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Velma Season 2 is Confirmed, but Scooby-Doo Parody Was Done Better Years Before? | Red Chill Cinema · Honey Badger Radio

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Hello everybody, and welcome to Honey Badger Radio. My name is Brian.
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I'm here with Alison the Boss, and this is an episode of Red Chill
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Cinema. Um, and what I'm gonna be we're gonna be talking about today
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is you guys probably know about the saga that was us going through the uh
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Scooby Doo spoof show called Velma. It's a it's a spoof off of the
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Scooby Doo, but it's well, no, it is a self sort of.
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Yeah, it's a selfiest like I'm pretty sure if that girl didn't I'm
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pretty sure Bright didn't exist, that woman would be a fem cel. Yeah,
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one of the creepiest human beings I've ever on the earth. Yeah,
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mindy kyling. Uh. She was known for her role in the Office.
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I think I didn't watch The Office, so I don't know much about it.
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And um, I also know her. She did like little bit parts
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in a number of comedies and stuff. But but yeah, so she was
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involved or in charge of doing this, I don't. I don't. I
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can't even call it a remake. It's basically just taking the Velma character from
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the beloved show cartoon show Scooby Doo, where are you? And making her
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the central character and everything else was essentially like you know, off the rails.
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It was just a terrible, terrible show. It was a terrible show.
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Well, yeah, that was poorly written. It was poorly conceived.
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Yeah, I mean, who would give it a few moments of levity in
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the final scene like a final episode, like I felt there was some chemistry
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and amusing quips between the the Fred character and the Velma character, and the
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final episode that we watched it was the only episode that tolerate watching. And
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um, so, I mean he had leaned it to that it might have
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been absolutely hilarious, you know, like just a crazy buddy cop comedy between
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like a misogynist and a misinterest you. I mean, I would watch it,
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you know, I mean if I thought. But again, like,
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well, I'm gonna I'll talk about why why I'm bringing this up? So
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the two two big two things. Okay, number one, they are making
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a season two. Now I'm gonna show you guys the article for that.
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Um also, you don't have to really look at it. So but uh,
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they are making a season two for Velma. I can give you the
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link if you want to look at it. Hold on, I'll just send
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it through Hunt. Huh. Lant does not factor into this. Yeah,
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I know, it's it's not really a want, but I guess it's uh,
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you know, if I have to. You know, it's it's kind
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of that. But they are making a season two. Yeah, it's been
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confirmed. My suspicion is because the show didn't do well. But the problem
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is I think that there was a contract and that the both seasons were already
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made at least two seasons, so they kind of like have to go through
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with it. It's kind of like exactly the same thing as this Rings of
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Power show, Right, So the Rings of Power is getting another season.
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And even though like it was universally panned, everyone hated it, nothing to
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do with Tolkien's work, you know, it just it just flew in the
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face of it all, and it was very clear, made very clear,
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not just by Tolkien fans, but even just regular folks that like enjoyed the
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movies, you know, the Peter Jackson movies. But they have to make
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it a second season because they again contracts, they've already the money's been spent,
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you know, and now they had to like just kind of go through
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the motions. So I think that's what's going on with Velma. But what
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we're gonna says like, I don't know, if you've ever suffered from severe
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constipation and you get to a point where you're hurt, Yeah, yeah,
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studios are this. I know that's a grotesque analogy, but I think it
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deserves it. It's we can't go back, but something's gonna have to give.
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Yeah, I think it's relevant. Um So Albatross says it got a
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season two out of hate watching. You know that that's what they're claiming.
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But I don't. I don't think that's true. I think that's just cope,
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you know, I mean really, I mean it's it's people will cancel
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their their Warner brother or their HBO Max, which is a Warner Brothers company.
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Um, if they if they um feel like that, you know,
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it's being this is being sort of shoved down their throats. I mean they
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already try, like when people rejected it before, like they you know,
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they did the usual thing of calling people who didn't like the show misogynists and
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racist and all these other things, just like every other thing that they try
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to put out there and make us watch. Um, but like, the
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real thing that I want to use this as an opportunity for is to show
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that these people are just bad at television. They're just bad at writing.
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So even if, like you, you want to make a parody of uh,
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you know of Scooby Doo, there is a way to do it and
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enjoy yourself. And I think that the people involved with Velma season two are
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not enjoying themselves. So I'll demonstrate that in a moment. First, I
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guess we'll look at a couple of things from this movie web article and Alison,
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it. First, a quick shout out to the rumbull Chat. What's up
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rumbull Chat, how you guys doing, and be sure to leave us comments
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and send super chats and super childs and all that good stuff. I look
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forward to seeing your thoughts. So I guess well, first I'll just get
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into the article here that's sort of like you know, talks about the release
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of season two. So last year Max's Scooby Doo inspired series, Velma,
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took the world by storm for all the wrong reasons, slam trombone and tuba.
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Actually I think it's a tuba. Slammed by critics and audiences, gaining
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historically low review rates and showing all signs of being one of the most hated
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animated projects ever released, it seemed the only thing guaranteed was that the show
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would not be seeing a renewal anytime soon. At least that is what many
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assumed would happen. But given its huge ratings mainly being driven by hate watching
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and people who didn't believe the show could be as bad as the reviews made
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it out to be, it looks like Velma Season two is now officially happening.
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See again, I've heard this argument. I don't think. I don't
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think it's true. I think it's cope. Yeah, I think absolutely,
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Like HBO is going to say, oh no, no, we have a
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lot of watchers. They're probably just hate watching so they can make content about
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it. I didn't even see that much content about this. This isn't like
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you know, the Star Wars Disney Star Wars stuff, or Indiana Jones or
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all the other franchises they demolished. Like people literally didn't really care. I
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think, like other than a few people on Internet that we're talking about it,
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I think we were like one of very few people that were even and
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we didn't even give it that much time. Right then we watched like we
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didn't or something. For sure. We didn't give HBO any views either.
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Yeah. I just wanted to point out that, you know that the people
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like the the the Television Writer's Guild or whatever is on strike, right,
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Screenwriter's Guild, I think it is, Mum, I know about that,
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right, yeah, for better wages because they're being fired yeah yeah yeah,
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like and or or they're being laid off because you know, the the the
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Koup and the whole Black Rock and other corporations. Well what about the strike.
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Isn't it a writer strike going on? Is that what you mean?
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That's what they're that's their action. Yeah, yeah, Well what's happened is
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all of that venture capital that was flowing in in order to get these companies
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whatever ratings woke ratings up has dried up. And now and now these places
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are these um studios are realizing, oh, we have to appeal to the
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audience to actually get funds because the bubble for woke television has popped, the
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artificial bubble created by all the black rocks funding this crap um it's pop.
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So now we actually have to appeal to the audience. And these people are
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getting fired or are alternatively their their wages are being reduced, and they have
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an audacity to write an article about how this is going to make TV worse.
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It's like, oh, it's not gonna make TV worse. It's not
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even possible to make TV worse. At this point. Yeah, there's no
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mark anymore for your overly woke stuff. I mean maybe there is. Maybe,
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maybe they just pushed the envelope far enough so we tolerate a new level
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of woke, but they're going to pull it back and make us feel like
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we have a had a victory. But yeah, it's like the markets dried
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up. Now you have to to actually have merit, which you don't.
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You're terrible writers. I mean you did like the Screenwriters Guild. You guys
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don't represent writers. And also the thing is that there's been writers in the
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past couple of years who have literally waged war against their audience, much like
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they've literally call out to say, yeah, this is supposed to be about
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insulting the audience and strolling the audience. Yeah, it's like, well now
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you're like, oh, well, are we losing our jobs? Who guess
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who are you going to appeal to? Why don't you appeal to all the
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people you didn't insult? Oh wait, I guess that doesn't include an audience
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for your shows? Like yeah, well yeah, I mean this is what
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did What I think this is is all of these people that used to be
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on Tumblr with their fan fictions, they all got jobs and they used um,
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you know, the the the writing the writers unions and the various uh
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you know esg stuff so they can get their jobs by saying, well,
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I'm a woman, I'm queer on this, I'm that give me the job.
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And they just bring their fan fictions in here because that's that's what it
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to me, that's what it looks like. I I mean, it's a
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chat. GPT should write scripts from now on. It would be better than
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what these people are producing. Like you know the West the Wes Anderson Star
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Wars trailer that I heard about it AI and I'll say, wow, okay,
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that that that actually looks like a better take than the one I've seen
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at Disney Studios for the past six years. But the other thing I wanted
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to point out is you're absolutely right, this is fan fic. And you
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know why they appropriate already existing IP and characters because fanfic writers don't realize there's
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a huge chasm of knowledge between the average fanfic writer and the average professional writer.
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And you know what that chasm of knowledge is making people care about your
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characters. So they just think pre like characters that people already care about,
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absolutely run them to the ground, treat them like dirt to push their own
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weird messages, which basically amount to I am the ideal human. And then
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and then like, people don't like it, and they don't have the actual
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writer chops to create new characters like they they're not writers. Like these individuals
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fan fic writers. There can be some really great fanfic writers. Okay,
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don't get me wrong, but there is something. There's a really big limitation
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when you are just a fanfic writer versus a professional writer or somebody who's trying
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to be a professional, successful, professional writer, and that is you're already
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inheriting character that people love and want to follow. That's why fan kit can
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be full of slice of life dreck. Yes, somebody's already made those characters
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appealing and sympathetic, so people will read that. But then they take that
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fanfic mentality to actual writing. Okay, it's like it's like speaking your easy
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bake of into an actual kitchen. You are actually like five its three star
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kitchen. You're not gonna get anywhere. But it's a joke, and the
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work that they want is a joke. And even beyond then, they hide
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it behind all this woke stuff is self righteous when in fact, what they're
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hiding behind, what they're hiding behind that self righteous veneer is inability and cowardice.
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Like this is what's hilarious about this, Like they don't I don't think
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they really give a crap about anything they talk about, as long as it
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doesn't as long as it benefits them, as long as they can hide their
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weaknesses behind this this shield of self righteousness. But they don't, like I
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said, they're bringing that fanfic mentality. Well, the fanfic mentality is you
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don't you think you're a good writer because you've written However many fan ficks that
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have gotten like a million views or something, No, you're not. You
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don't know what real writing is. Yeah, I was gonna say that,
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you know, we use the word fanfic to describe it. But I don't
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think these people are fans of what they're adapting. I think that they see
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that the thing that they're you know, writing about, it's it carries with
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it a certain amount of status. Right, So if you make up your
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own thing, like from scratch, you come through your own characters, your
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own story or whatever, your own setting, it's not going to get as
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much eyes on it, you know, as it would if you did a
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fan fic of something else. So I think that like there, it's probably
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they may have like a passing interest and whatever it is, whether it's Star
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Wars or Scooby Doo. But ultimately, they don't really care about the source
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material at all, which is why the fan fic always seems off or like
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it's completely wrong or they've changed everything about it. So, you know,
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like the the infamous fan fiction is basically a fan fiction that the Mary Sue
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term comes from is a Star Trek fan fiction, right, And there's this
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new like ensign or something, and her name is Mary Sue, and like
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she you know, all of the main characters, Yeah, she saves the
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day, but more than that, like everyone likes her the you know,
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Spock and Bones and Kirk, they're all in love with her, but you
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know, she doesn't have time for them. Like it's just and that's I
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mean, that's literally like what you should never do when you're telling a story.
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And yet in our in our modern you know, media, it's so
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common, you know. So what were you going to say about that?
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Well, what I was going to say is that I think the real litmus
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test, and I think a lot of people on the anti woke bandwagon don't
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realize this. The real litmus test for a Mary Sue is if you look
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at characters that beloved characters their character arcs. A lot of the time are
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about them getting over their own bullshit. And what that is is that you
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have a character and the character is in some way harming others, and the
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story is the process of them dealing with the fallout of their own actions,
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the negative fallout of their own actions, until they learn to do better,
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to be a better person. Yeah, and that you so to example,
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to use an example Ray versus Luke. Luke had to get over his own
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bullshit. And what that was was a sort of a a self righteous fanaticism
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like which is typified by I remember the scene where he goes into the swamp
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and then kills him kills Yeah, he was, well, he wanted to
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go and like fight the Empire. He was like like, uh, you
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know, all like like pissing Vinegar in the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.
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Yeah, Leiah was also pissed in Vinegar. They both had that same uh
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inherently the same spirit which they probably inherited from their father and uh you know,
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so you see, like it's a whole family thing. And Luke had
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to get over that. So his great triumph isn't like destroying the darks the
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Death Star, isn't like getting uh Vader to kill Emperor Palpatine. It's getting
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over his own bullshit about defeating the villain in order to redeem his father.
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Right. It was literally Jordan Peterson's you know, like Good and the the
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Whale rescue your father from the underworld. That that's literally the story. And
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to overcome your own problems, like the things that you are doing that potentially
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or are already harming other people. That's what makes a powerful character arc,
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and that's completely absent with the Mary Sue. A Mary Sue can never be
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herself wrong, like she can never have bullshit that she needs to overcome.
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If she is in any way has bullshit, the world around her has to
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conform to it and make it something charming or quirky. R fute you notice
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that, Yeah, we can never be the one needs to change, right.
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The Luke character is actually probably one of the best examples. You can
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also say that Bilbo is similar, but the Luke character starts off he's naive,
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he's childish, he throws little temper tantrums, he's basically a boy,
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and then by the end of the first by the end of a New Hope
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episode four, he is like on the path to manhood and then in the
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second one, he's like, you know, he still has much to learn
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about, but it's not about like the Force and the lightsabers. I mean,
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that's all. That's all fine and dandy, it's great stuff, but
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it's really about personal growth and humility, and that's what happens in Empire.
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And then the last one is his ultimate test in Return of the Jedi,
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because he is what's short of shown to him in the second film, through
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some overt imagery and some suggested um things, is that he if he doesn't
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if he isn't careful, he will end up just like his father. And
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so he in saving his father in the third film, he saves himself from
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becoming like Vader, and that and that's why that you know, those movies
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are appealing because you can see Luke's growth from a new hope all the way
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to the end of Return of the Jedi. He's like a completely different person
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because he has grown up, but like all of the wisdom that he's acquired,
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and even from his father, even though his father was his enemy,
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he learned a lot from Vader as well. So this this is, I
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mean, this is you can find stories like this all all over literature,
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especially the great works. Right, um, without going into it, you
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can see this in The Hobbit and in Lord of the Rings, and I'm
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sure that you guys watching have a ton of other examples that are very similar.
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But what were you going to say about Ray? Because I could say
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that it's basically it's absent. Yeah, we could go on and on about
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it, but go on his Well, I know this is probably surprising,
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but both of our jams is storytelling. But the like even I mean,
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I would say even, I mean, like I very much care about men's
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issues, but I am a storyteller, Like that's my nature. But Ray,
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all right, what's the problem with Ray? Now, admittedly I've only
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watched one of the one of the movies makes one eighty in her character?
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At one point, is there a suggestion, especially after the first movie,
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that Ray has bullshit she needs to overcome. And what that means is is
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that she's harming other people, She's choosing to harm other people, and that
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she needs to learn a lesson about taking responsibility for the power that she's given.
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Not what I usually see, which is that a woman needs to take
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off the shackles put on her by a patriarchal blah blah blah blah blah,
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and and find that she is enough in and of itself. That is not
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a character arc. That is utter bullshit. Yeah, it's it's hilarious because
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Joseph Campbell sort of called this, He said that there is no female hero
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journey because the feminine is where everyone wants to get to. That bullshit about
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how women need to learn that they're fine as they are is basically a is
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a ratification of what Joseph Campbell said. I don't know if ratification is but
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a confirmation of Joseph Campbell's framing that women don't have a hero's journey at least
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not at all like the male's journey. Well, I mean, I don't
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even think it's a hero's journey period, Like really that you're you're great discovery
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is that you're fine as you are? No, No, No, that's
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that that's not a journey at all. That's literally a feminist like idea because
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like Captain Marvel, that's the story of Captain Marvel, right, like she
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was great as she was, it's just men were holding her back. That's
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that's literally the point of that movie. Which, yeah, that's not.
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That is basically what Joseph Campbell said, which is hysterical because the feminists were
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upset with him. He's like, no, there's no female hero's journey and
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I'm like, wow, oh sure, women discovering that the feminine is what?
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Where is the end goal of everything? That's exactly what he said.
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He basically said that the feminine and the female is complete in and of itself.
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Therefore, there can be no feminine hero's journey. You know, the
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only way you can have the hero's journey is if the hero says boy or
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not says but it has bullshit that they need to overcome through mentors, through
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training, through questioning themselves, through doubting, and ultimately take responsibility for the
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powers they have. If you're if you're saying that femininity is static and perfect
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as it is, you can't. The tooth concepts are incompatible. And that's
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why Mary Sues exists because the women writing them and the menu, they don't
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understand that a powerful character needs to have that arc where they learn that they
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are engaging in bullshit behavior and they need to challenge themselves about it and overcome
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it. That's the hero's journey more than anything else. It isn't just oh,
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I'm gonna level up, you know, like I'm I'm gonna go find
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the black pearl and then the purple pearl, and then the red pearl,
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and then I'm gonna have a whole pearl necklace and take out quality. You
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know. That's bullshit, that's not that Yeah, ironic, I don't have
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the button, just do it myself, I do. I know what you
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mean. You know, that's why I raised very Sue, Like there's no
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recognition that she's internal bullshit. That's why most female characters written today are Mary
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Sues. They're terrible because there's no recognition that they have bullshit that they need
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to overcome. They're all must need to find out that they're perfect in and
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of themselves. Well, no one is. I got somebody, somebody brought
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up something interesting. What about the main character from the Snow Queen? So
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um? Is it the like Frozen with the original story of Frozen that had
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a female main character? Right? Kind of like Alice in Wonderland is like
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that too. I guess those could be. I mean they're not. They
27:14
they are. Their construction is completely different from the male hero's journey, and
27:18
I do think that writing women well in as the protagonist in a story is
27:25
harder because it's like, you know, I talked to Jonathan Pego about this,
27:30
and he said that, um, you know, if the story of
27:33
the hero's journey for men is the story of Christ, which is like similar,
27:37
than the story for women is like the Virgin Mary, and it's it's
27:42
tricky to write a good story in that framework. But I think it can
27:47
be done. Um. And I think, yeah, like I think of
27:49
Alice in Wonderland, I think of the Wizard of Oz, right, it's
27:55
all like, it's all social stuff, like she makes friends with the Scarecrow
28:00
and the Lion and the tin Man and they you know, and and she
28:03
discovers, like she unravels the mystery. Maybe that's why. What was the
28:07
name of those really popular books that had a female teenager that was like solving
28:11
mysteries, you know what I'm talking about? Nancy True? Yeah, Nancy
28:17
True right, Like those were you know, they were huge. I mean,
28:21
granted there was also a male version, the Hardy Boys, but but
28:23
yeah, okay, so I can give you some some I think I can
28:29
add to that, um, all right with them. With Dorothy, she
28:34
had to discover that her desire to for something more than home, like yes,
28:41
that whole something worth I guess fighting for or wanting to get back to.
28:45
So there was some bullshit that she had to deal with. Um with
28:48
Nancy Drew like, mysteries are a bit different. Mysteries and action stories can
28:55
be a little bit different. YEA. They that what the draw isn't necessarily
29:00
a character overcoming themselves. The draw is often for a mystery, it's watching
29:06
someone solve a mystery. So yeah, you're watching someone make make connections.
29:12
Or in an action movie, you're watching someone respond to external circumstances. That's
29:18
sort of the the emotional draw details you know, like rules, Yeah,
29:25
fascinating for people. Um, it doesn't necessarily have to include like a character
29:30
arc often doesn't because mysteries are reoccurring. Um, then they want to they
29:34
don't want to, Like if you change too much about the character, it's
29:37
difficult to keep going in a in a in some in a series that doesn't
29:42
have a finite end. So mysteries they tend to have a really interesting character,
29:48
but the character themselves doesn't do a lot of evolution. Um. Same
29:52
with action and that's fine because it's sort of a different kind of genre.
29:56
But this kind of hero's journey character arc, I think really needs that sense
30:00
of self doubt and questioning your own Spider Man. Spider Man is exact as
30:07
an example of this that is like the prototypical like Hero's journey, Yeah,
30:12
in your own bullshit. Yeah, for sure. You don't see that with
30:18
female characters in many sences, Like you don't, and it's really unfortunate because
30:23
you get really flat female characters, and like it's there's a lot of ways
30:29
to have a character overcome their own bullshit, there's only one way to have
30:33
a character discover that they're perfectly fine as they are. Yeah, basically they're
30:38
just writing one female character, and that one female character is flat and boring.
30:45
Yeah, there you go. Even Leia, Leia had her own um
30:48
because she had some of the same problems that Luke did, and definitely that
30:52
Vader did this kind of self righteous vehemence um, and she was justified in
30:57
a lot of ways. But you know, Vader felt like he was justified.
31:02
You mean when you mean Vader in the original trilogy or Anakin in the
31:07
Anakin Okay, okay, yeah, sorry, no, no, it's Okay,
31:11
I just want to because the Anakin does definitely, I mean, it's
31:14
tragic, but it's a it's an arc on the lest so well, I
31:18
mean the whole thing really when you really look at it from that kind of
31:22
emotional what are they? What bullshit are they coming? Overcoming thematic arc?
31:26
It really fits together very well. I think the prequels suffered from I think
31:33
Lucas has an U shiny san syndrome. Uh and uh. When he's when
31:38
he's sort of rained in by a producer or or rained in by the studio,
31:47
or rained in by limitations on his his resources, that doesn't come cross
31:52
as much. So you see more of his like the things that he feels
31:56
like he needs to say emotionally. That makes sense as opposed to the U
32:00
shiny Yeah. Right, let's let's go up with ten. I got ten
32:05
idea for ten more aliens in the background. I'm want to stick them in
32:07
there, but they're not They're not really important, not really important. It's
32:12
like the stories here, So I mean when when he has constraints, that
32:16
comes through more strongly when he doesn't like it's more like more oo shiny.
32:22
But anyway, so, but the original trilogy really really had this in spades,
32:27
and Leah was a reflection of Luke, and they both were a reflection
32:30
of their father, and they both all of them had to sort of deal
32:32
with the same Yeah, like I think, well, I was gonna say
32:38
that their arcs like they're developed, their journeys are different, but they're but
32:43
the that's it starts from the same place. So like, you know,
32:45
Leia ends up you know, she starts off as like a diplomat and you
32:51
know, princess, and then her planets is destroyed, so she's not really
32:53
a princess of anything anymore. And then she just becomes like another uh so
33:00
oldier because I don't think that she becomes like a general or anything like that,
33:02
unless I'm remembering that wrong. In the original trilogy. In the original
33:06
trilogy, yeah, there was like mon Mathma and yeah, yeah, and
33:12
then there's like some I don't know, some bearded guy. I forget their
33:15
names and everything. So I apologize for that. But what I'm saying is
33:17
is that she also learns, like her some humility, she learns to she
33:25
falls in love with Han, she goes and rescues him, and so like
33:29
that that is I think a change in her character as well. But anyway,
33:35
um oh, I want to get into the article, but first let
33:38
me just say one other thing. I think the fan fiction writing. I
33:44
think that is probably a big part of what's going on because those people wanted
33:50
to become writers for shows, and I think that, but just based on
33:53
the quality of our entertainment right now, I think that they're just getting jobs.
33:58
And I think it all started with fifty Shades of Gray because if I'm
34:04
not I think fifty Shades of Gray was the first, if or one of
34:09
the first fan fictions that became their own franchise, because if I remember correctly,
34:15
fifty Shades of Gray was Twilight fan fiction. Now the bar is really
34:19
low if you're starting from Twilight, which also appears to be fan fiction,
34:23
but I mean, from what I understand, it's not. And then you
34:27
make fifty Shades of Gray based on Twilight. But um, and then fifty
34:30
Shades of Gray went on to be a gigantic seller with women right like it
34:36
sells. It sold so many copies, and like Karen writes, you know,
34:39
like degenerate stuff, but she doesn't, she doesn't sell the kinds of
34:44
copies that fifty shades did so, I don't know. That's just something I'm
34:49
throwing out there. What are you gonna thousand? You also write this stuff?
34:53
Uh story, But I would not say the level of fifty is our
35:01
rated stuff or is it? It probably would be considered maybe like PG.
35:07
Thirteen. I don't know, it's not it's not like a it's not a
35:10
purely shall we say, um uh kid friendly story. Yeah sure, but
35:20
it's not smart like fifty Shades of Gray. Um. I think I mean,
35:24
like I would you know, I would probably read I probably should read
35:30
fifty Shades of Gray and Twilight just to understand the appeal. It may not
35:35
actually understand the appeal. I remember when we didn't read but go ahead,
35:40
we didn't reading a fifty Shades of Gray. Excuse me with the patrons.
35:44
Oh yeah, Christian gray into Christian Graybeard. Yeah, like I would just
35:52
just gave him like a pirate accent. It was actually that's great. Yeah,
35:58
she's driving minuts. Literally No, it was just it was it was
36:07
actually pretty funny. But um, you know, like there's there's probably something
36:13
in it that could be analyzed from what it has a mass appeal. Um,
36:17
like just the maybe the emotional story. What really happened as a result
36:22
of that is everybody's doing these really crappy young adult romance and they actually they
36:29
call it adult romance so they can have the sex without feeling bad that they're
36:32
writing for twelve year olds. Yeah, so it's the the the publishing industry
36:40
right now is an utter mess because everybody is chasing after the Harry Potter,
36:45
Twilight, fifty Shades of Gray ideas, divergent, What's what are some of
36:51
the other popular young adult novels, Uh, Hunger games, Hunger games?
36:57
Right, it's mostly it's mostly women that are drawn to this. Yeah,
37:01
And honestly, it's uh, it's really destroyed the publishing industry, you know,
37:08
and because every single agent seems to want to find the same damn thing,
37:14
and it's destroyed the midlist. I actually did a sort of a solo
37:17
stream that I haven't made publicum for on this, but I was looking into
37:24
it. I was researching it. Since the last like six or seven years,
37:29
the midlist has gone from regularly selling like forty to fifty thousand. You
37:34
know what the midlist is, right, Brian, No, I don't,
37:37
Okay. The midlist is the books that publishers put out that are not best
37:44
sellers, so they're not the Grisons or Sills or Kings, but they do
37:50
sell well and over time they can sell as much as a best seller.
37:54
They just need a longer so for example, if you looked over ten years,
37:59
they might actually sell as much as a best seller. It's just that
38:01
they don't sell as much initially. So when the really popular bestsellers have lost
38:07
their audience, the midlist tends to retain an audience, but it's a little
38:12
smaller. It's more niche, and they make money for the publishers. But
38:15
the midlist has disappeared. We used to have a midlist that, you know,
38:19
the average title would sell fifty forty to fifty thousand a year. Now
38:23
the midlist sells ten thousand, like the average title in the midlist ten thousand
38:28
if they're lucky. And from what I've noticed from as a reader, a
38:32
part of what's happened is midlist quality has declined remarkably and there's this focus on
38:38
diversity rather than producing something with merit, and people don't come back to a
38:45
diversity I mean, they collect their their paraplegic lesbian black woman and they put
38:51
it on their shelf and they're done. They never buy her book again,
38:53
never buy another book from her again either, you know. So it's like
38:59
the mid list has really declined in popularity. The other thing is that all
39:05
of the agents now don't seem to be the kind of people who promote these
39:09
kind of midlists or mid midlist titles, which again tend more niche. They
39:15
tend to be like science fiction or fantasy idea of books rather than mystery or
39:19
thriller or horror, high concept things stuff Like I said, it gains an
39:25
audience and it keeps an audience, but it doesn't really sell really fast initially
39:30
because it maybe has a higher bar of entry in terms of having to think
39:35
about things you know, just you don't on page one and then just move
39:38
through tepid putting to the end. You actually have to think about what's going
39:44
on. Um. Like, one of the agents I listened to while I
39:47
was doing the research on this said that they don't like prologus that start well
39:52
before the beginning of the story, or or stories that switch a switch point
40:00
of view or switch time. I'm like, are you a child? Like
40:05
now you have just removed almost everything in the midlist like the science fiction and
40:08
fantasy Midlist. This is like common science fiction and fantasy tropes. And to
40:15
have a prologue set in the past, to sort of set the world building,
40:17
to switch between times and points of view, to just give you a
40:22
wide swath. And I'm like, so this is one of the agents that's
40:27
preventing books from being published. Have you ever made the connection between that and
40:31
the fact that the midlist is just getting worse and worse every year. I
40:35
mean, in another five years, probably the Midlist will be lucky if they
40:37
sell a hundred a thousand books per an entry. Anyway, So this is
40:45
just again more of the same destruction of storytelling that we're seeing across the board.
40:51
Yep. And this is an aggression. So we need to get back
40:53
to the Okay, we'll get back, But yeah, I agree on all
40:57
that. I do have a super chowel. I'm going to read it real
41:00
quick. It's from Meredith Gee because us five dollars. Thank you, Meredith,
41:04
and she says red chill cinema, honey for the Badger. As Velmont
41:07
didn't renew the second season, episodes were produced with the first season. Mindy
41:14
Kyling is the writer who was the driving force behind this, and she was
41:16
picked specifically because she ticked some diversity boxes. This show demonstrated she was overrated.
41:22
Yeah, so I was gonna say, I thought that they had already
41:24
had almost everything like written up or created, and that they were I mean,
41:30
I guess they split it into two seasons, but it was intended to
41:35
be just one big season, so they're just splitting it in half and hoping
41:38
I guess that people will want to watch the rest of it, or maybe
41:42
they had to change some things. I don't know, but thank you for
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know how much rumble takes, but I'm pretty sure it's less like a lot
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less than YouTube does. Think Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean,
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and and of course there's also the issue like the censorship and also disappearing
42:20
comments, so it's probably it's the best way to get in contact with us.
42:23
Yeah, just the tip, Yeah, for sure. And maybe one
42:28
day we won't even be on YouTube if they get uh, you know,
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crazy enough, So maybe follow us on Rumble at HB Radio I believe is
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the name of the channel, and Twitch which is the same. So anyway,
42:40
let me finish this article. It's really short. It's just talking about
42:44
season two of Velma. So um. Velma Season two is now officially happening
42:50
again. It's already it was already made as per comic book dot Com.
42:53
Warner Brothers Discovery held their panel today at Annise Festival, which saw them revealing
42:59
details of their upcoming animated projects or would to be a fly on the wall
43:02
in that room? I wonder how many people actually went to this to this
43:07
panel. After months of speculation and rumor that Velma would incredulously beginning another bite
43:14
of the cherry, the panel confirmed that Mindy Kayling's reimagining of the Scooby DOOO
43:19
franchise as an R rated murder mystery will be getting new episodes for everyone to
43:23
enjoy or enjoy hating some more. While there has been no further details revealed
43:30
about how the second series will take on board the many criticisms of the first,
43:35
if at all it is pretty much guaranteed that the voice act the voicecast,
43:38
including Kyling, Constance Wu, and Sam Richardson, will be returning to
43:43
voice their unique versions of the Much Love Scooby Gang. There are many reboots,
43:49
right, so anyway, I'll just leave it at that. There.
43:52
They just kind of like go on to say that, you know, this
43:55
show wasn't very popular, but it has high ratings because of hay watching,
44:00
which again I don't think I agree with, and I wanted to show like
44:05
that there's nothing wrong with parody, So I mean, I like parody when
44:10
it's well done. You know, Airplane is one of my favorite comedies,
44:15
and it parodied all of these kind of disaster films that were really popular at
44:19
the time. And there was like there was a TV show, very short
44:23
lived, very ingenious. It was called Police Squad, and it was making
44:28
fun of all these cop shows that were very popular. We know, like
44:30
these kind of gumshoe detective shows that were really popular. And there's lots of
44:37
other examples, right that are done well. And what the difference is,
44:42
in my opinion, is that you know that it's done well if the person
44:46
who's making the parody is in love with what they're parodying. So if they're
44:52
like a big fan of what it is they're parodying, they can poke fun
44:57
at it because they know that it's maybe they find there are some things that
45:01
are kind of absurd or whatever, but they're but they like it anyway,
45:06
right, And um, I does that make sense? Alison? What I'm
45:09
saying like that you can you can parody something and love it, so you
45:14
you kind of like you kind of honor it while you're poking fun. And
45:17
I think that the way that good writers or people who are writing good comedy,
45:24
what what makes it enjoyable for all of us, is that they're playing.
45:30
It's a it's there, it's they're engaged in a kind of play.
45:31
A James Gunn, who you guys might know as a you know, he
45:36
still worked for Trauma. I think he's still involved with Trauma. And he
45:38
made the Guardians of the Galaxy films. I didn't see the last one,
45:43
so I don't know about that, but I know the first one especially was
45:47
incredible, right, and everyone loved it. And he said in an interview
45:52
that, uh, what why he liked it so much is that he believed
45:55
that, you know, making films or directing or whatever it is. You
46:01
have to be able to do some playing. And of course if you watch
46:06
Guardians, it's it's a lot of fun to watch because he was engaged in
46:09
play. He knew that he was telling a story that was so like out
46:15
there. You know, it's it out of space and there's a tree and
46:17
a raccoon and all that. But he was like, you know, I'm
46:20
just gonna lean into it, and I'm just gonna you know, humanize these
46:23
characters as much as possible, and he did. That was why the Guardians
46:27
worked, because it wasn't because they were aliens. It was because they were
46:30
like us, but they looked alien. And so you could say in a
46:37
lot of ways he was parodying, you know, the science fiction that sort
46:42
of like space opera stuff that you know, Star Wars is known for.
46:45
You could say that that that's what he was doing. But he was clearly
46:50
someone who also was in love with it, and so he was able to
46:52
do it well without having the kind of mean spirited, you know, bitter
46:59
a probe that the Scooby Doo had, or or or even the Star Wars
47:04
movies, like the Disney Star Wars stuff. He's all like, you know,
47:07
let's take what's been established and let's like strip it of any soul and
47:13
leave like a husk behind. Let's kill off everybody. Let's you know,
47:17
inject our own like I don't know, like uh ocs in there. And
47:23
I mean even like guys like Dave Filoni are guilty of that. I mean
47:27
he he put Asca in the Clone Wars and I liked the character as a
47:31
small side character, but he was so in love with this fictional thing he
47:37
made his oc that he put her in everything and had her lived through all
47:43
of it. It was like, this is cringe man, Like it's obvious
47:46
what you're doing. You know, you're trying to make Asoka happen. It's
47:50
not gonna happen. So so um anyway, uh so that's what I think
47:58
is important. So I said all that to say this. I don't know,
48:00
Alison, I don't you want to say anything before I get into the
48:04
next part of this. But all right, So I said all that to
48:07
say this. Years before, like in the two thousands, I think the
48:13
show came out and I mentioned this yesterday. There was a very well done
48:19
parody of Scooby Doo and there was a show called The Venture Brothers. If
48:23
you guys know about The Venture Brothers, they have seven seasons. I think
48:29
there was talk of an eighth one. I thought I saw a trailer for
48:31
it the other day, but I don't know if it's real or not,
48:34
because I looked into it and I guess I'm hearing that it's a troll thing
48:37
or that the show just got canceled. But The Venture Brothers was a fucking
48:42
amazing show. It was basically again, it was taking these old like kind
48:47
of animated shows and science fiction and superhero stuff from the nineteen sixties, and
48:55
it was doing a parody of all that. Especially Johnny Quest was a kind
49:00
boy. It was central and I loved Johnny Quest as a kid. I
49:01
thought it was such a good show. I've met Jonathan like Johnny Quest.
49:05
Allison didn't he I bet he did. Yeah, I would have to ask,
49:08
but yeah, there's no way he didn't like Johnny Quest. And the
49:14
thing is is, I watched a documentary about Johnny Quest, and what I
49:16
learned was Hannah Barbara, the guys who created it, what they what their
49:22
goal was was. They wanted to make a science fiction adventure show for adults
49:30
like adults and children alike, so like it would be a prime time and
49:34
families could watch it, and you know, and they wanted to the animation
49:37
to be as high quality as they could get it, which you know,
49:42
Hannah Barbara. They started off doing really high quality stuff like Tom and Jerry,
49:47
like the old Tom and Jerry that was really like well animated and stuff.
49:51
And then you know, they kind of like they got into the Flintstones,
49:53
which kind of had that same thing where you know, it was,
49:55
yeah, kids could watch it, but there was clearly like adult stuff in
50:00
there as well, like Fred and Barney smoking cigarettes and will were getting pregnant
50:05
and you know, Barney and Betty learning that they can't have kids because one
50:09
of them is Barren or both of them who knows, and they adopt and
50:13
so it goes on and on and on. Right, So these are the
50:15
kinds of things they wanted to do. And with Johnny Quest, that was
50:16
their goal too. They wanted to do something like that. Unfortunately it was
50:22
it was too expensive and it just it just didn't work out. So they
50:27
made a few seasons of Johnny Quest and then it died. And I know
50:30
that like many years later, another company like remade it or whatever, but
50:35
it's just not like it was. So anyway, Venture Brothers was a parody
50:37
of that, and of course if you watch it, they were kind of
50:40
going for the same thing. They wanted it to look pretty good in terms
50:44
of the quality of the animation, which I think compared to a lot of
50:46
TV today, it's pretty good. Like like Venture Brothers is great. And
50:52
they were parodying all this stuff, you know. They Johnny Quest, they
50:54
parodied the general sort of supervillainy shows. They paid the Fantastic Four, they
51:00
parried all these other things that were popular in the sixties. So anyway,
51:05
they did an episode called Dia de los mortosum and in it there is a
51:12
Scooby Doo parody in it, and the way that they handled this was so
51:17
ingenious. I'm gonna find the clip here and let me show it to you
51:23
guys. And I gotta jump ahead to about three minutes and nineteen seconds where
51:29
they introduce they called them the Groovy Gang, because you know, that's I
51:36
guess what it had to be. So here's that you're pausing it there,
51:39
so so, oh my god, I think it's I think it's great.
51:46
U such a fun episode. I think they watched out a bit. They
51:51
had the two women runoff. Yeah they did. I think they did.
51:54
I don't know if will like see well, like I said, I don't
51:59
know if they come back woman. That's that's one of his defining Yeah.
52:06
I think there's that's that's true. But there's a whole storyline behind that.
52:09
Oh is it? Is it? The guy? Is it with the guy?
52:14
Um? His his commanding officer, his commanding officer. Yeah, like
52:17
based on Um. He's based on what's his name, the the gonzo journalist.
52:24
You know I'm talking about Hunter. Yeah, Hunter s Thompson. His
52:29
name is Hunter. He's based on Hunter stops. That guy's hilarious. He
52:35
gets, yeah, he gets, he gets a sex change operation, gets
52:38
boobs to protect himself from Brock. Yes, that's right. Yeah, that's
52:47
that's good. Okay, see that they just transitioning for jokes. No,
52:53
they didn't watch What's Out. They had to deal with the rocks continuous thing.
53:00
Okay, So I got a super that is that's all I wanted to
53:06
show. I did get a super chow from anonymous. Again, if you
53:09
are UM, if you wanted your name shown, you can just tag me
53:15
in the live chat and say I'm the person who sent this, but thank
53:17
you. Anonymous sent to five dollars and says you're right about the psychos thriving
53:22
in feminism. Like that one politician or celebrity dude that beat the shit out
53:27
of his girlfriends during sex he identified as a feminist. I think he's Indian,
53:31
Pakistani or some kind of Arab or Jewish or whatever. Are you talking
53:36
about the guy from Canada? Um, he didn't beat the women, they
53:40
wanted him to choke them or something like that. You remember who I'm talking
53:45
about. I forget his name. We covered that. He's like an actor
53:49
something at Giangomeshi. Yeah, I don't know if that's who you're talking about,
53:53
but that's what I'm thinking of. Um, I wouldn't peg Brock as
53:59
a guy that gets paid or be into that. I think that's an attack
54:04
on white men's masculinity. Don't think. I don't think would try that ship
54:07
with black dynamite. It's socially okay to do that ship with white dudes and
54:10
even Asian men. Well, we'll see. I mean, like I said,
54:14
I haven't seen the episode yet. I do. I tend to agree
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that if you're going to do this kind of thing. It's probably safer to
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do it to a white character than a non white character. But I'd like
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to see the episode, So thanks for the super Child though, anonymous person.
54:35
Honestly, I think that part of it was just it was a gender
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reversal, but they did they didn't do like the feminist gender reversal. They
54:44
did an actual gender reversal between a block A Brock and Wriana. I think
54:51
she's like a superheroin and it's uh from what I remember, I did have
54:57
that like, oh, what are they doing here? But then when I
55:00
watched it, I'm like, I can't tell. Yeah, sometimes sometimes I
55:06
can't, so I'd have to leave it up to other people, Like I'm
55:07
not gonna freak out about whatever Brock wants to do in the bedroom. He's
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less awesome and h or maybe it's one of those things because again I haven't
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seen it, but maybe it's one of those things where Brock has had all
55:21
of the experiences and this is just a new experience. So you know,
55:27
I really think they were leaning into the sex addict thing. Yeah, Brock
55:32
has done a lot of questionable shit. Yeah, sexually, it is like
55:37
yeah, yeah, and I mean like, I'm like, well, if
55:40
you you know, if you get have fun with that, then you know,
55:44
like I wouldn't want to live in a world where that is less acceptable.
55:49
But again it's possible, I'll see. But nonetheless, like even if
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that is a thing, I think the rest of the show seems fine,
55:57
but I haven't that Brock doesn't like it, which I think is one of
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the things that is about the humiliation in aspect. And I think what they
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were going for was honestly like some kind of gender reversal. But where And
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this is only vague memory, so I could be completely wrong, but Warriana
56:19
sort of plays the man you has to uh appeal court um because sometimes they
56:30
do. And that's the other thing about The Warrior the Venture Brothers. They
56:32
often do play with gender. Yeah you remember. I don't know if you've
56:37
seen this episode, but we find out who the mother to the U wait
56:45
wait, wait, wait wait. There there was an episode where there is
56:47
a woman who kidnaps the boys and she claims to be the mother, but
56:52
they don't They don't really like seal the deal on it. Yeah, they
56:57
don't reveal it for sure. There is some application that she like sexually and
57:01
physically abused Rusty. Yeah, she gets they're taken away by the police at
57:07
one point, and he's in like a blanket, yeah, with a like
57:10
a cup of therapy tea or something. Yeah. And and so there's a
57:15
strong implication of course Brock is really protective of Rusty against this woman as well,
57:21
and and against the boys. But so there's and I was watching that,
57:25
and I'm like, they're doing a gender reversal. I mean, it's
57:30
not a genuine gender reversal, because men, of course are abused sexually and
57:32
physically by women, but us in terms of a narrative, in terms of
57:37
how it's usually presents it, it's usually presented. And I'm like that,
57:40
that's interesting. So they have done that in the past, which is another
57:44
reason why I'm wondering about it. But the thing is that when they do
57:46
it, they do it in such a way that the male characters aren't considered
57:52
lesser, if that makes any sense. Like, it's not a feminist gender
57:54
reversal, it's like a genuine one where where they're really looking at the actual
58:00
differences between men and women and how they're portrayed and and poking fun at it.
58:07
But that's uh. I mean, I'm just getting off into the weeds
58:10
because I actually really love Venture Brothers. I do too, I do.
58:15
I think it is a good show. Um, and I would recommend it,
58:20
you know, yea to people if you want, if you want to
58:22
watch it and if you were like grew up on like shows like Johnny Quest.
58:27
Um, I that's it's definitely worth checking out. That's all I'll say.
58:30
But yeah, it's a good show and it and it you know again,
58:32
like he's this guy like Doc Hammer. I think he's like one of
58:36
the main uh producers and writers and voice actors on the show. I think
58:42
he does like a lot of the characters. Um, he's like in a
58:45
goth or. He was in like a goth band. I mean, he's
58:49
like basically a renaissance man. He's done like a lot of different things.
58:53
And uh, he is most interested from what it appears, and I've seen
58:59
an interview with him, he just wants to have fun with the content.
59:04
And and you know, and you can't have fun with content if you're if
59:07
you're constantly you feel like you're in a constant battle, you know, with
59:13
the world. And I think that you know, that's that's probably why this
59:17
show is so good. I mean so far. You know, like I
59:21
said, I only got to season four, but I liked it. So
59:23
we'll see. I will I will finish the show and maybe we'll revisit the
59:28
topic give you my final thoughts. But if you haven't seen The Venture Brothers,
59:32
watch it. Um. It's you know, it's been out for what
59:37
like twenty years now, probably maybe more, um, and it still holds
59:42
up so and it's it seems like it's just fun. Okay. Anyway,
59:49
So that's all I wanted to say about that. I guess, uh,
59:52
Private Pirate eight hundred says, I'll definitely check out the show. Seems like
59:57
really good satire. Yeah, but like it is, you know, like
1:00:00
I said, if you're if you like what's being satirized, it will still
1:00:06
like bring you joy. You know, Doctor Orpheus is like one of my
1:00:10
favorite characters for example, Like you know, so, um, there's a
1:00:15
lot of good characters though I like Doctor Orpheus. The Phantom Limb it's good
1:00:20
too, Um, the Sovereign is there's a big twist reveal on that character.
1:00:25
So anyway, it's just well done. Um. And I have to
1:00:30
get other opinions on Warrianna and Brock in their relationship. Yeah, I'll look
1:00:37
it up. I like, I liked Molotov Cocktis. I thought that was
1:00:40
a good character too. From what I remember, there was a moment where
1:00:45
alexis like, that's Warrianna's name, had to had to sort of apologize to
1:00:50
Brock for being an asshole. Oh well, she is she like a like
1:00:55
a woman warrior type, like a red Sonia or something. Okay, well,
1:01:00
she's actually really freaking like if you look at her chrotter, I'll show
1:01:06
you an image. M hmm. Okay. Somebody said, um, doctor
1:01:12
Killinger. Yeah, doctor Kilinger is great too. Magic Mouda Bag, Um,
1:01:17
the magic Mouda Bag. So she's definitely. Oh she's like wonder Woman.
1:01:28
Somebody says she's like wonder Woman. Yeah, she's definitely um big,
1:01:32
shall we say, okay, muscular? Yeah, like ridiculously so oh I
1:01:38
see yeah, oh yeah, that's totally wonder woman. Um all right,
1:01:45
let me take a look here. I don't know if I'm gonna be able
1:01:49
to show this, but I will try show it to the audience. There
1:01:54
goes and you guys can see her. So um yeah, yeah, question
1:02:01
of the viewer if this is if that whole the way they depicted that relationship
1:02:06
was woke. So I did remember that she had to apologize to him at
1:02:09
some point, which is unusual anyway, and that she was also fairly protective
1:02:16
of him. Yeah, okay, so that's that's this. Oh oh okay,
1:02:22
well I'll do this. Feel right. Do you have any any I
1:02:25
don't know if you do, but maybe you have thank yous or something.
1:02:30
No I can double check, but nobody since uh, no one has put
1:02:36
anything additional through. I think there's only a couple hours left if you want
1:02:38
to. Uh. So that's the padre dot com slash. I if you
1:02:44
want to help me out to make sure I can get this published, to
1:02:46
get it properly edited, um, because I don't want to just be another
1:02:51
YouTuber that puts a book out on the market. That's crap. H.
1:02:55
I think I just threw some shade. Um. I'm not going to specify,
1:03:00
but it's it's there is there is a small collegy. It's interesting because
1:03:06
I went on this little rabbit hole right because I was researching the publishing industry
1:03:12
and I was listening to a woman who had brought on a whole bunch of
1:03:16
agents who were all I briefly mentioned. One of them was like, a,
1:03:21
I don't like a book that challenges me in any way because I'm stupid,
1:03:24
And then the others were all like, oh, diversity, diversity,
1:03:28
university, and all kinds of contradictory and impossible advice. And it really just
1:03:31
came across as we all like diversity, and we like what pleases us,
1:03:37
and you'd have to guess, and and I'm like, so I said,
1:03:40
okay, so this is interesting. I'm going to look up the writing of
1:03:45
the YouTuber who because she talked about how she was debuting her novel and I
1:03:51
looked up, and apparently I fell down this rabbit hole where she was humiliated
1:03:54
off the internet because she bought like five star reviews because they're writing was terrible.
1:04:00
And it would be okay if she's just a creative who debuts with something
1:04:04
that's not great, because a lot of writers start with a really bad first
1:04:09
novel. But the thing is that she built herself as somebody who critiqued writing,
1:04:15
right, yeah, and then she ended up not taking her own advice
1:04:20
essentially, And then I fell down this rabbit hole and I found out there
1:04:26
are YouTubers out there who've been publishing novels and like reviewing each other's novels,
1:04:30
giving each other five star reviews, and the novels themselves are shall we say,
1:04:34
not very good. And I'm like reading all of this stuff about this
1:04:40
drama and I'm like, oh, this is this is a whole subculture that
1:04:43
I was not even aware of. It's called book tubers, and that's what
1:04:48
I'm referencing. So it's it's interesting. But but my point is that I
1:04:55
don't want to be like that. I want to actually try to do my
1:04:59
best whatever or that is like I don't know if And you know what,
1:05:03
one of the things about being a creative is you have this moment where you're
1:05:06
like, well, these people should have said them themselves, you know,
1:05:11
I don't think this should be to see the light of day because it's not
1:05:15
good enough. And at the same time, you're like working on a project
1:05:19
and you're like, am I in the headspace thinking oh, this is okay
1:05:23
to show people but it actually isn't. Yeah you know what I mean,
1:05:26
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Yes, I did get a supercow. Yes, okay, so we got
1:06:18
a supercow anonymous five dollars. And they say, how would Warriana fit in
1:06:24
feminist fiction? I'm too cynical to give it the benefit of the doubt because
1:06:27
they made Brock a bitch. Yeah, I can't say. I have to
1:06:31
see the episode. You have to watch it. And the other thing is
1:06:34
that, yes they did at the same time as they made it that Warrianna
1:06:41
actually had to apologize to him. So it was this, Like I said,
1:06:45
it was this playing with gender that they do, which is really interesting.
1:06:49
And I don't know if it's woke or not. Yeah, as a
1:06:55
question to the audience, Yeah, I think. I think if if something
1:06:58
is really woke, it's usually not very subtle. Well, usually that the
1:07:02
man plays the submissive. But you know, like in a relationship, the
1:07:06
submissive experience usually is the one that is most that that sort of dominates if
1:07:14
I know that. Yeah, like this is this is what I've noticed.
1:07:17
So a dominant person will be dominant, but they will have to judge themselves
1:07:25
in their actions by their benefit or lack of benefit to the submissive. And
1:07:30
there was that kind of quality to their relationship that Oriona may have been dominant,
1:07:35
but at the same time her actions were judged based on Brock's benefit.
1:07:41
So it's a topic of the bottom which you know, like when I think
1:07:45
about it, I honestly would think that the people behind Venture Brothers would be
1:07:50
interested in exploring things like that because because look at what they did with Valerie
1:07:56
Silenus and Ted Bundy. Yeah, they are looking at really interesting aspects like
1:08:02
and that's what one of the things that makes the Vendorture Brothers really compelling long
1:08:06
term is that they do look at interesting aspects of human psychology. Yeah,
1:08:14
and with it, and you can sort of scratch your head and think about
1:08:16
it. But anyway, that's my spiel. I don't know. I cannot
1:08:19
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