The Biggest Problem in the Universe - Episode 73

Episode Date: January 16, 2023

Adam Sessler, The Gas Stove Ban, The "You're Mad" Game  

I don't think it's that bad. Okay, it's fine. I'm happy with it. Okay, let's do it. If Vito's happy, I'm happy. I'm happy. And we're live. Happiness is relative.

Oh, now we're live? Now we're live. Fantastic. Now we're live. You want to go delete the tweet and retweet it? No, no, no. So they can't bust you? Oh, I screwed up the, uh, I did screw up the first tweet.

I'm bad at time zones. Why didn't you just delete it and try it again? Why didn't you just pay eight bucks? I did just pay eight bucks, actually. After I tweeted it, I was like, why don't I pay eight bucks so I can edit my tweets? Yeah. And now I can. Oh, is that what you get to do?

Yeah. Well, not really, though. Do you actually get to edit them, or does it just give you like a buffer? You get 30 minutes to edit. And after that, you might as well kill yourself. Well, that's pretty good, yeah. So the biggest problem, it says it's going to take a day or two, but we should have the checkmark.

Oh, yeah! It's so important. Oh, you actually did it? Just for the show one, because then the show one looks legitimate, you know? Whatever. Are you going to charge us for that? Yeah, that's coming out of the show fund. What the fuck? Did you do it electronically, or did you actually to charge us for that? Yeah, that's coming out of the show fund. What the fuck?

Did you do it electronically or did you actually write out a personalized check? I should have wrote a check to Mr. Elon Musk. That would have been good. Are you pro Elon or do you hate him, Adam? Oh, I can't stand him. Me either. I fucking hate him. I liked him at first. But you know what?

He's the evil villain we all deserve. It's like everyone thinks it's going to be Bond villain. Like, I'm really smart and I have a really developed plan and I know what to do with my millions. No, we get the none too bright Afrikaner who's just like, you're a pedophile and I'm going to buy you. Pedophile Oh yeah Yeah

He reminds me of It's like If Octodad Was a billionaire Yeah Yeah It would be Elon Musk Have you seen the weird

Like pregnancy cult That he's in With his dad Like he's just trying To knock up as many women Like when he says That humanity needs To go to the stars

He's kind of talking About like his semen Oh yeah Like that's like the connection that he's making he's knocked up like all of his secretaries his dad knocked up some little girl that he raised it's really fucked up there's a there's actually there was a i think a two-parter on law and order special victims unit that was about a dude who did that and I believe The Olivia character referred to him as A serial impregnator I should go back and watch that Because he's one of these guys who thinks he's so brilliant

That like it's his duty to make a bunch of like Psychopath kids named X595 Dash the star child He's rolling them off the lot He should just buy a fertility clinic When the kids start exploding It's going to be Dash the star child He's rolling him off the lot He should just buy a fertility clinic You know what

When the kids start exploding it's gonna be Even more entertaining Alright let's do the show Everybody welcome to the show Welcome Adam Sessler to the show That might be a little loud I phoned in the audio stuff The biggest

Problem In the Universe The biggest problem in the universe. Welcome to the biggest problem in the universe. The only show that ranks every problem in the universe from girls dropping DMs to feds leading insurrections. How do you like that one, Vito? I came up with that rhyme. I'm your host, Nick Madison.

Joining me as always, Vito Giswwaldi. Joining us via satellites and fibers and electrons and technology is Adam Sessler. Oh, I'm here through technology? Yes. Apparently so. Oh, wow. Through the spirit of Elon, we have channeled you onto the show. Gosh, I can feel it. I can, I, oh no, that's gas. I'm sorry. I thought that was Elon. It's just gas. How are you doing? I was a big fan of you. I kind of dropped off the last two years, but what have you been up to in that time?

What? And you've missed the two good ones, buddy. Wow. Yeah. No, I haven't been doing anything lately. Nothing's been happening. Yeah. I'm just here because I like to name Vito.

And I was like, OK, cool. Let's check it out. What do you guys? Yeah. Why am I here? Well, that's a great question, I think. Why don't you introduce Adam? Well, this is, of course, Adam Sessler.

I can't call you a gaming gamer. You can just say firmly off and then spend the next 10 minutes what that is I once was. But me and Adam actually touched base because in the midst of some of this, G4 came back as a television network and was not struggling. Adam and I.

Whatever, fuck you. Oh, I feel so much better if there was someone else At my disposition Fucking grammar assholes Anyway In the midst of this, somebody reaches out and they tell me this thing And it's like Adam Sessler may get fired

From the network, whatever So I put out a YouTube video that said Adam Sessler reportedly fired from G4 And then I see a tweet from Adam And he goes, hey, who's this asshole Italian Pepsi man on Twitter? And I go, oh, I fucked up. I did something bad. Well,

the one thing I'll grant you is the other reason I'm here is because I said, you know, if it turns out to be true, is whoever your source was, was not completely correct. I was not fired in the window. I wasn't fired. It seems like they got it wrong.

But they had things that were right. I'm not going to go into the particulars they had right or wrong because that's weird. But I was like, huh, this guy's interesting. And so I started following you and I was like, Oh, hold on. I like this guy. If they fire me, I'll come on your show. You, you, you deserve that much. Hold on. I like this guy. He's very interesting. I kind of said, if they fire me, I'll come on your show. You deserve that much.

Well, I appreciate that. It didn't really happen, but hell, I'm here. Yeah, yeah. No, I think my source, they had some stuff right, but it seems like it was kind of a whole weird, confusing mess over there. Everybody was reporting different things to different people. Weird, confusing mess is a very, very accurate description. A lot of people were happy you got fired. Is that right?

Yeah. Oh, my God. Why is that? You think it was the Wicker Man 2 or some shit like that? Yeah, I have built my career on upsetting idiots. Yeah, me too. Yeah, I now call them gamers

because I'm not one anymore. i've been on the internets uh explaining that i'm not a gamer um i don't want to be associated with gamers yeah um and that's all i've said and a lot it's just kind of the same way when you say i like to punch nazis everyone's like oh my god that's so discriminatory something like that seems to be happening um and i'm loving every minute of it because i'm retired and i love shits yeah you're you're in a who gives a shit situation it sounds like it sounds like you want to punch nazis i don't know i don't know if that's such a good idea i'm i'm older i'm older so i would rather hire someone to punch a nazi in front of. I'd be the guy to do it. You should pay Russian taxes.

Hey, scale him up a tiny bit. Okay, okay. He's a little smaller than us. What was I going to say? Well, I, of course, I mean, when G4 came back, I remember thinking, well, this is interesting, but I don't know if it's the right time for this sort of thing. It kind of felt like, I don't know, like the gaming industry has moved on to a bunch of loud mouths

And psychopaths That you almost can't do Who are you talking about Specifically when you say that I'm not gonna Who are you Who are you talking about There are certain people

Who are considered My colleagues On YouTube Or whatever Do they consider themselves Your colleagues Wait wait wait Do you guys really consider

Yourselves to be collegial No not at all Like intramural softball events and stuff like that? No. But there has been a trend of like just kind of a lot of these spaces have been taken over by pure assholes. So you kind of can't do any kind of like just boring, like not boring, but like wholesome content. It's like everybody thrives on pure negativity at this point. Yeah.

What are you watching? Fucking Michael Landon, The Angel Yeah. What are you watching? Fucking Michael Landon, The Angel Show? What are you talking about? You watch all that shit. Yeah, but this has been a thing. Yeah, but didn't you hear? Turns out he was a dick.

Oh, he was? When he was on Little House on the Prairie, apparently he was just absolutely horrendous to his co-stars. And like, I watched neither show, but even that, as a child of that era, I was like, really? He was a friend. He's close stars. I watched neither show, but even that, as a child of that era, I was like, really? He was a dick.

I was really worried that Bill Bixby, who is David Banner on the TV show, something bad was going to come out about him because then that's just when the vortex opens up and we all get sucked into it. That would have shattered your worldview? Yes.

I would have felt like a gamer Yes, exactly. Yes, yes. I would have felt like a gamer for a moment if that happened. This is going to be the anti-gamer hour, I think. Should we put gamers on the... Is this Gamergate related? I remember when Gamergate came out, and people were like...

Oh, why is this even related to that? It's like, look, G4 collapsed. A bunch of people I really like was it collapsed or did it was it destroyed it was collapsed uh yeah it was it was kind of like someone saw the plug pulled it it went away and they're like we might want to just keep that going and some good people lost their jobs some good people lost their jobs people i really enjoyed working with and there's all these jackasses who were celebrating if they They considered it some political victory. They always do that.

I have very open liberal leanings. I am actually not a Puritan progressive by any stretch of the definition. But they got very angry about kind of a very well-written soliloquy by another one of the hosts on X-Play, Frost, defending sort of women's presence in space and not having to be necessarily a dancing monkey for the men. They got really angry about that, and they decided that had to be the reason that the whole thing fell apart. Yeah, well, they make these very simplistic assumptions where it's obvious

there was a lot of problems going on at the network. And to try and boil it down and go to, well, one lady said some stuff. She said a lot of stuff. Okay, but that's not the one thing that buried the network. But also, that happened in a February. Right. And it kept going for— And it collapsed in October.

Right. So it was kind of like some very slow-acting poison that got put into the goulash that everyone was eating. I think what she did was—I mean, I'm a legendary misogynist. I'll go down in the history books as one of the Internet's greatest misogynists. Oh, what's your name? I actually don't know you. Dick Masterson. I wrote the book Men Are Better Than Women. I was on Dr. Phil.

It's the world's greatest. This was all in the past. I thought what Frost did and said was great because everyone got so pissed off. I think if there would have been content to back it up, or if the internet hadn't moved on from that kind of content, it would have been a huge success. That's what I thought at the time, and I still think it. If the internet had moved on from what?

A different kind of content. It's just not the way it was back, I don't know, when I remember G4. Oh, I see what you mean. I think there's some merit there. Yeah. It'll come up as things go, we probably are yeah there's there's uh it needed more time to find its direction and that time really wasn't available that's not how the internet anymore that's that's kind of where i would say a lot it kind of seems like it was one of those things where the network like just pumped way too much money into it way too quickly.

Like if it had gone slower at first and found its ground and then you start sinking money. We could have done it correctly. Yeah. What Vito's kind of describing is getting laid your first time and we should have been doing it more like a seasoned veteran, a Witt Chamberlain, if you may Yes

Slow All right, let's review the problems from last week and see who won This is the most important part of the show Ehor's won Okay Salvo Pancakes That's a stupid problem His trauma

People didn't like that, whatever Gimmick Twitter accounts came in second Adam, do like that Whatever Gimmick Twitter accounts Came in second Adam do you like gimmick Do you have any favorite Gimmick Twitter accounts Other than mine What are they

Like God Oh I love it Like tweet of God Even though I don't think That is there anymore Oh yeah yeah yeah There's

The One I love is Los Feliz Daycare I haven't seen that one It's a great comedy account. There's some that are good. Your problem was convoluted because you didn't bring any examples of the bad ones. More criticisms of me from last one.

False flag flags. The last one, we never really figured out what that one was about. That one is how you guys keep telling me that everything is a federal plot and you have nothing to back it up and it's ridiculous does the federal government lie or not yes or yes or no they lie all the time you know back in college at ucla they uh i think they still have the same radio station that like it's broadcast is like 15 blocks and into westwood uh but i was part of a TV show, a radio show called The Government is Lying to You. I don't think they

lie all the time. They don't lie all the time. No, no. I think state governments are actually far more pernicious in their lies than the federal government is. True. That makes sense. Except for the military. I think they're not exactly forthright.

Let's see. Stoy says, find someone who simps for you as hard as Vito simps for the federal government. What do you think about that? You guys can't say everything is a federal plot. No one's going to stop us from saying that, actually. Our rights, my buddies died

face down in the muck. Everyone on January 6th was not secretly working for the government. Everyone on both sides was working for the government. The guys in the government, the guys attacking the government. I like, was anyone like sending him like pornographic images of like James Madison or anything like that? Like an actual federalist? To get them all riled up? Like I was trying to do some American Revolution humor here.

Apparently. To get them all riled up. I was trying to do some American Revolution humor here. Apparently. Apparently it was all guys dressed up as Antifa and they're all secret plants. Oh, I know. This is bullshit. You're an idiot. Fuck it was.

Shut up. Heinrich 2 says, Vito, please clip the Andrew Tate call to prayer bit. I know you hate it, but it was the funniest call to prayer since the first one. I will consider clipping it. Do you think Andrew Tate is the greatest man on the internet or just a great man on the internet? You shut up. So did something happen with Tate today? I mean, I know he's in jail in Romania and stuff like that.

All the court stuff is leaking, and it's, like, hugely damning. It's, like, him promising to marry women, and then they show up in Romania, and he goes, actually, you're my slave. After they've spent, like, all their personal money moving to Romania. You know? Yeah. That's against the law. You can't do that. I guess the other part is, I mean, look, I don't think very highly of the man at all.

I mean, I think he's probably the gamer of rapists. Wait, the gamer of rapists? Everybody with a brain cell knows why single men go to Romania. And it's not for the goulash. And it's not for the goulash. It's like this guy makes such a public nuisance of himself while committing these crimes in like one of three countries that is most associated with these crimes. All he had to do was not be famous. He also could have just. Well, you have a good point.

Dick always brings up why didn't Andrew Tate just shut up and not make himself like a public figure? Just be a criminal. And just collect all the money from all these women he's enslaved I'm saying at least do it in a country like a different country where it's like oh I wouldn't expect him to go to

Bangladesh and do that that's a good one actually that's better than what I had in my mind I had Samoa and I'm like maybe that does happen in Samoa. I don't know. I don't know, Randy. It's all over the place, apparently.

Okay, this is Adam says, the call-ins really derailed the show. The whole apology with Ethan Ralph was especially cringey. Why are two internet nobodies kissing and making up on biggest problems? We got a lot of comments about the salvo call-in. I'm almost as inconsequential as they are. First time I skipped through the show in a while adam i don't know if you've ever felt like this but a lot of people are blaming me for ruining something that they love the last show specifically and shoulder all that responsibility

i okay all i can say is uh i am not the adam that sent in this complaint. But I do like to think that I did write in blaming a YouTube show for having something inconsequential on it. We have made dozens of episodes. Everybody feels the need. Because when I want game changers, I'm going to YouTube. I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry that Salvo called in. I thought Salvo talking about women drinking his piss would be funny at the one hour mark of the show. I was wrong.

I'm sorry that I did it. Oh, well. Never do it again. Okay, should we do... Is that our voicemails? So you won? Oh, yeah, I did. Congratulations on winning.

Yeah, so I go first. Because everybody believes that everybody's a federal agent. Every single... You accused me of being a fed. What does it hurt to just believe that everyone doing that stuff is a fed? At some point, accept reality. Accept that there really are maniacs Who start running into the Capitol And causing problems

Also, here's my take I'm blaming everything on the federal government And all of that, and this is going to come up in our discussion today It's like Why does everyone think they're so God damn important that the feds know Who they are I mean, it's

It's like, no. They do. I don't pay taxes. You wish there were black helicopters silently rotating over your trailer. Come on. My God. The feds were really trying to influence what Baked Alaska does.

So both of you are feds, I guess? Me and Adam are feds? Yeah, both of you and Adam Zesler are feds. Fantastic. We took down G4 for the grand plot of the government. Okay, here's my just- The government is trying to destroy the gamers. What's your problem, Dick?

It's the gas stove ban. Yeah. Guys, how are you going to light a cigarette on an electric stove? Oh, you can do it. Can you? I don't actually know. How? Smash the cigarette into the coils?

Yeah. I think that might work. Hold on. How young are the two of you? That is so dangerous. Have you never been in a car with a lighter? Like a car lighter? He's got a good point. He's got a good point.

That was this thing. It's cornels that are heated. Adam, do you see all this hair? I can't lean over an electric stove and light a cigarette. I'll put my fucking head on fire. You put the cigarette on it. You well pack a cigarette. You put it on it.

It catches the edges of the paper. You go like that. And then you draw it in with the oxygen. Oh, my God. This is terrible. Children are going to go up. You expect everyone to do everything. Oh, you're the gamers of smoking. I love this bit.

Children are going to grow up and look at a picture, an icon of fire, like they look at an icon of a floppy disk and go, what's that? Because they're taking the fire out of all of our houses, Vito. You and the Democrats and the feds and the liberals are going into our houses and stealing our gas stoves so that when there's a giant power outage, we're all going to starve to death. Why would you do this to us? We're doing it because the obese lesbian M&Ms

are telling us to. Yes. That's what I learned yesterday. All the M&M ladies have gotten together and they're all infiltrating our... Okay, look, I kind of get it. I like having a gas stove. Yeah. But is there... Why are they getting rid of gas stoves? It's because

of the environment? Because they cause autism or something? No, that's what I said. Because of the joke. Oh, I stole that joke from you. You stole that joke from me. I got to watch where I steal my joke. The other thing is, with the electric stoves, is I have always preferred a gas stove because if you cook, you have a lot more control.

You have so much control. Yes. Yeah. But I live in San Francisco and I live in apartments. And there's like, you can only get electric. Like everything's moving over to electric. The quality of electric ovens has changed so much that like, actually I'm like, you can do,

I'm not finding that it's nearly as limiting. So I guess for people who are really upset, it really is about the gas. I recommend play with the little knob thing there. It's a lot of fun to play with

when you close the window. I just want to have like a stretch of about 12 days where I'm not told I can't have something that I'm perfectly fine with and that I've had

for 40 years. Don't you have an electric oven though? No, it's gas. Is it gas? It's actually, and it's a huge pain in the ass. Every time. Does it have a broiler?

You actually, you don't actually think someone's going to come to your house and take your oven away. Yeah. Right. Vito's probably going to open the door for them like the feds open the doors at the Capitol and they're going to storm inside and take my gas oven away from me. Do you realize like how lame you would have to be? How long it would take for two dudes

to come into your house and remove the gas oven? This is like a ninja operation that can occur and you're just going to sit there huffing and puffing. Trying to figure out how can I stop it? Well, they're going to phase them out, right? So if you have a new house or whatever, a new construction.

You'll get a tax incentive. Yeah, there you go. I want a tax incentive. I want my fucking stove. I just want to keep. You took my pipe. You took my regular showers. What can happen is you can keep your gas stove and you're going to get a nice big blue checkmark that we can put on the outside of your house.

Yeah, this man is polluting. What about all the power outages? Right? What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to eat ramen? How am I supposed to get high and eat brownies when I can't use my electric oven during the power outages? This is the gamer equivalent to like, yeah, I can only buy my electric oven during the power outages. This is the gamer equivalent to like, yeah, I can only buy my stuff

on disk. Only on disk because I don't know about this digital. Microsoft owns my living room. Oh my God. Let me back feed my generator. Here's the angle you should have touched. Yes, electric stoves turn off when the power goes out. That's a problem.

We have a lot of power outages here because of gas. How much cooking do you do when the power goes off? Does cooking include telling my girlfriend what I want her to make for food tonight? Because I do a lot, Ben, in that case. Thank you for asking. How much cooking do you do? Not as much as I could. Do you care about kids getting asthma?

Because I don't. I don't have any kids in my house. I don't know. Maybe. I don't fucking care. Here's why you screwed up this problem is you didn't bring in the racial aspect of it. Because the big hubbub over the move from gas to electric is that Asian restaurants and Asian cuisine specifically involve a lot of cooking over an open fire with the

wok and everything else. This is serious. I read about this. So a lot of Asian restaurants in LA, they're saying all, like, I think they already put in this ban in California and they're saying all restaurants have to phase out gas ovens first. Yeah. You know, you go to like Korean barbecue and you're cooking over a fire.

They're going to have to get rid of all that. And a lot of the Asian restaurants. Those aren't real fires. Sometimes they are depending on what do you mean? Okay. Capital places in Cape town, but there's not most of the places like are trying to offer these smokeless,

uh, Korean barbecue. And like, there might be a flame to an example that's being controlled by electricity. I don't know what's in there, but they still cook over a walk. It's a big part of it.

Why are you being racist at Adam, towards the Asian community? We love their delicious cooking. All I know is all of a sudden a million people know why we have to get rid of gas stoves yesterday who had never mentioned it before this. And all of a sudden we're doing more shit for children that I feel like I did enough for. I do agree. Doing anything for the benefit of children is wrong. I'm with both of you on this.

I am so tired of the children, or as I call them, gamers. Don't you want more gamers to have asthma, Adam? Because this is how we do this. I'm saying we put more gas stoves in every house. I would do anything to get the gamers asthma. And chicken pox. Rubella. I'd love for them to get rubella and Scarlet Fever.

I want all 19th century afflictions to be fall gamers. I love this bit. I'm bringing gas lines to every hospital nursery in the country. I like this. How about this? Think of like the orchestra and the violins playing and that you see a gamer and they've got a handkerchief and they're like

There's a little bit of blood in it. And then you see this other couple over there and they're like There's a little bit of blood in it and then you see this other couple over there and they're like, oh, a gamer. It's one of them. The consumptive player. Here's the solution to the gas stove problem, epidemic of asthma and autism or whatever it's causing.

Just open a window. Everybody says, I agree the government has always legislated too much. This is maybe not necessary. I thought it was for the environment. It's for asthma? It's for asthma. This whole thing is being laid on asthma.

No one's taking away the gas ovens, but it's not even happening. No, they're doing it. They always say, you know how I know they're doing it. I forgot. The feds thing yeah the new york times said no we're not coming to take your gas stove so that's how i know that they're definitely coming to take my gas style section because that's how you i don't know i didn't i

didn't even read it i just looked at something about stoves like how did this come up yeah he said and so so then we're and that's um that's what i told her that up Yeah he said And So So then we're And that's That's what I told her That's what he said Yeah that's Shut up I'm sure he was more eloquent than that

You fucking idiot Look I agree The government Sometimes goes too far But who knows If they're saying Who knows I think they could have an advisory

Like if you have a kid And you don't want him to get asthma Consider getting an electric stove Throw the kid out the window If you want to have tax credits for it, sure. But I don't think they're going to actually get rid of it. Get some exercise, you little fat brat. California is trying to do it

to restaurants. Oh, please, remember when Michelle Obama told people to exercise? I was like, don't tell me what to do. Yeah, you guys all freaked out about that. We did? Yeah. And then Michelle Obama was like, hey, don't just eat garbage. And they're like, my My kid's gonna eat as many trans fats As he possibly can

Yeah that's cool though Except now Now they're scared about giving them the trans fats Because Yeah Yeah Cause the ovens stick Yeah

Well I don't know I know one country who built a lot of ovens And I don't like them So Yeah so there you go There you go There built a lot of ovens And I don't like them So Yeah so there you go There you go There's a lot of negative things Associated with ovens

Look I don't think it's that bad Bad problems It's the worst thing That happened this week To us To my people There's a lot of Worst things going on

And we can't even Boycott anything How do you think If I feel As a conservative When something I don't like happens I'm like what am I going to boycott Because all conservatives fail at boycotts

And can't possibly ever agree on any of them You can't succeed at a boycott It just matters that you did it It could if you guys actually got all your stuff together I'm boycotting electricity Also maybe if they could find good things to boycott The most famous successful conservative boycott Was Janet Jackson's boob

Yeah Which is like Wow Like You pretty much just say We suck as humans Or like the Dixie Chicks That becomes the focus

Of your boycott Yeah Who You guys They always boycott They're saying we're gonna boycott Netflix cause it's woke Conservatives can only like

Opposite boycott Like we can only buy stuff Yeah We can't stop buying stuff No Soatives can only like opposite boycott. Like we can only buy stuff. Yeah. We can't stop buying stuff. No. So you can go like raise a chicken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When the left says New Balance is for Nazis, like they're like, oh, come on, let's put it on the New Balance. But like can't do the opposite whatsoever. Can't do the opposite.

Don't buy? No. Wait, Trump said Goya beans or what was the big thing? Those fucking beans. You can eat beans with anything Everybody's buying beans What do you want to live in fucking electricity world?

Like the Matrix? Because that's what Andrew Tate wants us in If there's too much electric shit, it doesn't work Okay, none of it fucking works Just give me the old gas stuff If you had brought in some stats But all you brought in is it's going to be harder to light a cigarette on my stove. What do you want?

Which is not useful to me. What more do you want? I just thought of that. It's going to get even worse. You could have like actually done some research, found some. All of these stats are bullshit. 13% of childhood asthma cases in the US are caused by gas dofus. 13%? I don't fucking believe that. That's a lie.

You can't say you don't believe it. You brought in the stat. It's probably a fucking lie.S. are caused by gas stove use. 13%? I don't fucking believe that. That's a lie. You can't say you don't believe it. You brought in the stat. It's probably a fucking lie. Alright. Anyway, that's my problem. Gas stove bans. Gas stove bans. If you like the government, vote up. Or vote down. Fuck, never mind. Just do it.

Vote correctly like you know I want you to. Okay, Adam, what's your problem? What's my problem? Oh! That's right, because it's called the biggest problem. Yes, what is, no, I want you to. Okay, Adam, what's your problem? What's my problem? Oh, that's right, because it's called The Biggest Problem. Yes. What is, Adam, the biggest problem in the universe? I've been doing some research. Yes.

On the internet about what is a problem. And I kind of started maybe around Friday. I started doing some research. I think I know what the problem is. It's me. Oh. Oh, my. I know.

You're going to win. I am the biggest problem in the universe. Fuck. Yeah. Dick's mind is blown right now. Yeah. That's an easy win. You've totally redeemed yourself.

Why do you think so? What have you read that made you think this? Oh, I haven't thought so. I've just read this, and so I went with it. Oh, okay. Yeah. It has a mixture of things

I'm irrelevant Out of touch There's a little me under him I was wondering if there's a way to get rid of it I can't fix that Oh there is a little you Oh hi That's a little distracting

I don't know how to get rid of that fucking thing alright you're irrelevant uh out of touch uh bald I have a list let me see if you're hitting all the ones on my list why do you have a list well because I tweeted about the show so everyone came in and said a bunch of shitty comments

uh oh oh oh oh I clearly am in the thralls of an addiction Uh Oh oh I'm mentally unstable Uh You destroyed G4 I mean Oh yeah that's right that's right

I have the powers to take out minor networks Uh Somebody asked me to ask you how cocaine smelled And I'm like you guys uh You're talking to the wrong guy about trying to make fun Of somebody for doing drugs That would be like me asking him Like oh did you have a beer

You're actually Hitting on something that I think is kind of funny Because like these kids love to throw this like Oh you're an addict In my face It's like you were a television personality in california in the early 2000s like they're so like i'm so straight like is it like for the use is being straight edge like the cool thing yes kind of yeah so do they have like nancy reagan

posters in their they're getting to that point. No, just 1950s advertisements with pictures of smiling families buttering Wonder Bread under a And because they're so sheltered, they don't know drug dealers, and they're too big of pussies to go find drug dealers. Like, that's who these, that's how they grow up. Well, we have the

trans. They're really, they've really convinced themselves that America was perfect in like the post world war ii era gotta help you this time and so yeah all the drugs and the porn whatever is just degeneracy and horrible yeah and you're like no that's all the fun stuff that we fought really hard to get you morons. The part that, that kind of sucks because like the framing there's, well, there's no way you'd be able to appreciate it is, uh, ever since I decided to go into semi-retirement,

I am so much heavier than I've ever been in my entire life. Really? Uh, yeah, yeah. So, uh, I, I wish, you know, Adam, the large cocaine addict, Tommy Belly. Yeah. You're really drowning. That's a coke belly right there. Yeah, exactly. So. Wait a minute.

We might have a little problem. I'm going to kill you. It's okay We were not live for the past 30 minutes I had this feeling When I saw your face Vito And We've recorded it all Yeah we've recorded it all

I knew I should have said something I knew I should have said can you just check To make sure we're live Anyway don't worry it's all been recorded And this will be uploaded to the show I'm sorry I'm checking a lot of stuff Before the show

The important thing is that we've just gotten here We've just gotten to Adam's problem Which is great Oh that explains All the replies I've been getting on Twitter. I'm going to blow my head off. And I just, for some reason, like part of me was like, I should just make sure it's good. Oh, it's always, trust me, Fito, every time you think, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Anyway, I got to see if I would have fucked up the stream key, then it would have gone through.

Do you want to flip it live now? Vito, do you want to explain what happened? Last time on the biggest problem in the world No we're not doing We haven't It's all recorded You guys will get the first 30 minutes of the show We'll be on The fucking page

Just would have been great if we went live With the right time Yeah would have been great Cause right now we're talking about how Adam Sessler's problem is Adam Sessler's problem is that He is the biggest problem in the universe that he is the biggest problem in the universe. I am the biggest problem in the universe.

And all of you guys have been telling him he's the biggest problem in the universe. And that's how I found out. Yeah. I didn't know. I was just leading this very naive life up until. I tell everybody to call me if it's not live. And they always text. They didn't call. They don't fucking call. if it's not live and they always text. They didn't call? They don't fucking call.

I don't know why. They just text. Oh my God. It's so aggravating. It's my fault. It's okay. We're getting back in the swing of it. Well, now you know what it's like to be me. Yeah. I feel like I just destroyed a major television network by not knowing how to go live.

You're the biggest problem of the last 45 minutes. Now put that on a universe level, and now you know me. Yeah. Well, Adam, everyone, a lot of people have called you the biggest problem in the gaming space that you've destroyed the G4 network and all this other hyperbolic type comments. I mean, do you take any ownership of destroying gaming forever? Destroy gaming forever? I don't know.

Yeah. I actually do take, I more legitimately take some credit. As we were talking about earlier, that like here in the YouTube world, like if you can't figure out how to have like the top 10 worst things to put in your penis or something like that uh like that's how you have to do the content uh you know i started out in 1998 and that was before we had video on the internet we had the internet uh and so especially when it became tech tv and when g4 became g4 uh we were still a little bit ahead of the curve. You know,

we're able to do what YouTube would eventually do. That's when we really started to realize, wow, the more we insult and be hateful, the more our viewership seems to go up. And I think that we were vanguard. So when you contribute to it, you think,

yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Did you notice when you like shit on a game Like you would get more attention and more press Or something like that When I would shit on shit I would get more attention I mean yeah Like one of the most successful things that we could do back on X-Ray

Was do viewer mail And read the hateful things that people were sending to us And then we would make fun of them We're gonna do that at the end of the show by the way Please super chat your comments right now And we would make fun of them. We're going to do that at the end of the show, by the way. Please super chat your comments right now. I mean, I know this just from the old days of comedy. It's like the heckler wants the attention.

Yeah. And it's like, I love people like Don Rickles and stuff like that. And insult comedy. People love being insulted in that particular arena. And so we did it. People loved it because everyone thinks They're not that viewer It's like you create that entire dynamic Where everyone thinks oh I'm the other

So that's why so many people That's what I find so amazing is that as I'm Insulting gamers how many people are Willingly taking the mantle of gamer I mean it's like I've been doing this a long time and i always think that like the time they invest and the money they pay is like they're paying to hate you like some of them they're paying to level outrageous critics like they're watching in order to criticize and i do that to a lot of stuff like i'll watch i'll watch a movie that i know i'm gonna hate just so i can hate it afterwards

um you know there's like a there's a lot of people and I think that's a legitimate way to consider media I mean look at the end of the day of you as a view as a view as a view it's it's it's like you know I mean there is a point where in order to keep ratings going if I needed to bleed myself a little okay let's do it and that's why I think people were like I was so shocked how shocked people were When I was like When I was being blunt on Twitter And saying

You know I was Doing it like I was being paid by G4 My interest was in the ratings And the survival of the show Do you think Any of your like turn from The old school G4 the the new one, is motivated by, like, guilt or trolls remorse? Having been part of, like, the hate mob in the first place to now aggressively.

You know, in the beginning, I was trying to solve for some problems. In fact, even the AI company I helped found, Spike Trap, I used to kind of joke because I would suddenly have meetings with people whose games I once reviewed. Not the developers, but other people. And it was like, hey, this is kind of my mea culpa because, you know, back, you know, I think we all know the journalistic technique. We didn't do it too much on X-Play, which is like, here are three tweets that are dissenting from conventional wisdom. We will now call them everybody or most people.

And now we have a story. And a lot of the tech was to be able to aggregate comments. The AI could figure out if it was particular to a game or sometimes even a subject matter of a game or a character of the game. It could aggregate all those comments across various social media. And, and then we could actually try to judge sentiment based upon how gamers talk. And that way you could kind of, we,

we always give more credibility to the negative than to the positive, especially on the internet. Yeah. You obsess over the negative comments. Well, and you make this completely false assumption, which is if this says that I suck, that person must represent a thousand people. And so three of them means there's three thousand people that think I suck.

That's absolutely just disingenuous. The only thing you can say is those three people think I suck at that moment in time. Yeah. We tried to solve for that problem so that game companies weren't jumping and changing and making marketing or design decisions god which they still do and they constantly like take one little piece of criticism and change everything about a game or whatever else it was it was designed to be able to help contextualize and because some of the most awful things are not necessarily everyone notices it but like that doesn't mean everyone's thinking it when uh well the the an example that i used to give all the time because

it was so neat uh 2017 maybe maybe 18 uh what's the character from overwatch that's on the a lot of the marketing tracer the main one tracer tracer tracer okay uh was like it came out there tracer was gay i guess in the fan fiction or the fiction i don't know uh boycott boycott boycott so there's a lot of people saying boycott and awful terrible things about that and we were able to see immediately that there was a massive amount of conversation happening around that subject but the majority of it was actually either positive or completely neutral. Just reiterating the fact that Tracer was gay. Now, the most odious stuff was negative. And a lot of the conversation was in reaction to the negative, but the negative in and of

itself made up only a very small proportion of that conversation. Proportion of Of that conversation I think everyone has such a siege Mentality at all times That you're just going to sort of assume The worst in everything when you have at least one or two Examples of it well then we jump and then I Wish this this kind of data or people understood

This this concept where You know one or two people will tweet out like Oh I can't believe the new Buzz Lightyear Movie has like a two second gay kiss In it I'm definitely not going to Buzz Lightyear movie has like a two second gay kiss in it. I'm definitely not going to see it. And the news, like some people go so far as to say, well, the reason the movie failed is because of this one gay scene or whatever.

And I go, it was a Buzz Lightyear movie without Tim Allen that didn't have Woody or any of the other toys. Like there's a million reasons. I, yeah, it was a shitty movie. It sucked bad. Big time. This goes back. Yeah, it was a shitty movie.

It sucked bad. Big time. This goes back. You can go back all the way to 2005 or 6, whenever Halo 2 came out, I think. Or maybe Halo 3. Okay, I remember I did a Sussler's Tote Box about this. Anyway, a Halo game came out at the same time that a Ben Affleck movie.

No, not Ben Affleck. It was... Matt Damon? Nope, nope, nope, nope, dope uh rowan atkinson yeah rowan i kind of look the same uh he's he's of my people funny jewish guy uh ben stiller was in a remake of the goodbye girl uh the paul simon play that was one famous movie in the 60s it came out the same weekend as i believe it was halo a halo game and every write-up was the movie failed because halo came out and i kept on saying no i think the movie didn't do well because it's a shitty movie no one wants to see a retread of the 1960s romantic comedy that no one remembers well

people want an easy one note answer And it's the same thing with G4 They want to say well Frost yelled at a bunch of Or gave a rant or whatever And that's the one thing that sunk the whole network And you know listen man there's a lot of stuff going on There's a lot of moving pieces To blame it all on that is silly

Yeah Have you talked about like what went into that I think I read that you knew She was going to do that ahead of time, right? Adam, you knew the Frost rant was coming? No. No, you didn't? That was off the... Would you have advised her to go through with that or delay or...

I would never tell someone what to do. I don't like that. The only thing I would have probably said is what could happen in terms of the attacks. Advisor the backlash. I have put myself in that situation where I have attracted such negative attention that I do start to become uneasy for my own personal safety. And that's not fun. That just isn't fun at all. To be honest, when it happened, I was deeply sympathetic towards it. In no small part

because I had begun to feel bad that my mere presence on that network as a whole was I never liked these like oh these people aren't as good as you know the old crew or something like that yeah that my my very being there everyone is comparing her to you I did not appreciate casting that shadow uh so I don't think, no, I wouldn't have kept it from happening. But I became, I was pretty certain the shit storm that was on the horizon. Did you think she was prepared for it? Was she shocked at the response to it?

Because it was big. I'm not going gonna talk too much about other people that i work with because they're not here was the network was the network expecting the response more so than for her herself you know uh that's it because it seems like they were they kind of the reason I'm actually pausing on that veto is it's really tough to explain what the network is. Right. I get it. There's G4 and there's the much larger organization that's over it. Much earlier on when I was there, there did not seem to be as well informed an understanding of what the Internet can do.

And more importantly, what the gaming audience was like. Yeah. There was a little too much faith in the general humanity of gamers. Everyone thought I was being comically dismissive. You were overselling? You're like, these people are maniacs. I have a data company or I started a data. I did not have it.

At that point, other people were running it. I had left. But I had started a data company to try to get to the bottom of this very question and it's filled with horrible horrible horrible horrible people that like are like the only thing I think that we haven't financially benefit from

we're all urban based in some yeah I got I only have two I got two because I I know I mentioned Gamergate before but I remember when it came out I don't I never know what's going on comic book Ooh the new Gamergate just came out

I remember waiting in line To be I was one of the first To see Gamergate Somebody told me That it's like It was about Well okay first of all

I mean I've I've found it First of all Do you Do you think there was any validity To there being No Okay

Ethics in game journalism I know they said that This is Okay Do you think there was any validity to there being... Okay. No. Ethics and game journalism? I know they said that. The thing is, okay, thank you for giving me this platform. Absolutely. Ethics and game journalism, it's like, what the fuck? That was so stupid back then. It's just as stupid now.

It's like... The part that pissed me off the most was not just the hideous slanderous attacks. I had no basis in reality because they were like, one could disprove them without any effort. Right. But that there were legitimate publications that decided to take it seriously enough.

Like, I think that they fanned the flames by saying, we're going to do an investigation into something like this. And it really, it's that kind of nonsense. It's actually not all that dissimilar than Merrick Garland today deciding that he's going to have a special counsel because they found some other documents of, you know, in Biden's garage. Lock him up!

Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up! The difference here is they handed them right back when discovered. This idea that making these weird concessions to the crazies that somehow you're showing fair play to a group

of people for whom fair play you can't even fucking spell it. Because they got money they got money and they read magazines that's why i rate anyway that was my little platform but no there was no merit to it why the hell people care that much about games journalism to the extent that it exists and there are i would say there's about three or four people that practice real honest to god good journalism yeah I agree with that. Jason Schreier is one of the only journalists.

This is the same group of people who thinks everything I do is a review. If I do a video when I talk about a game, it's a review. They think every goddamn hat's a fucking fedora. They think a hair on your mustache is a beard. I mean, these people live in such goddamn shows that

they don't even have the worldly context of a hermit crab. They at least try to find another one every six months. I mean, God, it's like you don't indulge these people. It's like when a three-year-old has a tantrum. What you're supposed to do is quietly close the door and let them burn themselves out. Turn the gas on. Instead, the whole thing was, you know. And let them burn themselves out And instead the whole thing was

You know And some very nice people Went through some really awful Fucking shit I was the target of it And it didn't come close to the things that women Endured and people of color Right you're talking about during Gamergate

During Gamergate yeah Well then I think the thing is When it happened to me with Gamergate I had been through so much at that point that it was old hat at an intense level. But for a lot of people, they had not endured what an honest to God hate campaign on the internet can feel like, which can be very dislocating, to say the least. When I learned about Gamergate, they were like, yeah, it's about, well, people are saying gamers are misogynistic and homophobic and hateful. I'm like, yeah, it's about, well, people are saying gamers are misogynistic and homophobic and hateful. I'm like, yeah,

that's the best part of, what are you talking about? Obviously you guys are, clearly. You liberal! Oh my god, I don't know, that's the best part. I agree. Well, that was the thing, is that the ethics in game journalism was this bullshit strawman argument because these people didn't like, A,

being pointed out how much they sucked, and B, because they were scared that they were losing their games well it quickly fell apart in my game now oh no we need to put broken glass on the ladder to the tree house women have ruined some of my favorite things, Adam. I got it. I got it. I got it. I know, but that's your penis.

They have not. They have yet to ruin that. They're working on it. I was going to say my whole thing with Gamergate was that it was it wasn't so much about politics. do you call it ethics and game journalism like oh yeah i think there was like some points to be made yeah i think there was some points to be made about some of the nepotism but let's be clear like every small journalistic industry has that not nepotism but like favors for the whole nepo baby thing that new york magazine did was just one of the fun like the funniest stupidest thing I've ever seen where it's like, yeah,

there's nepotism. Yeah. Well, that's the thing is like, what are you going to do? The game industry royalty is lost on people. If I work, if I work at a video game website and my buddy makes a video game, like, yeah, he might get some free coverage from me. Like that's, it's part of the entertainment industry it's like that's everybody's scratching everybody's well everyone knows why season two of lost suck because lost turned into a big hit and then they hired their friends right and then it just became this kind of like this big mess that no one knew how to like kind of unwind i think it started like when it quickly fell apart though

i was like you guys don't care about ethics and game journalism you're clearly just mad about you know the sjws infecting whatever because you're going after Anita Sarkeesian. And I'm like, she's not a journalist. This is a whole different thing. I told you. If it's a video, it's a review. And what I could never figure out is, is this some very, very effective?

Because if you go back and you read like Jean-Paul Sartre and smart people, it involves reading. Gamers. Lex Friedman's reading list is being brought up in real time. Is that on his reading list? It was kind of the conflation and manipulation of language where you make things that mean things that they don't. This, I don't believe,

was being engineered by people smart enough to pull that up, but it did happen organically where like, you know, journalism review, it's like yes, you want to think that a journalist it did happen organically where like you know journalism review it's like yes you want to think that a journalist is ethical duh yeah but most of the who they were attacking but by no stretch of the imagination could be called a journalist i mean it's just like it's like the whole thing was so insane and once it got hijacked like once a guy like mile in Nyanopoulos

is going, yeah, I fucking love video games. I'm the biggest video gamer ever. And you're like, you've never played a fucking video game in your life, you fucking idiot. Then we got Trump. That was the worst part. I love gamers and shit. I'm like, oh, come on. This is bullshit.

It got hijacked immediately by the worst types of grifters. So what should we do about this Adam Sessler problem? Sounds like a big problem. Kill him. Well, see, that's the weird thing is I thought they took care of me. Yeah. When they got rid of me from the network.

Yeah. That's the part that's so weird. Yet that wasn't enough. So I'm not so certain what I'm supposed to do with myself because I had already said I wasn't going to do the games anymore. I don't want to. Like I've mentioned, and I have to be honest, I was a little bit low to have to point out.

I'm the beneficiary of a rare success in my life. I read it on a company. I found it. And like the last, once that happened, it's like, good. I don't have to do. I like, I once enjoyed getting in front of the camera and doing stuff. I really stopped being fun. Uh, I'll, I'll be frank.

I didn't enjoy much of the, the, the, uh, revamp of G4. It doesn't even do with the people i worked with or anything like that i could just tell early on that it was going to be moving in a direction that i wasn't exactly in line with what i had thought it was going to be uh and the esports push they were doing oh god no i knew i know no the esports was obvious from the get-go um i thought it i thought it was actually going to try to be more like a formal television show but like in in the television internet melange that it was i was under the impression it was gonna be more television than it was internet and i'm way more comfortable in the in the television space yeah and that also, when you go into the internet space,

whether people do it deliberately or not, people overanalyze. They take the audience too much into consideration, I think. Oh, will they get it? Oh, will they like it? Will it make them upset? But the thing is, if you upset the audience, that's not necessarily a negative. And you never know how the audience is going to react, which is the other. The flip of that is you can't manufacture virality. It's like it kind of annoys me about like a lot of these properties and reboots and stuff is there is I see them being sold as marketing to all groups. Like I see traditionally male hobbies like gaming and whatever,

you know, pick, pick, pick whatever male thing that there was previously male dominant. And they're choosing to appeal to like, they're forcing the women demographic into their decisions of how they're presenting their product. And that's why,

that's what I don't like about it. And I feel like that's where a lot of this hate comes from. Like people don't know how to express it properly. Like I do, but I mean, look, that, that was two or three full sentences.

And so I applaud you on that. Look, there's actually a curl of something I do agree with is gaming. We have a gaming network is already that's too broad gaming is too broad movies it's like there is no movie network there is no book network

there is a food network but it really is one food and that's southern it's fried at 11am we have fried food at 1130. More fried food. And then at noon, the man with the spiky hair drives to fried. There is a theme.

It's like a big dumb idiot. It's not like you're in a bed. It's got French hour on the food network. So. So like I. It's it. so, yeah. So, like, it's, it's, it's,

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

it's, it's, it's, the, the esports audience in the single player audience, like,

there's very, very little overlap that's going to happen there. Yeah. Um, I do think that, but,

but, but I, but I, I think, say, in that single player space, in some of the esports

space, there, there, it is, there, there, there, there is there there there is a large female audience um but to your point the one size fits all type approach to doing a gaming network period regardless of of gender predispositions racial dispositions is really not terribly effective because there is no one who loves games so much

they care about every facet of games. Do you think it came with too much baggage calling it G4? Because I could see some people saying, oh, I remember G4. That was that male-focused network where there was women in skimpy outfits. I want to see a half-naked woman jumping around. See, what's funny is...

That became Spike TV because it was such a fit or whatever. It's interesting because it was such a fit or whatever. Like, is that true? I was on Netflix, and we never looked at our audiences being that male. Whereas Attack of the Show, yes. And I always forget sometimes how I had

cut... For the latter part of the existence of the network, we were the other show with Attack of the Show. We were not the big show of the existence of the network we were the other show with attack of the show we were not the big network and so that aspect that olivia aspect especially of the show yeah definitely i think is the most lasting impression for most people um so maybe using that baggage yeah it was gonna care i'll put it to you this way it did have that baggage that baggage was not an inherent problem but that but that was not addressed sufficiently that

it became a problem I think that's the right way to look at it yeah this is also fascinating to me yeah I mean I remember watching it and I remember like Frost's thing going live I remember thinking like man I really just want to like drive over to Burbank like bang on the walls and be like guys I need to tell

you about the internet and the current state. Like what's going on. Cause like, they're just not going to eat that. They're all crazy right now. And like, and I don't even think what Frost was saying. I I've always said,

look what she's saying. Yes, there is room for that discussion. And it's all very important to have. Give me the problem is like, other ones. People don't want to have it here. Also,

also bear in mind that there was a massive positive reaction to it as well. Okay. But the positive reaction, Peter's out. Yeah. Because the people who are positive to it are normal human beings that then reverted back to their goddamn lives. damn lives whereas this strange lichen encrusted basement dwelling fuck nuts that got upset by it are obsessive and can't let go of any perceived slight that they have in their trump addled world and that's the problem i mean that's the issue is that i still don't think they were the majority that's what i wanted but that's what I wanted to tell you guys.

I'm like, you don't know what you're up against. You're up against a bunch of guys. Just give us a hot girl. That's a whole other thing. It's fine. Just give us what we want a little bit. Okay, but regardless. Bob, there's the internet. Yeah. That's the whole thing.

You want what you want in all places at all times. It's like you're the dude who's going to walk into a nail salon and wonder why they aren't offering dick polishing. You complain about it. Yeah, dick. It's weird. I think I just wanted to express that there are guys who just can make. I mean, they made like a thousand videos about Brie Larson ruining Marvel. Like they have no,

once they find. How did she ruin Marvel? By being a woman. Look at those feet. Look at those feet. What are you talking about? Wait, she has gross feet?

I haven't seen her feet. One toe goes the other way like a wisdom tooth. Messed up, man. I haven't heard that. I don't know about that one. Cause she's shit on men. Like we're so tired of getting shit on.

I don't need some fucking millionaire, like, celebrity telling me that I'm an asshole. Like, fuck you. You're an asshole. Happened twice. You're not a celebrity. He did the thing. That's a good one. I'll take that one.

I find this all very interesting. Yeah, I wanted to see what G4 would become, but it felt there was a lack of direction in the market. Yeah, it has been taken over by kind of hyper negativity, where if you're not making content about this game is the worst and this person is the worst, it's hard to find traction. And that's the thing, is that where it was also, I don't think what was also fully appreciated is that

there was going to be no grace period. If we were brand new, a brand no one had heard of, didn't involve me, and it was a bunch of young people yucking it up like the mystery machine gang, that's one thing. That's going to have some time to organically find its own footing and grow into it. When you're taking an old brand that is rightly or wrongly perceived to have been something of a cultural behemoth, it wasn't kids. It was fun.

It was cool. Yeah. And you're bringing it back. The expectations are high, deservedly so, and you don't have any time to make a mistake. You've got to hit the ground running. I did want to see Fosk do interviews. If she's going to make a big statement.

I wanted to see her on the quartering show. If you're going to make a statement like that, you better go on every fucking big show at some point. Because you're in the business of selling entertainment. What if the quartering isn't your... Look, the quickening wasn't the audience.

No one wanted the quickening audience. Everybody's the audience, so give me that. Oh, my God, you are such a game of being that. You're the kind of person I'd just say thank you to for my goddamn career. Oh, my God, you're entirely a little like an encrusted basement dweller. She should not have gone on the quartering. Absolutely not. She should have come on my show.

I would have done a very fair and balanced. You would have. I would have. I would have been extremely fair. But the thing is, hold on, hold on. In all honesty, why? Why does she owe an explanation to anybody? What she said made absolute sense.

There was really no need to further articulate what she said. It was very eloquent and very clear. Her call, absolutely. I can't tell her otherwise. really no need to further articulate what you said it was very eloquent and very clear her call absolutely right but it's kind of that it's that there's that dude mentality where it's like well hold on we have a debate here there's two sides to every story yeah every rose has its thorn. No. Is that a debate? That's why I am absolutely and utterly entitled to say gamers suck. I am not a gamer, and that's all I need to say.

Everyone keeps on being like, oh, no, but Adam, how do you define gamer? I don't fucking have to tell you. I don't have to tell you how I define gamer. They can define a role playing game to me. What is it? Exactly. Well, there's all sorts of definitions out there, but you have asserted you're not. Were you formerly a gamer?

No. Never were a gamer. I was a person who played games and reviewed them. I don't even know what a gamer is well that's i know look i can identify a gamer from a mile away but i could not even but i don't need i don't bother with the definition it's the famous justice potter who was blind on the supreme court i'm gonna do a history lesson yes yes uh famous pornography case that went in front of the supreme court obscenity it was the obscenity case anyway he didn't even offer up a definition of pornography,

but he says he can know it when he sees it. Oddly enough, he was also blind. He was legally blind. I didn't know that guy was legally blind. He was. It's one of those. We all know what a gamer is. Kind of.

It's confusing. I mean. But it's also, it's like, I read books. I watch movies. I don't define myself by any of those things You're not a booker, you're not a filmer Richard Rico What was I going to say? I think a big problem has become

And this is something I brought up briefly to you Is that we have a big loss of identity Not just among young men But among a lot of people Where people don't go to church as much, people don't have strong community ties. So people are kind of trying to form bonds along the lines of, hey, we all like Marvel movies.

Hey, we all like video games. Podcasts. And we all love The Biggest Problem in the Universe, the best podcast in the world. Patreon.com slash biggest problem. And it's weird because you're right, it's not really a great way to forge an identity because though me and you might both like chrono trigger it doesn't really

mean we have the same belief systems or yeah ways of thinking about things and yet it's also it's unwise and i'm going to use an analogy and please forgive me if it's somewhat derisive of what the two of you are doing but let's say you try to build a career that is wholly dependent upon another company's product. Like YouTube, for example. And you have no ability to control nor influence what's going to happen with that product in the future, and you're going to have to live with its ebbs and flows. I mean, that's the same thing. If you decide to create your identity around a corporate brand,

a corporate product, that's not smart. Let me tell you about this. Let me tell you about this. I just launched this this week. I've been working on this for about a year with some guys from my other show. Really, really smart guys. You see other shows? I do another show.

So you have like an open show relationship type thing. Yeah, you know, we both play around, play the field. We got our own audiences. Hey, I'm a place to judge. They don't like it, but they're cool with it. I'm a one show at a time kind of guy. We built a version of- You ever done two shows at once, though?

You ever done two shows at once? I have. We did the Ralph. Ralph called in last week and he was doing his thing. We built a Patreon alternative that's on the blockchain. So it cannot be you can't be deplatformed off of it. It's a fundraising monthly subscription service that you do. You put content on it. It all goes on the blockchain.

It goes directly to the people that subscribe to you and you can never be kicked off. I know exactly what you're saying. Like you depend. Your business depends on a bigger business, but this, what we built is a major step forward, uh, from, for protecting creators from, uh, the big platforms. Yeah. It's called back.by our shows on it back.by slash, uh, biggest problem, but it's, I hope it's going to be huge technologically. It is a major step forward in privacy and protecting creators. I mean, I'm very upset. I was talking to Mr. Girl yesterday, who's a great content creator, who was deplatformed

by a bunch of your Nazi buddies or whatever the fuck. You know, you know. Should have been being a pedophile. Shut up. And yeah, it really is scary that, you know, they can just take away. At any point, a big company can no explanation yeah i'll boot you off well but not even that i mean i i've seen many times via twitch or youtube or something like that that suddenly the monetary i actually don't know much about the youtubing economy so correct

forgive me if i get this wrong in terms of terminology but like suddenly the revenues flip isn't the same or there's some other new policy that's gone into place where you're going to probably have to work twice as hard to be able to get a feature and they'll be like oh you should be so excited we're going to give you 20 percent of the monetization you're like what the fuck you know they wrote it's one of those where like yeah it sucks i don't think there's much room for that much complaining it's kind of those where like, yeah, it sucks. I don't think there's much room for that much complaining. It's kind of like when you live in Chicago during the winter time, like that's nature saying,

don't be here. As far as I'm concerned. But they tricked us into being there. Cause they said, here's YouTube. It's going to be this open grape, all these platforms. Let's consolidate everything.

Stop having your own website. Stop having your own brand page. Just come to us and we'll'll handle it all and now we're trapped here and there's no way to the reaction the kids had towards me and many other things okay i'm a gen xer yeah and a lot of what would typify our generation if there were enough of us that we were ever remembered uh is that it's it's a deep-seated degree of skepticism. Most of us were born in Watergate in the Vietnam War. Iran-Contra, I mean, almost everything is like, anything that might have looked kind of vaguely like Zach was saying turned out to not be the case. I grew

up with 80s televangelists. Nothing seems genuine. I guess the thing is is like you felt comfortable there veto saying like well they made us think it was going to be good and i guess i'm i feel so caveat emptor about everything like i look at i look at life is like it's a con game and you're either a mark or or or you're the it. I was like 15. I'm like, I can upload videos to a website and I don't have to pay for hosting. It seemed like a dream. And then they promised we're going to empower the next generation creators. They paid for this idiot to make a live show.

What a fucking mistake that was. And then all of that went away and all the money went away. And now it's just, here's Jimmy Kimmel and a bunch of, I don't know. I guess the thing is my natural cynicism is like that's what i would have assumed was going to happen from the get-go uh you know i don't want anybody to be hurt by something like that but at the same time it does sometimes strike me as like wow you guys weren't prepared for that or you didn't see that coming uh they always promised an indie revolution and like us indie guys who are like

working on the sides and we were like yeah all right cool we're gonna make our own stuff and then no fuck you fuck you we don't want you i hadn't thought of this because that's the other thing that typifies old fucks like me is you know i it was my freshman year of college when nirvana's nevermind came out you know the indie music scene and even then it took about all of like 10 minutes for the corporate labels to absorb all of it. So that like, like that, that, that idea of pure independence, like never resonated as having any legitimacy whatsoever. That yeah. And once again, I think that's.

Go ahead. Sorry. Do you see how you're go ahead sorry uh do you see how your cynicism your generation's cynicism has driven all these zoomers into loving jesus so much like do you see that oh they're the rise of like the old school religious right i was born in 1980 so i remember i was right on the cusp of all this shit you're talking about right the right the uh the puritanical right is coming back in a big way, baby. Oh, they're coming back,

but you're telling me that the Gen Z kids are, yes, kids are bringing it back. Is it black Jesus or, or, or, or plain Jesus? The whitest Jesus you ever seen in your fucking life.

Yes. Oh my God. Oh yeah. Um, I don't think those guys really love Jesus. I don't my God. Oh yeah. I don't think those guys really love Jesus. I don't buy it. Whoever did.

I think it's a, well, yeah, they're using him because they need something. No, no, no, but Dino, I look at it differently. Maybe Jesus really was

a fucking piece of shit. Come on. And he really was into rape. That's very interesting. Really, really into hating women, being a racist. I've come to that conclusion. Speaking of which, I mean, isn't Mel Gibson about to do the sequel to Passion of the Christ 2?

Number two. So, I mean, right there. What happens when he comes back? He's got a gun now. Fights guys. Oh, that's cool. You know what really sucks? It's X-Play.

I've been trying to share it on the interwebs today. Actually, we did a trailer for passion of the Christ to judgment day. The year that, uh, passion of the Christ came out. Oh, you can't find the clip.

Oh, you can. Yeah. I was trying to share it. Uh, my, I linked to it on my Twitter feed. We will,

uh, people who are raised Catholic really, really find it funny. I don't, I don't find it as funny As a result Well do you want to do your problem Vito? I'll knock my problem out real quick

Adam Sessler's problem is Adam Sessler Adam Sessler's problem is Adam Sessler And no one is giving me a good solution About how to get rid of me Let us know, send a super chat right now If you know how to get rid of Adam Sessler Go back to your roots and go back to being like You need a third act man

Revenge of the Jedi I can come Move in with me for like a month And I'll train you like Rocky IV No How about this Sessler 3 season of the bitch And like my third act is just

Whining and complaining about gamers i mean i still want you to just have a youtube channel where you just talk shit i would watch it every day if i could do it without any effort on my part i would do it well vito can help you with that i mean like an ai i want an ai generated adam I want to be doing something else. I like playing games. I don't want something that's eating into my game playing time. Let's make you a little virtual avatar and you can just type out, give me a rant about the gamers and we'll knock it out of the park. Well, this is a problem that I thought has been on my list for a while.

And it came back today because I see on Twitter, everybody is playing the not mad game with adam and i hate this fucking game the geez adam why are you so mad and then you go i don't think i am mad it seems like you're the one who is mad and they go well i'm the most not mad that's ever existed and this has become you sound furious It sounds like about 90% of internet discourse now is trying to decide who is the most mad in any given Interaction and that person loses for some reason It is exhausting and stupid and I hate it I can't have any discussion online about any like any subject. I can go man I don't know this doesn't look too good.

Why are you so mad? Why does that upset you so much? I go, well, I don't know if I'm mad. I'm just kind of pointing out an issue. It'll happen for the worst stuff. Why are you even responding to me? Look at how obsessed. Why'd you even respond to me? What was your comment for?

Do not be responded to? I don't understand. Adam, have you experienced any of the you're not mad, the mad game lately? The I'm not mad? Oh, God. That's all I've been saying. He's like, why are you so mad? Why are you so mad? A lot of people are accusing you of having a meltdown and a freak out.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. That one. Okay. Actually, I do have a question. Are they trying to bait me with that? Or do they actually think it?

I can't tell. I don't know. That's a good question. There's a lot. Really, it's like because you're trying to figure out how aware of themselves are they? I think some of them stupidly just do believe it.

I actually have an example of this happened to another celebrity, Jamila Jamil, who was on the She-Hulk show. And at one point, people were coming at her because a lot of people Who's she on the She-Hulk show And at one point People were coming at her Who's she on the She-Hulk show? Titania? Titiana? Oh she's so funny

Yeah she's great, she's fine on the show But a lot of people No she's not trans, she says she's queer You're saying Women aren't allowed to be funny? Fuck you What do you call it? There was this point where people were coming at her

because she said, I'm so excited to have been on SheHulk and people are going, well, that show sucks and it's not going to get a second season, blah, blah, blah. And her response was, dude, who cares?

I get to live my dream and be in a Marvel project and go to events where I meet all my favorite Marvel stars and talk to them about their movies and I got paid. My cup is full. How's your life going?

And then all these YouTube guys, the same guys go, did you see the freak out that Jameel had on Twitter? I'm like, she said she only did it for the money and she doesn't care about the fans. Remember,

this goes back to every video is a review. Every hat is a fedora. Every online action is a meltdown and every beard freak out slash yeah okay so i get that a lot but the one i can't stand honestly are the ones who are like adam man i think you should step away yes you're having a hard time out of my head last night somebody was doing that it's like shut. Go fuck a Buddha. Okay. I'm really, I, it's like, I would like, like, if I'm angry, let me be fucking angry. That's a very good point.

It's like, oh yeah. It's like, oh, you're supposed to be better than that. You know, like you, when, when, when they go low, you go high. No, when they go low, I get down there and kick them in the dick. Well, you have like hundreds of trolls who are calling you a piece of shit and whatever him in the dick. Like a lower environment in the penis. Something like that. Well, you have like hundreds of trolls who are calling you a piece of shit and whatever else, and then you respond back and you go, no, you're a piece of shit. And they go, what?

What? It looks like Adam's really mad. You can almost see them going, mom, mom, the internet said something to me. Yeah, I the step away. You can almost see them going, Mom! Mom! The internet said something to me. Yeah. It's like that scene

in Richard Pryor, the toy, when he doesn't want to be it anymore. That's a little, that's been a while since I've seen that. It's a really good one. It's the one where the rich guy controls Richard Pryor as a rich kid. He buys Richard Pryor for his son.

It's a dark, dark, dark movie. Like an Epstein kind of movie. I like when people treat the internet like it's like,

like it's a championship sporting event and you've injured yourself when you get mad. Like, you gotta step away. You gotta step away from the game

for a little bit. Go rehabilitate, go through rehab and then come back stronger than ever. Like, what the fuck are you talking about?

Well, it's also like the complete delegitimization of anger. Like, there's never any reason. If a bunch of people on the internet are calling you the F-slur, I think it's okay to go, you know, this kind of ticks me off. I'm not in, but it's then you're supposed to be like, you can start angry.

I'm fine. This is crazy. It's like everyone got raped by a copy of 300 or something like that. They're like, Spartanism is the only way to go. Don't show emotion. Jesus fucking Christ. Showing any emotion, yeah, is considered even in moments where

you should definitely show emotion. There'll be these stupid internet debates and some race realist guy will go, well, I just think Jewish people don't have souls. And the Jewish guy on the panel will go, that's very offensive to me. And they're like, oh, he just lost because he's upset because that guy said he had a soul.

And you're like, I would be pretty upset if a guy was legitimately arguing. But instead, we've reduced all the rules down to whoever gets mad automatically loses. Because people are terrified of getting shouted at. Yes. It's OK when 100 people get mad simultaneously. No, because they're in the right.

Yeah, because like Trump rallies are just moments of emotional cogency. Like the world is never seen. I mean, yeah. There's a lot of furious anger up on that stage. Yeah. No, Trump's not mad. He's fine. Some of the people get a little carried away.

We're all fine. Do you think all your insurrectionist buddies were having a good time? Yes, they were all smiling, kicking their feet up on Pelosi's desk, smoking cigars.

They were the most not mad. They were not mad at all. Yeah, all right. Fine, we don't care. Shut up. We don't care you stole an election. It's no big deal. Everyone knows that

Antifa is just looking to hug. It's true. Everyone. Anyway, I think the not mad game, first of all, nobody's mad. And if they are mad, they probably have a good reason to be mad. We don't have to treat everything like a public freak out video of like some Karen freaking out at a register. That's kind of like part of the problem is that we've being anger is like shameful right it's like a moment for public shaming but we need to respect that there are times

a when a person probably isn't mad or b they have a right to be mad yeah it's the complete delegitimization of anger which is an important there's a reason you feel anger like it exists for a reason it's not always negative your wife or girlfriend has been fucking around with you. The kids are going. If I ever saw a dad have a meltdown like that in public, I'd just give him like a big thumbs up. Like that grizzly man look. There's not enough naked ladies on your G4 reboot. There's lots of reasons to experience furious anger.

Anyway, that's my problem. Good problem for me. What a show. What a half a show. Thanks, everybody, for watching. Well, I'm going to say we're going to put up the full show. If you see part one, it makes so much more sense. No, it all makes sense.

Adam, do you want to hear the super chats, Adam? Or are you going to? Sure. Yeah, we're going to bring up the super chats real quick Guys we will upload the full episodes Is that just chat but with the cape What is a super chat A super chat is they can spend money to make us pay attention

To the things they're saying And if they don't spend money We don't read them On a very small scale Yes Just side thing One thing I have learned in the past few days is that gamers will pay the $8. Oh, yeah.

It is amazing. Because they want to be important. As they are. They're the most important people in the world. But they're not. I now know that they're really unimportant. Well, let's see. We'll see.

That's a lot of super chats. Talking about them, though. Yeah. Oh, wait. Can I read this super chat, or am I just at your mercy? Is there a way we can? I don't know if there's a way to have him read them. It doesn't matter.

I'll read them to you. Don't worry about it. Yeah, we can't see your face, though, if you. Yeah, I like my face more. Yeah, me too. Can you put it over me? I don't know Whatever

I'll just read them to you real quick Yeah Okay Well let's see If they're in like a really demeaning tone Let's see Alright Where are we?

We're right here Alright Dick you always said I suck cocks from last episode So I fucked that up Sorry guys Should I do it? Do it I suck cocks

There you go You got it Every time Vito says to be fair We? Do it I suck cocks There you go You got it Every time Vito says To be fair We play him saying I suck cocks I'm not allowed to say TBF on this show And then they try to

Trick me into saying it Oh is that what TBF stands for? Yes Well I don't know That's what I think so Yeah Oh shit sorry

And then Dick Screwed it up again Oh no Um Sorry sorry sorry You can extend it out Yeah but then it All right there it is Mike Hunt for five In Vito voice I don't have time to work out Oh, no. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You can extend it out. Yeah, but then it covers that. All right, there it is.

Mike Hunt for five in Vito Voice. I don't have time to work out. What a 12-minute-a-week work, or whatever. Legacy for 1999. Extended play was better than X-Play. What is extended play? Oh, that was the early version of the show that was awful, actually. It had nothing to do with me or Kate Patello.

It was just Tech TV's rules About how we had to do content Go back and watch them We weren't allowed to show violence You weren't allowed to show violence from the games? Yeah After Columbine which was 99?

99 wasn't it? I think 99 till 2003 Wow Things got a little messed up. It was that you couldn't show humans shooting humans. Oh, so you could use humans shooting aliens and whatever? Yeah, but once again, we still

had to kind of massage around it. That's how I learned editing. That's interesting. Things got really dumb right after that. Wow, that really screwed up a lot of stuff. Let's not show any people showing people. What? Why is that going now?

You want to just read the Adam ones? Yeah, let me just go to the Adam ones. We'll go back through. Let's see. I take it you're not going to read this one? I'm not going to read that one. Let's see. Go down.

Hold on. Vito is shaking that I got Adam Sessler on in the first 40 minutes when not live. I'm a little. I do think you're pissed. I think you've been pissed. I'm not pissed. I'm mad at myself. Because I'm mad at you, too.

I should have checked. It's my fault. Well, Vito, for what it's worth, I cannot tell you how many times I know I did the perfect take, and they're like, shit, didn't work. We didn't roll the camera. Yeah. But I do that, man. At least you're going to be able to serve it up.

At least we have it recorded. Yeah. Thank God for Riley. Honestly, thank I do that, man. At least you're going to be able to serve it up. At least we have it recorded. Yes. Thank God for Riley. Honestly, thank God for Riley texting me. He didn't call. He should have called, but thank God for Riley. Oh, my God. I think it was good because we came in right when Adam started talking. It is true. We did hit right on Adam, so we only missed your stupid problem, which is fine. That boy Mikey for five. Dick is one of the

problems ever. I agree. PacePod five. My name is Dick, Mr. Dumb, and I'm very smart. I know who FBI agents are, but I can't start a live stream. I eat poop. I agree with that. Legacy. Is he a gamer? That was kind of a gamer thing.

That might be a gamer, PacePod B. I think that's a gamer. All right. Let's see. So Sessler says Slav Nikki for five. Are you saying that journalists capitalize on negativity like some kind of reverse shit posting? You actually speaking changes my perspective. So, do you think journalists capitalize on negativity?

I would think so. They're always reporting on human negativity and everything else. Yeah. I mean, they report. Is this a revelation? Here, let me just scroll it. Oh, I mean, they report. Is this a revelation? Here, let me just scroll it. Oh, here, here, here. Yeah, I don't think,

I think that's pretty well known. When was the last time you saw an article saying, fuck yeah, games are great? Black, Black Phillip for 10. Oh, yes. Yes, please, please.

Says, please do the GoFrosk clap. What do you think about that? Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. The one where I'm going like that. Yes, yes. See, what's so funny is I had done that before many times, and it's my overdone version of

the Charles Foster Kane clap. Oh! You're doing Citizen Kane? Yeah. You're doing a bit! You're doing a fucking bit! Yeah, the thing is, if you really wanted to try to read into it, which

was not the intention when I did it, do you know the scene that Charles Foster Kane does that in? When his... When his girlfriend is singing the opera and she's not doing it well. Yeah, I know. Because of his wealth and power, he's trying to turn her

into a star. I mean, I wasn't even making that connection in my head. I hope you weren't. I hope you weren't saying that on purpose. No, it's like, that's a meme. And then it became the seal clap, and I couldn't even figure out I thought we liked seals as a group of people, but apparently no. This is such a revelation.

It is kind of a revelation. All I was thinking about was the clap the whole time. I have no idea that that's amazing. See, yeah. I was never going to explain it. One thing I don't like doing is explaining myself. If I screw up, I'll own it. So if everyone thought it was a seal clap

and they didn't get the reference, that's on me. I never corrected the record on that one. That is a very obscure reference, Adam. You're a citizen king. Guess what? I'm Adam fucking Sessler. I am the obscure reference. I know the exact scene he's talking about.

I'm irrelevant and obscurely referenced. You're the biggest problem in the universe. Vote it up on the site. Well, Brian David agrees with you. You'll never know who did it. Brian David for five says, video games are for children. Read Animal Farm like an intelligent adult.

So you have an agreement there. Thank you for coming on, Mr. Sessler, says Evan Like for two. Black Phillip for two says, Vito seems nervous to see Dick respond to Adam. Yeah, because I don't know what you're coming on, Mr. Sessler says Evan like for two. Black Phillip for two says Vito seems nervous to see Dick respond to Adam. Yeah, because I don't know what you're going to fucking say. I love him. I don't agree with your I don't agree with your politics.

I was like, I don't know this dude. Yeah. Well, I'm always worried that our guests afterwards are going to go. What fucking show did I go on? Who are those morons? That's a valid concern. Smart people who aren't me that actually have press people, that's where the press version's like, oh god, what did I do?

Yeah. Luckily, you don't have a PR agent to answer to. You can have fun. Yeah, but you know Andrew Dice Clay from back in the day, so you will think what I'm doing is cute in comparison. You don't do enough nursery rhymes. Matt Barr for five. Adam Sessler is the best guest in the universe.

Great show, fellas. Is he better than Salvo? What's he doing saying that? I don't know. But Evan Like for two says, don't listen to that guy. Sessler sucks. Well, all right. Two different opinions there.

Black Phillip for five says the only positive reaction is grifting by making YouTube videos. Yes. Okay. Now, Peter R R. says, Dick, you are losing your reputation defending this absolute turncoat. He unsheathes his sword of cuckoldry and defends m'lady on the regular.

Tip your fedora, Adam. Do you defend m'ladies, Adam? No, but I do put my jacket down when there's mud so they can cross over it without upsetting their ankles. Evan Likes says, Sessler is not a gamer. He's a person of play. I agree with that. Oh, that's actually good.

A person of play. Yeah, you could use that. Peter R., again, again adam despite your simping for us was never going to sleep with you did you a favor oh my god i can't read that i'm sorry let's see uh the other thing is not so much for that comment but for the ones that try to talk about things that are of a sexual nature. Insinuating you've done something. If you haven't done it, you might not want to throw those insults around.

It's just like the kids who are trying to make the drug cracks. You're saying there's some virgins out there talking smack. All of the ass kind of hanging out in that moment. Well, all you angry virgin incels. This is your last chance to get a super chat in. Lofty Pixels for Ted says, how to get rid of Adam Sessler Tell him to write a positive tweet about Hogwarts Legacy

With a picture of him playing it Oh yeah So Hogwarts Legacy This is the one You and I were chatting about this on Twitter right Fido We might have been Because it's a Tassie J.K. Rowling She's got those fairly noxious things

Here's the thing about like the whole harry potter thing i fucking just hate harry potter i'm an adult who like hey i was an adult when these books came out yeah uh i saw all of one of the movies, because that cool Mexican director directed it. I don't even remember which one it was. I don't know. I'm really of two minds. Look, JK Rowling sounds like an absolute turd sandwich. But this whole, I don't know, these cultural contests around products can become so wearisome when there's

Actual boots on the ground shit That can be accomplished I always go why are you wasting your time Like yeah okay you don't like what she says But like there's actual legislators out there Pushing anti-trans legislation Who I never hear about That's what

Exactly It's like pick a battle and I think the stupidest battle is to go to people and go Stop reading this children's book from like 20 years ago. I don't think that advances your cause meaningfully. Also, isn't that the Streisand effect? I mean, then don't you just New Balance the book? Then people do want to play the game. And they go, well, if you tell me I can't play it.

It's like, I don't know. Also, the people who you're trying to shame are grown adults who really shouldn't be playing a Harry Potter game in the first place. Fair enough. For reasons that have nothing to do with J.K. Rowling. They already make bad decisions. Close the fuck up. I remember right before Trump was about to get elected, people could seem to only understand it in Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter terms. Not that the world is fucking ending terms.

It's like, my God, what is wrong with the millennial people? It's like, everything has to go through this strange sieve. It's like, oh, well, now that you put it in Frodo-verse, I realize things

might be at stake. Jesus Christ, grow up. Well, I'm just pissed because we were right about to erase women, and then J.K. Rowling has to come in and start protecting her gender. Oh, my God. We almost had you. Women, we almost had you erased. This is a conundrum for you folks. You don't know where to come down on that one.

I do. Yeah. I never thought of it that way. That's kind of, I mean, the whole thing strikes me as a little on the Jesus-y side to begin with. So, I mean, there's just issues there. I'll tell you my take on Harry Potter

is that it came right, it was kind of a post-Columbine thing was that it was the ultimate escapist fantasy for young people because Harry Potter is not human. He discovers that he belongs to a completely different race

that is disconnected from the human world. At the end of the book, he doesn't go, I'm going to return to my human life. He goes, no, I will forever remain in the wizard world. I am a wizard. And it was basically kids being like, I wish I belonged to a different class of human. Isn't that the Holy Trinity?

What, in the Bible? Yeah. Is that the holy trinity that what the in the bible yeah is that the holy trinity is that yeah it's part of you the ghost of god here so i'm i i i see how i understood it is that he becomes a ghost and then haunts christians forevermore yeah that's like casper but more in favor of hurting people i just think think more traditional children's media always, you still had a human character experiencing fantastical things, where Harry Potter was the first true alien escapism of, what if you belong to a better race than the human race? I never had that happen.

Never had to return there. That's fucking demented. It is really sick. Okay, you know what? Why people waited until jk rowling went anti-trans to have an issue with this is now sounding weirder and weirder i think the moral at the heart of harry potter is like fundamentally flawed is that they have special powers or whatever and you're like so you're gonna go like tell like the humans who are

researching cancer like it's possible to make fire come out of your hands no literally fuck the human race it's just a little mary potter but when i was 11 like you kind of outgrow most of the kids books that were around my time so i like kind of started reading like james bond books or science fiction stuff where there was like a lot of raw sex that wasn't expecting like oh i remember i found my parents copy of the godfather oh it's good stuff sunny corleone starts doing it with one of the bridesmaids and like i learned some new words that day but you motherfuckers are just reading about the boy wizard that becomes the magical alien ghost fairy and never returns to his human roots. Oh my God. And he comes from like a human family and they're all overweight pieces of shit. Yeah, they're like called rumpuses or something like that, right?

Yeah, they call, if you don't have magic, you're called a muggle and you're like disdain. They have a huge disdain. Yeah, it's a slur for humans. Yeah. And the book kind of goes like, oh, we shouldn't be mean to muggles, but they clearly think of us as pieces of shit. Like Harry Potter has some weird- Well, it sounds like they can kind of kill us on a whim, so they are superior. And yet, J.K.

Rawlings says, no, they're the true victims. They're in hiding. Well, they're like Lovecraftian God. And you go, what were you guys doing during World War II? And they're like, we had our own thing going on. I'm like, oh, okay. Oh, so they're like the Vatican. Yeah, basically.

Yeah, okay, I get it. They refuse to interfere in the realm of men. Yeah. Oh, so they're like the Vatican. Yeah, basically. They refuse to interview her in the realm of men. It doesn't work. With the Swiss. They have time travel, the wizards, and they only use it for, yes, they have literal time travel charms, and they only use it so students can travel back in time and take more

courses. I'm like, you could literally reverse whatever. It's a children's book. Let's be real. Peter R for two says, you don't sex. Comedy gold from Adam, everyone. I'm sorry. Peter, you should send more stuff to say.

You're going to skip super chill. Let's see. James Garner says, you guys are the best and cocaine is fun. So he agrees with us. Good. Kids don't do cocaine, please. don't do cocaine unless you're in la and you have stuff you need to get done like didn't play with paltrow deuce like she just made some interesting quote where she was pointing out that life before cell phones is that she could just do cocaine in any bar in new york city

didn't have to worry about it oh And I was like, you know what? That's the only Gwyneth that I had a huge crush on. That's her. Legacy for two says, everyone hates gamers, but what about gamas? Gamas? Gamas, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. CaptainBlackRed for 10, the biggest problem is VTubers

and the people that like them. There's nothing wrong with that. What's the V in VTuber? VTuber is when you have a little Virtual, it's when instead of you You have a webcam that makes you into an anime person Have you seen those people? You've seen that Yeah, they're called Gamer Gators

No, they had them on G4 On that, what do you call it? That ball pit show Like Miko Niko Yeah, or whatever, Gwar Gwar or something Yeah Alright, Koo for 5 says thank you all for not killing yourselves Nice hat Vito, Sig, Zeon Miko Niko. Yeah, yeah. Or whatever. Guar Guar or something. Yeah. Alright. Coop for 5 says, thank you all for not killing yourselves.

Nice hat, Vito. Sig Zeon. Absolutely. Alright, well we'll go through the rest of these later. Yeah. DrunkenAtheistStudio for 5 says, I worked at AMC when Passion of the Christ came out. People would sit in the theater after the credits like it was their

own personal church. I did not ever I didn't see passion the Christ till years later. Have you seen it? No, I haven't seen that or avatar. It's crazy like they're the same. He made he made the devil look like Obama Like there's the devil in it. Yes the devil shows up Yeah And he's like he's like a thin black guy who clearly was cast to look like Obama Jesus is getting whipped the shit out of. And there's an Obama devil going, yeah. Here's the interesting thing about Mel Gibson.

Especially in movies he directed. But even ones he didn't direct. Go look how much he gets tortured in very explicit ways. I think he's had this messiah kind of going for a long, long time. I mean, I've seen, what, Apocalypto? That was good.

That was good. That was a pretty cool movie, actually. I like that. Yeah, he directed that. Is he back? Those damn cops hadn't arrested him. Those fucking cops messed it all up. He could have come out with so many great movies. Apocalypto 2. Remember the one that Jodie Foster directed him in

with the puppet? I didn't see that one. It's him and the beaver. I did see that, but I didn't remember any parts of it. I love how you've seen that but not Avatar. That's kind of fucking awesome. Once

like 10 people tell me I gotta see something, there's just no way I'm gonna see it. not avatar that's kind of fucking awesome once like ten people tell me I gotta see something there's just no way I'm gonna see it you haven't seen avatar? it's not worth it I haven't seen the new one but I saw that first one I had a panic attack because I didn't realize

Michelle Rodriguez was in it until the very end and then I wondered if I had blacked out at some point during the movie would she have been in it the government my 3d glasses weren't working great and so i also like spent a lot of it wondering if i had cataracts and if i needed to go have surgery and how that might affect my game playing so yeah i didn't see this i'll say this about avatar 2 is uh it's the kind i look at movie and I go If this had come out like 10 years ago It would be like the ultimate cultural sensation But it's like almost

Too earnest For like this generation It's too hot It has way too much of like This Hollywood like You know we just gotta be a family And like we gotta protect each other And I'm like kids today just fucking hate everything

They're gonna go nah No, this is stupid And they should Yeah, it was it was weird to see something that like Hopeful and magic or whatever and it felt like a Harry Potter in the same vein of like what if everything was magic? Can we all there was a magic tree and everyone was blue and could could swim with swim everywhere and you're like all right i don't care about that jesus fucking christ yeah exactly i was like i felt like this is great but i'm too old for this shit because i know it's you want me to live in this magic world that i know is a lie and i can't embrace the lie i can't

live in pandora with you and fight the evil men from space who come to take our resources or whatever. I will say, what's her name? The chick from Alien. Oh, Sigourney Weaver. Sigourney Weaver. Do you know who she plays in Avatar 2? She plays a 14-year-old Avatar who's like the daughter of her scientist character from the previous movie

and me and my buddy were both like that was like the most incredible performance i've ever seen wait wait is it still her voice it's still her voice she did all the mocap and but she's playing a 14 year old avatar girl and i'm like holy shit this is like better. I'm like, does anyone fuck the first avatar came out? I got to interview Sigourney Weaver. And that's one of the few times where I was like, I lost composure, but I love that voice so much. And that was Ripley. Dude, her, I just, I, it was like, I was just like, it was, it really was one of those few moments of shock where I had to kind of like re orient myself in the course of the interview Dude her performance in Avatar 2

And I don't even know if you call it a performance Because it's CG or whatever but both me And my buddy Mr. Girl were like I was just Like completely entranced By this like she basically is They're kind of shaping her up to be like the Jesus of the Avatar people and she's like a magical girl Or whatever which should be corny

And stupid and for some reason I'm just like If anyone hurts fucking 14 year old the avatar people and she's like a magical girl or whatever okay which should be corny and stupid and for some reason i'm just like if anyone hurts fucking 14 year old blue sigourney weaver i'm gonna kill him leave that beautiful pure-hearted girl alone uh so it's kind of worth seeing for that bacon is here for two somebody please clip veto's anti-harry potter rant farfick nougan adam thank you for making this show fantastic i I agree. That's not what it says. And Underground Flex for Five says... I was skeptical there. I was like,

no. But Underground Flex for Five did say thank you for coming on, Adam, with a heart. Adam, do you have anything you want to plug? Anything going on or you're just going off and enjoying yourself, it sounds like? Yeah. If there's anything I'm going to plug, it's probably my absolute and enduring contempt for gamers.

And where do we hear about that? On Twitter? That's the only place you're going to fucking hear it. Until Captain Elon boots me. Follow Adam Sessler on Twitter to hear about why the gamers are trash. Yeah. Yeah. They're trash.

Well, some of them are. Just a spoiler're trash It's because they're stupid Spoiler alert it's because they're stupid I think they need to find a better identity than gamer I think you need to subdivide Like be an eater Be an eater Oh I'm an eater baby Do you remember when they were like

Oh video games are art Like when was that the 90s That was when I was like, oh, video games are art? Like, when was that? The 90s? That was when I was like, no, I'm out. Video games are art, but sometimes they get things wrong. That's a whole other bag of worms. Okay, sure. Some games can approach art. Some games take it way too seriously.

I'm going with your art. Yeah, I know. Dick plays Final Fantasy VII, and he goes, why aren't Tifa's boobs bigger? Which I understand your gripe. That's art. But you enjoy the story. No. No.

You're only there. Skip, skip, skip. I get yelled at. You're not skipping. Are you skipping the story when you play Final Fantasy VII? Not Final Fantasy VII. Only because of Tifa was in there. Only because of every other game.

Fair enough. Not Red Dead Redemption 2. Adam, are you playing any games right now? Yeah, I'm replaying I always forget the name of it. Jedi Fallen Order. I still haven't beat that one. It's the worst titled game. It's really good. Yeah, it's pretty good.

It holds up. It's funny, I played so many more Souls games since I played this one. Since I played the first Jedi game. And it's definitely going to be my next question. Cause I was a big souls guy and then playing fall. I'm like, Oh,

it's kind of like a light souls game. Oh yeah. But then I was like, well now I just want to go play souls games. Unfortunately. Well, I think it's the, the,

I mean the, the, the lightsaber gameplay. Yeah. Like the sword on sword that you get to do there is better than anything you're gonna get in a souls game because it's not really that kind of i mean it's similar but it doesn't do that uh and like i'm not even the biggest star wars fan but like being able to see that done so elegantly uh is cool and obviously there's a sequel coming out in about a month yeah i was gonna say i'm actually kind of excited for the sequel because the first game... Are they going to cram a woman into it? There already are women in it.

Fuck you. No, I think they actually wrote one into it. They wrote one into it. Yeah. I think there was actually a controversy because the studio made the main character like a white guy and a bunch of people at the studio were like, oh, don't we have enough white guy to protect? I don't know.

Yeah, because that character with the red hair, is that a Harry Potter kid? the studio we're like I don't we have enough white guy protect I didn't even realize well now I know I try to play that game but I fell off too many cliffs And I quit They have an easy mode I gotta admit that I suck at video games Alright anything else Oh wow the internet told me I do too We should set up a gaming competition Suck off see who's worse at this game That would be fun

Well you guys You can find Adam On Twitter At Adam Sessler Adam thank you so much Yeah thanks Adam Thank you for having me on We had a blast And hopefully the internet

I think is going to learn To love you Good luck with your third act Don't threaten me man Don't threaten me I don't want that I love you though I think a lot of people

Just take all this too seriously It's like you're You're trolling people on Twitter Which is what I love you, though. I think a lot of people just take all this too seriously. It's like you're trolling people on Twitter, which is what I love to do. Yeah, it's fun. And I get the same amount of shit because I love it. It's fun. Twitter's not real life. It's like I'm not hiding the fact, and they're still not getting it. Yeah.

Although you do sound mad. You do sound mad, Adam. Are you mad? I don't sound mad. I'm mad. I'm way less mad than you. You're more mad than I've ever been. But I'm like

mad crazy. Mad crazy. You're nuts. Dick and Ingles. No, no, no. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Adam. Enjoy yourself. We'll catch up. Cheers. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Bye. Wow. The great Adam Sessler Is here

The show is still live Thankfully Oh man Alright Are we gonna have Are we gonna have That conversation What

The conversation where I get One of the best guests We could ever have At this point in time And you don't set the show live Get your super chats in fellas While we Look Oh You don't set the show live. Get your super chats in, fellas, while we...

Look. Oh, God. I have a lot of things to do today. Oh, my God. And everybody's in the chat going, well, I guess it's not going to happen. I should just leave. You usually read the chat, though. No, I don't.

You usually have it kind of up, don't you? That was... Oh, my God. Came in at a good point. It did come in at a good point. I think they got most of what was going on. But he was saying such incendiary things about the gamers that, you know, I want people to get the full context.

I know. I'll upload it right when we're done. All right. Well, let's go through the rest of the Super Chats. Here, you want me to scroll it so you don't have To worry about it Makes your life easier not really because then I can well do it okay

Well my con for five in Vito voice I don't have time To work out what's a 12 minute a week Workout that must be a scam Just say you won't work out okay I won't Work out but I might work out Mint salad for 20 asks Vito are you going to watch and review Velma

If not can you watch my review of it Spoilers so far it's very bad on funny Tumblr girl humor that sucks Everyone go on over to ASE Presents To check out Mint Salad's review of Velma Maybe I'll review it We'll see what's happening Patrick Boo for 2 says

I can do better and I can drive I don't know what that means Legacy for 5 Big biggest problem in the universe Adam Sessler or a child molester I'm going to say H We didn't read that one to Adam It felt insulting Legacy for five says imagine paying five bucks

Of real money to type this I cannot you didn't pay Slavkine Slavkineekie I assume when the show started Puts effing finally. Lofty Pixels 5 says Biden's Garage was more entertaining than the last 30 minutes. Heaven Like for 5 says this is a bigger Butterfingers than when Sean deleted an episode.

I mean, yeah, with all that advanced promo and people going, I can't believe. It still started. It still came in. I hate you. Legacy for $4.99. The thousand yard stare in Vito's eyes after finding out the stream wasn't live. You were pissed. I wasn't pissed. I was pissed at myself.

I'm not pissed at you. Everybody makes mistakes. I just felt like it was my fault because I always— You do always say, are we live? In the future, I'm going to say, Dick, this is dick put this is why i just put it always go live when i start streaming because that's how my show works so i have to think about it extra on this just every time just put the chat on the side and i can read the chat and then the chat will say if there's any audio issues if there's any whatever the fuck if it's not live okay i want the chance

with you i don't care And maybe get a second monitor To put the chat on If we need to A second fucking monitor Whatever We need I want the chat live Cause then they can tell us

If something goes wrong We're usually looking at stuff over there Like we had Adam Sessler's Face over there It's just gotta be In a tiny little corner And then I can read it Alright

I'm not mad I'm just disappointed I'm with Sherpa5 Says how does the band Ween factor into this discussion? Was that the Nirvana stuff? I don't know. Let's see.

Dwabwinkle for 20 says, I know I brought this to your attention before, but money is super tight. I forgot to unsubscribe to your Patreon again. I enjoyed the bonus episode, but would really like it if you gave me back the $5. It'd be a huge help. He spent $20 to send us that message. Wait, wait, wait. Read that again. I forgot to unsubscribe.

I enjoyed the bonus episode. No, he didn't put a TBF, you idiot. Huh. Why'd he pay $20 to send us that message. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Read that again. I forgot. I enjoyed the bonus. No, he didn't put a TBF, you idiot. Huh. Why'd he pay $20 to get $5? Because he's fucking with us. He sent this message like last week. Oh. It's a bet.

Oh, thank you. It's a great bet that I want you to keep doing for $20. Black Phillip got his Go Frost clap, surprisingly. Dude, that's the, that puts so much more in perspective. But if he's, that's what was confusing. I'm in perspective But if he's That's what was confusing I'm like, wait If you're saying That you're doing the Citizen Kane clap

That means she's floundering up there You don't need to ask that part, though I wish we could have dug I didn't want to, like, scare him off, you know With what? Just I find all the G4 stuff interesting But I don't want to, like, throw any of his co-hosts under the bus

Or anything like that. Oh, what do you mean though? What were you going to, you wish you could ask him? I could have just talked to him for hours about it. You know what they were thinking, what was going on.

Uh, but maybe we can get him back on at some point. Pretty interesting. It is. I find it endlessly interesting when a bunch of people throw money at a project and don't seem to know what they're doing. And the money is just bleeding. Of course you go do interviews.

You promote the show. I think Frost should have done interviews. I specifically said, listen, I'll be very open. Because as I've said, look, man, I get it. If you're a girl playing video games, you don't want a bunch of guys yelling, hey, let me see that snooch. You know, when you're just trying to enjoy some Call of Duty, I get it. All right?

It's just like most people tuned into that network wanting to see, like, a Morgan Webb shaking her tits, and instead they got a lecture from a lady with a nose ring, which is fine. I think they wanted more fighting, but she just didn't deliver on the fighting. They could have just went full heel and done the fighting. Who knows? There might be room for that. Legacy for Two says, we need a Patreon goal to make Adam co-host. I agree

Let's see The only positive reaction Okay Dick From Rydog for five I know you like making fun Of Lex Friedman But I went to Drexel And it's not that terrible

Of a school What the fuck is Drexel? Is that the school you went to? That's where Lex Friedman Went to his undergrad He never mentions it, though. He only mentions MIT for some odd reason. Usually people have both in their bio.

If they have any. MintSalad for 20 says, video games are for children. That's a quote from famous Italian YouTuber Tony from Hack the Movies. Yeah. So Tony also hates the gamers. Peter R., who kept trying to eat at Adam for five, says, I love Adam's missing teeth. I wish I could claim credit for creating that gap there. Oh.

It would be a dream to have hit points against a frost defender. My God. See, it makes it so unfun to make fun of her when it becomes this, mob of people doing like I wish I could have punched you and raped you I mean alright it's a lady like it's annoying we're losing the fun drunk in atheist studio for two says I'm a zennial divorced from gen x and

millennials what is zoomer thing you say that's great I do agree with lofty that if I wonder if Adam would be able to talk about Hogwarts legacy. And that's one of the things people are saying, are we going to get Gamergate 2.0 now that like, are these outlets going to fairly report on a Harry Potter game

or do they all have to just go, it hates trans people, zero out of 10? Yeah. We'll see. It's going to be interesting. They'll put yay right into the White House. I don't know about that. Jason McFarlane for two says,

Sessler wants to purge gamers from his socials. The Gentleman Sausage for five says, Bro tip, if you get mad, you lose. But if you call the other guy's opinion Reddit, then you automatically win. So just call them Reddit and then get mad. Yeah. Fascinating.

Pete Talk for five says, I'm late. Did cocaine grandpa explain why his audio is so bad for a pioneer of the work from home movement? His audio was bad.

If he comes back on we're buying him a mic. He could probably afford a mic. Yeah. Get a blue Yeti. For God's sake. Regardless.

I'm glad we had him on. Let's see. Evan Like for 20. So you're going to skip Super Chats when the expectation has been to read them. You didn't read that other one

from James Gardner. You guys are the best and cocaine is fun. Well, he said it. TBF. $20. I thought he already read that one. I don't think so. Maybe not.

Maybe not. I think you need to try harder to be F. Yeah. Nice try. Evan. Like, uh, I don't know. Let's see. ASC presents.

You speak the true, true. I'll call next time. But I saw Cox. I got accustomed to the five, 10 minute. If you know, attendance. see. ASE presents. You speak the true true. I'll call next time, but I saw Cox. I got accustomed to the 510 minute if you know attendance. Yeah, call Riley. Call text call. If I say on Twitter, the show's going

live now, that means I'm trying to set it live. Peter R for five says I can't say matter you dick. I never thought I'd say this, but this makes me miss Mr. Girl. You guys. Bacon is here.

Says somebody please clip Vito's anti Harry Potter rant. I want to make that video. I've been meaning to make how Harry Potter ruined a generation because it literally taught a group of kids to fantasize about abandoning their human ways and embracing an alien culture that no longer, that has nothing to do with humanity And in fact despises humanity But that's a good thing

It depends on how you go with it Jeff It's the only way to escape this age of anxiety We live in where there's so much bad news That you have to care about every little thing Is to just divorce your humanity from them entirely Slav kind Nikki for two Good show outside of Vito fucking up

That is not my fault, but it kind of is. Here, look, I'm going to put this up. It's not going to help. Yeah, it will. It's going to blend into the background and then you'll forget about it. Ah, maybe it will help.

You can try. He made a go live poster. DJK says, for 20, says Vito went with Mr. Girl to see Avatar. I guess he is a PDF file. Now, we saw it separately, but he encouraged me to see it. So anyway, so good. Buck Cube for went with Mr. Girl to see Avatar. I guess he is a PDF file. Now, we saw it separately, but he encouraged me to see it. Buck Cube for two. Vito, go to Gamer Jail.

Legacy donates $50 and demands a call to prayer. Dick? What do you think? Oh! All you gamers are trash! No more gamers! Frosk! Frosk! Mesa Frosk. Frosk.

Mesa Frosk. You're worse. You are worse than a deck, than a store-bought deck. That has no Radiant Pokemon or GX Pokemon that only has a 1, 2, 3 normal Pokemon in it. You're worse than this deck. Not even a store. Not even Nostorp. No GX at all. Oh my God.

Only maybe has a Celebi. Gardevoir only is. You're playing way too much Pokemon cards with your nephews. I swear to God. You're worse than this. You're worse than this, Miss Frosk. Geek Force is worse than this.

No, Frosk is wonderful. She told the gamers that they are scum, they are trash. Worse than even the punch-out of hit-point trackers that come with the deck. You are the punch-out of hit-point trackers that come with the deck. Not even real hit-point counters you are. Damage counters, Dick. Not even damage counters you are.

Wouldn't even save. Don't punch them out. Throw it straight into the garbage you are. See, I don't play modern Pokemon cards, so I guess I'm just at a loss. What you are, Miss Frosk, you are even worse. You are the evenest deck without the computer search and the Professor Oak that come with such deck. Even mixed in. Alla praise to Frosk. Throw them in the trash. Great, Fr mixed in. Alla prays to Frosk.

Throw them in the trash. Great, Frosk. Alla blesses you. All right. Thank you so much. Goodbye, everybody. What a show. Get the full show coming to our YouTube channel.

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