JAR Media Posdact - Poetic Unity

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/jarmedia Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 03:07 Housekeeping 09:55 Ranking Dark Souls 14:05 Back to Housekeeping 16:04 CBT 23:23 Halo Studios is Cooked 30:35 Mid Break 35:52 Questions: Nin at Coachella 37:39 Beeb 38:41 Arc Raiders Impressions 45:02 The Boys Thoughts 47:49 Falling for RageBait 49:55 Stop playing with it... 50:26 Twice Daily 52:43 STP 54:11 Invincible Spin Offs 56:03 Best and Worst Pokemon 1:01:41 Rice Fool 1:03:22 Critic Fights 1:04:58 How one enjoys a freaking steak! 1:05:55 Kindness. Freaking pure kindness. 1:09:44 How much is real? #BroCastS7E15

You get excited and grind your teeth so hard that little teeth chips go down your throat and they make you cough. Yeah, that's why I got baby mouth now. Or like granny mouth. Granny mouth. I'm all gums, baby. I'm all gums. I'm all gums. All I know what's to do is to suck.

Only thing I learned is to suck a chupp-a-chup. I suck my chups or my Wither's originals. I'm all chaps and Wither's. Suck of my worth. I shud the worth out of you Hi good afternoon morning, evening or night Ladies and gentlemen And welcome to broadcast season 7 episode 15

I'm your host Alex joined by host Jim Hello host Jim You still airport Jim Yeah Is that your moniker of choice Nah I don't like it anymore It's your rant son of a Suddenly just really fucking piss me off

Can you beat those swear words It's too early to be swearing It's only what Oh my watch is out of energy Your watch is out of energy What does this world come to? This is what happens when international regimes switch overnight. What?

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Mm. Um, taking data from planets somehow and ranking the sounds, ranking the scares. Non-stop ranking. Just constant ranking. Look, subscribe to our Patreon and you will have unlimited ranking.

That's a good way of putting it. Um. But if you don't like that, there's trying to read Rugrats theory, a huge breakdown on the mountain, as they say. We finished Dark Souls 3. So we got a video on that coming up. Nice sort of variety content going on over there. And last but not least, the JAR Media Group Chat. It's a group chat.

We can leave suggestions. I'll pluck some for housekeeping or the questions at the end, depending on what makes sense contextually. And speaking of making sense contextually, why don't it? we do some housekeeping contextually? Can we first, just before we get too deep into the show, shout out the job media patrons.

Oh, did I forget? No, in all seriousness, can we just appreciate the beautiful pint I've poured? Absolutely scuffed head. What an absolutely beautiful head on that.

It looks like Marge. It's more like Patti or Velma. You got Patty head. Homer. You smell like roast. Ew. So I've only got one from the group chat from the bleaker jarling going into grim retreat

who says, I live for the T-Rex Raw in the mid-break every week. That's the rankers advert, to be fair. Yeah. That's a good one. That is a good trailer. Do you think that the ad should change each season? I think it should change. Because I don't know.

the last time you saw a Rancor's advert because it's been growing. Like Wotto's in there now, Mark Zuckerberg is in the... It's like picked up a few strays on the way. Oh, I didn't realize it was like snowballing. It does like the achievement pop sound effect. Oh, nice. Yeah. It does like all sorts.

I got an achievement the other day on steam and I was like, whatever. It's not the same. Because it needs the sound. Yeah. But good... Yeah. Ed Mack left a comment saying Kanye banned, James House still

walking the streets makes you think. That's a fucking good point actually. And Skank Newman replied to that saying How do you know James House still roams? Ooh, good point. Excellent counterpoint. Ooh. Some debate going on in the comment sections. Yeah. I love

a good debate. I love when they rank different topics in a debate. Yeah. When they just rank each other. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. In a debate. And Golden Go Gaming says Alex off screen, getting nostalgic with this one, hashtag pay. God, yeah, I didn't even, like, think that that's, that was normal.

Yeah, yeah, well, I only just came back, so you have to see me, but I'm going to go back off screen. Okay. That's probably for the best, if we want to keep longer viewer counts. Exactly, yeah. I don't want to scare people off for one. And also, I just. go a bit crazier. You do.

Something just changes in my mind. You have a different viscosity. Yeah, completely different viscosity. I kind of rank different when I'm not on camera. Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Spriggs for Life says, took a three-month break from the podcast and coming back finally shows me what it would be like to listen to the podcast for the first time having no fucking clue what's going on. Love it. Block this guy. Yeah. You're blocked.

You don't get to stop for three months. That's... Yeah, why would you admit that? That's instant blockage. That's rule number four on Doc. Yeah. What's rule number two? Rank only when the leaders allow.

Ranking only in Ramadan. Yeah. You're only allowed to use ranker.com to rank your favorite episode of the Sopranos. I've never seen the Sopranos. You have. We just really watch the whole thing together. Really? Yeah, we were ranking episodes as we went.

This needs to change. Something needs to change. Something here needs to shift. Listen to me, I'm... I can't. Matt Very Cool says, I really do love how the Netflix Marvel shows are still semi-regularly brought up on the cast 10 years in.

Really makes me feel. feel like I haven't changed or developed in the last decade. No one has. Cheers, lads. This is the thing, that... Regression, there's a law of regression. If you play Alden Ring, you know all about it. There's a law of regression.

Law of regression. Regression. The opposite of progression. Aggression. No. Different thing entirely. Really? My name is Obi-1 Canobi.

I'm... I didn't audition for an Obi-1 part in a movie. Really? Yeah. In a cartoon? tune in the new Climb Wars because the other Obi-1 Canobie said, fuck this. The shit's gotten too cringe.

So you came in as like the sonic version. I did an audition and they did not like me. You didn't get the VAT? No. I didn't even... You got the different Ben from Star Wars and not Kylo Ren. Yeah, that only other Ben.

Why are they fucking three Benz? And two of them humans. Yeah. But that's, that's why. like more than any other like name in Star Wars apart from Yoda there are two yodas that's not three I know that you mean baby Yoda movie coming soon oh no there are three yodas because there's massive Yoda as well oh yaddle yeah yaddle Yoda yaddle Yoda bracket yaddle luckily the um the disney check cleared so we're allowed to talk about the baby

Yoda movie now. How much money are they are they leaving off the table by not calling it the baby Yoda movie? Yeah. Yeah, why didn't they call it that? If it was straight up called that, I feel like. Or just Baby Yoda. Yeah. That would make Baby Yoda and friends. All the Chinese dollars.

Why just Chinese? Worldwide dollars. Yeah, but China specifically loves Yaddle. That's why Yaddle is That's going to be to reveal that Baby Yoda's fucking dad is Yadol or mum or whatever. I think

you had all this gross Dallas Howard. Yeah. Hmm, fat ass I have. Damn. Why did the

prequals come up? Oh, because Disney's because Marvel TV shows. And Marvel TV shows. Yeah. Marvel Netflix shows. Uh-huh.

Disney just knows how to treat things correct. Yeah, they know how to milk. They know how to rank. They rank with no regard.

You realize Daredevil Returnals Season 2 is out, right? There's three superhero shows on right now and two of them come out on the same day on the same platform. They come out on the same, they're both on Wednesday. The boys and Invincible are on the same day and they're both on Wednesday.

It's weird, isn't it? Why not do one on Monday and one on Friday? Surely that likelihood of the audience is crossing over is hard. Yeah, they're both superheroes. Yeah. Invincible sucks, though. But one's baby. kid cartoon and ones for adults.

Yeah, one's for children idiots and ones for cool, cool chads that love Homelander. I want to be just like him when I'm an old man. I want to drink milk and rank. I love milk and ranking just as much as him. Have you ever actually looked at ranker.com? No. You haven't.

Wait, so if I search like Ranka Dark Souls, Rancor Black Sabbath? List of all Dark Souls characters ranked. Ooh. Right? Who do you think's number one on the ranking? Salaya, fucking obviously. Salere is.

Yeah. Yeah, you got that right. Number two, Catarina. Knight of Catarina. Siegmae of Katerina. Yeah. Yeah. Number three.

See if you keep going. Ooh. And this is MPCs only. All characters. No, this has bosses. what that's fucking impossible then uh wait maybe i'm wrong i'd have to spoil it though

i can't remember if this guy is a boss or not okay it's a guy yeah that is a boss okay what did you get to number three yeah yeah which game i'm not sure it begins with a artorius yeah yeah of course the best walker night artorius is three Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Number four. This is a boss. I know this one's a boss. Do you know which game? Dark Souls 1. I think these are a 1. Gwyn? No.

Think Reddit. Big booby woman? No, along the right lines, but think more Reddit. She should have been number three. What's her name? That's really sexist of me to not remember. Think of like something that would get a lot of updutes. Gwynne.

Gwynnevere? No. No, that I'm just trying to think of the big teat you want to now. No, forget tits for a minute. Don't think of a pink elephant. Think of the up-dutes. Think of farming karma. What Darker's boss could farm the most karma?

Ooh. Seth? Yeah. I didn't even realize you were trying to de- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Wow. And number five, uh...

Another boss. Another boss from Dark Souls 1. Is it a humanoid? Yeah. It's also part of a duo. Ah. Ornstein? Yeah.

Dragon Slayer Ornstein. Yeah. Not... I was gonna say, it's fucking smell. Six is... Andre. Oh, yeah. Shit.

He should be before Ornstein. What the fuck? It should be before Siff. And seven is giant blacksmith. Yeah. Eight is Siegland of Katerina. That was already in there, I swear. No, Siegmyre.

Siegmyre. Seagmire. Seagmire. I see there's different characters. Seagmire is the one from Duxels 3, right? I can't remember. Then it's crossbreed Priscilla. Yeah.

And... Crazy that she's before Gwynnevere. Then 10 is Gwynne. And 11 is Gwynabier. 12, Gwendolyn. Really? Femboy. Thirteen Nito.

Did you know in the law, Gwynndelan is a fanboy? Really? Born as a male, but um, forced to be femme. Forced by who? Gwyn. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

Or some shit like that, I don't know. I just make it all up. I'm surprised Patches isn't higher. Yeah. He's iconic. He's a bastard, though. You wouldn't, you wouldn't, You wouldn't say he's like a good

You know but I mean Yeah the bosses the villains you know type shit I don't know fuck Stop panic attacking I'm panic attacking at the moment Well speaking of Elliot Finucane says anyone else feel the cast has gotten quite scary Yeah, can't be the only one

These guys seem to be losing Well it'll sanity there is left every week And let's just say the tanks running low I'm just worried they'll take me with them Every week I watch watch. I feel a little more becoming less well normal. Anyone else care to chime in? Thanks guys. Block him. Yeah, blocked.

Don't get blocked. Don't be a troll. Don't get blocked. Should we come up with a song right now? Should we just cook up one for the booth? Yeah. Silence in my mind. Silence in his mind. Dipes are double full. Don't get blocked this.

time. Yeah, that's pretty good. It's a good foundation. Yeah, that'll do you. Yeah. Upload it. Just by itself. Hold up, I'm a fix wolves.

Hold up. I'm about to go really good. Hold up. I'm going to fix bully. And last one for this segment from Scrabut, 6973. Hey guys, I don't think you notice

but the camera is a little zoomed in. Hope you can fix it now, please. Thank you Blocking You're blocked And when are you going to learn That rule 5 is haters Don't get blocked

Rule 6 Share Rule 7 Share Rule 8 Share Yeah I agree with that

I agree with that Don't you say Yeah I'm brewing foot fungus I'm brewing foot fungus Hey listen to me You son of a I'm brown foot fungus.

Right, so we've got two other things for this section, right? No, we don't. I've got an article and CBT. Which one do you want to do first? CBT first this time. I feel like we normally save CBT till last. Yeah, okay. So let's do CBT then.

Okay. Cringe-based tough. Got a handful of quotes from someone notable. Could be a philosopher, a fictional character. Could be Bryce Dallas-Hawood. Could be Bryce Dallas-Hawood. could be Bryce Dallas Howard for Jim knows. Um, it is someone you do know.

I'm not sure if you're gonna get this one. Um, she's got a really pretty face, I think. Bryce Dallas. Yeah. Neppo. She is nepo. But she directed a couple good episodes of baby Yoda. Yeah.

Okay, let's do this then. Are you ready? Are you any questions? Um, who is it? Bryce Dallas Howard. Okay. I think I'm in love with her. Yeah.

I'm gonna bleep that. Really? Because I know that you're planning to send her that message of love. That's kind of scary. A letter. First quote. Fear is something I try not to absorb. Ooh.

Uh... Cringe. Okay. I feel like using the word absorb specifically gives it a different tinge. Mm-hmm. Um, but I respect it. When I was 14, I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15, they changed their leaving age to 16.

That's, that's based. Yeah, that's good. That's like a little sting. That's like a bee sting type. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like a Rick and Morty type, like twist at the end of the story. I do feel like an outsider, but I don't lose any sleep over it. That's pretty cringe, dude.

You should be losing sleep over life. Loser. I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it. That's funny. That's based. That rocks. All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar.

I need a couple of hours by myself. Yeah, it's based. I like to push people so I get the truth out of them. That's cringe. Is this Peter Parker? No. Okay. Do you have any inkling?

Mm-mm. This is a tough one. Maybe Burt Kreischer. I didn't say best comedian currently working. Yeah. Funniest comedian working. Um, I read DAPE. history books sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange read it again

I read daft history books sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange would this person say daft or daft they would say daft is it great David yes that's cringe that's cringe okay yeah I think so right this is the penultimate one before it kind of has to give away who it is for these other quotes right okay Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets which was very flattering

that's cringe what it's a really weird quote as well when like it's not actually really that much of a clue at all like I don't know how the fuck like what print yeah okay okay so the next quote Well, did you give that one? Sorry, cringe.

Yeah. So the next one will reveal what it is. I will give you, yeah, who, sorry. I'll give you a clue. They were featured on the latest guerrillas album. Oh, okay. The mountain. Feature on the mountain, and these are all their quotes.

Okay. Anything? If you had to choose one feature from that. Who does that sound like? And they're on the mountain? Mm-hmm. Are they alive? No.

Is it Markey Smith? Yes. Okay, that recontextualizes a lot of it. Yeah, because I actually have a few more charming. If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's the fool. Huh? The fool? Because the fool's notorious for having just rotating members who like,

can't work with him because it's so difficult to work with right so that's him like a dressing if it's me and your granny on gays that's really good yeah that's that's tough your granny on bongays yeah if you're gonna play it out of tune then play it out of tune properly that's fucking cool i like that yeah i like that quote that's based tough i think yeah there is We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, shut them C-words up, and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The band said, that's the Sons of Mumford or something.

They're number five in charts. I just thought there were a load of R-worded Irish folks in it. Jesus Christ. Yeah. I think it was like kind of hard to work with. What did you give that one? Yeah, I mean, apart from the use of the R word, I'll give it tough. Because, yeah, fuck Manfred and songs.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this? I mean, best. Good question. And finally, the gigs I enjoy are the ones where I'm so angry and paranoid, and I hate the audience. much that I put everything into it to feed off the aggressive side of it. I don't actually hate the fans, but when I'm feeling angry, pissed off and full of hate, it's a good gig for me.

That's fucking hilarious. That's like cringed half. Yeah. Fucking asshole. That's so funny. Yeah, that is funny. He sounds fun to like hang out with. I don't know.

Like to get... You know, our parents know someone who met him. Really? And they said he was really. really scary. Really? Yeah. Really intimidating.

Yeah. In person. Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah. Awesome one. That was a nice hole. Now, um, I did bring this up to you the other day when we were playing, I think it was Dark Souls,

finishing up Dark Souls or something. Yeah. Um, and I don't even know why I keep doing this to myself, but there is, It's not more dipped up kangaroos, isn't it? No, there's Halo news. Oh, yeah.

And it's just like, it's kind of fitting that we're listening to the Dark Souls music. Halo's gone hollow. It's been hollow for a long time, but it's like, is there a place deeper than Hollow you can go? This is like when you find the king in Dark Souls, too. Yeah.

So I got this article here. This is a pattern, not a coincidence. Halo Studios report highlights alleged leadership failures and staff treatment concerns. A new report builds on earlier claims with multiple former developers speaking out against Glenn, sorry, following Glenn Israel's departure. Yeah, recently this guy called Glenn Israel, former developer at Halo Studios, over 17 years of a year of his job. experience dating back to Hilo 3 ODST had left the company in that report He outlined a bunch of serious misconduct kind of stuff Which Microsoft partially addressed simply stating we don't publicly discuss individual employee issues

That's a good look so now there's like corroboration sorry of this These allegations Yeah alongside this another former employee Tyler Davis has claimed leadership had done us lot dirty, reinforcing broader concerns about how staff were treated. Here's a quote. I saw a thing on Friday that was definitely unethical, possibly illegal. I'm not going to report it because, one, it was done in a way that would be difficult to prove, and two, retaliation would be a certainty.

I'm not confident in MSHR's ability or interest in protecting me, but I voiced my concern appropriately internally, and I want, sorry, and I worry that this alone might be enough to draw inappropriate attention. It would be comforting to know that someone respected impartially and perhaps most importantly, uninvolved, nose that I know if, for example, my career suddenly takes a nose dive. Further claims about hiring practices have also been raised, Glenn states that three of that art leadership roles in question

were the only external poster positions between June 2024 and June 2025, and claims all three were filled by former associates with a possible fourth following the same pattern. He suggests this isn't just a coincidence, but a broader hiring approach. So they're claiming that they're like moving people around and like kind of forcing people out. The group made up of community mod is responsible for restoring the Halo 2 E3 demo disbanded after Halo Studios refused to pay stuff. I don't know if you know they added that to the MCC. No, I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah. They did a bunch of cool, like, fans. like that um but then that's sucks to learn that yeah what the fuck um one member of the dig site team said pierre told us we could leave the team since unlike him we weren't born with a gun pointed at our head meaning we wouldn't understand real stakes and consequences yeah um so the the halo one remake is just the second one is it was a different i can't remember what it's called Hello combat evolutionized or something? Combat devolved.

Yeah. That game's fucked. It's cooked. There's no way. Yeah. Just let go. Like, it's gone past the point of being sad, where it's just like... It's embarrassing.

It's like this old fucking diseased dog that, like... Well, yeah, it's beating the dead horse, but like it's not even a horse anymore. It's just like... Like The skeleton You know Yeah Like it's fully

Rotted away There's nothing left to do here Bubba You know That's what I'm saying To Bill Gates Packer in fam Catastrophic mismanagement

Of development Of Halo campaign of old Led to his art team Being reassigned From the unannounced game He had been working on In August 2025 In his role

Declared redundant as a result This was the Israel guy Mm Yeah, I think The worst fact of it all is These people who are passionate Wanting to like make good shit

They just want to make a good game, yeah Who are being treated like fucking Worse than dogs But I guess that's no surprise coming from You know, a mega corporation Like their main IP Halo equals harassment and retaliation So one former B

business executive partner. I witnessed it and it happened to me too. Yeah, crazy. And, you know, like, even if it was good, I think it, we've reached a point where this kind of shit

needs to be open. You know, like, I think Microsoft's response is fucking evil. It's like, we don't talk about it publicly. You shouldn't be allowed to get away. why? Why? Because then everybody would know how shitty you are. It's like, well, what the fuck do you mean?

Yeah. And like, and this isn't just for Microsoft because like, like all the shit with, with rock star from before us, like, we, we shouldn't let them get away with it. Every two days, there's a new, the reason, or the, the terrifying downfall of three for three. The whole timeline. The thing is for a downfall to, happen you have to like be in a position will be more like the downfall of halo yeah yeah yeah that kind of thing yeah yeah it's part for the course at this point i guess yeah because not none of it's surprising really no but it is still sad it's just like how can you yeah how can you be

walking in the same circle this long for so long and we've reached the the the star wars thing as well where there's like more shit now than good yeah way more shit Yeah. So it's like you've just diluted the good thing. Like it's gone. You know? The memory's fate. I love beer, but if you give me like a quarter of a pint and then the rest of it's water,

I don't want to drink it, you know? Yeah. That's what you've done with Halo. Yeah. So my Halo ranking would go. Yeah, Halo 4 at the top. Rankers on PS5. Out now.

Stay on. This is wild. Welcome to the second hour for the cast, we head over to the suggestion thread over on the subreddit, which you can head to and leave questions for future episodes or hop into the Charmeda group chat on the Patreon. But before we go any further, can I just say if you made it this far into the episode,

please tweet down below in the comment section. I had something and I forgot it. Burt Kreischer is my favorite movie. That's what you say. Okay? Yeah. Maybe if you're feeling brave, attach your favorite Burt Kreischer joke.

Yeah. And if it's not that one, then... About getting too drunk a little bit. Yeah, then you get blocked. I was on this crazy bender. I went to Russia. The machine. He had a whole movie made about it

with fucking Luke Skywalker. Really? Yeah. Mark Hamel's in it. Yep. It's actually called The Machine. Yeah. The machinist

Bert Croucher Oh fuck You got anything else to say about Bert? Um Apart from the announcement that Bert Kreischer is coming on Jarre next week Yeah We're co-labbing with two bears

One Cave Finally we can get some real comedy training Chops in here too Yeah yeah yeah to train your comedy We're gonna sharpen you like Like a sharpened bird Yeah we're like comedy gladiators Yeah yeah

We're in the comedy Acropolis The comedy megalopolis With Burt Kreischer Yeah He tells the same story every day To sharpen you Sharpen your skills, your wit

Yeah Your courage He keeps you on edge He keeps you edged He keeps edging you He keeps ranking you in the whole crew Yeah Your rank goes down

That was my Burt Kreischer impression Yeah do you want to hear my What's the other one? Bert Kreischer Bert's friend I don't know Joe Rogan I think

Yeah Joe Rogan Do you want to hear my Joe Rogan impression Yeah What are you doing Stop ranking Hey stop ranking Bert Bert

Bert stop Bert stop Brut stop ranking I was thinking about Joe Rogan Yeah how good he is It being One how good he is And how he's the ultimate

podcasting king Who I pray to He's the podcast king. Yeah, so he's kind of like the god. He's the podcast god. He's like the podcast goat. There's like, you know, the Greek pantheon of gods. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan is like Zeus type thing. Yeah. Candice Owens is up there. Aphrodite. Yeah. He has. And, um, Bert is Hermes.

I feel like Nick Fuentes might be Hermes. No, Nick Fuentes is her. This is fucked. Yeah. He's Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro's like, um, Hades. Stephen Crowder? He's like the little goblin by Hades.

Yeah. Stephen Crowder and Matt Walsh, you're a little like the goblins. Yeah, oh, Matt Walsh, 100%. I think we just sold it, guys. I think we figured it out. He solved politics. Hey everybody, if we all just agreed, then we'd get along all right. get along all right but

crash's body politic do you know what fucking pisses me off i was like watching a thing the other day was burke chrischer in it and that's what you're pissed off yeah well no i was pissed off because he wasn't in it but like it was someone who was like we all just need to calm down and be less politically at each other's throats why can't we just be friends why can't we just all be friends now yeah it don't matter If you're black, go away.

It's like, it's like, it's like Jim Gordon, like holding the penguin against the thing with the photos of the dead guy. Open your eyes! All it takes us one bad day, and you become Burt Kreischer. Yeah. And you become the machine.

One good day, and you become Joe Rogan, and you become the king. Yeah. I've just had a bloody good day. Spotify just offered me $500 million. And it's only made me more, balanced and normal. Yeah.

I'm just like you. I get radicalized by my Instagram feed just like you. What are we talking about? Yeah, we didn't actually get to any of the questions yet. Yeah, we did. Dead way? We did like nine. Did we?

You can't do that, dude. Why? You need to block that. You need to beep that, sorry. Twice. Beeping is now not needed. Is that your impression of Optimus Prime? Optimus slime.

Two kanji symbols, probably says bear bear. Alex, thoughts on the new 9-inch noise live set, an album from this week. No one cares. Year 0 is undoubtedly my favourite NIN album, so it's really cool to see them reimagining so many tracks from that record specifically. So it was... It was Coachella. I was there. I was loving it.

I was in my little booty shorts screaming like a princess. I actually would have been if I was there too Shut the fuck up No fuck Coachella I hate Coachella I hate Coachella but I love I hate Coachella more than you Make a video then and make a channel

About doing that If I went to No I'm not saying that But I think if an artist Performs at Coachella They're immediately bottom tier We don't You've got like no one left then

Uh yeah I do Who the local guys yeah well I love year zero as well I haven't heard the whole set because I can't find it they've only released three songs like on the coach channel they've been notoriously scrubbing it off the internet because it's so embarrassing

I thought it went incredibly hard from what I've seen the clips I've seen I can't wait for this album I guess because of the Tron soundtrack I figured like we're not going to get any new music for ages but he's doing it Trent and then I see him and I rip my shirt off and reveal

my Trent tattoo and go rank me where his mouth is your belly button rank me Trent his name isn't Trent it is it's not but speaking of Coachella Nick says talk about your thoughts

on Bieber's unorthodox performance you seen any clips of that no but you told me about it Blastin Blieber Bieber before the performance was He's a fucking asshole man That's what I didn't really get is that like Surely fans know the situation with him at this point

Like having his live shows kind of just been like a meme for ages He's yeah He's got problems on problems man And it's like it's kind of funny him just on YouTube Like just watching memes It's like that's what you get for going to Gocella Yeah to be fair It's kind of punk rock

Crazy that that Beber did are better than 9-inch nails, who would have found that? Imagine if, like, he went on his YouTube and you could see, like, the continue watching was, like, halfway through the normal episode. Yeah, yeah. He's just rinsing pea month. Yeah, look. Speaking of pee, randomized ruster rugs says, any Ark Raiders thoughts yet? I guess they've been spying on me on Steam

and seeing that I've started it I've got like two two and a half hours of playtime on it Is that it? Only be early thoughts You're a pathetic child So yeah it's all right It's good Pretty shit

Pretty badly made It's Fortnite but a bit worse Right are they gone Yeah That's pretty cool I really like the interactivity with the What do you call it the directional mic or whatever. Yep.

I like doing silly voices and then getting people to like be really creepy back. My favorite thing is doing like a Mr. Bean voice. It's disarming. Yeah, I like, I like doing the fnaff. Hello? Yeah, hello! Yeah, I did that. Yeah.

The Mr. Bean is a shout, though. They were just like, oh. Yeah. Yeah. Every time that you like get an eye to. Yeah, you just got to speak from like your throat. Yeah. Is it all?

Hello. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um. I'm just scratching the surface, though. Yeah. Have you interacted with people much on it?

On solos? Um, as I say, I've only played, like, one game solo. Oh, right. Okay. Yeah. But I did interact with people. I always say, um, I come in peace. Yeah.

Do you know about the matchmaking where, like, the aggression-based matchmaking? No. So, like, the more peaceful you are, like, the more likely you'll get peaceful people. But if you're a violent asshole, you'll get matched with violent assholes. That's quite a good way to do, me. But that doesn't mean that if you never kill anyone... There's always a fresh violent asshole about to be born. And also, like, sometimes, like, matchmaking just, like, pulls a fucker in.

Pulls a fucker in. Yeah. Makes him rank. And, yeah, there's levels to it as well. Because, like, some people, I know, they've got, like, a good heart. But they've just been crossed too many times. They've put their trusting people and been betrayed so they don't trust you. It's fucking, because I've been there.

I was playing a game and this guy was like, this guy, this fucking child. This is what made it. This is what fucking pissed me off. What ever comes? Was it like a squeaker? No, this squeaky-ass kid was like running and he was like, help! Help! You're getting chased by a robot.

That sounds hilarious. And then I killed the robot. And he was like, oh, thank you. Thank you so much. and then he he aims at me and shoots but i didn't realize and i just heard the bullet go by and then he was like oh someone's sniping us and then i ran off and i was like shit and and like i went and took cover with him he was true he was fucking with you and yeah he was fucking with me and it was like oh someone's sniping us someone's sniping us um well no the thing is

i genuinely saved him yeah so that was real and then he starts pretending that we're being snipeed out and then he just pulls out a different gun and blast me and kills me. And I was just left there like, oh, like, the rage was just like, because now I'm, I'm the like 30 year old like, like full time working. Like, this is my, I'm sitting down to play modern warfare too and I used to be the squeaky kid. It was like, you fucking loser. Yeah, yeah. Watch, I'm going to betray him.

Yeah, yeah. And now it's me I'm the fucking asshole Like finishing a 10 hour shift Jumping on my game and getting killed by a fucking 8 year old Sometimes it hurts to have the mirror Holded up to you Yeah

It fucking did as well Yeah But he played me for a goddamn fool Yeah When I realize what Now you're trust Down in the gutter Because then I did another game after that

I was like that was just a bad one off Just a bad one And then the one after that was the scary silent guy who just like hunted me this is kind of what is funny about it like it's more interesting to me than like anything else are like these weird little stories that come about

but also I've had awesome people where like I had an awesome one where I was playing trios my two guys died I got downed by a robot towards the end and I was like crawling to the to the Evac and this other full squad called the elevator

and I'm like crawling please and then I'm on mic and I'm like please don't kill me and take my shit and they're like nah just get in and I crawled in

they didn't kill me and I got all my shit I left with all my shit and that was that was awesome and another time playing solos like I'm waiting at the extract and because the way I play now is like I've

always got my gun on people. Really? Like, yeah, because you just, you, since that kid did that shit,

it's like, destroyed, I don't know how, like, he seemed genuine at first. Mm-hmm. You know? Good little actor.

Just a cute little kid. And then he fucking killed me. So, I had my gun trained on this guy. And then he drops a blueprint for like the best pistol in the game for me. Just hands it to you? Yeah.

He was like, wait, wait, because he already had it. And he was like, wait, do you have this? And he dropped it on the floor.

I was like, oh shit. That's really nice of them. Picked it up. And then we evacked together. That's nice. I love those moments. Yeah. They go.

It's the type of shit. Yeah. Clark's on the one. The watches on the wrist. It's the best guerrilla song, yeah. It does create moments, like the watches on the wrist. Yeah. Yeah.

The type of shit that you can't script. Yeah. You know? Yeah. So I'm looking forward to put more time in. Yeah, I chose it over Marathon, not only because you're playing. it but like everyone's actually playing it whereas it's gone down

slightly but it has like a ravenous user base that marathons seems to be going down yeah I feel like if I just wait enough time for marathon it's gonna probably go free to play yeah right try it then without having to invest anything we'll see there um Mr Blue Pumpkin

says did Jim ever finish season four or the boys? I'm watching the latest season and while I still like the show I'm definitely less interested in it I see the boys more as a comedy show rather than something I take super seriously unlike invincible which is something humorous yet very serious i feel kind of kind of similarly yeah i do um my i i'm i'm at this point invested in the boys just for homelander really i think everyone is yeah i think he he's he is the show anthony star though has like he's got to

land more roles after this because it's like his performance is genuinely monumental it's amazing yeah it is the show is the whole thing yeah and he he's i like i can't actually think of another actor who could do that and i but i think that also is kind of the same issue that the show has where it's like for that to be its main thing it's too long in the tooth it didn't need five seasons i think it could be condensed into three take out all that fat it didn't need to go as long as it did because it just winds up like becoming repetitive or static with certain characters yeah it just like don't just like don't change and it just feels like yeah like four stars yeah yeah or like characters

like falling out for a minute and then just being friends again and it's just starts getting repetitive like that when it just feels like then there's something there in there and it's like it's almost like it's funny they said it's like a comedy almost is like a sketch show at certain points where it's like that's a funny parody or that one like sucks and it's too on the nose yeah stuff like that um But I agree on like a dramatic level. It doesn't really work for me outside of maybe the Homeland of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, I'd agree with most of that.

Yeah, it feels like the main... I think Invincible was made from a place of love for superhero stuff. Yeah. It's way less apathetic. Yeah, I think the boys comes from a place of like, we're sick of this shit, you know? Mm-hmm. Um When Invincible actually has like good material

Yeah The boys Yeah yeah yeah Yeah Yeah The book sucks Like genuinely is like what the fuck are we doing Like reading that shit

Where would you rank it Out of what Like Out of the comics I've read It's definitely the worst one Really? Yeah Not that I've like read that many

But I'd say that's somewhat notable It's like Wow this is fucking terrible This is like a non-ohic This is like annoying. Whereas Invincible? No. Cordelius has one for us.

Last time you fell for rage bait. Or last time you were the rage baiter? I rage bait all the time. Do you? Yeah. On what? I rage bait on like, when there is an interactive element on like video games and stuff. Oh, I rage bait like in person.

Yeah, I rage bait in person too. I find the more I like someone, the more I rage bait them. So, yeah. It's like a test. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like how some people are more rage baitable than others. That's the thing, because, like, I can't rage bait you. You can't troll the troll.

You can't block the troll thing. Yeah, especially if they're a hater. Yeah. Don't get blocked. Yeah, don't get blocked. seriously do not get blocked yeah so yeah what's the question

oh shit question block them yeah we actually are gonna have to have a conversation about all this blocking because we're kind of blocking the entire audience so soon it's just going to be only

you know what they say there's no such thing as bad blocking blocking is just a fact of life, a bit like ranking things. You almost sounded like Omneman for a second there. Really? Yeah, the first line. I wasn't trying to do that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, when you're editing, editing Alex. Yeah. Just EA sports. Plunk Omneman's face while you're saying it and you'll be like, oh shit, yeah. Yeah. I'm looking forward to talking about Invincible. Yeah, me too.

There's one more episode as a recording. Oh, really? Yeah. That's the season finale next episode. YARP. No spoilers yet. Yeah. It pissed me off though when Mark just dies.

Right. Right, bloody hell. Gray Tickles says, Not a question, but when I was a kid, my brother used to fiddle with his Willie so much. My dad told him, if you keep playing with it,

it will fall off. That's what happened to your mother. That's fucking cool. Is that cringe base or tough? That's tough. That's tough. It's kind of true. It's kind of true to a degree.

You got to start. Stop playing with it, lad. Or you'll form a footh. It will invert and become footh. We've got a new problem. You've got another one of the... Every now and again a problem kind of appears. Yeah.

Now it's someone called Captain Jacks off. I'm pretty sure that we actually did have one of their questions recently. Okay. But obviously, like, as someone always has to do, they've got to take it too far. But their question is, do you often captain jack off twice a day, thank you? Do you often captain jack off twice a day, thank you? Why did you read it twice? Twice a day?

Twice has rice. Twice as nice. What? What are you talking about? Just answer the damn question, fool. Read it. Wait, no, you can't read it again because you've already done it twice. Fuck.

Um, maybe. Maybe. insert Elijah Wood going Maybe Is it wood or woods? Like black ops I always thought it was Elijah Oak Oak is a type of wood

Elijah Oak and Shield I always thought it was Elijah Metal Elijah Egg Egg isn't like a material Yeah it is egg shell Proteins No it's fucking not This is my Elijah Wood

protein farm. It's just loads of Elijah wood clones, but it's just like a nugget version of... All getting ranked. Yeah. Like those Jordan Peterson Chinese factories of milk. Yeah. Have you seen what's happened to Jordan? Is he in a Chinese facility?

He's gone off the radar. He's disappeared. Really? No one's seen Jordan for much. Maybe he's found his conscience. What have I done? He found his Chinese milking platform. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is going to be my life forever.

Ranking. Ranking forever. Define ranking. Jordan ranking Peterson. Keep on ranking, Jordan. You'll get there eventually, fam. Planneria hysteria said my suggestion. Ask everyone on the podcast, their opinion on sticky toffee pudding, please.

And cack a squirt, reply to that saying, hound dog I ain't nothing but a hound dog crying all the time I ain't nothing but a hound dog I ain't nothing burr-crasher making jokes that are funny all the time If you never got a rabbit then you ain't no

Burke Crasher of mine So I would say yes What was the question? If Bert Crischer cooked you a perfect sticky date pudding I put extra dates in you, my guy And I'm drunk, by the way Do you want to hear my shirt?

What? Your Joe Rogan impression? Yeah. Go. Oh, bloody hell, love. This fucking sticky toffee's lit as fuck, lad. That sounded just like him. Not enough for MMA, though.

This fucking knee kick is fucking beautiful, bro. MMA, ma. Me. Me. Welcome to Ranking MRE. Um, oh, I'd hate that one. I wish I had the ability to pee myself.

You do? Everybody does. I'm soaking wet in piss long. Um, Martian Twink Hunter. Speaking of Invincible says, Alex, you mentioned you've read Invincible before, but have you read any other comics in the Invincible universe? Brit, Wolfman, Techjack, etc.

they really do help make the universe feel even bigger than it already does and show how forward-thinking Robert Kirkman is, especially considering Tech Jacket originally came out a year before Invincible. Really? I did know Tech Jacket was a thing before. I didn't know that. Yeah. Why did they change gender swap? Because it was just kind of like boring at something. They're just all dudes.

Yeah, right. Like, um, I think the agenda swaps actually have gone down well. well, which for like... There are multiple? Yeah, yeah. For a comic book fan base, that's pretty like, wow, if you can make... Oh, right, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I wasn't like complaining.

Because Techjacket is like a cool character and everything, but in the comic just looks so similar to Mark. Yeah, I remember you... It's really confusing. So I'm fine with that. But the main one I would maybe read is Battle Beast. Battle Beast is a comic. Yeah.

yeah that's uh that's such a weird character that like just starts off as like this random like henchman yeah he's working for like a gangster he's not he's actually just he just wants to fight by the end of like the comic it's like cool like battlebees man I never know there was stuff like that it feels like

there's no way all the energy was put into the spin-off shit as much as the main. Yeah, right? But I wouldn't know. I don't know. I would need racks on that, to be honest. Rexblosion? Yeah, Rexplosion.

AJ Hunter says rare rear Roy's favorite Pokemon. Are you guys classic Charazard fuckboys or niche modern? Fuck no. Van Nu. Van Nuukes? Cream guzzlers. Shut the fuck up.

I'm going to guess Alex is a squirtle man. for obvious reasons and Jim's a snorlaks fan. I'm a sucker for Nine Tails myself, but can appreciate a good Articuno. Also, bonus question, what is the lamest Pokemon? Mr. Mime? No, the keys. Or jinx?

Do I really need to go there? Sonic voice? For a very small amount of money? Hmm. What? The keys are the worst. Clap key? Yeah.

Actually, no, I kind of like the keys. Yeah, I kind of grown on. No, I'm fucking pissed. off. Rye. Why do you think I'm, because I'm fat and I sleep? Rye. Oh, he must like snorlax.

He's fat and he's ugly and he sleeps. Fuck you. Um, no, my favorite is squirtle. Yeah, mine isn't squirtle. I've been holding down squirtle for years. I prefer Blastoise. Yeah. He's kind of like a lizard with guns.

I like the cute chubby ones. I like Squirtle. I like fat fucking Pikachu. OGB. he could shoot you. OG fat, stupid fat. So Snorlex then? No, Snorlax is too big. It's got to be like a little... No, I like that. I like that he can fly.

I'm joking. Pokemon fans don't really like him. Do you know, okay, no, I've got a shout. Pidgee. Yeah. Pigeon. Bird. Bird.

Yeah. I love pigeon. Pigeoto. No. The first one. Yeah. Yeah, that just looks like a pigeon. I don't like a lot of the evolution.

they go like too sharp I want funny rounds That's one I actually think that works When it goes from something like really cartoonish To something cool I think Squirtle has that down No Charmander

This is cool And Charamander to Charazard is the same thing I don't really like the green one No He's a bit clefky about it Clefkees sucks I've got an actual favourite though What

Cabuto or Cabotops remember that motherfucker no you don't I like kick cunt what's he called kick cunt no

um hit one lee and hit one champ yeah I like them they're cool I like the kicking one though that's one of them kick cunt you gotta stop saying that one

ah cabuto how do you not remember this guy God, why can't I spell it? There he is. It's this fucking guy. Oh, yeah, that's cool. He's scary.

I like the scary ones. He's badass. You know what? I think Rayquaz's kind of cool. Very cool. I think, um... And growled on, grudon, have you say it? Yeah.

You know what else is a good one? Onyx. Onyx is cool. Onyx is cool. Geo dude. Gio dude is fun. I like fucking... What's the one that's like a water dragon that goes...

Garados. Garidus is fucking cool. Again, evolving from something like... Oh, he's the fish, isn't he? Yeah. Yeah, that's a cool one. That's a really cool one. I don't like it when it's like, oh, squirtle, you legend.

And then he turns into a fucking cunt. Can you stop saying that word, dude? You're going to get us to monitor. I actually did some research to find, like, because there have been so many generations. I'm so far behind. I was looking to see if I could find some, like, new shit ones, and I found, like... They suck now, man.

I found one called Brux-ish, right? Look, like, it is design. E! That's lazy. Has he got a dick on his head? It's like a dickfish with BJ lips. Yeah. Creepy, man.

You jork it while it slutches. Um, and this one is really fucking weird. Why? Um, oh, I didn't even note down its name. It just kind of looks like a fucking cheese string. Ha ha ha. He does look like the cheese string. He looks fucking awful. It looks like a sonic character.

Why do you look like that? That's not a Pokemon. That's, he's made out of like gold coins. I think Pokemon should have straight up like, like Homer Simpson in it. What number should he be like a starter? Or like a Pikachu type? like you've got to catch him. Um,

I think you should have to catch him at Krusty Burger. Or the Quickey Mart. I wasted my master ball on a homer. He's not even shiny. He's not even a shining homer. Um, I'm trying to think of any last goaded Pokemon.

I like the, the diglet. Geo dude. No, diglet. Also shout out to the, he's like the dinosaur with the bone helmet. Yeah, he's good. Boner, yeah. Oh, it's boner.

Boner. Boner. Boner. Boner. That's what he sounds like when he runs around boning people. Boner! Boner! Legit inkling says, I meal prep using the little microwave pouches of rice.

Yeah, they're good. Even when I'm not eating any of it right after cooking. I'll still microwave the rice before putting it in with the rest of the meal. I'll then microwave the whole thing at a later time when I want to eat it. I've been told this is insanity and that I'm double-cooking the rice.

Yeah, you shouldn't do that. I thought the rice would be extremely dry and nasty if not initially heated up inside its cute little pouch. Well, you shouldn't heat it and then let it cool down and then heat it again. Yeah, why not just think you want it fresh? Like, as fresh as possible. You shouldn't do that right because of like microbes and shit.

Yeah. Yes. It's like the main. one right it's like re-hating rice yeah rice is like the most

dangerous food but also the yummiest yeah I love rice in a bit of a you know what when you popped on Lidl and get their egg fried rice

for like 50p it's like 40 p egg fry rye for like a whole like it could serve two people I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I'd use one of those pouches

of egg fried rice from Liddle right some some kimchi some some like vegetarian um like kebab, meat,

um, mushrooms and shit. Like, fry it all up. Um, ate like a big dinner and then I still had two full Tupperwe's for the following days. Reheat proper. Yes.

Cool down once is fine. Cool down twice, not fine. Um, speaking of not fine, fry lock dry cock has one for you. Hmm. Who would win?

in a sloppy megapine-fueled punch-up of chicken fight proportions. That's a family guy quote, by the way. Yes, I know. I know what it means. The nostalgia critic, no gun, or shad, shad-aversity. Shad-diversity. No sword but has dodged roll and invincibility frames. I don't know who the second one is. I think he's like a YouTuber.

I don't know. Who would you if you had to put money down? The critic. Even no gun? Yeah, but his, his like screamability is going to stun lock, even with eyeframes on the dodgerald. He's like a banshee.

Yeah. Yeah, and he's got other options. He's got like a whole crew. Yeah, he calls in, um, his two actors. Act your way out of this. actually a way into this he can call in the like

those um CG characters from the wall review oh yeah a support you know uh huh something like that yeah for sure man you're like that's a good idea tonight I like where you're going with this

where's your where's your head da da da da da da da A Lester Wood says, got a simple one that ought to cause some controversy in the comments. How well done? Do you like your steak? Not much.

Where? I go rare mostly. No, I go rare mostly. You go medium rare mostly. I don't. I go rare. You used to go medium rare mostly and then I guess you heard me. Yeah, like 15 years ago.

You were 15, 15 years ago. No, I was 70. I'm an age shifter. Ha ha ha. It's my superpower. I shift ages. Okay. Fine.

Cool. You know. I only get my steak well done. I like it crispier than a rat. I don't like my steak well done. I like my crispy well done. Crispier than a cherry ride. I like it crispy on the outside.

I like it totally raw on the inside. Um, I like this one from few quarter. Okay. 7.064. My cousin's 21st was tonight I am smashed. Good for you. Me, my brother and him went out to Manchester

town and got absolutely smasher shed. That's disgusting. It's 1 a.m. and walking around the streets near my house. I hate hangovers and this is a close way to eradicate them. I hope you guys understand that when I'm at my complete lowest, I turn to your silly voices talking about shite. I'll never recall.

Good night, boys. I won't enjoy mine. And Captain Jack's off actually replied to that. I can only hope you had rum. Ha ha. I love that shit. Oh well. Hope captain jacking off alone will make your night better. That was fucking sad. That whole diatribe. Which were the jacking off bit or the other bit? Um, so I was doing some research recently because I came up with it. You know the word platy. Forming your own opinion?

I hope. That's the Joker on YouTube. I'm doing my own research. I'm just asking questions You know we like We both like the word platitude Yeah, a little plat. Yeah

Well, I was thinking of using it as more of sort of a noun Oh This is my dog platitude Yeah No, I came up right So like as a More of like an adjective Huh?

Use it. So something can be a platitude. And I was like, what if something could be platitud... Platitudinal. Platitudinal. No, platitude...

How did I... Platitude... Never mind. No. A plattie. A fatty You got a fatty plattie my mate That's one fatty plattie say that again

You know it is what it is Shut the fuck off That's a fatty patty lad Um Pletiduous Pletiduous Yeah I was like oh please tell me this is a real word

That's what it was platiduous I was like how platiduous of you You know Did you make that up? I did make it up And I was like, oh, please be real. So I, so I googled it. Pletiduous.

And I was like, please, please, please, please, please, please, please be a thing. And do you know what the real version is? Rot, platitudinous. Platitudinous. Which is so much worse, right? Plotiduous is like, ooh, you know. Oh, you sound bloody better than me. Was that CBT?

Like the brevity is the soul. of the sun or whatever. Brevity is the soul of dark souls. Yeah, and I'm being brev with that. Pletiduous. Platitudinus is like... What? Platipusinus.

Huh. Perry the Platapus is it? Way! Perry the Platypus is in dark souls. Perry the platypus' clunge is getting munched on by a fucking sift the great dragon. Yeah, I think that one was answered pretty clearly. Yeah, fuck you. Block them. Let's end on this one then from Alfishing 7.

What percentage of fanfare on the internet do you think is marketing firms promoting something? Feel like people get very defensive about this, but I question the tenacity of big comment sections praising a band. I see influxes of memes using new songs as attempts at guerrilla marketing. People are contentious about this wired article about the band, Geese, and how they represent. Presensitive Marketing Company artificially created discourse online. The article states the form of marketing as quote whole ecosystems of interactions fabricated out of digital cloth stoking and in some cases completely manufacturing

discourse around an artist. I think the band itself is good and all, but this type of marketing push scares me. It's like fake Amazon reviews cranked up to 11 and in comment sections discussing the article there are swaths of defense. I Defense is that make me question how much of it is real. Comment sections being fake is something people seem to believe only when their political agenda is being pushed to encourage engagement. But when art is being artificially pushed, people are ready to believe what they read wholesale. Be wary. You're fucking 100% right. It's like a, it's become a weird thing for me now where I'm scrolling. Can't stop scrolling, but like, you scroll and...

you're on a video and it's like, is this an ad? Yeah. And then it is. And then you're like, okay, I'll scroll to the next one. And then you're watching a thing, it's like, oh wait, this is, this is an ad. Yeah, I've got YouTube premium and it's still the same process, pretty much. Yeah, yeah, like everything is just advertisement now. Like, entertainment.

It's like, um, we were talking last episode, right? Or were we talking when we were playing video games? Like, everything, like movies now are the, the Easter egg. right yeah but like when you think about it like why do you go to see the the new marvel movie because it's like the whole movie is an advertisement for the next marvel movie yeah you're only there for that end credit tease for the next one yeah that's why which is like so like the entire media palette is just ads for more media like the and that's that's like the depth of our art now is like it's it's all just ads for more of it yeah

Everything's like a cliffhanger, like, for the sake of a cliffhanger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you need to have lots of it. That's what we're saying about the boys. Like, they just needs to be more of it because it's popular type of time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maximize, maximise. Yeah.

And I actually, I took a little quote from one of the articles they linked, this wide article, talking about this firm for geese, which I thought was just an interesting way they described, like, how this works. essentially the firm creates networks of social media pages typically on TikTok and uses them to drive the band's music into the recommended into the recommendation algorithm songs are dropped into the backgrounds of videos live clips are shared sometimes burner accounts comments and whole ecosystems of interactions can be fabricated out of digital cloth stoking and in some cases completely manufacturing discourse around an artist those ginned up interactions push the songs and the discussions about them higher upper platforms algorithmic rankings and social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube are increasingly where real fans discover new music. We can drive impressions on anything at this point, Spellman told Billboard. We know how to go viral, we have thousands of pages. Spellman has dubbed the process, trend simulation, and the campaigns themselves are referred to by chaotic good as narrative or UGC for user-generated content campaigns. Now, chaotic.

At Good co-founder Adam Tarsia confirms to Wired that his company engineered campaigns for both geese and Cameron Winter. We helped distribute clips of them performing and doing some interviews on TikTok, Tazia said via email, speaking on behalf of KALT at Good. I understand that industry plant discourse is inevitable, but we've had the pleasure of being geese fans since their 2021 project projector, which he notes was released four years before his agency launched the long, bubbling suspicious um suspicions around the band's rise boiled over the first week of april a viral substack post by singer-songwriter eliza mclam trace the connection between geese and chaotic good and mold the fuzzy ethics of such marketing as mclam summed up the model if 100 people think your song sucks chaotic good will create 200 people who think your song is awesome

that's terrifying yeah but i think as a general rule online like the flow chart should start with not only is this real but there's just a high chance that what you're looking at is just horseshit it's probably fake yeah or there's some there's like some algorithmic reason that that's being delivered to you it's not just like a thing in a vacuum that's all randomly I've been delivered this thing like yeah yeah yeah something going on it's like I I watch and smile and laugh at family guy clips and then suddenly I'm seeing more family go like yeah it's not it's not random you know i'm not just getting lucky yeah so i don't know like

i never know how much to balance the like more conspiratorial like everything's like these elaborate i don't i don't think it's elaborate webs or whatever i think it's quite elaborate to have like companies that are just thousands of like accounts accounts that like manipulate algorithms but it wouldn't surprise me that those are real but like when i see the the the meta on on youtube seems to be like oh you're you must be unique if if your algorithm has given you this video of me yeah but that's just the psychology it's basically gambling psychology of like oh i'm making you feel special because of a small chance of you being delivered something but like that's advertising like i like i don't give a shit if if you're if the content is advertising

like i'm not there for it like i've got i've genuinely got more time for for like a meme shit poster. But they can also be ads though too. What, for like, for like a funny dog with like two legs or something? Yeah, because like, if it has like a cod, zombie's meme in it.

Right, it's like advertising for cod. Yeah, right? It's like using that I can of the, kind of, yeah. It's perpetuating a brand of some kind. Yeah, true. Um, What if the meme is, like, the one I showed you earlier? Which one? The one, like, when we finished dinner.

Maybe not that one. Yeah. That's what I mean. I've got more respect for that. But even if it's, like, ironic memes, like the CIA guy who's, like, in every meme now. Yeah. Like... I mean, in a sense, that's quite dastardly, because it's kind of normalizing it.

But it is also, like... an ad for that podcast. Oh, for sure, yeah. Plus, uh, it's kind of an ad for the CIA. Yeah, I guess. There are a certain amount of people who will hear the stuff he's saying and,

and think, like, I want to be that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's definitely something to keep in mind when you're engaging with anything algorithm-based and to try and not get captured by it, I guess. or at least think about it

because yeah the bot stuff is at control the first time I noticed this in terms of like bicking up music um like pop stars and stuff was to

young blood where like young blood was all over my feed all over YouTube yeah and I was like I don't even know a single song you know Yeah. And another one, Sabrina Carpenter.

All of her, like, live show stuff. Because it's like, I'm not the target audience. Why is, why am I getting delivered this? You know, because I don't care and I don't watch them. You know, so what, like, it just feels like unnatural. Yeah. And I've mentioned before these weird, like, cycles of virality as well. Yeah.

it's just like all these these bots like in a circle just reposting I get it sometimes on like the IHE subreddit there will be like bots that have scraped Reddit accounts from like 2016 and just like repost

comments that they posted before but under a new like bot account and it's like why there was that um there was that that destiny video I sent you ages ago well not it's not like a destiny the e-video. Oh, that clip of him going down

that rabbit hole of like weird fake people. Yeah, that shit is genuinely terrifying. Yeah, it's really weird. It's really fucking weird. It was like edited with scary media. Yeah, yeah, because it's

a creepy, like, yeah. But it's genuinely really, really strange. Yeah. So there's definitely like foul play going on, all these different governments trying to like spread misinformation and or like some kind of agenda

and all like clashing with the algorithm them involved and it's just this like war. Yeah. It's all these like viruses that's just competing. I read a lot of comments on YouTube videos and I just... God, I hope some of them are bots. I can't believe that most of them are real. I can't believe that.

It has to be because like that... Some of the shit you see. Some of the shit you read is just... Refused. I just don't want it to be real. It can't be humans. It cannot. Yeah. And it's always the case of like,

you get one like left-leaning video. Right. And all the comments are like agreeing. It's like, yeah, fuck Trump. Fuck Trump. And then you scroll. And the next one is like a pro-Trump video. And all the comments are like, yeah, go Trump, go Trump.

And it's like, it's all just based on like what the video is saying like people aren't it reads to me like an AI has seen the video and it's affirming the video yeah you know because that's what they do that's what it reads like and

yeah I don't know man it's it's fucking weird so like what is I'm just like thinking out loud with like someone who's innocently going on like YouTube shorts looking up like working out content for something yeah fast forward two months later and they're like liking Nick Fuentes clips yeah a genuine pipeline that is genuinely a pipeline but why like why just because it's like inflammatory content like what because what um just maximizing and gate why like why why how does that

starting point take you to that end point. That starting point is already kind of charged, I feel. Like Jimbrough content. Yeah. That's already setting like to the right. You know? Like looking up just like exercise content. Yeah.

Not the act of looking it up, but the people making the content for the most part. But surely it depends what it is because like, would your algorithm do that if you're looking up like guided? yoga meditation maybe not I don't know but I think if like most and is that just the algorithm maximizing

what you're just kind of watch the most kind of like profiling you yeah 100% like it's it's constantly monitoring and maximizing your engagement so the longer you're on a video you know

yeah then it's going to show you more like minded videos but it also becomes like a self-fulfilling thing at a certain point with like clavicular is like the big name right the man yeah right it's like a

clipper guy and he's just like I don't know about you but I always see like clips of him and shit like that um not that I like follow him or anything I don't um like there was a big story the other day about him like overdosing and

whatever um but is that just like people like how much of it is real i guess what we're getting it was like the the clipping people how much of it it is intentional you know andrew tate's whole model of like getting his fans to create clips yeah yeah what these this like company thing was doing yeah what is and stream is a constantly like there's a term for it clip farming um yeah but it's like a genuine strategy to like kind of build narratives or like spread yeah uh the thing is i i think because we live in in a system

um that is like like it is white supremacist it is obviously capitalistic it's misogynistic it's racist

um so all those things are going to do better in that system and the negativity bias obviously as well negativity bias yeah so like

the video of like owning um SJWs on campus that's there's something like it engages a yeah yeah

the brain that like the this is the deep socioeconomic study of like this is the data this is the hard data and this is in comparison boring and dry you know what I mean

it doesn't engage the same part of the brain yeah it's not a dunk yeah or if it is it's like like wordier or maybe like more academically framed or whatever it doesn't have just the the title the flashiness you know what I mean you have to get creative with that I feel it's just less easy yeah it's less sensational

it's it's it's the media problem it's um who's that chubby documentary maker guy um who did the like why are guns a problem in America specifically um you know who I mean I know exactly who you mean. Yeah, and I think looking back to his documentary, he, he landed on like, it's the media.

It's news, it's news for entertainment. That's the biggest issue. You know, it's, like, the news itself. Michael Moore, bowling for Columbine. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. The news itself, because it's a full. for-profit company, it's like the beginning of the attention economy. So the most sensationalized, the most fiery stuff gets the most views, which equals money.

Right. So when you're firing people up and making... Pierce Morgan. When you're making people distrust their neighbors, then you're making more money. Like, this is a system. we fucking built. It's pretty young too, that side of it. Being able to, like, have it that meticulous, you know?

Yeah, yeah. It's only in the last, like, I don't know what, since the 80s, that, like, mass media has just gone fucking nuts. Like, the dawn of the internet, like, just the accessibility to information. Because, like... Because, yeah, it went from, like, printing press

having newspapers or pamphlets or whatever to television having three or four channels they're getting more and more and more channels and then internet and it's like infinite channels basically yeah infinite information yeah and you can read anything and we've reached the point where now like the doing your own research fucking meme was was a thing for a bit but now it's like well you can't because

the information itself is like meaningless. Yeah. You know? The like information itself has hollowed, has dark souls hollowed. Yeah, loop in a background. Yeah, it's meaningless. You know?

Yeah. Which is a bit scary, but. Yeah. I thought it was, it was incredible. There was one day where, where you said to me, um, did you hear about the, the biggest, um, like I'm blanking on the fucking word

it's not a riot but a protest the biggest protest in American history like anti-Trump protest yeah the New King's one from yeah yeah recently yeah I hadn't heard a single thing about it

it's like well why that's that is fucking suspicious that's weird you know or is that on your media consumption or like where you're

I don't know. Yeah. But it feels like there's definitely a... Shit is always trying to pull you right. That seems to be my... The media. Yeah. Unless you're spotting it.

Unless you can clock it and think critically, it's going to pull you right. Because, like, that's the default. you'll if if you don't think about shit politically then you're already sat to the right the luxury to not have an opinion or yeah but like you're you're you're already that way because you're not thinking about it so you're going to go with what is normal that's the implication right it's like i don't need to think about this i don't need to have an opinion because yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah um but even but then it i guess it gets to the point where people

want to accept the easy answer that's where I get lost and I don't know what to do where it's like the people reading the sun and being like oh it is every issue in this country is because of immigration I'm not saying that I'm you're quoting it yeah yeah I'm I'm role playing

who would believe yeah I don't really know like that Dalai Tribe has really got down to At that point how do you pull someone Out? Yeah I don't know The more evidence there is of these Like weird groups that are like Blainly manipulating things

The The more people can think about it I guess That is the word like manipulation You like you have to And it's what you were saying as well Like you have to start from the position It not of like

is this fake you need to start from the position is this real yeah you know like you should be doubting it by default now yeah from the get go otherwise yeah otherwise you're cooked you're washed you're fucking gonna get mugged you're gonna get frame mugged um your chopped son but on that note i think we're done for this up yeah i wouldn't mind um spraying urine from the urethra quick ranking we poo sick

sick is at the bottom I'm gonna put poo at the top because poo always comes with we we only comes with poo when it's a bad we hmm that's true