Unsubscribe Podcast - 151 - Wokeness Is Ruining Hollywood ft. Nerdrotic

Episode Date: March 25, 2024

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Hit it, take it, and make it gay! Huh, weird. They don't want to really fix anything. Like, for example, Tony Gonzalez. Hollywood has gotten way too... Ban me if you want to... It's good to meet you finally, man. It's good to meet you too.

We have to get you on one of our shows. I know you guys, you're busy. You're not. You got nothing going on. Fuck you. We gotta get you on our show. Like I said, my co-hosts are all jealous. That was the very polite way of saying, you're too political.

I don't want you on. It's totally fine. Alex Jones, Gab McGinnis, Vake Ramsey, Ramaswani. I always say Ramsey. Dave Ramsey. Dave Ramsey. Ramaswami, because I'm too racist to say his name.

Understandable. Have a nice day. It's a very brown name. Understandable. Have a nice day. Yeah. It's a very brown name. It's way too brown for my white lips. You just whitewashed the bacon. I just want to shoot this as white lips. That's such a good shirt. Man, these last two podcasts have started out fucking hard. Indian people have no riz.

Mood hard. Is that 7-Eleven or 9-Eleven? Same thing. God, I love this. Cody? Neither one are getting into heaven. Nope. Nope.

Jesus. Oh, Cody, we ready? Three, two, what? Three, two, one. Hi, everyone. Welcome to the unsubscribed podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Doublefap. Mr. Nerdronic.

Nerd, neurotic, nerdtronic. Nerdronic is fine. Yo, I'm Bill and Gary. Our boy Gary, brandon herrera and myself donut operator thank you for tuning in hi dude what's up fuck we're so excited to have you like this is gonna be just a nerd out have some good talks you've had an amazing life very up and weird it's been weird it. And then some of the best content, especially for the nerd community, that you can just watch for 30 minutes at a time, 40 minutes at a time. Especially for the real nerd community, not the community that just sits there and guzzles anything fucking Marvel,

DC, Disney, anything puts out, but the actual nerds that get fucking pissed off when they screw it up. Yeah, not the consumer, not the pop vinyl owner who likes a T-shirt and likes it just because it's popular. Yeah. The nerds who've been around. I'm consuming.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 994, 6,000 right now? 994,000, yes. it's no shit let's get this man to a million subscribers better guys fucking mill by the time this Saturday this better be a meal one mil yours we would love also a million subscribers by Saturday too yeah I was just gonna say that was a little funny unsubscribe at 316,000. Like, I would get them to a million. Well, you guys are at more places than YouTube, which I just found out. Because I'm really bad at my job.

So are we. It's okay. It's nice being in a place where I can touch people I'm talking to. I mean, not inappropriately, or at least not now. Not on camera. Maybe later, but yeah. Usually just by myself in a room. We'll see what happens gary not to be too forward see how many drinks are across this table at the end too many

i don't know those white lips are going to work so you started what year did you start your journey into youtube uh 2014 it was uh right after i uh sold my cut wall i had to sell my comic shop because i relapsed and it was really sad it was very sad but i had to do it because my life had just gone to crap so it was either like keep the comic store going keep getting high or keep my family so i kept my family sold the comic store and started a podcast uh just to stay in the nerd stuff yeah uh and uh i personally hate the word community because i think it's a commie word so i use the fellowship instead but my boy we call it a gang gang syndicate something i just hear i hear too many people from hollywood say community but uh it's fine if you use it but um yeah it was just a hobby uh and i had to kind of start over and uh you know work parts jobs again so yeah we just

me and a friend start did our first one in san francisco and a starbucks that was my first podcast and we did like two a month for a few years now 10 years on here we are you know you've been through the grind on this and you're going so your nerd shop that was you said you relapsed so before that it's called a comic book store a comic book store so anyway man with goku on his hand yes so anyway uh the virgin bar you had i mean that's not far from the truth but you know know, it's all good. How long did it take to build that? Cause you had, as you said, you relapsed and before that you were like, Hey, I'm going to do, you had your issues when you were younger. You got that sorted.

Yeah. I had a lot of issues when I was in my teenage years and stuff. You know, went, went, went to prison, got out, cleaned up, got married, divorced, married again, moved to San Francisco uh started a comic shop and did it for 10 years and it was uh it was tons of fun i had no idea what i was doing uh i'd never owned a business before so i read that well i only read like a quarter of a small business for dummies and i thought i got this you know and uh i've seen the simpsons yeah it was fun it was fun went to my head a little bit. That's probably why I relapsed.

But, well, that's exactly why I relapsed. It went to my head and I stopped going to meetings and I got lost my sponsor. And that's how I relapsed. But it was fun. And the clients were fun. And yes, it was in San Francisco, but it was very working class comic shop. So normal people, regular folk. I was just going to ask, like, it's regular folk i was just gonna ask like it's

a comic book shop in san francisco did you ever run into any crazy people like like like famous people or people that you like uh uh like who's uh mark i'm trying to remember like j silent bob uh kevin smith kevin smith like somebody like people in the space uh yeah so um robin williams huge comic collector toy toy collector, went in my store a couple times. He made it around to all the stores in San Francisco because he lived there. Oh, yeah, his daughter's named Zelda. Yeah, rest in peace.

And Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens, that was the biggest one ever. Oh, shit. Yeah, I about had a heart attack when it came in. Holy shit. I kept the receipt. I still have it, by the way. That's awesome. You hate Lord of the Rings i still have it by the way that's awesome you you hate lord of the rings i fucking despise that freaking terrible we're so overrated holy shit do peter jackson walks in your story i'd just be like i didn't recognize him first

because it was right after he did king kong i think it was right around this time and he lost all that way all that way so at first i'm like what british rock star just walked into my i'm like oh my god that's because i recognized philip aboyance who uh boyans who co-wrote the script for lord of the rings so i recognized her that's a dedicated fan to recognize that guy her her oh see i'm not a dedicated fan yeah apparently women didn't write anything prior to 2016 but they did and uh yeah that that was cool they uh bought a bunch of why the last man a full run of why the last man hung out for about a half an hour we chatted with them they're super nice yeah you got a photo uh i don't have a photo oh it was before that like oh yeah you just have your phone uh Tyrese Gibson I've got 18 pixels from my razor

like Tyrese Gibson and MC he brought MC Hammer over that was that's oh yeah MC Hammer rolls up in a like a purple land well it was before Hellcat it was uh it was a muscle car that this is like 2007 I can't remember which was around back then and then uh yeah he he walks out with his uh nine thousand dollar leather jacket on that he had to tell me this this leather jacket because i said nice leather he's all it's nine thousand dollars i'm like shit that's a lot of money uh but yeah tyree wow you haven't had a hit in 30 years you probably shouldn't be spending your money probably not well he had his reality show right for a little while after that i don't know what's happened to him since but yeah tyree's i don't know what the comic book and uh we released it in the store and he was tyrese tyrese

was funny uh i still have his phone number should we call him uh but uh he calls me at one in the morning he's all gary dog we gotta talk about this this event tomorrow i'm like dude it's one in the morning and it's we're fine you just show up and it will you sign comic books what do we need to talk about he's all i'm gonna bring some people over and he did and it was great it was a huge event but uh i'm confused tyrese gibson tyrese gets fast and the furious tyrese i was wondering if you were about to was gonna dog d-a-w-g so you did dang yeah so we had we had a lot of ray stevenson from rome who just passed away uh may he rest in peace he played the punisher and punisher war zone he came by uh but um i didn't have a lot of comic book writers and

artists over because they were dicks like sorry guys yeah they were mostly like hard to deal with and uh i just were they just like autistic and didn't like to like they didn't talk well with people or were they like self-absorbed self-absorbed overvalued like how many people would show up uh and i would like while i was a fan and like our customer base would but it's supposed to bring in like new people so you know it wasn't even like if they were big they had to be like people i liked and uh after a couple of bad experiences i just said forget it you know and i started doing more fan stuff oriented stuff after that so and then when did your like when did you feel that first wave for hey i'm doing the comics just did uh sold it relapse got better and then you're like hey i'm going full-fledged into youtube that was weird um so i'm i i was just reviewing tv and stuff and there was like no like the culture

war hadn't sparked or the pop culture war hadn't sparked up it was you know it was getting there um and i was working at tesla and uh you know as one does in san francisco as one does in san francisco that was like one of my 15th jobs after the comic store because i just kept changing jobs to get more pay and uh it's more complicated than that but that's pretty much what was it and uh doctor who comes up so last jedi just happened everybody hates the last jedi This is what kind of sparked, I don't want to go too far in the lore, but Ghostbusters 2016, Last Jedi sparked the pop culture war. All my homies hate The Last Jedi. Because it sucks.

It's a piece of shit. And Ghostbusters 2016 was a piece of shit. But Doctor Who comes along, and that's like the next franchise, the fall, and they turn the Doctor, like favorite all-time show they turn it into a girl and i just said this controversial thing like the doctor's a dude it's not a girl smith or tenant uh right now smith they retconned everything with that one single episode don't know do you know about this like they ran doctor who at all oh yeah yeah i followed doctor who for a while there yeah i stopped watching it oh well fucking six years ago yeah i i kind of i struggled through capaldi and then after that i'm done i i didn't the new chick i just no she was terrible uh it

was preachy capaldi was like the best doctor in the worst episodes which really sucked i could see that yeah yeah but you didn't like sword fighting with a spoon. That wasn't the peak doctor for you. I didn't like him talking about the whitewashing of history and calling out Trump. I love the Trump derangement episode, which we had another one with Jody. Yeah.

Oh yeah. It got bad. It got bad even before Jody. It's well, it's, it's literally British broadcast chat. Like it's, it's British propaganda.

The whole thing is just like state run, but it used to like not be, it used literally British broadcast. It's British propaganda, the whole thing. It's just like state run. But it used to not be. It used to be for everybody. Imagine not shitting on half an audience base. I know. And just staying like, hey, what's the main point of this? Oh, for people to have a good time.

What if we just told a good story? And everybody just enjoyed it. But what about girl power politics everything like that and you're like the message the message message versus look at alien aliens ripley's fucking dope ass character and guess what was it shoved down our throat the entire time she was just a badass like that was the end of that message and everybody fucking that's like one of the quintessential dude movies is aliens alien aliens you're like this fucking dopey shit well because she had to she had to struggle through trauma first like she had to struggle through the first alien to get to aliens that's

why everybody likes it like okay yeah i get it you're a badass now this is fine yeah james cameron and i mean james cameron ridley scott they were writing those characters proper back in the day before even Sarah Connor, James Cameron, Sarah Connor. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they had female characters, female time ladies. They called and they could have done a show on, but they decided to what even Stephen Moffat, the guy was running the show prior to her showing up, said it will be a desperation move. And it was and it killed the ratings. And I just pointed that out.

And that's when the channel started blowing up because i just had that controversial opinion uh which so crazy of you dude i know well it just shows how like what a parody world we were entering i mean the things are still bad now it's like turning around but things are like comical now uh uh but that so i did that and um i saw it blowing up pretty quick and i'm like you know what i should take a shot at this youtube thing i can do parts anywhere i can get that job so i somehow convinced my wife i'm like hey i'm gonna do this youtube thing for six months if it doesn't work out you know i'll just go back to another job she's like sure okay and it worked like within a couple of months, it was enough to

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over at expressvpn.com slash unsub. That's expressvpn.com slash unsub. Do you edit your own stuff? I did in the beginning. Okay. I have editors now, but in the beginning I did all my own thumbnails, editing, and did that for years.

Because your attention beats on your edits are so good well that's my edits editors now so that's quarter black garrett from crowder and perry chan they're two of the best in the business you guys is cody saying like the retention beats the shifts the sound effects like everything about it is amazing but more importantly you learn you refine your craft out the gate which a lot of people oh, I don't want to learn to edit. You're like, I'm going to do all this and then learn to edit and kick this out myself. So then, and it helps you in the future

because you know when you're recording yourself, you guys, fucking perfect. When you suck on camera, you learn real quick why you suck editing your shit. You're like, I say um a lot. And I think all of the successful youtubers we talked to at least i you know the vast majority we all started out filming our own stuff and editing our own stuff and editing our all our own thumbnails everything like doing

everything ourselves before we could hire somebody to know what to do right yeah you can't just get a turnkey team it's like how do you tell them what to do if you've never fucking done it yourself no it's such a weird process because i didn't have to go out and find them they found me they were just they liked the channel and uh perry was just doing like like little intros for friday night tights that were freaking hilarious i'm like hey you should edit and he's like i've never edited before i'm like i will figure it out and he did that's and uh garrett obviously had had uh you know lots of experience with crowder and but they they came to me because they like the channel and it helps to have editors who like know who you are and the audience it's so easy like all

you have to do is have a successful youtube channel and then all the right people will find you so simple come on what is your excuse guys Sign up to my class. A thousand dollars a month. Learn how to do. Learn how to do thumbnails. That's right. I just like it's like thumbnails, titles. Figure that shit out. It's not rocket science.

Make good content. Learn how to put Brie Larson's head on a muscly body. Dude, I love I can see all your shift. And that's probably when it registered with with the views hitting those big numbers. Because you're like... Oh, we're doing more of these videos. Oh, yeah. We're doing a lot more of these videos.

Right now, Sidney Sweeney being on a thumbnail does not hurt. I'll have to try that. Next gun meme review is just going to be my head on Sweeney's body. On Sweeney's body. There you go. The new Mitsubishi Outlander brings out another side of you. Your regular side

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row seating the new outlander bring out your adventurous side mitsubishi motors drive your ambition oh man your journey and then now you're crushing it you run a live show and then most importantly you're as everyone is saying you are super into nerd culture and you have that that different side of the nerd culture. Cause we have like the anime, anime, video games. Brandon's getting into video games later in life.

Like you did gaming, but I've been gaming my whole life. What the fuck are you talking about? PC, PC, PC. I just had my fucking cred run through the dirt just now. Sorry,

veteran Brandon. Fuck off. Dude, I was like, I was a gamer since Halo two, dude. Fuck off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you're, it was that watching you keyboard and mouse the first time is still sorry veteran brandon peace you know i was like i was a gamer since halo 2 dude fuck off yeah yeah yeah okay so you're it was that watching you keyboard and mouse the first time is still one

of my favorite stories because we're i was at your birthday fucking five years ago we had the dude a 35 year old man having a birthday and we had six seven people at my house sleeping on blow up mattresses landing it up and streaming it and that's we had some really good stories from that out a night on my stream bunch of people getting drunk and saying it on twitch and then calling out like it's on my stream live i'm like wait you can't say that and then say what back and forth we're all dying and brandon though is learning how to do keyboard mouse because you weren't used to that he's like space you look down to find the space key yeah because i was a console gamer like i'd never i'd never done pc now i've now i play pc on

everything i don't even own a console anymore that's that's that that happened to me i was like only console till counter-strike 1.2 back in the day and then i was like oh i gotta learn keyboard and mouse dude did we ever talk about like getting tattoos at your birthday party oh fuck i forgot we did that too yeah yeah i still gotta get that one yeah we have an artist yeah we have will i was just like you woke up and we'll do a prison style we'll you know get a guitar string and some ink yeah it's like this is how I didn't even know about the guitar string. Well, this is how nerdy we fucking are,

man. Like, you have Berserk on one arm. You got on your back. What's your entire back? My Hero Academia Metal Gear Solid. Edo. It's Japanese. I have cowboy bebop We're just ignoring the fact that we've all seen Eli shirtless

We just breezed over that one real quick Eli what is this? BIA your birthday party We all got our fucking gang tats Smiley faces Brandon's getting his soon I still need to get Will Will I need to get mine

Brandon has no tattoos yet. No, virgin skin. Go, actually, guys, go out there. Guys, gals, go out and get some smiley faces and send those in on the comment section. You know they're going to do it. I know what the subreddit's going to look like in two weeks. Just a whole bunch of smiley faces.

We'll be like, fucking, yes. You're going to get somebody that gets it in a very unemployable place, and we're just like, fuck. Not on your hand. And then you are a Boondock Saints fan. Yes, I am. How did I know? Oh, there you go.

That's fucking awesome. That's literally one of my notes on my phone once I seen you at the, I was like, ask about Boondock Saints. I was like, hey hey this guy gets it awesome awesome fucking movie and hilarious backstory with that director the documentary which now comes with the movie is great bro you want to see a director that got too big for his britches uh-huh off of that one and they were like you go fuck yourself dude you really because because it it was like a cult classic right like it didn't

do good in theaters or anything no but it was like the hottest script in hollywood so he was a bouncer and he wrote a script and like everybody wanted it and he was gonna direct it himself and uh they were just a camera crew was gonna follow him around during the experience and they saw him like slowly just going insane so like like the Stallone thing for Rocky, but it just didn't work out. Didn't work out. They did a sequel though. I mean, he like came correct later and did a sequel,

which I mean, I like it. Wasn't as good, but I like it a lot. This dude was so like, he was talking, he just turned into an arrogant asshole at parties. Yep. He was like, this is my fucking thing. He was like, even the executive was like, before the first one?

This is during the filmmaking of the first one, yeah. Oh, God. This is before it filmed. He was the hottest shit ever, even though, again, he hadn't even released this yet. He just was that clout. To be fair, you went from being a bouncer to bossing Willem Dafoe around.

Yeah. Winning. I mean, if we look back at it now, it's probably, well, it's probably considered Me Too stuff, but it's probably tame compared to like Harvey Weinstein. Yeah. It's tame compared to the actual shit happening in Hollywood

at the time. There was a firefight. There was a firefight. And you know, yeah, he did make an all-time great cult classic, so he could back it up a little bit. What happened to the cat? That was just... The best comedy beats.

It's drunk, everyone's having fun, and then the gun goes off. Ha! That beat with the blood on the wall. Because no guns do that. You just slam a table, and the guns will go off. Those Berettas.

Oh man, if it was a Sig 320, I'd say maybe. Maybe. I obviously know what they're talking about. Every bit of it. About as much as gaming. Are you huge into gaming? Oh, I'm known as the best gamer on the planet. No, I'm terrible. No shit. Frickin' awful awful i'll play it

i do gaming streams but because i'm because i'm so bad all right but i've always been bad like even when i played when i was young i was bad we gotta play hell divers 2 tonight then fuck yes that was so fun that was fun as shit we all did that last night we just got you know we didn't stream it we didn't anything we just like got together and the boys just gamed for the first time in fucking years that's great darn everybody i know is playing it i would make the game very long very long and frustrating fucking you'll just have a good time for democracy for democracy for managed democracy yes it is a starship troopers just yeah through and through the comedy how they do it because they know it's just over the top

and they're not treating it as this like serious thing they're like no fuck this you watch the starting intro i send it to cody and i got a text back she's like holy shit i have to play this like yes it's just like the starship troopers movie where it's like a parody of the source material like it's over the top like you know clearly like semi-fascist government or whatever, but it's like, everybody's very jingoistic. Like, oh, this is for liberty. You know, that whole vibe. It's fun. It's really fun.

And we really shouldn't kill all the very kind communist bugs, you know? They're threatening our way of life. Oh yes. Oh, democracy. Boom! The year's 2024. Do you know what that means?

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and get yourself 20% off and free shipping. Oh, I love free shipping. Make your balls and your spouse happy. Going into your favorite, so is your favorite film series Lord of the Rings? Yes. No, he hates it, dude. No.

That is, oh, okay. Cody's like, he fucking disliked it. So what did you think of Rings of Power then? Rings of Power was shit, and I knew it would be shit. It was funny how it played out because once we heard that they were making it. When I first heard it, I'm like, cool, second age, right on.

And then I heard that they didn't have the rights to the Silmarillion. So I don't know how the hell you were going to do it. And then I found out they had the rights to the appendices. Then we found out, and this is years ahead. Years. Bad reboot. They're from Bad Robot. J.J. Abrams.

I won't go down that. It's a terrible, terrible organization. They suck. They screwed up Star Wars. They screwed up Star Trek. And now they're offshoots. People who weren't even good enough to work there took over the Rings of Power. The guys who run the Rings of Power wrote half of a bad Star Trek script,

Star Trek Beyond. You remember that movie? I hated it. That was the third one? That was the third one. That was the third one. They doctored a bit of that script. So they were given, they were put in charge of the most expensive TV show of all time and to adapt the greatest story ever written.

And yeah, we just started clowning it. Because once I heard that, I'm like, well, we've seen intersectional feminism in Star Trek and Star Wars and Marvel and just about everything so i wouldn't be surprised if galadriel was like all in armor and slaying orcs like she's cutting through butter and sure as shit that's what they did and it was a joke and like they watch your segment yeah oh my god it was terrible i can't even get into like they had instances where she swam across the ocean in the middle of the ocean she just runs into sauron on a raft it's just it's the dumbest thing ever if you don't understand the source material

it's hard to explain but um i think the last jedi but a thousand times worse that's that's what it was and uh and you have good source like the tolkien family was like no you can't fucking touch this thank god there's certain stuff that they couldn't like part of the tolkien family sold them out but they said you can only do the appendices so that's it's like this much of the book at the end it's like that much of the book that are adapting and uh the worst part about it was like subverting everything tolkien believed tolkien was a devout catholic this is a christian work i'm not even christian i'm saying this but it has tons of themes yeah and it's also not fantasy it's it's written as a as a faux mythology that uh tolkien felt you know eng England was robbed of because they were. And they lost a lot of their oral tradition and everything through, you know, being conquered a lot.

Maybe they shouldn't have been conquered so much, but that's the way it goes. And it didn't look very authentic. We had elves of color. We had hobbits of color. The irony of that, considering the original intent behind the Tolkien and everything like that. It goes back to South Park. Make it gay and lame. Yes. Put a tick in it and make it gay.

Make it fucking lame. And I want it lame. That's my favorite part. No, it's frustrating because I can't go down the rabbit hole on this. It would take too long to explain, but Tolkien accounted for other races in his world. Like it's there, but they flipped them on its head so they can just have,

oh, we want to have, because you know, people, everybody now needs to see themselves in everything. You know, like I can't watch Buffy anymore because I've never been a teenage vampire slayer. So I can't identify with her, obviously.

I can't watch Angel. I've never been a vampire. So we have to see ourselves in everything. It's like super narcissistic and it kills imagination. And they could have had any race they wanted into. They decided to flip it on its head. And on top of all that, you could, as a Tolkien fan, you could tell what they didn't have rights to.

So they had the, you know, they couldn't say hobbits. What? They could, you can't say the word hobbits in there. So. You gotta say hobba. No, no. You're gonna say hobbit with a hard T. They couldn't use gandalf so they had gandalf in it they had gandalf in it but they didn't call him gandalf so that stranger oh he's he's called the stranger

because they don't have rights to the yo it's the gray what's up gray so high five uh warner still has the rights because so instead of the hob hobbits they're called the harfoots which is a breed of hobbit but it's still a hobbit but they're calling them the harfoots who are the worst people ever by the way they have a whole speech on how uh they they travel they're they they migrate you know they're they're nomads they like and and if anybody yeah they're like gypsies they're like gypsies and if you fall behind you're screwed if you have sprained your ankle they're not going to stop for you. They're just going to leave you to die. It's really messed up and stupid.

But yeah, they subverted everything possible in it. I'm surprised they didn't have a gay story. That'll probably be next season. I'm probably saving it for next season. Because, you know, Tolkien, really down. Yeah, dude, they got to fucking eat some strawberries. To be fair, Tolkien really down. Yeah, dude. They gotta fucking eat some strawberries. To be fair, he was Catholic. Yes.

Yeah. And then the orc fucked the boy. Wow, that's really... You were very descriptive up until that point. That was short in one sentence. It's like, huh. His brother was a Catholic priest.

So one of us, yeah. I love, like, if you guys have, Salmonella, like, you've read Dune, Cody. You've read all the Dune series. The world, Tolkien, especially with Salmonella. I did hate that Hobbit was three movies instead of one. And then Lord of the Rings, which is a book apiece. And they made a like three hours

per movie and you're like hey this makes sense hobby like let's stretch this bitch out as much as possible it it was it was money it was oh yeah peter jackson got fucked taking over that one that is my favorite story he's like after everything they paid him enough money to be like okay i'll do it after two directors i think at that point guillermo del toro got fired yeah he said he left but he got del toro you didn't know del toro was gonna fucking direct yeah he was he was very influential on the first one you'll you'll see a lot of his stuff in the first one yeah that's why when we had dope orcs like the actual uh the the white orc um fuck the pale orc the pale orc sorry uh pale orc the original costume designed

for that there was no cg it was an actual dude in a costume like the original three and it looked so good yeah and they cg'd it it was pretty terrible uh dude after that yeah del toro and that's where there's one frame rate they ran too it was like it was 48 frames everything looks super choppy and weird it looked really weird um oh shit that actually does look dope yeah like yeah that's rad looks so much better than the gray one it look and they have a full body too like him standing and it's gangster looking like way better god damn oh well okay that's fucking red i would have watched it then but then uh it's just looking. Way better. God damn. Oh, well. Okay, that's fucking rude. I would have watched it then, but then...

It's just like the fucking... I'm sorry. Hollywood does this all the fucking time. Just with the reboot of the thing, or the prequel to the thing, where they did everything practical effects, just like the original movie, like the original 1980s thing.

They did just the super... Because that was the pinnacle of practical effects and then the like they recorded the whole fucking movie with practical effects they even had i think was like tom savini like the real like og dudes and then the studio's like nah it looks too old school make everything cg and so they cg'd over the practical effects and they still over the final cut and that's what's fucking kills me and they have side by sides and you can see the practical and it looks so much better and like it was that weird part of like 2010 to 20 where they're like hey we need more cg now it needs to look more video game and you're like no no no no no it's like cool as fuck dude yeah and uh and it's led to the

crap cg we have, which is just lazy. You praise the Dune. Dune was great because they pre-vis and they plan everything. Don't mean to disrespect the CG artists who are soon to be all out of jobs within five years because of AI. But yeah, they were overworked at Marvel. And they got screwed over at Marvel because they're always basically having to redo stuff on the fly and meet some ridiculous release date. But yeah, Dune was good. We actually talked to the guy at Comic-Con.

He just said, yeah, we planned everything. And we stuck with the plan. We didn't reshoot anything. And yeah, Dune 2 was a masterpiece as far as visual. Yeah, did you see where Frank Herbert's son came out and was like, thank you. Like, this is my dad's like,

this is what my dad wanted. Wait, no, I did not see this. Yeah. Yeah. He did. Yeah.

Frank, Frank Herbert who wrote Dune. Yeah. He came out and like his son came out. He said something on Twitter. He was just like, thank you for imagining my dad's like what I, what he wanted the entire time.

I mean, like his son is even happy that like they did such a good job at showing that story. Well, it's better than, you know, Pat, the,

the 1980s Patrick Stewart with the, you know, early CG Tetris shields. Oh yeah. That's when VFX was not the easiest. And they were doing it on camera version yeah they didn't have the tech and you know what i mean it wasn't awful for the time but compared to the the new one it's kind of like would you rather get on an airbus or the wright brothers plane

you're like oh i have them both though i you know i never got through the book. I've never been able to get through the book. I've tried. Your beat killed me. Because you're like, I can't read that. I cannot. And it's like, to he, to the. It's like this. I know.

It's a read. Depending on the author, even fucking Tolkien. Awesome. Dear God, does homeboy like to describe shit like three pages later it's a fucking lake yes and you're like now in the world building language everything it's it's fucking fantastic it's just like hey like maybe speed like patrick rothis he's one of my new favorite authors that dude has it where it's, I'm explaining a new science and how magic functions, but I do it really well in 1,200 pages or 1,500 pages.

And he just lets it go. And now, unfortunately, since he had two massive successful books, we're on a decade waiting for book three now. Discover the exciting action of BetMGM Casino. Check out a wide variety of table games with a live dealer or enjoy over 3,000 games to choose from like Cash Eruption, UFC Gold Blitz. Make instant deposits or same-day withdrawals. Download the BetMGM Ontario app today.

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one day get the last Game of Thrones book. When he dies. Second to last. Second to last. Second to last, yeah. It's been over 4,400 days since the last book came out, but who's counting? Who's counting? Yeah. yeah bro we've got to count down on those arteries like it's not going we don't have that much longer man no no he and he

he does not he's not a healthy man george rr martin uh and not grateful either he should just tell people he doesn't want to finish that's all he like at this point it's 10 years and uh a lot of that book by the way was already written so there's a there's like 11 chapters that he already wrote that that were kicked out of us uh a dance with dragons so he's had that and he's and he had covid where he and he had the strike where he couldn't write any tv oh yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. And he had plenty of time to do it, and he's just not interested. You know, the pussy strike? Is that what it was called? I don't know.

That's what I call it. Yeah. Hey, that strike was great. It was great for my channel because the strike videos did really well. Oh, yeah. No. That was, wait, what was it?

That was the writing one or the writers? They were both, the writers and the film actors guild were both on strike. The film actors guild? Yeah, I in the Film Actors Guild. We're both on strike. The Film Actors Guild? Yeah, I call them the Film Actors Guild. We're always calling them the Film Actors Guild. Cody, do that analogy.

Matt Damon. Acronym in your head. Matt Damon. I know, I know. I don't know. I'm listening, Eli. I know about the Film Actors Guild. Yes.

So, yeah, they were gone for six months. It was great. It was quiet quiet no idiocy Other than on the picket line We deserve to get paid for The bad art we are writing And you're like guys It's no different than any other job

90% of people Probably especially writers I've read what comes out I've worked in that industry I've been on a TV show in that industry and you get to see the trash that gets pushed forward and it is fucking insane. And then when execs, cause I don't,

I don't know if you've done anything with like actual TV channels, but when you have executives, they will come in and change. Like these are people that don't write, do don't, don't do anything and they will come and change change like these are people that don't write do don't don't do anything and they will come and change shows and pitch jokes for the talent to say and you have to as a talent you have to be like this sounds oddly likes personal experience eli huh weird yeah they're

like and i have to write that my director would come and he's like eli read this joke real quick i'd read it and i'm like fuck no i'm not saying he's like okay now, read this joke real quick. I'd read it. And I'm like, fuck, no, I'm not saying he's like, OK, now I can tell the executives he doesn't want to say that. It was an actual from the director to me to back. And you're like, how anything that goes public or is a board or executives, y'all fucking just shut the fuck up and make money or let everyone make money. It's just like any any any other thing where creative is involved it's death by committee yes it's just like people who have never succeeded at something who just got a board position that are that are putting their fucking input where it doesn't belong and yeah well they're like he he my joke will be funny yeah it's like my dad said

so who runs the company oh oh yeah Oh. Yeah, my dad owns it. Yeah. My dad owns Nintendo. Yeah. No, you're right, and it's a thousand times worse now. I don't know, like, how far back you worked on, but it's all committee. I mean, that's what pretty much destroyed Marvel. But if you go and look at your average crap Star Trek episode that comes out,

last one I reviewed, I counted 21 producers. Oh my god. Jesus fuck, dude. So we have... One director. 21 producers. What the fuck are all these producers sitting around doing? You know, if they were doing coke, it would make sense.

That would make sense. It's just people glomming on. They want their name attached. They have their name attached to it. If it's successful. So we had, we shot an entire season of our show. I've showed like one episode of you. Yeah.

Those and then shit happened. We had to refilm season one and then do the changes for it. And because season one, the original season one that wasn't aired. Fucking season one would have worked. Oh, it was so good so pissed i was like this it was one of the few i hate watching my own chat when i can watch it i'm like this is good are you allowed to say the name yeah brother brothers in arms brothers in arms so to my understanding of what happened they took a show called brothers in arms and then decided that guns are too political so we'll take out the arms of brothers in arms but keep the name so you'll just do random military shit this he's not fucking joking so this is a military show without the guns

it was a gun show at first for history channel this is a gun show on the history channel that pivoted because well the vegas shooting happened yeah and then after that they're like we can't have a gun show and you're like what so we watched all of it i was like yo this is like an actual i was fucking proud of it i was like holy shit and then like we got bad news we have to refilm it all i'm like what what are we? Military restoration show now. I what? I barely know how to build a gun. I'm supposed to restore a tank now.

And then we'll do the jokes around that. And then the guns will be like secondary. It's just Rocco and you and it's your show. And I didn't watch the last three shows because they were so bad. My own TV show that was airing. I was like, I don't even care about my number. number i'm gonna just turn that tv off and walk away so do you see that happening in like hollywood right now there's just like too many fucking producers and yes people just trying to turn it around because of the political spectrum or like the social spectrum yes i they're they don't want to really fix anything they they've

they've got Hollywood has gotten way too woke they've recognized that now but they were on like a bender for a good four years where they thought everything they were doing was right but like with Marvel in particular they're what they started out like with iron man there was no script so they just kind of but that's john favreau you have robert downey jr ad-libbing these are two like and he fought for he fought for robert downey jr because he was i was just gonna bring that up i'm sorry like earlier i was just gonna bring that up because it sounds like the the fucking it's the opposite of the death by producer thing because you have like basically any good fucking startup you have somebody with a vision like john favreau you've got like a good like little like ragtag crew who pulls off a massive multi-hundred million dollar movie out of fucking thin air and then

everybody comes along and ride the coattails and fucking ruins it yeah and they thought that that kind of set the template of like how the the marvel method for there's a marvel method in comics and and now there was one for movies where they can just like, ah, we can change shit at the end. Doesn't matter. And it worked for a little while because they had a really cohesive unit. They had Joss Whedon there. Edgar Wright. These are people who were kind of guiding the way who were like, really knew what they were doing.

Talented. Talented directors. Talented directors, talented actors, characters people gave a shit about. Then after Endgame, you know,wood starts going crazy and kevin feige comes out and says we're gonna put as many women as we are men in the mcu it's like why who even brought that up well nobody was talking nobody was talking about it it's he got embarrassed by wonder woman like wonder woman did well like the one dc movie that did well he got

embarrassed by it so he's like we're gonna bring in like i did my wonder woman it was all right like it was all right yeah there's no reason to destroy the mcu but that's what he did he brought in captain marvel who has never been popular in the comics she was when she was miss marvel but not as captain marvel go watch my videos on that it kind of breaks it down and yeah he like half the characters became women and it what that wasn't the issue the issue was like what they did to the remaining legacy male characters and nerds give a shit about this stuff. And by the way, they're the ones who pay for everything.

So Kevin got rid of all the talent and went down this weird MCU highway. And they, they oversaturated with, with, you know, Disney plus coming out, which I call D Plus during COVID.

Bob Iger, by the way, resigned from being a CEO right before COVID started. That was weird. That was weird timing. They got brought right the fuck back in. Got right back in right when COVID was over. Really weird how that happened. Weird play. Strange play there. Had a big scapegoat for all the stuff that they were trying bob chapik and uh yeah like that and that's and it's over

produced content bob eiger even came out and blamed um the director for captain marvel this was this is a famous one i've done a couple of it. I made four videos on this. So Nia DaCosta was a inexperienced director. They brought in for captain Marvel and, uh, you know, Hollywood now cast directors. They don't, they don't hire them.

So they can prance around, go, look, we got this woman of color directing a woman of color. This is awesome. Never directed a superhero movie on a Thursday in September. So that's, that's what they keep doing in directing.

If directing is the hardest fucking thing you can do it is not something easier you can just toss somebody you know people do not understand you're wrangling fucking cats you're wrangling cats and you are trying to get your vision and you have to tell people to shut the fuck up it's like tarantino does tarantino's like what's on the fucking script. Read the fucking script or your your different directors and how they cover down. If you break that or you're just hiring people based off not talent, but just whatever else you are going to have a piece of shit at the end. Because they're not going to get the best action. They're going to change or cave to.

Who was it? There was one person film something and it was a short with a lot of money behind it and i remember the actor was like yeah they let us change the script as we see it i was like that is gonna fucking bomb they're like why i was like you just told me your director caved to you i would i was like as a director i would have told you to fuck off you're not changing my script or my vision. Fuck off. You're like, Oh,

and it came out and fucking bombed because of that. Cause a director's position is it's like Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson did how many years of previs going into that? It started in 97. I want to say, geez, would it come out in like, Oh one, it came out in 2001.

Yeah. So I want to say like, they really started the process in 97 yeah uh that was a lot of time a lot and then you have what you're talking about which is so nia da costa comes in and this is just the latest example by the way marvel had been doing this pretty much since endgame they're bringing in inexperienced controllable directors so these films can be produced now and not directed. And they can parade people out going,

look, we got the first Asian person directing a superhero movie. It's all formulaic. I haven't given a shit about anything since fucking Iron Man died. I don't fucking care. Neither has anybody else. So the Marvels collapsed. I feel like they kind of knew that. They kind of built everything up to it,

and then they blamed COVID for all the failures. If they would have just let it go. They blamed the models, I feel like they kind of knew that, like they kind of built everything up to it and then it just kind of, and then they blame COVID for all the failures. If they would have just let it breathe. They blame the fans too. Yeah. And if they would have let it breathe, in game, if in game would have happened,

you took an actual break, push off to another one and then really drive. Okay. What is the next step into this world? You would have had hyper success instead of like, let's, we need a new captain

america we need the she-hulk we need and you're like well hold the fuck on let's reel back no okay no reeling back okay go on well you don't kill iron man or cap that was stupid like you recast them that's it's dumb it's just like why would you do that yeah well they kind of i guess they kind of did recast captain america but they did in a really odd way uh they gave it to sam wilson the falcon who uh if if you follow the winter soldier storyline it's supposed to go to bucky the shield was supposed to go to buck it should have gone to buck should have gone to bucky as part of his redemption arc exactly like i don't I don't, I don't, it's not like, oh, Falcon's black, blah, blah, blah. But they still brought Steve Rogers back later in the comics.

So like an old, yeah, he was old for a while. And then, you know, they brought him back. Steve Rogers is Captain America. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. You just recast him like Bond. You do that. But so back to Nia DaCosta, she ends up leaving the project early. And then Bob Iger throws it under the bus on a big New York Times thing and says, well, our director didn't have enough didn't have enough supervision from executives.

So basically, you said you're you're you're female of color director. You're didn't have enough adult supervision. And this is for the Marvels. This is for the Marvels. Yeah. And to come out there and say that publicly and roll the bus over is like horror. I mean, she did a terrible job and she blamed fans. I don't really care. I don't have a dog in this fight.

I just got my popcorn out. You're like, wow, you just hit that pedestrian. They were a piece of shit. You still hit him. This team is cannibalizing itself. What the fuck? So it's all falling apart now and then uh you know it a bunch of us have been saying this since end game we're like if you go this

captain marvel route it's it's going to be very bad for you because uh we you did the same crap in the comic books that we read and the american comic book industry is dead the superhero is dead like every kid's reading manga now. Every kid's watching anime. They're playing video games. They're not, you know, reading Captain America or Spider-Man or any of that. Well, I feel like the nerds went fucking woke. Like, everybody right now that's, like, in the fucking comic book space

that, like, cares about their shit. The creative space, yes. Yeah, the creative space. Like, it's all a bunch of fucking either 90 pounds or 290 pound fucking nerds. Or 490 pounds. That are all just like virtue signaling to people that they think they can fuck. Work girlfriends bringing in work girlfriends. And as my good friend Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers says,

those who preach the most have the most to hide. Usually it's because they're a bunch of freaks and they have a lot of... Check that man's internet history. That goes back to fucking us talking about twitch earlier like you know like me me getting banned for saying one word it's like that's that's what all the mods are on twitch from what i've seen twitch is ban me if you want i don't stream anymore fuck you what is that down it you get to see how it i love the nerd culture i how it was and how it is as a core it's just the loud vocal ones and now i don't truly believe they are nerds there's a difference too it's like they're like i love nerds i hate nerd culture

right well i even love nerd culture what it's become now culture yeah i mean if you want like the new nerd culture i wouldn't want if you want the new nerd culture, I wouldn't want any part of this garbage they're trying to call nerd. So we're trying to preserve the old one. There's a great documentary out there. I'm going to plug my friend if you don't mind. Chris Gore used to be on a show called

Attack of the Show, G4. Oh, my God. Oh, shit. Yeah, shit. We still love that. God damn. I remember when you saw that. G4 TV? Holy fuck. so he did he did a documentary

of that era and and kind of the end of it uh called attack of the doc it is on youtube you can watch it for free uh with commercials it's the best documentary i've seen in 10 years it's about tab don't click away it's about new tab uh and it's, it's a love letter to the nerd culture that basically died a few years ago. And hopefully it comes back. That's what we're trying to preserve. Cause it was fun. It used to be fun. We,

we didn't care what your politics were. We just cared about Olivia Munn. Yeah. And web. There's a lot of Olivia Munn in that, by the way. Morgan Webb. Morgan Webb.

Yeah. That's an OG. That was the, that is a name I have not heard in a long Webb. That's an OG. That was before G4. That is a name I have not heard in a long time. In a long time. The only girl I've waited in line to get an autograph from. That was like me before anything.

I was like, I'm going to wait up my first PAX. And I was like, I was dressed as Solid Snake at that. And she's like, of course you were. I like this outfit. She's like, I was like, thank you. Sign that. Cool. Walk away.

How old were you? I was unfortunately still like 26 or 27 at that point. Somewhat forgivable. Somewhat forgivable. I watched your show when I was like 12. I was like, hey, this person. Attack of the Show was great. That was like the peak time for nerd culture was up until about 2013 and 14.

God, that's how I would track, like pay attention to video games that I couldn't afford back then. I was like, man, I can't play the game, but I'll watch the shit out of somebody talk about whether or not it's good. Oh, man, this is dope. Fuck. Man, it sucks that the nerd culture is where everyone, it's no different than the gaming culture. You had that mass flood of mobile games. Everyone was in a quote unquote gamer or just very basic. And like,

I am a gamer saying for anime right now, which Fortnite, and I'm not a gatekeeper. I want people to consume this media. It is just understand the culture behind. Yeah. That's the nerds are very welcoming people. They will share as a matter of fact,

overshare everything that they love. Called autism. It is. So if I ask about their favorite favorite train, you're fucked. You're screwed. Oh, you're on a live stream and you say the word anime. You will get 90 minutes of anime recommendations, which is awesome. That's the way it's supposed to be.

But the activist culture that has come in which is basically uh a bunch of dudes and women who took women's study best way to holy shit i never thought about that that is now how i will describe that that's that's what um games uh media i call them access media so the game the gaming media entertainment media has all become activism so and they frame everything every review every article on like say you're writing a story about american history well how does it relate to now like how you know uh are you exposing the colonizers or some crap like that instead of like showing something for what it is like i just want to tell you what happened yeah i just want to tell you a story. But that's where DEI comes in.

DEI has kind of effed up everything over the last 10 years. They were very open about it a few years ago. They're kind of trying to hide their internet history now. And we've had the BlackRock founder come out in 2017 saying we want to force behaviors and we're going to do it through corporate culture, which in turn turns hollywood we have the new oscar rules diy uh diversity equity and uh inclusion oh this is actually that rating program that yeah yeah sweet baby it's why fucking doors fall off of airplanes now watch this cody do you know what this is no i know exactly okay for the viewers out there because i just learned this like as of a week ago or two weeks ago.

I was like, this makes so much more sense. Because we have experienced different sides of this. But seeing how it's affecting everything and then hearing about it and then reading and doing research, I was like, oh, this is a fucking thing. Holy shit. And it's been a thing. And it's been creeping into every institution in America. I mean, I just cover nerd and pop culture. So like it's silly stuff, but like.

I wish I affected business. We've seen it. Culture really isn't silly. Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart said. Right? Yeah. So it affects your kids who are watching TikTok, who are playing these games,

who are reading these comic books, who are watching these movies. It affects adults. It affects everyone. And again, I just keep it in the entertainment space, but when it gets serious is when it gets into our schools, which is already infiltrated and destroyed. And it gets into things like flying planes.

And now, you know, we make the joke, but that's what dei does it doesn't bring equity it makes people question that now it makes you are you a diversity hire or did you get here on merit now we don't know and that's effed up for everybody that's up and like just the last 24 hours you know i still live in san francisco sfo plane was flying i don't know if this happened in a day over the last couple of days but a tire fell off a plane yes all that united flight crushed a bunch of cars in the parking lot and then in houston yesterday plane you know the landing gear collapses i mean i i'm sure it's all this has all just been a giant coincidence uh right when dei is being forced in by blackrock and that they're just one

of them yeah those and blackRock is an investor firm. I don't know. I'm not a financial analyst, but they, they have a lot of influence, uh, more control that they can, they have more influence than the president.

They control quite. So like, I will say this, like there's, there's a bit of a media thing. Like anytime something gets popularized and like people know that people are clicking on certain things, just like you have like the Myrtle beach shark attacks, right you know it could be a year where it's like this is totally

statistically average this happens all the time nobody just talks about it but they hear like you know oh shark attacks record shark attacks and everybody does articles on it even though it's like statistically insignificant uh or it's not not an anomaly how about that it's like you know and maybe the shit's been happening all the time with planes and things like that but we're just finding out now it's just kind of like now it's in the news and things like that but at the same time you're 100 correct like organizations like black rock have a shitload of political influence they have a shitload of influence over just culture in general because they own controlling interests or interest in general in so many fucking aspects of our life i feel like i'm on

fucking fox right now well it's are you doing your political thing right now i i might be i really don't like it it's a really easy it's an easy google search to see uh how much stock blackrock owns in disney warner brothers amazon netflix just go look it's it's damn near the majority and also on open secrets andrets and different places like that, you can see how much BlackRock has invested in politicians. Like, for example, Tony Gonzalez. It's very weird. You can look this all up on Google.

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That's a shirt. Just new tab. It is the level of influence that people do not. It sounds like crazy thought, especially for your general audience. It's like, nah, they're just over-exaggerating. No. Like mainstream media will call us just because you're talking about it right now they're gonna call us conspiracy theorists of course how dare you follow the money i thought it was crazy

too i oh but at least you know when i was when when the channel was just starting up and it was like 100 people watching i'm like let's get crazy let's talk about it let's see what happens you know there's so many times it's just like well like the the fuck the uh the mlk assassination thing like so many times i'll just enter into it like joking around like that like fuck it let's look into it let's research this a little bit because you know okay it's a little silly conspiracy theory then you look into it like an hour later you're like the fbi killed him okay yeah fuck me all right and they do diversity hires isn't based off of merit which kills me because i am i truly believe i don't give a shit about anything like race creed religion i want the best possible for the job but these individuals would go and be like no you cannot hire that individual because they're race color religion you have to hire the other individual and you're like which is illegal well and it's back to it's

back to illegal it's back to mok it's the whole like you know i have a dream of what not you know my race above the others it's i wish i you know i have a dream of a day where you have you know people judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin it's like that's the fucking opposite we want meritocracy we want the people who are the best at the job to be the ones who have the job that's it i don't care i don't care what color you are i don't care what you believe it's like are you good at the job cool you have it yeah are you a good pilot yeah that's kind of important it's kind of a good thing if you're flying a fucking plane unsebs's a fucking great example. Show, fucking female, Irish, owns part of the company. Why?

Because she is one of the hardest working. Oh, God. You haven't heard her speak yet? Oh, she's from Ireland. Oh, she has like. Actual Irish. Actual. Worse.

No, I'm just kidding. Can we get a lucky. Your car's going to explode. Can we get a lucky charm real quick? No. Show, come on. Give us a lucky charm real quick? No. Show, come on, give us a lucky charm. One lucky charm. Just one lucky charm.

Lucky charms are American. Hey, that was close enough. We love that. That'll work. Cheers. But she is one of the hardest working individuals and hyper talented. Same for like anyone that's sitting at this table. They are based off of their, like they all have their own individual strengths.

I love how you wanted to go for diversity. So you went for the very white Irish woman. I know. I was like, white Irish woman, Mexican congressman. Soon to be. Hey, I hired. White Cody. Yeah.

Sorry. I hired two Asians because I'm terrible at math. That's exactly why I hired them. They're actually really good at math. My people thank you for that. The one thing. What is it called? Excuse me?

Where they kick you out. The Asian people in the comments are like, dumbass, it's called this right now. I know what you're talking about now. The sliders or the fucking... I know what you're talking about. The abacus? Abacus, yeah.

I thought you were talking about a zipper at first. You're like, kick, kick, kick, kick, kick. I thought you did. Yeah, I heard KKK and I heard something else, but that's just me. That's me. Sorry. I have white lips right now.

Don't appropriate their culture i'll try not to the abacus i love your your workers you're like and they're amazing humans and they're just they're so focused on the creation of firearms and like refining it's like i see why you hired insane for code like all of us are just based off of work merit yes rushing your job they're they're especially when you talk about you start talking about kids that are like kind of autistic in certain ways it's like yeah but like they are hyper focused on making sure they can make the best product they can like where everybody else would call it good right everybody else would just be like ah that's good enough like they're like no it has to be

fucking perfect there's there's a place for that. Like those are the kinds of people that you want checking you. That's making actually brilliant because, uh, I mean, that's changed a lot in the last 10 years too. So I have a kid who's on the spectrum and, uh, at the time, there you go. And, uh, you know, as a parent, it was scary at first. You're like, like, oh my God, you know, my poor kid is not going to be able to live a normal life. But then, you know, I settled into it and we find him a good school that's not public.

ABA. And yeah, yeah. And got him out of the public school. Again, not a Christian. Got him into a nice Christian school. And he advanced more in two years than he did his entire time. And they learn different. Absolutely. He's ready to go get a job. He's ready to drive. It's it's just where where you put that focus, like you said, where you put that focus,

because they have amazing skills. It's just different, you know, and and maybe it's just a label of something that's always been around. I probably would have been labeled that when I was a kid, too. You know, I was called hyperactive and they tried to put me on that. Like it wasn't Adderall. What was it? Because I'm old. Ritalin. Yes, Ritalin.

Yeah, that really helped. You become a drug addict. We don't really. Yeah, it's the beat. Wow, we don't know what to do with you. Have some amphetamines. That'll calm you down. It has a reverse effect. You still had spankings in school.

Oh, shit. We had paddles. The principal paddles. By the time I had gotten into school, it was barely phased out. You had teachers literally telling you, this was a couple years ago. I beat your fucking ass right now. You gotta gotta remember i'm fucking 10 years older than you eli is a couple years older than than i am and then fucking gary gary's i went to school in the

cave yeah they killed people yeah we killed people we actually killed people the teachers students with stone kids it's the annual stoning of the worst yes we invented dodgeball okay the original uh the opposite of the valedictorian yes what's your kid's superpower like if he's on the spectrum he has something he fucking in the words of administrative results the prior guest in this show is uh you know it's my autism i get to choose the special interest yes yes no uh he his memory for for anything like his memory for anything he's interested in so like a story like his comic book knowledge is starting to like he's gonna be dad

pretty soon because eli's son does buildings. He knows the height of every building. Oh yeah. That's awesome. Like to the travels. Yeah. To the feet, traveling distance of flying,

how much time it takes driving, how much time it takes. And Ryan's like, okay, daddy. Right. And time timestamps on soundtrack. Oh yeah.

Oh my God. Cause now he knows how to comment on YouTube videos. Some people will upload he will go on and request them to upload a video that is no longer on their channel so they will upload one that they just like made and then put up he's like this is not the same video the timestamp is 19 minutes and 23 seconds there's 22 minutes and 40 seconds also these soundtracks have changed the original had x X, Y, and Z. And he puts that in the comments. Like my son's the asshole. You're giving some random fucking 200 subscriber YouTuber, a fucking migraine.

I was like, what did I do? God, you know, you can't, you can't hear the context. It's like, what the fuck?

No, uh, owning a comic shop in San Francisco. I had, I was trained for that. Weird. Lots of autism in comic books, okay? Not a big secret.

A lot of skinning. Yeah. And honestly, it prepared me for it. And it's patience. That's all it is, is patience. And there really were a lot of good kids. They were going to San Francisco State. Yeah, they're amazing. And it is, is patience. And they really were like a lot of good kids. They were going to San Francisco State. Yeah, they're amazing.

And it was fun. Yeah. Yeah. They don't have emotion. No, they ask a lot of questions. They ask a lot of questions about one subject for an hour. And you just got to learn how to roll with it. Without looking at you.

Like, why did Batman do that? Yeah. And you got to explain it. And then they'll ask the same question the next day it's okay you know my son at least he's aware now I asked you that question five days ago I'm sorry dad it's alright I'll answer it again

how old's your son he's 18 now and he's super into comics super into comics and you know it depends you know I don't know much about other than like what my son has gone through but he was not talking not making eye contact and when he got the right teacher in the right education which was basically damn near one-on-one like really small classroom full of autistic kids and it brought him out lots of

headphones it like lots of head but it brought him out and like yeah he doesn't get freaked out by loud noises anymore it's it was incredible and like no drugs at all and it was awesome watching that and uh hopefully you know the education system uh privately has gotten much better it can be expensive but if you look for the right like Christian program you know even if you're not a religious person and it's a historic thing that's always kind of been the case is that religious

institutions like the church will take up the slack where the government fucking sucks and they do it all the fucking time and like especially when it comes to education like I wouldn't trust the government to build a fucking website much much let alone like fucking educate my children in fact we've discussed like even amongst the guys figuring out a method so we can do a charity or something where we can start raising money to put certain kids just through private school because we all believe in like hey how do we help the next wave of individuals and

that's one where we all fucking like our kiddos are amazing they're wonderful humans but to see them hyper successful you have to do that and then we want to give that opportunity for others that might not have that and be like hey we got you covered like the bare minimum like private school christian school stuff like that i mean ideally homeschool with like a good curriculum stuff like that because man uh one of the best things i ever did was like last couple years of my uh my schooling was homeschooled i learned how to fucking run a business i learned how to do finance like i learned how to do the stuff that actually helped me in the world how taxes work yeah it's crazy you know i can't recite the pythagorean theorem but i know how to not go to fucking prison you know that's cool

it's like this is kind of important kind of important now we're in that next wave i'm like oh god damn it but it's awesome to see like parents like you where you're like hey my kiddo matters i'm gonna find out how to make that work and then yeah especially with autism because it is hyper how do you say it is very it's extremely important to get them in aba or a private program where they get to earlier the better earlier the better it's never too late though don't freak out as a parent because i did i went through that whole freak out process but um when did you find out your your son was autistic uh pretty early on like uh pretty much right after he was born. He was doing the staring at the ceiling fan thing.

We had a ceiling fan and he lined stuff up all his toys. Yeah. No, this is before he was lining anything up. He was just he didn't cry very much. And he stared at the ceiling fan. And I'm like, you're fucking crazy. He's fine. And they're like, go check it out.

So we checked it out. And all the line of cause. And you're like out. And father found out pretty early on. Have you seen my line of cause? And you're like, huh. That's weird. Riding was, riding it was like he wouldn't talk much. And then you point at it, and he's like, I saw Sully's triangle. And you're like, well, daddy's not that smart because I didn't know. But why did you know?

Your trains are really cool, bud. Dad turns around and looks at that GED on the wall. I'm proud of you. College is about to be expensive. He got into creative. His art is really off the charts. Pretty good. And yeah, he would write entire comic books.

And yes, line up his toys. Steal all of my toys which was fine but that's kind of funny have a dad into toys i didn't think about that yeah he's all he would just come in and take stuff off my wall and just take it out of their packaging so he could play with it backgrounds on your videos it's just all fucking action figures and stuff holy shit you have that oh that thank you cody that the fucking how much you have unopened figures i'm assuming you're a collector collector right i'm a collector collector but i've gotten past the unopened thing because of uh space so i have some stuff like the really really expensive stuff is

still in in the package but i i kind of move i graduated this thing called hot toys so for action figures it's like the adult action figure. It's a 1-6 scale, full detailed. You can take them out and put them back in the box. That's the good thing about it. So you can put them back. I keep all the boxes. My attic is filled with them.

So if you see my background, that's one of nine walls. It's a really weird shape room. Holy shit. It's got a little hallway in it. It's got a bathroom. Wait, for reference, how many on that one wall? How many figures on one wall? 300.

Just what you're seeing. What you're seeing is 300. But it's thousands. It's thousands. Holy shit. That's why I was like, you said nine walls. I'm like, one wall, how many? You're like, 300.

So I know that name because i remember like thinking when i was you know a kid like a you know pre-teen or whatever like oh yeah i see him in like the the comic books or whatever the fuck like oh i'd love to have one of those they're like a hundred dollars that's impossible and like this is something me and you come back to every now and again it's like man i forget we're fucking grown up we're successful you know we have grown-ass man money like i can go back and buy fucking anything i wanted as a kid that's that that's the nostalgia rule and that's what a lot of us did it was just uh you know i didn't get everything oh my god my dad was cheap as hell so i got like a few things i had to earn my most of the stuff I bought myself on my paper out but uh that's cool man that's that that's that's a neat day I action figures are like art to me so like uh the the room is evolved but it basically came from my comic store that's how my comic store

looked so I wanted it to look like my comic store and a lot of it is just from my comic store you ever thought about reopening a comic store yes Yes. Are you going to do it? Probably, yes. I want to buy the building. No landlords. That's my thing. I think my kid would be great. Especially nowadays, you could rock that shit if you had your own comic store here.

Yeah, there's a couple spaces. We're looking for spaces. There you go, man. We would push the shit out of that. Hell yeah, thanks. Oh, by the way, you've got to vote for this guy. Oh, God. space we're looking for spaces there you go man yeah yeah well we would push the shit out of that hell yeah thanks you get some oh by the way you got to vote for this guy so oh god he's got my vote that's still a thing yeah um i didn't lose oh my god yeah no no no no well i mean it's pretty public it's on okay good i was on the front page of internet explorer day before yesterday yes you

were you were all over the place i was yeah no offense i was surprised i was like oh shit you got a runoff that's awesome i think it's the only federal it was the only federal level runoff in the state of texas on super tuesday and it was an awesome experience i also thank you for putting that all together you just at the bar oh yeah you know we did so for people who don't know we did like a private watch party. I didn't want to do, the media wanted to do like, oh, well, like,

let us know your watch party is. I'm like, no. This is going to be for me and my friends. This has been an exciting journey. I just want to do it for like my immediate family,

my friends, while my family's in town. And it was an incredible night and I did not drive home. Jesus Christ, that was just a really fun celebration. It was cool.

Your opponent, though, there was a watch party for your opponent. he just didn't there's something happened what happened he had did you not know about that oh i know okay yeah yeah he had a watch party and it became very clear as soon as early voting first like his early voting favors the incumbent yeah first numbers we saw he was at like 50 50.11. Not a good time. And he, he didn't show up to his watch party. Oh no. All of his staffers, all the people who volunteered for him that just were block walking, we're standing out in the sun. Cause I was standing across from them. I was out in the heat, like, like during election day, we both were actually, um, we were standing

out there like across from the Gonzalez team and everything. And they, they were out, they, they, they went to a watch party and he didn't show up. He, he just did. He bailed on him. He just wasn't messed up.

He'll take your volunteers though. You know, if you guys, if you need, if you need work, I'd be, I would be happy to, I would appreciate you.

Imagine being a leader that even during the L's you stand with your team. I don't know. That's why you'd ever do that as a leader that even during the L's you stand with your team. I don't know. That's why you'd ever do that as a leader. Superheroes would be really cool. Like every time the going gets tough, they're like, fuck this. But for the unsubscribed audience, I just realized we totally bulldozed over this. I actually, I won the election more or less. I, we did, did we we accomplished our fucking

goal done and we uh we we took uh the incumbent republican the shitty republican to a runoff and so we are now in a one-on-one election that is decided on may 28th and uh it's now all the other candidates are gone it was five people in the race now it's just me and tony yeah and so now he has to go into a special election that he was not prepared you have some backing too it's weird it's like people like you brandon and you're a good human that stands behind it also most importantly and what i always preach you don't want the fucking job you're doing it because you're like hey and that's how it should be across the board like whatever your political views you, we don't shit on it. Like, like we don't give a shit.

Be you, be a human, have fun. But when you're a politician, Brandon's doing all right. This isn't a fucking career for him. This isn't a career for you. You're like,

I don't want this, but I need these changes to happen. And then I'm going to piece the fuck out. I'm not happy with the, the way my Congressman's representing me. And I feel like I can do something about it. And it clearly we can, because like the politicians vote the way my congressman's representing me, and I feel like I can do something about it, and clearly we can. Because the politicians vote the way that they do

because they don't feel like anybody can call them to the carpet. They feel like they will have their job no matter what. And we've just very publicly proved on half the news stations across the country today, or on Tuesday, that that's not the case. And that's how you make a change. Especially for veterans out there, Leo, anything, this is how changes case. And that's how you make a change. Especially for veterans out there, Leo, anything. This is how changes happen. Wait, what did you say about veterans?

I know. This dude hates them and he's going to make it a better spot. He's buying a gun for every veteran. And that's the funny shit too. And we've talked about this a million times on the podcast, but it's like you attack me in the one place that like how much veteran charity work we done and you attack me on an out of context thing about at a fucking veterans prevention panel that we were

speaking at earlier it's like really half a million dollars we've raised in veteran charities to like yeah welcome to the fucking thunderdome yeah it, dude. It's like, hold on. How much money has Tony raised for veteran causes? That's really strange. Oh, not half a million dollars. And then Brandon supports. All your homies are fucking. Like, this is the main message of the podcast. We had a fucking veteran come up today or still active duty.

Yeah. And he's like, hey, appreciate you. You have my vote like i love what you're doing and that is because you actually give a shit and then your main thing it's like one of your things is like hey the va yes it's fucking broken like this is oh i don't want to go in the soap box too much but it's like dude like out of all the things that have failed veterans like the military's failed veterans the the VA, fucking politicians, everything. It's like this is one of the few things that hasn't.

It's like us and like. Weirdly shooters. Dark humor and camaraderie are the only thing. Fuck off. Every veteran in America will get a gun. I can't make these jokes now. Apparently it'll end up in a fucking mailer. Because, you know, people are just like,

did you know Brandon Herrera has like a fuck you, dude. Also a huge hat, which is still my favorite meme I've ever seen. I just said Brandon with a huge cap on. And my favorite, oh, we haven't talked about this either. There was a mailer. You can put it up, G-Van. You can put up the mailer. They said that I am hiding four hundred thousand dollars from my

fucking financial disclosures do you know how they found that out or how they found it out do you know what they're basing that off of what social blade no dead fucking serious holy shit oh my god yep freaking boomers. It's, it's fucking social blade. Guys, if you Google any of us, they're going to give you a rough estimate of our net worth and all that stuff.

They're never wrong or ever right. Like my dad, according to the internet is a veteran. He's not. According to the internet, I'm a veteran. I found out there's a Brandon Herrera who was in Navy, like basically a janitor. I don't really know what like the official uh votes on some eight

probably yeah like they could just because there's a brandon herrera that like shares my name i think he's in you know somewhere in the northeast but and then the for you page savs for you page now has medal of honor recipient brandon herrera Are you fucking serious? Dude, her For You pages start popping up, and she's like, Eli, what the fuck? I was like, screenshot that and put it in the group message. Jesus Christ. We started as one joke, and now Brandon is like the super soldier. He is Captain America.

Yes. And he's like, I don't want it. Exactly why this is for you. It's a good part. Internet culture, this is where it starts taking over. When we start getting more YouTubers in office. Well, I want to be careful about that, but that's actually one part that I was like, man, I don't know if I want to start this wave.

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really that good. But Anyone But You is the first comedy to make over $200 million at the box office. Wait, what is this? Since Bridesmaids. Anyone But You. It's Sidney Sweeney. That's why comedy to make over 200 million dollars at the box office wait what is this since since uh since bridesmaids anyone but anyone but you it's sydney sweeney oh that's why everybody watched it but honestly give me two reasons why anybody would watch that movie sydney sweeney no i wasn't those things um i want to tell you when comedy died uh fucking hangover. Yeah, that's pretty much it. It's like Broadway was after that, but that

was the last super big comedy hit. And anyone but you was the Paging who? Doctor Faggot. Paging Doctor Faggot. Hangover's one of the best comedies ever made. Director's cut's even better. Chopping Thunder and that. By the way, Todd

Phillips directed, same guy who directed Joker, directed Hangover. And Old School. Todd Phillips. He also directed War Dogs. Yes. It was a very good fucking movie. When you have good directors, they might have some one-offs. Your director did Sicario. Dune 2, I forget his name, sorry. Dune 2's

director also did Sicario. Yes, he did. Denis Villeneuve. He has some bangers. He has some softer ones, but he has also bangers. But Dune 2, same dude that did Sicario. But he also did Blade Runner 2049, which sucked. I will say that. Well, the

Dune color correction was the same as Sicario Mexico, so that makes sense. Oh, yeah. Very yellow. Sicario was good. Sorry, Gary. I interrupted the fuck out of you, man. very yellow it's carter i like that i interrupted the fuck out of you man no it's okay it's okay so like comedy is is and and there's still great stand-up comedy out there they're still like really you know but they're shane gillis uh kurt metzger christy mayor gotta plug my co-host on friday night tight she's awesome eight months pregnant gets uh gets uh pepper sprayed at a show because well she her

album is live from january 6th so she's a little edgy yeah she's awesome though she's great and pepper sprayed yeah recently she's eight months pregnant too what the fuck okay so i thought it was just a title behind okay go what christy mayer my co-host for friday night tights is a stand-up comedian uh pretty damn based uh young lady uh is eight months pregnant just got married uh and yeah she goes a little hard uh she's been she's gone viral a few times like malaysia wanted to completely the entire country of malaysia wanted to i feel like we'd get along you would very she made some i forgot even what the joke was it was about the I think, about the missing plane. About like, you know what I mean?

Something Wong. Something Wong. Holy fuck. We too low. Boom, boom, ting, ow. Boom, ting, ow. That played on actual, dude. Somebody, she was doing a fan signing after a show in Jersey,

and somebody threw in one of those smoke bombs that's pepper spray, which is not good for a pregnant woman. And it's only because of her political views. She won't get any gigs. Kurt Metzger, he's on I'm blanking on that. Guy used to be on Young Turks. He has a podcast. Not Shank.

Not the horse lover. The one who's cool now. Hassan Piker. I want to come to kill you. In the ring, right? No. No. It's your house in Los Angeles.

It's your house. I love it. For anyone wondering, this is the first day we've met. I know. This guy gets alone. It's going to look like we're lifelong friends. I'm on the internet too much. I want to say it's the Jimmy door show.

A Kurt Metzger is on that. Kurt Metzger is awesome. There's a lot of great comedians out there, but they're not getting gigs in what they would normally get as a sitcom or something. I mean, it's a different world now, but there's no comedies.

There's no raunchy comedies. There should be a blazing saddles about wool culture. Like we need that. We'll know we're healing. When that happens, a black, a black, what a blazing saddles about woke culture. Like, we need that. We'll know we're healing when that happens. A black what? A Blazing Saddles about woke culture. I know, I know.

A black what? A black what? A black what? A sheriff's what? The sheriff is near. The sheriff's near, yeah. I will say one comedy that, who was, fuck, now I can't even remember the actress's name. She was in Hunger Games.

Good story. No, I know what you're talking about. Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence. I did watch that movie. First woman who's ever been in an action film, by the way. You do know that, right? Oh, apparently, yes.

Did you ever see that interview? The first female protagonist. The first female action star ever was Jennifer Lawrence. Did she say that? She did. That launched the meme that Jennifer Lawrence was Jesus. Jennifer Lawrence was the first everything. Her new comedy, I forget what it's called. The one where she's butt naked on the meme like that you know jennifer lawrence was jesus jennifer lawrence was the first everything her new comedy i forget what it's called it was where she's butt naked on the beach yeah she signed up to do that fucking thing she read and she's like that's

hilarious and her entire team was like no i mean her her butthole's already been on the internet it's yeah but her team still is like no so that scene caught me so off guard because it it hides everything up into the reveal and she just comes out and beats the shit out of those dudes naked and you're like, oh, that's her bush. Oh, this is body double, right? You Google and you're like, nope, Jennifer Lawrence signed up to... Yeah, dude, she's...

This is how bad things are. He's shocked. He's shocked. Just Friends, is that the name? Yeah, Just Friends. That actually was pretty fucking funny. But you're shocked at seeing somebody... I'm old.

I didn't even care that. Remember PG-13 boobs? Remember PG boobs? Oh, yeah, PG boobs. Okay, PG boobs. There'll be boobs in PG movies. We've regressed as a society. Well, that was before the 1980s.

Airplane had boobs. That was 1980. That was like 1979? 1980. Was it 1980? I'm not questioning his autism. And I'll tell you why my autism kicks in here. I feel like the first ever PG-13 movie was Red Dawn, 1984.

It might have been, and it was one movie. Some people like to say it might be two. I'll give you that because there's a guy, one of my friends always argues with me but indiana jones and temple of doom created the pg-13 movie yeah yeah because because they ripped out the heart uh there's also an argument that uh gremlins might have done it but it was indiana jones yeah indiana jones was god i can't man i could there's what i love about these episodes because you are the outlier and our usual role of military, veteran humor.

And YouTube guests, you check that one up. But the level of nerd and how much. We haven't done this in a while. I know, and I'm fucking so happy because it is. I can bring up the two new Indiana Jones movies. I don't know if you're going to fucking shit on them. Did you see the new one? Yeah.

I didn't. You were in the same boat where we're like, fuck. The gaming community, what's nice is video games, anime, or the Marvel comic book. It is all the same where we see this absolute shit that gets rolled out. And you're like, how the the fuck how is this so fucking hard to do this right you if you follow the script all you have to do is follow the source material and you will have hyper success why do you deviate from that fucking this is where it gets back to dei so we'll explain it through indiana jones and uh and the uh diaper of destiny so

what is it a fucking critical drinker said just like the dial tone of destiny yeah yeah he had a different title he had a different title which was really good really good um so uh in my video i i the plot synopsis is this and i'm'm not kidding or over-exaggerating. Indiana Jones teams up with an insufferable feminist to save Hitler. That's what the movie's about. Hold on, what? That's what the movie's about. Go on.

Now break it down. I haven't fucking seen it. If you go on the core plot, Indiana Jones is with an insufferable feminist saving Hitler. That's what they do. All right, well, maybe let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. What's this movie about? So, where DEI comes in, it's a writing... Oh, I'm happy, boys.

I'm scratching that itch. You guys really need to talk to my co-host, Ryan Kennel, because he's the most racist person I know. you fit in so well here just ow you fit in so well last name is herrera come on you're fine i've got some air covers like plus 30 plot armor like plus 30 plot yes uh so the reason where dei comes in is is where they limit your script so you said producers always ruin shit well they do they come now they have dei they have they have um sensitivity readers for scripts so they'll make a script and they go yeah that shows some uh that shows some uh some inherited uh or or there's some racism there. There's some unconscious bias there.

And, oh, oh, this this woman is is second fiddle of this man, even though the franchise is about a man named Indiana Jones. It's like, no, he's he's got to be a broken down old man. And she's he's she's got to be the one. The Luke Skywalker is about. Yes. Yeah. The Luke Skywalker treatment. So we're going to subvert this and

then we'll call it subverting expectations and basically this woman who's the key to everything will show our old hero the way where he was wrong where he used to do stuff so it's it's not bringing in a new character and just making her nobody gives a shit about if it's a woman or what we've already talked about that it's how they do it for one they're not feminine at all they always have to be in power and it's a bait and switch it's like where i'm going to see an indiana jones movie i don't want to see phoebe fucking waller bridge uh running around uh you know just and making indiana jones look like shit to the point where at the end of the movie he just wants to die and as an audience member i wanted to die it reminds me of a god i again a critical

drinker just did a video on this not too long ago it's the the fucking company i think it's like sweet baby or something like that baby ink yes they do like video game consulting yes where they will get involved and they're like all right well basically let me tell you why having a white man as a protagonist is wrong let me tell you all the different ways that we can make this more inclusive and and more uh acceptable to people who won't buy your fucking game i've never oh my god and they just basically they were behind like people it's gotten to the point where they they have a tracker now for games that this company has on steam and it's got over 200 000 followers god bless the gamers and uh yeah there's a reason

we still call it gamer words yeah exactly exactly uh so yeah it's an aggregate and it basically if you go on steam and you follow this account they will show you every game that sweet baby ink is involved in and sweet baby ink is that sensitivity i was reading, I was telling you about sensitivity reading. There's a thing called bias check. It's all through Hollywood. And the funny part is the gaming companies are so fucking lazy that they can't even be woke on their own. They have to outsource their woke. So they outsource their woke to Sweet Baby Inc.

who is racist as hell. And if the CEO just got busted, it's in the drinker video, and I put it in one of mine, too, and we talked about it on Friday Night Tights. The CEO three years ago got busted saying, hey, if people don't really want to get on board with this, we need to make these executives scared to death. So, I mean, it's extortion.

Yeah, exactly. Because they basically are like, well, it would sure be a shame if we got on social media and talk about how you were racist and how you you know didn't want to promote the message that's exactly what they did so risk averse companies go oh no i'm not a racist we'll hire you do whatever you want and here's a quarter of a million dollars just make it okay and then they write the game and then the game suck because all of a sudden uh for example sweet baby ink was involved with squad kills the justice league yeah uh it's another bad

superman story fucking trash total trash so just to give you an example uh harley quinn shoots batman in the head and the flash gets killed and then his corpse is pissed on. That was so cool. That's sweet baby ink. That's sweet baby ink. The problem was like, it's not like, okay, I know what's called by the squad kills the Justice League. Yes. That's fine. It wasn't even written well. No.

The mechanics were bad. Or Batman kills Joker. Joker kills Batman. Which is the one? Harley Quinn kills Batman. I know. But in the actual one where Batman dies or is it Joker dies? That's like an actual, the famous comic uh dark knight returns are you talking about the

frank miller one because batman kills joke that one like that's a good story yeah it progresses and it's breaking yeah even the arkham asylum there could have been a way you could have done i mean this was from the arkham asylum world that's what really pissed people off is like that's the arkham asylum batman who just got his head blown off by harley quinn which is just like you don't do that uh but you're right there's a way like this could have worked and there's other reasons why the game didn't work and this is i just i heard this from my friends i didn't play it uh the mechanics were terrible the story was terrible and it's a complete flop but uh it's also affected so many other games uh alan wake too and it's just one company it's just one aspect of this dei problem which is basically constraining yeah i mean that's that's

yeah and we are pretty in tune to the gaming culture yeah that's so like the fact we you didn't fucking know is a problem and that's it's killing creativity well and that's where you can see why triple a's are fucking suffering and dying good and then you have hell divers too which that's what i'm saying all i want to do is hang on my fucking boys hug on a ship and kill some fucking bugs how fucking hard is that that dude dying the guy the main dude is a white dude i never thought about that till you're talking about it right now and i don't i still have no problem with it's the most aryan motherfucker on the planet yeah and but it's a hilarious beat. No one, if you're a good human, you don't look at the fucking color of the skin.

You're like, I don't feel right. I don't fucking, I have the most Mexican name. Eli's not my first name, last name. It is. I have a fucking Hispanic ass name. More than even Brandon. We're just like, holy shit, that dude. What?

I wouldn't let him in the country based on his name alone. And that's as it should be, where you're like, hey, because it is. As it should be. Yes,

you shouldn't let me in the country. That's what got a watch list. But the gameplay, none of us were like, man, did you see the guy's skin color at the beginning of Cinematon? We were just like,

yo, darn, darn, Al shows up. He's like, bro, he you see the guy's skin color at the beginning of Cinematon? We were just like, yo, darn. Darnell shows up. He's like, bro. He's giving us hugs. For democracy. Yo, our black friends just having a blast. Our Mexican, like, Cody's the minority in this group. We all just get to be fucking patriots in power armor and hang out with the fucking boys while I drink and eat Whataburger. Like, it's fucking, that's peak life, dude.

Yeah. No one's a victim in this situation we're just fucking winning at life we're talking activists don't want you for one they hate gamers they made it very clear i think the ceo of uh sweet baby and called them uh piggy babies gamers their clientele piggy babies so they and they hate fun activists hate fun have you ever seen a happy activist? No, you have never seen a happy activist because they don't exist. They're all pretty fucking fat.

It's like a funny feminist comedian. It's a fucking myth, okay? Go to Austin. See if you can find a happy activist. Yeah. No, nothing's happy. I get sad in Austin. That's why I don't go.

I do not know this existence. No, I think we're moving towards a time where we can make those jokes, though. We need to, like. We're on the swing back. We are. We've been talking about that, dude. You've got to take it back. The pendulum is starting to swing back in the direction of comedy where people aren't so fucking upset about every fucking thing.

It's almost like context matters. Right? That's so fucking weird when you see like elon roasting eiger like billionaires need to roast each other on twitter like that like or it's it's great it's good for humanity you know it is like you're not you fucking bleed it is it's 300 in now it's just on on Twitter. Exactly. It's not exactly. But you believe I will roast you and fucking everyone's going to hop on this and cut you down as a person. Yeah. You're a piece of shit.

I love what Elon said about it, where he's like, yeah, Twitter is the fucking PVP server of social media because it fucking is. It absolutely is. It is. And I think everything's changed because of that. It's forced all the other platforms to i mean they're still going to ban you they're still going to be bad but they couldn't be as bad because because it whenever it was really strange when all these giant corporations who's supposed to be in competition with each other are lockstep doing the same thing isn't

that weird it's like it's like they are fortifying something. I can't think of what. But Twitter, like, you know, going off the reservation, is I think the best thing to happen to our culture in a long time. It's not perfect. Elon's not perfect. I think he's kind of weird with some stuff. And I work for him, and I like the guy. I'm not putting shit in my brain. But it is a good step.

If there is that diversity, that is the good diversity, where it is something that is like, hey, let's's break the norm this isn't right what's happening why are these people getting silence and like like what do we call this like um blocking uh what do we call when you get fucking shadow ban yeah shadow banning and all that where if you google it's like this doesn't exist oh i can everyone at this table has the analytics to back that stage it does although to to be fair like i will i will play devil's advocate on that one a good bit there's a lot of people who you say they're getting shadow banned it's because they feel entitled yeah they're like oh well i'm making content therefore people should watch it it's like okay about half of you just fucking suck

yeah like you you suck and nobody watches that distinction but like if you're watching your and you're right that's most sorry that's most of it uh you're not being shadow van they but it does exist but it does exist because like if you may make certain amount of content like i i went full bore on one video it kind of went pretty political well i did three political videos and two of them were just busted on gavin newsom because i left california those are fun fuck that i did it for fun uh and then the other one was uh kind of a follow-up my razor fist did a great video and hollywood was always red so i kind of did my follow-up to that and performed always red

hollywood was always red one of the best videos by Rageaholic, Razorfist. He breaks it down. It's beautiful. What is he... What's the premise that he's... The premise is, and he will explain this better, it goes through the unions. It goes through, I mean, like,

the beginnings of Hollywood through the unions. Like communist, essentially? Yeah, and the McCarthy era. And the McCarthy era was focused on other things than Hollywood. It it's called the mccarthy era but it's kind of a misnomer it's it's there's much more to it than that and it turns out a bunch of commies were actually in hollywood he wasn't wrong and it turns out they are now too so my whole point was uh i was going off of bill maher who's i think is mostly a freaking idiot, was talking about all the communism in Hollywood. I feel like he's an honest idiot, though.

He's an honest idiot. I feel like he's not one that's just an ideologue that's bought into the corporations or anything. I feel like he actually, like, he'll call people out occasionally. He will. I'm like, okay, son of a bitch. He's just uninformed. He's a stoner idiot.

Like, you know, Roseanne Barr had to tell him who the WEF was. It's like, you cover news, dude. You don't know what the World Economic Forum is. Like, I'm an idiot nerd, and I know what the WEF is. My autism doesn't cover that. Well, there's people that make that. There's people that want to make sure that you live in the pod and eat the bugs. Oh, yeah.

Stay in line. Stay in line. Yeah, but it's good that he calls it out. So I did that video, and it performed like it was my best performing video ever and then youtube just went because because it said well it's all it's my fault by the way we all know when it's our fault because we put i put john cena on the so we put zena's face on Gigi Ping on my thumbnail. We went a little hard on it.

It was worth it though. Artistically it was worth it. But they shut it down like the next day. And it got 600,000 views in the first day and it's gotten like 30,000 views

since then. It's a year old. So it exists. Yeah, they hit that one. That was like a... My favorite is Cody. Cody has the amount of hurdles.

He runs an Olympic hurdle race to get his green monetization. Just check. And it is insane watching it because Cody's like, okay, the guns now sound like ducks. Everything is blurred on the screen. I can't say any murder words. To be fair, people die in like one out of every two videos he posts but now it's like blurred i'm like i'm playing a nintendo game and i don't know what the fuck happened

other than cody's telling me visually on i feel like a deaf man hearing an audio book i just i only watch his channel when like i'm going into like relapse because i haven't seen him in like fucking eight hours. So I put on a little donut operator and light some candles. I don't know how you get monetized at all. Good on you if you do. It's been hard the last couple years, man. Because it started out as like, okay, you can't show death.

I started blurring death. And then they're like, okay, you can't play death okay i started blurring death and then like okay you can't play gunshots so i started doing duck sounds i don't know how the gunshot thing works still because i still get monetized at all my stuff they well there you go they don't hate your brain and your mexican yeah yeah oh they still fucking hate me don't go they fucking hate me i support police like that's what's, dude. There's some fucking blue hair sitting at YouTube that is watching my channel that's like, hmm, I can do this and fuck with him. If only we had somebody in Congress that was willing to challenge big tech on all of these inconsistencies.

Brandon Herrera for congress.com. $5 per donation gets you an entry into a range day with us. What? What? Wait, is that a thing day with us. What? What? Wait, is that a thing? Fucking crazy. Oh, yeah, we're doing that. We're rolling that out next.

Oh, shit. Gary's like, this is a political podcast? He's like, what? This is like the most political. That is probably the most political episode. And actually, it's not my fault this time. I know. But it's still not fucking political.

This is not fucking harping on it. Thanks, Erotic. You're welcome, son of a bitch. Communism sucks. Oh, Nick would love you. Oh, my God. If you get on with Nick, you're going to have just the most glorious rants possible. There you go.

I feel like you're like a Cuban banana boat refugee from California. Like, I've seen the other side, brother. It's not good. It's, brother. It's not good. It's not good. It is not good. That prison has a beautiful weather. It's still a prison. It is really good weather over there.

It's great. California is my favorite state in the fucking country if everybody who lived there just didn't. Yeah. They just didn't live there. If we can pick up Texas, just push it there, we'll just switch spots. If we can have a nice coast.

It's a weird coast because Texas. I would settle for just carving out Austin and giving it to California. We can trade. We can have it. We just cut it out. Bakersfield, Fresno, they're based. I mean, something.

We just trade cities Deal deal we shake on it And it's done I'd love to say San Diego but it's lost Now I'm so excited For this one segment because you are An actual true comic book Nerd so we run the

Offenders it's kind of like The Avengers so I Am so fucking stoked for this. So you have to pick a superpower and then we get to pick the offset before you do this. We all have our own superpowers, which we will explain. So you understand the rules of the game. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Cody can. Cody, what's your superpower? All right. I can fly, but I have to shout racial slurs in order to fly. So saving section eight housing becomes an issue. So you see Cody walking up the ladders like, Nope,

not today. Brandon, what is yours? I am invincible, but I kill myself constantly. And I wake up the next day, not understanding what happened the day prior. And that body stays in the body stays.

So he's at a bad age and wakes up to ceiling fan, Brandon. He gets the question. He gets the question. And he wakes up to two ceiling. Man, we did not cope with Thursday. I be like, what are we doing?

I am the crime cuck. I travel at the speed of light. I am the flash, but I can't interact with any object for five minutes after using it. So if I show up to certain situations that someone needs help instantly, I'm like, stop. You phase through stuff. Yeah. My hope. Stop doing that to her.

Yeah. Hence, he's the crime cop. Hold on. The crime cop. I'm going to call the cops. Phases through yourself, man. So now, what power? We've had individuals with superpowers.

We'll tell you if it's been chosen before, and then we get to pick the offset for it. Oh, okay. Man. Let me tell you a quick story. We've made up a superhero called peeping tom on our real oh my god peeping tom all peeping tom wants to do is look at tits that's all he wants to do but he never gets to because of his x-ray powers he always ends up solving a mystery accidentally but he never wants to and he just wants to lick a boobs and we have a whole lore of peeping tom he already has his own offenders yeah let's welcome him to

the offenders holy shit welcome peeping tom there you go well i can't be peeping tom he's my co-host so we'll have to think sorry don't mean to meet leave hanging. Screw it. I'll rip it off. Peeping Tom is part of the offenders. Peeping Tom. What's your superpower? Yours, though. Oh, I would like to have healing power. I would go with Wolverine's power. I don't think we have that.

Super healing. Super healing. Very enduring. And, you know, I'd live forever. You do. So, okay. So Wolverine or Deadpool both have the same. Yeah. Save healing power. Yeah yeah so they have hyper healing i would like it without like the cancerous shit though like wolverine's cooler

okay i mean i'd have to you're never allowed i've got one right off the bat it's not necessarily the only part of your offset but it's it's definitely a part you're never allowed to be circumcised. Wait, are you circumcised right now? You are. Right now? Yeah. Well, your human power would switch this, obviously. I've never been assed at by a bunch of dudes. Yes.

Okay. Yes. He's like, I don't want to be an anteater. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Yes. He's like, I don't want to be an anteater. Oh, fuck. Anteater. So like right off the bat, no matter what offset you have, you're already, you're just uncircumcised. Okay.

You get it. Your wife could be like, I'm perfection. Your wife's like, not really. Yeah. Did you wash under that? Yeah. Yeah. Did you scrub?

Jo's laughing because She's from Ireland. She's like, no one circumcised. It's so weird. Everyone has fucking an eater. You fucking an eater. She's an an eater eater. I'm calling Dave right now. Dave, let me see your aardvark Okay so that's one offset is that

Oh what is the Other offset For super healing Damn it I was almost going I didn't want to be too rough But I was going to go back to Alright you're always burned alive Alright what the fuck Yeah Deadpool Well he doesn't want the fucked up skin but you're cody i think you're

on wait hold on but you still feel like getting somewhere it still hurts oh yeah all the time it just hurts all the time what is the offset in order to activate the healing thing activate the healing powers like you gotta get kicked in the balls or something like that constantly. That's kind of cool. Actually, it's hilarious if your dick is the only thing that doesn't have that superpower. So you're hyper aware of that one thing. You have this extra armor

and everything. You just have armor everywhere around your penis. That is your costume. They're like, why are you naked but just a titanium cup? i can't reveal i can't reveal it there's only one way to kill me oh god you want to tell them about meat canyons oh so we had meat canyon on you know hunter meat canyon yes he you you grew up around his cartoons are like yes the amazing things cody go okay it was he can stretch like

you know he's like uh fantastic four he can stretch but before he does it he has to beat the shit out of his wife and as hunter said chip tooth or black guys and oh it's gotta be unfortunately he well he wasn't we weren't the ones who came up with that offset. He volunteered it. Yeah, he did. But what about the offset? He's like, I got you. We're like, oh, you're a first.

He didn't even have the power yet. He's just like, I don't know. I'll stretch or some shit. But this is how my superpower works. I got to beat the shit out of it. And we're like, huh. Hunter is fucking comedy gold when it came to that. Brilliant. I wasn't.

Sorry. No, no. We usually choose the offset. I like the idea of the penis is the one. It's your Achilles. It's my Achilles penis. Story of our lives, brother. In the truest form.

In the truest form. So the dick doesn't heal so the dick doesn't heal the dick doesn't heal yeah all right so you're safe i'm safe he's invincible he's gotta stay locked in my adamantium cup or whatever you're not no penis is achilles it's just the achilles penis Or let's go biblical with it. Samson. There you go. Where it's like, if he gets his dick cut, if he gets circumcised, he loses all of his powers. So, like, you're just really afraid of Jewish people. Yeah. Ground Jews are coming.

So nothing has changed. Space lasers and ground Jews. Oh, no. That's the title of this episode. Space lasers and ground juice oh no that's the title of this episode space lasers and ground juice and on the Dr. Evil table he's like it's just a laser pointed to laser beam no no no no

no no no no Delilah you bitch dude this has been a fucking pleasure having you clody close this house good so everyone thank you for joining the unsubscribed podcast i was joined today by eli double fab nerd roddick brandon herrera and myself donut thank you for chilling we're gonna be on uh the patreon soon if you want to see the after podcast check that out and then

where can we find your stuff good sir oh uh nerdotic on youtube uh and i'm on spotify even though i'm not getting paid for it because i'm not some dumb he learned something today i learned something today we're business and uh at neurotics on twitter there you you go. And again, be sure, let's get him over a million by the time this episode comes out. Ah, thanks. Any other new adventures or anything like that?

Well, within the next, I'll have another video and I will, my next review, movie review will be the American Society of Magical Negroes

coming out next week. Oh, right. No, shit. That movie is coming out. It hasn't come out yet. I saw the trailer. I actually, I might fucking just casually watch that. Oh, yeah. No shit. It hasn't come out yet. I saw the trailer. I actually, I might fucking just casually watch that.

Oh yeah. Have you seen it? I know I got my tickets. I'm going to see it next Thursday and then I'll put out a review. I hope this is a flip of the coin. I'm guessing major disaster, but I could be wrong. So it might be so bad.

It's kind of fun. Yeah. Kind of like Madame Web. And on that note, we'll catch you next time. Bye.