God Awful Movies - 339: Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt?

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

This week, Cecil joins us to roast review the third and final installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy. You MUST be wondering how bad the kompromat is that we're using to blackmail him into doi...ng ALL THREE of these movies. --- If you’d like to make a per episode donation and get monthly bonus episodes, please check us out on Patreon: http://patreon.com/godawful Check out our other shows, The Scathing Atheist, The Skepticrat, Citation Needed, and D&D Minus. Check out more from Cecil on Cognitive Dissonance and Season Liberally  Our theme music is written and performed by Ryan Slotnick of Evil Giraffes on Mars. If you’d like to hear more, check out their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/EvilGiraffesOnMars/?fref=ts All our other music was written and performed by Morgan Clarke. To hear more from him, check him out here: https://www.morganclarkemusic.com/

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Starting point is 00:00:00 My favorite part about that whole thing though with Sean Hannity is that he's not invited to the island. Oh, you're right. Like Sean Hannity and all these other pundits, like they keep going back though, they're gonna mention another pundit. And a second, none of those people got invited to the fucking tropical fucking. You're right. You're the right paradise.
Starting point is 00:00:22 They're all sucking its dick from back in the hell. No, they're furious because Colbert got taken because they didn't know I was satire. Yeah, the best. Yeah, Ted Cruz, I wish John got what insult my wife. Oh no! Oh no! Movie! Movie!
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Starting point is 00:01:15 I would take the taser at this point. I just take the taser. I'd get shot by a cop right now. And sitting 900 miles to my northeast is my bad friend Eli Bosnick Eli. How are you this fine afternoon, sir? I would let Heath get shot by a cop. Well, there you go. It's getting shot by a cop. Have you seen me? I look like every cop. Yeah. That's true. That's true. Kind of. Maybe if we could convince them to commit suicide, it accidentally shoot you. I look like a composite sketch of cop.
Starting point is 00:01:50 That's me. It's all them together. It's me. And also joining us today, we've already mentioned it, but I might as well introduce them officially from 900 miles to my north, 200 miles to Heath's west and deep inside Eli's heart is Cecil, something Italian from the cognitive distance podcast podcast Cecil, welcome back. It's sticky in here.
Starting point is 00:02:08 It is. It's very sticky. Well, a plaque in here. Very narrow too. So tell us, Heath, what will we be breaking down today? We watched Atlas shrugged part three. Who is John Gaults? That's in the title.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Mm-hmm. It's the story of a tantrum about sharing crayons, the political philosophy for grownups. That's true. Oh, god. And Eli, how bad was this movie? Well, if you're trying to cast the trilogy, but everyone you've cast dies like a Mr.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Mixie's clone after making a movie. You will love this third one once again, brand new cast. Yeah. Cast. Yeah. What? It lay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Has this ever happened before in a trilogy or even a, even a two part? Have they ever just completely recast? No, I don't, I don't think I'm not possible. Probably, but what's crazy is the auto work actors from two wouldn't accept the calls from three. That's insane. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Well, so yeah, we have to point out what a precipitous drop off in budget this movie saw, right? So according to the internet, the first movie's budget was somehow 20 million fucking dollars, it, you know, made four, they spent it all on train footage, but yeah, go ahead. Yeah, exactly. The second movie was less than 10. This one was about five, right? Zeno's sequels here. But of course, dropping in an even pasture rate were the returns. First one made 4.6 million. The second made $4.6 million, the second one, $3.3 million. And this one, a whopping according to box office mocho, $846,704.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Okay, but it'll never go to zero. So that's right. Okay. So think about this. We made about half of that with our charity fund razor last year on a budget of whatever we paid Cecil's wife for that logo, she drew. Right? And we've carried her logo over.
Starting point is 00:04:15 We haven't lost the logo. I just the logo. What did we pay? Tote bag, a bottle of wine. I just gave her one hug. That's a one, one free hug. One free hug. $5 million hug right there.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Did she redeem it yet? Probably not. She doesn't touch me. We're married. Now, is there anything you guys want to nominate this one for being the best of being the worst at? Yeah, I'm going to go with best worst character name. Yes, so how?
Starting point is 00:04:42 Okay, so we already met a mightest Mulligan. Uh huh. Yes. And a Balfe, you bank. Balfe. For example, those are two existing names. Ragnar, Danis, Joel, they jumped over that bar. We need coffee, migs.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Coffee, migs. In this one. My only regret in life is not getting to watch no illusions watch this guy get introduced and be like, fuck you. Coffee migs. Coffee migs. Get out of here. Every character name is like somebody's lying.
Starting point is 00:05:18 It's like, what's your name? Six. Coffee. All right. So I wanted to go with best worst exposition de evolution. Right. Keep in mind, we started at Train News Network. Right. That was how they got everything into the first movie as they would just happen to look
Starting point is 00:05:44 up at the news and they'd be talking about trains on CNN again, right? It got so much worse. It's we basically we have a narrator that cuts in every seven or eight minutes and goes, so anyway, it's so bad. Sir, do you mind reading this narration right before your child support hearing? I feel like you're not going to be too cute. It's going to angri mind reading this narration right before your child support hearing? I feel like you're not going to get to do kids. I'm going to hang really reading this. Yes, it's pirate. It's obviously for three movies. I have known what was coming.
Starting point is 00:06:20 It's the pirate guys. And it's just it's more on the worse side for the pirates who said this pirate spends the majority of his time at a fucking farmers market. It's the farm. Yep. And identifying planes while they're flying. Those are the two things he has to get a super power for. He makes really great apples and he can identify planes from the ground.
Starting point is 00:06:39 He's checking like he's like amazing mutant power. He'll be in the next ax man. See how squishy his roots are. It's just that's what we want. Yeah, all the build up for two movies. I have watched my dear sweet Cecil look into the sunset with a glimmer in his eye, waiting for the pirate and it's just a fat guy in a farmer's market. I got a long shorman selling the apples. That's what I got. That's what I got. Talk worker selling the apples.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Oh, Regnard Dennis golden delicious. Right. It's not a it's not a good pirate. That's all. No, not a good pirate. And I'm going to go with best worst defense of their Kickstarter. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:24 This is the best. So again, this is from the general trivia. The first piece of general trivia for the film is, quote, I'm not making any of these words up. Nearly half a million dollars of the film's budget was raised through the online funding site Kickstarter. Nearly wow. This was claimed by many to be ironic since crowdfunding or charity is in opposition to
Starting point is 00:07:45 iron ranks philosophy of objectivism, but that is incorrect as objectivism only opposes forced charity. Not according to the little. Well, not what charity means also. Yeah, maybe it can. I don't think that's an oxymoron. I don't think you can have it. You're thinking of robbery.
Starting point is 00:08:01 It's all right. Well, I'll tell you what you might think that nothing happening can't have a conclusion, but we're going to prove you wrong. Incorrect. Just on the other side of this break, we're going to break down all the wrapped through the alphabet and started using Greek letters like the National Hurricane Center at the end of the season list actors that are at little shrug three. Who is John Gulf?
Starting point is 00:08:25 That's true. Lulululul doing billionaire stuff. Billionaire stuff is my favorite stuff. Mr. Bezos, who are you? What are you doing here? My name is Eli Galt, and I represent a place that believes that men like you deserve more.
Starting point is 00:08:43 You do? Yes, we're tired of the moochers who ride our coattails place that believes that men like you deserve more. You do? Yes. We're tired of the moochers who ride our coattails and we're ready to invite you to join us. Mochers, exactly, I'm it. I thought you might be Mr. Bezos. Here's your teleportation device. This is a gun.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Yes, it does look like that, but that's merely so the common moocher doesn't recognize its power. Simply put that under your chin, pull the trigger and you'll be transported at last to a place where you'll be treated like the leader of men that you know you are. I don't know. It really looks like a gun, like really. I mean, look, Mr. Bezos, if you want to spend your life supporting others through your taxes, giving and giving, you go ahead and give me back my teleporter, but if you know
Starting point is 00:09:31 what you deserve, you'll pull that trigger. You know what? And that's for an arrow. Pay up. I can't believe this is working. Bill Gates didn't even let me finish explaining what it was. I know. It's true.
Starting point is 00:09:47 He didn't. Okay. You guys want to do Muscle out. Let's do Muscle. I said we are saving him for last. I want to do him now. We know you do, buddy. We know.
Starting point is 00:09:56 We all do. We all do. Now. Careful. Dude, we are being careful. Yeah. Hey, guys, damn, what happened to you, Heath? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Hey, Noah. So I was running at the gym, you know, my, my usual gym run that I do saw a pretty girl walking to play. It's not, it's not the point. So I'm running like I normally do because I like fitness and my headphone falls out. So I try to bend down to pick it up without breaking stride. And yeah, well, I got my arm stuck in my butt. Right.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Because of the treadmill. Because of the treadmill? Yep, exactly. Well, Heath, why don't you just try a pair of Raycon wireless earbuds? What are Raycon wireless earbuds? Really, Cecil? Now, you know that right now.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Sorry, I just want to be Thomas this year. No, it's a spare. I get it. Raycon wireless earbuds are the best way to bring audio with you because no matter how much you shake things up, literally no matter how much you shake, you know, they won't fall out of your ears. Okay, but what if I'm at the next treadmill over and I want to hear the high pitch squealing of a man with an arm up. I was not squealing. I was, I had requested assistance very urgently. I feel like you're saying it's squealing. So there's also an awareness mode for when you need to listen to your surroundings. So you can take radcons with you wherever you go.
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Starting point is 00:11:43 scam. All right, let's get you to the hospital. Yeah, let's go to same parts. They're way cooler about when we get stuff stuck up or pro. It's true. They are way cooler about that. You guys ads are weird. This is real. Yeah. Very funny because it's true. And we're back for the breakdown. We're going to open up at the 20th century motor company
Starting point is 00:12:06 on, I guess Thursday, this Thursday, the title screen says, day after tomorrow. We'll pull it so it's day after tomorrow. This is a flashback. Yeah. So they're flashing back to the day after tomorrow. From later.
Starting point is 00:12:20 The movie's already really confused. Yeah. So, but we start this whole movie off on the meeting where John Galt's company decided to be a communist company and he walked out. Yeah. And it's, look, it was bad when they described it to us in the last movie, but actually acting out the guy saying,
Starting point is 00:12:39 and obviously those who need more will be paid more in him being like, over my dead body. Well, as does his stupid little line about I will stop the motor of the world. Yeah, that's not by the way how employee ownership works. Employee ownership is awesome. I know. And it just means everybody makes more on average and fucking boss makes less. That's all it means idiots.
Starting point is 00:13:06 And also they don't know how to business is work, right? So like if I design something for a business, it's not like I just, I just say, well I just designed that. I get to take literally all my parts that I used while I was here all the time and just walk out the door with it. No, I designed it while I was there.
Starting point is 00:13:20 It's gotta stay here. You hate me to design it while I was here. Right. I wanted everybody to know that. I'd be like, oh, he's leaving. Cool. So we get all those. All right. So free energy for everybody and it's low cost. Now, make more money when we do this employee. He's up there. Yes. Exactly. Great. And of course, this is John Dolt. So the audience as he walks out goes, has to go like, who was that? Who is this mass band without a mask? And who is he? He's working at a flower factory. We just watch him scooping heaps into his pants. This is my, I made it.
Starting point is 00:13:52 This one's, I get to take all the cereal I made. And I kept looking at John Galt. This is his first reveal, right? This is the reveal of who John Galt is in these movies. We haven't seen his face for like whatever 25 hours we watched the other two, whatever however long that was. We haven't seen his actual face. He's been covered in shadow the whole time. This is the first time we've seen his face clearly a new actor, right? Because they've chose different actors each time because it's hidden in shadow. It doesn't matter. Yeah. This guy looks like he could easily be the singer in a praise band and any of the other movies that I was watching 100% could be the singer in a praise band and any of the other movies that I was watching.
Starting point is 00:14:25 100% could be the singer in a praise band. Oh, absolutely. He's also directly coming from a shampoo commercial in 1990. Sure. Sure is. Yes. That's what he just did. Like a part plus commercial.
Starting point is 00:14:37 Yeah. His hair is great. And I doubt he had any fuss to be fair. But let's go. Yeah, sure. I hate him. You ever see those things that are like But let's go. Yeah, sure. I hate him. You ever see those things that are like, here's celebrities with their stunt men.
Starting point is 00:14:49 He looks like a stunt man for Jim Kovizel. Okay. Like you're like, oh, but if you were a little more handsome, you could have been Jim Kovizel, but you're not. Hey, the car while we roll it, he played this, this actor played handsome man and Wonder Woman 84, damn it. He sure did. So, and then of course we were introduced to this shit narrator that cuts into, like,
Starting point is 00:15:10 kind of catches up on the movie, you know, the society's gone to hell and now we use trains basically. Yeah. Yeah, it's basically the world collapse because one guy didn't give two week notice. Yeah, right. Exactly. The whole world's in the shitter now because John Galt is locked off his job. And I love the source material that they're stuck with here because like in 1957, you could sell and now America's factories, we're all shutting down as apocalyptic, but that doesn't
Starting point is 00:15:34 work in 2014, right? Because you'd be like, well, yeah, they're already, what are you, we're a service economy, you're really, it's more of a data economy now. Either way, now or in 1957, boat transportation wouldn't stop working because one guy left his job at a motor company. And also, literally, the reason the boat transportation is a problem in their universe is a goddamn pirate that they created not socialism. It's so dumb. Right after this, they're like, and there's a pirate actually. Also Cecil pirate pirate promise you there will be a pirate. Here's our pirate who doesn't take anything. He just wounds ships and then leaves. Apparently, any like a run on side of really. He rises all the copper that he takes. Yeah, exactly. He like goes slowly across and keys the side of it and then he just drives away.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Exactly. He like goes slowly across and keys the side of it and then he just drives away. Catching release. Yeah. Catching release pirates waiting in the middle of the ocean. Dress this in iceberg. Yeah. He's putting sugar in their gas tank and jumping over board real quick and running off. And of course, the narrators telling us, you know, and as the world was falling apart, we all look back and thought, hey, you think it was that guy who had his like Jerry McGuire freak on his way out of the 20th century motor. You think it's his fault that everything in the world is turned to shit. And we were and everybody was like, what's stupid? Why the fuck would it be that?
Starting point is 00:16:58 What a dumb thing to think. I worked at a Quiznos in high school and a guy quick halfway through the training because he wasn't allowed to call it the black ainess sandwich and every time there's a terrorist attack and Zimbabwe. I wonder if it is black a And to be clear, with the exception of introducing us to Dagnia, James and Dan Coney, the three minutes and 30 second intro to this movie has told us literally everything that happened in the first two films. Yeah, absolutely right. Yeah, we didn't have to
Starting point is 00:17:34 do that. Why did we do it? Why did we watch all that? Yeah. No, I'm really want to know like I would put Todd and Cara San Maria in it. Hopefully. I love to this. There's this great moment where they have to like sort of introduce us to the new versions of the actors from the last two years. Yeah. Remember, they're very quickly like, remember this guy, huh? This is Alice Wyatt. Fuck you.
Starting point is 00:18:02 This is Alice. Yes, he is. And we see him. He has a diploma from Wyatt oil on the wall. He gave himself a diploma in oil, having what's crazy. It's an honorary degree too. It's a year. So you didn't even do the course work at Wyatt oil university. It's not even like a real certificate. Like you just gave it to yourself. It's crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:28 My professor was a real asshole. Blanc is over in a picture of himself. Yeah. And then of course, all right. So then we get the plane crash from the end and beginning of the last movie. I'm thinking myself, holy shit, this exact same plane crash has been the beginning or end of half of these three movies. Right?
Starting point is 00:18:44 Yeah. We paid literally dozens of dollars for this footage. They're getting there. You sat of it. Yeah. And so this is also where we learned that apparently poor man's Samantha Mathis is a thing. I didn't never would have guessed. I wrote my God.
Starting point is 00:19:01 That plane crashed in terrible things to her face. Yes. Samantha Mathis. I was like, Oh, she was in that terrible things to her face. Yeah. Samantha Mathis. I was like, Oh, she was in that shitty movie, Broken Arrow. This one I was like, I don't know. I've never, I don't know. I've never, I don't know. Any of the slash in this and probably nothing ever again since time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:17 Like many of the people who worked on these movies. Yeah. So John Galt comes together like at the end of the last one and she's like, what happened? And he's like, well, you see that really bad CGI above us. That's like a wakandan force field thing. We're not going to be super clear on it. But we, uh, we stole that from the footage of the Scarlet Witch. So if you could not tell anybody, I love to that.
Starting point is 00:19:42 At this point, she literally just got into a plane crash. Her face is bloody. She's lying on her back and John Gulch just walks up, folds her in half and carries her to the heart. Like, you don't move people. What is wrong with you? You don't just pick them up and shake them. Like, what the fuck? He's like, don't move. You could be seriously injured. I'll move you instead. What? So are you a doctor? No, I'm just checking your arm. Your arm's good. I'm move you instead. What? So are you a doctor? No, I'm just checking your arm. Your arm's good. I'm picking you up. And you're fine.
Starting point is 00:20:09 And you're near. Yes. Really wanted him to pick her up and she's like been in pain. I also have a thing. It comes loose. She just starts pouring blood. Oh, fuck. Oh, damn it. Why didn't we think of ambulances? We're all genius. Medical. Do you have a good A.M.O? Because this is you have to pay for all of a set of boxes.
Starting point is 00:20:27 Mostly out of pocket here. Mostly out of pocket here. Yeah. And I love too that like as he's like folding her in half and like dragging her to the car and then he throws her in the back seat, this other guy who's standing there and this is Mulligan. This is my to smoligan turns and was like, Hey, why don't you guys come over for dinner to an Emily's shirt.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Like don't make dinner plans. I don't care. How good your gazpacho is, bro. The fuck? Really a Holocaust reference, Cecil? Offensive. Anti-Semitic. I sympathized very strongly with Midas Smoligan here, right?
Starting point is 00:21:03 Where you're talking to a friend, you're about to make evening plans and then they get like a call that grandma died and you're like, right, but okay, but I've already know how much chili to make. Oh my gosh. What a terrible loss for you. Still. So yeah, he did not want to buy. So he takes her to his house in the valley, John Gaultas. My music note here is store brand
Starting point is 00:21:26 Cinderella is about the clean of cottage. Also, gnomes are making sandwiches. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Music is quite certain that both the thing around me. Yeah. I guess as long as they don't reuse that music later, I enjoyed that. Who doesn't want gnomes making sandwiches while you're fucking look, we have to. We only get so much royalty free music for this budget. So this is the, they have, and it's so funny because they have John galt carrying or everywhere because I guess it's romantic or manly or whatever, but he's just like, he's carrying her way too much and too often. He's just like, oh, let me carry you from this chair over to this one.
Starting point is 00:22:06 I think you got more light on this one. She needed like an easy to carry handle in a certain way. Like, yes, right, right. Like one of those no-tubs, a detergent or whatever. Right, yeah, those things at Costco, they give you that's just like a piece of tape that you can craft. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:21 So it's not on either side of her. Put it on shoulder blades and drags her around the house. I'm gonna charge you for this, by the way, yeah. So I also, this is always wonderful when someone has to draw the like utopia, but they fucking suck. So we realize now that they've left the world of, you know, the Ritz Carlton and luxury because these are all millionaires to live in the third nicest cabins at bare mountain. Yes, they owned the bus. Right.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Absolutely. Oh, and so he gets it, but the world's greatest, I'm assuming number one neurosurgeon in the world is there. He's with their doctor and he's got a magical tricorder device that they also have, in case there wasn't enough magical technology in this story for you yet. Well, he would have invented it before. Yes.
Starting point is 00:23:11 You would have invented it before in the real universe, this amazing device that can diagnose literally anything by waving it next to you. There was a little bit of red tape. Right. It couldn't do it. So, you know, go fuck yourself. Jesus, they have too many regulations about human medical test subjects said I ran 12 years after the Holocaust.
Starting point is 00:23:31 Yeah. Yikes, that is correct on the timeline. What the fuck? That's a extra, that's a next story, Yikes. I also, he's a neurologist. So I really wanted him to walk in and for them to do like, well, doctor, what's wrong with her? And I'm afraid I'm gonna be like, I have no idea, I'm a neurologist, so I really wanted him to walk in and for them to do like well, doctor, what's wrong with her?
Starting point is 00:23:45 And I'm feeling like I have no idea. I'm a neurologist. I'm a neurosurgeon. He's a neurosurgeon. Not even a neurologist. I can cut your axon, but I just guessed it feels like more you're broken on your arm and that's more of an orthopedic. Is it like a howie?
Starting point is 00:24:03 Is it howie? He's working on it and he gets a call. He's like, are we? Is it, are we? Cool. He's working on her and he gets a call. He's like, yeah, I'll come over and check out your horse after I'm done. I'm like, he only doves or what? Like that's something the only guy here.
Starting point is 00:24:13 It's a good thing I have this magical, extreme machine. Because otherwise I'd be fucked, right? If you guys had to, Jesus Christ. Yeah, but she's fine. It was a very light plane crash. It was a plane crash.
Starting point is 00:24:27 She just fell from the sky and an aeroplane, but no, she's fine. She's got a bit of a, bit of a busted ankle and a nose bleed that they won't wipe off. Why would it took? Yeah. It took 25 minutes to the movie to wipe off this giant clock clock. But it's so gross. Just wipe it off. What are you doing? It's the little nosebleed. Now, I drove all the way home. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Then they had a conversation. Yeah. And then they hung out for a while. And then finally, in between scenes, it gets wiped off. Yeah. I needed somebody to just reach over me like this is gross. I'm wiping it. lick their finger like your mom.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Yeah. Right. And then, and then they argue and discuss who's going to fucking pay this neurosurgeon for his time because paradise has medical debt. Oh, Jesus. We only take gold. She actually takes gold to blue. She's like, I will pay out a pocket for this.
Starting point is 00:25:25 I do not accept the, you know, averaging out of medical risk across a large population that is. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's so dumb. I really wanted them to accidentally walk into health insurance. It's like, oh, well, obviously I don't have any gold yet. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:25:43 I'll pay for you now. And then you know, if we all chipped in like shit and bull piece of shit, we have to sell the kitchen universal health care again. Just pay me a small amount of gold each month and make sure we reimburse your bills. I forget we're supposed to let you die and then do a big study and blame preschool. Right. That's what we're supposed to do rap music to. So and then he puts her in this room to like recover or whatever and she says to him,
Starting point is 00:26:09 she's like, am I your guest or your prisoner? And he goes, well, that choice is yours. And I'm like, no, that's been prisoner. If I have to say it's the answer is prisoner then creepier. She says, why should I trust you? And he quietly looks at her and doesn't say that if that ever happens to you audience trust me you will be putting lotion on your body from the bottom of a well-edged hour. Correct Cecil. Karen, before you'll get the hose. Yeah so Yeah, so I trust you and then you close the door like Lucille blue with
Starting point is 00:26:47 Get the fuck out of here. Oh Jesus. Okay, on the plus side if that ever happens to you, you just met Heathen right so that's fun. From the podcast you like. So meanwhile, the high school biology video guy trying to inject drama into photosynthesis narrator chimes in again. Oh God. To explain that the poverty apocalypse is still going full swing outside of the movie. Right. Oh, they bring up ragged. Narrow. The pirate again. More pirate stuff. So, okay, so there's this cargo ship that tipped over right. It's over by where I live. It's my next surprise with George.
Starting point is 00:27:25 They bought some fucking footage of that and God damn it, they are gonna get a lot of use out of there. Tipped over. Carrying shit. They're gonna use stills, they're gonna use video. They're gonna use it all, man. You know what socialists do?
Starting point is 00:27:36 They put everything on the left of the ship. Tipped over. What the fuck are you talking about? Why would that have anything to do with any of this? It looks like Ragnar slits tires on one side. You know what I mean? He's gay now. Well, that's what happens when you key it.
Starting point is 00:27:50 See, so these heaters, they keep it on the right side. The other side flips out because it's lighter now. Just working around it in a circle with a can opener on a little thing. Just go around it in and off in circles. It'll start spinning and it'll just sink right down. So yeah, so then fucking Dagnie goes to a house party.
Starting point is 00:28:10 That's a scene in the movie. This house brings the fucking, this is the millionaire paradise and they have paper bag lanterns. Yeah, they do. They do. To be clear, like the greatest paper bag lantern guy in the world. Fucking Valley. Absolutely. Who's building these houses? He founded Yankee candle. There's also a bartender at this party. Which means John Gault was like, I like the world's greatest
Starting point is 00:28:45 bartender. Yeah. Right. So and and everybody has to like take turns going up to her and explaining why they came to millionaires, gold, shlippered, terrorist stand or whatever. Midas says he left because the government was forcing him to be a bad banker. And the neurosurgeon said that he left because the government was forcing him to be a bad doctor and on and on. He wanted laissez-faire medicine. Just I want to revisit that concept. Yeah, he didn't like regulations about medicine. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:16 Doctors should be able to do whatever they want and call it medicine. This movie. Yeah. This movie and your aunt on Facebook. This political party, yes. Not do your own research, do your own surgery. Just fucking make it up. Are you crazy?
Starting point is 00:29:34 Right. I love too that Midas is an explanation is that, you know, I loan money to people who could only pay it back and people were very mad at me and I'm like, dude, do you even pay attention to the housing crisis? They were fucking shooting money out of a fucking t-shirt gun to anybody who wanted to do it. And they chugged it all into making low-risk stocks and they fucking ruined everything. What the fuck? Because there wasn't enough regulation. Yes, because they live only at meanalones where you like could just fucking be like is he alive? Maybe okay, I'll take the money
Starting point is 00:30:06 This is my most Mulligan president of bear sturns What's happening here? God exactly, but me what so John Gold is just giving Danny the hard sell I'm being a selfish piece of shit and living with them and selfish piece of shit land And she's like well, what about all the stuff that you left behind and they they're like, we didn't leave anything behind. I'm like, you set fire to the oil wells and knew up the mines. You fucking ass. Yes, you did. Literally everything that's not in this cabin, you left behind. Yeah. And they're like, no, see, we went on strike. And I'm like, no, this is, this is a tantrum.
Starting point is 00:30:45 Strikes have demands and shit. You said yourself that you have no demands. Yes. This whole movie is about the fact that you want nothing. Right. There's no ransom without a hostage that's how it works. I'm moving myself hostage to me with my greatest asset, my mind. Well, and then you're like, and you're thinking to yourself that they can't possibly be hostage to me with my greatest asset, my mind.
Starting point is 00:31:05 And then you're like, and you're thinking to yourself, they can't possibly be this blatantly ass hole-ish, can they? And then they're like, you know what else sucks is charity. You know what the, yep. This scene was crazy. I expected Bizarro Superman to wander through and be like me uncomfortable. This is it. It's it's this giant dinner party and everybody's like we each have a medium sized libertarian speech for you, Dagnia.
Starting point is 00:31:34 One by one, we've lined up. I John Gallet will be first, Midas is next. You just every shush. And I'm going to stop talking to listen to them each give a little shitty speech today, which to be fair, like a libertarian paradise is definitely mansplaining in turn. The only pretty woman in your secret valley. Oh, man. I just want to talk about charity for a second though. This is the thing that
Starting point is 00:32:01 I just makes me crazy whenever you hear this comment where people like, what about charity? I'm a libertarian, but I think, you know, if you want to give the charity great, but you know, it shouldn't be forced to give the charity in it. And the one thing I want to say is like, if charity was going to work, it could have fixed everything already. It would have worked yesterday. It had every fucking opportunity to work and it hasn't fucking worked at asshole because nobody gives enough to fix everything. Yeah, even in their crazy shitty fantasy movie, right, where they get to make all the rules. We have now had four sci-fi inventions. They were like, oh, so you all give to charity.
Starting point is 00:32:34 No, we hide in a valley and don't give it to anybody, including you, a person who we want to live here, even we couldn't be bothered to give you charity. Right. For a second. Yes. For a second we were like, you're gonna wash dishes for your fucking medical care. Yeah. But they all give each other charity constantly because you have to. Right.
Starting point is 00:32:55 Because it's impossible not to. It would be yes. So, and also, okay, we have to address the fact that Ellis Wyatt, the new actor that plays Ellis Wyatt, the oil man that set shit on fire in the first movie, is dressed like Eli was putting together a costume for his live show in Houston. 100%. 100%. 100%.
Starting point is 00:33:13 This ridiculous cowboy at a dinner theater outfit that he's got going, like, we're supposed to take this seriously the entire fucking time. He's like Eli in Roadhouse instead of Sam. Yeah. fucking tie. He's like Eli in Roadhouse instead of Sam. Have you ever gone to a historical place that isn't one of the famous ones like Kettysburg, but they have a historical reenactment? It's like, well, here in Mayo, New Jersey, you might know a thing or two about the four-legged stool. But um, This is the actor who dies of heroin the first. Yes.
Starting point is 00:33:48 But the tank needs like, but isn't this philosophy terrible? And won't a lot of people die because of it? And they're like, yeah, but not you, you're better than everybody else too. So it won't matter to you. We left because we're not, we're CEOs and we're not getting the recognition we deserve. That's all I'm saying. Okay, seriously though, that's what happened. That's what happened.
Starting point is 00:34:10 They all say, well done, Dagnit. They do because nobody said that to them. So they quit the world. Yep. And then they all take turns patting her on the back one by one. Yeah. And then themselves. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:24 Dutch runner. Are we doing Dutch runner? Everything. No, circle jerk is charity. We're not doing it. It's it's it's cooperative. Oh, yeah. I heard it. Yep. There you go. We have a commune. So then the narrator cuts in to tell us that there's a steel shortage and Ragnar has taken more copper. That's terrible pirate, right? And like the narrator at this point might as well be going like, at that, I'm page 569, um, uh, right now pirate, um, getting stared at by a panel and Dr. Phil,
Starting point is 00:34:55 dude, you're not helping me. Oh, so just be clear, how is this pirate? This is, it's one guy named Ragnar, Daneskill. He's stealing all the copper in the world. Apparently. Does he have a navy of all like how big do they think the water part is? What if you just put the world half the copper and one ship and half in another? Have you guys thought it?
Starting point is 00:35:18 It's fucked. He just has a can opener. It takes him forever. You could just have the one ship would just go around while he was doing the one. I ran would write something to make him allow to be in like two spaces at one time. Right. Yes. It's like, I would have been no problem. I reinvented a quantum. Yeah. Right. Yeah. There you go. So, okay. So then we cut back to the valley where John Galt is asking, Dagnia, to stay with them for one month to decide if she wants to live there.
Starting point is 00:35:46 But first rule, you can't give anyone a gift of any kind ever. So she'll have to earn money for that month. Just to be clear, they have a rule in their Valley of Freedom. They have more than one rule actually. Oh, yes, a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
Starting point is 00:36:03 very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, But okay, but this played like she he was going to ask her for head though, right? He's like, of course, she'll have to earn your. No question. Yeah. I cannot believe that this book wasn't written by a man. Right. Like, at this point, if I had been reading this book and I and Rand was in the room, I would be like, I would be doing the like 80s comedy, tear open the dress to reveal a penis because
Starting point is 00:36:24 it's impossible. This wasn't written by a man. Well, through me office, he had a pizza box in his lap the whole time. And I was like, come on, come on, man. You're gonna open the pizza box, right? I have a question. It's a tiny moment.
Starting point is 00:36:38 Why does she poop his nipple at the end of the day? I see a button. It's a button. She fixes a button for him. I wonder this for so goddamn long. She fixes a button for him. I've wondered this for so goddamn long. I that okay. It makes she know whoops his nipple. She boops his little button thing. It's it makes she reaches over and touches the loose button. Okay. See so it's just see so explain. Explain it. It's much more accurate to me. Let me say what
Starting point is 00:37:00 happened in my head in my head. He was like, and of course, we all learn everything. And we must earn our pay. He just reaches over and gives him like a little nipple flick just like a more of that where that came from. But she agrees to be his maid. Yes. Right. She's like, I'll be your maid for a month. And he's like, sure, why the fuck not boot my nipple and let's get going. So anyway, so speaking of which they end up at this lit this fucking libertarian market. We're about to meet Ragnar the god damn pirate. Oh my god, this is the best. It's just they meet. They see this. They see the world's greatest pirate. And he's like, I'm the world's greatest pirates just looking checking the butternut squash. Sometimes they sell fresh cilantro in this aisle. Sometimes even
Starting point is 00:37:48 pirates need butter to squash. I was scratching the bottom of the canelops and smelling them. Leave me alone. So I guess, I was a back in the back. You guys bend a lot of farmers markets. Like if you never, never. So many fucking farmers, many for you. He's your farmer market guy. I'm a yeah, I know. Okay, you bend.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Okay, can you tell me is this like because he's only recruiting the best in the world. Does this look like the best farmers market in the world? Did he go out? It's a shit farmers market and it it was like four carts, man. No, there's like one type of pepper, one type of apple, go fuck yourself. This is supposed to be like a paradise of libertarian thought. Think of a second pepper assholes.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Think of a supermarket. Think of a fucking somebody, think of Jesus Christ. Fucking idiots. It looks like a Russian supermarket, which is like, it looks like the opposite of their philosophy, whatever. It looks like someone asked the libertarian to dress a set with French vegetables that are expensive.
Starting point is 00:38:52 Yeah. You can space those apples out. Dude, I have nine apples. I can't space them out. We're going to put them on the crack cart later. So just put the whole peppers right there on a platter and we're gonna eat those. So. And this is of course where we learned that ragnar the pirate is reverse robin hood. He's reversed robin. He steals the things that have been seized for the good of the the many and gives them back to the billionaires. Right. And he's very, and what's great is these governments make that really convenient.
Starting point is 00:39:27 And they put all that on one ship. It is nice of that, yeah, to separate out the seas. They just put all that on one ship. And then they label it very nice so he can find it in the water. Why do we call the ship the SS Looter? We should maybe, that maybe his mistake really wanted a flash cut of him bringing a barrel of raw oil to someone's door. There you go. I told you I wouldn't let him steal it from you.
Starting point is 00:39:48 There's 60 tons of copper ore. I got in the truck over here. So and then of course that we have the the woman there that is she just kind of leans into the scene and says, I joined this billionaire secret society because I wanted a homeschool my kids. And we're like, that's fine. That's fine, lady. She's the greatest Christian movie character in the world. What is she? Okay, question.
Starting point is 00:40:15 What do children provide the, do these children have jobs? Oh, shit. Be like there might be a movie size. Well, there are mood chairs as what they are. They should be murdered. But maybe there's a burgeoning film business there who knows. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:28 Cut out those kids like a cancer, right? Exactly. Read an ethics. And then the narrator butts in like a kid trying to tell you a joke to tell us that the fucking tagger bridge just turned a hundred, right? And he says it's America's most important railway bridge. And look, what is with the ridiculous superlatives in this movie? What is America's most important rail bridge? You guys have any idea? There's not a fucking thing. Who was the wild card seeded
Starting point is 00:40:59 that bracket? I remember it was a weird scene. It's definitely weird. But anyway, so that narration resolves into a high level board of colluters meeting. This includes Mr. Thompson, the head of a state, as though president was like, couldn't, they couldn't get the rights to the term president. Were they not allowed to say president? I don't say no. No, president once. No, they say how to state.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Yeah. Yeah. They always say head of state. Was this like Antio mama where they're trying to like make some sort of like dig at him? I have no fucking idea. So, so they're having their little meeting where they're like boi ha haing about, you know, helping the last fortunate. And they also, they're like, oh, and you know, what'll be interesting later, there'll be a reveal regarding project. F, I can't say no more. In act one, I can say no more.
Starting point is 00:41:48 Look, it's not the most disappointing revelation in the movie because we just saw an overweight middle aged pirate squeezing the pair. Well, because it was right. Yeah, right. Only because Ragnar was also there pirates. My heart though. The parent hit with my heart. Well, I don't know, man,
Starting point is 00:42:05 but maybe the most disappointing reveal is the one that comes immediately after that. This is where we meet Kuffy. So Kuffy Megs is the head of the railroad unification program, the evil government institute that's gonna nationalize the railroads. You know, God forbid, we could end up as communist as Japan.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Tch. T've got for bed. We could end up as communist as Japan. And then we all paused and thought about coffee migs for quite a while, but anyway, so we did. I feel like didn't it seem like they said his name in the scene like nine more times than the more than it was necessary. Yeah. Everybody's just like, so coffee migs is right here. Coffee migs. Why don't we all say your name
Starting point is 00:42:45 out loud around the table. I get it because we all have that friend who's got a terrible name, and you have to say it a bunch of times while making hard eye contact with everyone else. So they don't accidentally make a joke about it. Sorry, you said elf by accident, and I literally met somebody named elf recently, and I was warned. I was like, you're going to meet somebody named Elf soon. And I was like, okay, I'm not going to laugh. And it was like, this is my husband named Elf. And I was like, yeah, hello. My wife has a friend named Basil. And the first time I met them for like 20 minutes, my wife's like Basil always goes to the store. Don't you, Basil, while making hard-eyed. So I mean, does it be
Starting point is 00:43:24 like, is there a husband named Salantro? They were just doing that for coffee. I get it. Just like a week name though. I like the end of it. It's fucking with you. So okay. So that night at the valley, John Gold is giving Dagnia a bootstrap speech about her grandpa and his gumption when he started that railroad back in 1907 or whatever. And she's like, oh, everybody has fun, uh, libertarian speeches. I love these. This is so many of them. This is great. I'm going to stay here. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. He's like, you should join our asshole club. And she's like, but I love my railroad. And she's like, they see that's weird though, right?
Starting point is 00:44:05 You get it. It's weird. Okay. See, this is where the movie started to come together for me because I have not understood Dagnese motivation for out these three movies, but it really came together here where I realized she's literally in love with railroads. Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:44:23 Yes. Yes. That makes a lot of movies make sense. Make a lot of the soundtracks make sense at least. Yeah. So yeah, but so then John Gold does gonna take her to the to the power plant that runs the entire valley and they're coming to be like, this is my magic engine. You know, two movies we've been building this up. She's like, cool. I bet we'll see it. Ha and he's like, no, no, we want. No, no, no. And on their way, he's like, now this engine by itself could power the entire West coast, but fuck the entire West coast. Fuck the West coast up his ass. But it doesn't because I'm the worst. What? Yes. I'm in a snit. Say the credo out loud with me, these are my crayons. Yeah, to get into the fucking power plant, they have like, there's, there's speak friend and enter except for instead of friends, I will never be charitable and fuck all the
Starting point is 00:45:18 mooters who want my tax money, right? That's their home like creed. It's so stupid. The door can't open unless you say those dumb words. Oh my god. I solemnly swear that I'm really up to no good. Like genuinely no good. None. She is. Also, just to be clear about the economy of this place, he provides unlimited power to the doctor and the fruit stand guy. Is that what's happened? And then they pay him in gold. Yes, because he didn't want paper money for that.
Starting point is 00:45:52 And they literally have to hand each other piles of gold every day. Yeah, it's a very difficult system. They spend most of their day moving gold across the really useful to have paper money, really. You know who's making the most money? The Fanny Pax salesman in the valley is fucking crushing. Jesus. So, but she's not ready to say the asshole creed yet.
Starting point is 00:46:15 So she can't go in and see the engine. And the movie is like, the movie is like, that's why we're not showing it to you, by the way, is because she's not ready to say it's totally in there. There's a bit bad ass looking engine in there. We just can not showing it to you, by the way, it's because she's not ready to say it's totally in there. There's a bit bad ass looking engine in there. We just can't show it to you. It's in this port of John if they open the door. And then we get this little montage of her and John go, I guess falling in love. I didn't know what it was a montage of until they showed her laughing at the end.
Starting point is 00:46:41 And I'm like, oh, falling in love. Okay. Well, it's very confusing because it's like, oh, this is a, they're shaking hands with construction guys. Okay. They're waxing a canoe. Is this romantic? Are they romantically waxing a canoe?
Starting point is 00:46:55 And shaking hands with construction guys. And yes, it is because this is commerce. And that's sexy. Oh, God. Take your rights. That's what they're doing. Yeah. They have dinner and at the meal, there's an ice sculpture that I believe is of them fucking and I just want to say that's a bold fucking move.
Starting point is 00:47:17 Yeah. Also, they have an ice sculpture guy in the valley. What the best ice sculpture guy in the world. The greatest us two fucking ice sculpture guy in the Valley. The best sculpture guy in the world. The greatest us two fucking ice sculpture guy in the world. How many ice sculptures is equal to one cold fusion machine in terms of the economics here? And how many, like, how much business is the guy getting? I think, I feel like everybody's just going and getting ice sculptures. They don't really need just to keep him there, you know? Sure. It's like, what the fuck am I even doing here?
Starting point is 00:47:43 I don't understand the concert pianist is so loud. Well, there's two women and zero black people in the valley. It's tricky. Yeah. The demographics of it all is the wax and gold. How much do you have to buy the wax for the canoe in gold? How much does that cost? All right.
Starting point is 00:48:00 Well, I'll tell you what, I feel like Cecil needs a minute to come to terms with the fact that that's all the pirate we're going to get. So we're going to pause for a quick break. We'll be back in a flash with even more at least shrugged. Who is John Gaults? Just disappointing his own. This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp Online Therapy. And then I'm going to be like, what do you think, Harvey? And the doctor will be like, oh, okay, this guy online therapy. And then I'm gonna be like, what do you think, Harvey?
Starting point is 00:48:25 And the doctor will be like, oh, okay, this guy needs therapy. Dude, again, it's not necessary. Hey guys, have you seen my colored pencils? Oh, and did I have now? I put them all up on those, see? Oh, why? Well, I'm trying to get into therapy, but I know that therapy only takes crazy people, so I'm acting crazy.
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Starting point is 00:49:47 All right, can I have my colored pencils back now then? No, now this is a thing for me. Yeah, okay. And this tag knee is our market. My goodness, John, it's huge. Yes, these people are selling what they want for the price they can get. The way it's meant to be, Alfred here sells the best apples you'll ever taste. Don't you, Alfred? I sure do, Mr. Galt.
Starting point is 00:50:13 And Christine here makes butter croissants that will knock your socks off. Oh, Mr. Galt, you're too kind. And what about these other stalls? Oh, them. They sell child porn. Oh, you know, it turns out that when people are talking about not wanting regulation and capitalist freedom, they almost always mean child porn like pretty much all the time. I see. Well, I, well, I guess in the name of freedom, it's important that people get to sell child porn.
Starting point is 00:50:49 Yep, that is the conclusion our beliefs lead to exactly. Right. Right. I'll also sell child porn. Not now, Alfred. Well, I'm just saying. I do. Do you want some?
Starting point is 00:51:04 I feel like you were leaning. No. And we're back for more of this shit. We're going to rejoin the inaction with Francisco Dan Coneo setting up his new minds. They're in the valley. He's going to mind new copper here. Yeah. So they're just now getting metal in the back. Which makes those cabins really fucking impressive. Let me tell you why I'm the gold coins. Yeah, right. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:30 All these are the best miners too. Right. Yes. The top miner's the best smelter. But that's the thing. Who came there to be a miner? Right. Who decided to get?
Starting point is 00:51:39 Yeah. Okay. Well, at least I'm not paying into the social safety net. Am I right? What? I descended to the earth for my seventh shift in a row. God, like, my daughter in a libertarian paradise system was terrifying possible job. Jesus Christ. And of course, Dagnese shows up and she says, well, you know what, you really need here as a train. It could go over here and over there. What am I thinking? I'm just, I'm already trying to solve your train list list problems. I just can't help myself, right? And
Starting point is 00:52:07 they're like, well, thank you. That'd be great. We could even loan you the money to move it. And I'm like, who are you? Tom fucking nook? You're gonna load me the money to move into the place you want me to move to fuck you. So John Galt looks more problematic than he already did, which is hard to pull off. He's got fucking aviator sunglasses on now. And his nipples are all perked up from the booping maybe or the button thing, whatever seesaw said, he looks like a spokesmodel for unmarked vans in this the rest of the world. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:40 He's terrifying. Mm-hmm. And I love to that they have to like tell you that three weeks of her month have gone by now, right? So they have friends. Let's go go enjoy your last week. Dagnia, that montage was three weeks long, three weeks montage. It was curious. I love there a solution to like she comes up with this mining solution, but the mining solution requires them to like build an entire brand new thing blast a tunnel build a dress all make it it's like way like a huge workaround. I'm like we're already
Starting point is 00:53:10 getting shit out of the mind, Dagnia calm the fuck down. Why don't you just steal copper? You have the world's greatest fucking pirate right there. Yeah. Right. Chuck gun with the world greatest pirate and steal yourself some copper and come back. We're good. Minecart carnage. Yeah. It's just did he come. We have it. Right. Yeah. That was the best con in the world for mine carts. I don't know that I'm ready to call Ditty the best. Wow. Really? Well, it comes to mine carts. Yeah. We're in a fight. And then, okay, so then she has to have a chat with Ned Ryerson about libertarianism. It's so to Steve to allow skis in this. I don't know how they got him. He's a real actor. Yep. Okay. So here's the thing that you need to know about this
Starting point is 00:53:55 scene. There is a bad shit crazy amount of pollen in the air. I thought it was bugs in person's pollen. It's like there's a fallout. They're like next to her noble up in this shit. It's hilarious. Steven Tabloski, bless his fucking heart is trying to give this speech. And obviously there's shit going all up in his nose and his mouth, the whole fucking time. And he just powers through it. It's rough. They're also drinking his very own estate grown Cabernet. He plays philosopher slash diner cook, Mr. Axton. And that's yes, right. It's hard to keep track of
Starting point is 00:54:34 because he's the third actor playing that character. So I took my second to remember. But yes, he in the valley is their wine guy. So he's grown brand new Colorado mountains, Cabernet, the drinking and it says, is state grown, which means they're not using grapes for many other like real wineries in wine region. That's bad. You shouldn't emphasize that you have a state grown Cabernet from your shitty place that doesn't grow wine. It's so bad that they don't even notice that it's filled with pollen, right? They're just like, they're buying and spying.
Starting point is 00:55:12 It's like a lily pad in the drink at the end of the day. It's insane. People don't know. You can actually make wine from pairs. Yeah, it's really sweet. But of course, the whole speech that he's given is about how being greedy as awesome and taxation is theft and some assholes think humans deserve to survive based only on our shared humanity. That's the one
Starting point is 00:55:38 lie. Look, this actor is doing his absolute best, but you can see him sounding it out. A lot of people think that people have a right to live because they're human beings. No. I say no. That's it. That's the end of the line. And then the narrator cuts in to help Ned Ryerson out, right? He comes in and he's like, also, I forgot to mention earlier, we were talking about Thompson.
Starting point is 00:56:09 I meant to say that he was going to have a big speech later. It's a big speech to ask him. The fucking narrator from super friends would tell him to work on his goddamn segment. Meanwhile, he literally says meanwhile in one of these fucking things he does. So the Duke boys are getting into a real bond with the Nagan. I also, we have to talk about that this narration is also being used to get rid of Henry Reardon, who if we'll remember is the love interest in the first two movies, but because
Starting point is 00:56:42 I'm Rand is a horny 12 year old writing libertarian fan fiction, she was like, then he met an even harder guy. Oh, it was like a man. And then the first guy was like, that's okay. You go make sweet nipple up to him now. But I'm not in the movie. No more. Yeah. We never see Hank is like they couldn't get the rights to this character or something right
Starting point is 00:57:07 there like they say well and Hank kept looking for Dagnia and we see an airplane flying back and forth overhead like it's just doing donuts right there. And this is when Ragnar reveals his super X mutant in power of being able to sit on the ground look up and go, hey, that's Hank Rear. He just knows who's in the plane. And then the other guy walks up, he's like, yeah, I know. Like, he's like, both? No, that it's Hank Rear. Right, like, you check the license plate.
Starting point is 00:57:34 What are you talking about? Yeah, he's flying around like a Koopa Troop, but it's probably him. He knows a ballpark where we are. Koopa Troop, Bob, us like, what? He is totally fine. If you look at him, he stops. It's like the ghost. It's cool. I could tell you who's in any plane. And also I can eat two foot long subway sandwiches right now. Like most people just eat more. I can make
Starting point is 00:57:56 a boat lean to the left. So far, I tip sober. So weird. That's just me holding on to it. Yeah. It's related to the subsay, which is punch me in the stomach right now. Oh my god Right, I vomited. I didn't see I thought you weren't gonna wait. Is that an unchewed subway? Are you gonna eat that? I wanted to call it a black ainess on my first day They wouldn't let me Call it a black anus on my first day. They wouldn't let me. That's why I'm a pirate. That's why I stole all the world's copper.
Starting point is 00:58:29 So that night, Dagnia's up. She's looking for a snack. John Stardols are as she's checking the fridge. She's just a scared. She's terrifying police to stay. Where the guys just quietly sitting in the fucking, just sitting there all night, just sitting there. And you come down You're like, oh man, let's look maybe to get some fucking somebody you open up a thing
Starting point is 00:58:49 He's like and he's like there's nothing in the Dark room like that you fucking lunatic. I need to put a bell around your neck That's ridiculous and then his fucking answers even creepier because he's like She's like, what are you doing? He's like I've been watching you. That's ridiculous. And then his fucking answers even creepier. Cause he's like, what are you doing? He's like, I've been watching you. That's literally his answer. Yes, right. And then they both stand there like,
Starting point is 00:59:13 what, like wondering what this scene is for? They show it, they show us that in a flashback. He's like, I spied on you in a rail tunnel. Right. I wanted to fuck your shaw. And they show us that. And she's like, nice. She's miles and that's the end.
Starting point is 00:59:34 Fuck them see. Yeah. Yeah. Yikes. It's like, you ever, you ever have a friend who's a lady and she is with a guy who's gross. And he makes a gross statement and you can see that that's what she's into and you do all of a sudden have to be like,
Starting point is 00:59:49 ah, that's why monster energy had his hairy sucks or toes. That's what this whole third movie is. It's just like, I get it. I ran wanted to be followed down a mining tunnel and she had to write an 800 page book about it. It's 1200. But Dagnie can't stay. Dagnie is desperate to save the bridge that she loves. Yes, very important bridge.
Starting point is 01:00:13 Yep. Again, my fan theory, making this movie really makes sense. Get on board. Yeah. And then she's like, I think I'm going to leave. And John Gult is like, all right, well, there are a couple of conditions on your departure. And I'm like, are there really? Yep.
Starting point is 01:00:27 You think you can just do that? You have another rule in your Valley of Freedom. Promise I won't tell on you? Is that seriously? That's the other rule in your Valley of Freedom. Okay. I really want her to be like, okay, but if I don't tell on you, isn't that living for someone else? And he's like, oh shit.
Starting point is 01:00:46 Shout out. I just, I didn't even pay you not to tell. So, okay, so this is the next day. She's leaving the secret valley on their spare air point. I love this. He's, this is so fucking dumb. He's like, I have to blindfold you so you won't know where you are. It's like, I flew here though.
Starting point is 01:01:02 Yeah. Okay. What? Like, so you can't see the streets we take in the sky. I think air geography works. Was it just me? Did you guys think he was going to ask her to fly away with a blindfold on? I thought he was going to ask her to fly the plane with a blindfold on. And if she does, then she could stay, right?
Starting point is 01:01:24 Right? Right. Yeah, there you go. And if she does it, she could stay right now. I'm gonna miss you. Yeah, right. Yeah, there you go. So, Danny gets back to New York, which the narrator explains at length, the narrate, this is where he literally uses the word meanwhile. He says meanwhile several Reardon steel workers died defending a mill from communists or some dumb shit sponsored union thugs. He gets so excited when he says government sponsored union thugs.
Starting point is 01:01:50 That's right. They had jack boots. I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure they had jack boots. So dumb, but you get spachos. That's a union mill now. Right. That's good. We like society has vibranium now.
Starting point is 01:02:04 And that's a union mill. It's all positive's good. Society has vibranium now, and that's a union mill. It's all positive. Hooray. That they left. For us, also we learned that the weed ain't moving. So everything is so simplistic. The guns and the butter aren't moving now, right? And we also, we have to meet the SSI director.
Starting point is 01:02:22 Now this character, of course, he's been in all three movies, always played by a different actor. And he's the scientist that, you know, declared that Reardon steel was no good, but he's, he's been feeling bad about that ever since. And he's been slowly coming around to the position that may be perverting science for the sake of the government isn't a good idea, right? Yeah. So, but he's meeting with evil government guy, the, I never caught this character's name, who's like, I have front bald guy with the long hair. Oh, yes, Robert Stadler, I think. Okay. Sure. Yeah, the one that looks like a Victorian ghost back. Okay. That guy. Yeah. He looks like an extra in the background of a bad guy seen in a Harry Potter movie. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. He looks like an extra in the background of a bad guy seen in a Harry Potter movie.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. He's like nodding fervently while Voldemort talks. I said, don't be dad or something. Yeah. Yeah. But the regional assistant manager to Voldemort. Yeah. That guy is the Vigo the Carpathian very much does. Yeah. All right. Add space on his head there. I like that at this point in the, he gets up from his dinner of what appears to be a single egg and the, the waiters, like brush him down like a horse. Yeah. I mean, he's a socialist bureaucrat. So, you know, he gets, so he gets brushed off by a union, uh, inefficient union brush your team. And that's really why the trains aren't working.
Starting point is 01:03:45 And that's why we don't have copper. It's like the thing is, you remember, you like, you see the videos in like the 50s when you would pull up to a gas station, they'd all run out and start like doing your windows and check in your tires. It's like that. It's so silly.
Starting point is 01:03:58 And so. He's on a jacket one point. There's a spinning around. Crazy. Stop, stop. He's just doing this thing on the side of my face. That's nothing. I don't have a, like point, there's a spinning around crazy. Stop, stop. You're just doing this thing on the side of my face. That's nothing. I don't have a nut there.
Starting point is 01:04:09 It reminded me of like what poor people think happens to rich people. Yeah, exactly. That's what I thought it was was like somebody's never ever had a like a luxury experience in their life. And this is what they do at the Apple B's. And they're just like, no, that's what happens in luxury experience. Like that's it. That's whatever I imagine.
Starting point is 01:04:25 Whenever Donald Trump is done eating his well done gold coverage steak, there's a fancy man who comes over with a shoe brush and, all right, that much is it all over his body. That's like that's like 90% chance that that's true. That's true. That's got a diet coke button. What do we tell you? Yeah, right. Exactly.
Starting point is 01:04:44 But what they, apparently what the evil Victorian ghost needs, Figo the Carpathian is for the evil, the scientists guy SSI guy to sign off on project F, which is looks suspiciously like an instrument to torture. Well, doesn't look like an instrument. It looks like so. No, how did you know that that was an instrument of course? You're seeing a panel with a chair next to it. That was just the remote control for it, man.
Starting point is 01:05:10 Yes, right. Why did you know that, really? Just to use their interface. It doesn't say, like, torture up on the side. The tortureometer 2000? It looks like a video game machine Noah's excited about. It's 100% already.
Starting point is 01:05:22 100% 100%. Absolutely. absolutely cannot look anything like anything. You know, you know, you know, we made 150 days. Right. Board game from the 80s man. That's what it looks like. A magnifox waterboard. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:40 It's in one. I love to. This is how bad the writers are. The scientists goes, what if I refuse and the writer doesn't have anything for the other guy to say? So he just stands there and then the dude signs. He like makes a whistling sound with his nose for a minute. He's like, all right, whatever. Make a whistling. So you're going to be knowing and I'm to sign this. This fuck. Glow your nose. Jesus Christ. Also happening in there.
Starting point is 01:06:04 It's just a tiny moment, but he's holding it's a floppy piece of paper. So when he goes to sign it, he ends up with this fucking Madison caught Thorne signature. Mr. Sion. Can you can you bend over? I'll do this on your back. It's been it's not. Yes, I will torture. I love that the horrible, autocratic government is just one signature away from shutting down. Yeah. Like if they don't get this one signature, all is lost. There's no, and there's no way to force the guys that were just like looking at them. No, man, come on. Well, no swissling tends to do the trick. Yeah. Come on, man. So, okay. Meanwhile, back at Taggart International, man. So, okay. Meanwhile, back at Taggart International, Dagnie comes in and like bitches at Jim for the state of the railroad. You know, it's like for nobody taking care of shit when she
Starting point is 01:06:51 was off in the secret valley for a month. Yeah. And she explains to him that they need to get trans to Minnesota to quote, move the harvests. Otherwise, everyone will starve. Why does she care about starving people now? I thought that like her whole thing was like, she doesn't give a shit. The whole movie is about not caring about starving people. I don't, I guess she hasn't made the turn yet is what it is. So she still has. Yeah, okay. Bigger than a, because John Gult certainly won't fucking care about him. Like, nope, nobody in the movie will care about him. No, like then nobody cares. I don't understand why this is even a plot point. John Golt starved them. If you, if you follow the plot, yeah. So, and this is how stupidly written this movie is, right? Like they have their little fight. She storms out. And then
Starting point is 01:07:37 they, like the next scene is him coming to find her to tell her about a fancy dinner. They have to go to together. We have a dinner later. Are you stormed out too soon? I had another line. You fucking idiots have him say that before she storms out. You dumb bastards. Really wanted to storm out of the room into a room that he's standing in. We had a dinner party with the Johnson's. If you want to storm back into the other room.
Starting point is 01:08:04 But yes, but so he goes to this dinner. This is the fucking smoke filled back room or whatever where they're all, all the colluters have gotten together to decide that they're going to sacrifice Minnesota for the greater good. Oh God, this is so fucking good because what this is, right? This is Ein Rand who like smelled a history book once. And so she's, she's aware that there was something with a lack of food and Stalinist Russia. So she's pretty sure they just like sat around and they were like, so you kill this many people and Ein Rand was like,
Starting point is 01:08:38 that's what they do. I put it in a book. Yep. Sometimes they flip a coin and that state is not a state no marsh. Well, yeah, and Dany's sitting there going like you're going to kill Minnesota, isn't that where all the food is? And they're like, fuck, none of us. Literally none of us thought of that. You are the first one to realize that there's food there. And then they have the whole like, you know, they all have to talk about how bad it is. The one guy's like, well, California has threatened to secede from the union. And Oregon is overrun by gangs who murder all the tax collectors. Okay.
Starting point is 01:09:12 Just, just be clear, the socialist government would be telling trains to go get the wheat to help feed the beat. That's what would be happening because that's what socialism would be. The free market solution for transportation networks is murder train fucking thunder dome. That's it. No one was talking about here. Unless, of course, all the libertarians took everybody who was smart enough not to know that electrolytes are what plants really need with them when they went, right?
Starting point is 01:09:38 That the entire premise of the movie undercuts the premise of the fucking movie. So stupid. And then all the socialist badgains are like, okay, yeah, so we're removing the Minnesota cancer from United States. So what do we cheers? Are you serious? Cheers, cheers, cheers. Cheers it.
Starting point is 01:09:57 And they're like, yeah, cheers it. Well, yeah, because Dagnia gets a call from Eddie, right? And they're like, important trade stuff. And she's like, important trade stuff. I got to run and they're like, oh, good. She was a bit of a wet blanket on this destroying Minnesota conversation. Anyway, everybody think coffee. Show me cheers. I'd like you to say out my entire name. Yeah. Hey, can we just go around and
Starting point is 01:10:15 just instead of each of us, say our name, can we just all say coffees? There you go. You like to all do it? You know what I was thinking? Instead of what if instead of cheers, we just say coffee mix every time. We say, coffee mix. Every time. We just say, coffee migs every time. Coffee migs. Coffee migs. So, so she rushes off to the train station to see what all the fuss is about. And it turns out that because of the copper shortage, all the electricity in their national rail line has gone out.
Starting point is 01:10:39 Why wouldn't it be, like, what if, aren't they using the same electricity as everyone else? No, that's for the train electricity. Oh, okay. All right. Well, yeah, but they can't get the trains in because the systems, all of the switching systems have gone down because of the bad electricity, right?
Starting point is 01:10:57 And they can't find the systems engineer because he's been taken to John Gaul Valley. What will they do? Did the pirate like take a can opener to all their existing wires too because it seems like they already built this part, right? He took all the copper wire and he's out there stealing catalytic converters at night. Well, no, you got to feed it copper every day. It's like, no man, Scott, you got to feed it.
Starting point is 01:11:22 That is true. Yep. Yeah. So, so but she's going to take care of business, dammit. They need lanterns and colored cellophane quick. Oh, they do without her. She wouldn't, they like, nobody would know to do that. If the CEO didn't show up in her fucking shawl, right? She gathers around, imagine the fucking balls to think that you're gonna gather around all these fucking smudgy train workers in your evening gown and your pearl necklace to be like, all right, gentlemen, let's say Christmas, what's it for all?
Starting point is 01:11:58 And her fucking editor, she's like, okay, so we're gonna start with a little crafting, a little crafting, we're gonna have you guys all go stand where the switches are with a red lantern and a green lantern. I'm like without a like, how are they communicating? They have no electricity. Okay, so we'll say red for red and green. Oh, the trains all crashed. All of them crashed. We still have to communicate. And of course, as she's doing this, she looks down and John Golt is in the crowd pretending to be a railhand smudgy John Golt. Yes. Okay. Okay. But this actor
Starting point is 01:12:38 did not agree to get too smudgy. Right. Like the makeup people came over and they put a smudge on him. He was like, that's enough. That's enough. Okay. I didn't play handsome guy and Wonder Woman 84. Let's not mess up the merchandise if you know what I'm saying. Yeah. So she's like, oh, John Gult. So she runs off to this like weird basement place where homeless people go to shit. Well, she's scampers off being like, Oh, don't follow me into this tunnel. This is not my king. I don't want to get railed on the rail.
Starting point is 01:13:12 Yeah. She doesn't run. She jog walks for sure. 100% jog walks. Yeah. She scampers and and John scampers after and they fuck to this music. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
Starting point is 01:13:31 the best part is her clear in the table off though because she runs in and she throws everything off the table and then spins herself around and I 100% wanted to be like a whole Thanksgiving table. So she walked in and she just pulls the tablecloth out, she's like, and the flower, she's still standing. Yeah. Fucking amazing. Oh, it's, but it's like somebody's work bench. It's like all of their plans and shit.
Starting point is 01:13:54 She doesn't give a fuck. They just pan over to some guy who's also be like, are you serious right now? He's just, my fucking, I'm here. It's got his thermos out, yes. What the fuck? I'm doing the crossword. I'm like four feet away. I'm on my 15 lady. Oh, guys, I'm about to solve the word. But if you get a week wait for me to finish the word, oh, before you do your weird rich person, fuck, I'm a table.
Starting point is 01:14:20 So yeah, so then they fucked to the soundtrack, the soundtrack I had as, but then the kids decided to make their own Christmas decorations, but they're fucking to it. Yeah. And mid-sexing, mid-fucking, we cut to an old conductor going, well, darn it, their manual train signals do work. They were just fine. And then we go back for more fucking, and then back to fucking directly back to fucking from the whole boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop with this music play do you Are you Sir with the crossword are you put is that on your phone?
Starting point is 01:14:59 We have this baseball organ for me to help make with the world. Okay. All right. Now make sense. It's like number six on the Casio. Yes. So, John, I still, let's still do it. Talk dirty to me. Chicago smilting. Friedman. Supply meets demand. All right. Well, I'll tell you what, if there has been any consistent thread through these movies, it's that act to ends with, but then they managed to train after all. So with that in mind, we're going to take ourselves a quick break. But first, let me give Act three the hard
Starting point is 01:15:27 cell. Why bother having a pirate if all you're going to do with him is have somebody run into him in a fucking farmer's market. Thank you. How would this be different if he'd been say a florist or a CPA, right? Could this would not get the rights to the character of Hank Reardon? By now, the answer is to nothing a sane person would have bothered to ask in the first place when we return for the mockish conclusion of Atlus Shrun. Who is John Goats? And then you can just spread the marrow on the cheese to. We have to go, right?
Starting point is 01:16:01 Yeah, that actually sounds really good. Hey guys. Hey, you like? Is everything okay? I mean, for me, yes, but guys, I got some bad news for you. I quit the podcast. You want? I know, I know, but it's much fun as we've had
Starting point is 01:16:20 making fun of these movies. I've realized that I too am John Gaul and I can no longer allow society. And by society, I mean you mooch off my most valuable asset, my mind, a mind which built the very company on which you all stand. Okay. Well, first of all, heath and I started the company and invited you to join. Yeah. And I have a grown up job. I work at. Oh, I knew you guys would grasp it straws. I don't blame you, but I was now earn only by my own hand and ask no man to live but for me.
Starting point is 01:16:55 No, I mean, we, I guess we understand where you're gonna go and where you headed. I don't know, somewhere to make my fate with my mind. Sure, yeah, make your fate. You're not gonna use roads though, right? At all. Roads. The government made the roads, so other people. Oh, right, yeah, no, I will not be using the roads.
Starting point is 01:17:15 I shall take to the woods at first. Well, so actually most of the woods in the continental United States anyway are maintained by the government. What? Yeah. Huh. Okay, well, I'll take to woods that aren't overseen by any government.
Starting point is 01:17:33 Sure, sure. But just quick thing, also your clothes were made using like trade deals and they were delivered by the Postal Service. Okay, okay, okay. And then you know what, this is ridiculous. I don't want to give up all the stuff I have. I just want to stop giving back.
Starting point is 01:17:46 What is that? Is there a word for someone who wants to use society and the social safety net until they feel like it would be better for them to personally not give back? What's that thing called? Yeah, man, that's called an asshole. Asshole. Yep.
Starting point is 01:18:00 Oh. Am I an asshole? It seems like it, man. Yeah. Look like it. Did you just say your greatest gift is your mind like moments ago? Mm-hmm.
Starting point is 01:18:10 Yeah, I saw you lick a magazine the other day. It smelled good. How did it taste? Bad, yeah. Magazine. A lot of sample. Okay, well, I can send it back as undeliverable because I don't need that many friendship bracelets.
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Starting point is 01:18:45 You just build your shirt with balloons and dyed your hair. Is that pink? Did you dye your hair pink? Ricky's was out of red, but I don't know what you're talking about. I'm Tom and these are my muscles. I mean, look, I'm not trying to indulge this, but if you want to get in shape, why don't you try FitBod? What's FitBud?
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Starting point is 01:20:01 Okay, maybe your Tom and and maybe I'm Tom's wife. Definitely not definitely not. Oh man. And we're back for the ninth, ninth of this dumbass movie. And we're going to rejoin the action with the narrator. Oh, by the way, his way through some major plot points, right? This is like, Oh, and Hank, Ruden, the, uh, the spirit into the Valley. Um, and also remember Jim's wife. Guys, remember Cheryl? Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:32 They spent so much time. It's like, we have not seen Cheryl in all in this movie. They're like, but eventually she realized that Jim was a fraud. And that stuff that she was saying to Dagnie in the second movie, she apologized. And then he killed her. Yes. And then they got a sepia divorce right afterwards. It was very nice. A sepia murder though.
Starting point is 01:20:52 Like they strongly suggested either he murdered her or that she killed herself after this. I don't, they never specify, right? Yeah, somebody calls James up and they're like, hey, sorry, your wife died. And he's like, it wasn't me. I didn't murder her. I think I was like, what? Yeah, I love that you say somebody, coffee calls, if it's coffee man. Yeah. Wait, who was it? I was a gentleman by the name of coffee migs. You may have heard of him. It's from New York. Wow. A great deal. Cuffle for tea. video. Cuffle for tea. No way. And I also had copy immediately after these like, yeah, sorry about your wife. And he's like, I didn't murder or he's like, I didn't say you
Starting point is 01:21:32 did. He's like, good. And he goes, speaking to your dad, but then the conversation segue, he goes, speaking to your dad, wife, your sister's not bored with the evil government train speech, right? That the head of state is going to give later in the movie. And she's like, yeah, sure. Yep. So I got a right. Just want to check on the dead wife and that. Uh, coffee before I let you go, do you know how to dissolve a body and
Starting point is 01:21:54 acid? Cause I feel like a sword on TV. But we're turns out the head, the skull is just man. Woo. Look, I got to let you go. My, my post egg is coming. I'm sorry. I got to let you go. My, my poached egg is coming. I'm sorry, I gotta, I gotta let you go. I called you at the breakfast table.
Starting point is 01:22:08 I got it. So, sorry, the grapefruit express showed up. I gotta go, guys. I gotta get, get the stock of wheat. It's really dry. And, more like coffee mix, am I right? And then by the way, we flashback, we spend like seven minutes flashing back to Cheryl finding out the gyms of fraud and arguing with them about who did start the John Gauntline and who didn't apologize to Dagnie?
Starting point is 01:22:45 Dagnie, forget it. We're like, we don't care. It would be basically impossible for us to care. Show us a goddamn pirate. I will murder you. Nope, they don't trust her. So, okay, now it's time for Thompson's big speech. And Dagnie is apparently going to sit next
Starting point is 01:23:07 to him for this speech because, you know, America's just not going to approve of his ideas if he's not accompanied by the most trusted railroad mogul in all the land. Is the number one train person in the world. I will not listen to his speech unless he is flanked. I believe by a cartoon child and the head of all the railroads. The trace lady, not even the head though. She's the COO Jim Taggart is the head of the company. But, but yeah, so they're about to do the speech in the last second. She's like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm not even in this scene. They're like, I could have sworn you were in this scene.
Starting point is 01:23:48 She storms out. She stops by Jim on her way out the fucking door. And she's like, by the way, your dead wife deserves better than you, Jim. I'm like, wow. We don't even know like harsh lady. Ouch. I'll tell the corpse that when I get home. And I'm thinking to myself,
Starting point is 01:24:06 oh, so you just swapped Jim in, right? He sits next to the president instead. They're completely lost. They don't know what the fuck did him. No idea. No idea. There's no producer in the room. There's not a producer in there.
Starting point is 01:24:16 They pull the chair off and he's trying to scooch over. Yeah. I really wanted a long squeaky chair. Secretly, it's just so amazing. So amazing. So amazing. So yeah, so he's about to give his speech anyway. And damn it, if John goat doesn't take over the air waves for a second, it's black. For a second, the screen is black and I'm like, please be max hydrant.
Starting point is 01:24:42 Please be max hydrant. It's not. No, John goat. John, this is so stupid. This is his giant fucking speech. He takes somehow he hacks the TV cast of all America. He hacks something. Yep. And his stupid fucking face pops onto the screen, but he's in like a dark room so you can't see his backlit. Face at first, except for some electric zaps. I was genuinely expecting him to be like, oh, sorry, they're telling me I'm not in my light.
Starting point is 01:25:13 Is this better? You know what I mean? Yeah, what is, so he set up his room to have that happen? So he would have like the mysterious. He set up electric zaps in his own room with like full stuff to short out. So he'd have like be. He set up electric zaps in his own room. Like full stuff to short out. So it'd be like John Galtz. And of course, this is the infamous 60 page speech that anchors this whole stupid fucking book.
Starting point is 01:25:37 Yeah. In the book, he goes on for 60 goddamn pages. I literally walked away from my screen at this. But I was like, this is a 19 hour speech. I've read this book. I'm literally walking away. I walked away. point. I was like, this is a 19 hour speech. I've read this book. I'm literally walking away. I walked away.
Starting point is 01:25:47 Yep. Thank goodness they did the condensed version. Well, that's the best thing. They did by a lot. Is that they condensed this speech, but when you condensed this speech down, it's like, Hi, my name is John Scott and I ran away with all my cool rich friends. And if you are fucking putty, I'm putty, and I didn't want to have to show you my axe karate skills, but here we go.
Starting point is 01:26:09 Kup, kup, kup, kup. Right. I wrote a conceptual penis hoax once. It's really cool. Here's my axe cutter. It's awkwardly fast, that doctor feel. Anyway, if you're the number one ranked person at a thing in the world, yeah, we have room for like 10 more people,
Starting point is 01:26:29 you know, we have a small valley. We need a flashlight, guys, seriously. There's two women. Yeah, I see you. So here's the thing, I've never read the speech and I never will. But like it takes a lot of like, I don't know, massaging when your point is society doesn't adequately compensate the billionaires. Yeah. Right. They don't have massaging here. Right. So he has to jump right into his
Starting point is 01:26:57 that like the fuck society portion of his speech. And of course they have to make this work for the movie. So we see crowds of people gathering around the TV shop windows in the streets as people are want to do in real life. Yeah. All watching the speech together going, yeah, you know what? Fuck us right in our stupid asses. We are stupid and don't deserve to have anything.
Starting point is 01:27:23 Travel, travel. His conclusion too is like get out of our way. I'm like bitch, you went to hide. Fuck you. How about you get out of our way? Right. Yeah. He's given the whole who's with me speech from Jerry McGuire, all of a sudden.
Starting point is 01:27:35 Yeah. Again. Yeah. And of course you're going like, hey, look, like we just saw the room where the government is controlling this broadcast. They could shut it down. Why wouldn't they just shut it down? No, they don't.
Starting point is 01:27:48 But then we get to like that, you know, vertical color bars and the long beep when he stops. So he set up the vertical color. Cause they don't have that. This is 2014. Yeah. So and of course, immediately after the color bars go off, we cut to Sean Hannity going, fuck, yes, that was 60 pages of brilliant. Oh, my God, I can't so hard. I'm Sean. Let me tell you that was fucking great. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I love that.
Starting point is 01:28:22 My favorite part about that whole thing, though, with Sean Hannity is that he's not invited to the island. Oh, you're right. Like Sean Hannity and all these other pundits, like they keep going back though, they're going to mention another pundit. And a second, none of those people got invited to the fucking tropical fucking. You're right. You're right.
Starting point is 01:28:41 Paradise. They're all sucking its dick from back in the hell hole. No, they're furious because Colbert got taken because they didn't know I was satire. Yeah. The best Ted Cruz. I was John Gotwood insult my wife. And so yeah, all the government guys gather up together and they're like aggressively pointing out that them not cutting the broadcast was not a hole in the script. They would be because if we did that, then we would have made a murder out of him. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:29:12 Okay. I guess as long as we don't make a murder out of him in the last turn of the movie, guys Pinkie swear on this. No martyrs. How's that? There you go. So yeah, but he wants to make a deal with John Gold. Press head of the state times. It wants to make a deal with John Gold. And she's
Starting point is 01:29:29 like, well, I don't know where to find him. And they're like, he's she totally knows where to find him. He was spy on her. There she knows. She's just fucking. Everybody could follow her. Maybe coffee mix isn't busy. Maybe. Yeah, right. Somebody who doesn't just follow her on with a magnifying glass. And of course, we have to cut to like all the sheep. Oh, sure, being woken up by John Galt speech, right? So like the crowds just are like, like, spot standing outside of the TV store windows, start chanting, we want galt to one another.
Starting point is 01:30:00 To the TV. Right. Yes, they do. But they show us the group chanting we want golf. And then they show us John fucking golf Standing there in that group. So he clearly was like we want golf Now it's really saying just the drunken guy and a ranger's jersey trying to start a ush chant on the subway drunken guy and a ranger's jersey trying to start a USA chant on the subway. Okay, that has never failed on a New York subway. No, you start saying USA, it works.
Starting point is 01:30:31 Oh, Patreon goal. I'll take you on a subway. He will fail. I will read it so hard. We will be singing any amount of money, any amount of money. We will be singing America the beautiful by the end of that subway ride altogether, except you in your face. See, I thought that the goal was that Eli could start it in such a way that people wouldn't join in and that one I would bet on. Yeah. So yeah, but then we get this, the shot where like the many screens are all
Starting point is 01:30:59 popping up with different people saying, I am John, go and I guarantee you that this is like everyone who donated more than a hundred bucks on Kickstarter. It sure the fuck that's what we're seeing. Dude with a Bitcoin shirt. Dude with a Bitcoin shirt. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Literally with the Bitcoin side, saying, I am John God.
Starting point is 01:31:20 Oh, that guy killed himself now. He is dead. There you go. Lost lost his money last month. And then, so shouldn't have listened to character. And then, so a then fucking Glenn Beck pops in for a talking head cameo. Right. Glenn Beck. And also not on the island.
Starting point is 01:31:41 I forgot how fucking crazy in Glen Bay looks. He looks like a trader, Owl. And every time I see him, I'm like, oh no, that's like an LGBTQ hire for like Dumbledore or something, right? That's not Glen. Back, that's a, that's a time traveling rapist. He's about to die from COVID.
Starting point is 01:32:04 I'm pretty sure my fingers crossed. He got COVID for the second time again. To be refused to vaccine. And he had to come out and be like, yeah, it's real bad. It's like into my lungs now. And I'm like, oh, I'm like very, uh, very unhealthy. I was expecting. Now you want to start a chance on a subway die of COVID.
Starting point is 01:32:23 Diglin back. That would that would work. That was the USA. Absolutely. Yeah. Diglin back. That would have been. That would have been cast. That was the USA. Absolutely. In New York, especially, I agree. Yeah. Competing chance.
Starting point is 01:32:31 So Chicago on the L, you do the USA. That's happening right away, right? Right. On Chicago. Sure. You guys are patriotic out there, you know? Yeah. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:32:42 Yeah, sure. Beautiful country out there. Yeah. Yeah. You folded off, man. Beautiful country out there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fold it off, man. Nicely done. Thank you. So meanwhile at the at the White House, everybody said I love the state. They have like several scenes that are going to happen at the White House now. And everybody's like, there's crowds outside chanting about their love for John Gault, but they have the chanting way too loud for the dialogue. Like you could barely tell what's going on for the dialogue because there are people shouting immediately off camera. We will go. We, by the, by the
Starting point is 01:33:11 president's sick of it, he needs to meet with John Colt. Damn it. So this is like, bring me, Dagnetaggert moment. Oh, this is because I'm ran in 1956, she was writing this, was certain that Dwight Eisenhower was about to call her because she was that important. So she put this in. I love it so much. Oh, God, you're right. You're right. Well, this is her meeting with the president and then going like, well, you should just do what John Golt told you and dismantle the entire government. Yep. Well, hello there, Dwyght, Eisenhower. Yep. I will tell you the only thing I like about Jew is your very normal name.
Starting point is 01:33:52 Dwyght is an hour. So yeah, but then they offered to pay her to sell out John Galt, and that's where she storms out. She storms out of a lot of rooms in this movie, but she's stormed this last room storming out that she's going to do. I like how they try to soft sell it on it. They're like, look, we don't want to murder him. But if what if someone who said it, murdered it before you found him for us, how the hell would we even look? We don't want to murder him, but I can't speak for coffee. So yeah. And so she storms out. And I love it.
Starting point is 01:34:25 Evil government guy, but be the Carpathian. He turns to the president and he goes, do you think she's lying? And then we hear her reach the door and open it. She is standing in front of them when he's like, do you think we should kill it up? I'm still in the room, guys. Murder. No, I know you're still there. We're going to murder you.
Starting point is 01:34:44 My eyes are based on movement hold very still. What are her ears based on? Awesome movement. We're talking about murder movement you have movement deers? A bat. A bat sonar. Here when I move one two three go. And then murder. Ron fucking Paul makes a quick talking head, Daniel. Yeah. They don't need politicians in the land of libertarians either, by the way. So he's still here. Yeah, right now he also didn't get the call yet.
Starting point is 01:35:13 Ron, but Ron Paul named his chial. I know. I know. Yikes. So meanwhile, Dagnia is frantically trying to find John Gult with her computer. This is so stupid because I'm like, that's gonna be a tough Google because like, who is John Gault is the saying? You can't just Google it.
Starting point is 01:35:30 All right, maybe if I bing it, let it bing it, that's less popular. You got to duck, look, if you're a libertarian and you want information, you've got to duck, duck, duck, go, duck, go. That's the libertarian Google for sure. So, but it turns out that John Gold's dumbass, the subuckin master spy secret nobody can figure out who he is. The, who he is is the saying for an unanswerable question. Signed up for his fake railroad job under his real goddamn deal name. Yeah. It feels like somebody would have pointed that out. Right? Oh,
Starting point is 01:36:04 you're John go there. That was asked about you. He's really dressed on it. He's just declared for ethics about HR paperwork. That's the only important, absolutely virtue. What? And then she's got a USB drive that has this information on it and then she breaks it like Donald Trump ripping a paper.
Starting point is 01:36:21 Yes, right. And flushes it down to toilet. I was really expecting her to try to eat it. Just like, oh, he can't sharp. And, yeah, at least a drink. Does anybody have any weats to wash this down? So she goes to the CD apartment that he's staying and they make out a little bit.
Starting point is 01:36:40 He explains to her that she's been followed. She's definitely been followed. And there's very little chance that he can make it out alive. Yes, but you have to live because this is so fucking funny. I left so hard. He goes, if you die, I will kill myself. That totally does 100%. So now she has an incentive to not die. That's great. It's great that he gave her that. That's true. I did enjoy when he nagged her here here for a second though. He's like, so they need me alive because I'm, you know, amazing. I know everything motor, cold fusion. They'll happily kill you though trains are it. I mean, that's like a metal track. Everybody knows how there's no trains
Starting point is 01:37:18 work. There's literally a toy for children. I we keep calling you the number one ranked train. I don't even know what that means. That's so dumb. But they need me because I'm real. I really have a thing. But you need to pretend that you hate me and that you're siding with the government. Right. That's the plan here. And they execute it so badly.
Starting point is 01:37:37 And she's like, oh, I'm sure that there'll be some reason for that that's revealed at some point later in the script. She's like, oh, no, no, absolutely. Yeah, no, no, absolutely. I'm just saying it was worth because there are a piece of paper that I have to read from. And then she's and he's like, but maybe there's something that you should see before they get here. And she's like, is it the motor?
Starting point is 01:37:56 And he's like, yes. And she's like, why the fuck would you have that makes no sense at all? What would it be even doing? He's paying New York City rent. He's saving on the utility bill. He's saving to power his laptop and his studio apartment. Yeah. No, I can run dying like two on this thing. It's great. I've got the mind and bitcoins as we you're the worst. I can't spend them though. So he closes the door to
Starting point is 01:38:30 the motor and just then the cops get there and the cops bust and he's like, I hate this lady so much and she's like, I hate this guy so much and the cops are like, oh, they must really hate each other. I am so bad. Do you like her? No. Oh, okay. They I am fooling the dude. So bad. The bed. Hold on.
Starting point is 01:38:46 Do you like her? No. Oh, okay. They were not. I don't like him. Left. Also, they both said, Yuck, so that's what it is. You're three and a gone man.
Starting point is 01:38:58 And also, okay, I'm sure that there was something that was supposed to be explained here, but like the cops start searching the department and one of them breaks into the room with the motor, but he can't see it because he's not libertarian enough. Yeah, I thought it disintegrated because if you're a socialist and you walk into a libertarian motor room, it turns into feathers. What was it? I don't know what was supposed to happen. That's a well known physical principle.
Starting point is 01:39:25 Constructed read a book. What's great is that John Gault, they break down the door and they're like, nothing in here. And no, it's full of feathers. Yeah. I want John Gault to be like, that's my feather room. My feather room. My feather room. It's next to my tar room.
Starting point is 01:39:39 I go in there first and I come in here. I assumed that we were eventually good at, so I kept trying to make a better movie. I assumed that we were eventually going to find out that they put the Wakanda force field over it or something. Oh, and then in order to turn it off, you had to say the speech thing, the, the, the, the oath to selfishness or whatever, right? Because they kept saying that like, oh, holy shit, that actually, right. That would be better.
Starting point is 01:40:01 That actually fixed this ridiculous plot. Oh, yeah. Right. But they had it in front of them. That actually fixed this ridiculous. Yeah, right. But I had it in front of them. I was so fucking dumb. But yeah, but it anyway, no, instead it just disappears or turns into feathers or something. And then we take, they take John Golt to meet with the head of state. Oh, and this is so fucking stupid. Number one, it doesn't fucking matter, but number two, it's so fucking stupid. He leaves his phone on, right? Like he's, John goes going into the meeting and he dials, Dagnese number and just leaves it going. I'm like, oh, yeah, the secret service
Starting point is 01:40:31 would never think of that. Yeah. I needed somebody to be like him and just take your pocket, your phone out of your pocket and put it back in because we can see that you're doing that. Our eyes are based on motion and you move. Oh, let me, uh, don't worry, I'll throw them off the scent. Yuck, I hate this phone. Well, you did say yucky hate that phone.
Starting point is 01:40:51 Carry on, sir. But not only is that such a stupid way to make this happen, but it never matters. There's no reason why it matters that Dagnie hears this conversation. Yeah, no, right? That never, she doesn't record it. She doesn't broadcast. Nothing happens. Learn anything from conversation. Yeah, no, right? Never. She doesn't record it. She doesn't broadcast. Nothing happened. Learn anything from it.
Starting point is 01:41:07 Yeah. She doesn't hack into the entire television. No, no, no broadcast. The universe. Nothing. Yeah. She just knows about it. That's it.
Starting point is 01:41:17 So, right. So the head of state is there to make a deal with him. He wants to offer him Wesley Mouches job, right? Now, Wesley Mouches the czar of the economy in the first two months. He's the boss of coffee migs. Yes, he's coffee's the boss. You would be in charge of coffee migs if you take the shop. Yeah, direct report.
Starting point is 01:41:35 And this guy's job, by the way, is to like do whatever he wants to the economy with no oversight. Why would he not take that job? Right? Like he would say, like my first act as my job is that my job doesn't exist anymore and then he would win. Yep.
Starting point is 01:41:55 We already built a bunch of cabins in me. We made a lot of calls and a lot. We have so many cool cars. There's not enough kinds of apples and peppers yet, but we're getting there. You know, it's nice. Remember Milton Friedman's kid made the barges? We did like a Colorado version of that. And the barges didn't work because that's done, but ours is pretty cool.
Starting point is 01:42:17 I have an 85 wagon here. Our pirates going through some pre-diabetic screening right now is just not a good time for some of that. Yeah, but he won't take it. They can't buy off John goat, dammit, but they have a laugh off at a certain point. Oh, yeah, there's a certain point in this where they're negotiating so long. And then they have a really weird long laugh off and you can tell the guys evil because he's laughing
Starting point is 01:42:45 through his teeth the whole time. So they're like, no man, you gotta evil up your laugh. The director keeps coming in like, no man, you gotta evil up. He's like, I don't think I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,
Starting point is 01:43:01 I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I that's going on is like whoever laughs the longest wins and John go out laughs all of them. Wait, huh? Yeah. And so they take him to the state science institute for some torture. Whew. So fucking stupid.
Starting point is 01:43:17 Some project. F if you will. This is my favorite part of the movie. Okay. Just to be clear, they're going gonna torture him for the answer to economics. Right, they never ask him any questions. There's no position. They seem to be trying to change or anything like that.
Starting point is 01:43:32 You're right. They're torturing him so that they'll have a chance to tell us what project F is. They won't, by the way, tell us what project F is. What would he be able to tell them to stop and torture? Right. What was the answer? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:43:45 They never just dictate the schematics to his energy device while he was being tortured. I think they didn't ever ask about the energy device. No, they don't even know about the only day he knows that he had that daggeneen hang career in. That's true. It's so, but that one guy watched the first two movies. So he might not. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 01:44:04 Coffee knows. Coffee, probably. Coffee knows also the fucking narrator cuts in at this point and says, Oh, also, um, the on page 721, the Tiger Bridge collapsed. Oh, fuck that just a matter and all does it. Why am I even telling you this? A bridge collapse because of too many government. Too many government regulation. Just to be clear, way down that old story, they regulated it into destruction, a bridge.
Starting point is 01:44:31 The literal phrasing the narrator uses that the bridge finally, quote, surrendered to regulation. Wait, did they actually say that? Yes, yes. That was the term fucking yikes. He's less of a narrator now as he is like a hardcore star Trek fan who won't stop whispering in your ear about it. No, that costume was actually designed. Stop. You guys don't know this, but he's actually the number one pianist in the whole world. It doesn't this show is bad and I'm watching it for you. Stop whispering in my ear.
Starting point is 01:45:07 bad and I'm watching it for you. Stop with bringing my hair. So yeah, so we cut back the Dagnia. Francisco is rushed to her side to be with her in her moment of need or whatever. He paid the $40 a gallon gas prices for the taxi. How the hell do these guys stay in business? I have no. Anyway, but she's ready to take the pledge to selfishness, right? The pledge of allegiance to the Valley of No Rules. I just want to be sure, but what they're describing, that's what they're saying is happening. Well, and what's so fucking funny is she's like, I'm ready to live only for myself
Starting point is 01:45:33 and never give a shit about anyone else. And he's like, great. And she's like, now let's go save. Let's go rescue. John Gulf John, this makes no sense. We'll negotiate how much he's paying us later. So yeah, they tell them that Ragnar's helicopter standing This makes no sense. We'll negotiate how much he's paying us later. So, yeah, they tell him that Ragnar's helicopter standing by, they have to go.
Starting point is 01:45:50 Ragnar's helicopter. Motherfucker. If Ragnar had a helicopter, this whole movie and he doesn't even use it till now, why isn't his bow? What the fuck, man? Why don't they have him near water and that Rdoll ship could be nearby, but now if we had just watched ragdoll struggling up into a helicopter One of those little
Starting point is 01:46:15 But why don't we just have a little set of steps you could just have them down to me like I'm a little winded nois My blood sugar's low. I need an apple winch. I need a subway sandwich I'm not sure his low, I need an Apple Winch. I need a subway sandwich. So then they take John Goltz, the project F Torchard device. Like this is the silliest looking thing. Who put this, somebody hasted a picture of this thing? I did.
Starting point is 01:46:41 And I just did it because I wanted you guys to look at it and be like, that looks like the original doctor who said. Yeah. Yeah. Like, if that at wheels, it'd be a dollic. You know what I mean? Like, that's fucking what it looks like.
Starting point is 01:46:54 It's a steam punk torture device somehow. Yeah. It has a, it's bad cosplay torture device. That's what it is. Three digit scoreboard. Yeah. Torture units. I know. I said, you know, how many years you took
Starting point is 01:47:08 off their life, Heath? That's what that's for. Oh, I see. Yes. There's a red light and a green light and a red yellow blue light. There's a red and these buttons. These are video game buttons. These are standard video game buttons that you bought. Yep. These are low kick high kick buttons, my friend. But they're going to torture with it. Now, here's the thing. It has a throttle. Sorry. It has a throttle.
Starting point is 01:47:34 It does. It does. Why is that so big? Yeah. It's why couldn't that just be a switch? I have, I have another question for you. Okay. I get the throttle.
Starting point is 01:47:44 What are all the other buttons? Because there's just on and off, right? They just turn it on and then they turn it off and they turn it on. Because as far as we can tell, it's just electrocuting it. Yep. Yep. Right. We, we are never told what project F is. Yeah. They put the silliest possible cat collar around his neck. This actor,. This actor by the way did not get into the shape he wanted to for this scene. Like you can just tell he was like, oh, I thought we were doing this scene in like two weeks. I'm going to. I'm on a bowl.
Starting point is 01:48:13 I love lasagna. And they were like, no, cat collar. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, totally. You're two weeks away from being ripped. Just suck it in. Just suck it in the whole time.
Starting point is 01:48:22 Yeah. Yep. Three, two, one. suck it in. Okay. There's also this weird moment where they're like, James Stagger, you have to leave the project of torture area and he's like, no, I totally want to watch John go to torture. And they're like, oh, okay. He says they're really weirdly, too, but like, no, I really want to, like, I want to be here.
Starting point is 01:48:38 Yeah. Panning. What is wrong with you? I mean, in fairness, same, right? Yeah, right. You know, I'm with him. I got it. I got it. Just a weird delivery. See, for me, it was like, you ever be in a room and everyone's about to do drugs. And there's a very clear that the
Starting point is 01:48:50 person who's going to ruin it. So you're like, Hey, do you want to fucking leave? And they're like, No, I fucking love it here. Yeah, let's let a producer snake. And you're like, ah, Jim, you're kind of killing the mood of this torture. You know, that's you in the drug rooms, right? Right. How dare you? Lash, you got to me. Heath cut this.
Starting point is 01:49:11 So they start at their silly electricity machine. We see now, Dagnie and Francisco and all the other guy. They're all sneaking in, playing guns like secret agents. They're sneaking into the government facility, right? Okay. I have to talk about the murder scene. Yes. This is my favorite part of the whole movie where she goes to the garden.
Starting point is 01:49:30 She's like, hi, I'm supposed to be here. And he's like, oh, I'm not supposed to let anyone in. So she pulls a gun on him. And he's like, I'm just a peon. I swear, I wasn't supposed to make any decisions. And she shoots him. And he's dead. To be clear, that was the movie being like, sometimes you're going to have to murder
Starting point is 01:49:44 relatively innocent people for our libertarian dream. Yes, so you know. Yep. Well, and I love the guy like the security guard has the weirdest don't shoot me. He's like, Hey, look, my job description does not include bartering for my life with billionaire railway, my little I'm going to file a grievance with the union. You know what? I'm technically on my 15 right now.
Starting point is 01:50:03 I don't. So bad. He's not. No, you're not murder what? I'm technically on my 15 right now. I don't. So bad. No, you're not murder me. I'm on my, ah, you shot me. He says, I don't make decisions about my life is what he has. That's all I want. He steps down some words. And then she shoots him in the sleepy time spot.
Starting point is 01:50:18 Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is the silliest death. Or at least she just shoots him in like the hardish area. Nothing happens to him. There's no entry or exit when whatsoever. And he just kind of falls asleep. It's the slumping gun.
Starting point is 01:50:31 So we cut back to the torture stuff. They're still electrocuting away. But now there's a problem with the machine. And John Galt has taken the number one through 17 top torture machine repairmen. Yes. For the, so they got nobody that can fix the machine. They're all too dumb. And John go is such an addicted fucking man splinter that he literally tells them how to fix their torture device. Yep. Yep. He tells them the fuse blew out and then they all
Starting point is 01:50:59 are like, oh, well, we should all go change it. Why don't all of us go? All of us together go find another. It's like a horror movie if we split up. But fuck, let's just go. You take James, coffee, can you take James? We're gonna go. And then they leave, they leave in slow mo. And it's so good. And he turns back and he's like, we'll be back.
Starting point is 01:51:20 And he took it. My name is Cuffalty. Oh, good. It's just like it's fucking chef kiss beautiful. It is so amazing. That's senior like, why did they slow it down? Like someone's like, I just got the new iPhone. You know, like where you could like make it. It goes. Yeah, right. It sounds so he sounds evil that way doesn't he? And then and then they leave and John flatlines out of spite. He's like, Oh, I'm going to die while you guys are going to say like that. He's not a feeling like he's dying. Fucker ups and dies. Well, he's just hanging out. When people torture you, do they put you on a device that has the flat line thing? Yeah. That's very important. Yeah. I don't know
Starting point is 01:52:03 that most people do, but I think coffee migs would. I think he was. He's that kind of guy. He's a perfectionist. Good man. Yeah. But Dagnier runs in just as he starts flat lighting, right? She's got to do the fucking Trinity thing, right? So she romantically pledges the oath to never help stupid, gross poor people It works just to be clear promising to never help poor people wakes John galt up like clapping wakes up tinker Everybody promise not to help poor people come on She might as well have him snort a bootstrap like smelling sauce and just snap straight up. Quick, Ronald Reagan trickle your economics down on to him. So yeah, so he grabs his bootstrap and pulls himself up all the way to Francis goes helicopter.
Starting point is 01:53:02 They landed a helicopter like on the Pentagon, right? Like they're in like a white house in the Pentagon. They landed their secret. Maybe it's an invisible helicopter. Can they make an helicopter invisible with their name? Probably, yeah, that was as long as you. Okay. Yeah, yeah, be first to the door. Because we can see it in the movie.
Starting point is 01:53:17 Yeah. And they're also like at this time too, the music is all very patriotic. It's all that. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, And it's all this suspenseful shit and they're running around with guns. They never shoot anybody. Nothing happens. No. At any point, so they get to the helicopter, the head of state shakes his fist at the sky. And he's very upset. He pets his cat or whatever. Get gadget next time.
Starting point is 01:53:54 Oh, yeah. Right. And then we cut to Dagnie and galt on the helicopter together. She says, the lights are so bad. She says, John, you're my forever. And I so wanted him to be like, I don't really like labels. I'm not a label. I'm in the valley. We don't really do. I'm not. This is not this week. I'm this step of the next. I'm kind of with the girl with the unvaccinated kids.
Starting point is 01:54:24 Come on. You have something going with the steel guy too unvaccinated kids. I don't know if you know, but I thought you had something going with the steel guy too. Were you not? I like her. I like her. Chris, maybe you guys do a little bit of the way to look around for some. Yep. Cheers.
Starting point is 01:54:34 And then like, I guess, Francisco Dan Coneo looks back into the back seat of the fucking helicopter and says, guys, we can make a worse closing line than that. Can't we? They can though that they're going to quote. I'm Rand to actually. Yeah. Oh, is this really the ending from the book? This is the part of that speech from the book.
Starting point is 01:54:55 Yes. This is the dumbest possible ending in all of writing. You could not write a dumber ending. Dagnie looks out over the country and the power is all going out because everybody's too stupid and they don't even know how to run the quizz nose without her. not right at Dumber ending. Dagnie looks out over the country and the power is all going out because everybody's too stupid and they don't even know how to run the quiz nose without her. And she goes, it's the end. And John goes, no, it's the beginning.
Starting point is 01:55:15 It's the beginning of the starving of the masses. No, yeah, it's the beginning of that. Really, they just need to change the fuse, but yeah, I'm gonna get it for us. We all die because they wouldn't loan you my second perpetual motion machine, but it's feathers right now. So I can't, I unfortunately, I can't loan that to you. And Dan John Garse, no,
Starting point is 01:55:39 Jay Stapagas. And then they fly away and you can see the statue of liberty in the first guy. They had a bigger CGI budget. A bald eagle would have landed on her fucking torches. Yeah. As if it's paid away. God, that was so stupid. That was amazing.
Starting point is 01:55:55 Oh, all right. Well, that's it. We made it to three movies. Cecil, this is like above and beyond. Yes, mask. U.S. Yeah. Who's with you? Hey, we know. So Cecil, thank you so much
Starting point is 01:56:10 for hanging out with us for the last three episodes. I know the listeners have really enjoyed it. I know we've really enjoyed it. I hope that you've not hated it too much. These are the worst movies ever of a scene, but you guys made it
Starting point is 01:56:20 absolutely so much fun. And thank you so much for inviting me along. It's been an absolute pleasure. Thank you. Awesome. And while that does it for our review, the Atlas shrugged, that's not going to do it for the episode just yet, because we still need to lure you and us back in next week. So Eli, tell us what's on deck. Well, no, it's Valentine's day. And so what could be more lovely than a love story
Starting point is 01:56:42 based on the book of Ozea? Oh, Jesus Christ. Yes. So by popular request, we'll be reviewing redeeming love. Awesome. So with that, the look forward to, we're going to bring episode 339 to a merciful close. Once again, a huge thanks to Cecil for three weeks worth of massacres. And be sure to check the show notes for links to his other projects, the Cognitive Distance podcast
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Starting point is 01:57:42 We'll leave you with a breakfast club close. John Gault and Clive and Bundy played with rubber dicks for a couple weeks, and then they all got arrested. Yep. The billionaires and concert pianists lived happily ever after, until somebody's septic tank backed up. The evil government went on to invent Project G, which was waterboarding with a few extra toggles. The deep ab. John couldn't afford his rescue helicopter, so they kicked it out of the Atlantic. Yes!
Starting point is 01:58:18 Just like he always wanted. Like he wouldn't want it. What do I do? Hold on. Is this the only thing that's going to happen? Yes! Just like he always wanted. Like he wouldn't want it. What do I do? I hold on. Is this still part of it? Oh no, no, this is like, okay, that seems like the weird.
Starting point is 01:58:39 Speaker no child porn. And then you spread the mirror on the cheese toast. That's not mirror. That's pretty good. Oh, everybody's going to go silent when I say it's super hot. It's okay. Thank you Cecil. One person. I'm with you.
Starting point is 01:58:57 Cheers. So cheers. Cheers. Cheers. So I love you. I forgot I was going to say the preceding by guest is production of puzzle and thunderstorm LLC capy rate 2022. All rights reserved.

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