QAA Podcast - Episode 260: Leave The Obamas Behind

Episode Date: December 23, 2023

Our holiday present to you all is the gift of Jake, Liv, Julian, and Travis losing their collective minds over the new film “Leave The World Behind” – a pre-apocalyptic film executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Not only will they be staggering their way through the plot of the film and its production history, but they’ll also be taking a look at the online conspiracy community’s reaction to the film. Rest assured it’s a ‘great holiday bake-off’, minus the presence of anything sweet and savory. Subscribe for $5 a month to get an extra episode of QAA every week + access to our archive of premium episodes and ongoing series like PERVERTS, Manclan, Trickle Down and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz. https://qanonanonymous.com

What's up QAA listeners? The fun games have begun. I found a way to connect to the internet. I'm sorry, boy. Welcome listeners to the 260th chapter of the QAA podcast that leave the Obama's behind episode. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky. Liv Egar. Julian Fields and Travis View.

Uh, Michelle? Could you just come into this room well quick? Oh, yeah, and grab that Gleck 17 that I've got left in the safe. Yeah, make sure it's loaded, too, Michelle. Oh, hey, okay, could you put this in my mouth? Yeah, put it in my mouth. Okay, now pull the trigger, blot my brs, all over for Room Wall. Thank you so much, Michelle.

I deserve it for what I've done to entertainment. Thank you for listening to another episode of the QAA podcast. You can subscribe for five bucks a month to hear more. of Julian's cancelable Obama impressions. I just want to be clear that this is an actionable threat from a foreign national. Thanks for listening to the QAA podcast. We will be shuttering our doors due to our producer

being deported and summarily executed. No, no, Michelle, Michelle, you have to, no, the safety, it's there, there, yeah. Here it click, and you know it's loaded. It's not a conspiracy. As always, we are your host, Jake Rockatansky, Liv Aker, Julian Field, and Travis Vue. On May 12th of this year, a new pre-apocalyptic film from Sam Esmail,

the creator of the popular television series Mr. Robot, premiered at the American Film Institute Festival. It released to generally favorable reviews with Tim Greyerson of Screen Daily writing, Leave the World Behind does not feature the level of spectacle of a bigger-budgeted apocalyptic thriller, But when the film unveils its stunning revelations about what is actually happening in the world outside the house, it's grippingly executed. You mean like the world outside your fucking house, Tim? What are you fucking? Have you seen movies before?

Are you comparing this to YouTube videos? I wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. I do think the movie has a pretty big budget effect. I mean, you do see a plain fall out of the sky. You see thousands of flyers being dropped. from a drone. You see Teslas crashing into one another in, you know, essentially a first-person view. Yeah, and it all looks like shit.

See CGI Flamingos. It all looks like shit. Yeah, you see CGI flamingos. You see thousands of CGI deer. I don't know. I would say that the effects are big budget. That's not to say they're good. Most big budget effects suck nowadays.

Michelle, Michelle, did you make sure to slip that envelope to what was his name? Tim Greyerson? Also, the things happening are shit. It's not interesting at all. It's a terrible premise for a movie. Surprisingly, there is so little tension, and yet, like, a giant boat hits a beach. A plane almost lands on a person.

A series of Tesla's, like, come rushing at the protagonist. Guns are involved multiple times. And yet, there is no moment for me where I felt actual tension. I just wanted every scene to be over. I'm like, I don't care. I don't care. I felt so far. fucking annoyed. Yes. Yes. The writers break the cardinal sin of a Chekhov's gun, which is if you show

a gun, you know, in the beginning of your story, it has to pay off in some way. Yeah. They did not do this. But also if they broke the cardinal sin, that would, that's, that you, I think you screwed that up. The, the, who cares? Um, who cares? I'm nothing. I've watched this movie twice now, once for enjoyment, quote unquote, and then once to make the clips and I'm going to tell you something in some of these shots they broke the cardinal directions I know I know it's like dude make your story disorienting don't you can't just you can't just cheat us with disorienting camera angles that are swirling upside down and putting me on a tilt a whirl you're supposed to do that with the story you know with the story and

the writing not not just the camera stuff but that's like a minor that's a minor right no it's not No, it's fucking not. This fucking thing. It was like a tech demo for some annoying new camera, and it was directed by AI. It's incredibly just unpleasant cinematography in every way, and it's so self-satisfied. It really feels like a tech guy, like being like, look what we can do with this new camera. As I was messaging to live in the group chat, this movie feels like the ultimate post. You know, it's one big post.

It's one big two hour and 20 minutes. Post. And the stunning revelation that the critic is talking about is that unknown foreign nations are siopping Americans into civil war. It's so funny. America is such a little victim, pussy-ass empire. Imagine if fucking Byzantium was complaining all the time about how like people hated them for their freedom and like that they were being, you know, turned inside out by like an enemy within. I mean, it's, it's fucking sad. You can't even enjoy the empire. You're just so fucking nervous and anxious all the time. Also, like, this isn't an apocalypse movie. This is just like a movie about what happened to Libya under the Obama administration. Yeah. This is literally

they're describing what they do to foreign nations all the time. They're like, can you imagine how bad that would be if it happened to us? Wow, that would suck, huh? If we got our just desserts, wouldn't that suck? Don't we all not want that? Yeah, I think this is probably going to be the first time in QAA movie night history. Well, one, I mean, it's the first time I believe that we've done a movie night on Maine. Usually, usually the movie nights are, you know, premium episodes. Yeah. This one is definitely worth the main, though. It's worth it. It's worth the main. A lot of people been talking about it. A lot of people been asking about it in the DMs. Are we going to cover this movie? Yes, of course we are. And I also think we are, this is going to be a QAA first

of me and Julian actually agreeing on our sort of our like or dislike of a film. So I hope everybody's excited for that. Me and Julian working together in agreeance, friends, supportive of one another, you know, it's going to be fun. Hello, Bill, we've got a problem. The Gentile and the Jew are agreeing. We have a problem.

We're going to have to tactically take them both out. So the film boasts an impressive cast. It stars Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawk as the yuppie Long Island couple who rent an upscale Airbnb for a weekend getaway with their teenage kids, played by Farrah McKenzie and Charlie Evans.

Marshala Ali and Mahala play the father and daughter duo who own the vacation rental And it even has a cameo from Kevin Bacon playing the guess you should have listened to him maga conspiracy theorist That seems to be part of every movie and TV show nowadays This character is now etched into our entertainment consciousness Do you think that like liberals just secretly worry that those people are right? That's what keeps them up at night to like That's the point of the movie kind of we'll get into that is interesting of all the characters in this movie that's like the guy you like want to be

which i thought was interesting you wouldn't want to be like the upper class elite who owns multiple homes because he's he's kind of nervous he hasn't know what the hell's you want to be the upper middle class professor guy but the paranoid maga guy that's the guy who has a shit together in this movie oh and by the way i know ethan hawk is supposed to be playing an annoying nervous guy but he's also probably his poorest role I've ever seen his the acting is outrageously bad Julia Roberts is unbearable in every scene I feel like most other people kind of pull their weight just fine but that duo at the core is just genuinely unbelievably bad starting from right at the beginning where he is in the apartment he lives in with his wife and children and he says

her name, like, question mark, like, from his bed. It's like, you don't, that's not, whatever, whatever. I'm just saying. Ethan Hawke was, also, he's looking bad. Sorry, Ethan. I really like Ethan Hawke. So, yeah, it was, it was not awesome to see him stumble, uh, like this. You know, but a lot of that has to do with the direction. A lot of that has to do with the writing. It can't be squarely placed on Mr. Ethan's shoulders. No, but you know what I could do? I could squarely place like an Adex scope on a certain ex-president's. head and then I could... Parity? No, parody. No, very much not parody.

In literal life, I would get the A-X scope. It wouldn't be attached to anything. Surprise, twist. Ah, you didn't see that one coming. You would just be looking through it and thinking, imagine. Just kidding, it's attached to a g-gast and I pulled the chr and now the bulls is going through his and it's blowing up. Okay, but these are not the only celebrities involved in the production. Former president and first lady, Barack and Michelle Obama, are credited as executive

producers on the film. And you know what? I actually do believe that because this movie is soundtracked by Obama's summer playlist. He multiple times just playing a track over a fucking scene. He's like, you know, I like the movie, Rami. But if you could just put in another one of my great jams, one of those groovy numbers that I put on my summer playlist, just through a whole scene. Let me be clear, I do like the track from Joey Badass with two dollar signs in his name. And as you can imagine, you know, this has sent the world of conspiracy theorists and bakers into an absolute frenzy, something I'm sure no one could have predicted. But I have to admit, an uneasy feeling came over me as I saw their names in large block letters as the

opening credits rolled over an aggressive hip-hop beat. A sacred line between politicians and scripted features had been crossed in my head. Being president doesn't qualify you to make an end of the world flick, one of my fave genres, by the way. In fact, it's the last type of person I want telling me what the apocalypse might look like. Let's get into it. Leave the World Behind is a two hour and 20 minute feature film based on the novel penned by Ruman Alam of the same name. Fuck you. They should literally, it should be one of those things where filmmakers, you either get your movie to an hour and 45, or we stop, we, they cut it, like Netflix cuts it. The movie theater cuts it. Sorry, no one gets to see the end then. Fuck it. Yeah,

Yeah, you know, it is crazy. They don't make short, tight movies anymore. I very recently watched Ernest Saves Christmas. That's an hour 35. Fuck yeah. Perfect time for Ernest Saves Christmas. To clear our palette after watching this film, my wife and I watched Taken 1 and taken 2.

And I made a point of in the Netflix sort of, you know, launch screen, I was like, look at this, look at this, babe. taken one hour and 30 minutes and then I switched over to taken two and I was like look at this taken two hour and 31 minutes this is a filmmaker who respects our Luke Besson he respects my time as a film watcher and I don't understand if everybody had to you know follow this standard of an hour and 45 they could turn these Marvel movies into like three movies and release them you know three years in a row or whatever wait wait wait three over the course of the you can make more money on it.

Are you telling me that Taken was directed by Luke Besant? It was written by Luke Besant, both. Really? Both written by Luke Besant. The first taken... He does not, by the way, respect your time. Don't say that about Luke Besant, but... I don't care.

The first... Oh, my God. As I'm watching the first taken, I'm like, this is so much better than Sound of Freed. Like, oh, God, in just about every single way. Okay, that's another episode for another time. Yeah, this movie should have been called Taken because it took my fucking time.

And it took my feeling. good. I watched it on my birthday. I ended my birthday watching this. You fuck my birthday up, Obama. Are you fucking happy? Okay, so, so, okay, apparently I went to the gun range. I had the best day of my life. All right, yeah. And you fucked it up. Julian on his birthday was practicing for his, uh, his Ethan Hawk um, I turned 30 this year. And because of you, it turned it turns out I

turned 40 instead. Fuck you. Yes, by the time this movie is over, it, like the, watching the movie is actually like an M. Knight plot in and of itself that by the time it ends, you're actually 10 years older, and the whole world has lost 10 years of their time. They don't know where it went. The movie that makes you old. It makes you old.

But yeah, I mean, we'll get into this, but this was such, I thought, like, a wannabe M. Knight movie with none of the charm. You know, M. Knight, look, look, he doesn't always nail it, okay? But there is imagination in his movies. And even

if he doesn't nail the landing or he stumbles or it doesn't really work. There's always something that's, like, interesting about it. And as Liv was mentioning, you know, watching this movie, there was nothing interesting about it. It was... We can get through this without sucking off M. Night Shyamalan. Like, let's not exaggerate here. No, we can't.

Yes, we can. I thought maybe there'd be a movie night episode for Jake and Julian and Grades. It can't happen. Well, this man is he's trying to suck off late Luke Bisson. He's trying to suck off M. Chamelan like come on man these are my heroes apparently there were 10 studios bidding for the rights of this book before it had even released so here's a book that's like about you know a pre-apocalyptic a pre-civil war and every major studio is like we need this movie i'm just glad that fucking

ben Shapiro's fiction is finally getting its due everybody's all the conspiracists fiction is getting its due and we're we're going to get to that so yeah so there are 10 studios bidding on this, Netflix won the deal, paying in the seven-figure range, according to Deadline Hollywood. Now, initially, Denzel Washington was set to produce and star alongside Julia Roberts, but he dropped out for unknown reasons, and Marshala Ali took his place. Uh, hello? Yep. Let me just, uh, just wanted to say that I heard you lost the rights, and, uh, who's got game now? Being a huge Denzel fan myself, and having probably read too many articles about his career,

I have a potential explanation for why Washington parted ways with the film. In probably one of the most awkward scenes in the entire movie, which we will discuss, Julia Roberts, in the script I've written Julian Roberts, hilarious. Nice. That's me. It puts on a hip-hop record that she and Harsala Ali flirtingly danced to. Oh, that scene. And Denzel himself has commented on his lack of interest in sharing intimate moments with white women on screen.

The decision steps from an incident that took place during a screen. of the film The Mighty Quinn, and during a scene in which Denzel and co-star Mimi Rogers kissed on screen, Black women and the test audience booed. What? Denzel was so concerned that he was alienating his fans, and he was also hoping to change how Black women were represented in films, stating, quote, Black women are not often seen as objects of desire in film. They have always been my core audience.

Okay, so this is awesome because it means that we, our culture has gone from the Black Panthers existing to Denzel being like, I won't kiss white women. That's what we have now. That's your respect. Funnily enough, the most public example of this is with Julia Roberts. The two starred together in 1993's The Pelican Brief, and Roberts commented publicly that co-star Denzel had asked that the intimate scenes between the two characters be cut out of the film.

Like I said, I read way too many Denzel Washington articles. This is a good big. I think I believe this. You've convinced me. Well, there was one listener, one listener who wrote to me and was like, I was like, can you find out why Denzel Washington exited the film? I texted my agent buddy and I was like, hey man, who works at the agency that the film has repped at?

And I said, hey, man, do you know why Denzel dropped out? And you just went, no clue. So I was left of my own to figure this out. That's my bake. It could be right. It could be wrong. Hey, it's me, Julian Roberts. I wanted to kiss Denzel.

The film was allegedly made for around $70 million. although there is no official data to confirm that number. The film studio Netflix often keeps its numbers shrouded in mystery. Yeah, that came up during the strike. Everything about this film feels like a targeted Instagram ad with swirling disorienting cinematography that reminds the viewer how disorienting the end of the world could slash will be.

The latter is certainly the choice of the filmmaker, but the former seems to have very much been a part of the original novel. Here's an example where the author is describing the groceries that Julia Roberts's character, an advertising executive from Long Island, has purchased for their Airbnb stay. I will now perform this for you. This is also my audition to be an audiobook reader on Audible. So if there are any audible executives out there, please consider me. No. She bought packages of cookies from Pepperidge Farm and three pints of Ben and Jerry's politically virtuous ice cream. and a Duncan Hines boxed mix for a yellow cake and a Duncan Hines tub of chocolate frosting with a red plastic lid. Because Parenthood had taught her that on a vacation's inevitable rainy day, you could while away an hour by baking a boxed cake. She bought two tomescent zucchini, a bag of snap peas, a bouquet of curling kale so green it was almost black.

She bought a bottle of olive oil and a box of Entemans crumbed top donuts, a bunch of bananas, and a bag of white nectarines, and two plastic packages of strawberries, a dozen eggs, a plastic box of pre-washed spinach, a plastic container of olives, some heirloom tomatoes wrapped in crinkling cellophane, marbled green and shocking orange. She bought three pounds of ground beef and two packages of hamburger buns.

Their bottoms dusty with flour. Shut up. Shut up. Shut the fuck up. I'm not fucking done. I'm not fucking done. Fuck. What the fuck?

The fucking the packaging was crinkling? You're terrible. horrible writer. And a jar of locally made pickles. She bought four avocados and three limes and a sandy bundle of cilantro, even though Archie refused to eat cilantro. Who cares? It was more than $200, but never mind. Eleven studios bidding for this. You're bidding for this. I'm going to need some help. The man placing every item into brown paper bags was maybe in high school, but maybe not. So then don't write about it. So then don't write about it. He wore a yellow t-shirt and had brown hair and an overall square effect,

like he'd been carved from a block of wood. Oh, fuck's sake. There was some stirring, watching his hands at work, but vacations did that, didn't they? Made you horny. What? Made everything seem possible. A life completely different than the one normally inhabited. She, Amanda.

She's getting horny watching his hands put stuff in a bag? Who is this writer? Might be a mother temptress, suckling on a post-adolescence. hot tongue in the parking lot of the stop and shop. It's sucking, not suckling, but it's still so bad. Excuse me, what is going on? Who is the writer? Who is the writer? Ruman Alam

is the name. His name again? Sorry? It's Ruman Alam. Julian is frozen. I thought his internet maybe went out, but he's just, he's frozen. Is this a woman writing? No, it's not. I don't think so. I think it's a guy. So this guy is imagining that fucking, like

40-year-old ad executives are getting horny from a block-shaped guy, putting fucking stuff in grocery bags. Oh my God. All right. I'm sorry. We have to get through this. I know. Julian, you're going to have, yeah. Julian's got to get to therapy after this and it's going to be quite a session given the episode. I'm going to need it.

As most of you know, I hate this type of shit more than anyone. It all started when people started captioning their Instagram photos of home-cooked meals as if they appeared on the menu at a bougie restaurant. Crispy kale with fresh snap peas and fingerling potatoes with a homemade

grain mustard relish. Jesus fucking. Christ, either list the recipe or just post the fucking picture and say, I'm so proud of myself for making this. I hope the snap peas are fresh. Who's going to be like crispy kale with nearly expired snap peat? You know what, though? This works. It works when your fucking main character is an actual psychopath. In American Psycho, this works.

The fact that he's obsessed with every fucking stage of what he buys and puts on his face and stuff like that. And I get it. She's supposed to be annoying. But what it's, no, no. I just made myself lightheaded. how mad I got just there. Also, in the film version, Julia Roberts's character, Amanda, picks up Ethan Hawk

a pack of siggies because, quote, she knows he likes to sneak a smoke, and since they're on vacation, he can smoke as much as he wants, as long as he keeps it away from the kids. Totally unrealistic. Oh, okay. No uptight ad executive wife is doing this. I'm sorry. They're not going, hey, babe, I picked you up a pack

of your favorite sickies. You can smoke as much as you want. You can come in reeking of siggies and play with the kids. No fucking way. I'm sorry. up a rectangular shaped, covered with crinkly plastic, red and white package of Marlboro cigarettes, the commercial kind. The film was shot primarily in Long Island and released on Netflix December 8th of this year. The story centers around two families, one white and one black.

Julia Roberts is a misanthropic advertising executive who doesn't even bother to disguise her racism. She's married to Ethan Hawk, who I'm a big fan of, who plays a university professional. that one critic described as a, quote, weak beta male. Yes, there's like a whole scene where he's like, I'm a worm, I'm pathetic. Oh, we'll get that. Yeah, we'll get that. It's awesome. The couple have two teenage children, a creepy horny boy named Archie, and his younger sister, Rosie, whose primary concern throughout the film is whether or not she's going to know the ending to the television series, Friends.

So we have a 12-year-old who cares about friends and who knows what goes on in episodes of the West Wing. shut the fuck up the friends thing makes sense I know like they watch it on it's on Netflix or maybe it's not anymore they're definitely it was I looked it up the West Wing is unexcusable

okay fine whatever we can no longer be quote unquote friends live but whatever it's fine one could argue that this entire film is technically about one 13 year old's quest to find out what happens to Ross and Rachel as her storyline

is the only one that gets any closure. Think about that. Usually, you know, a movie is about a character's arc. The only arc that happens in this movie is that this girl finally gets to see what happens at the end of Friends. Yeah, I think it's supposed to be part of this, the, this orienting thing, you know, it's like everyone's like, we don't, no one knows what the fuck is going on. And so that includes the audience. And so, uh, and so they only have this one relatively, this is, it seems like a subplot, but it's the only full arc in the entire entire movie.

Yes. The only arc is the arc of the fucking shells that I'm going to be launching at the... You know where. It's supposed to be like a commentary on like iPad babies. Like it's like surely it has something to say about that. But like it doesn't really. Like it's like kids always on their dang iPad.

Like that's about it. And the importance of physical media like a DVD. I thought it was. more than that. I think, like, you as the audience are going, it's like, why you, it's like, the world is literally falling apart. And like, you know, you are in immediate danger. You're caring about your silly little sitcom. It's like, obviously, this is a commentary on, you know, media addicted people who don't care about the more substantial issues that are swirling around them. Oh, you mean, you mean the same type of feeling you might get if a fucking ex-president

who for eight years did nothing to correct course would fucking take a 20 million fucking dollar contract with Netflix and make us think that hey nothing fucking matters and Travis I would say look that is an astute observation from an intelligent watcher if the film hadn't told you that all right in the scene where she walks into the the her brother's bedroom and she's like I'm so upset that I can't finish friends and he's like haven't you look look what's going on around you like the world is ending like maybe you should like open your eyes and like I don't know get a new hobby maybe find something else to whatever it's like they tell you every They tell you exactly what you're supposed to get out of this.

Ugh, yeah, this is going to be a pretty angrier view, which I should preface with the fact that, look, I have never written nor directed a film that premiered anywhere. I am a small, petty man, who admittedly was so flabbergasted that a former president would attach his name to a movie about an impending civil war that I am totally unable to enjoy the film on its own merits

if they do, in fact, exist. They don't, but they don't, I'll tell you right now. We agree. We really do. for once. So Julia Roberts and her family rent this super boozy Airbnb which is even designed by a bespoke architecture agency out of New York called the Up Studio.

They're like articles and shit being like oh the company that designed the house and it's like not even that fucking special. This thing reeks. The house isn't even that crazy cool or weird like the hotel in M. Knight's old or the really cool I believe it's like a Norwegian hotel that's in Ex Machina

like it's just a regular like McMansion rich person's house. This does fit, though, because if you've ever seen the Obama's home, it's like the most expensive, most unimaginative and ugly thing. It's awesome. It'd be even cooler if it was like, they actually used the Obama's house for this movie. I mean, it'd give people more to bake more than there already is, but... Could it still end with a nuclear bomb then?

Fucking no. I don't know. Everything is peachy at first, with Ethan Hahn begging for sex and Julia Roberts allowing him 15 minutes to nut. The trip takes a turn for the worst as the house's internet becomes spotty.

Don't worry, gang. There is plenty of dialogue about Wi-Fi's, routers, modems, and resetting. Yeah, and it doubles this great character work where she's like, do you think we need to reset the router?

And he's like, I don't know. You're the tech whiz? And he's like, you still down with burgers tonight? She's like, yeah, I'm down. Oh, God. There's one part where Julia Roberts Drink so much wine that she's like

Oh, I can't even have another glass I'm so dunzo I was like Oh god god this is fuck Yeah Inferiorating writing Infiltrating genuinely The real inciting incident occurs

When an oil tanker drives straight up onto the beach Where the family is relaxing It's a pretty cool scene And praise on a unique kind of phobia That I didn't know existed called Megalophobia which is the fear of large objects Yeah, yeah yeah A police officer explains that it, quote, has something to do with the nav system, indicating that the internet troubles are more widespread than the Airbnb.

On their way home, while the kids watch the event they just witnessed live on a YouTube video, Julia Roberts, like a moth to a flame, spots a Starbucks. Without saying anything, Ethan Hawk instinctively begins to pull the car over. And you'll get a little bit of the internet, the little internet talk here in this clip, too. I included it just so you can see. There's a Starbucks. I wanted to read up on what happened at the beach, but the Wi-Fi isn't working. You think the router needs a reset? Well, sorry, I can't help you there. You are the TechWiz, not I.

You know, the TV's out, too. I tried to check the game, but there's no signal. You still gonna be down for burgers tonight? Yeah, I could be down for that. Meanwhile, the kids seem to have completely gotten over it, like it was something we saw on a show. We're on to the next episode. Like it was something they saw on a show. On a show, onto the next episode.

Thank you. Thank you for explaining your metaphors. Like, just have the characters say them. That's cool. Because I didn't really know. The best is that they pan over and the brothers just dunking the sister. Yeah, I like that. They're like, yeah, normal stuff.

That night, as the couple is playing Jenga and drinking large glasses of wine, there's a knock at the door. It's G.H. and Ruth, the owners of the Airbnb. They explain that there's been a severe blackout in New York, and they didn't feel comfortable staying in the city. Julia Roberts is immediately distrustful, not believing that a black couple could own such a mansion like this. And basically, all but says this.

She immediately wants to call the rental company to check their terms and conditions. We thought maybe if you let us stay. Because again, you know, it is like our house. What she's trying to say is, We wanted to be somewhere safe. Well, you know, we're on vacation. Clay, Amanda, we could absolutely refund you your money. You want us to leave?

It's the middle of the night. My children are sleeping upstairs. You come in here and talk about refunding our money. I think I need to call the company. I don't even think you can do this. There's got to be a number on their weather. That's really not necessary. Why not?

Because we're not saying you should leave. We could refund you, say, 50% of what you paid. You know, there's an in-law suite. We can stay downstairs. Downstairs. 50%. I think we need to look at the terms and conditions here. We need to find the Wi-Fi router.

I'll try to enter it to myself. Well, the phones aren't working, Clay. How is that supposed to make a difference? I think the internet is down anyway, so... Okay, look. I'm sorry. I just, I don't feel comfortable staying in house with people I don't know. For some reason, it pissed me off that Ethan Hawk is wearing a bikini-kill shirt

that looks freshly printed from Red Bubble. It's just like, come on, guys. Oh, I'll tether it to myself. The amount of the writer letting you know what they know about Internet, look, that's my lane, okay? And I do it as satire, all right? This is, like, completely unironic. Also, it's like she's almost as if she's, like,

about to call them the N-word. She's like, I don't like staying in my house with people I don't know. like god damn like yeah i'm sure like i'm absolutely sure there are like jenx white women who are like this but it did feel like ham-fisted i don't know she's just such an incredibly unlikable character and then later on we're supposed to like like her after not that much happens yeah there's no there is no incident that happens between them you know just i mean i'm giving you a bad pitch here but if something were to happen like g h saves her life right some crazy event where she realizes holy shit like this guy does have my best interest at heart and like he saved my life like

I'm going to give him a second chance but it's just like nothing there's nothing I guess maybe that they let them back into the house or let us hate her let us hate her and have her be horribly killed we all enjoy it I was waiting for those deer to just murder her yeah what did the deer ever do nothing why have the deer in there at all they didn't do shit the next day everyone is troubled by the internet and television not working especially the couple's young daughter who says she has severe anxiety over not being able to watch the Friends finale. She claims that Ethan Hawk told her that when they're on vacation, they can have, quote, as much screen time as they want. Totally unrealistic also when I went on vacation with my parents.

The whole point was to get away from the screens. They even said this. We're out here because we want to get you away from the screens. Enjoying this. Whatever. After a couple of phone alerts that suggest that hackers might be behind the blackout, Ethan Hawk decides to drive into town to retrieve a news paper so that they might have an idea about what's going on in the world. During this, Marshala Ali drives over to the neighbor's place to see if he can use a satellite phone that he knows that they have. While the respective dads are out in the world gathering information, Archie, Ethan Hawke's teenage son, is creepily snapping pictures of Ali's daughter as she lays out by the pool in a bikini. We will later see him jacking off to these pictures. Yeah, was that necessary?

No, it wasn't. It led nowhere. It led nowhere. What's the point? Why make the sun like a creepy guy? And then, okay, I guess his punishment is his teeth falls out, which he doesn't seem to be too concerned about. We'll get to that. Ali finds the satellite phone, but he still can't grab a signal. He also discovers a pile of bodies behind the house from a crash plane. While he's there, another plane crashes into the beach,

which is a complete rip-off slash maybe homage, I guess, if you want to say to Hitchcock's North, is it North by Northwest with the plane flying behind the... I guess let me look that up, so the angry people don't get me. Jake's life, he's so put upon. Damn. Do you see what you're doing to him, people out there? Yes, North by Northwest, the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film. Yeah, awesome.

Okay, I actually thought that that was a cool shot. I thought for sure that it was all CGI when the sort of tsunami breaks through the windows of the house that he runs inside to take shelter from the crashing plane. But they actually did that effect practically. Everything is like CGI as far as like the boats and the planes and stuff. And it looks like shit. Like this movie looks really bad. They have shot it all in digital. They put on weird Instagram filters and fake grain.

And it's not looking good. So meanwhile, Soy Ethan Hawk gets. lost without GPS. His character's name is Clay, by the way, so maybe I'll refer to him as that. He's a totally useless worm. He pulls over briefly to try and help a hysterical woman on the side of the road, but realizing she only speaks Spanish, he leaves her in the dust. His punishment, a drone flies over him, dumping thousands of pamphlets with Arabic writing on them. I was like, what? I was like, what? The woman desperately needs his help. She's like, things are very bad. he's talking about all the things she's seen in Spanish,

and he just, like, looks at her kind of blankly after a while and, like, drives off, like, abandoning her, even though she clearly needs help. And I couldn't help but think, oh, this is the only, like, actually cool metaphor in the movie. Yes. Ethan Hawke is Obama and the woman is America. Yeah, it's an analogy for race relations, I think.

No, no, it's just, like, eight, you have eight years to pick the poor woman up and drive her to safety, and you end up just blankly looking at her as you drive off. Because, like, that woman dies, presumably. For sure. Like, she's, she's saying something about how, like, her family's in the city and a plane is crashing, I think. And, and he just, you know.

I thought for sure that this was going to be kind of another thing to bake. That, oh, oh, if you translate the Spanish or people who are Spanish speakers will get a little bit of extra sort of lore here, right? But all she's saying is, I've lost. I don't know where I am. I've been wandering around forever. and there was a plane dumping gas, dumping red gas. And she's just talking about things that we've already seen as opposed to using this moment to add to the story.

Look, I don't. It foreshadows the plane crash because it's right before that. And she mentions she sees it falling out of the sky, I think. I think it's just another kind of like real kind of like ham-handed commentaries. Like, you know, these like, you know, these bleeding heart, um, lips when, when confronted with someone who is actually in. stress will just drive off and abandon them as soon as they get a little bit flustered and confused. Well, I have to give it to them. That's a correct assessment of liberals. Yeah, that's accurate.

I feel like the analogy for race relations is like the daughter of Marcelli doesn't want to let the white family be able to like stay in their house. And he's like, no, they should. We should let them in even though like they're racist to us. Like we should, you know. And then eventually, I guess, spoilers, they all kind of come together and they, you know, the white lady isn't racist anymore, I guess, specifically to them. She's like, well, dad, can we at least get them to do a land acknowledgement? And the point is that, like, you should be nice to the white people, even though they're bad. Yes.

I guess the teenage boy will end up regrowing his teeth. I guess he gets the right medicine to regrow the teeth later on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's how it works. And then everyone gets attacked by a direct energy weapon. Perhaps even voice to skull technology, nobody knows. hints to Roberts that he had a sense that something was coming because he

works in finance and he has the ability to see the future. Also with the energy weapon, is that just, they're saying Havana syndrome's real, basically. They later say it, yeah. They later say it. I hope we're playing that clip, right? We're playing the fucking clip where they literally make Havana syndrome a real thing, which

is that makes sense if it's a movie produced by Obama. Michelle, have you heard of Havana syndrome? That's what happened to me last night, by the way. I wasn't having any trouble down there. I'm pretty sure I was being hit by a direct energy beam. So Ethan Hawke finally returns to the Airbnb, empty-handed and totally disoriented.

He shows the rest of the group one of the pamphlets he pulled from the hood of his car. Where have you been? What were you doing? I was going crazy. I don't know. I just started to drive, and then I heard that noise, and I came right back.

So you didn't see anyone that might help us figure out what's happening here. No, I did not see anyone. But I did see something. It was this huge drone, you know, flying the middle of nowhere dropping off thousands of sets of these. I have no idea what it says. Death to America.

What? Death to America. I mean, I don't know what the rest of this means, but this part, it definitely means death to America. I remember from a game I was playing. Yeah, this is, this is. incredible. You know, in the damn video games, they're teaching the kids to hate America. I know, and it's like, on the one hand, I have bragged before that playing Daisy allowed me to

read Cyrillic. But that's, like, kind of an easier language to learn because some of the letters kind of have similar, they look similar, and they have similar sounds. It's just, you know, there's some different, there's some different sounds like a P is actually an R sound. It wasn't You're yours of indoctrination with the FSB? But I was like, I was like, oh, how does he? Like, recognizing Farsi. Yeah, like, recognizing Farsi, like, by playing Call of Duty and seeing, like, a flag on, like, you know, some pickup truck with a machine gunist on the back that he's mose down. Well, what's funny is that they're, they're without meaning to touching on something very funny, which is that America puts fucking propaganda in its video games.

Yes. Now, as soon as Islamic terrorists are part of the mix, Julia Roberts and her family are out of there. They pack up their car and head to the freeway. Now, this perhaps leads to what I would say is the best scene in the movie, where the couple is forced to dodge a horde of self-driving Teslas. It's genuinely a good scene I thought it's funny, it's scary, it's well shot. It shows the promise of what this movie could have potentially been. But also, it has, like, kind of a Prometheus moment where she doesn't, like, pull to the side of the road.

She just keeps going on the road, like running against the Teslas, even though they're automatically driving towards her. Well, yeah, it's a great one, two, three, right? The first move is she pulls forward to dodge one Tesla. She backs up then to dodge the second one. And then you get this kind of continuous tracking shot, you know, POV out the windshield of their car as they're now driving down the freeway, dodging them as they're coming at them.

I really genuinely thought it was well set up. You can see, like, the side of the road has a little thing you can pull off into it. Like, just pull off into the side. It shows it. There's an aerial shot. Yeah. The family ends up right back at the Airbnb, where they are accepted back in unconditionally. Now, I thought that there was a missed opportunity here to move the white family into the basement.

Because there is a line I liked from Ruth, Marshala Ali's daughter, later on in the film, where she asked her dad, you know, why they have to sleep in the basement of their own house. And I think character-wise, Julia Roberts might have been. more interesting if she started off doing her very best to hide her racism, uh, as it's written in the book, and that as the situation grows more tense, she allows her true feelings to bubble to the surface. But anyways, I digress. That night, Roberts apologizes to Ali for being so fucking racist and admits that she's actually starting to like him. With the tension between them starting to relax, G.H. tells her about a warning he received from one of his clients who is part of the quote, evil cabal. One of my clients invited me and my wife to a private event. My client, he, um, Barack Obama. I won't say his name, but you'd recognize it, though. As he's celebrity. Oh, no, nothing like that.

But in the business world, he's one of the biggest out there. He deals mostly in defense contracting. I'm talking hush, hush, top secret money from the Pentagon. Perhaps the most powerful person I've ever had a meal with. Anyway, we're at this soire at his house. since getting late. My wife, she wants to go. But he and I are just having a blast.

And he doesn't want the night to end. After a few more glares, my wife agrees to take a cab, and I'll come home after. I bet she was real happy about that. Mm-hmm. So we're having a few more drinks, getting really sauce, and at one point, I don't think he could stand,

and I was pretty wobbly myself. I wouldn't know anything about that, sir. So he takes me to a study. smoke a few cigars, and we're sort of flying high, laughing at almost everything. Eventually, he starts in how much he likes me and how he wishes he could invite me on this trip. He's about to go on.

What kind of trip? Where's he going? That's exactly what I asked. And he turns to me a serious face. And he says, oh, you know, just my annual meeting with the rest of the evil cabal that runs the world. He was the kind of guy that was always known for jokes like that. Again, if I told you his name, you'd understand.

Well, I just have to take your word for it. And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to pop off my life. Then, yesterday before the symphony, my friend calls me up. No scheduled appointment like he usually does just calls me out of the glue. He wants me to move around some of his money. And we're talking some big numbers, even for him. him. And as we're getting off the phone, I asked if he wanted to grab a drink. He tells me he's going away for a while. I'd joke back to him. Well, yeah, you're hanging with your evil

cabal this weekend? Thought that was only during the winter solstice. That he doesn't laugh. And he always laughs, even with bad jokes. Only sick was, take care of yourself. Almost as if he felt sorry for me. Ever since, I haven't been able to get it out of my head. What are we doing? Yeah, there's just what are we doing here really what is the coherent i guess the point is that it's not coherent and the things are just like super complicated man but like what's the who is actually attacking america here and why does why do all the rich americans know about it you think that they wouldn't want a civil war it's bad for business when your entire country explodes and framing a defense contractor who does a secret deals with the pentagon as if he's this shady bad guy as if as if baroque obama didn't

explicitly work with, you know, with these people. It's like, I don't, who is this for? Well, I think, I think there, I think there's two things going on here. It's like, number one, I think there's supposed to be a parallel between, like, the super upper class connected people abandoning everyone else and like Ethan Hawk abandoning that woman on the side of the road. His idea is like, well, everyone's just going to, when things get really hairy in this hyper individualistic society, everyone's just going to abandon everyone lower than them. Yeah, the class system will break down. Which also is like an apocalypse cliche. Like it's not like, wow, that really makes you think. I've never seen a movie say that. I know. It's not very insightful.

I'm not, this, this analysis isn't very deep because it feels like, I feel like they're trying to, okay, we got to make this really clear for the people who are maybe, you know, that that perceptive. It feels like they're really trying to hammer this idea of like how people, you know, how confusing things will be and how people will be abandoned. Also, I don't know if we, if there's a clip of it later, but at the end of the monologue, he mentions, like, well, there isn't an evil cabal. Like, no one's in charge. Maybe that happens later.

Yeah, he says, he says, the scariest thing about it is that nobody's in charge. We're completely rudderless. Which has, like, Obama's, like, you know, fingerprints all over it. And so far as it's, like, you know, look, I, I, I'm not responsible. Let me be clear, it's not my fault that the Palestinians left behind. I had no control. Nobody's in charge. World's totally chaotic.

which is like as kind of stupid or meaningless as the cabal analysis like clearly people have agency and have very significant effect on world events like this person made this decision in this powerful you know like it's just completely removing the agency from someone who's like had a substantially noticeably like concretely negative effect on global events for eight years and could have changed that in some way being like look the mechanations of imperialism like I was I was there, but, like, this is going to happen no matter what. Yeah, I may have given you the impression that I've got this, but I didn't have this. This shit's crazy.

This shit is wild. So then, after this stunning revelation, G.H. brings Amanda into his record room to show off his collection. I believe the scene is meant to symbolize the importance of physical media. He's going to put on a jazz record, but Amanda wants to have a two-person dance party. She pulls out a hip-hop record and then begins to dance exactly like a 50-year-old. old white woman might. It won't do anything for our precious listeners who we clearly hate by including this, but I'm just going to play a short clip for the host so you remember how bizarre this moment is. Wow, this is an impressive collection. You like jazz? You want to listen to

jazz? Sure, why not? Uh, because I thought we were going to have some fun. Well, it's not something we could dance to. You can dance to jazz. In fact, when I bought my first record, I was Please, not another one of your stories. They end up leaving me severely disturbed. Wait, what are these records? Don't look over there. Those are my daughter's records. She had a DJ phase in college.

Now this looks like something a lady can properly dance to. Oh, come on. That's not what I brought you in here for. He said you wanted to win me over. This is hell. I wonder if she could tell I'm hard right now. Hmm. Didn't tell us, Craig, to pass on this.

No, this is so humiliating. Yeah, and he starts doing his little dancing. Oh, and he starts doing his little dancing too. I feel so bad. I wrote down watching this that this is Obama's version of what Don Draper does when he's too stressed in madmen.

So this is exactly by the way, how my 70-year-old aunt danced at my wedding. I'm being totally serious. These are moves that I recognize. The awesome dancing is interrupted by another blast from the direct energy weapon or perhaps a Jewish space laser

because in this movie, both of those things could potentially be real. We cut to the entire yuppie family sleeping together in one bed. The son now has a fever, a direct result of a voice to skull Raygun. He didn't cover his ears as quick as everyone else during the first blast. And the 13-year-old daughter can't sleep because she's thinking about the West Wing. What are you still doing up? I keep thinking about this one West Wing episode. Does this phrase me tell the person?

You watched the West Wing? I forgot it with that last one. Oh my God, it's a 12-year-old. Leave her alone. I'm a 13-year-old girl. I love Aaron Sorkin. Oh, come on. Come on.

Yeah, that's just. And they know it's wrong. That's why they have Julia Roberts be like, you watch the West Wing. But they know it's wrong, but they can't help themselves. They have to do it. It has to be in the movie. And it also doesn't make sense. No.

Like, is the point that she's right? There's also a weird thing in here about, like, nature. Like there's a shit ton of deer and she's the only one who notices them. And they're acting like this weird erratic way. It's kind of like a nature is healing sort of thing. Yeah, they're encroaching on the space occupied by human beings because presumably human beings will no longer exist in a matter of, I don't know, months, years or whatever. There's two different interpretations.

One is that the animals are trying to warn the people, you know, that something bad is happening. And then the other theory is that the deer are reclaiming, you know, reclaiming nature in the, you know, in the lead-up to a mass extinction level event. And just acting in ways that, like, deer don't act. Like, I thought there was going to be, like, some sort of, like, supernatural or, like, fantastical explanation for that. Like, initially when that happened, that massive, like, herd of deer came up and watched the young, like, daughter.

But there isn't any. No, no. But have you never, it's because you've never experienced Hamas deers. Do you condemn the Hamas dears, Julia? Do you condemn the Hamas Bambi? I read an interview with the director where he basically says, you know, what I wanted to do with the deer

was make things that are normally peaceful and serene feel, you know, scary and, you know, rife with anxiety. That was his explanation. I wanted to make a movie that would normally be good, bad. The break into Act 3 and the ultimate climax

of the movie begins with a teenage son, Archie, waking up and pulling his teeth out of his head. It's absolutely insane body horror, and this kid is just pulling his teeth out like it's no big deal. This prompts Ali and Hawk to pay a visit to GH's contractor, the guy who built his house and happens to be extremely pilled, played by Kevin Bacon. They assume that his paranoia may have caused him to stock some life-saving medicines for old toothless Joe. I gotta be honest with you, I'm surprised you guys are even out. Well, we came out here because my son needs help. He's vomiting. He lost his teeth and they just fell out.

Can't explain it. Huh. His teeth, huh? Well, it's gotta have something to do with that noise. You know something about the noise? Well, it's not all that similar to what happened in Cuba. A while back, microwave weapons they call, produces a kind of radiation that can be beamed out through sound.

Some people lost their teeth there too. Outside of that, the only thing I know for sure is there's not a lot of information. getting out so I assume it's a war I guess this is supposed to be played as a twist because like initially the kid is like out in the woods and he gets bitten by a tick and the idea is like oh I guess he's got like you know rapidly advancing Lyme disease or something was the conclusion but I guess now the reveal is like no it's Havana syndrome and it's radiation poisoning and you can notice like the dad also his teeth like his gums start to change color so like presumably it's happening to all of them. Yeah. At this point, I got the feeling like this movie was engineered to make liberals

become targeted individuals. And you know, feel like every noise around the corner is like some enemy, you know, targeting them. Well, look you here. Looks like all the wokester's teeth are falling out. It becomes clear that Kevin Bacon ain't given none of his hard-earned stockpile to these two wealthy liberals. In an act of desperation, Ali draws a pistol and a tense standoff ensues. Just when you think things are about to get violent, Ethan Hawk is able to get through to bacon by explaining what a massive pussy he is. The only way this ends is if you get back in your vehicle and drive away now, drive away to what? All the roads are blocked, but in the middle of God knows where there's no one else around. I have no idea what I am supposed to do right now. I can barely do anything without my cell phone and my GPS. I am a useless man.

But my son is sick. And my daughter is missing. And I don't know what to do. But you are a very prepared man. Fuck yeah, I am. That's right. That's why we came to you because you're the only one who can help my son. Not my problem. No, you're right. It's not.

But it's like you said, right? What would you do if it was your family? That's what I'm doing. It's the only thing I can do. I am begging you, please, please help my son. This is basically every far-right conservative's fantasy scenario. Lib's coming to you, hat in hand, admitting they are worthless cucks and you were right all along, begging you to take them under your wing.

I don't think it's been done in any other movie, including right-wing ones, as well as this. again, I must ask, why is a former sitting president endorsing this content? Mm-hmm. You know, I talked about this in the group chat, but like if this was produced by the Bush family instead of the Obamas, they would say that it's like Red Dawn or something, some sort of like far-right fantasy of like, you know, the paranoid right wingers where correct all the time and all the stupid head in the clouds of lips who did not really understand where are going on, those were the ones who are going to be left behind because they're so stupid

and arrogant. I would like to offer an alternate explanation which is that this actually reveals the reality, which is that when the shit hits the fan, liberals would rather turn to fascism than, you know, than become further left. They will immediately be like,

you know who is right? Fucking Jed, my neighbor, who told me that it was a dog-eat-dog world. Let me be clear. You will fall to your niece and offer yourself to the deplorables. They are the only ones who can help your son.

Kevin Bacon's character relents and doles out some medicine for the poor boy. He also tells the pair that it's the Koreans behind the attack, that his buddy got dropped flyers with Korean written on them. Shocked, G.H. and Clay tell the pilled contractor that they got flyers written in Arabic. This leads G.H. to a shocking revelation. Because my primary client works in the defense sector, I spent a lot of time studying the cost-benefit analysis of military campaigns. There was one program in particular that terrified my client the most.

A simple three-stage maneuver that could topple a country's government from within. First stage was isolation. Disabled their communication and transportation. Make the target as deaf, dumb, and paralyzed as possible, setting them up for the second stage, synchronized chaos, terrorized and with covert attacks and misinformation, overwhelming their defense capabilities, leaving their weapons systems vulnerable to extremists in their own.

military without a clear enemy or motive people would start turning on each other done successfully the third stage would happen on its own what's the third stage lakotata civil war again just what happened in libya i guess presumably yeah yeah what america does drop fucking flyers all over the place using the the army sciops and what's amazing here is it i don't think i've ever seen movie that is willing to put a flashback during a dialogue scene to something that happened a minute ago. They are sitting in the driveway where that fucking like gun standoff happens and they flash back to the gun standoff that they were just in. It's so fucking awesome. And this is supposed to be like the M-night sort of like twist and revelation at the end. But you listen to it and you go,

yeah, that's okay. That's yeah, you've been basically building up to this. We know. We see it's so funny because the music is like bum bum like here's the twist here's the huge revelation you know revelation and it's insane because in the scene beforehand kevin bacon says you know i don't know we've got a lot of enemies maybe they teamed up and it's like whose fault is that yes whose fault is that as if as if you were not a part of that in some way it's just like no it is so fucking awesome and i think that they really they think they're super smart by not revealing who is doing the attack on america but i think it shows both the that America needs to have a shadow enemy now.

Like, there's not really anybody directly fucking attacking America. So it's like, well, who is it? Is it going to be China? Should we start a war China? Is it the Russians? All of our enemies. We've got so many. I mean, they all hate our freedom.

I mean, they're not like attacking us right now, but we should still be scared, right? I mean, they could want to attack us. I mean, you'll, there's no reason to conclude from what you see in the movie. That's even the external enemy. It could be, you know, domestic extremists, hackers. And they're generating, like they mentioned, this misinformation. to make it appear like it's some sort of a foreign enemy of America. Yeah, nothing like a former president putting his name on a movie that is designed to make us even more paranoid.

It's like when you think about what this movie is about or the sort of lore or the premise is that like a group of foreign super villains are goading Americans into civil war. And look, rhetoric like this has been totally chill the last seven years and has not destroyed anyone's mind. So I think we're still really safe. It would suck if, like, I don't know, a presidential campaign, like, started a huge red scare to smear the other candidate, and then we had to deal with the fallout of that for years. I would hate that. That's another thing. Is the contextualization, like, America is so vulnerable to, like, Iran, just completely

destroying all their satellites. Iran, Iran, yeah, who were able to, like, destroy all their satellites and communications and then fly planes through America into their airspace, just dropping pamphlets in random places. I mean, insane. genuinely just like we're entering like the paranoid fantasy we don't even have the cold war anymore this is i don't know this this is pathetic man this is the dregs the film ends with the young daughter finding the neighbor's fancy doomsday bunker where she discovers that they own friends on DVD credits roll that i wrote last night i said somebody fucking stopped me from doing a big

shit in the middle of this episode. Okay, I'll stop you. Don't do it. This is also, she's motivated by the quote from West Wing, where it's like, you know, the guy prays for escape from like a tsunami and then he gets like, you know, a helicopter comes in

and then he dies because he doesn't take it. He's waiting for God. And then he asks like, God, I was praying for you to help me. And he said, I sent like a helicopter and you didn't. Which presumably that means that she needs to go into random people's houses and look for their doomsday bunkers.

She eats a lot of sugar first, which is cool. Is the implication that she's right about that and that they haven't been seeing that they should just start like fortnight looting all the houses of people? You know, Michelle, when the jihadis come, I have a feeling, we'll just be watching friends. I mean, it's kind of like it implies a relatively like happy ending, at least contextually, for this group because, because, you know, it's like all of a sudden they happened to stumble upon an unoccupied, massively, beautifully, beautifully, stocked bunker with not just apparently like a year or more worth of food, but like all these

amenities, all this entertainment, self-powered, is somehow they able to stumble upon this thing that's able to take care of them as whatever the fuck is going on continues to go on. Oh, I can't wait to be in my bunker, massaged by every season of everything Joss Whedon has ever made. Can you guys imagine what they would be saying on the news and on blue sky if Donald and millennia executive produced this movie. Yeah. But they can't and they never will and they never could because liberals gate keep all of the

flashy filmmakers. And makes them worse apparently because I mean, I'm not, wasn't a huge like Mr. Robot fan but like this is certainly a new low. Yeah. It forces poor conservatives to pretend that they're stoked about a movie filmed entirely on green screen about the flag. But liberals, no, they get sleek Mr. Robot style conspiracy theories with big name actors like Julia Roberts. It's unfair. It launches on Netflix instead of a broken rumbling. And we watch and we

nod our heads and we go, mm-hmm, I'll definitely be one of the good, not racist white people when the shit breaks down. I'll offer to sleep in the basement. No, the logical conclusion is like, I'm going to be Kevin Bacon. Right. Fuck these liberals. The conspiracy theorists were right. It's very confused. Fuck these liberals. See, I'm mad because I think it's incredibly irresponsible for any kind of state leader, former or current, to attach themselves, which is implicitly endorsing this kind of narrative. I don't know. For all I know, maybe it's all a big joke to them, laughing in the editing bay going, ho-ho-ho, this is going to drive the maggots crazy, lull. But why are we wanting to drive them crazy? They have the guns and the training as the movie

clearly states. The conspiracy theorists are mad, however, because they believe that Obama and the Netflix world order are flaunting their great reset plan in plain sight. Because the movie is filled with hidden messages, symbolism, and is, as I have mentioned, produced by a former president, people who both love Obama and despise him are elbow deep into baking this film. The people who like Obama believe he is graciously warning us so that we might be prepared for a nationwide cyber attack, and the people who hate him believe he is conditioning us to accept an inevitable cyber attack, or showcasing his great reset plans out in the open in accordance with satanic etiquette. Yeah, I was on like our conspiracy and they put a shot of the

kids up and they're standing next to each other and he's wearing an obey shirt and She's wearing a NASA shirt, and they're like, whoa, they want us to obey NASA. Wow, that's scary shit. The liberals are saying, oh, well, she's wearing the NASA shirt. She's into exploring, you know, she's into exploring. And that ends up saving her because she explores and finds the doomsday bunker where he has the obey shirt. And, oh, there's another scene where he's wearing a rock star t-shirt, like rock star the game company. And they're like, he's imprisoned by his vices and his video games and he must obey the media.

It's like there's so many different things to bake in this movie. Like, why bother making, like, complicated, interesting art that has, like, you know, different interpretations that require some meaningful thought, when you can just, like, make what is basically nothing and people will, like, interpret it for you. They'll spend, like, hours trying to look for any sort of, like, coherent, deeper meaning to this thing that clearly doesn't really have that much to say. Like, it structures itself as, this has something to say, but, like, where is the content here? Why make a beautiful movie?

You can do the same Instagram post with all the shit. words that Jake hates and it can be of a hungry man dinner. So you don't even have to press play on the film to begin baking. As one TikTok user explains that satanic messages are coded into the film's poster. People are saying that this movie had a lot of satanic symbolism in it. Now, if you haven't seen this movie already, it's called Lead the World Behind. And it's about America's enemies joining together to take down the country. They do it in a three-step process.

Isolation, disable all communication, transportation, leaving people deaf, dumb, and paralyzed. Synchronized chaos, which is terrorized them with covert attacks, disinformation, and no clear enemy. Third, civil war and collapse. Now from the start of this movie, you see a blatant 666 right in front of your face. And in a promotional poster, people are saying it says, I am Ball. Who is Ball a demon that Christians believe in? He's basically Satan's head demon. Not to mention this movie was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama.

Are people just reaching, or is something big coming? Wait, so he's saying that if you take away a bunch of words in the name of the movie, it makes I Am Ball. It's not even words in the name of the movie, it's words in the name of the cast list. Okay, wow, wow, that's... I mean, that's why Denzel isn't on it, because then he wouldn't spell them ball. Yeah, Denzel wouldn't be caught dead in a ball-produced movie. In a follow-up video, that same creator breaks down hidden QR codes and sequences of numbers that appear in various parts of the film. So a lot of you saw my last video about the movie leave the world behind.

And I said it had a lot of demonic symbolism. So we went and found more. Like on the emergency TV broadcast, The map of the United States has a hidden QR code. My phone camera couldn't really read it, though, because it was so blurry. And the screen on the hidden bunker had numbers on the screen that looked like they were spelling die 666. On the other screen, it reads the numbers 09, 17, and the time to 04. Could something be going on September 17th, 2024?

I mean, as long as you see it and don't say no, to them it's consent and their hands are clean. I mean, just look at all these images before that big event happened many years ago. But then again, I could just be reaching. He's peeling a fucking orange. I know, he's just eating an orange in his car. Also, for context on the screen, it flashes the thing where, like, if you fold the American $1 bill, it looks like the Twin Towers falling or whatever. Now, viewers with less blurry TV screens were, in fact, able to scan the QR code

embedded in the map of the United States. Have y'all seen all the hype going around about this Leave the World Behind movie? It's all over my 4U page. Everybody in their mom is talking about it. Because apparently the Obamas were executive producers at the same. movie. And a lot of people have found really weird Easter eggs, including a QR code that is hidden in the map, this

QR code. And if you scan this sneaky little hidden QR code, it will take you to this website. Visit Mercer County.com, and it opens up this page about the Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park. So what in the world could that mean? Well, I don't know. But this sounds like a place right up my alley. So let's head on over to

West Virginia and see what we can find out about this Lake Shawnee Abandoned Amusement Park. So it turns out that the land where this abandoned amusement park was built has a very long and bloody history. Back in 1775, the Clay family had settled here. One afternoon in August of 1783, Mitchell Clay, went hunting. And he had two of his sons, Bartley and Ezekiel, building a fence. And his oldest daughter, Tabithel, was down by the river washing the family clothes with some of the smaller girls. I think they were like 13 kids in this family. Well, as the children

were going about their chores, a band of 11 Shawnee men crept up on them. They shot Bartley, killing him. Okay, all right. Enough of this. All right. They shot Bartley. Oh, no, the Shawnee shot Bartley. So one TikTok creator goes as far to suggest that by watching the film, one might be able to counter the predictive programming by knowing the future and focusing to change it, which I imagine is kind of the message the filmmakers are trying to convey. Yeah, because the rich guy in the arms industry knows things are going to happen in the future for some weird reason.

And so by you watching this, by you becoming aware of it, you are doing one of the most important, if not the most important thing you can do while you're alive, which is elevate your consciousness. And when you are aware of a negative, you can consciously choose the positive because what you're unaware of will constantly affect you. You are the cause, not the effect. And so if you watch this movie, and if you're someone who hasn't, I know right now your curiosity is sparked and you want to, go into it and I challenge you to watch it from a place of awareness. and not letting the emotion affect you. You can watch it, but you don't have to accept it.

Your brain is constantly recording this stuff. So while you watch the movie, imagine every single scene as the opposite. Do not accept fear into your life. Love through fear. Oh my God. So at my most cynical, you know, I'm like, okay, the filmmakers have created something that everybody can be.

you know, hey, everybody can bake this. The people, the left and the right, they can, you know, they can, there's, there's something for everybody, you know, it's politically neutral, which, which is just inspiring conspiratorial, you know, thought, you know, in everyone, it's a big tent movie. If you watch the movie imagining the opposite, then it's a good movie because you're not watching the movie. It's the opposite of a bad movie. Now, while some conspiracy theorists believe that the goal of the movie is to prepare us

for an impending civil war, others believe that the message is a lot more simple. vote Democrat. Okay, I just went down a rabbit hole with this new movie, leave the world behind. And I don't think anyone's talking about this, but the color blue is literally in every single scene. I don't know if I'm going to ruin the thing for you. I haven't even finished this, by the way,

because I keep falling asleep. The one thing I can see, and the only thing I can focus on is the blue. The blue isn't everything, whether it's their clothes or the wall or the house or the car. In every single scene or a filter with the blue, always blue. Everyone's wearing blue.

There's always this blue, this very specific blue and I was like why is this why are they pounding this one color into your head where are they going

with this even the color of the book is blue so I'm like okay and the Obama's had a big hand in this

right if that's about common knowledge right so the Obama's so I research Obama he's wearing the blue dude

I researched Obama how deep does this blue rabbit hole go oh my God who's blue Democrats was he a Democrat

was he a Democrat oh look he was Democrat who also is a Democrat Democrat who's going to blue Why he's going to blue Let's go a little bit deeper Blue Oh my God

Wait until this guy looks at the sky He's going to have a real issue The sky is making us vote Democrat What about the ocean? The ocean Oh my God! Oh no We were talking about like how Ham-handed and obvious And kind of like berating the messaging

In the movie is and so many But these people, like, they sell that aside to look, oh, the colors, the colors, where the color is trying to tell me. Yeah, it's not clear enough. They need to talk to these people as if they're even dumber, clearly. So as I said previously, you know, this movie has the ability to appeal to conspiracy theorists on both sides of the political spectrum. And the following video went massively viral with nearly a million likes and over 20,000

comments. And in it, the creator seems grateful that President Obama has gone out of his way to show the world what the real apocalypse will look like so that we might be properly prepared. I told you guys three months ago that Barack Obama was going to put out this movie about the apocalypse and we needed to watch it. Literally, the people who were making this movie for Barack Obama said that all of his notations and the way that he wanted this film to be done scared the shit out of them because it felt so real. And Barack Obama came out himself and said he's adding stuff that he learned while being president to make this a real.

real apocalypse seeming movie. If you are a conspiracy theorist or one of the woke people, you will know that this movie is a warning. It's not just for shits and giggles. Barack Obama has showed us exactly what the apocalypse looks like. And contrary to belief, it ain't zombies and it ain't meteor showers. This movie literally talks about war. Over the entire movie, the people who sound the craziest end up being right. The people that you see throughout the movie saying, oh, this is war. This is attack from Korea. This is an outside job. This ain't no end of the world. This is someone doing this for war. Ended up being right. Obama doesn't care. He's on his ski-due in Hawaii. Like, he's not doing politics anymore.

He's basically like an advisor. He's like, well, you want to make that more realistic? I think he'd say this. Like, that's pretty much probably it. But I mean, I agree with her. Like, the message is fucked. The movie sucks. What the fuck is Obama doing? with this kind of shit like could you just make a new telitubbies or something to make matters worse there was also a bunch of videos that went viral on ticot of deer doing what they do in the movie but it's all cg i it's almost as if the movie like made an unaccompanying app uh you know that you would download and it like uses ar to digitally place uh you know scary looking deer uh you know and whatever you're pointing your phone at but what about qanon believers you know it seems that they are becoming more and more niche as the general population of Americans are increasingly embracing a conspiratorial mindset. Well, it's basically exactly what you would expect. Here's Deanna Lorraine on the Stu Peters Network discussing the film. So crazy. I mean, you really can't make this up, but they do make this up. This is straight out of the elites, Marxist, globalist

playbook, predictive programming and fear mongering. They're literally telling us what to expect next under the guise of a Hollywood movie, okay? And it's so funny that they're talking about a cyber attack across the whole country and across the world. Oh my God, the cyber attack is shutting everything down and there's nothing for us to do, nowhere to run. We're going to be left behind, shutting down all the systems. Well, this is eerily familiar to what Klaus Schwab

and the World Economic Forum literally told us about cyber polygon. Remember cyber polygon, the cyber attack that's going to shut down all the systems in the entire world. It's going to happen pretty soon here. They released videos about it. They've been talking about it at their Davos and their UN summits, the cyber attacks. Klaus Schwab is warning us about it that there will be hard times ahead.

Pay insufficient attention to the frightening scenario of a comprehensive cyber attack which would bring to a complete halt to the power supply, transportation, hospital services, our society as a whole. The COVID-19 crisis would be seen in this respect as a small disturbance in comparison to a major cyber attack. Okay, the real conspiracy is why is he calling it COVID? What the fuck? That's an awful video, too, showing like a woman on a respirator, like gasping for air.

No, it's not him making it. This is a conspiracy theorist playing Klaus Schwab. Or not playing Klaus Schwab, but like putting a Klaus Schwab clip with a bunch of like Erie music and editing. Julian, can we get your review before you log off? Yeah, well, I have to go and predictively program. I was, I predictively programmed myself a therapy session after this recording. So I guess I'll give my rating.

Michelle, will you come into the room? Okay, out of six in this. I've put all six Bs in it, and I want you to put it in my mouth, and I give it six over six bits, but I'm- Terrible. We can't use that. But I'm only going to need one. We're going to have to bleep out that whole thing. I'm only going to need one.

I'm only going to need one. One out of six. That's what I give it. Okay. That's me. Bye-bye now. So, you know, what I do see, you know, a lot of the, you know, more right-wing conspiracy theorists talking about is that this is maybe, you know, the best example.

of predictive programming, and they say this about a lot of stuff. I remember when we were on our way to some sort of Q conference, we were listening to this podcast, and they were talking about how the Chris Pratt Amazon movie, The Tomorrow War, was predictive programming about the vaccine. And so this is something that they're on about quite often, that movies and television are a way to prime civilians for events that are about to take place. But as, you know, as I'm sure Travis will tell you, this really isn't a thing. I mean, yeah, yeah, predictive programming is this thing where they say that there are stories

and media that are designed to soften up the public for things that are about to happen. So it's not as shocking when it does finally happen. We saw this a lot with the Simpsons, like the Simpsons, for example, they did do a throwaway joke about how Trump is going to be president. That actually happened. And it's really, I think that's really more of the Simpsons just saying, the most ludicrous thing that they could imagine in that writer's room. And since we live in a ludicrous world, that just wound up being true. The other thing that they say is that

the Simpsons episode where they go to New York is full of secret imagery about 9-11, because that takes place. The Twin Towers feature very prominently in that episode. Why would a thing about New York feature the Twin Towers, unless it was telling you 9-11, it's going to happen? Yeah, I know. There's no. Yeah, I mean, it's always very, very silly because like it's just the, weird, like, you know, past, they always take, take events like after the fact and then try and claim that some piece of media predicted it. And yeah, it's just, it's just silly. It's just baking, basically. Well, and this is a particularly bad example because the movie totally tells you, you know, there's no hidden message in the movie. Yeah. I mean, it tells you exactly what

it's thinking. I mean, and it sort of leaves the baking to kind of people saying, okay, well, this is how it's satanic or, or this is how it's, you know, talking about the great reset or that. I mean, they've sort of taken the big conspiracy theory that one would have baked and made it the plot or the premise of the film at large. So, you know, this, I don't think this is the best example. Also, you know, to add context, the book was written in 2020. It was on President Obama's reading list. He was also a huge fan of Mr. Robot. So it makes sense that, you know, he would want to, you know, now in his free time, he's got, you know, all the money in the world.

He can go wherever he want. He can make Netflix deals if he wants to. You know, he's living his best life. It totally makes sense. Everybody wants to get into Hollywood eventually, right? You know, so it makes sense that he would want to say, oh, well, I can take my favorite book and, oh, it would be great. If the director of the show that I really liked, you know, we got together and, hey,

maybe I could give them some notes, and that would be really fun. That would be a really fun thing to do because making movies is fun. It's fun to create fiction and make something that, you know, inspire some kind of emotion in people, whether it's field. or joy or happiness, sadness, all of that stuff. So, you know, there's a lot of different moving pieces mostly to do with people just, you know, wanting to create content.

I do think that it is unfortunate, you know, for the very reason that, you know, his production company and his name is attached to this, people are going to read into it more than if the movie had just come out kind of whole cloth and it was just, it was by the, you know, the director and creator of Mr. Robot, and here's his kind of idea of what the apocalypse might look like.

There would be, I think, a lot less baking going on. Definitely still some. You know, if they're baking the Tomorrow War, which is about, like, giant bugs that we have to travel through time to fight, you know, they're going to be baking a pretty realistic seeming pre-apocalyptic film, but, you know. Yeah, I mean, the real takeaway, Occam's razor is that Obama wants to do, like, rich person shit and that he doesn't have that much interesting to say, really. Like, I feel like he wants to make a move.

This movie feels like it's broadcasting, like, isn't this saying so much? Doesn't this have so much to say? And then it really doesn't. Thanks for listening to another episode of the QAA podcast. You can subscribe to us on Patreon for $5 a month. We have tons of content right now. There are, gosh, like four different mini-series. We're doing a season two of Trickle Down that Travis is helming.

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And now, today's AutoCube. We know these evil people at the top. They love to rub things in our faces, right? Obama is said to be one of the biggest evil people. It may not be the case. If it's not, then why would, Obama and Michelle get together and help so much be so involved with this movie depicting the end of the world. President Obama, obviously, outside of being one of the most brilliant minds on the planet,

he's actually a huge movie lover. And he was a fan of the book, huge fan of the book, it was on his reading list, and he was committed to making this into a great movie. So he was involved from script to post, and he gave notes on the disaster elements, on the character, on the theme, it was a wonderful collaboration. This movie, which includes radiation damage through nuclear bombs and EMF, it also includes a little bit of racism against white people. If you're not open to this thing and you're just watching it as a movie

and you retain this, you're not going to want to help your fellow neighbor when this all goes down, okay? And they also hint to Russia, being involved with Korea. We made a lot of enemies around the world. Maybe all this means is a few of them teamed up. Okay, I've got it all for you, I've got it all broken down, but it's just very strange to me that we have a president that would be involved with making such fear porn for everybody. I feel like it's more legitimate than fear porn. I feel like they're actually telling us what they're going to do.

And if you don't know, Obama legalized psychological operations on the United States civilians. He legalized that well he was president. It's kind of strange that now he's involved in what would be a psychological operation in this movie. It's almost like he just wanted to mess with us.