The Golden Gooner

[00:00:00] Raw time? You trashy bitch! That's me. Raw time? I'd like to eat your pussy. Well who wouldn't?

[00:00:30] 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, I'm Brian. Hi, I'm Jason. Gosh, and we're here to talk about taking care of dandruff. Yeah, absolutely. Did you know that it's actually not flaky skin but some sort of fungus? Well that's what they say. Listen, RFK Jr. is going to get to the bottom of it.

[00:00:59] Yeah, see, I'm just waiting. He just sounds like a Tibetan throat singer in like the fucking dive bar in Nashville. Dolly Parton's grandma. Every time he speaks, it's ridiculous. Yeah.

[00:01:23] Yeah, I just can't wait for the new hellscape that we're living in to finally pay dividends and get me rid of this dandruff I've had for years. The big dandruff is finally going down. I don't know, I'm kind of like, you know what, he is going to get rid of high fructose corn syrup. Sure. So what if a bunch of kids are going to die? That's painful. I don't even know how to respond to that. I mean, at this point, like, you know what, we got to take our wins. Yeah, I know, I know.

[00:01:51] They're going to get rid of that crosswalk outside the school for the blind. Listen, their ears ought to be good enough. Yeah, the daredevil theory. They hear this American steel coming down the road. Well, that's the problem is if everyone is issued a government issued cyber truck, they're not going to hear it coming because there's no engine. Well, no, they'll hear it because it's falling apart like a jalopy. Oh, okay. Yeah, fair. Did you see that report that said statistically- 400 million dollars, oh wait, no.

[00:02:21] No, no, I mean, that's- Sorry. Oh, no, the world's richest man who is effectively our sitting president acting in self-interest while telling the rest of us to eat shit. That's not surprising. Not surprising. That's barely news to me. No, but the statistics that the cyber truck is technically more dangerous than the Ford Pinto. Hell yeah, let's go. Yeah. Let's go. Recall. Recall that son of a bitch. Why will we have a working NTSB?

[00:02:47] There's only like 36,000 cyber trucks and there was like 3.2 million Pintos made. Okay. But statistically speaking- That's bad. The cyber truck is worse than the Pinto. It's a sheer numbers game, yeah. Yeah, I hate to see how it stacks up against- the cyber truck stacks up against like a Chevette or something.

[00:03:11] I was gonna say, yeah, like the Fiero or one of those other, you know, just a real nightmare of a vehicle. Yeah. Did you watch the fight for America's soul? I did. It was fantastic. Of course, Brian's talking about the Super Bowl. Boy, it was fun in the first half watching Patrick Mahomes continually eat shit for like almost an hour. A guy is like, at one point, I mean, I'm not a big sports guy.

[00:03:37] A friend invited me, them and their partner were having people over and I was like, yeah, fuck it. I'll go hang out. Like, I mean, just eat like good food and like hang out with people. Like, and then there's a little bit of, there's spectacle. Okay. Sure. But just sitting on the couch being like, man, he looks like he's about to go back to playing arena football. Yeah. Washed. Just absolutely fucking just cooked. I have not seen a quarterback eat shit like that. In a game that big. Yeah. I mean, this is, this is ankle.

[00:04:07] Yeah. World series level performance. God damn. Yeah, you're right. Just where are you aiming that bro? But here's the thing. Those where they had three touchdowns eventually, eventually. And like all of those are fucking highlight real worthy plays. It's just where were you guys the rest of the game? The Eagles were just putting pressure on him. The defensive line was not holding at all.

[00:04:28] I mean, Midwest nice versus a team that represents a city that is basically the kid that got sent home from the field trip to the school for chucking D cell batteries at animals at the zoo. Yeah. They had the grease to fucking poles regardless of what was going to happen in Philly. Yeah, absolutely. Because they're hooligans and we love them for it. Sure. Some of my favorite bands are from Philly. Madikin Pussy. Uh huh. I think Gladdy and Sheermag. Sheermag, yeah.

[00:04:57] There's just like a lot of really cool bands that have come from Philly. So, you know, no disrespect, but it's between Philly and Baltimore of who's like, the person that's going to give you the drunk driving advice. Like, listen, cruise control? Uh huh. It's going to get you there. Yeah. You got to think too much with the pedal action, but just do cruise control and you breathe. Okay. You're going to get there. It's good advice, even though I'm drinking at home. But anyway.

[00:05:26] What if you want a pizza? If I want a pizza, I'll just make one at this point. The one thing obviously that we want to talk about from the Super Bowl is Kendrick giving the middle finger to Drake in a public setting. We've got our Kenta cloth on. We're kneeling. Yes, I am absolutely. Yes. I don't know if you can see it out there in podcast land, but I'm doing it right now. Masterful. I just, uh, yeah. Um, honestly, I thought it was boring.

[00:05:55] Kendrick Lamar's music. I don't know if it's really for that kind of avenue. No, it clearly isn't based on the comments the next day and all the fucking Facebook stuff I've seen. I couldn't understand him. Like, I feel like his music is shit that you like playing the kitchen while you're cooking. Well, I do fucking yeah, you bob your head, you're fucking cutting up your veggies or whatever you're prepping stuff.

[00:06:21] I don't know if it's necessarily like giant sports spectacle music, and I think he did the best he could. I don't even think it's terrible. It's just like, how can someone who's so envelope pushing push the envelope and the, you know, this incredibly conservative spectacle? Yeah, very safe. It felt very safe. Yeah.

[00:06:42] No, I mean, he's not gonna, you know, of course, one of his dancers did get, you know, banned from any future NFL games for flying a flag that said free Palestine, free Sudan. But that wasn't televised. That wasn't shown on television. Yeah, no, that wasn't. And props to that dude. Yeah. That dude that I'm paraphrasing him. But I think there was someone that interviewed him and asked him like, you know why he did. He's like, I didn't want to face my creator a coward. Hell yeah. Basically like, oh, yeah. All right. I fuck with that. Yeah. Kendrick giving the shit eating grammar.

[00:07:11] He's like, say, Drake. Yeah. You know, teasing that he's going to do the song at all. Yeah. And yes, you know, it's the PlayStation controller symbols. It looks like a prison yard or like a city street. Yeah. There's like, OK, there's lots of little symbolism and for a minute there. I thought he was doing a squid games thing. But then I was like, oh, no way. That's not. And it's cool that happened. And I've seen Kendrick Lamar live before. And it's cool as hell. Capitalism can only let something like that.

[00:07:42] Play out in so much as. Capitalism can make money off of it. Right. Exploit it. So there's really just such a hard limit, a hard wall to what can be expressed there. People are really just over analyzing or just happy for the crumbs. Well, especially with Trump in attendance, you know. Well, Trump left. No, I know. I think Trump left before halftime. Oh, did he? I think so. I don't know when he left. I just know he wasn't there at the end of the game. I'm not trying to shit talk you for enjoying it.

[00:08:12] No, no, no, no. Or feeling like it resonated with you. I'm just saying like, what could we expect it? And I think, you know, he didn't do we, we gonna be all right. Right. No, that's that. That was a glaring omission as was practically anything from good kid, mad city. Yeah. No money trees. Well, those, uh, we gonna be all right. Things from, uh, Pimpa Butterfly. Yeah. I was, I was saying that and. King Kuta. Yeah. Fuck. Cause the thing is like. You, uh, you know. I think so. How much a dollar cost, you know?

[00:08:40] Some of his biggest fucking like catchy jams. You can't really perform in that context. Whatever. It's cool. Kendrick Lamar deserves all of his flowers. Um, I feel like he's getting a little overexposed. Sure. Um, and that, that's necessarily his fault. Uh, fuck Drake, fuck wheelchair Jimmy. And, uh, fuck Kanye too. Yeah. Which leads us into our next story. Yeah. Wasn't that fucking weird? Very weird. So I don't know if you guys have seen this.

[00:09:07] The room went silent during this cause we're just like, what's going on? So during the Superbowl and certain Fox affiliates, Kanye West put out a commercial. It's 43 seconds long, including the very long intro. So here's. It's like someone's grandfather trying to wish you happy birthday, but not understanding how to stop the recording. A really bad cameo that you overpaid for. The entire commercial. Is Kanye West shooting on his iPhone in a dentist chair, as you can see all the implements

[00:09:37] behind him. And he's got a mouth guard in. He says, so, uh, I spent all the money on these new teeth. So once again, I got to shoot this on my iPhone. Um, um, um, go to yeezy.com. Yeah. I think he was getting fit for grills or he was either getting veneers. It was kind of hard to tell something like that.

[00:10:00] The really distressing thing is if you went to yeezy.com, the one item for sale was a white t-shirt with a black swastika on it. Yeah. H H O one. Of course. H H H H. Heil Hitler. Oh, I, um, wow. We're aiming high here. I do have some umbrage with people that were acting incredibly incredulous about this.

[00:10:30] What were you thinking this was going to be? Yeah. It wasn't going to be anything good. We weren't going to like it. And like, it's a mentally ill guy crashing out. Yeah. He's not getting the help he needs. And I think even if he got the help he needs, he'd still be a shithead. Oh yeah. This is a incredibly flawed disturbed person that, uh, is going to do incredibly flawed disturbed person shit. Yeah.

[00:10:59] Um, doesn't mean we shouldn't like be like, Hey, that's bad and call it out when we see it, but acting scandalized sometimes is like, all right. Okay. Did you like you see, you come off like someone that's fallen for the wall inspector multiple times. I thought this guy was legit. He had a pocket protector. So preceding all of this was a series of tweets. And yes, Kanye is on Twitter at Kanye West.

[00:11:27] One of the first ones is all caps. I have dominion over my wife. This ain't no woke as feminist shit. She's with a billionaire. Why would she listen to any of you dumb ass broke bitches? People say the red carpet look was her decision. Yes. I don't make her do nothing. She doesn't want to. Can I, can I stop you here? Someone made a point that all of his, all of his crash out tweets. Yeah. They read better in the Dracula flow voice. Yes. I don't make her do nothing.

[00:11:57] She doesn't want to, but she definitely wouldn't have been able to do it without my approval. You stupid ass woke pawns. I have no respect or empathy for anyone living because no one living can fuck with me, but I do love some people and I give them favor. Okay. I used to be woke too. Uh, all rappers want my spot.

[00:12:24] I will never not know that every rapper living what be me. Every rapper living wish they was ye. Call me. You love Hitler. And your bitch still wants to fuck. I'm not going to read the next one. Hitler was so fresh. I'm going to normalize talking about Hitler. They were talking about killing has been normalized. I got in the shower and thought of like six tweets.

[00:12:53] Let me see what I could remember. No comments were viewed while I've been tweeting. I ain't adjusting nothing. I do or say for anybody who has enough time on their hands to sit and talk about what the fuck I write positive or negative. Your opinions don't mean shit to me. I don't give a fuck what anyone likes. When people make all that money with a coin. Is that cash or concept?

[00:13:24] I can say Jew as much as I want. I can say Hitler as much as I want. Matter of fact, I do say it when I want. Ain't nobody ramped up. Either I'm calm as ice. This is how I really feel. How I really felt and how I will always feel. Fuck all you fuck ass unfair business deals.

[00:13:48] Does any person know that does business with me need to know I don't like or trust any person? And this is when I was canceled. No N word showed up for me other than tie. Every single other N word waited for it to be safe. And words wanted for me to be in good standings with the Jews. Then they came around that and we're better than everybody. Anyway, it goes on like this for a while.

[00:14:14] And yes, so the Super Bowl ad, the $20 Hitler shirt. The whole thing is just fucking insane. The ADL of course, urging Fox and Nexstar to condemn the ad to commit to stricter screening measures. They got through because it was like a local ad. That's so weird. And I still don't think that was nearly as upsetting as the Martha Stewart ad. Oh, which one was that? For the fucking shoes for the sketchers that had just like really unsettling CGI. CGI.

[00:14:43] I don't remember that one. Oh, it was fucked. It was like that was one where like people walked out of the room were like, I need a drink. Well, see, I watched it on Tubi, so I didn't get all the ads that everybody else got. Yeah, I got some really unsettling Tubi ads. The the one where people had like a hat for a head. Oh, the flesh hat one. That's the one I was thinking of. The flesh hat was really upsetting.

[00:15:06] The first ad where it's like CGI seal the singer as a seal as a seal singing seal singing a modified version of kiss from a rose. Terrible. Yeah, pretty bad ads this year, but I think we were waiting for more AI slop. There was a few. I turned down three foes this week with make a wish kids in wheelchairs. I'm a Nazi. I love Hitler. Now what, bitches? Yeah. Fuck Virgil.

[00:15:35] Yeah, fuck Virgil. We're I'm on. I'm on board with you on that one. And then apparently the next day is like I won. I tweeted pretty much everything I felt like for 12 hours and I still have my Twitter and most importantly, my billions. Thank you everyone for participating in this social experiment. Thank you and love to my fellow rappers. Thank you and love to all black women. Thank you and love to all gays. Thank you and love to all Jews. Thank you and love to all gay Jews. Thank you and love to all gay Jew rappers.

[00:16:03] Thank you to all broke n words. Thank you to the internet trolls. Thank you for all neurodivergence. And a special thank you to Elon. I actually love everybody, especially fat women. I don't like that. I said social experiment. I tweeted everything I felt. None that fixed it. Fuck everyone. He's definitely wearing his finest eight ball jean jacket. Absolutely. Try to tell the judge I'm a responsible parent. Everyone knows I'm fucking not.

[00:16:33] Now, February 9th. I'm logging out of Twitter. I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent. It's been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board. It was like an ayahuasca trip. Love all of you who gave me your energy and attention to we connect again. Good afternoon and good night. And yes, he was saying fuck Virgil, Virgil Abloh. The internet users, of course, saying Kanye after making 500 schizo posts, setting his phone on vibrate and sticking it up his ass. And there's an anime girl coming.

[00:17:00] Just a truly, truly absurd thing. An absurd just... From Mr. West! They were like Kanye. I thought he was a little over... I mean, even like 20 years ago, I thought he was a little overrated. I liked him, but that doesn't mean anything. I just... I liked his production work. Yeah, absolutely. I think he was an interesting producer, but... This is all Jay-Z's fault, isn't it? Pretty much. Another reason I like Jay-Z... Among many. I think someone...

[00:17:28] I saw a tweet, and maybe as a white guy, I can't laugh about this, but someone tweeted and there was a photo of him and said, this motherfucker looks like he discovered peanut butter. Oh, wow. That weird basquette hair. Yeah, yeah. He's really... It doesn't work for him, because he's kind of got a receding hairline, so it doesn't quite... Oh, man. You know what? I've worked with some really cool black dudes that had dreads, but were receding a hairline. Yeah. It's rough, man.

[00:17:58] Like, yes, dude, you're the coolest motherfucker here. Like, there's no doubt. But put the Kangol back on or something. Dude, put the hat back. Put the knit hat back on, bro. I'm telling you, yeah. Some hairstyles just don't work with a receding hairline. Take it from a guy who knows. Ask me how I know. Yeah. Have you seen me? Yeah, I'm looking at you right now, and geez... So we joked about this, and someone had made memes about this, and apparently the company listened, and it is real. That's right, folks.

[00:18:27] Jerkmate ranked is now real. All right. Now, this according to Know Your Meme published yesterday. Apparently, higher-ups at the adult webcam site Jerkmate had been monitoring the onslaught of memes about Jerkmate Ranked, an imaginary ranking system for the site's true gooners, by releasing an official video game called Jerkmate Ranked on Monday. They teased it on Instagram, the grand finale of Jerkmate Ranked.

[00:18:57] They set the release date February 10th. That was three days ago. And the video game is here. And it is very much like a cookie clicker. Okay. You click to FAP. You get enough cum points. This is like someone's first flash game. You get enough cum points, though, and you can get... You buy Lube, which means you get additional faps per click. And then once you buy a poster.

[00:19:26] Yeah, the poster gives you six faps per second. That's automated. Now you're getting... Now your jerks are automated. Oh, that was the auto player. Yeah, you just gotta... Yeah. You just gotta click a bunch of times to get your stamina level up to about 20. And then the game plays itself. I did make it earlier today to Emerald Edger of all the different ranks there. You didn't get the Platinum Puller? I did not get the Platinum Puller because I just got annoyed by it. And I'm like, you know what? I've done this and I've spent 20 minutes on this. I'm fine.

[00:19:56] I'm fine. The bronze beater, silver stroker, the golden gooner. Golden Gooner. That's my wrestling name. Down at the South Broadway Athletic Club. The golden gooner. Don't shake his hand. It's a little clammy. He comes out with two bottles of lube out of his arm. He just looks like a Prospector A8. He comes out to Stroken by Billy Squire. Goddamn. Stroken!

[00:20:23] But yes, Grandmaster Baiter is the highest level you can achieve in jerk mate ranks. And apparently there is a prize. So if you get, you put your highest score on Twitter, on X, using the hashtag jerk mate ranked, and you get in for a drawing for either a $200 jerk mate credit, or one of $500 Amazon gift cards, or one of many jerk mate trophies.

[00:20:53] So if you've got the time and inclination, it may be worth your while to play the fake jerk mate ranked game. I do appreciate their commitment to the bit though. That's something that says. Leaning in. In these dire times, shouldn't we all be a little bit of a jerk mate? Be a mate and jerk your mates off. No, that's not it. I don't have any friends that are worth jerking off. I mean, nothing personal. You know, I love you, but... That's cool, man. You don't want to deal with this.

[00:21:24] You're entering into a psychological head game here, no pun intended, that no one wants to be a part of. I wasn't ready for, yeah. How does this make you feel, white boy? Alone, isolated. Well, someone who probably would enjoy the actual jerk mate ranked would probably be Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy. You know, everybody knows Dave Portnoy.

[00:21:49] He came to St. Louis and made fun of our pizza when the Blues were in the Stanley Cup finals. I don't know if his shtick of going around the sports towns and making fun of their pizza... I don't know if that's really, like, productive. Defector did something similar and it was funnier. Yeah, and like, less, like, potentially harmful to small businesses. Yeah, because I think, like, Defector's one is like, your hometown team sucks. Yeah.

[00:22:16] So, like, not the food itself, but like, you know, your team sucks. Listen, I went up to Chicago. Yeah. I had some chain restaurant deep dish. Yeah? It was fucking fine. Where'd you go? It wasn't Tony's 2 up at Northside, that's all I... Okay. Tony's 1 on the other hand? I went to Lou's! You went to Lou's? I went to Lou's! Okay! I went to Lou Mount Natty's. Yeah. Yeah, that... Some people claim that's the original. Some people say, I fucking enjoyed it quite a bit. Had a nice little mixed drink. Nothing wrong with it.

[00:22:45] Had an Italian Palmoa. Oh! Then realized, well, geez, I take a couple medicines that maybe I shouldn't have grapefruit juice. Oh, no! Yeah! But I'm like, but you know what? Like, it's a mixed drink. Yeah. I'm not sitting there pounding 12-ounce glasses. Yeah, you'll have one. I'm having one thing. I took my medicine 12 hours ago. I think... You should be alright. I think I can skate by once. If you had the one. The one. And I'm having it with food. Right, right. I think I'm gonna live. I think my liver can take it.

[00:23:13] Yeah, if you were drinking those all night, that'd be a different story. Yeah, if I bought like a jug of it from the store, a grapefruit juicer. And it sucks, because I do love a good grapefruit. I know, I know. I got meds I can't take it with either. The fucking salad, phenomenal. Mm-hmm. Their house salad. Mm-hmm. I know it's like a local chain. It's not like a big chain. Who gives a shit? It's a local chain in the fact that people from there want that, and they have multiple locations. I don't think that's a bad thing. Yeah, we saw one on Wicker when we were walking from Urban Belly. We're like, oh shit. That's the one I went to.

[00:23:42] It was fucking tasty. It wasn't too much. No, no. And I like a good pizza sauce, but the tomato, you know, sometimes, you know, we're older guys. Yeah, yeah. You know, a heartburn, indigestion. Oh, sure. But I felt like it was a good balance. It was a good flavor, good cheese, good toppings. Yeah. Like, this does the trick. This does everything we wanted it to do. Sounds great. Welcome to 48 minutes of dogs talking about pizza. Anyways. Food. So, Barstool Presidente. It is Crypto Scam of the Week.

[00:24:11] You're listening to 48 minutes of dogs barking the podcast. And now it's time for the Crypto Scam of the Week. Dave Portnoy. Oh, Dave Portnoy. Dave Portnoy. He was, however, I'll give him something before we go into this. Yeah. Incredibly on point about the Robin Hood shit back in 21. No, yeah. It wasn't wrong either. He wasn't wrong. He's like, hey, listen, look at these big, they don't want you to play their game. Mm-hmm. Look at how they're freezing your doge, your GME. Mm-hmm.

[00:24:40] I was like, damn, he's, welcome to the resistance, Dave Portnoy. It's a very strange story, but the long and short of it is, Dave Portnoy created a crypto coin called Jail Stool. Okay? Mm-hmm. Dollar sign Jail Stool. And the idea was, people had noticed that he was playing around in the crypto space and that he may have done some questionable trades.

[00:25:09] And some had lightly suggested that maybe he should go to jail for it. And so, Jail Stool was born. The Twitter account, Superkeeper 33, quote tweeting Dave Portnoy, Dave Portnoy posting, I put hundreds of thousands of my own money into Jail Stool and promised up to 1 million more as it grew. I promised not to take any out till 1 billion market cap. I could have cashed out for 6 million, I didn't.

[00:25:37] But I'm not just gonna promote forever for free while sharks eat minnows. And what he's referring to there is the alleged rug pull of Jail Stool. Twitter user Superkeeper 33, scam rug pull complete. What a move by the king of the free world. I'm not mad, go birds, but what a scumbag. 10 plus years for sure. Meaning that that's the jail sentence. That's pretty fucking funny.

[00:26:08] And so, I had to go find out what the hell this was all about. So, Blockchain News, Blockchain.News, by the way, has this bit of a pressy. On February 10th, 2025, Dave Portnoy announced on a live stream that he did not intend to rug pull the cryptocurrency Jail Stool. However, just minutes later, at 10.50 a.m. Eastern, he proceeded to rug pull the token.

[00:26:34] Leading to significant market movements and discussions across the crypto community. This according to Kuk Capital LLC. The initial price of Jail Stool before the announcement was .0005 cents, which plummeted to .0001 cent immediately after the rug pull. 80% decrease in value within five minutes. Jesus.

[00:26:56] This event caused trading volume spike from 100,000 tokens to 1.5 million tokens within that five-minute timeframe, indicating a rapid sell-off by investors. The incident underscores the volatility and risks associated with celebrity-endorsed cryptocurrencies, as highlighted by numerous reports on recent events. And yes, we have been on this beat for a while. Jesus. We have seen this over and over again.

[00:27:25] The price dropped for the Bitcoin pair from .00, a fraction of a Bitcoin to even more of a fraction of a Bitcoin. A 98% decrease trading volume surge from 10,000 BTC to 150,000 BTC within the first hour post-rug. Oh, good. They did say that technical indicators showed extreme bearish signals post-rug pull. Oh, the RSI just wasn't flipped right. Okay.

[00:27:55] That's the relative strength index, by the way. Yeah, because there was more selling than there was buying. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So you didn't see your golden cross or your death cross at the proper volume inflections. Okay. So this wasn't necessarily snipers like we saw in the previous couple weeks. This is just an old-fashioned rug pull, baby. Classic. Old school. OS for life. So, yeah. Big time Tommy. Pulling liquidity.

[00:28:23] Listening to some old style. Big time Tommy. I haven't thought about him in a long time. I fucking love that guy. Oh, I hope he's... Shout out to big time Tommy. I hope you're doing good. Yeah, dude. I hope you're cruising through Jersey. Yeah. Listening to some old school. Big time Tommy. Give me a call. 304-246-9766. I'd love that big time time. Let's go. Come on in, man. This is completely weird that dude out. We love it. What's this guy doing to his ass? I ain't never seen no shit like that before.

[00:28:55] I saw it once in Yonkers, but I was kind of on the other side of the room. Just a hoot and a half. We love you. Much love to big time Tommy. Yeah, for sure. I hope I'm half that cool when I'm like in my late 50s. Is that how old he is? Was? At the time of those videos? Well, we'll have to do our research. We're really just going off. We're really just going off. Big time. Hey. Has the Italian flag.

[00:29:20] But yeah, so Dave Portnoy, jail stool, makes a joke about it and then like, oh yeah, we're actually going to actually rug though. So. And he's not even sorry. You know, usually when you get something like this, you get the big like, oh, you know, our financials were secure. We didn't really know. My grandma says she was cold. So we were cold. The dev, you know, died in a plane crash. I don't know what.

[00:29:51] Big time Tommy. 58. I hope when I'm 58. Yeah. I'm as cool as that. I'm just rolling around in an old fucking caddy, listening to the fucking mid-80s dance music. Oh, Miami based shit? Yeah. Fucking rings on my fingers, smoking a stogie, just hanging out with the fellas. Yeah. Eating some good food. Just blaring Debbie Deb. Like, yeah. Yeah.

[00:30:17] Like I feel like all that guy does is like hang out with the homies and like cruise, listen to cool music. Talk about how hot Tina Marie used to be. Yeah. Just fuck man. What a life. If big time Tommy is not on some level aspirational to you, reflect on your life. Think about it. Yeah. And if you don't find yourself moving closer to the light, I strongly advise. I'm going to go ahead and have to beat that because we can't. We can't advocate.

[00:30:46] We need every listener we could get, Brian. We need everyone. Oh, Jesus. Fucking. We're talking about jail stool. Please don't. And people are fucking rugging each other over the name of CZ's fucking dog. Oh, God. You didn't even know about that, did you? I didn't. This is painful. What is this? What is the? Okay. So he, you know, CZ, he's back in Dubai.

[00:31:07] So a big thing in crypto for scammy meme coins is finding out like, oh, like one of the devs of Tron or like some other project. What's the name of their dog? What's the name of their dog? Okay. So, you know, you have like Elon's with like flock Floki and Marvin and a couple others. Yeah. Oh, Marvin the Martian. You know, God. I was told there would be a gang bang.

[00:31:37] Is everyone here tested? I don't want to give anyone Martian HPV. Oh, God damn it. Oh, Jesus. God. Fucking Elon Musk. Yeah. Fuck him. Him with the doohickey. Oh, please, please, please. I'm not. I'm going to bleep that. Fuck it. Hit him. Let's go. Annie up. Absolutely. Fucking play the blast. The MOP song. Annie up while you're doing it. Mm hmm.

[00:32:05] But so CZ's dog is apparently named broccoli. Oh, Jesus. So there's like a fucking two dozen shit coins all named broccoli and they go. And at this point, the time of this recording, go anywhere from 5 million in cap to like half a bill. It's fucking weird, man. It's weird to see a guy who just spent like six months in federal prison. Go back to Dubai and be like, let me show me. Hold on a second. Let me, let me start the pot.

[00:32:33] I don't even hate CZ as much as I do SPF. Balancing the scales on that one. I mean, I mean, fuck them. But like, I don't feel like I don't have a hatred. That's fair. But this is getting me there. Yeah. CZ, you're on my shit list, bro. I'm going to fly to Dubai on Southwest Airlines because I'm broke. Take Frontier to Dubai. Frontier. Oh, God.

[00:33:01] Last time I was on Frontier, it was like- Oh, I had back problems last time. I was going to say. Yeah, me too. You're just literally sitting in a lawn chair bolted to the floor. God, I mean, yeah, you know what? You're saving money, but what you're giving up in self-respect. I was going to say, the cost is something else. There have been times where I felt like I've flown Frontier and thought like a Waffle House level fight was going to break out. Oh, there almost was when I went to Mexico last time.

[00:33:29] There was a lady up front and she was pissing and bitching about something. And yeah, I felt like, oh shit, all right, I got to duck my head down, make sure nobody sees me, make sure there's not like objects being thrown my way. I thought it was going to happen. It didn't, thank God. But yeah, I thought, oh, we're going to be grounded. We're not going to get into the airport. They do direct flight, sorry, direct. They do non-stops, which is great, to Mexico.

[00:33:56] So that's the only reason I ever fly them because any time I go to Mexico is like, okay, you got to figure out what airline you're going to get on. Well, everybody else costs a bajillion dollars to get to Mexico. Frontier doesn't. Like, okay, well, I guess I'm going on fucking Frontier again. It sucks though. Because if you want to. It sucks, you're literally, like your chair is literally a lawn chair with like felt over it. It's like the old stadium chairs. They're even worse than a lawn chair. It sucks. It's bad. I do not like it.

[00:34:25] I've had to do it on short flights and it's whatever, like, you know, St. Louis to like Florida. Oh yeah, sure. It's not too bad. Yeah. It's not too bad of a flight. Like Vegas. Not too bad. Yeah. Portland. Yeah. No, dude. I had to fucking, I had like, I had to ask my travel companion to like work on my back. Like get the elbows in there. I can feel my back stiffening up. Just talking about this. That's fucked, man. Yeah. Front. All my, all my buddies, all my homies. Hey frontier. Yeah. Frontier. Frontier feels like it should come with like a parking ticket.

[00:34:56] And you're just like, damn, I'm never going to pay that. I guess. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. This is my life. Like you should come with a parking ticket and a guy named Dwayne that goes like, yo, that's fucked. Yeah. It's like a guy named Dwayne. You ain't going to pay that. Are you? No. Like, cool. Cause you going to pay that. I thought you would be a bitch and be like, fuck man. I can't disappoint Dwayne. I say I can't look bad in front of Dwayne. It's so cool. You got three skateboards.

[00:35:23] I know he's got the, he's got the fucking a porn star skateboard. The one that I want. The hookups. Yeah. Well, I guess it's time to talk about our main topic this week, Brian. For that you want to do a, Oh shit. Okay. I'm unemployed now. I don't have to get up at three 30 and the fucking, I quit my job folks. I quit my job on moral high grounds. The only job I've ever been perp walked out of a job. I was good at and respected for doing that. I've quit jobs in a fucking holy ball of fire and got to walk out with no

[00:35:53] one breathing down my neck, but I'm going to tell you something folks, not having to be up at three 30 in the morning. Fuck man. Beautiful thing. Blessing. It's a blessing. God. You know what? Like the birds are chirping. My feet feel a little less heavy. Amen to that. I ain't saying my dick getting bigger, but I ain't saying it's getting smaller. Cheers, man. Cheers to that. Imagine if you have birthday cake. Mm hmm. Cookie. This was the cookies and cream moonshine, by the way. It's fucking tasty. All right. Cookies and cream.

[00:36:23] Maybe the best standard ice cream. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People want to talk about mint chocolate chip and I, mint chocolate chips, number one for me, but I understand it's not for everyone. I'm also a freak cause my number two is pistachio. It's not my deal, but I certainly understand. For me, the best ice cream of all time. Gotta be Rocky road. A little marshmallow, a little walnuts, a little chocolate ice cream. I like Rocky road variations. Like you talk about like the Reese's. Okay. The moose tracks. Moose tracks. That's the.

[00:36:52] I think there's a lot of ice creams that take that Rocky road foundation extrapolate a little bit. Yeah. I think they're golden. I think Rocky road is, I think Rocky road deserves respect, but it's not my favorite. Yeah. Well, because it's just, it's, it's got a lot of stuff in it. Boy, we're just off the tracks today, but you know what? That's okay. I'll fix it in the edit. It's all right. So, I mean, I don't know. Keep it in. Fuck it. Whatever, man. Fuck it. We ball. Yeah. But today folks for our main topic, we're talking about how to make chlorine gas. No, I kid. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.

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[00:38:18] snark rocket is the main project of bob seska now some of you out there in the listening audience may think that name sounds familiar and you would be right i still get to hear bob on the stephanie miller podcast network the sexy liberal podcast network and also he is a frequent guest on the

[00:38:41] stephanie miller show that's where we got asked is he funny in the way that hashtag resist liberals are funny on blue sky so not really pedantic a little out of step with the trends but harmless pretty much yeah yeah uh so if he was your uncle you wouldn't necessarily be upset no and he's really i mean he's only 10 years older than i am so it's not that much bad according to wikipedia the full

[00:39:09] bio is an american director producer writer actor blogger and political commentator he does have his own show the bob bob seska show on again stephanie miller's sexy liberal podcast networks regular contributor for salon born in dc one of his main notable credits was he worked for the huffington post post 2001 says he uh he directed music videos for iron maiden yes ever clear motley

[00:39:36] crew and meatloaf i designed the album and sleeve for the yes album magnification and the dvd release symphonic live that i didn't know about him i was it kind of makes sense because yeah there's a real like inside baseball kind of music nerd yes stuff that comes through like particularly camp chaos yes and so on on the camp chaos site in the about section my favorite little bit in here is that

[00:40:03] all the the people who contributors on the site have photos from them when they were like eight or ten you know yeah they're great school they're great the great shirts great lapels here classic so yeah bob seska all don slash boss and then in parentheses leader animator freak the founder and president of camp chaos director co-writer producer animator and primary voice actor for all the cartoon series bob

[00:40:29] was one of the first animators to use flash for our online cartoon shows i don't know if that's true but anyway bob hosted i could say he's at least first generation yeah him joe cartoon like there's there's a handful of people that can lay clean i mean there's yeah he's definitely i mean i i say belongs in the same sentence like joe cartoon kill a couple others oh for sure you know i'm just saying like

[00:40:55] first i don't know one of the first okay one of the first that that's the qualifier that's great uh yeah so he was a pa for a radio show called don and mike he graduated university of pennsylvania in 1994 has spent his whole life drawing funny things and then you've got a series of folks you know

[00:41:16] andre moore andrew widdowson the moser brothers again animators mark manali and then tara donnan unsung hero business manager and producer and a voice actor voice of babette from this thing of ours burnout reporter linda robolo from monkey for president and the voice of pat buchanan amazing

[00:41:43] uh so yes because a lot of these videos are flash sadly the swf files are not available and so it's very hard to find a lot of these on the web archive now somebody out there did some great work in archiving some of these so again camp chaos

[00:42:10] had a bunch of sub series i guess you could say this thing of ours you had nipple man i think we're really dancing around the real meat here which is napster bad i was getting there i was getting there yeah as nipple man was kind of a sub uh a sub ren and stimpy type of deal yes but yes brian is right

[00:42:37] napster bad for those of you who don't know metallica was really pissed about the release of the the song from the mission impossible 2 soundtrack that got released on napster early before they could make any money off of it and they started this entire lawsuit about suing napster which kind of basically killed napster i mean that's that's the whole thing napster was a way to get

[00:43:01] music online for free a kind of a proto torrent kind of thing where that was fucking 25 years ago metallica suit napster and camp chaos came out with napster bad it was a series of flash videos making fun of metallica for their greed specifically lars ulrich because uh james headfield was just in

[00:43:24] the background frankenstein style going napster bad beer good yeah just my fucking uh you know goddamn metallica cock ring yeah she was stuck in my like here's a little sample of that here's the somebody did archive this video unless you download it until it sleeps from napster then you're going to motherfucking jail your motherfucking meat you'll be some fat greasy tattooed bastards buttery cornhole

[00:43:50] who do you think you are i mean just you know because you like made us rich you think you can get free stuff songs that we spent upwards of you know like 24 to 48 hours writing and recording i mean james blew up for you he ignited into a fiery inferno for you people fire bad fire bad our team of lawyers and researchers have your names and we're going to hunt you down like the table scrap pilfering grab asses you are grab asses bad so to conclude rock on metallica fans we'll see you

[00:44:19] on tour this summer and you napster users we'll see you in jail getting gang raped yeah so it ends it ends with we'll see you in jail getting gang raped um not exactly a lie that was not exactly subtle as napster bad uh did lead to them getting a deal with vh1 if you know yeah yeah i remember hearing

[00:44:42] about this it was called ill astrated much like napster bad not great i don't really have a problem with anything they did with cam chaos but i really feel like some of their shit was a little like lazy jokes here's a clip from the 11th episode of ill astrated the intro of course featuring courtney love turning the washington monument into a joint michael moore uh shitting in the white house

[00:45:08] michael jackson being king kong yo-yoing a baby on top of the actually yeah condi colon get in here what is it george is dead he choked on a pretzel well that's quite a twist well it's funny because pretzels have twists how can you laugh at a time like this the president

[00:45:32] is dead come november we're unemployed can't you just run in his place no it would never work people won't vote for me i'm evil so what are we going to do nobody can know he died we'll have to speak for him we'll have to make all the decisions he would usually make pretty much business as usual right except we'll also have to drag his body around weakened at bernie's style yeah so the only joke

[00:45:58] they have in this first bit is that george w bush died choking on a pretzel and they have to do weekend at bernie's for a press conference there's a worse there's worse premises yeah but it's literally weekend at bernie's like they're not even doing anything interesting with the idea it's just we're doing the same joke but with w bush it feels lazy is what i'm saying it's lazy you know what i feel like

[00:46:24] uh 9 11 took a lot of things from us but that's my bush is probably one of its great most grievous that's my bush was brilliant so good the fucking improv where he goes to see the the mentally disabled man to get executed yeah and they're throwing a party and uh but they thought it was an improv group they i forget that it is a comedy of errors i think

[00:46:48] when the improv guys actually gets put to death yes yeah but um it was right that was that was i think for me as a as a young man realizing like improv isn't usually funny yeah usually that's the whole thing i think is like it was we killed the improv guy like well what's loss yeah no no great loss he was he was an improv guy there was a very big anti-improv backlash and i think a lot of people

[00:47:14] are still writing it like david cross still has a fucking hard on for improv people and pisses on them at any chance it just it was a weird time because yeah you're right it was post 9 11 vh1 gave them all this money and they're gonna like do all this stuff and yeah they had their big moment right they had their big moment with doing all the all the vh1 stuff pretzel jokes pretzel hey you know whatever and yes by the way camp chaos philly located in philly oh wow philly philly boys keep winning

[00:47:44] they do indeed camp chaos became snark rocket that was a whole thing but the um oh god yeah that's right bob seska also three years after illustrated he edited and directed the animated series kung fu jimmy chow the fuck for heavy.com the fuck is this so kung fu jimmy chow um i'm gonna guess

[00:48:11] not great for really weirdly xenophobic but also kind of an anime parody a bad 3d cg don't skip ahead we're suffering through this as edgy as it is slash was to make fun of anime this does it badly they did 31 episodes of this 31 episodes even by 2006 standards kind of shit what i'm making fun of fan service

[00:48:37] you know when the adult swim people the williams street people had the decency to parody anime they at least had a joke yeah perfect hair forever had a joke one they had one it was one joke yeah but it was funnier than this this is rough this is not even new grounds level humor yeah it's not great uh so

[00:48:58] kung fu jimmy chow uh that was 2006 2006 yeah again 31 episodes of that now a couple years earlier they did have a bit of a breakout hit in the form of a faux documentary called the war effort oh i don't know if you've seen this but bob seska wrote directed did not star in the war effort but no it was a uh

[00:49:28] it was a mockumentary in christopher guest style a documentary film crew follows the lives of several knee-jerk patriots as they enter a radio contest during the early days of the war on terrorism the tagline for the film patriotism paranoia and prizes i was not able to find the war effort on many of my places i find movies let's just say but my understanding is that uh it wasn't great

[00:49:58] there was an interview in 2003 with ain't it cool news about the movie yeah wow ain't it cool news is maybe the first time it's ever been mentioned on this podcast probably because i do not care for that website father geek here with old elson gun and a cool chat he had with pop animator bob seska elston gun about the war effort and vh1 ill astrated it starts out with probably the worst opening

[00:50:26] paragraph but i'm gonna go ahead and read it in the liner notes of 1965 is bringing it all back home bob dylan wrote i accept chaos today a new bob wants you to accept chaos as well camp chaos that is and this bob is bob seska if you visit camp chaos.com you'll find some of the most subversive and innovative animated shorts online and this friday the same kind of animated wackiness will be in your

[00:50:56] home on your television screen camp chaos is behind the new animated sketch comedy program vh1 nothing in pop culture is sacred in this cornucopia of cartoon cut-ups everyone from the president to the king of pop will be lampooned indie tune style but that's not all this year seska was the

[00:51:20] proud recipient of the no dance film festival's golden orb award and audience award for best feature for the war effort a mockumentary centering on a group of citizens as they immerse themselves in the war on terrorism with their own ideas of american patriotism according to the synopsis at the official website for the war effort quote you'll never look at a car windshield mounted american flag

[00:51:46] the same way again yeah i kind of fucking hate it kind of uh thanks uh thanks for nothing brother thanks for your bullshit but bob does give a little bit of insight into how camp chaos came to be he he says uh animation was first because of flash i picked up the very first version in 1997 and started making shorts for a site i worked for back then out of nowhere entertainment weekly gave one of the

[00:52:15] shorts an a minus which was cool so that really became the catalyst for building camp chaos.com and going indeed the software made it affordable to produce shorts with a crew of one but the goal was always producing features now to my understanding the war effort was the only feature yeah yeah well i mean they did it they sure did for those who haven't seen it tell us in your own words a little bit about the war

[00:52:41] effort it's really both a postcard and a parody of the period of time immediately following 9-11 and the beginning of the war on terrorism we wanted to create a film which rips all the knee-jerk patriotism that arose in those days so i wrote a story which focuses mainly on the competitive aspect of patriotism back then essentially he who waves the most flags is clearly more patriotic even though actual democratic participation remained low so in the film we meet an ensemble group of insane characters who each

[00:53:11] have their own concept of what it means to support the troops and so on they all end up entering a morning radio show contest for quote america's most patriotic american it's very much a multi-layered comedy with both broad and smart elements the film was set in philadelphia just it's really funny to read bob now and then hear him

[00:53:35] on the air with stephanie miller and his own show he's just kind of like is this the same guy and then you go yeah it kind of is actually there was a certain kind of post 9-11 lib dude you know what i mean really loving david cross and move on.org and oh yeah fucking there was a type of dude yeah dude you should be on

[00:53:59] on on guys yeah with brian that's very true uh but yeah like you're right david cross uh moveon.org code pink ad busters ad busters bow news uh out foxed crooked little liars yeah um john fugle saying that kind of guy it is kind of amazing that what we thought was like this great left word like

[00:54:29] attack against like bush in the war on terror was really some most tepid milquetoast bullshit ever air america you know someone who's actually on the left in the united states and these days when you say the words air america to them and they go oh god i think the only thing that was really left word that came

[00:54:53] out in that period was the documentary and companion book the corporation oh absolutely left of liberal or left of center yeah shit until probably 2015 pretty much my whole entire adult life has been pretty fucking i mean it's sad now but there was a brief period of time we could have had bad bitch oh yeah we could have bad bitches name was bernie sanders but the dnc decided to rat fuck him not once but twice

[00:55:21] but twice that's yeah um there's actually someone on facebook friends with that uh made a post that was like you know uh not the basically not the rain on anyone's parade but you know if uh the dnc were a bunch of fuckers uh we could be enjoying the second term of bernie sanders and that motherfucker had 150 comments i'm like you know what this guy's a bartender in rhode island he's a sweet dude he's a

[00:55:46] good guy i don't need to know no i just i can he was right yeah yeah homeboy's right bernie could have won don't need to know a bunch of people that um like go hang out silver ballroom think about anything uh so uh bob has continued on after napster bad came out warner brothers basically told him no

[00:56:09] because they did a follow-up to napster bad with characters from the sopranos warner brothers came down on him what's interesting to me is that according to this article from cnet at the time 2002 bob seska said warner brothers had hired them to create the cartoon for a convention they were paid for the production the two companies aren't in dispute for the web rights to the show so

[00:56:39] warner brothers were basically saying you could do it for a convention but you can't do it for the web that was a big weird one that they got pulled because it used sopranos characters if you go to bob seska.com c-e-s-c-a is how you spell the gentleman's name if you go to his website there is the section what about bob and so it does tell his story now i think it's really funny that this is the only

[00:57:05] place where you know what his parents were actually up to and it says bob grew up in the dc suburbs of northern virginia his parents were employees of the federal government ah yes yes yes it kind of makes a little sense now it kind of does yeah not necessarily in a bad way no it just makes a little bit more sense but so camp chaos kind of fell into disrepair they let the site basically go to

[00:57:34] hell and now bob is just kind of off doing his own thing and he's doing radio shows and podcasts and whatnots so he's still getting work which is great he did run for a local election and won it he published a book in 2008 called one nation under fear yeah let me see if they have the the picture of the the album cover he did for yes oh for the album magnification not a not a great album cover i

[00:58:02] gotta say i'm sorry bob uh i mean for yes it i guess it works but like yeah it's not i'm not going to get framed on my wall yes has a million better album covers i'm sorry uh let's see here oh do they have the music video he did for meatloaf yes okay he did the animated music video for the monster is loose from meatloaf's album uh bad out of hell 3 the worst bad out of hell album that meatloaf ever

[00:58:31] released is it really that bad it's it's just compared to the other two it's just not a great record is what i'm saying he was kind of a meatloaf was kind of leaning into the new metal sound at the time it seems bad so i guess it just depends on what you like you know a sub pod riff yeah oh yeah this ain't no dashboard by the uh paradise by the dashboard light he's been involved in some

[00:58:58] unfortunately bands that are on their backslide i guess is what you'd say yeah they're on their they're on their last legs good on them i guess you know he's still doing things it's more than we can say for a lot of people that we talk about on the show sure so you know good on you bob but yeah it's fine it's whatever it's it's okay oh you're ready for a gross picture oh yeah baby

[00:59:25] thank god it's shock.jpg time and now the moment you've all been waiting for shock.jpg uh this one simply called my goat see branded cock ring is vibrating with pleasure this one's simply called uh dude fucks a car oh great oh i wonder what this is about oh it's a yes

[00:59:48] record courtesy of our friends over at chaotic.com have you seen this one have you seen this one so it is it is what appears to be a gentleman um fucking the grill of a sedan yeah so it's all

[01:00:15] under a minute long he's got the red polo shirt the the blue um adidas adidas shirt thank you yeah and yeah he's um he's popped out the the part in the grill where it has like the logo for the car company and it's just he's pumping away looks at the guy filming him and then like immediately like looks away hey man i'm just i'm just here i'm just trying to fuck this car bro i don't know it's weird

[01:00:45] because the original video is apparently very very short and so this one on chaotic loops a bunch of times like loops four or five times and he's got a cell phone in his hand what is he film is he filming himself i don't know where it's what's yeah that's a little confusing where is he like pretending he's looking something about his phone i feel like this is not the first video i've seen of someone fucking the grill of a car very odd though the look on his face who

[01:01:17] i don't know if you've ever seen it there was a movie that john hickenlooper directed it's got uh rory cochran and a couple other people but sean astin is in it and he plays this kind of weird loner from the midwest who harangues his roommate and like sings journey songs to him through the door uh only the young the fucking journey song he has that look of sean astin in that movie i don't know

[01:01:46] i can't even begin his movie's called uh it's called the low life 1995 george hickler but kira sedgwick is in it it's a very strange little movie but there's a move there's a moment in the movie where this sheltered guy played by sean astin gets really high for the first time and like strips to his underwear and is standing there staring in the mirror he goes my head is larger than my body

[01:02:18] that's the look that this guy is is giving us the viewer and dude fucks a car dude fucks a car dude fucks a car god bless well that means it's breath mint time it's time for your mom's favorite part of the show it's time for the breath mint brian what have you been up to uh man just living

[01:02:43] boy i tell you what's good the new season invincible i have not caught up with invincible it's um you know comic book shit i kind of love it or hate it yeah uh i don't dislike this i think it's actually pretty well done pretty thoughtful definitely sometimes feels like production wise is a little rushed because man those seasons come out quick yeah but it doesn't have that comic book

[01:03:08] source material stank on it this season actually has like a pretty good flow does some interesting stuff don't want to give too many spoilers but it's a little bit more serious it's a little less humorous it's a tonal shift but it handles it well and i think that tonal shift started in the second season again don't want to spoil too much it's good if you watch the first two seasons it's worth watching it's not let me down like harley quinn has uh yeah the last the last two seasons of harley

[01:03:38] quinn have been pretty dog shit this really jumped the shark which is a real shame because alan toy dick comes in as clay face and kind of steals the show and all that but yeah you're right just a lot of little great performances um in invincible especially i love that they gave kind of the villain role to jk simmons yeah first of all i love him all right i will watch anything and everything that

[01:04:04] he is in or has ever been in down to random ass x files episodes that he shows up boy he steals the fucking show in that first season is omni man boy uh some great moments towards the end there especially i'm very excited to see that i know that for the most part the cast has always been really good that they got the voices for for the second season especially where they brought in all these new

[01:04:30] characters yeah it's just it's just really well done like i said sometimes the production feels a little bit rushed but they also went with an art style that's not super complicated but it lends itself to that kind of thing yeah you can work with it having not read the comics i heard the comics are a little bit more graphic a little bit more horn doggy but they kind of reel some of that back in and it feels like a interpretation of the source material where uh people originally the creators

[01:05:00] all that are like you know what let me have a second stab at this and like maybe fix some of the stuff that didn't age so well and working with those writers to make it a little less weirdly horny and problematic and to make it a little bit more coherent a little bit stronger narrative all good things yeah i'm with it uh yeah because i felt like that same way about preacher when that tv series came out that like oh this was our way to kind of smooth over some of the

[01:05:26] weirder shit that preacher got into and at the same time preacher is still fucking insane as far as the tv series goes i always like that i like when a comic creator can come in put their fingerprints on an adaptation but also like maybe fix something that they felt might have been broken in the original um sadly having read a lot of invincible i don't think i've read the whole thing but i read a good

[01:05:53] chunk of it i read up to the part where and i'm like i'm good my understanding is that some of the more problematic elements are going to stay in it because it is an amazon prime show and they already have the boys which is already you know crossing several lines and stuff so it's not unheard of makes me go why are you spending money on the boys when we could have a trans metropolitan show

[01:06:17] but that's just me that's just me like you think we won't get there yeah okay we'll be living in that future by the time we get the adaptation is what i'm saying all right it was supposed to be patrick stewart if you remember this oh wow really yeah he's now he's too fucking old he wanted it so bad he wrote several intros to the trade paperbacks saying seriously uh i want to do this

[01:06:49] and warren ellis was like yeah man he's he's great i want to i want him to do it and no one bit no one bit patrick fucking stewart patrick stewart is a big fan of transmat very very keen on doing it if only this era of freaky weird comics shit being on tv and film had happened 10 years earlier 20 years earlier we would have gotten it guaranteed it's very easy

[01:07:16] to do oh what if superman was evil and i think invincible does that but also does something interesting with it right because omni-man is supposed to be our superman stand-in in this and you got your batman stand-in and your green green lantern and you know you got your tropes and it plays with those tropes and i mean sure the boys does it too but it's a little less cynical in the character of mark specifically there is this kind of earnestness and with omni-man it's

[01:07:44] supposed to be a story of redemption so it's not a bad narrative and i think it's well executed and again good steven yun yep from you know from the walking dead and a couple other things uh is great just overall fantastic um it's fun and like i said the third season is a little bit more serious and it's not melodramatic it's not heavy-handed um and it does a good transition

[01:08:10] from the more light-hearted stuff that you see in the first and second season i was gonna say if you think the first season is light-hearted my god you fucking there's a little bit more humor early early on yes for sure and the second season is still a little bit more playful sure but it's really hunkering down yeah i mean it's not like uh morbidly serious or anything but it's definitely a tonal

[01:08:35] shift and it's not for the worse i was gonna say it probably works in its favor um absolutely again you got the vocal cast uh and it feels like also the writer's room to back that up so it's it's working out quite all right yeah what you got bad boy oh boy well i got a book that i think you might like yeah a guy named chris kralzlowski the the most polish name i was gonna say yeah is he from

[01:09:01] wisconsin i don't remember where he's from but the book is fantastic it's called kayfabe which for those of you who are following wrestling at all know that that's the kind of agreement that you know what what happens in the ring is different from what happens in real life well the book is about a fictional wrestler named dom who is kind of a mid card what you call him approaching what you would

[01:09:29] consider retirement in wrestling terms but he's only in his like mid 30s but he's feeling it right he's been wrestling since he was 18 or so and he's kind of reaching that time where he's he's got to figure out what he's going to do with his life well what he wants to do with his life is have his sister pilar be the new up and comer and so it's this interesting story about one wrestler on his way

[01:09:55] out and one wrestler on her way in and this kind of friction that happens you know they're down on their luck they don't have a lot of money you know he's wrestling mid cards and on the road all the time and doesn't really have much else going on for him you know he neither does she you know she's got this

[01:10:19] cool best friend but no real relationships to speak of but it all kind of turns around when bonnie blue who runs mccr the this mid card that dom works for gives dom an offer i'll give your sister a shot if you'll do this for me and what this for me is is what's called the pit and the pit is kind of like

[01:10:44] what lord a is doing unannounced wrestling in public spaces but the difference is in the pit the injuries are fucking real and so she's basically hiring dom to retire old wrestlers physically he's got a lot of conflicts about that oh am i next you know part of it is that he doesn't want his face to be shown

[01:11:10] so they said well wear the lucador mask and he's got a lot of history with that and he doesn't want to you know wear the mask and all that so it's an interesting it's really character driven and all the characters are really really deep in a way that i didn't expect a book about wrestling to be so that kind of tells you a this guy did his research and b it's just talent because you could really get inside the heads of all these people really a stunning read i really enjoyed that quite a bit that sounds really interesting

[01:11:40] yeah and it's his debut novel oh wow and boy it's a corker i mean i i blew through that in maybe like two days really highly recommended it's called k-fabe k-a-y-f-a-b-e put that on your holds if you're on the library because boy the other thing that i have is miracle workers are you familiar with this at all i am not so this is one of those ones kind of like people of earth or any number of shows where

[01:12:09] it got stuck on tbs which a lot of people didn't even realize is still a tv channel i didn't know that they ran like new or original uh programming yeah tbs did a series of new and original programming one of which was people of earth which was kind of a goofy alien abduction comedy and then they did

[01:12:31] a few other things but this one really got me daniel radcliffe main star and then you've got a supporting cast of wonderful people but also the other main star steve buscemi okay so daniel radcliffe and steve buscemi the main guide stars for this comic now it's an anthology series

[01:12:54] so just last night we finished the fourth and final season of miracle workers so each season is its own self-contained story right the first season is daniel radcliffe works for the miracles department of heaven steve buscemi is god but god is kind of an annoying boss the kind of boss that

[01:13:21] asks you to do shit like come here and wipe my ass because i'm too lazy god and one of the new workers in the miracle department makes a bet that if they can't get these two people to fall in love he's going to blow up the earth that's the first season and the second one second season is oh it's set in medieval times radcliffe plays the prince of this insane kingdom and buscemi is like the shit

[01:13:48] shoveler like the lowest of the low even the third season is the oregon trail season where daniel radcliffe is the preacher leading the people through to oregon and and buscemi is the wild outlaw who's kind of aging out of being an outlaw and then the final season is called miracle workers end times and that is the mad max season where they're all living in the post-apocalypse wow okay yeah it's that

[01:14:18] sounds wild a lot of interesting ideas they kind of they throw some really wild gags out there there's some great running jokes that it maybe don't hit it first but then they grow on you you know but just a lot of great comedic talent on display you got paul f tompkins doing multiple recurring roles you've got a number of just oh there's that funny guy and he's doing a funny thing for like one scene

[01:14:44] in one episode because each season has 10 episodes so it's a nice round 40 episode run it's nice it's fun it doesn't do anything special but it's just it's a good time it's that kind of thing where you used to regularly get that like shows like that where they were just like we're gonna do a short run but we're gonna do it for fun and we're gonna put everything we got into it and everybody in it's great the writing's

[01:15:11] sharp uh the guy simon rich who wrote the book that the first season is based on stayed on as writer for all four seasons and just kind of yeah sure we're gonna do whatever we're gonna do whatever is the guiding thing for all the seasons of this and it's just you can tell sure yeah we're gonna do a whole episode of america's next top model parodies but it's in the post apocalypse so it's fun i like fun

[01:15:39] no you don't like fun uh speaking of things that are fun uh i'll keep this brief because you haven't watched it yet and i would love to discuss it with you but uh the heretic the heretic is it the heretic or is there's heretic i think it's just heretic okay that's hugh grant hugh grant uh basically uh evil alan watts i thought it was evil jordan peterson it's really more like evil alan watts okay

[01:16:04] okay okay i had the i mean i can see the jordan peterson argument but basically he takes these two mormon missionaries these two young girls they're late teens early 20s and he puts them through a crisis of faith with some really interesting twists and turns now the trailer made it look like he put him in a saw trap not necessarily okay because i remember seeing the

[01:16:29] trailer i'm like oh yeah it's it's a little more psychological than that okay it's a movie that if it had a little bit of a wire penetration as far as like the zeitgeist we'd be talking about some of its ideas a little more wildly or widely both words work i suppose but it's it's interesting hugh grant gives probably the best performance i've seen him give in forever the two young ladies

[01:16:58] that play the more missionaries whose names escape me they do a great job it's a small cast uh i only think it's more than six people i was gonna say yeah it seems like a very very small kind of film but it's just very well shot very eerie very suspenseful uh sophie thatcher and chloe east and apparently we got a small appearance by tophar grace yes of all people wow but it's it's super

[01:17:27] fucking fun it's got some great practical effects it's fun and i see why they picked mormon missionaries as the test mice lab rats for this man's preoccupations without actually being too mean towards the mormons interesting i think that takes a little bit of nuance interesting a lot of other directors and screenwriters probably couldn't put off i really enjoyed it i want i'm waiting for

[01:17:54] you to watch it so yeah discuss it but uh two thumbs up okay didn't hate it five bags popcorn five bags popcorn it's it's it moves good it's smart a lot of scenes where you kind of almost want to pause it and and take in the scenery because it feels like that's a lot of there's a lot of small environmental storytelling things like that and my last one is i started playing final fantasy

[01:18:23] seven rebirth so did i boy that first chapter fucking drags it really does i'm still on that oh wow yeah i mean i i literally started playing it today so oh i just finished the first chapter and it fucking i mean it's good yeah but it's like fuck this goes on forever and it's definitely doing some kingdom hearts shit yeah that's the main complaint people had with remake and rebirth is

[01:18:52] like man you know it hits the right nostalgia notes and like gives you a nice reinterpretation it kind of refocuses or reframes the story i just wish it didn't have the kingdom hearts bullshit i wish we didn't have to go back to nibbleheim for that long yeah boy i can't wait to get out of nibbleheim martha look that whole section oh we got to get up to the thing okay are we gonna and you got to use

[01:19:19] the the mako vacuum like oh god can i skip this is there a you know is there a way to skip the intro here i understand what it's trying to do it's trying to get you re-familiarized if you didn't play remake with the systems and all that stuff but like please please skip this this is the part i hated in disc two of the original not great and it's all a flashback anyway yeah it's a now former

[01:19:48] co-worker tried to explain some of the reframing he's like let me so you're not so fucking confused like i was and it still didn't help because i'm still not sure where starting off with this flashback which comes way later in the original game oh yeah you're right i even forget where it comes in the play in the original game but um i want to say it's after the jenova reveal it's it's fine that

[01:20:15] things aren't in the exact same sequence that's okay there's so much other stuff that happens in the game the original yeah like i want to do chocobo breeding and kill the fucking snake or you know whatever like ultimate weapon or yeah let's yeah let's running waters yeah and the remake was so much fun oh yeah i had a good time just ooze of fun although active combat still bothers me you don't

[01:20:39] like it it's fine i'm a sucker for turn base that's just what it is and i can lay the blame squarely on the original ff7 scratch that i can lay the blame on chrono trigger and final fantasy 3 for getting me into turn-based combat and so switching to active is still kind of my brain doesn't want to do it you know i'm still like i'm waiting my turn no shit okay i actually have to do a thing i don't mind it

[01:21:05] it's fine it's fine having put three four hours into this and still feeling like it's a little bit more engaging than say persona 5 your mileage may vary but okay i found persona 5 to be there's a lot of lead in a lot of intro i get that yeah and i'm still having beat persona 5 so i can have a full opinion i

[01:21:29] sure i got the fucking steelbook for ps4 i got the steelbook for royal for ps4 so yes i'm i'm there with you it's just holy shit holy shit piss yeah no you'll get no argument from me look i played the vanilla persona 5 on the ps3 persona 5 is like fucking 10 years old now yeah yeah yeah there's

[01:21:52] been two spin-offs strikers and tactica and neither one of which are as good obviously as the the base game but that's just me i get it there's just there's a lot of lead up there's a lot of getting there and i feel like rebirth is having the same problem there's a lot of okay i explored all around nibbleheim ix what i did that they please let me get to the rest of the game please get me my

[01:22:22] non-sephiroth to the fucking fireworks factory kind of yeah yeah give me yuffy you know let me let me actually you know have uh fun in the game instead of letting sephiroth just beat everything for me oh my mother's name's jenova that's gonna be important later like they really signpost that that's real fun let me play this what's up dog

[01:22:47] you know sephiroth steve jobs died of ligma what's ligma ligma ball he's returning to the life force steve jobs has returned to the life force i'm i'm looking forward to it i'm i'm apparently i'm told that there's like 60 hours of this game left to play so i'm i'm looking forward to it but i'm also like

[01:23:12] oh i finished alan wake and i want to play alan wake 2 though oh wow alan wake 2 that's actually just a random aside i'll make this brief but yeah alan wake i had never played the original all the way through finally finished it this week because i knew i was going to be playing alan make 2 at some point this year and uh boy uh that's rough the first alan wake the first alan

[01:23:40] wake is a little rough you know what i mean you're playing it 10 15 years after the fact i'm playing the remaster all right so um still has some rough edges it's i remember playing it was new um i think i'm still working at a blockbuster okay i thought it was a ton of fun it's fun but there's some there's some rough edges now that maybe weren't so rough at the time when it came out oh absolutely obviously

[01:24:07] the twin peaks influence big thing right stephen king influence name drops several times there's a lot of stuff in it that's neat the dueling narrative of what you're playing versus what you're reading via the manuscript pages and all that and okay there's an interesting concept that remedy came up with with you know you got the flashlight to make the enemies weak and then there's a but i think

[01:24:30] just gameplay wise it gets real stale real quick and my only problem with it is just that it goes on even though it's only you know what six chapters makes the game even though it's only that long it still feels too long i could see that it's just a lot of padding you gotta go you gotta walk to a place there is a little bit of padding but i haven't played it since it was new so i'm kind of going back

[01:24:59] through rose tan glasses but sure i remember being in the pacific northwest visiting my brother when he still lived out there and actually like walking past the hydroelectric dam and realizing like oh this is the dam from alan wake and my brother being like the fuck like yeah this is this is literally the dam from alan wake that we're we're parked in front of this is where the well-lit room is yeah yeah just there's some there's some neat stuff granted most of it again is copied straight from twin

[01:25:26] peaks not like that's a bad thing the lady in the light carries the lantern like the log lady does like there's some very distinct parallels you're collecting coffee thermoses through the game because you know black coffee and hot cool fine fun but just there's some stuff where you're like all right but i'm told by many many people who have the same kind of vibes that i do when it comes to games and

[01:25:53] media and stuff that alan wake 2 takes that and elevates it so i'm excited yeah i did like control and all the stuff from alan wake that they brought into control about the dark presence you know like so there's some stuff there that probably does lean towards a remedy shared universe type of deal which i'm also interested in sure so i will i'll let you know i'll do a trip report for alan wake

[01:26:19] too please do my dude please let me know yeah i guess that means it's time for us to tell people where to find us on the old internet brian where can they find you they want to find me they can head over to ishockey debor on twitter ish-o-t-g-u-i-d-b-o-r-d uh you can find me at ishockey debor over on blue sky on twitter or not twitter uh instagram you can find me at amusicphotographer um if you want to

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[01:27:19] and things like that you can also find me as part of a show that's not this one it's called submitted for the approval of the midnight pals there i play a fictionalized version of stephen king uh this week's episode we're doing a mini episode we're doing the uh a talented mr ripley episode this week uh that's going to be at midnight-pals.simplecast.com or anywhere

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