supermegashow - EP 156 - Faith Based Podcast

Episode Date: August 23, 2019

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Starting point is 00:01:31 Great, Matt. Awesome start to the podcast. Not even opening with music. It's just going to be that sound effect. I wanted to, man. I figured you better not put music in. You better just open up with that. I'm not going to put any music in.
Starting point is 00:01:42 That's how I'm going to start it. I was like, I'm sitting here because before every podcast episode starts it's about 30 seconds of silence ryan i sit there and we're like how do we it's got to be funny how do we bring it in today i said you know what i'm going back to my roots and and i'm i'm coming out of the the gate with one of the funniest uh pieces of comedy that mankind has ever uh been so lucky to be able to enjoy. A fart sound effect. Yeah. Who doesn't think it's funny?
Starting point is 00:02:08 I still laugh. I don't know. It's like even when it's in a movie, it can be the worst comedy. And I'll be sitting there straight faced the whole way through it. But the moment they put in a fart sound effect, I just just like it's like whether it's like legitimately laughing at the humor of the scene or just wow they put that in and i'm laughing because of it i am 100 laughing at the fart joke it's a guaranteed uh reaction you know it's because they always use the same sound effects in movies i don't get why it's so hard for them to have
Starting point is 00:02:42 realistic sound being flatulence it's always like like, pfft. It's not real. Is no one in the Foley room just, like, eating some beans and shit and can produce some good classic farts? They always have to go with the, I don't know, you can just look up, like, fart sound effects. It's not hard to find a realistic fart sound. There's those, like, cartoon ones, you know. Which they always use in movies. And they're, like, so fake. Or, like, the real ones.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Yeah, and it's like, what the hell is that? Just like if you look up vomit sound effects, it's all like. It's like, that's not what vomit sounds like. You need like, no one pukes like that. I love like the sights. What is the sight? Sound snap. Sound snap.
Starting point is 00:03:21 Sound snap. Just. Like that shit we get our sound effects from a website called a mix of them, we get some from a website called Sound Snap which has like hundreds of thousands of sound effects, it's like a
Starting point is 00:03:35 membership website and we got a membership and we get things off there and I've noticed a lot of movies get sound effects off there because actually Eric Andre uses sounds. Eric Andre uses sounds. But I noticed in Once Upon a Time for Hollywood, I recognized some exact sound effects we've used. Really?
Starting point is 00:03:51 So they must use SoundSnap because a lot of big movies and TV shows use that website. It's a big one for it. But it's so – some of the sounds in there are so bad because there's always good sounds, but there's just so many bad ones in the mix. And I don't think the algorithm on those sites is very good for showing you the best ones It'll just kind of show you all of them So I'm trying to find a vomit sound It's just like And it'll be like number 46
Starting point is 00:04:16 And it's just like the same guy doing that for 50 different sound bites Because he really wants to hear himself in a movie one day Honestly, I think the best place for sound effects is YouTube. That's where I get all the best ones. For every sound effect I put in the Shinjuku vlog was off of YouTube. 100%. Sometimes I'll put one from a website and I'll go back and just find one on YouTube. You just rip it with an MP3.
Starting point is 00:04:38 It's too easy to find them on YouTube. I know. Especially all the fun cartoon sound effects. You can't find good cartoon sound effects on SoundSense. I remember I gave you the timeline. Dude, I had a ball the fun cartoon sound effects. You can't find good cartoon sound effects on SoundSan. I remember I gave you the timeline. Dude, I had a ball with those cartoon sound effects. You're like, okay, buddy, ease up on the cartoon. I was just like, bong, bong.
Starting point is 00:04:55 I know. I was just like, I just got high and put a bunch of cartoon sound effects in. It was laughing my ass off. Dude, there is. There's one that I wish was kept in, I think. We could take the video down and re-upload it. Could I take one out that... I think you did.
Starting point is 00:05:11 Which, wait, where? It's the one, it's the whole, it's the swooshes of that one. It's the one where you do the face and you're like, do do do, ma do this. Oh yeah. In the face, where I added like a I think I just took, did I take that whole clip out? I think it's in the Patreon one. I think you started to take
Starting point is 00:05:28 it out and then you're like, actually I'm going to keep it in. But then you didn't keep it in, I think. I think I actually said I was going to put it back in and then I forgot. Okay. Because it was late at night. We got the Kyoto one coming soon. Maybe it's out already. I don't know. Probably not. Maybe. We just got to... Well, I mean, we're so, like, recently... I'm about to hand it off to you. You're going to give me a little hand? Yeah. Hand it
Starting point is 00:05:44 off? That was a handjob joke. It's, it's, I'm very excited hand it off to you you're gonna give me a little hand yeah hand it off that was a handjob joke it's it's I'm very excited for that one I edited it I edited it I edited it see that's where that's the problem edited it edited it okay there we go did it I edited it
Starting point is 00:05:59 that's really cool I edited it if you don't speak English and you hear that you're like what the fuck was that like what do you just say I edited it it sounds you don't speak English and you hear that, you're like, what the fuck was that? Like, what did you just say? I edited it. It sounds like the beginning of like a, what genre of music? It's M&M's song. I edited it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:15 It's my best M&M impression. So it's, I was editing it back home. It's edited. It's not completely edited. I still need to do a lot of shit with it. And then hand it off to you for some fun, fun giggles. But it's in chronological
Starting point is 00:06:32 order. There's bits and pieces and it's in one line that tells a story. So now it's all about shaving it down, adding the bits in, watching through it. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:46 When you edit a video, I'm pretty sure I watched Shinjuku, and I'm pretty sure you watched Shinjuku a shit ton too, but you watched a shit ton of Harajuku. I'm pretty sure I watched it over 100 times. Oh, definitely. Where I'm just like, again, again, again. You just keep going. With the E3 video, I think. Because for me, it's like pacing. I want to make sure the edits and stuff I've done is evenly placed with what has been going on. So I want to be like, so up until this point, how does it feel and what does it feel with this new bit added in?
Starting point is 00:07:17 So I do a lot of rewatches and shit. Oh, yeah. When we edit a live action, we rewatch that shit so much. I could probably, for a lot of our live action videos, I could sit down with a piece of paper and like sketch out every single shot because i said we've had to watch it so many times like i know exactly what comes next and i hope when i'm 80 you know those images will just haunt me in my brain i shut my eyes and i just see our live action videos it kind of makes it easier to edit uh from like my point of view when we do it like that got a nice ass matt thank you just you. Just thought I'd say that.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Thank you. But it's because you separate the video into what? Like 50 different small little chunks. And you have to think, this small little chunk is its own bit. And then so you edit that to be its own bit. And then it goes to the next 10 second to 30 second chunk. And you're like, this is its own bit. Or maybe a five second chunk
Starting point is 00:08:05 like there's so i'd say there's like if you can count not every cut but every change to like a different bit like in um shinjuku you had what's in uh don quixote but you also had subsections within that where it was like you getting the sex toy you you looking at, um, are you trying to find your friends? You know, there's like different bits within one larger bit in the grand scheme of the timeline. It's a, it's a lot of really tedious footage organization because basically the reason these videos take long is because let's say we'll have 200 pieces of footage for one Japan vlog.
Starting point is 00:08:44 Yeah. You have to go through and you have to watch every clip and you throw it on the timeline and then you take every clip and then you trim down each clip to what's usable. And then you usually go back through it a couple times and delete some ones or move them away where it's like, I don't think that should be in the video. Move them over to the right or something. Just in case. Just throw them over.
Starting point is 00:09:00 And then once you have all the usable footage, then you have to like either color code it or what I'll do now is I started making adjustment layers on the top layer that have the name on it. So I can put footage under that. So one will be like piss alley karaoke. And then I stick the footage under that so I can see where everything is. And then once you organize everything that you've trimmed down to like different sections of the video then like ryan said you have all these bits and bits within bits so then you need to you focus on one bit at a time you just like like i don't like working on one bit here and then another bit there and i just like getting one done so it's like somewhat polished and then
Starting point is 00:09:39 when you go back into your watch through you'll notice something you want to fix with a bit. So you'll get a joke that you put in or edited done. And you'll be like, okay, I'm going to rewatch it now. But then as you rewatch, you see several things that you want to go up and doctor up. And that'll happen so many times. So one joke that you've seen 10 other times already has probably been changed 10 more times because also you stop thinking it's like funny after a while you've seen it so many times and then you start second-guessing like is this funny well people think it's funny or is it just not as funny to me because I've seen it a hundred times now if you
Starting point is 00:10:16 you if you're subscribed to our patreon you'll see like a like all the footage that's in the behind the scenes of Shinjuku I feel like most of it was worthy of being in the actual vlog. Yeah, I mean, honestly, on the Patreon video is, I think it's, it's like nine minutes. Where it's literally just the same thing
Starting point is 00:10:33 as the Shinjuku video. It's just all the extra footage we ended up not using. Yeah. And it's just a huge compilation of all the footage we didn't use. So you can check that out on Patreon. But like, yeah, all of it's good shit.
Starting point is 00:10:42 And looking back, I showed a friend and she was like, this could have just been, like, a second video on YouTube, essentially. That's just how picky we are, though. Yeah, we're very picky when it comes to editing. So, like, we, so imagine we had enough, we had enough footage to essentially make an hour-long video, probably, if we really wanted to drag stuff out. But that's not how we edit our live action. And we're also very kind of... Because if you put a...
Starting point is 00:11:09 Because a lot of those bits, I'm not saying it would disrupt the flow, but you've got to think of the progression of things. I just want it as concise and sexy as possible. And we could do the classic. You know, a lot of YouTubers will just take it all, barely edit it, just dump it all into a project, and it's like an hour long and throw it on YouTube.
Starting point is 00:11:26 Where it's just cuts. Without any editing or anything. Between the cuts. I don't want to do that. I want to be proud of what we make. And I am proud. I am proud of what we make. We still have not any updates on that unfortunate lost vlog.
Starting point is 00:11:41 The SD card? Yeah. Here's the thing. I have this gut feeling I'm going to find it but it's gonna be it might be months after the rest of the Japan vlogs come out or it might be this week yeah I just keep having a feeling that it's not lost like it's just uh it's in a box or it's in the storage unit it's somewhere and and I will find it maybe I need to recheck all my SD cards Tucker maybe he has one of my SD cards.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Because I know where it was seen the last time in my room. Someone even vouches that I know that saw it in my room. Carson saw it exactly in the same place I remember where it was. Carson Tucker, the allurious third Tucker brother. I don't think allurious is a word, but you know what I mean by that. Would that mean he's alluring? Yes. He has an allure to him.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Which he does. He's very sexy. He's the sexiest of the Tucker brothers. I feel like of YouTube fans, they would be most attracted to Carson Tucker. He has the most appeal to... He's young. He's young. He's hip.
Starting point is 00:12:42 He's hip. He doesn't wear fucking glasses all the time. No. He's into a lot of hip fashion. He knows what the kids want. Which, by the way, if you're wearing glasses right now, take that off. Like, you can see. Is it
Starting point is 00:12:57 1940, guys? The fuck are you doing? Like, just take them off. You look stupid. You know it. Just deal with it. And guess what? For that person out there that just got new glasses, maybe like today or yesterday or the day before, and you're like feeling them out and you're like, I think I look good, but I'm still self-conscious. They look bad.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Take them off. You look like a fucking buffoon. You look like a moron, honestly. Okay. And I wouldn't be surprised if everyone calls you four eyes and gives you a swirly. You think kids at school are going to like you because you wear glasses now? I'm sorry. That's not how the world works.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Yeah, I'm glad that glasses are a defining characteristic of your personality, jackass. Yeah, everyone's going to suddenly like you now. Oh, it's the glasses. Yeah, you're suddenly a very likable person. Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's the glasses guy. Well, my grandfather wears glasses. He doesn't have too many friends.
Starting point is 00:13:44 Well, he's dead. He doesn't have too many friends Well he's dead Probably because he wore glasses What am I wearing right now Ryan? Contacts hopefully I don't have contacts I was wearing my glasses at the beginning of this podcast Then you took them off because you looked stupid And I didn't take them off when you said take them off
Starting point is 00:13:57 I took them off minutes before you said that You saw it I just took them off Because I realized they were so stupid I'm actually going to break them right now I tried to simulate a glasses breaking sound You can probably find a sound effect I just took them off because I realized they were so stupid. I'm actually going to break them right now. I tried to simulate a glasses breaking sound. You can probably find a sound effect. By opening a Sharpie.
Starting point is 00:14:10 Here, I'll go on SoundSnap. Here's me breaking my glasses. Broke them. Nice. I do like glasses a lot. I like wearing them. Guess what? What?
Starting point is 00:14:23 I saw a movie you recommended to me starring Vince Vaughn. Oh, yeah. Not that one. Yeah. Not the one with Vince Vaughn. Oh, yeah. Not that one. Yeah. So, Vince Vaughn. Yes. The movie. Brawl in Cell Block 99. Oh.
Starting point is 00:14:31 Oh. You, well, you recommended it to me, but you only saw the last third of it. Yeah. So, without spoiling it, did you, you started when he was already in the prison, I'm guessing. Yes. Was he already in Orange? Yes. Okay, so you really were in just the last bit of it.
Starting point is 00:14:48 It was, yeah. I think I had a doctor's appointment, and I walked in on Friends watching it, and then I was so captured by it, I watched the last third or fourth. You should watch the whole thing. I think it could have been a bit shorter, I think. Possibly. Yeah, I think it could have been a bit shorter, I think. Possibly. Yeah. I think it could have been trimmed down.
Starting point is 00:15:07 But I don't think it was excruciating to get through it all. I think it was evenly paced most of the time. And when shit happens, it happens. It does. I remember that. I was like, ooh. Because the whole movie, like, I don't want to spoil anything, but the first, you know, good chunks of the movie are pretty tame compared to the climax.
Starting point is 00:15:33 That's what I heard because when I got there, my friends were like, this literally just started happening. Like, the rest of the movie was not like this. This is new. And then before that, because I'm on a kick right now i want to watch everything on my watch list that i can and i have like 50 something movies on it right now and it's like every time i watch a movie i'll like i'll be going throughout my day and i'll add two or three more so it's like it'll never fucking end which is great but i i it's it it uh it intrigues that
Starting point is 00:16:04 obsessive part of my personality where it's like you you know how I wanted the 100% Sekiro for no fucking reason? It's not like I have a medal or I get to have any special treatments because of it. Personal fulfillment. I like kind of a list and knocking out that list. Feels good. I fucking love making lists. And if you go in my notebook, it's nothing but just lists. I fucking love making lists.
Starting point is 00:16:24 And if you go on my notebook, it's nothing but just lists. Angie has made it easier than ever to connect with skilled professionals to get all your jobs projects done well. I absolutely love this because, you know, if you own a home, it can be really hard to maintain. It's hard to find people that can help you for a big project or a small. Well, whether it's an everyday maintenance and repairs or making dream projects a reality, it can be hard just to know where to start. But now, all you need to do is Angie that and find a skilled local pro who will deliver the quality and expertise you need. Angie has over 20 years of home service experience and they've combined it with new tools to simplify the whole process. Bring them your project online or with the Angie app, answer a few questions, and Angie can handle
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Starting point is 00:17:52 At participating restaurants in Canada for a limited time. Cool. Nice, dude. It's just like you stopped very abruptly. Just lists. I know. That's all they are, lists. Lists of people I wish were dead. Lists of people that have wronged me. all they are lists of people i wish were dead
Starting point is 00:18:05 lists of people that have wronged me yep um but people that will be dead two other movies i saw were uh sisters the sisters brothers starring joaquin phoenix and oh the brothers grimsby john c reilly and uh what's his fuck jake gyllenha. And I can't remember this dude's name. Oh, well. Jake Gyllenhaal's in a really good music video where he's like a psycho serial killer. Really? Yeah. Psycho killer.
Starting point is 00:18:37 And then I saw Mandy, which was a bonkers Nicolas Cage movie. Every Nicolas Cage movie is bonkers. Yeah, but this one actually used Nicolas Cage correctly because you'll see him in shit like Left Behind. I think he's been in two movies about the rapture. He was in Left Behind. There was another movie I remember. I don't know the title of it,
Starting point is 00:19:01 but essentially the whole time it's like you think these things are aliens, I don't know the title of it, but essentially the whole time it's like you think these things are aliens, but it turns out that they're angels wanting to take his kid and someone else's kid away from Earth so that they can destroy Earth and they can start humanity anew. It ends with the Earth getting destroyed, right? The knowing? Doesn't that end with the Earth getting destroyed? Yeah. It's like a scene of New York getting blown up.
Starting point is 00:19:23 I think so, yeah. I saw that movie. I watched that with my parents um but uh but this in this movie they they get the the crazy nick cage out where he's like where he's like yelling and screaming and just it's he's two things about mandy it it's definitely a movie with a vision like when you're watching it it's like this is not like anything that is coming out right now and hasn't been any you know like anything that's come out as of recent and it has Nicolas Cage so you can enjoy uh the filmmaking but then also enjoy Nicolas Cage going batshit crazy for half of the movie. It's a two-hour movie. The first half is the build-up, then the second half is the release, I would say, in terms of what goes down.
Starting point is 00:20:11 It's a revenge movie. It's a goofy, goofy movie. Speaking of rapture movies. Which is also a good movie. The Goofy movie is a fantastic movie. I have it on Blu-ray. Oh, okay. I love it so much.
Starting point is 00:20:22 Remember last week we were talking about Pure Flix? Yes. So the weird thing is, before that podcast was even released, I've been having a lot of weird coincidental shit happening every day of my life. We got an email from somebody that said that they know someone who knows the co-founder of Pure Flix. And they were like, this might be a long shot, but I'm going to see if i can get you guys in contact so maybe we can be in a pure flicks movie dude if we could be in a pure flicks movie dude what you don't think we could be in a pure flicks movie look at this here's some good pure flicks movies harrison sent me holy man undercover uh
Starting point is 00:21:01 it's the guy from god's not dead he's hot he's hip he's Amish and he goes undercover in Hollywood as an Amish man I believe that's Fred Willard in it does he uncover the the Hillary Clinton pedophile sex scandal I wish
Starting point is 00:21:17 the movie ends with him capping Hillary Clinton in the head has anyone done like a Blaxploitation Jesus film? The fuck, dude? Talking about coincidences. This morning. Like it's about the crucifixion story. But it's shot and filmed like a 70s, I guess, era.
Starting point is 00:21:38 This morning over coffee, I talked about a Blaxploitation Jesus Christ film with Harrison for about 25 minutes. Really? What the fuck? Oh, my God. But we were talking about you playing Jesus. No, no. I would get a black dude to play Jesus. Yeah, but we literally talked.
Starting point is 00:21:55 We came up with the whole thing. Mary Magdalene. She's like, but you can call me Mary Jane. And, you know, the 12th. We were also talking about making it like a uh uh oceans 11 movie where it's like a bank heist and he has to get the disciples together and go like recruit them and it's just like a bunch of like pimps and stuff that'd be a great movie yeah you know like uh matthew's on like demolition and like a bunch of like different they all have a specialty you know
Starting point is 00:22:19 what i want to see pure flicks do a found, time travel, Jesus crucifixion story where these people make a time machine. They go back in time and they bring back proof. Like they show their whole goal. Their whole goal is to capture proof that the crucifixion happened. But at the end, they're about to go through and they have the camera. Then he just goes and chucks it into the Red Sea. And he's like, I just need need my faith i don't need proof then he walks through and he goes you know pure flicks can have that one for free as long as you make us the main character please
Starting point is 00:22:57 okay we'll make it if you give us a budget we'll make it for you pure flip we'll shoot it we'll write we will legitimately write and shoot this movie just give us the budget, we'll make it for you, Pure Flix. We'll shoot it. We'll write it and shoot it. We will legitimately write and shoot this movie. Just give us the budget. And it doesn't even have to be a big budget. I mean, I prefer something where we can make it look convincing. Fly us to Jerusalem. We'll shoot it there. What budget do you think Pure Flix gives their movies?
Starting point is 00:23:18 They probably make a shit ton of money, dude. Can you see movie budgets? Yes. Okay, here. There's a Pure Flix movie Harrison was telling me about where it's a man who's vowed to never be alone in a room with another woman. Mike Pence. No, but he. This is a biography of Mike Pence.
Starting point is 00:23:34 But he's not married. That's the thing. Oh, here's another Pure. So they have a lot of these here. Old fashioned. The budget for God's Not Dead was $2 million. And it grossed 63.8 million worldwide holy fuck dude wait how much did it gross 63 million on a two million dollar like
Starting point is 00:23:53 so and now you're like if you're ever wondering why these movies get made that's why and then god's not dead too they increase the budget oh dude listen to this this is the saddest thing so they increase the budget to five million going yeah listen to this. This is the saddest thing. So, they increased the budget to $5 million going, yeah, we're going to make a shit ton more money off of this. But then it only grossed in the U.S., not worldwide, but who's going to watch it worldwide? A lot of people. The gross was
Starting point is 00:24:15 $20.7 million this time. So, down two-thirds. Still a fantastic, you know, margin. Yeah, but compared to like a $60 million profit margin i'm glad we saw that in theaters let's see glad you got me for my birthday or for christmas i don't remember you got me god's not dead the the third one and god's not dead three i don't oh shit i don't know how much they put into the movie because it's not showing they're like what's the budget was
Starting point is 00:24:40 but uh they they grossed5.7 million. Ooh. Yeah, that means they probably will not make a fourth, unfortunately. Real quick, let me read you the plot of this movie. It's called Old Fashioned. The poster is basically like two little, you know the bathroom sign people, like the way they look? Yeah. It's this, where it says, love is patient, love is kind, love is dot, dot, dot, old-fashioned.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Let me read you the plot, okay? Clay Walsh owns an antique shop where he repairs and restores furniture. Situated in a small Midwestern college town, he is known as someone with unusual convictions. Into his life arrives Amber, a free-spirited young woman who rinsed the apartment above Clay's shop. She's immediately struck by the fact that he is unwilling to enter the apartment to show her around. Asking why, he states he's made a pledge not to be alone with a woman other than his wife. She finds that odd.
Starting point is 00:25:32 All the more so when she- So how do you get a wife? In fact, he's not married. So how do you get a wife? Is there- Ryan, Ryan. She takes the apartment and finds a job at a local shop but is interested in knowing more about the owner of the antique shop her efforts are complicated by the fact that clay does not
Starting point is 00:25:49 date believing modern day dating is a poor preparation for marriage the only time you will come up and usually you could just back in the bible days club a woman in the head put a seat in her and watch it spur baby or or hopefully you know her father will just give her to you if you if you know have a lot of cattle or something I like the club idea more well Joseph club Joseph go club that girl over there I'd like to marry her and impregnate her Amber is when wait wait
Starting point is 00:26:13 the only time he'll come up and see Amber is when something is in her apartment needs repair undaunted by the barrier she contrives a number of breakdowns to continue their conversations eventually Clay agrees to take her out but they do not engage in typical dates over time we learn Amber has been to take her out, but they do not engage in typical dates. Over time, we learn Amber has been in a number of relationships, but they were superficial and at times abusive.
Starting point is 00:26:31 Her escape was always to move on to a new place. Clay has an even more checkered past. Now, you ready for this? Spoiler alert, everybody. In his college days, he knew a great many women. And he shot exploitation films in the manner of Girls Gone Wild. Doing this, he made a great deal of money, but on realizing the pain that his life was causing those around him,
Starting point is 00:26:51 he went through a major life change. He withdrew from the world, and for the past nine years, has confined himself to working in his antique shop. Working with the wood, he has become a true craftsman. In town, he's known for his faith, his reserve, and his odd theories on love and romance. I'm going to go ahead and skip down a little bit. I just want to see how this ends.
Starting point is 00:27:10 Despite the unusual rules Clay is committed to living under, Amber sees a man whose life she wants to be a part of. There is some push and pull where she asserts she would just like to do things people do on normal dates. But with time, she decides it's not worth it. I don't want normal, she tells him. I want you. Okay, Matt. They get married. Matt, so the parental advisory for this,
Starting point is 00:27:30 I'm just going to read it out to you, for this movie Old Fashioned that you just described. Sex and nudity, none. Violence and gore, none. Profanity, none. Alcohol use, drugs, mild. Then when you get to frightening and intense scenes, it says severe. There's like
Starting point is 00:27:46 rape scenes and stuff. So I want to read these scenes real quick. The main character comes off as mentally abusive to his girlfriend as he grooms her to his way of thinking while giving her no say in the matter. He makes her read a book full of invasive questions, has her cut up baby
Starting point is 00:28:02 food for his friend's child, and is always telling her what to do. I love how it's supposed to be like an inspiring story. The main character refuses to be alone in a room with women because he can't control his urges. Such a characteristic is very unhealthy. So he's a rapist? Dude, it's someone making fun of the movie on
Starting point is 00:28:18 like, when it's saying frightening and intense sequences, it's just like the main character refuses to be alone in a room with a woman that's one of the frightening and intense situations okay now i kind of want to read more there's a lot of pure flicks movies and i kind of want to read more of the movie's synopsis is huggler's holiday special huggler's adventure one huggler's adventure two jesus loves his children the wager the imposter uh let me know if any of these catch your eye.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Here's from the 2010s. Ready? Holy Man Undercover. I want to read this one. This was the Amish dude. And it has Fred Willard in it for some reason. Okay. Wait, it has John Schneider in it?
Starting point is 00:28:59 What? Okay. Let me read you the plot synopsis Of this one, ready? Roy Weichbrot Played by David A.R. White Leaves his life on a farm and arrives in Hollywood to be a missionary Instead he finds fame and fortune playing Satan On a television show
Starting point is 00:29:15 Roy also meets the girl he wants to marry As Roy pursues his love I'm sorry, as Roy pursues her love His dream quickly vanishes When scheming networks, an overruling producer, and an angry co-star turn his life into a total nightmare. So that's that movie. Didn't they do a school shooting one?
Starting point is 00:29:35 That's the one that I was talking about. He didn't shoot anyone. He killed himself. I think they did a school shooting one. Oh, really? Yeah. Like a Columbine. Oh!
Starting point is 00:29:45 No, no. Yeah. They did. That's the one where it's like. It's like, are you a Christian? And then it's like. I remember that. Dude, I remember seeing the trailer for that and being so fucking blown away.
Starting point is 00:29:54 I was like, I can't believe like how tone deaf these people are. Because isn't it about a girl who actually died? Yes. It's about a girl who legitimately died. Like she was shot in Columbine, I think. And it's like leading up to her dying in Columbine. No, it's legitimately not just about a Columbine type thing. It is about Columbine.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Yeah, I think it is about Columbine. Oops. What's that one called? Wait, wait, wait. I just want to know what Mom's Night Out is. I think that was their attempt. Oh, dude. Dude, this is their attempt at like a quirky female comedy.
Starting point is 00:30:23 No, there's a movie that came out, I thought, called like Mom... What was it called? It was something similar. What could go wrong? Let's see. Mom's Night Out is a 2014 American faith-based comedy film directed by the Irwin brothers. Dude, we gotta get in touch with the fucking Irwin brothers. Alright, can I read you this plot real quick?
Starting point is 00:30:40 Bad Moms. Bad Moms. That's the movie they're kind of ripping off. Yes. Can I read you the quick plot? Though happily married with three children, Alison Field is beset with anxiety and feelings of unworthiness. Finding comfort in her two best friends, Sandra
Starting point is 00:30:54 and Izzy, Alison's husband Sean recommends a night out for his overstressed wife, resulting in she, Izzy, and Sandra planning one that starts with dinner at a fancy Chinese restaurant. However, when Allie
Starting point is 00:31:10 and her friends arrive at the restaurant, they're told the reservation has been lost, resulting in Allie having a meltdown and throwing away their cell phones. Why would you be friends with her? The evening degenerates with further accidents and misunderstanding as the babysitters hired to watch the kids take them to a video arcade, which results in a trip to the emergency room and the women's van being taken.
Starting point is 00:31:33 What? Things go from bad to worse when Bridget realizes that Phoenix is missing. Okay, well, these are two names that have not been mentioned yet once in the plot. But they're assuming, I guess, I'm supposed to know who these are. You should know who they are. The four travel across the city looking for him, and all four end up in a jail cell with Sandra accidentally tasered by a cop. However, everyone is soon reunited, and Allie types a blog post proclaiming that while her life is stressed and crazy, it is also beautiful.
Starting point is 00:31:59 What do you think of that? She types a blog post. I think it sounds beautiful. Oh, I found the Columbine one. I think it's called Do You Believe? Is that it oh I found the Columbine one I think it's called do you believe is that it I'm not ashamed I thought was it all the titles are wasn't yes it's not that one uh faith of our fathers I'm not ashamed I think it's the same like five actors in every movie wait the case for Christ I think my dad read that book yeah I'm not ashamed the true story of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in
Starting point is 00:32:27 the Columbine High School shooting on April 20th 1999. And here's the thing. The student who actually was killed was a Christian, so I'm sure she wouldn't mind this message. But at the same time, you know, Pure Flix, I cannot believe that
Starting point is 00:32:43 Pure Flix, as a film company in general are making these movies out of the goodness of their hearts no i think it's like a lot of like christian bands where it's like they they find a bunch of people who at first are like yo rock on god and then i'm not doubting like i'm not doubting their faith or anything no i'm sure that they have a very strong business but yeah it's also business. So they made a business decision. Okay, hold on. Let's see. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:33:08 Their most recent movie, the 2019 one, Wikipedia lists it. Listen to literally what it's listed as. Unplanned is a 2019 American anti-abortion propaganda film. So it's actually listed as a propaganda film. We got to watch this, man. Can I read you the plot for this? Yeah. Can I get a shorter plot?
Starting point is 00:33:31 In 2001 Texas, Abby Johnson sees a Planned Parenthood booth at a college career fair and agrees to volunteer after being told their ultimate goal was to reduce the number of abortions. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. I think I saw the trailer to this. Is this the movie about the woman who was in charge of the abortion clinics and then turned around and was like, no, this is wrong. She gets pregnant. She has a medical abortion. If you watch the trailer, like, to this movie, it's Pure Flix, right?
Starting point is 00:33:55 Yes. If you watch the trailer to this movie, it's just like, Jesus fucking Christ. Calm down. Okay, yes. It's listed as a propaganda film. The first sentence says it's an anti-abortion propaganda film.
Starting point is 00:34:14 Interesting. Supposedly following Johnson's life as a clinic director for Planned Parenthood and her subsequent conversion to anti-abortion activism through perpetuating distortions and potentially dangerous myths about abortion. The factually inaccurate and heavily politicized film was theatrically released in the united states by conservative christian production and distribution house pure flicks on march 29th the working title was redeemed and details of its subject were kept
Starting point is 00:34:38 from the public in order to minimize protests by abortion rights activists some tv channels refused to air ads for the film due to its subject matter. Yeah. Yeah. I say we sit down and just marathon as many of these as we can. I don't think, dude, I could barely get God's Not Dead 2 was funny though. They had like. It was funny. They had all the stereotypes in there,
Starting point is 00:34:58 right? You think this one won't have stereotypes? Like, I am excited to watch that. Kind of want to see the Columbine one because basically I like it would just make me sad I'm like come on this girl actually died I like seeing movies that are the reason they are so disrespectful of the subject matter is because they're bad movies you know what I mean yeah like there's no doubt in my mind that this will be a bad movie it's gonna be awful and it's gonna be very on the nose with its themes.
Starting point is 00:35:26 I can't wait to be sitting there. And I can't wait to see the look on your fucking face, Ryan. When you have tears in your eyes. And you immediately dash for the DVD player and you restart the movie right there. I cannot wait to see the fucking movie. A second time. A second time. Please.
Starting point is 00:35:40 A third. A fourth. We've been talking about a little idea we want to do down the road. Maybe not in 2019 because we have some other ideas first. A little idea we might want to put into production soon. To make it stinky? I almost shit myself while driving yesterday. I kind of stood up in my seat and I was like,
Starting point is 00:36:00 Ooh, is that bad? Is that going to come over here? That's one of the worst ones I've had in a long time, buddy. That says a lot. Is it going to find its way over here? I don't know. We'll see. Stop waving it over here. Stop.
Starting point is 00:36:12 I really don't want this one. I like our podcast and go from talking about anti-abortion movies to just... Hold on, let me check if I just shit myself. I don't feel it, but like... You want me to check? That was really stinky. I could shine my flashlight on your asshole. He's peeking in his pants with a flashlight.
Starting point is 00:36:27 There's his penis. No little... no little dots. Well, stick your finger in your ass crack. Woo! That's... God, that's awful. That is rancid. That's not over here yet. Good. I don't think it will go over there. Is that gonna be one where I'm gonna have to leave the room?
Starting point is 00:36:38 If you were over here, maybe. But it seems to be... Oh my... You got it? I knew it was... I knew it was coming! That's horrible, dude. I guess we're taking a break right now. That's... that's... that's not... I got it? Oh my god. I knew it was coming. That's horrible, dude. I guess we're taking a break right now. That's not, I got it for like half a second. Let's keep the door open.
Starting point is 00:36:49 Let it air out. We'll be right back. All right. We're back. David, a couple, you got some stuff in you today, man. You got like, there's something in there. I'm trying to think of what I ate. There's a something in there. I'm trying to think of what I ate. There's a demon in there.
Starting point is 00:37:06 It could have been the vegan Indian food I had yesterday. Vegan Indian food is good. Well, I didn't get it to be more healthy. I got it because I legitimately like Samosa House, like their chicken more than any like regular curry chicken. Vegan chicken? There's this one brand, I think it's literally called Chicken, but it's like C-H-I-K-I-N.
Starting point is 00:37:29 I had this hot Nashville chicken sandwich made out of it, and it was unreal. There's times where I'll have vegan or meat... You turn off the fan. It's pretty cold. I'll have meat replacements, and they're
Starting point is 00:37:43 actually sometimes a little bit better, like Impossible Burgers. If you ever in santa monica go to samosa house it's delicious uh yeah dude vegan vegan food's pretty good because i used to be of the mindset where i was like vegan food that's great i just have real food and then i just tried it uh a couple times at restaurants like i went to a couple vegan restaurants expecting to be horrible and i was like because you know you have that mindset like if you haven't had a lot of vegan food if you're not vegan, which neither of us are vegan or vegetarian, but you go into that, Jesus fucking
Starting point is 00:38:12 Christ. Ryan, you knocked over Aaron's box of toys and bongs. I needed more space. That scared me really bad actually. It's just a box of bongs and toys. Yeah. They better not be broken. He's going to be pissed. I'll just hide it somewhere.
Starting point is 00:38:27 I'll put a blanket over it. We can convince him when he was doing steroids last time he broke it. Because he got mad at us last time for recording in here. Even though he gave us the permission to record in here. But that roid rage changes a man. How's that, audience? You guys like that? Is that fun?
Starting point is 00:38:44 Tap that. Tap that. Give me Tap that. Tap that. Give me some more. Tap that. Till you get sore. Tap that. Wake up. That's R. Kelly's new song.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Dude, I saw a big billboard yesterday near Beverly Hills. Cool. For a movie called... Dude, I saw this big billboard. It was so cool, man. It was so big. Anyway, it was for a movie called Surviving R. Kelly. And it's just like the...
Starting point is 00:39:12 That's the documentary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't seen the documentary. I didn't know there was a documentary. Yeah, that's the big documentary. I'm sure your love is driving past that. He's in jail, Matt. What'd he do? What? He was arrested again and the judge didn't give him He's in jail, Matt. What'd he do? What? What?
Starting point is 00:39:29 He was arrested again, and the judge didn't give him bail? Yeah, he didn't give him bail. Why? What'd he do? I don't know. He might have did some oopsies. What next? You're going to tell me Roman Polanski fled the country?
Starting point is 00:39:44 After, that's the thing about Roman. My man Roman, he pleaded guilty to the charges and then fled So at least he knows that he was wrong Someone fucked up on that one Because usually if you're a flight risk They're pretty good at calculating that Why can't you just drug 13 year old girls And sodomize them
Starting point is 00:39:58 Come on Roman it's not that bad We watched a new Tarantino Not a new Tarantino, Ryan had never seen it He came over you me, me, and Harry. Reservoir Dogs. We watched Reservoir Dogs. Super short, to the point, nice, good little movie. It's his first.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Tarantino's first. You can tell it was, I think it wasn't an indie film when it first came out. You can also tell it's a first movie. It has a lot of that first film vibes. I got that vibe mainly in the car ride where Mr. White and Mr. Orange? Is Mr. Orange the one who got shot? Tim Roth's character. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:31 When they're in the car. I was like, you could definitely be like, you could feel like, oh, this is like lower budget. And I, dude, I have never seen, I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but that green screen in Pulp Fiction was ridiculous when they're in the car. They're driving in the car in Pulp Fiction, and I'm looking at it, and the green screen, you can obviously tell it's kind of like one of those projectors in the back. Oh, I haven't. I never picked up on that. I haven't seen Pulp Fiction in a while.
Starting point is 00:40:59 I don't know if it's on purpose or not. I want to say it was because it's a part of that time. I mean, Tarantino does a lot of that shit. In the movie Death Proof, there's parts where the film will fuck up and they'll restart the shot. And they'll leave that in. It's stylized. But Reservoir Dogs is awesome. And I forgot one of the actor's names. Mr. White.
Starting point is 00:41:19 He's in another movie I really like called Bad Lieutenant. I want to show you. He's also in Sublock 99. He is? The older guy? Isn't he? Hold on. I want to show you. He's also in Cell Block 99. He is? The older guy? Isn't he? Hold on. I'm talking about the guy who's like,
Starting point is 00:41:28 say you're going to be okay. You're going to be okay. Yeah, him. Oh, is he? Hold on. He's in a lot of stuff. Let me check that. He always plays that type of character.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Maybe I'm effing stupid. He's amazing, though. Tim Roth, I think that's like his best performance is Reservoir Dogs from what I've seen. He's just incredible. Who played Mr. White? What's his name? Man, I forgot. He's just incredible. Who played Mr. White? What's his name? Man, I forgot.
Starting point is 00:41:47 He's one of those guys. There's certain guys that are just like typecast to criminal, like mobster. Never mind. I'm being stupid. He wasn't. I'm being dumb. He just looked like him because he was like pulled open the thing, the slat, and was talking to him.
Starting point is 00:42:02 And I'm like, that kind of looks like that guy's face. Can we talk about the Irishman? Have we talked about that yet on the podcast? How good that looks? I'm excited to see it. The new Scorsese movie. I want to see that. I want to see 1917. It's all like the classic guys from gangster movies in one movie. And it's Scorsese so it's like. I have a watch list. Let's go through like some movies that I've seen trailers of and shit that are coming out and I want to kind of talk about them. The Iron Giant 2.
Starting point is 00:42:28 Would you be upset if they did a remake of that movie? I wouldn't be upset. I probably wouldn't. I'd see it. Would you go into it critical? Probably. I mean, yeah, I'm biased. I'll be honest.
Starting point is 00:42:41 Because you would know they wouldn't be remaking it out of like passion. I feel like if there was a passion remake it could be really good but like the way Disney and Marvel not Marvel the way Disney does like these remakes they make so much money but like the Lilo and Stitch one I don't think there's a trailer out for that yet but it's like why
Starting point is 00:42:57 if I can remember seeing it in theaters and I'm only 23 it's not ready to be remade I was kind of like gearing up I was like okay I'm going to try to enjoy this Mulan movie coming out. And then. Yeah. And then she went and said some goofy shit. Which is so weird because her perspective should be that of someone who has all the information of mainland China.
Starting point is 00:43:20 But she still supports him. I know. But, well, that's always confusing to me. These actors, I read that Jackie Chan is a really big example of that, where it's these actors who live in America and are able to see... They're American citizens, right? Yeah, and they're able to see what China
Starting point is 00:43:35 is like from the outside, not from the inside perspective of a lot of citizens who are just under that kind of spell, but they'll still basically be on the side of China. And maybe it's your roots type of thing, but still, you know. Because all the shit going on in Hong Kong right now,
Starting point is 00:43:56 which is now the biggest protest in modern history, they just seen like, the girl playing Mulan came out and she was like, you can attack me all all you want I support the police in Hong Kong And basically for those who don't know what's going on you should research it basically like China wants to Re-retake Hong Kong didn't they take back the legislation, but they didn't take it back like as in Cancel it out completely like it's still able to be pushed, but it's just not.
Starting point is 00:44:27 Hong Kong is, like, a democracy, and they don't want to be part of China because there's so much corruption there. There's a lot of corruption in Hong Kong. Mainland China wants to be able to extradite people from Hong Kong to China. Which means that they could basically just scoop up whoever they want and take to China and then charge them in China. So that would, like, undermine the whole point of their democracy. And also, that would be one more step closer to China just taking Hong Kong as part of mainland China. Which they want.
Starting point is 00:44:54 Yeah, they want that with Taiwan. They want that with Hong Kong. Which is funny. I was on a recent plane flight. I was looking at the map and I was like, hmm, Taiwan ain't labeled. Interesting. Really?
Starting point is 00:45:08 Yeah. Not labeled at all. Did you see these? I looked at the island. Like, Japan was labeled. Tokyo. Taiwan's big. It's like.
Starting point is 00:45:15 South Korea, North Korea, China. You got Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand. And then there's this island that just has no name. What could it be? Could it be Taiwan? Nah, it's just part of China, baby. I also, I don't know if you saw this, because you know how China is such a big funder of Hollywood now?
Starting point is 00:45:34 Yeah. There's some movie coming out. It's a remake. I forgot what it is, but in the original, someone did a comparison where in the original. No, they add scenes for China specifically in movies. Yes, but in the original movie on the back of the guy's jacket, he has patches. And one is, he has a Taiwan patch and he has a Japan patch on there.
Starting point is 00:45:55 And in the remake, they changed it so they're just fake flags. They have the China flag or like something. I don't remember. I just remember they took out the Taiwan flag and replaced it with a fake flag and the Japan flag and they replaced it. I think some movies have actually put in scenes within a famous Chinese actor just specifically for the Chinese audience. And you never see the scenes in America or anything. Yeah, yeah. They'll add scenes.
Starting point is 00:46:20 I find it funny how movies like Warcraft, that wasn't a hit here as far as I know, but China was its biggest audience. People in China loved the Warcraft movies. Well, they like big spectacle stuff. Yeah. That's why I think about how much money the Marvel movies make in China. Yeah. And I wonder how – Disney's always bending over for China.
Starting point is 00:46:43 Yeah, because China just has a lot of money. Just kind of put some stuff in for us. And also, I wonder, like, how bad it will get in the next few decades with China's kind of influence on Hollywood and how much China will begin to fully, like, control the production of, like, movies and kind of what goes into a lot of them and stuff.
Starting point is 00:47:04 Because it's not like they're, it's as simple as them gaining control in the business because they don't need control in the country at all politically. It's just, it's all business. So it's, it would be very easy for them to kind of, I mean they,
Starting point is 00:47:17 they do already. I mean you got major studios that will censor certain things so they will, so they could be played in China. Like, I think a lot of people base their shit on whether it can make money in China because they're like, it'll make a lot of money in the U.S., but we also need to make sure that it's censored to the point in terms of, because, you know, China doesn't like certain things. They don't like a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:47:43 So, which, like i i would really like to visit china i've been to beijing i'm too paranoid to want to visit china but like china's just like it's maybe hong kong not now not now well it's funny because we were talking about going to hong kong in november because we were like oh we should do like hong kong definitely not now right but it was right before all this shit started we're like you can't go now these protests could last months oh and the scary thing is like if it got to the point where they would like open fire on protesters or like, you know, which I don't think. Well, I mean, who knows? This podcast is coming out more than like a week after recordings.
Starting point is 00:48:16 Maybe more shit has already happened. Because right now we're speaking from the perspective of Friday, August 16th. Yeah. If anything else has happened, then this conversation could just be kind of rendered null. Who knows? But I saw that in Shenzhen, which is the city outside Hong Kong, which is part of China, they've started bringing thousands of military trucks and lining them up and stuff. Also to take note that apparently there is a decent military presence in that town already.
Starting point is 00:48:41 And seeing that, while it is upsetting because it may be for show, but it's not too out of the ordinary. Oh, okay. Do you see like the lines of trucks? Mm-hmm. And then I saw like a lot of tanks and stuff. It could very well be intimidation, but- Oh, it probably is right now.
Starting point is 00:48:56 I've seen people say that like it is their, you know, China still has military parades, right? Yeah. So, I mean- I also wouldn't put it past China to actually, you know. Remember that, well, there's that thing that didn't happen. If there's anything that's going to start, like, the next conflict, it's always something that kind of, that either, I think one, you can say one country does to the other in terms of you think about the German U-boats, blah, blah, blah, blah. Or you can think about countries feeling like they have to step in in another major power's business. And I feel like if there is a next major conflict, it would be someone stepping into someone else's business.
Starting point is 00:49:36 I'm not saying that World War III will start because of Hong Kong, but events like, things could go horribly wrong, and I don't have any doubt that a major conflict politically could occur if things went very poorly in Hong Kong. No one wants to interfere with China, right? Because that – China dominates so many countries' economies. There's the trade market. Yeah, you don't want to really step in and be on China's bad side. There's just the economy in general. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:14 It's like one of the most powerful countries in the world, so you don't want to get on their bad side. And I wonder what it would take for countries to step in, because right now it seems like no one's really sticking up for Hong kong because they don't want to jeopardize that like but i wonder what it would take well think about there will come a point the u.s to maintain political ties if something were to happen in hong kong i i do not think the u.s would step in at all the u.s still denies the armenian genocide that's like just to keep political friends with someone the u.s still denies to claim that taiwan is its own people because of china if china does something the u.s isn't gonna fucking step in yeah because because you got to think about also like who china's allied with right but i think has haven't the the uk's come out in support of uh the protesters in
Starting point is 00:51:04 hong kong right oh really i don't know either that or australia australia has been doing a Haven't the UK's come out in support of the protesters in Hong Kong, right? Oh, really? I don't know. Either that or Australia. Australia has been doing a lot of, I don't know, I don't think the government would, because Australia has a pretty conservative government, but I have seen that a lot of solidarity protests in Adelaide and a lot of different parts of Australia have been doing a lot of big protests for Hong Kong.
Starting point is 00:51:25 You guys, this is supposed to be a funny podcast. You talk about this. Interesting. This is a big world thing going on. And I like looking back at these episodes like when this was all history. And it's like, oh, that's like our take on it during the time. It's just us offering our takes and opinions. So feel free to skip these ones where we talk about world matters.
Starting point is 00:51:45 We're not super educated and informed on everything, so if we say some stuff that's wrong, oopsie daisy. We can't just listen to two friends have a conversation about what's going on with the world. We just chose to monetize it and put it out to the masses. Losers. But
Starting point is 00:52:00 it is interesting because I think China's hoping that it'll just eventually fizzle out. But the protests have impacted the airport. They shut down. When I was actually in Taiwan. It was over 100 flights. When I was in Taiwan, I saw there was like a lot of issues because the day I landed in Taiwan for my connecting flight was the day that they canceled all flights out of Hong Kong. I think the airport's like shut down.
Starting point is 00:52:30 You know, I saw some crazy videos from the protests. They're using Pepe a lot. Hong Kong is? Yeah, as like a pro protest symbol. Dude, how did that cartoon become such a massive political image i don't know that creator is so like i can understand it almost well here's the thing you can understand it in a sense because um one culturally the united states in general is in the internet in general is big on memes and the right I think for a long time people on the right side were probably more what's the word they
Starting point is 00:53:16 they're more fluent in the memes in a sense than people on the left word yeah because you would get a lot more uh people on the right on places like 4chan and so it makes sense pepe eventually went over there and then in in japan i don't know this might just be my racist mind talking but it seems like uh i don't know it just seems like they like cute little mascots or turning like kind of they just have little things. That's how I saw it because it was just like, you know, the girl who got shot in the eye with a beanbag thing. Yeah. And they did the.
Starting point is 00:53:52 Yeah. She's holding up a sign with Pepe with a patch over his eye and he's like doing this hands. Oh, really? Yeah. I was just. I saw more meme signs in the protest. It always just kind of comes off as like cutesy to me. It's just fucking. It's crazy. It's not the protests are being shot yeah you know the protests are just kind of so
Starting point is 00:54:09 cutesy you know but it's like they're using pepe visually much differently and rhetoric and like their their rhetoric their way in using the image is different than the right the right used it as like a kind of like a i wouldn't even say the right used it was more of just kind of like it was used as a joke to see can we can is is our political discourse so ridiculous that we can make this meme a hate crime essentially or like hate speech and they've succeeded in making it a hate symbol well also what i wonder in terms of the i think the blowback from that was like way too much. Of course.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Like there's no reason it should be a hate symbol. I think. I think that. Also the Pepe being used. And I think. They might not even understand like how it's used in America. But they just have seen it with so much online. But it's like, oh, if people see this.
Starting point is 00:55:03 It'll find its way around the internet even more. I think they're using the meme legitimately, whereas it was used satirically and in a way to... It sounds weird because I know we're going deep on how Pepe was used
Starting point is 00:55:20 in different political climates. I think being registered as a hate symbol it's it's interesting it's goofy because i think it's like if something's being used as a symbol by a like a group that spews a lot of hate i can see how something could be classified as a hate symbol uh but what's the difference like what's pepe it's i don't know 4chan, a lot of the times, will go on tirades of like, let's do this. Kind of like this kind of prank on the media, in a sense. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:53 And so I feel like a lot of that is out of the... It's almost like, oh, you think we're like this? We're going to act out like this and make you think that we are this. Even though it's all a joke to us. It's weird. It's this weird back and forth between... I also think there's better ways I think that there's more pressing issues
Starting point is 00:56:10 in dealing with stuff like hate and white supremacy. I don't think they want to solve any issues. Than labeling Pepe as a hate symbol. Because I remember when Pepe was like a... I remember back in way back in the day my friend showed me Pepe and it was from this webcomic where he's like peeing with his pants all the way down at the urinal and he says
Starting point is 00:56:26 feels good man and that was I think that was the origin maybe feels good it was like a panel comic where he's like just pissing at the urinal with his pants all the way down Pepe is or one of the characters I mean it shows that the classic Pepe face and he's saying like feels good man
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Starting point is 01:01:21 Uh, I am about to shit my brains out. Are you? I really have to take a shit. So I think we're going to have to wrap up episode 156. Is it 156? Maybe. Is it?
Starting point is 01:01:34 Yes, it is. What are you looking at on your phone, Ryan? Are you watching pornography during the podcast? No, I'm looking at the... Goodbye. Would you like to go take a shit with me? Sure. Because this is actually the last, real quick, guys,
Starting point is 01:01:48 I think this might be the last podcast we ever record in the Game Grumps office. They're packing this room up. No, yeah, it 100% is. Oh, this is. Yeah, it's the last podcast we're ever doing here. So, well, we've done like 100-something episodes in this room. I didn't realize it was the last time we were going to sit on this couch and look at each other like this.
Starting point is 01:02:02 I know. Now we'll, next week is when the sound paneling is coming? Something like that. We could get the podcast room set up pretty easy. Yes. It doesn't take much. Yeah. And also, guys, okay, so let me throw this out there.
Starting point is 01:02:14 The next few podcast episodes, who knows? They might be recorded, like, in my bedroom or something. So it might be a little more lo-fi, but just as fun. And actually, despite the fact that grumps are moving offices, they did install two toilets facing each other in the bathroom last week, so Ryan and I are going to go take a communal shit, hold hands while we do it. You ready to
Starting point is 01:02:33 go, buddy? Let's do this. So signing off one last time from the podcast studio where we've been doing it for how many fucking years and episodes? About two years. Yeah. Or a little over two years. I didn't even realize it was the last one. Wow. I'm getting a little sad now. Thank you to the Grumps
Starting point is 01:02:49 for allowing us to use this. Thanks, Brent. Thanks, Aaron. Thanks, Grumps Incorporated, for giving us permission. And for having us not have to pay rent for recording in here. Seriously, guys, thank you so much. I'm gonna miss this couch. I'm gonna miss sitting in here staring at, thank you so much. I'm going to miss this couch.
Starting point is 01:03:06 I'm going to miss sitting in here staring at my good friend Ryan, and I'm also going to miss how hot this room would get. But on to bigger and better things in our brand new super mega owned podcast studio. So, probably a couple weeks bootlegging the podcast, and then after that
Starting point is 01:03:21 you're going to see something brand new. So, we love you guys. Thank you for the support. Go check us out on Patreon if you want gonna see something brand new so we love you guys thank you for the support go check us out on Patreon if you wanna see some extra content or support the boys now that we gotta pay expensive ass LA rent
Starting point is 01:03:31 for our studio and pay for all this equipment and also check us out on Spotify and iTunes and we got a lot of cool shit on the way so thank you so much for listening
Starting point is 01:03:39 and we'll see you next week with 157 goodbye bye And we'll see you next week with 157. Goodbye. Bye.

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