Tomorrow - 143: Pewdiepie Has Red-Pilled Sonic the Hedgehog

Episode Date: December 17, 2018

Josh and Ryan have some bad news: Sonic the Hedgehog is sweaty and mad as hell and Pewdiepie may or may not be responsible. In other news, the Russians have developed the world's most advanced robot (it's just a person in a suit) and it ends up Pokémon are terrifying nightmares in real life. Is this entire podcast about video games? No, but the best parts are. Enjoy Tomorrow 143 before the YouTube stans and Friendster fanboys come for us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey and welcome to tomorrow, I'm your host Joshua Tupulski. Today on the podcast we discuss the TurboGraphic 16, a Russian replicant, and sweaty sonic. I don't want to waste one minute. Let's get right into it. Orion, Ryan is happening. We're near the end of the end of the year and this is maybe one of the last, this might be the one of the last podcasts we do in 2018. And you can tell because it was so promptly delivered. You can tell because, listen, I gotta just slow it on a level with the audience, okay? I hosted a wedding at my house this weekend and the preparations for the wedding and then the actual wedding itself, not my wedding, by the way.

I should say I'm already happily married, but the preparations through everything into a complete and utter dis, into complete and utter disarray. And so for that, I am sorry to the listener and I owe you big time. And I'm going to deliver big time. I don't know how. I don't know how. I don't know how. I don't know how. I don gonna deliver big times I don't know how we've ever done the best show ever It's it's a late. I'm drinking You guys are gonna love it. I'm definitely not gonna say anything that will get me banned by the FCC

You know, I just learned about today is this whole you don't respect the SEC You know, I just I just learned that um This whole YouTube rewind controversy learned that, um, this whole YouTube rewind controversy. Oh, yeah. That's a real, that's a controversy for the, for 2018. Between that and the subscribed to PewDiePie spanning, but the, but the subscribed to PewDiePie is like a, is somehow, I mean, there's some relationship, essentially, right?

Listen, when you're, when you're a teen and you've got an internet connection, and it's time to scream at Pete Davidson, you've got some work to do. I'll be honest with you, it's, um, a box had an explainer. They're like, what's the YouTube rewind, uh, uh, controversy, whatever. And I was like, okay, yeah, this is what I'm not going to spend the time to do my own, like, I'm not going to do the legwork on this. You're like, let's, let's explain explainer.

And it turns out, and it out, it's simplistic and stupid enough that you can actually explain it in like a thousand word article. Yeah, right. Basically like, it's not Siri on 30 maps or whatever. It's like, the, you know, the Siri and conflict in 30 maps. It is actually like, there's a bunch of essentially alt-right people now who are like, they're like, they're like the red-p pill, they're like gamer gate,

but the gamer gate light, which is like, people who like Jordan Peterson and think that we should not put limits on free speech, which means like you should be able to say things that are racist, homophobic, xenophobic, whatever, and people shouldn't get mad at you when you do it. That's their version of free speech. That James Corden and Jimmy Fallon are more popular than Nazi daily bloggers or whatever.

No, they're not. The big controversy is apparently that there's some Indian studio, it's called like T-Studio or something. I don't know. I only graze the thing. They're like about to be the most subscribed to channel or whatever. It's like because there are a fucking billion people in India, I'm guessing.

And I mean, that's helpful. And also they put out like a ton of videos and whatever, but it's like this big, it's this big like industrial complex of like YouTube videos and then there's like little PewDiePie, you know, little Swedish PewDiePie and he's all he wants is to be the most popular person on YouTube in the world.

That's all he wants. And so the most popular person on YouTube in the world. That's all he wants. Anyhow, and so like his fans are enraged or something and then also like there's some kind of free speech thing going on where people think a PewDiePie is being silenced or whatever. Then YouTube puts out this video which has all of the YouTube people who are safe for work. Yeah, okay. And a lot of them are like corporate like tie-in John Oliver type, you know, you know, or whatever like, you know, Marquez Brownlee is on there and and you've got like Casey Neistat is on there like people who are like They're like, you know PG PG 13, you know, they're not like saying the N word like they're not people who are like

Just talking about like Nazis being whatever beauty. You don't know what NBC's false schedule might bring. And now you're right, you're right. But the point is, you know, so the red-pilled PewDiePie stands are like mad because PewDiePie is not even though he's the most popular or the most subscribed to or whatever. And it's like, look dude, do you know how fucking business works? They're not gonna put Logan Paul, they're not gonna put the fucking suicide forest guy

and the N word guy on, or the Jew Hater or whatever PewDiePie's doing this week, in their fucking ad to advertisers. Like you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. Like it has nothing to do with like freedom of speech or suppression of your fucking, your stupid ideas or whatever, it's like it has to do with YouTube

as a business, they make money off of ads and they need to sell like Procter and Gamble, like parents in the suburbs of Ohio need to be like, I like that, Marquez Brownlee. He's a, he's very charming and I love his gadget videos. They don't wanna hear PewDiePie's bullshit and they don't wanna think about it. And those advertisers need to be able to be like,

yes, we are, we're cleaning, we're wholesome just like you want. Anyhow, I might be rambling, but I read this fucking stupid thing, I wasted like 10 minutes of my life. And now, you know, all about the YouTube rewind controversy, which is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of everything. I'll say this though, and I read an interesting piece that was like how defending PewDiePie and his 75 million followers or whatever or like watching his videos gets you into the

alt, right? Which is if you decide you like this person just because you think he's funny or like you relate to his videos or you know like if you're you know 14 and Disguise speaks to you for whatever reason you're like he I love his opinions on Sonic the Hedgehog You're like great everything's happening When he does use the N word you want to excuse it because you like him and and you're like it's not that big of a deal And like just let me have this thing. I like I'm in pain my frontal lobe doesn't work. I'm a teenager And so you come up with excuses and those excuses can range from whatever

with the same excuses like Republicans and alt-ray conservatives and Nazis used to get away with stuff. And once you start like allowing those into your thought process and making some excuses for the people you like, it's really easy to slide into like, yeah, it's okay if you don't like Jews because, you know, and you know, like, I'm nobody saying get rid of

them. They're saying a nonviolent ethnic cleansing, you know what I mean? Like it's really easy. I mean, it's, it is, yes, there is a obvious slippery slope there where I mean, I had to use the term slippery. I know. And somehow co-opted by the fucking alt-right. But or by just the right wing.

But yes, it gets easier to make excuses. But actually, something that I think is that, I think it's more troubling than like you being OK with PewDiePie's occasional racist anti-Semitic and probably homophobic slip ups. The thing that I'm more troubling is that the youth of the world, and I assume the youth of America, now believe that the thing that is like cool and most important is how many subscribers you have on your YouTube channel, that like that actually means that you are the best,

that you're important and that you are the best, that you're important and that you're the best and that you have good ideas. It's a meritocracy. Like followers and likes are meritocracy. And like I just, I just think it's, it's pretty incredible to have come from where I came from. Like this might be the old guy talk. It's the old dude, you know, now I'm an old man.

I started this when I was a young man. I was cool, you know, I was just gleaming the cube with all the other kids. And now I'm 85 and I'm dying, but like it's not cool to like the thing that everybody else likes. I mean, it's okay if the thing that you do like the thing that everybody else likes, like that's okay. And like sometimes, every once in a while, the thing that everybody likes is also the fucking best, right?

That does happen. And we've definitely talked about this before in the podcast, but more often than not, you're a fucking sheep. You know, more often than not, if you like the thing that everybody else likes, you like it because of reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of that thing. It's more to do with like peer pressure and marketing and a bunch of other bullshit.

And like, you may think that like you came to PewDiePie through some organic grass roots whatever But like dude he crossed that threshold a long time ago. There is a machine an algorithmic machine and a marketing machine That gets PewDiePie in front of people. It's not just his how charming he is and how good he is at playing video games And if one corporation decides they don't want to market him anymore. It's not an attack on him Like and and it doesn't make, like, the whole thing, what bothers me is all of this is that there's this idea that he's authentic

because he's talking to you directly to the camera. But he has 75 million followers. So that's like any late night sitcom. And just because you don't, no, I know he's got me in the PR team and his marketing team. And he's not reading every individual comment. You don't really have a connection with him. Like, he actually needs, what he needs is probably a PR team and his marketing team. And he's not reading every individual comment. You don't really have a connection with him. Like, he actually needs what he needs

is probably a PR team to handle his shit. But like, here's like, you want to be like PewDiePie's like upset because this, this Indian channels like about to overtake him because they have more resources or whatever. It's like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that like you're, like whoever, his fans are mad because YouTube doesn't want to acknowledge him because he's unacceptable in the popular conversation.

And it's like you want to be the thing that's mainstream. If you want more and more and more followers, you're asking to be increasingly more accepted in the mainstream. And in the mainstream where most people live, the shit that you say has to be limited to some extent. Like there's something that's called like acceptable discourse in the mainstream. And people blow that all the time.

Mel Gibson used to be one of the biggest fucking stars in the world. He used to be in all of the Hollywood blockbusters. And then he like revealed himself to be a piece of shit. And people in the mainstream were like, no, thank you. People who had to work with him were like, yeah, no, thank you. People who had to work with it, who had to work with him were like, yeah, no, thank you. Like, we don't need to work with a guy who's a racist anti-Semite. We can find someone else to work with. So if people

like PewDiePie want to be the biggest and the most popular, they also have to acknowledge that they can, they're not going to be the unvarned yourself. That just doesn't happen. It just doesn't. I don't care how fucking modern we are. At some point people go like, yeah, that's too much for me. And you know, you know what? This just brings me all around too. All stands are bad. We have to stop like a blindly, obsessively supporting these people as if we know them. We did a great story on fanboys at the Virgin. I think it was in 2013 or 2012. It was like really expansive story about like Apple, Microsoft, and Google fanboys. And I thought it was a, I mean, honestly, the art of hell was really good,

but it also, whether you've viewed it on a, what kind of device you've viewed it on, it would change the layout to be, to look like Android or Windows or Apple. Yeah, it was fucking cool. And, you know, it was like, it was always this thing where it's like, I can't imagine. Like, like, I like, I mean, I just think of a thing

that you love, like the fucking Nintendo Switch. Do you know how I feel about Nintendo? Do you know what I feel for Nintendo? Fucking nothing. Okay, okay, I'm gonna think of my favorite movie like Blade Runner. You know how I feel about Ridley Scott as a director, talented guys, made some good movies?

I don't give a fuck about Ridley Scott. Like if he made a shitty movie, I'd be like, that movie sucks, Ridley Scott blows now. If he made a really good one, I don't give a fuck about Ridley Scott. Like if he made a shitty movie, I'd be like, that movie sucks. Ridley Scott blows now. If he made a really good one, I'd be like, wow, Ridley Scott is back. Like, but I don't feel anything for Ridley Scott. I don't feel any allegiance.

I don't feel any dedication. I don't feel like I owe him anything. And I don't feel like he owes me anything. But it is, I feel the same way about Apple and F**k it. I'm like, you have to practice. It's like Google, it's like even Google, like I like Google. But like I'd be ready to drop Google in a minute.

Bringing something better than Google, I'm happy to drop it. I'm just on a purely technical basis. I like the products, but I don't give a fuck about Sundar Pitch. I know offense, Sundar, you're a great guy. You're not a person that is important to me in any way, and your company is not important to me in any way,

insofar as it serves a purpose in my life. So the idea that you become a fan of like, you love Canon, the camera company, that's fucking weird, man. It's weird to love a company. But I do think it's not normal. It is like an evolutionary biological thing, like this herd mentality, this feeling like you've invested

in this thing, and these companies want to be seen as your friend and they want to market where Mario, you know Mario, you know Mario, your friend, that guy you've been on all those adventures with aren't you gonna root for him? And Mario is your fucking god now, okay, you pray to Mario, you worship at the altar of Mario and Luigi and Waluigi, which is apparently some kind of character I've become recently aware of. Waluigi though is, I love Waluigi.

I do, I do, I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun.

I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. I do have a lot of fun. Who cares is sp- you're like mad cuz spider-man is black or something It's like give me a fucking break. He is a comic book character the people who are like mad about ghost busters I mean, do you remember I mean it's kind of like that was truly spectacular It's like you're like you're like I kind of you like forgot about these ghost busters have the ginas You were so bad There was so mad and yet and yet who cares really right? So so anyhow, I guess what I'm saying is the end of the day is like and yet, and yet, who cares, really, right?

So, so anyhow, I guess what I'm saying is at the end of the day is like, be a fan of yourself, okay? Root for you, make yourself, make be your own, stand yourself. I'm saying. Stand yourself, okay? And that's the only person you should be standing.

Maybe you're, maybe you're a significant other. Maybe somebody who you really, maybe a great thinker, a giver, who you really respect and you feel it's different. Stan, is there somebody who leads a charity that's where they're helping people in need? Like, I could see getting a kind of religious affection for such a person. But if religious ties to anything, it's like they're probably molesting children. So just don't get too attached.

You know what I mean? That's okay. Okay, that's my opening rant to this podcast now. What was it at worth the wait? I'm gonna undoubtedly, there'll be a pipe bomb delivered to my house from a PewDiePie fan. Not saying all PewDiePie fans

or sending pipe bombs or anything, but we live in a climate where you know, a lot of shit's going haywire. I truly have a lot of shit going down haywire. I truly have shit going down. I've organized my life in such a gorgeous and beautiful way that I don't know any specifics about PewDiePie. Like I wish I could follow up on it with a joke about like what is PewDiePie's pipe bomb?

What would that be? Like I truly know nothing about him and I'm so happy. PewDiePie he's sweet. Such a beautiful life. Sweetish. Um, let's get into the, let's talk about some of the other stories here. Yeah, there's some live action. Sonic the headshot. Yeah, some horrible news. I'm really breaking.

Is it what's the movie? What's the movie called? Do we know we don't I think it's just on it. It's called headshot. They should have headshot because they're going for like a realistic angle. Hog cranking the hog. Hog. I think that'd be really cool. Yeah, it's horrifying. He has like human mussely legs and it's in the real world It's oh everything is a good thing. I love that is I love like I love like a sweaty I want to see him in like a pair of like I want to see he's like I want to see Sonic fuck Like like the movie opens the movie opens he The movie opens, he's in like a, it's like in a submarine, okay? And it's like a tracking shot through the submarine

and it goes into like a, if someone's in a bunk like tossing, they're having like a bad dream, you can't kind of make out the shape of the person. And then like the sheet gets thrown back and it's almost completely nude, sonic, sweating sweating beads of sweat dripping off of all of his body.

He's wearing like tidy whiteies. He's hairy. He's hairy. Yeah. No, his hair is all fucked up. He's also very hairy. He's sweaty. It's tidy white.

He's blue skin, I guess, blue fur. He like bolts out of bed. You know, kind of pivots out of bed. You know, head and hands breathing heavily. You just see his whole body tensing and sweating. No, that's what I'm talking about. I'm hoping that. I'm hoping that.

Does a quick shot, a little hair in the dog. A quick shot of like, Jim B. Whatever. Like, that's maybe I'm the only person who feels this way, but that's what I'd like to see. Is that too much to ask? You know what I want to see? Actually, I'd be really good in the role of Sonic the Hedgehog. Now, the thing is, if it was not a 3D animated character, I assume it will.

Mel Gibson would be a perfect rip from the headlines for real world Sonic. You got like a real a real junky looking James Francois tails. You think doing all that speed doesn't take a toll. That's a tagline, something like that. Speed takes its toll. Dude, I'm telling, something like that. You know what, right? Speed takes its toll. Dude, I'm telling you, this is good. This is good shit. He's like, you know, he's like fucking,

the part of the movie is actually that like, the speed that he uses is actually prematurely aging him. He said, by moving so quickly, he's aging and he's got to find a way to doctorate his heart to save the world. Dr. Robotnik, that's his enemy, right? Dr. Robotnik. Dr. Robotnik has the only, I haven't played, what?

Yeah, I haven't played in so long. And anyhow, Robotnik has the only way to traverse the effects of his speed use. You know what I'm saying? Just throw me. Say, hit me, Josh at theoutline.com. Just send me an email. I'm ready to, I'm ready to go into some pre production. We might be describing the plot of detective Pikachu for all we know.

I'll tell you what I'll tell you Fox is Pikachu. Pikachu Fox. You can leave him at one of those daycare centers with another Pikachu and they they breed. This is the problem with with with turning these 2d characters or even like, you know, game 3d characters into like live action movie 3D characters, it's like you've got to contemplate their genitals, you know? You're like, what's going on?

Like, is he a creature? It's like, let's not mix. Let's not mix anymore. Let's keep things. Yeah, do you have to take doggy bags that you can pick up your Pikachu's shit? And like, if that's true, what about the... I don't know.

...and Pokemon. Well, the first half, they obviously have their high function. I mean, they're like, they have like human level or beyond brains. Some of them do, right? Some of them do. Yeah, right. I don't know. Who's the one guy with like the fucking face?

Mutu. Who's his name? What is it? Mutu? Yeah. I like that. I knew exactly what you were talking about. Yeah, hold on. Wait, hold on. What is that? How do you spell that? Mewtwo, M-E-W-T-W-O.

Right. Wait, M-E-T. M-E-W-T-W-O. Mewtwo. Oh, yeah. That guy is already darkened. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Who are you thinking? He's in the trailer. He's got a disgusting face. Hold on a second. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, realistic way. I mean, nobody should ever render this character. It's a horror. It's fucking horrific. He looks like, okay, I'll tell you who he looks like

exactly. And I want people to put, I want links so people can see this. Okay, I'll put it on the post. There's a photographer, my one of my favorite artists. His name is Charlie White. He did a photo series, I believe it's called Becoming Joshua. I could be wrong. Hold on. Hold on a second. Charlie, what I'm Googling right now on my amazing new keyboard that I love. Maybe it's just called understanding Joshua. Understanding Joshua. Sorry, understanding Joshua. Okay. This guy looks exactly like the character of Joshua from understanding Joshua. Understanding Joshua. Sorry, understanding Joshua, okay. This guy looks exactly like the character of Joshua from understanding Joshua.

And understanding Joshua is one of the most disturbing, it's one of the most disturbing photo series. It's fucking awesome. Shit. It's fucking awesome, but it is, but tell me that it does not look exactly like him. That's Mr. Mime. Yes, yes.

I mean, dude, it's fucked up actually. This is, I need to, I need to like write about this, I think. Honestly, I think I need to write about this because I don't realize like it's really, it's really not good. And once you see, once you see Joshua, you're not gonna look at Mr. Mime the same way in this fucking movie.

Anyhow, got these pictures are terrifying also. Oh my God. Charlie White is the shit. I just want to say Charlie White is one of the greatest artists. He's so fucking cool. He did a series, I'm sure I've talked about it before. I found him. I think in 99, he did a photo series called In a Matter of Days, which was like scenes

from Los Angeles as like some kind of really fucked up alien like invasion was happening and it's like Weird alleys were like a body's being dragged off and like people waiting in their house I put like a family waiting like looking freaked out with like a father holding a gun that all the they all look like their scenes from a movie It's so fucking good anyhow. Once you see Charlie White's understanding Joshua you will look at this fucking 3d rendered On Charlie White's understanding, Joshua, you will look at this fucking 3D rendered. Mr. Mime and you will be shaken to your core. And we need to do something about it. There needs to be an intervention. Stop the Poke on Company International. Stop all Pokemon operations. Stop all Pokemon 2016.

This is like, it's like Coney. It's Coney, but it's Pokemon 2012. I'm going to be nude on a highway by the end of the week What's it out there? Oh, remember that guy man? I miss him. I miss that dude. All he wanted to do is stop a little bit on a car He went to guy right down to it. It's like all the charity side He just wanted to jerk off on a car and it wasn't been there before not in a car not in a car on a car And who hasn't been there before? Not in a car, not in a car, on a car. Anyhow, okay, let's get back on track here.

See, I feel like this was worth the wait. Let's get to, should we talk about this situation with Twitter? Have you heard of Twitter? Have you heard of this website that just won't stop? Jack Dorsey did a tweet. Sorry, I'm looking for the first time ever. I'm looking at the list that Ronald prepared for our case.

Can you please use his full name? It's Ad Jack. Ad Jack. Jack, Ad Jack Dorsey. Did this like tweet thread about Myanmar. Myanmar. You say Myanmar, I think it's Myanmar. Yeah, Myanmar.

Burmah, I say Burmah. About what a great place it is to meditate, how wonderful, how centered you can get there, the kinds of excruciating meditation he experienced, how rewarding it ultimately was, and he's like, if you're looking for a great place to meditate, you can't go wrong with me and Mar. Meanwhile, there's a, you know, basically mass genocide occurring in me and Mar.

Because of social media. I mean, there may be a link. There's a huge link. There's a link, but at the very least we can agree that there's some bad nasty shit going on there and it is not like a... It's not a chill place to hang one to hat. I mean, it's not exactly like, you know, you wouldn't be like, this is, I'm thinking, where's like a... Hey girl, you want to you wouldn't be like, this is, I'm thinking, where's like, uh,

hey girl, you want to me and Martin chill? I'm looking for a place to go. I'm looking for a place to go and really center myself. But I want it also to be a place where there is genocide occurring. Well, you've got the right spot here. And so Jack Dory does this tweet, Jack Dory's here, here. And so, Jack Dorey does this tweet storm. And then it turns out he was like, he was like taken on a trip by the government of Myanmar, taken on a balloon ride where he meditated in a balloon, hot air balloon.

Which I think is some kind of... You became a little balloon boy, you might which I think is some kind of became a little balloon boy You might say which is some kind of metaphor. Yeah, the the CEO of Twitter Meditating in a hot air balloon Above genocide paid for by the people like Yeah, I think they're it might be a metaphor metaphor there. There's definitely a fucking metaphor. I feel like if you wrote this in a book, it'd be like, this is so hack. Yeah, no, you're out of there would be like,

I'm sorry, this whole thing with the guy, the CEO and the meditation. It's not like, no one's gonna buy that. You gotta, you gotta dress it up a little. Just give it, give it, give it, something that seems realistic that I can hang my hat on in this chapter. You're telling me that the CEO of one of the world's largest social networks, that's all about, uh,

green people together, supposedly meditated a hot air balloon above Myanmar, paid for by the ethnic cleansers of Myanmar. I mean, it's actually when you say it like that. I think it's, we're at a point where like, I just have to laugh, I just have to laugh. He didn't Google it, like, what can you do? He fell for the Lindsay Lohan Turkish spy trap. No, I don't know, but maybe those tweets were sponsored. I don't know.

Maybe. It's just weird. It's so weird. If I were him, I'd be like, if I were him, I would have,. Maybe. It's just weird. It's so weird. If I were him, I'd be like, if I were him, I would have, I mean, one would assume you're taking a trip to me and where you might Google. Yeah. You know, and you might just say,

let me think about this, Jack, let me think. I assume Jack refers to himself as, pray, Jack, Jack, Jack. He says, add, Jack. Maybe there's somewhere else to meditate. I mean, this seems good, but how's the, I was standing on a barbara this time of year. Runner up, is there a place that might seem a little less

kind of hot button, you know? Like, it's like, basically, I mean, you know, it, I'm not saying it's the same thing, but like, it'd be like Jack does a doing a tweet right, which by the way may happen, but how he found that some of the rooms at the Auschwitz were really, you know, he's like the stillness and the uncomfortable environment

was perfect for meditation. Yeah. I think he's not. Similar to a Justin Bieber said, he said, I think Anne Frank would have been verified Yeah, right exactly I don't know that's but I think what's the question you have to ask yourself is like what's the How far of a walk is Jack Dorsey to Justin Bieber in terms of like

His brain It's like three days and he'll song away from people like he yeah people like he's a genius and it's like well he He he definitely has been he's definitely genius and it's like, well, he, he definitely has been, he's definitely been in the right place the right time. Absolutely. But he does make me wonder, I mean, look, I've done dumb things, I've done dumb things, but I've never meditated in a hot air balloon

paid by genocide people. Again, yes, is there a country? Yes, there's a country. I know, I know, I know, he's gonna be fucked up yet? Yeah, there's a company. Tina's coming. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I mean, no, it's true. It's like, you have to really want it nowadays.

I mean, I know we've said this before, and I'm sure that a lot of other people have said it, but it's like in any other time, you know, hearing that the president of the United States paid off multiple women who he was having in the fair with, illegally used like funds for his campaign and did it all behind the scenes and threw a fucking bag, you know, it would be like,

people would not, there would be, people couldn't go to work the next day, they were like, this is something's fucking broken in the world, we have to fix it. Now we're like, that was Tuesday morning. It wasn't even like that was Tuesday. Now we're like, that was Tuesday between eight and 9.30. And then some other stuff happened.

And now we just, it's some other more crazy thing that occurred, so it doesn't even matter, you know? So now it's like Jack's thing, I mean, by the way, not like Jack's thing is that huge risk. And all it's like Jack Dorsey once again, is doing something fucking stupid that seems like not aware of humans. Like I say, Jack's, and here's Jack's number one crime

is that he doesn't seem to have ever met a person. He doesn't know what people are like. He's like, I mean, I guess in that way, he's a lot in common Mark Zuckerberg. Jack Joseph's thing is like, I understand that there is such a thing as genocide and that it is happening here. But it just doesn't, you know, have the same impact on me as it might on other people. But it is an interesting thing that the people who make these social networks and like at the core of the drive to create that when it wasn't even like a concept or it was a really vague concept was, you know, Zuck made a like hot or not app because he didn't know how to talk to girls.

And like the jack thing, like of course he socially awkward. He made a website where you could talk to people in 140 characters about what you're doing without having to actually tell anybody You're just telling the box. He's like what would be ideal as I could say as little as possible on this to no one in particular and they might hear it Like here's would be ideal and if they like it they give me a sticker Oh, would you put it that way that's really brilliant. It is like it is like uh It is, oh, when you put it that way, that's really brilliant. It is like, it is like, yeah, does he really want to bring the world together here? Or is there something else happening? Because it is the worst, most insane way to communicate that I've ever heard of, what

you really think about it. Why do you think it's so popular? No, it's like, it's well, of course, why is it popular? Because everybody's socially awkward, okay? That's beyond us. It's true. Everybody's got social awkwardness, okay? And some people drink and rape through it.

That's most regular people, you know? They're guys, you know, look, the rapers out there, you know, they're drinking, they're raping, they don't know what to do. They're socially awkward, you know? They can't help them. So, no, but you know what I'm saying? Like, it's like if people learn how to be better people,

if they learn how to like communicate with human beings, if they understood like signals and things, but people don't, so they end up creating Twitter. I'm not saying the Jack is a rapist, I'm saying that. So then instead of raping, he made Twitter. And it's the first bad thing you've done at the year. I know. It's not even the new year,

how's he gonna start? He'll edit this. I'll just put a bunch of bleeps over what I'm saying, and people will just be like, what did he say? That's interesting. But like, you know, like everybody's awkward. Some people are like, I just wanna go to a party and read a book.

It's like, don't come to the party. But you wanna be at the party, but you don't wanna talk to people because talking to people sucks. And most people who you talk to, suck to talk to, which is why Twitter is also a weird thing because they were just exposed to all the conversation. I like being at parties and talking to people.

And you know what, I never have time to do when I'm enjoying being in a party in talking to people is like, sweet. I don't have time to post polls and get up down with the meme for whatever one I'm at a party doing. Well, you're a very different kind of person, okay? But like, InstaSeries is a social network for like, look what I'm doing.

Twitter is truly a social network for like, I'm alone and have things to say that nobody wants here. Instagram, Instagram is definitely like, look what I'm doing. Twitter is truly a social network for like, I'm alone and have things to say that nobody wants. Yeah. Instagram Instagram is definitely like, I, how much can I show off? It's like, how much can I, even when you're doing things that seem genuine, you're still in a little way showing off, right? Totally. Even even in the most genuine moment, you're still kind of like, I'm, this is going to be a cool looking picture, you know?

I think they have tools built in to make a cooler looking. That's exactly right. That they needed to make it cooler because let's be honest, you're a bad photographer. Not you, one is a bad photographer. Most people are. If you're not a bad photographer, you're probably a rapper. Okay, anyhow, getting back to my point. My point is...

Harry Richardson would be the confirmation to that... Oh, wow. Wow. You're hot and too hot for the holiday. Harry Richardson would be the confirmation to that. Oh wow, wow. Oh wow. You're hot and too hot for the holiday. This is such a hot, such a fiery, hot take situation that we're in. Anyway, it is fucking insane. It's like the idea that like, I love this idea.

I fucking love it. Now it's like Mark Zuckerberg is like, we created Facebook to bring the world closer together and it's like, dude, no, you didn't. You created Facebook to bring the world closer together and it's like, dude, no you didn't. You created Facebook to judge people, okay? And everybody loves hot or not. And a more advanced version of hot or not is really good, especially when you can let me be like, oh dude, they're in my fucking dorm.

But, and then over time, someone with money told you that if you said things like we created it to connect the world, you could get a lot more money because Most advertisers don't want to be on hot or not, but they definitely want to be on like this all-trueistic fucking service that's connecting the world and so bringing so together Yeah, so Jack and Mark and and and Tim from MySpace,

what was his name? Tom from MySpace. Hey, he was one of your best friends at one point. You were luxurious. He was in my eight. He was in my eight. Actually, Tom from MySpace was pre the period where he had to say dumb shit about what MySpace was. MySpace was obviously what it was,

which was a garbage fire. A barely, a was a garbage fire. You know, barely, barely, barely connected garbage fire. But a lot of, remember, a lot of blingy gifts. Remember, a friendster? Boy, that was good. I was an unfriendster. Oh, yeah, before your time, friendster. That was, friendster really was, I mean, it was Facebook before Facebook.

It's pretty incredible, actually. It's just been forgotten in the sands of time. I wouldn't even look like, like I can't remember what the last version of Friends are that I saw. Anyhow, but I digress. The point is the idea that these now, it's honestly it is like, it's like the if the national inquire, like somebody, like if the national choir were the national choir and then like, you know, and their job was to like, tell a, actually, let's get, let's do worse. Let's see like the weekly world news, which is like, the national choir actually tries to try,

it's like, they actually do get some stories, right? Sometimes, like, they definitely have like, I kind of, it's a pro, everything. And sometimes it's like, it's like, what everything you'll hit one. Yeah, it's like a pro to TMZ, like TMZ is actually very accurate, you know, they're horrible, but they're accurate. But, but the weekly a proto TMZ like TMZ is actually very accurate, you know, they're horrible, but they're accurate.

But the Wily weekly world news would do like the Batboy story, you know, be like boy, born half bad, half boy or whatever, you know, um, what I was like seven or eight, I was like, there's a bad boy. Yeah, of course, I mean, weekly world news is the proto info worse, but anyhow, but I digress, but um, the, the point is, it would be like if we, the world, is like somebody came along, VC came along, it was like, listen, what you're doing is salacious and it gets a lot of people reading, but Procter and Gamble be willing to give you a lot of money if you could kind of change the positioning of the weekly world news.

And then the weekly world news is like, is Hillary hiding the bad boy? Not even, no, they didn't even change their story. They were just like, they just made the front page seem more complicated. And they're like, we want to be the paper of record for the important stories in an ever changing world. And people were like, yes, that's what the weekly world news is.

It is the paper of record for the most important stories in an ever changing world. Thank God. That's fucking Facebook. Facebook was like, would you fuck this person? And now they're like, we wanna be democracy dies in the central, yeah, democracy dies without Facebook. We wanna be the central place where all human beings

connect, learn and explore together. It's like really Mark, is that what you wanted? Is that what you think you're doing? It's like, you're making money off of people and they're fucking time and information. Just own it, dude. Be the weekly world news that you know you can be. Yeah, you know what? We're asking for PewDiePie to get a PR marketing firm and for Facebook to lose theirs. Yeah, PewDiePie could be like, I mean, dude overnight, if he had to write people, he could really step it up. Oh, totally. He wouldn't have to do any end words or anything anymore

One he could be like he could be if he wanted to be he could be like a huge Like some kind of I don't know. I don't know where you go. I don't know how much how much is making for a hundred million dollars You're 50 million dollars you're 10 million dollars and he had a big deal with Disney that ended up getting pulled big You but I don't think he needs that on PewDiePie. Here we go. PewDiePie. I can't believe we're talking about this fucking idiot again. PewDiePie net worth.

Here we go. Net worth 20 million, but that's net. I mean, how much of that is liquid? We don't know. Here's another one. The influencer marketing hub says he's 30 to 50 million. Here it is. Here's all his cars and his, you know, I'm sorry.

We live in a bit, it's a bad, the reason why Trump is president is because people care about PewDiePie. There's definitely a connection between those things. Oh, I 100% agree. PewDiePie is the Donald Trump of YouTube, okay? I don't know what that means, but it sounds right to me. Forness and money. I was at a holiday party last night and met one of the, like, Amazon employee who works in Seattle and Might be moving to New York. He doesn't really know and I was asking him all about like the situation with the unionizing and blah blah And you know he works there. So his opinions weren't like spectacular

But I said did you guys watch those South Park episodes and he that was the topic that like hurt his feelings And he was like he like the vibe that I hurt his feelings and he was like He like the vibe that I got is they are not taking it in stride They are like Jeff Bezos and everybody who works for him are their mat and tray really got him Yeah, how I feel about Jeff Bezos Does he have a fan club what would his fan club be called daddy? He's simply a fire daddy I know what was his fan club? Daddy, he's simply a fire daddy. I don't know, what would his fan club be called? The Bezos. The Bezos.

I mean, I believe that Amazon probably has, there's a lot of ways that they can improve with how they treat their employees. No question. No question. I have no doubt about that. Yeah. I also believe that Amazon is an incredible

business and you can argue with it's you can argue with whether it should exist or not or whatever, but like you cannot argue with the fact that it touched, it hit something that people needed and wanted and that they utilize every day and that is a part of their life and that has not really, for most users of Amazon, has only provided them with positives. Okay? You can't deny that. Unless you're a homeless person.

It's a different story. Different story, different story. But I'm gonna hang about that. We're talking about Amazon's business and Jeff Bezos and his status. Here's what I'll say. I've met Jeff Bezos, I've talked to him a couple of times.

And I'm not bragging. I'm just telling you, because this is what happens if you're a technology journalist. And he is a fucking genius. He's a super smart guy. He's like a Steve Jobs level. I mean, people talk about geniuses, like they talk about people like Zuckerberg or Dorsey or whoever the CEOs are of the day, Travis from Uber or whatever. I'm telling you, I've talked to a bunch of these fucking people and I have not talked to

one of them that seemed as fucking smart as like frighteningly smart as Jeff Bezos. I'll just say that. I'll have to say this. I was going to say this. The interesting thing with Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs and like Bill Gates and like only a couple of a handful of those like the visionaries of our time type people is that Jeff Bezos knew his vision when he started. He didn't stumble into this by making a hot or not website and someone was like, you know what you could do with that. He started selling

book because they were the easiest thing. No, Reed Hastings is another guy like this and I hate to say it, but they have a lot in common and they've both had unbelievable success. I mean, and it's a similar kind of story because he was like, this is like, there's infinite creativity here and someone has to make this usable. And like, that's what he did. And he just did that his whole life. Jeff Bezos was like, there are books you can't get at bookstores. There's too many to stock. You should just be able to say, I want this and whatever. And he was like, that should be for everything, but I'll start with books. And that's good.

Anyhow, the point is, the point is, I'm not trying to defend his business practices at all. I can only say that you wanted to see the American dream and this is what it looks like. This is it. This guy started from, not from nothing, but he, God, I just looked at the front page of The New York Times and there's a fucking, that's an article about the rewind YouTube controversy. Top of the book.

I'm sorry, The New York Times, I'll just be honest with you, just please, just, do something else. Who is the reason you have lived in The New York Times? I have. There's so many more, there's so many, there's so just do something else. Who is it? You have a lot of them, but the New York Times. I have so many more. There's so many, there's so many more important stories than this. Who is the big audience though?

I, they published that Eliza Dushko's story about how she had a settlement from CBS for a second. The Dushko's story's wild. But they didn't even put her name like in the headline or even like the, the, the subhead. It was like, I was like, who is doing this? I mean, somebody who writes their head, they have an ador, they've been out of their designs.

Or a headline out of her. I mean, there's a lot of problems. I mean, they did this thing, did you see the thing they did with girl boss? Where it was like, and you know, whatever credits, girl boss, they get some coverage. But it's like, they're like, the great looks from, um, like the great looks from the great looks from the Girl Boss conference. And it's like, wow. It's like, it's a conference about like a female

business leaders, and they're like, look at their great fashions. It's like kind of weirdly toned, definitely. I'm going through you, quiz. Like I just feel like, I just feel like there's like a version of this that could work but it's not this. Yeah.

It's like written by a dude. Look how hot these girl bosses are. It's like, it's like, and then the questions are like, really they're like, tell me about your shoes. People are like, oh, these are shoes I like. Because that's what happens when you get dressed or something. You tend to wear shoes that you like. Anyhow, sorry, what was I talking about?

I get totally distracted. I was ranting and raving. And now what? I mean, we were talking about Amazon. Oh, right. Amazon, right. Okay. So anyhow, yeah, they're going to unionize. I mean, you know, whatever, if they do great, Amazon's the kind of business that should be unionized, in my opinion, like, absolutely. Like they have a huge workforce. You've got people undoubtedly, you've got people who are doing the exact same jobs and have all sorts of disparities between places and positions and whatever. It's like, that's a place that,

and by the way, Amazon can absolutely handle, yeah. Handle like, you know, taxes. I think there are, there are, there are lots of big companies that are very successful that have unionizedized a unionized workforce and everybody fucking survives. And Amazon is making enough money that they can survive. Just business will simply make $100 million

every two minutes. Yeah, I mean, whatever, he's fine, he'll be fine. Did you hear about all the asbestos and Johnson and Johnson powder? Well, you know, my policies, I won't use the powder unless it has the best as I know. That's how you know it works. I like to, I'd like to return to a better time in America, like the 1950s when asbestos was in all of the major powder products.

Smoking was good for you. Yeah. Smoking was actually the only way you could, you look cough. I'm just half a month. I'll have a month. I'll have you try to figure it out. That's all there were. It's all that we're looking for. Yeah, no, but tell me about, tell me about just speak to me a little bit about this story.

Oh, okay. So, apparently for decades, the Johnson and Johnson people knew that their baby powder contained a lot of asbestos and that the minds where they would like get it were contaminated. And they kept shipping it anyway. And they just like did what the cigarette company said, which was like, bury it or obfuscate the information. And this was for decades. And then eventually like tons of people got cancer. And they're trying to like, I guess, bring them to court or whatever. But the interesting thing is that the FDA continues to not really have a ton of control over a lot of baby products and a lot of cosmetics and stuff. Like there's not really any oversight for a lot of these products. And like, talc is a tough ingredient to begin with.

So like, because there's conflicting information about it as a carcinogen. And it's just a huge controversy because like, this is a perfect example of like because there's conflicting information about it as a carcinogen and it's just a huge controversy because like This is a perfect example of like why there should be really stringent methods for things that we use on babies Yeah, I mean, I think it's a really good idea that we are Very strict about the things that we put on or in babies, but as I, I don't see the government get it, the current government being too excited about regulation.

Oh, they don't give a fuck. No, I mean, I mean, the president believes that the president believes that, you know, individual regulation, regulation harms innovation. And we just need to, we're slowing down. We're getting beat by China. I mean, you can't say China. There's something wrong with this.

Did you say, I'm sorry, totally related, but unrelated, the tweet about how he's a speed freak and crushes a bad girl. He loves that. He loves that. It's like, it was a talk, man. I get it, man. I get it.

You know, I can't believe you. It's like, it's definitely, it's like, I would, I guess it makes sense because got it, you know, I can't believe you. It's like, it definitely is like, I would, I guess it makes sense because Adderall's like, you can get a prescription for it or whatever. It's very readily available. And everybody's like, oh, he's like doing coke or something. Every debate, he was like sniffing uncontrollably. He's like,

Hillary, it just be like that. He's like, Hillary, like, no puppet, no puppet. Anyhow, God, remember those debates where Hillary said everything that was a 100% fucking true and people are like, oh, she sounds shrill. She, remember that? My ex-wife.

Yeah, I remember when people were like, I don't, she seems like a schoolmarm. I'm not voting for a schoolmarm. I fuck, what the fuck is wrong with this country? I mean, literally, she was like, she was like, every intelligent is actually thinking, she's like, maybe he's, maybe he's being fed information by the Russians.

We don't know. And it's like, people are like, ugh, just like Hillary, who's the insanity. What is she, it's hysterical? Get her into the getter to the gynecologist or whatever. You know, and it's like, God, fuck it.

What's wrong with the world? Okay, what were we talking about? He put the bottle, oh yeah, he's a speed freak. Sorry, That's it totally. I mean, I'm just gonna say like it makes sense He wouldn't be a co-cat because coax illegal basically Also PSA snorting out or all doesn't make any difference if it's in service out of all like it There's no reason to snort it unless you just want to like look like already laying No, no, no, no, that's not true. No, it's not true. It works faster. It works faster than if you eat it It's sublingually or pop one up your ass,

but like, I take out a little regularly. It's not, there's not a huge, I know, believe me. Yeah. In the report. Well, yeah, sure, no, of course. I mean, it's, but you maybe you need to look at when you've, maybe you just need a quick bump,

you know, you're about to do a press conference. You're about to be amazing. You're, you're, you're, you need in your bloodstream, like you need it directly into like your brain-related bloodstream as quickly as possible. It's been if I had to deal with Eric Dayan and Dayan as a teenager, I'd be doing tons of bumps. Since then, anyhow, oh wait, but this is so off topic.

We were talking about, what were we talking about? We were talking about our testas and baby products. Oh yeah, right, don't do it. Keep it out of the baby products. All right. The fake Russian robot. Did you see this? OK, no, I didn't.

But tell me about it. This, I missed the story completely. Oh, my God. This is so good. I was doing a wedding this weekend. So did it happen over the weekend? I'm looking right now. Week, but there was a lot happening this week.

Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. The Russian state TV reported that a man in a robot costume was a really advanced robot. And even the viewers who like, you're watching Russian State TV. You can't like, you're pretty deep in at that point. They were like, we can see the man. They just, I just feel like, man, like these people

control the contrary. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at the man, like these people control the contrary. I'm looking at it. I'm looking at the literally like the guy like tilted his head. You can just see his neck and a close crop haircut under there. It's like, just couldn't you paint his neck black or give him like a hood or something? I mean, you'd be like, oh, you can see the cowl of, or you can see his neck and he turns, you know,

a little bit to the left, just get it by cowl or something, you know? I remember when fake tech demos, quote unquote, were like CGI cut scenes from Final Fantasy or like, you know, the GPU would be external because they hadn't really developed the gaming console or whatever, like those were fake tech demos in Rutgers. Literally just a man dressed as Megazord. I love this. I like that.

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like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, want to know. Yeah, yeah, exactly. No, actually what has happened is Russia's created a replicant. It's like a completely authentic seeming human that has been a lab created. And by the way, that's some. They trust him as a cartoon. But people couldn't handle it.

People couldn't handle that. So they put him in. They also put him in a kind of like low-tech robot costume. So they could ease people into the idea. kind of like low-tech robot costume so they could ease people into the idea. It might be a hoax. Yeah, it's a hoax. There's a, we reached out to Russian state T-net. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're waiting. We'll be up to article. We'll be up to it. It's like, no, it's pink. Russian NAC is sticking out underneath the there. Okay, his fleshy human neck. It's not a real robot.

Oh, I didn't have an... Um, anyhow, what else? What else we got going on here this week? Let's just barrel through some things. Oh, we tell you about Eliza, do you, Shkushui? Do we want to talk about this at all? I mean, it's super disgusting and horrible. And like, CBS seems to just have a completely rotten

corporate culture, like real bad. CBS is fucking saying, I wasn't there an article about Les Munevez, he had like a person on call who would give him low jobs. It was like a, some kind of situation where he could like push a button. What do they, these guys love buttons. They love like a sex button.

No, I am an a bit of a button. I didn't read the, I couldn't read though. I couldn't read it. I have a lot of time. I mean, you know, it's like you don't have so many time I know so much time in a week to read a story story But there's so many sex harassers out there and sex sex criminals, you know, how many you can't kill like you bracket so bad but

But um but apparently yeah, I know I mean he had like all kinds of fucked up shit going on everybody knew about it I love this thing but like the Weinstein thing. It's like a wine stain rather, excuse me. It's the thing that's really fucking crazy to me is not that it was wine seems just a total weirdo predator. But like he is like people are like, oh, Harvey, she'll be there at 11.30. Yeah, everyone knew. We've asked her to wear something that would be easy

to rip off if necessary. So just, you know, do your thing, Harvey, and we'll send the car around it one in the morning. It's like, what the, like who does that? I'm calling from Mr. Weinstein. Yes, he'd love to meet you. Do you have their location here? You with the door with steel bolts? Do you know anywhere?

You've listened to the tape of Weinstein, right? Yeah. Oh, the worst part about that tape is he's like, they know me at this hotel. Like, that's the. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. The worst part about that tape is he's like, they know me at this hotel. Like, that's the worst problem that he's having. He's like, I'm trying to rape you. And please don't embarrass me in front of the bell hop.

Yeah. It's like, what the fuck? I don't have to dip double so it'll look the other way. Yeah, he's like, they know you're embarrassing me. He literally says that. He's like, you're embarrassing me. They know me at this hotel. It's like, yeah, they know you as the guy

who rapes people at the hotel. And why aren't they calling the fucking police? Well, indict all of them. I've got rape. I've got rape on the on the brand. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, sorry. There's a lot of rape going on out there.

It's very bad. True. People are fucking horrible. People are real bad. Yeah. Let's talk about, did you see this Taylor Swift facial recognition story? That people... Yeah, you know, listen, I mean, I don't know if I should be upset or happy, you know, because

with the one hand, it's like, you don't want to have facial recognition shot on you. But on the other hand, Taylor Swift shouldn't have to deal with a stalker, and if there's in the crowd and they're threatening her, and it's, we got a technology to protect her, then why not? Yeah, they were scanning the crowd that her shows to find her stalkers. I honestly don't... If you're in public, anyone could take a picture of you or concert footage or whatever and then Facebook doesn't feel it yet. It doesn't feel like a big deal.

I mean, yes, facial recognition exists. It's going to be, it's going to be increasingly used. I mean, I don't know what to say like. It's on the phone. It's on the phone. Get used to it. I mean, literally your phone unlocks with facial recognition. And like, yes, it will be weird one day when your Facebook portal, whatever bullshit,

is constantly scanning to know where you're going to room so we can serve you at. Dude, dude, dude, no one is using the Facebook portal. The Facebook portal is dead. DOA. Oh, I mean, it's the worst product that I've done. It's the worst. Dead on arrival. Oh, you're telling me the people who've most abused my privacy and who are least trustworthy,

one have a camera that literally follows me around my house. You want a big high-pad that chooses to watch me at all moments in my own. First of all, I'm sorry. I understand people are out there doing face-time and shit, but I don't think video calls are so important that you need a dedicated piece of hardware in your house. You know what I mean?

That's what my face-time exists. Let alone be seen. It's the worst. I mean, people are like, let's do a video call. I'm like, why? Why would you want to do that? Matt, what is, what is, I'm sorry. Is this, I just want to be clear.

I don't know. Maybe I've lost the plot. I just, I want to say, I'm kind of like, I want to step outside of ourselves for a moment. Is this just me negatively ranting? Have I just been negatively ranting for 45 days straight? Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. Like I'm not actually mad.

I think there's a lot of great stuff happening in the world, but you chose a bunch of topics that get me real riled up Ryan. And I just want to say, we have a nice thing section of the podcast. We're, I know, we're going to get to it. Save your hate mail for Ryan. Okay, he's the real predator here. I have been told in a

one-way interview that I'm that I'm whiny. And to that I say, that's, that's, I am. I am. I mean, whiny's a weird way to describe it. I'd say you're more like, um, shrill. shrill. Yeah. You remind me of a schoolmarm kind of like a Hillary. It was a Hillary type. A real heck of a five. Yeah. You're real know-it-all. Hillary is a Hillary type a real You're real know-it-all I don't like know-it-alls even if they actually know it all that's the thing about people who didn't like people hated Hillary It's like she know we're like a bitch. Oh, I'm not gonna name names. I talked to somebody recently who's close to me. Oh, no A family member. Oh God, and they're like, I didn't, I just didn't like her. I didn't, that's why I didn't vote. I was like, oh, just like, but just like vote that,

just like vote for the person you like that you hate the least. Just do that then. Cause some one of them's gonna win. So you just have to go like, oh, you're like, it's not a protest. You can't protest. You can't do a protest vote. Add is like saying, I didn't really,

I wasn't craving anything and I didn't see anything on sale at shop with us. So I or it's stopping shop or food town. And so my family's not eating tonight. Why go what? Just get an easy site anyway. And I way I understand and this may be a threat to my marriage right now.

But sometimes when Lauren, I are trying to like choose a place to eat. If she doesn't like find anything that she that is like, uh, acceptable to her, she'll just be like, I'm fine. I don't need to eat. And then, you know, that's insane because that's insane. That's not an acceptable choice. Like basically, like when you can't find anything to eat, you just go like, well, I'll eat the thing that's like least annoying to me. I guess. Like the healthiest option since I'm not great. Or whatever. Yeah. Or like just, but you're not like, you're not like, I will, I will just ignore the fact that I'm hungry

and wait to get the thing that I am waiting, you know, that I really want. Wait, which is like, has definitely been, I'll be honestly, and I hope Laura doesn't listen to this podcast. It has been the cause of many arguments. I don't know how that should shit. Where I'm like, I'm like, that, like I could eat literally anything. Like just like if it's like short of actual garbage, you know, like if I had to eat something,

I would eat it. A lot of our arguments are based on that John once eat the same two things and I can't. I have a certain point, I'm just like anything else. It could be anything. Let's get Ethiopian food. I like, let's go get, Ethiopian is delicious, yes.

Yeah, let's go, there's the vegetarian place. Let's, we live in New York City. We could eat any. You're making me very hungry right now. I gotta tell you, no, that's, I think I'm the, I'm the John then because I like, Oh yeah. I'm like, I don't have, I'm not picky at all.

I don't care. It's food. Who cares? It's food. What does it even matter? This is how people end up being so't care. It's food, who cares, it's food. What does it even matter? This is how people end up being silent people. The people who started. Oh, I could be a silent person.

I definitely could. I think my problem is, I don't know. I actually got, okay, I'll tell you, I got soilent when they were having the coffee debacle. I bought a bunch of soilent before I've done it. I got the soilent. Remember when they had, they started to introduce coffee, soilin.

I'm like, yeah, that sounds dope, like a coffee shake or whatever. That sounds really good to me. Yeah. But it was at the moment when they were having some kind of like quality control issue where people are getting explosive diarrhea from drinking their product.

I'm not saying I had explosive diarrhea, but I'm not saying I didn't have explosive diarrhea. Do you understand? Yeah. Yeah, I don't really remember, but what I do remember is, I think what happened is it badly upset my stomach, not like to a place where I was like, you know, like in a state, but I was like, no, I'm not drinking that again, but I think they actually were. So it's a fucking, it's a fucking, a nutrient. What is it called?

Nutri, what is it called? It's like, they use, I'll bark at them to like moms in the 80s. It was like, it was like a nutrient slim, nutrient slim fast slim fast. It was very true. It's like a meal in a drink. It's like, yeah, it's a milkshake. Yeah, we have a lot of slim fast in my house growing up and snacking. It's so, oh slim it's a milkshake. Yeah, we have a lot of some of my house growing up and snacking cookies. It's so, awesome.

Fast is such a thing. It's such a, from a moment in time. Yeah. It's like, it's like, yeah, it's anyhow. We were trying to explain to my brother how in the 90s children only ate food that was like neon and glow in the dark and sparkle and was like truly inedible carcinogens,

but it was like colorful. Yeah. It's in the dark pop tarts and like gummy worms that you bake your. Yes. Yes. Yes. Not sorry.

Anyway, sorry. I just I just look back to the tab I had understanding Josh, and boy, these pictures are disturbing. I really get you. Let's clear your ears with a little nice stuff. Should we do it? Are we there already? Nice thing. Oh wow, we've really been going for a long time. We have. We have a lot to complain about. Wait a second. No, I wasn't, look, this isn't complaint. It's perspective is what I'm offering to the listener. Okay.

I'm giving them a little taste of these other sides. I think This is having a viewpoint. To me, you know, I'm like Jordan Peterson, okay? Use your mind, okay? Think about it, you know? Stop letting the liberals tell you how to think. I had an experience, I don't know name names, can I just tell you one quick thing? Yeah, of course. I'm not gonna name names, but how do I say this?

How do I tell the story without naming names? We could fuck it. I want to believe. I needed the haircut really badly. I don't know if anybody seen my hair lately, but it's got really long. I went back to a barber that I used to see. I saw him for many years.

Many years. He's in Williamsburg. I'm not so far as much as I'm gonna say about it, but anyhow, I went back to him. I haven't seen him probably 18 months, okay? I mean, he got haircut in that time. Yeah, I have a haircut by somebody else. Yes.

Because he became, this person became geographically undesirable. And now we have a temporary, we're actually moving offices, but we're in a temporary space in Williamsburg until the end of the year. Anyhow, my barber got red-pilled, basically. Oh, no.

And he's a great barber, but you know, like, it was like some Jordan Peterson stuff. Like, while I was getting my haircut and he's like waving around a stray razor and like, and I was really charming. He's like a really, I really, it's a really interesting charming guy that I like a lot like as just as a person on I was like, yeah, this sucks. I was like I was like I wanted like 45 minutes of just like chill

You know like a modern barber experience have done right is pretty great. It's like You know you get like a you know you though to the hot towel and you get the I mean I get my beard trimmed And they'll do like a straight razor on the neck. And I like the places that I'll give you a beer and they put on music videos. Yes, yes. This is a beer was offered. I didn't take one, but anyhow, it was that kind of joint. For that.

I really like him, but I was like, I want to disagree. I want to argue, but it was like, I don't want to argue. I just want to, I just want to have a chill haircut. And then it was like, look, I don't know what to say. I mean, I was like, I wanted to be like, your haircut and then it was like look I don't know what to say. I mean you're I was I wanted to be like your facts are wrong You know, but is this the time to resist Is this the time is this the place? No, it's just the person not just it just sucked any help. That's it. That's all I wanted to say

I put a Russian Jews on the upper west side and they all need I need it I need to go back. Listen, I think I just have no's coming up next for a solid 40 minutes, and I love it. They just say that's good. Think about hot states every time. That's good wholesome shit right there. Oh, Hanukkah's coming up. Oh, what a, I don't want to do it. It's a disaster. I'm like, I know, I know, and I have the best time.

We had a, we had a, we had a great Hanukkah blow out. Zod had a fantastic Hanukkah. Oh, really? I'll say this. If anything, Hanukkah goes on too long. Yeah,od had a fantastic Hanaga. Oh, really? I'll say this, if anything Hanaga goes on too long. Yeah, there's a lot. Too much. Too much. Seven, I'm like, all right, with the sack.

The Christians got it right. Just slam it all into one big fucking terrifying day. Well, we're going to do a month. If Starbucks isn't so, Christmas for a month, they're a little horrible. The month is the trailer. Okay. And then the movie, and then the film drops

and everybody goes to see it opening night and then it closes down next day. We don't know how to hide it anymore. Yeah, you just get it one and done. Like avatar, we all saw it one day and then we never spoke about it again. Eight nights is like by the by night seven, you're like, here's a listen, we're at this point

we're an ant man in the lost and I'm not following the plot anymore. Here's a package of paper clips. They're pretty good for holy paper together. I gotta be honest. She's like, what's, what's paper? Although I will say John did get me socks for one of my presence this year,

and they were good socks, bumbers. No, socks are a fucking great present. I'm sorry, as you get older, turns out, you need socks. Shots can change your whole day. Who saw, who are they? Ombus. I've been thinking about getting some of that.

They're so good. I wore them last night. It was like, I was like a different life. This is not brought to you by Bompus. Oh, although if they wanted to. If they want to sponsor us, Ryan will happen to talk about your socks. But that wasn't my nice thing.

Let's talk about nice things. Okay, let's talk about nice things. Let's do it. I'll go. You ready? Because I would. Yeah, of course, you have to prepare. I's do it. I'll go. You ready? Of course you will. Yes, of course.

I got to prepare. I prepared mentally. I've got a two-parter. Number one is a podcast that I was brought to by the exactly right. A network, I think it's called, but it's the two women who do. My favorite murder started a podcast network and they absorbed this podcast. And I blew through the back catalog. It's called This Podcast Will Kill You.

And it is an hour long deep dive on the history, discovery, biology, and like current world threat of different diseases. Oh, no. There's an episode about HIV and episode about Ebola and episode about like, about consumption or MRSA. Oh, no. It is. It's just like so funny and awesome. I have learned so much and the hosts are amazing. I'm delighted by every horrible thing they tell me. This is like for the Hype Bacondriac

it's like walking through the walkie-n-over-hot coals. Oh, it's so good. Like going, you gotta go through the flames. It's like a podcast. I think of a podcast. I love it. And then it's gonna be things that are so horrifying. I could not even a met smallpox is the worst death anyone could die. It's so bad. What's it called this podcast will kill you.

Wow, it's good name. It's so good. So that's my number one and my number two is I got Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, which I mentioned last week had observed my brain. I have been in every aspect of it at this point because I came out. Oh, yeah. And I bought a GameCube controller. And I bought one. It's officially licensed by Nintendo, but it is built and assembled by a company called Power A, which I believe is a Chinese company. What is it?

Nintendo is selling the GameCube controller for Super Smash Brothers Ultimate, like, but it still needs an adapter. It is a full while I had a total reprint of the old one. Yeah, I had a big debate with our designer Jack about this. And I was like, no, it like would obviously connect directly to the switch. Oh, it happened to be a doctor. Yeah, as an adapter, but it's the adapter is like up to four controllers, which can make sense. But I got a wireless version of that from Power A that I love

and they made some modification. The original design, it has an extra button and the D-pad is larger and it's beautifully constructed. I really, really, really like it. I'm gonna try it. Again, not endorsement, not a sponsor. I'm looking right now. I'm gonna try to use it on my PS4, on everything.

I love the GameCube controller layout. It feels so good to be back on that controller. I'm looking at it right now, it looks great. You're saying this is license in some way? Yeah. It's officially licensed. Oh, it has the logo. Yeah. It's really, really nice. The only downside is, and it has motion controls and everything. The only downside is it doesn't have rumble. That's my one complaint. Oh, that's terrible. I know. But I find the rumble distracting. I bought a super smash brother. It's by the way. Oh, good. Have we talked about this

I've been I'm playing it. Do you have I now on controller like an Nintendo Pro controller? No, that is by far other than this GameCube controller because I love the layout of the game controller The switch pro controller might be the best controller ever released period and of story. It's not nice It gets like 35 hours of battery it charges. Well, that's that's important I mean my PlayStation 4 controllers like always dead. It charges a really deep. Well, that's important. I mean, my PlayStation 4 controller is like always dead. It's always dead. It's always fucking in. It's so annoying.

I'm looking at the pro right now. I don't really eyeball it at all. Nice. It looks like an Xbox controller. It feels, Josh, I'm going to bring it to the office. It feels so good in the hand. It's the right, like, it's just, it's so cool. It's expensive.

And, you know, I bought the Xbox, like, the pro controller. The Xbox One has like one that's like the elite. It's super, it's so close. It's expensive. And, you know, I bought the Xbox, like the Pro controller, the Xbox One has like one that's like the Elite. It's super fucking nice. It's like really nice. A nice controller changes the game you're playing. Well, it certainly is like, it just feels really heavily weighted and stuff. Like, it feels like there's metal in it.

It's really nice. Does this really get, it's got metal in it? Yes, yes. I'm gonna bring it to you. It feels, please bring it. I wonder if they did what I wonder if they did what what Microsoft did Yeah, this is cool. I never noticed the the translucency on this Or whatever that is that design. It's cool nice and it feels high quality in a way that like you know No, we controller of refelt and the we all right some sold

But I also got a little USB stick from 8bit Do, which was $20 I think off of Amazon delivered in a day. Thanks, thanks, Daddy Bezos. And it adapts so that you can use your Xbox and PS4 controllers on your Switch. So now I'm more controllers. I could just have people over to play Smash and all of our controllers will automatically sync up.

And if you have a PS4 controller, it's still maintained the motion controls. So you're good to go with Splatoon. I love it. I love it. I mean, dollars, big recommend on that. Those are my nice things this week. I love it. Wow.

It's very, very good, very gaming related. Yeah. All right. So my favorite things are as usual related to purchases I've made, which as you know is I have an uncontrollable flat. That's a capitalist flex. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I just have a very bad with money and I shouldn't be allowed to order anything.

So I don't know if you know the super NT, it's like a super Nintendo like It's made by this company called analog. It's like a clone with a ton of upgrades Yes, and they you know, it's like HDMI and it's like got all these like chips that are really great for like video quality and anyhow, but They made a version with ghostly the record label. That's like a limited edition all white. It comes with like the console, a wireless controller, and like it comes with like a super, super turquin weirdly like reboot or something or like some kind of like a platinum edition. Anyhow, I was like, I didn't wanna, I wasn't gonna buy it, I don't need it.

It's fucking awesome and beautiful, but I was like, I don't need it. It's fucking awesome and beautiful, but I was like, I don't need this. And I looked at the listing, it was like, you know, buy now and I didn't do it. And I had it up on my phone and like later in the day, I like went to the, it was on ghostly, ghostly website. And I was like, it was like sold out. I was like, fuck, I should have bought it. You know that feeling, you're like, you think you want to buy it, saying, but you kind of feel like you'll have all the time

in the world to buy it, and then you don't. And then it's gone, and you can't get it. I've done this many times in my life. Like I found something, I'm like, I should buy that, and then I just don't, and then it's gone forever. You need experience. Yeah. And then, but then I went and looked on analog site,

and they had them still available. And I was like, okay, fuck it. And I just bought it in an instant. So it's been delivered. I haven't opened it yet. I was contemplating wrapping it up for myself and putting it under the tree. Because it's like a gift.

It's very much like a gift to myself. But anyhow, so I'm excited about that. I'm not even that big of a super Nintendo fan, but there are some games that I played pretty religiously. I mean, that was the system that I played. That was like the first system that got three fighter two, and so I played it religiously. I'm gonna give it a single one too.

Yeah, I think it came out after though. Oh no, it's pre-order at the moment. I want to. Oh, they have a Genesis one. I'm sorry, you're talking about analog. Yeah. The company. Yes, that's right.

They're making a Genesis one. But anyhow, God, I wish they'd make a fucking, I really wish they'd make a PC engine slash TurboGraphics one. That would be the shit. If they do that, I mean, honestly, analog if you're listening, fucking make that. In fact, I'm going to collab with them to Pulse Key Plus. Absolutely. Really good idea. It's a really good idea.

And if Kanye ever releases TurboGraphic 16, oh, Kanye, don't get me started. Oh, you need to talk to SoulDepoie. Well, yeah, that's my dude. He's got all the stuff, got all the gear. He's got to emulate anything. His system is very real and very good. Okay, but then, okay, so then two other things.

It looks second. Nice. I want this, I wish I had this. They're really cool. They're really, I gotta say, I think that it's a really cool idea. I love that we exist in a world now where there's so many weird nerds

that they will make things like that. They're like this really boutique products, but they're not like ridiculously priced. They're like fairly approachable, you know? Like I think the system like from them is like 200 bucks or something. 250. Oh, from the one.

Oh, do they still have the ghostly one? The ghostly one they still have, it's 250. Oh wow, okay, I feel like I've maybe got duped somehow. I want it so big. Wait a second, they're telling me they still have them. I get totally got swindled. Anyhow, so then two other things. a second. They're telling me they still have them. I get totally gets windled anyhow. So then two other things. One is, we're obviously buying Christmas and Christmas presents for Zelda.

And I think we're trying to be practical, you know, although I love getting gifts for people. Like I really enjoy it. And so like if I find the right gift for someone, I get really excited. And two things that we're doing for Christmas, which I'm excited about. One is, they make, I don't know if you know this, you probably don't. I didn't know it until like three days ago. They make tools for kids that are real tools, but are small. What? Like, yeah, like Stanley, the tool company has like a set that's like a saw and a hammer and a screwdriver and like a,

all that like a level and all this shit and they're real, but they're small. And so, um, so I got Zelda, I'm getting here. I'm putting together a tool bag for her of like carpenter tools. And I got a book, which is like Carpenter projects for kids. Oh, that's so cute. And I'm very excited to, you know, do some little projects and let her have her own, like, you know, admittedly somewhat dangerous tools.

I mean, they're not gonna be like unsupervised tools. But, but like I'm excited about the potential. That's awesome. And then, and then, and then also like on the Christmas, is this a lot of stuff? Actually, it turns out I've got a lot of things I'm excited about or that I feel excited about. We're putting together an explorer kit for her, which is like we were going to buy like an office shelf thing and then we're like, no, let's get real stuff.

And so we're putting together like a package which is like a compass and like a notepad and like a canteen, you know, you drink water out of and anyhow, it's like, it's a lot of fun. I gotta say, having a kid, it's hard, but you also get to do a lot of weird shit that you would never do otherwise. So I'm enjoying that. And then one last thing, this is not a plug at all.

And I never do this, but I mean rarely do this, but I backed a IndieGoGo project for this bag, which is like kind of close to the perfect idea for like a 24 hour slash laptop bag. And it's this company called Nomad Lane, which is a horrible fucking name, and I wish they would change it. But I backed this Indiegogo project. I'm like, I've been looking for a good bag for so long, and I've bought so many bags, and

I have this bag that I've been using that I love, but it's like a somewhat impractical, made by a Japanese company called Masterpiece. You've seen that bag, right? It's so ridiculously over engineered. But anyhow, I got this Nomad Lane bag the other day and I have to say they have fucking done nearly like the perfect bag. Like they have figured out some things that are really, really smart. And I have to give them credit. The bento bag? The bento bag is what it's called, yes.

And I was like, at first I was like, oh, you know, I bought so many fucking, just so many of these bags. I have so many fucking weird bags. I mean, dozens. The bento bag is like, it looks nice, but it also kinda looks like it could be any bag in a way, which is what I like.

It fits. That screaming, it's not like Vera Brad, or like a... It's nothing, it's like military-ish style. You know, it's like very filseny, but not filsen, so much filsen that it's like, oh wow, like you're a countryman or style, you know, it's like very filseny, but not filsen, so much filsen that it's like, oh, wow, like you're a countryman or whatever, you know, it's like, it's just like a smart, relatively smart design.

And yet, and I gotta tell you the interior of this bag, does everything you want the bag to do. It is really, they really figured some smart shit out. And I just gotta hand it to them. And also I'm jealous Because like years ago I was talking to a friend of mine who designed bags and I was like we should do a bag like the perfect fucking Laptop slash travel bag and she was like that's too complicated and now I'm like fuck Why did I do this you need to get analog on the phone and you need to get your collab? I know I know I know we need to do is we need to do an analog

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Exactly. Exactly. We have to get Paul back on the show. It's been too long. Yeah, we do. We do. All right, anyhow, we should wrap up. This has been a long and winding podcast where we touch on a lot of subjects,

most of which were highly controversial. That's when you get me banned. Real hot taste. From the internet. wrap up, this has been a long and winding podcast where we touch on a lot of subjects, most of which were highly controversial. Definitely get me banned. Real hot tapes from the internet. Press that the oven. Yeah, exactly. Alright, well that is our show for this week. We'll be back next week with more tomorrow and it's always that we're here with you and your family.

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