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Now broadcasting from the Next Gen. conservative studio in
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sunny South Florida, bringing you the latest in politics,
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current events and pop culture. This is He's the Whitfield
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Report with Sam Whitfield. Hey everyone, welcome to the
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Whitfield Report Monday Edition. It's been a while since I've
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done a Monday show, quite a while actually, but nonetheless,
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glad to be here. Like I said, it's been a while,
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so if you're not familiar with the Monday show.
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These are usually prerecorded. They're a lot shorter than the
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three hour show, so we'll be here for, you know, about half
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an hour to 45 minutes usually if that.
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And you know, the the Monday shows usually tend to be a
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little either. They either usually cover like
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news or you know stuff like that or they tend to be more laid
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back just depending on the week. In this case it is Labor Day.
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So happy Labor Day to everyone listening and or watching this
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on Monday when it airs. I hope you're having a good long
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weekend. And if you're listening to this
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on Tuesday or you know, any day after, I hope you had a good,
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you know, long weekend. Summer's almost coming to close
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and you know the kids are heading back to school and
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everything else. But hey, you know, you can still
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chill out, relax and have some fun.
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And that's we're going to do here.
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Tonight's show so I only have real like 2 topics or three
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topics really at the most. The first and foremost was kind
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request from a few people on Twitter regarding the game
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Starfield and this whole. Gender pronouns thing that I
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guess has popped up. And for those who are not from
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Miller, what this is what this is about, I guess.
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Starfield is a game that was published by Bethesda, which is
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one of the big, you know, triple-A game studios, and it's.
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Supposed to be like Microsoft's, you know, exclusive, you know,
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it's a it's a Microsoft exclusive.
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So PC and Xbox, I guess it's like an MMO of some kind.
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And it's their answer basically to Cyberpunk 2077, I guess,
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right? So.
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I guess Starfield has like gender pronouns in it and what
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not. And it's gotten a lot of press
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lately because as who is a, you know, a YouTube commentator, he
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does the channel heel, heel versus babyface.
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He actually did a rant about. Starfield and all this gender
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identity stuff and it's it's gone viral so you know I'm going
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to break down this ran to the as did because it it's it's gone
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viral boy boy or not and. I'm not sure what's funny or the
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fact that you know that Starfield has like gender
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pronouns and or the fact that as raining about Starfield having
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gender pronouns has gone viral. So let's take a look at this
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folks. And.
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Hold on, let me pull it up on my screen.
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There we go. So this is originally from the
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channel Shuds of TikTok, which I guess is supposed to be like a
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satire of, like, webs of TikTok. They're supposedly like, they're
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supposedly like a conservative, you know?
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Like a liberal version of libs of TikTok, basically.
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Right. So they took this clip and it
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went viral. And so here's the rant that as
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did on Starfield. Let's take a listen.
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I just want to say something to you, but says just want to say a
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little something. There is nothing I love more.
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Taking my headphones off. Fuck that, Bethesda.
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There is nothing I love more than to to to sit down, comfy
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chair, turn on the PC, fire up a brand new RPG, lose myself,
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think, Oh my God, just think of this world.
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Just think of all the planets I can visit, all the immersive
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things that I can get involved with, all the fights, all the
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relationships, all the people I meet, all the places I go.
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I'm so excited to go there and you know, I love nothing more.
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Then, with all of that laid out in front of me, I love nothing
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more than to be dragged out at every fucking conceivable
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opportunity so you can. Fucking current dayers.
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Sorry, did you want to get immersed in our world?
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Yeah, well guess what? Fucking Pronouns.
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Fucking gender ambiguity. Fucking current day Californian
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shit. Because that's all we fucking
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know. Because we've been boring.
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We're so fucking boring we can't see past our own fucking
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reflection. That's the level of our
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narcissism here. But, says the Western Game
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Company. Fuck your immersion.
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Fuck you having a good time. Fuck you.
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Falling into a world and just getting lost.
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No, no, no Current fucking day. Fuck off.
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You're boring. You're fucking doll.
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You have nothing to say. You are A1 Hived mind twat
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Waffle. That's all you fucking are.
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And you wonder why people are getting so fucking sick and
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tired. You take everything we love, all
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our emotions, all our fantasies, all our escapism, and you just
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can't help shovel you are dog shit fucking crap ideology into
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everything. Every single surgery fucking
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thing. Okay, now the Internet has had a
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lot of fun with this, right? The the General, you know,
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conception of this clip. Is Oh my God, this guy is
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overreacting over gender pronouns.
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What a you know, what a loser. What an overreaction, you know
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to them. To Bethesda, simply adding in
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gender pronouns into an RPG, into, you know, a character
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creation tool. Essentially, you know this guy
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has a bad temper. He, you know, Oh my God, how
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awful, right? That's the general, you know,
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kind of like consensus that sheds of TikTok and all these
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other, you know, woe commentators are trying to say
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that. They're trying to basically say
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like, oh, come on, it's not that bad.
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This guy is overreacting. Right?
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But a few things to break down here, right.
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OK folks. First off, anyone who thinks
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that AS is overreacting because he's yelling in this, you know,
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review and in his rant, most likely these are people who have
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never watched as his channel heel versus babyface before,
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right? I discovered as back in 2020
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alongside. You know, the critical drinker
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and nerd rotic. That was when I discovered him,
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right. And as his review style kind of
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is a bit on the Ranchi side, that that's just kind of his on
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air personality. He he likes to, you know, get
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hyped up. He likes to.
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Rant a bit. And he likes to yell sometimes,
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right? That's his gimmick.
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He he did like multiple reviews for the Star Wars movies where
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like that was basically his thing was criticizing the new
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Disney Star Wars trilogy and basically yelling about it,
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right? Bring up the fact they were.
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You know, pushing this social justice ideology in the Star
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Wars films, right? He he made a review series for
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The CW series Batwoman, which ended up getting cancelled.
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And actually, I think his ranch reviews about Batwoman actually
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ended up getting more reviews. Than that woman itself, right.
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So anyone who is, you know, complaining about, as you know,
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yelling and or ranting, they don't seem to understand that
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that's just as being as right. He's always done that to an
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extent. Now people also think that
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because he's yelling and, you know, kind of, you know, getting
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fed up, that that completely invalidates his point.
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But here's the thing, folks and I, I've talked about this, you
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know, before on the show. We covered this pretty in depth
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back in June, right? The thing that is this isn't an
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isolated incident, folks, AS is not specifically mad that you
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know Starfield has gender pronouns in it because it's not
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just Starfield. What, as is ranting about and
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what a lot of us, what I have criticized in the past as well
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is the fact that. All these triple-A game studios
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that are into Rpg's specifically within the last couple years
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they've done this thing where they they they make, you know?
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Gender pronouns a thing or they purposely make like gender
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ambiguous in games somewhat, right.
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They even did this in Eldon Ring a few years ago when that came
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up where instead of you know back in the old days that they
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are of role-playing games. And by the old days I mean like.
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You know, mid 2000s, basically pre 2016, right?
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You had a you had a male gender that you could choose from or
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you had a female gender that you could choose from, right?
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And then if you wanted a list of, you know, female voices to.
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Choose from. You had a list of female voices,
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and if you wanted a list of male voices, you had a list of male
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voices to choose for your character in all of these RP
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G's, right? But really, ever since the
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Gamergate era and you know, post 2016, all these game developers,
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especially in the RPG world. I've done this weird thing where
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you have you have the male and female body types, but instead
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of calling them like male or female you call them body type A
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or body type B you know and like in the case of elder ring like
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body type A. Is clearly a male body right?
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And then body type B is clearly female, you know, and its
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features right. But instead of just doing male
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and female, they do body type A and body type B.
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Because B because current day politics right?
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And instead of having male voice one or male voice two, they have
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voice A or boy or voice B. And then instead of having like
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female voice one or female voice two, they have, they have voice
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C and voice D, right? So it's this, it's this whole,
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you know, thing of like making gender ambiguous in in games,
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right? And here's the thing.
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It's people are asking, well, Sam, you know, it's just a video
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game. What's the big deal?
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You know, come on, you conservatives are reacting,
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right? Well, this is the whole thing
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folks, is. The gender identity politics, it
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starts out in entertainment and in television and in games,
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right? It starts off there and then it
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trickles that, and then it trickles slightly, surely into
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the real world. We've seen this over over the
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past decade, right? All of those crazy, you know,
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Tumblr. Blogs from like 15 years ago,
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all those Tumblr rats that we're talking out gender pronouns and
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being non binary and queer theory and all that shit from
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like 15 years ago that was on Tumblr.
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All those kids, you know went to college and then.
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They got jobs in the corporate world and now this shit is
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manifesting itself in the real world, folks.
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It's not just good enough to, you know, to be a a, you know, a
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a plain old guy or plain old gal and just have it be that, Oh no,
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we need your we need your pronouns and your e-mail
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signature and your pronouns, you know, on your social media
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profile and. You know, heaven forbid if you
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accidentally misgender someone in in an office place, that's
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like an HR violation now, right? So people ask what is the big
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deal with the, you know, players being nonbinary and starfield?
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Nothing, except for the fact that, you know, you give these
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people. People an inch and they take a
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mile. You know Hogwarts legacy isn't
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is another example where they actually listed, you know, male
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and female character roles and because of that like the SJW
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trans. You know, people like lost their
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fucking minds over, right? Because, well, a, they, they
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hate JK Rowling now, right? They They they hate JK Rowling.
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They hate Harry Potter now because she said one thing that
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you know, trans women are not the same as.
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Biological women, that's all, she said.
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And now they've completely lost their mind And you know, they
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were trying to, you know, get the Hogwarts legacy game shut
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down and they were trying to cancel JK wrong.
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Which, by the way, backfired on the massive way.
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Because even the people like me who don't necessarily, you know,
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who aren't necessarily big fans of Harry Potter.
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We bought the game and played it just to, you know, say screw you
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to the cancer culture mom, right.
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That was that, right. So that is an example.
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But, you know, also, like, as talking out of the current day
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politics break. You know how it breaks the
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immersion of being lost into the world?
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And it really does, right, folks?
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Because as a gamer, when I turn on my PlayStation Five in the
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evening or when I boot up my computer to play a game or
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something, I want to get lost in the world of that game.
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I don't want to think of pronouns.
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I didn't need politics. I don't want to think of any of
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the current day, you know, political tropes that are
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necessarily going on, especially in something like a science
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fiction or, you know, fannies, fannies genre.
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I just want to be immersed in the game, right?
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But yet these people have to continuously push their, you
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know, gender identity crap in their work, politics on us and
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it. And it's just, it's a bit much,
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folks. And you know, I can see why
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people like ads sometimes lose their mind about it because it's
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it's fucking everywhere now, even in like games like Call of
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Duty, right, folks, Call of Duty is a first person, you know,
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military shooter game. And the multiplayer is, you
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know, arguably it's it's like one of the biggest, like online
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multiplayer, you know, shooter games out there, if not the
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biggest. And yet what do they do every
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June in solidarity with gay Pride month?
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Call of Duty always updates the game to include like you know L
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GB TQ pride month machine guns and L GB TQ pride month you know
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character skins and just stuff that doesn't really fit the you
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know the whole theme of Call of Duty being military.
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You know based or military themed.
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But it's just them, you know, promoting their I, you know
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their politics through gaming and and gamers are sick of it.
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Even even though all the even though all the gamers I knew who
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are pro gay right. And who you know who might be
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non binary. Even though all of them are
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getting sick of this because they feel like they're being
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panted to rather than just validated right.
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So that's what this whole, you know, rants is about folks from
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as it's because it's not genuine, right.
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A lot of these companies are just virtually signaling for the
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sake of virtue signaling because they think it's going to drive
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up a profit when in reality you know it's not really you know
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and in some cases like you know it's driving people way now, you
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know. In regards to Starfield, like
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minus that one thing I've heard, it's pretty good.
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I haven't played it yet, and I'm not sure I'm going to be able to
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since they PC slash Xbox exclusive.
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I will say that, like some of the critiques of Starfield have
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been pretty unfair because they're basically saying it's
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that it's like just a cheap rip off and a buggy version of
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Cyberpunk 2077. Which is amusing, because you
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know, Cyberpunk 2077 was infamous for basically being
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broken on launch and virtually unplayable no matter what
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platform you were playing on, right?
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And you know, now that the game is fixed and whatnot, everyone
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loves to talk how great it is, and they love to shit on
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Starfield, right? But you know anyone who
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remembers what was going on there with Cyberpunk 2077 upon
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its launch? You know, don't judge Sharpfield
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too harshly for the, you know, for some of the bugs because you
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know Cyberpunk had had its issues as well.
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That's all I would say there, you know.
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With that in mind, you know most developers why should say all
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developers need to fix their damn games and you know,
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troubleshoot bugs completely before a lodge, before release,
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right? Forget the forget the identity,
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the politics. You know any of the woke versus
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non woke politics. Like, that's my biggest, you
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know, gripe and gaming these days is that game companies are
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charging 6070, even $100 sometimes for new games, right?
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So you can be, you can be like paying up to 100 hundred dollars
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sometimes just for a video game. And they're riddled with bugs
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and glitches upon launch and at the price point that they're
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selling games for now, which, you know, no matter how you
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slice it, 60 dollars, $70.00, that is, that is a lot for a
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game. Yeah, I understand.
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Oh, you know, it's the time programming and time spent.
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You know, labor and all this cost and you know, inflation and
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you know, hardware support and all of that.
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I get that. But at $670, that's not like a
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that's not a small, you know, amount of money.
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So if you want to charge that price, fix your shit in the 1st
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place. Triple game, AAA title
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companies. And that's why I've been playing
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games like Disco easier. You know, indie games, indie
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games like Company of Heroes, smaller.
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You know, developers that might not charge as much money, but
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damn it, they tend to fix their games right off the bat folks.
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Wouldn't you know it? It's a miracle that that does
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happen at times. These indie game companies
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actually tend to fix their shit more often than not.
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And you know, I've I've had fun playing Disco Oasium for the
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basketball days. You know, it's an RPG.
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It's it's kind of like a weird psychological thriller.
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RPGI haven't quite gotten the hang of it, but it's a fun game
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so far. Check out if you want to, and I
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think it's only like $30 in some cases, folks.
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It's even on sale depending on where you look, by the way.
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So you know that's that's just a quick one right about you know
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Starfield, that's my take on it is as a wood over the top and
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his review. Yeah but that's just his style.
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I don't think his message is necessarily wrong per se.
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I think he is kind of spot on with that if you want to know my
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opinion. Like we're we're just sick of
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the of the woke bullshit already folks.
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Give it a rest. Stop trying to force it.
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It's not making money. So yeah, and then let's see what
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else do we have? Oh, so over the weekend I I
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started watching a new series on Apple TV plus called Hijack with
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Idris Elba. And I have some mixed opinions
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on this show to be honest. It's it's a mixed bag, ladies
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and gentlemen, it it stars Edris Elba, who I love.
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He plays, you know, he's most famous probably for John Luther
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and the BBC series Luther, which is absolutely fantastic.
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He's done like a few other movies.
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He's been in the Marvel Cinematic Universe before.
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He was at one point you know being considered to be like the
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first black James Bond. A lot of people were pushing him
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to do that until he and sell back his accountants.
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And now I don't want to do it because, you know, it's too
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physical. And you know, after looking at
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at what Daniel Craig went through for all those years,
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just getting beat up, I'm not really sure that I want to do
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that right. But he is in a new series called
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Hijack. It's on Apple TV plus now Apple
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TV. Plus, they're one of the newer
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streaming services out there. And, you know, I'll be honest,
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like, yeah, I am an Apple fanboy.
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I have an iPhone. I have a Mac.
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I have an iPad. You know, Apple, everything my
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Apple Watch is charging, you know, right now I've got Apple
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Music. You know, I'll admit I am a I'm
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an Apple cultist, as some of you out there on the Internet likes
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to like to say, and I'm rather unapologetic about it, you know,
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so so sue me, I like Apple, right?
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With that being said, I will admit that, you know, Apple TV.
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Plus, I'm still kind of scratching my head, you know,
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wondering why they got into the, you know, TV entertainment
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streaming genre in the 1st place, especially in a, you
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know, a streaming world is already like very I guess
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segmented. I guess they've had like some
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success with the, you know, with Apple TV Plus.
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But the thing it is, is anytime you buy like a new Mac or a new
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iPhone, you get like three to six months free on your Apple
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TV, you know, plus subscription anyway.
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And So what happens is most people get a free trial and then
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they they just cancelled outright and then that's that,
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right? So that's what I've done.
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I did that a few years ago, like when the service first launched
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and I got like an iPhone a few years ago, I got like an I got a
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free subscription then and then once it like expired, I cancel
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it. And then I just got my iPhone 14
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Pro. So they gave me another, you
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know, free three months. So I've redeemed it since then
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and I've been watching this show.
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Hijack, right. So the premise of hijack with
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Idris Elba is that he's a, he just have a play plays kind of
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like a corporate finance guy and the show starts off this
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airliner takes off from Saudi Arabia and is flying back to
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London, which is about like a six and a half hour flight I
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guess in the story. And so the plane gets hijacked
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by like a group of British hijackers, right?
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It's kind of unclear whether or not they're like bank robbers or
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like just like flat out domestic tariffs or what.
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But they hijacked this plane. And Aegis Alba is this like
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corporate negotiator guy and he has to kind of like negotiate
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with the terrorists to like make sure they don't kill anyone on
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the plane and on three episodes in, folks.
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I just started watching over the weekend and let me say this,
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there are things that are good about the series and there are
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things that are kind of meh about the series so far.
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I've got the trailer pulled up, so let's watch this real quick
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and then I'll kind you do do like a spoiler free review so
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far. Some things that I like and some
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things that I don't like, right? So here's the trailer for Hijack
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from Apple TV Plus, and I'll go ahead and get that queued up.
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So here it is. Let's start from the beginning.
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Okay with any remaining passengers for flight KA29,
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please make their way to gate B-15.
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Good morning, everyone. This is Captain Robin Allen
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speaking. Flight time today.
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Six hours, 54 minutes. Operation has commenced votes
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tablets. Plane is under control.
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You need to see this plane beard.
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Of course someone is calling for help.
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Got family loved ones. We got one job to do right now.
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Just get through to them. I got a message from the plane
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that says incident on board. What exactly does your dad do
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for a living? It's difficult to explain.
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Sam's the best at handling it on the more the negotiation.
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There are 200 people on this flight.
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If they try something and then this plane goes down, I don't
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get home to my family. Let me make you an offer I've
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been handed demands. It's all going wrong in the
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first hour. Imagine the next six.
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We need to get a message to the whole plane.
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We just need to be ready, this other stuff going down. 5
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passengers on that plane do not exist.
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It's a network running all across Europe.
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So then we're an incoming missile.
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For us or them, I can tell you it's not going to be us.
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OK, so I started watching this series on Friday night and I
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watched the first three episodes.
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By the time you guys listen to this, I will probably have
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watched the 4th episode, maybe more.
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So First off, here are my first impressions.
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Idris Elba does a really good job in this role.
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It's a bit unclear as to what his role is at 1st and what he's
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supposed to do. Part of that is because the
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writing, which I'll get to in a SEC, but overall it just help
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with, does a really good job of his role.
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All the other actors, the supporting actors, they do a
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really good job even like the terrorists or bank robbers or
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whatever they are. They do a really good job.
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And you know, same thing with the the the crew and the
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passengers. I like the concept of the story
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too, because usually in most TV series that are kind of like,
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you know, suspense thrillers or I guess like terrorism
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thrillers, plane hijackings can be like part of like a larger
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plot. But they aren't the plot
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necessarily so to speak. And this one really kind of
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makes the whole, you know, flight hijacking thing, like the
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primary plot point within the show.
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So both the acting and the overall concept all, you know,
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I'll put those two things, you know, in the category of things
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that the show does really well, right.
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As far as the actual writing and the execution of the show
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itself, well, I'm only three episodes in, but I would admit
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that that is where the show kind of tends to falter, right?
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So First off folks, when I said that, you know, the the the
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villains might be terrorists or bank robbers or whatnot,
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whatever, I I said on purpose because the shell, at least at
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this point, and I don't know whether it's on purpose or
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whether it's just a plow, but it is really ambiguous as to what
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exactly these terrorists or bank robbers or whatever what what
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It's really unclear what the hijackers motive for hijacking
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the plane is, right? We don't know if there's
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anything like special on board yet.
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We don't know if there's like anyone like specifically on that
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plane. We don't know really what their
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goal is like are they professional assassins on the
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way to assassinate someone in great brand?
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And if so, why are they using like a, you know, commercial
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airline and then hijacking it, right.
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Are they plotting like a terrorist attack?
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No one really knows. And so the the, the motivations
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of the of like the hijackers are really kind of unclear at this
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point. And I I understand wanting to
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like kind of build, you know, suspense intention for the show,
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right? Like I understand wanting to
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like make their motivations like a mystery in the show so to
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speak. But the problem I have is the
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way in which they're doing it is really like kind of confusing
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because in certain instances, they'll make it seem like, like
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the hijackers simply just want to like, rob the plane or try
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and steal something, right? And they're basically like
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pulling like it on air, like stick up or something, right?
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But then, but then they'll like, kind of change the narrative to
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make it seem like they want to, like, commit like a terrorist
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attack or something, right? And then without going into
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spoilers they they kind of make it seem like they're hijacking
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the plane because the airline like fucked over like somebody's
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relative in like the hijackers crew or something like that.
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And so I I guess they're getting like revenge on the on like the
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airline because reasons But like that's that's the thing folks is
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like the motivation for the hijackers doing what they do is
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really like unclear and not like in a creative way where like
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they're where they're like you know like trying to trick the
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audience more. Like it's more like the writers
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can't decide which narrative they're going with early on in
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the series. So they're just kind of like
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trying to write in all three and then hoping that the audience
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will just be like OK with whatever they choose in the
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ending, right. It's it's very kind of it's kind
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of bizarre. I don't really see it's really
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unclear like which path they're going to take because they're
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set up really isn't all that like clear, right?
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Like it's like it doesn't even seem like they're like trying to
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like set up like a subversion in the show.
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It seems like it's really the writers at this point in the
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series have no idea where they're like going to go with
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the direction of what the hijackers are doing or what
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their motives are. Also like Adrian Salva's like
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role as a negotiator is is really kind of like and it's not
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like really that well, like explained because right, like
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his son and his wife in this, in the show, they're like they're
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they're on the ground in London. They say that he's like a, you
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know a highly skilled like corporate negotiator, right.
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But never once in the series do you see him like beforehand,
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like do like a business deal or like a, a business negotiation,
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right. So you don't really like, you
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don't really know that this guy is like a skilled negotiator.
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The audience never sees anything from his character that would
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like really establish him as like being a skilled negotiator
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in the first hand. And and in fact in some
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instances in the show it kind of seems like well he's actually a
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terrible negotiator because the terrace or whatever I able to
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order him him around right So that that's another thing.
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Also this is this is going back to the whole are they terrace or
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or are they Roberts thing thing right.
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So in regards to the hijackers of the plane, the crew is weird
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because on on the one hand you get the impression like two of
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the like the two or three of the robbers or hijackers might have
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been like special forces or you know, something like that.
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Or they've been like professional, professional like
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bank robbers or something like in the past.
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They seem to kind of know what they're doing, they know what's
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up, right. But then they have like three
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other members as part of their crew who honestly they're all
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like young 20 something year olds and they seem like they're
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very blue in the gills. It's like it's their first
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hijacking or their first, like big crime in general, and they
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don't really know what they're doing, right?
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So that's bizarre from like a writing perspective because like
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in my mind, if I'm going to hijack a plane or something,
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right? Like if I'm if I'm writing a
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villain and I'm writing like a, you know, a crew of bad guys or
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something and they're going to hijack a plane.
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I'm going to write my characters so that they can like, you know,
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so that they're like they're very well, well trained and
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they're very, you know, professional and they know what
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they're doing and you know, no one can fuck with them.
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And it raises the stakes pretty high and you know, it makes the
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stakes higher for our heroes to have to deal with, right?
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But it seems like it seems like 3 of like the highest of like
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the highest like skilled bank robbers in the country got
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together and then decided to invite like they're want to be
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gang banger cousins to like join in in the hijacking, right?
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Like just complete rank amateurs.
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And it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, like why
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these professionals bringing in these rank amateurs to rob, to
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rob a plane with them, right to rob an to rob an airliner.
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And like I said, this whole thing of like them trying to
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like, you know, decide whether or not these hijackers are
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terrorists or just bank robbers, it's kind of like it's kind of
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be BS, I'm not going to lie. Because like, especially in the
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post 911 world, like if you hijack an airplane, I got news
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for you. You're definitely a terrorist no
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matter what. And if store it, Case closed,
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that's a terrorist attack no matter what.
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And then also without getting into any spoilers, they they do
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the, they do this thing and and I'm kind of getting sick of
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Hollywood movies doing that, of doing this thing now.
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But they do this trope where like one of the hijackers like
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you, you kind of dive into their back story a little bit and like
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the idea is that you kind of feel sorry for like one of the
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hijackers eventually, right. You like, it's kind of like one
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of the thing like, oh, he was forced into this.
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So, you know, by virtue of the fact that he was forced into
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this, like he himself is kind like one of the hostages on the
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play. And then you're kind of supposed
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to empathize with him, right? And it's like, it's like, well,
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fuck off if you guys are going to, you know, like, I hate when
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people do that, where they try and make like these, when
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writers do that in the Hollywood now, where they try to make
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these utterly reprehensible, you know, villains seem like a, you
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know, sympathetic characters. Just it works on occasion.
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But now it seems like every movie wants to do that and it's
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like, no, it's bullshit. Criminals are mostly
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reprehensive, especially like hijackers and whatnot, and
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usually there's no good reason for, you know, something like
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that to happen. The one example I can think of
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where, like an airplane hijacking was appropriate in
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like a show was in the Show 24. But that was because, like
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Kiefer, that was because Kiefer Sutherland's character, Jack
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Bauer, like had to hijack an airliner to basically stop like
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a, a bomb from blowing up on the plane, right.
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So he like, so the plane got hijacked and then he like, had
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to hijack the, you know, the plane like back from the
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terrorists, right. So, like, that's The only
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exception I can think of to the rule.
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But generally, this whole idea of like trying to make to make
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the bad guys sympathetic in modern media, fuck off with that
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shit Hollywood. It's getting tiresome.
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So like I said in regards to Hijack, I'm already 3 episodes
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into it. Like I'll say this, it's
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interesting enough that like I'm like I'm still watching it, but
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at the same time I think I know the way the show is going to go.
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And so once the show is over, I'll do my spoiler review of the
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show. But so far it's it's OK I kind
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of what expectations, but we'll see where it goes folks.
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That's all I can promise you. So anyway, folks, that just how
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it does it for today's show. Before we wrap up here, I do
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want to announce 2 things, one of which is I mentioned this
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over the weekend if any of you guys saw my post on Twitter,
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slash X. But my good friend Eric P Bishop
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has. He's coming out with a new
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novella, a new, you know, political Thrilla novella,
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Ransomed Daughter. There we go.
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There. It kind of came into focus
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there. And so I got like a I got a
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advanced way to copy that, Very excited to read this.
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I started reading through a bit last night and it's good so far.
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Eric will be back on the show probably later this month to
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talk about the book and can't wait to do that.
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It should be pretty fascinating. Also, he was kind enough to
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actually to actually autograph the book for me.
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Let me see if I can, if I can get the if I can get its
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autograph here up on screen for you.
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Hold on a SEC. Ah, yes, so he was.
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He was nice enough to autograph this for me and very grateful
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for that. So again, Eric, I can't wait to
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have you on the show. We haven't set a date for when
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he'll be on the show, but we will be announced that we will
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be announcing that soon once we get our schedules coordinated.
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So I go ahead and order his preorder, his book, Ransom
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Daughter on Amazon or wherever else.
57:01
He also gave me this handy dandy like promo card here and I'll
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focus. So yeah, if you want to scan
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that QR code, if it'll focus again, okay, there it is.
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You can scan that. And yeah, so that's his book.
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And then as always, ladies and gentlemen, I've got my book,
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I've got my little political thriller, Nobella here, Shadows
57:44
of Deception, John Ryder, Book 2, coming out probably in
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October, folks. I know I said September, but
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looks like I'm going to push it back to October.
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Still writing things, so it might just want to make
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announcements for those two things.
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And without further ado, folks, I want to thank you all for
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tuning into today's program. I hope you all had a good Labor
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Day weekend. Whenever you're listening to
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this, to this God bless God to this great nation, God, freedom.
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I could sing in that order and I will see you guys on Wednesday
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for the Wednesday show. God bless, folks.
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