go down so fat tourists can go down into the canyon and...

1002
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:36,040
Sure.

1003
01:17:36,040 --> 01:17:41,040
But also the National Park Service has protected that land so that we can't do anything.

1004
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:44,040
There are people who are protecting that space.

1005
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:49,040
So that people for generations will be able to see it and enjoy the most majestic thing I've seen in my entire life.

1006
01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,040
Counterpoint.

1007
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:57,040
If you look up pockets where people disappear the most, it's state parks.

1008
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:58,040
Sure.

1009
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:00,040
What are they hiding?

1010
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:09,040
If you have big open spaces where it's really easy to put distance between yourself and every other human being on the planet.

1011
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:10,040
Sure.

1012
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,040
More people are going to die there.

1013
01:18:11,040 --> 01:18:13,040
I feel like you got something you're hiding.

1014
01:18:13,040 --> 01:18:18,040
This isn't a true crime podcast, but I have a feeling that's going to be your spin-off.

1015
01:18:18,040 --> 01:18:20,040
I don't know.

1016
01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:28,040
I mean, I'm sure there are things that human intervention has not completely ruined and un-come-to-mind.

1017
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:35,040
But for all those out there listening, I think that the internet has a double-edged sword.

1018
01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:39,040
I think that a lot of good things have come from it.

1019
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,040
A lot of bad things have come from it.

1020
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:45,040
I think that go one way or the other depending on how you use it.

1021
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:46,040
Absolutely.

1022
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:48,040
Just like any other kind of tool.

1023
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:51,040
You can use a hammer to build a house.

1024
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,040
You can use a hammer to bludgeon somebody.

1025
01:18:54,040 --> 01:18:57,040
So, I mean, it's all how you use it.

1026
01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:58,040
So, I think...

1027
01:18:58,040 --> 01:18:59,040
One of our both murderers.

1028
01:18:59,040 --> 01:19:00,040
What if?

1029
01:19:00,040 --> 01:19:10,040
So, I think if there's anything to take away from this episode today, I would say use the tools at your disposal to leave the world a better place than when you found it.

1030
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:11,040
Mic drop.

1031
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:13,040
Alrighty.

1032
01:19:13,040 --> 01:19:15,040
Well, it's been real.

1033
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:16,040
It's been fun.

1034
01:19:16,040 --> 01:19:17,040
It hadn't been real fun.

1035
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,040
We'll catch you next time.

1036
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:22,040
Stay on the good side of the internet.

1037
01:19:22,040 --> 01:19:29,040
Wise friends.