Breakdown of Davis Aurini's Matrix 4 Review

now after a long yeah years old. Can you explain why that joke is so Gilbert Godfried? When people we have a decent number of folks who are younger who were either not born when nine eleven happens happened or were too young to remember it, everyone lost their mind to a degree that like is not understandable or fair. People. People went completely fucking insane, and it's part of why

so many terrible things were done. And there was this like fascist e religious significance lint to nine eleven and the deaths that justified just outrageous crimes across the globe. Um, And you couldn't like talk about it without referring to it like the Crucifixion of Christ. For years it was just a really fucked up the way in which nine

eleven went down in our collective memory. And Gilbert Godfried, God bless him, day after nine eleven gets up and says, you know what, I gotta get back to work, and he goes up on stage, does his stand up and just just jokes about nine eleven like right after the and and gets canceled for it doesn't work for like a decade. Um just blown out of the water. But by god, he was ahead of the curve because now

we all joke about nine eleven. It's the funniest thing in the world because it has to be NonStop laugh when seriously, we killed a million people. M hm h you hard, Yeah, that's sad um it is it is. He was a very talented Comedian's very funny, and it seems like a nice man. His uh yeah, his nine eleven so was very funny. His his Aristocrats stuff is very funny. What did he what did he say? What

is his nine eleven stuff? Just a bunch of nine eleven jokes, just a bunch of really good nine eleven jokes. I mean, you can find if you have to catch I have to catch a flight to California. I can't get flight. They said, they have to stop at the Empire State Building first. What a hero, Yeah, he knew. He's like I if I am, if I do the worst jokes possible, then eventually people will start laughing. M Anyway,

that's a bumber. What else is a bummer? A long illnesses all His family said he'd apparently been sick for quite some time. What else? A gunman wearing a gas mask set off a smoke bomb and shot ten people in a New York subway car. Yes, the jokes don't stop coming. Yes, the yucks. Um, it looks like developing story. But yeah, yeah, as of the moment, it's unclear if anyone died. Um. That very likely may have changed by the time you hear this episode. Hopefully not. I'm I'm

looking at right now. The most recent stuff we have is UM five people in like critical but stable condition, and I guess six others injured by shrapnel from bullets and other sources. Who knows what that is. Sometimes bullets go through people, or fragments of them break off or something.

Hopefully no people will die. Um. Obviously, there's apparently been kind of an increase in or at least the narrative that's forming is that like crime is surging, uh in in New York's public transit, and you know, we got to add more cops, which we don't. That would not have solved this. And I can say that because they just added a thousand cops to patrol. They have a ten billion dollar budget, which is larger than the military budget of the nation of Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken.

It's so frustrating when they spin this around, um as some sort of indictment of defund the police. Uh, when we have not defunded the fucking police. There were so many cops in the subways and they didn't do anything. Military harassed vendors, and the harassed vendors and homeless people, people who like jump over the turn some tickets. One report of a cop who came on the scene and asked someone for their cell phone because his radio didn't work to call in the shooting. So um. But yeah,

I mean, they just added a thousand fucking officers. One of the things they promised that there would always be an officer at like every stop. Um U. It seems like it doesn't matter if someone's going to do a thing. UM, we don't yet know. Obviously, we'll talk about Biden's made a new gun control kind of push. We don't know yet the degree to which, like this was an illegal or illegally owned firearm or what kind of gun. It

was no way to know UM at this age. At the moment, the perpetrator, who's described as a blackmail with a heavy build wearing a green construction type vest in a hooded sweatshirt, UM has not been caught. Also, that may not be the guy's description a lot of One of the things to note is in the immediate wake of this, there were claims of explosive devices left behind and claims of multiple shooters, which is the case with basically every mass shooting, and it's almost never the case.

There's almost never unexploded devices, and there's almost never a second shooter. But when there is a shooting, people generally who are on set generally tend to feel that like, oh my god, there was more than there were a bunch of shooters or whatever, or it was a machine any understandable people like people are not used to being shot at in a panic. I'm not putting any blame

on them. It's just as a consumer of media, when you hear initial reports from a shooting like that, take them with a heavy grain of salt, because every any shooting, Yeah, I like almost like was like, didn't suggest we even bring this up because it's as the information comes in, Yeah, at least like at least wait a day, yeah. Yeah. And it's like some of the reporting is saying that the New York City Police are not investigating this as an act of terrorism. I found I've read other stuff

that says, well, no, they think it might be. They just don't know enough yet to say if it was, which seems totally fair, you know, not not that I'm like that seems like it's reasonable to say, like, yeah, we have no idea why this happened yet, of course you don't. It's just people. It just happened. Yeah. And also like, what's yeah, the operating definition of terrorism something like this isn't this isn't a case of classic terrorism, Like so I don't, like, how do you know? You

don't yet? Shut up? Maybe it is maybe, well classic terrorism? What does that mean? Does that mean? Brown is a religious based. I don't know what they meant by that, but um, I don't know the people shot subway. It seems a little terrifying. Yeah, it sucks. It's real bad. It's definitely bad. I think we can pretty safely say it is. It's bad. Um, but nobody knows. One of the witnesses went straight to work right after. Oh and Uber put surge pricing in Outside of us they shared?

Did they shared? Did? That's just fucking disgusting. Um, talk to us about shadow bands and shadow guns, banning shadows? Oh you mean ghost ghost gunshot guns? Again, this is the like when Democrats talk about guns, they always get a lot wrong. Um, which doesn't is an argument, is not an argument against policy. It's just like, well they don't they don't physically understand the devices that they're talking

about generally. And that's so first, let me explain to you, like what ghost guns are, because they're actually not one thing when Biden talks about them. The specific thing that he's banned is there are kits that you can buy online that include basically what's called an eight percent lower.

So like I've like I have a bunch of a R fifteens, right, Um, I could take any one of my A R fifteens and I could go online or with a three D printer, I could print out pieces to put around the barrel that I could attach stuff like a scope to or a light to. Um I could make a new stock. Right that I could. I could take off the olds to put that stock on. That stuff is not regulated. Right, A stock is not a gun. You don't have to give your background or anything.

You don't have to like give your I D. You can just go buy a stock or whatever and put it on a gun. Right, that makes sense. It's a piece of furniture. You can't kill somebody with a stock.

But because guns are so modular and you can take pieces off of them and replace them with other pieces, the government has had to define what part of the gun is the gun because when you buy a gun in most of the United States, discounting places like Texas where things like face to face sales are legal, when you buy a gun, you have to go through a background check. Right, you have to fill out a form

four four seven three. UH. You have to say that you're not on drugs or you know a felon or whatever, and they do a background check to make sure some of that's true. And the background check system is also flawed, but we don't need to get into that right now. But in order to make that whole system possible, they have to define what part of the gun is the gun. And for something like an A R fifteen, because it varies from gun to gun, this is all very complicated.

For something like an A R fifteen and for most similar modern weapons, it's a piece called the lower receiver. And the lower receiver is kind of if you look at a picture of an A R fifteen, the middle piece of the gun, the bottom half of that middle piece basically is the thing that is legally the gun, and it's basically there's nothing in it, Like you can buy a lower receiver that is incapable of harming anyone,

is anything but a club. But the lower receiver is what you put a bunch of springs and the trigger into and stuff, and then you attach the upper receiver and like a barrel to that, and then you have a functional gun. But the only part of it that is a gun for the purposes of regulation is the lower receiver. Um some people realized because the way guns are so because gun laws are generally written by people who don't understand guns. They're they're they're pretty poorly written.

A good example of this would be since the bootlegger days, sought off shotguns are illegal, right unless you get it something called a tax stamp and go through a special process. You cannot have a shotgun that is shorter than a specific length. I think it's a twenty six inches or something. Don't quote me on that, but there's a specific length under with which a shotgun cannot be right, But you can go to a store and basically any state in the nation, including California, and you can buy what is

effectively a sought off shotgun. It is identical to a sought off shotgun, it functions identically to a sought off shotgun, but it is not legally a shotgun, and thus it is not specially regulated, and so it's just a normal gun and you don't need an extra thing to buy it because in the law, a a shotgun is defined as a gun with is a weapon with bore, weapon with a stock, So they just never made these with stocks. It just has a pistol grip and it's super short.

So a gun that would be if you were just to take the same weapon, but it had it was made with a stock, and you were to replace that stock with a pistol grip, you've committed a felony. But if you buy it with a pistol grip and it's only ever had a pistol grip, then it's not a shotgun and it's just a normal gun and it's fine. So again that doesn't make any sense, right, It's very silly.

So all sorts of loopholes like this exists, and the ghost guns that Biden regulated recently um exist in this kind of gray area where people were taking lower receivers and making them. But there's like two holes in a lower two or three holes in a lower receiver that you need to have drilled into it in order to put the pieces into it that make it into a gun. And if the lower receiver doesn't have those holes, it's

not legally a gun. So companies were making what we're called eight lower receivers, which is the lower receiver with everything but those holes, and they would sell them with a parts kit and with a k to make those holes and put them in the lower receiver to make it into a gun, and then it's effectively a gun. But you can just send it in the mail to who the funk ever, because it's not legally a gun. Right,

So that's one kind of ghost gun. There's a number of Like you can also three D print a lower receiver, and that's also technically a ghost gun in the way that fall what Biden's talking. Biden has not regulated three D printed arms now. He has specifically banned these kits that people were selling, right, So that's the thing that has been regulated just now. There's another thing. The a t F also released kind of a new definition of what a silencer is. We don't need to get into that.

It's still like, even as a gun guy, it's unclear to me exactly what they've done because the language on this kind of stuff is often so like arcane and weird. Gun nerds are still kind of actually trying to figure out what that particularly means. But all that has been done right now is this one specific kind of thing that people call a ghost gun. You can't sell anymore. I mean you can still sell those kits, but they're now regulated as firearms, so will have to fill out

a four four seven three into a background check and stuff. Right, That's all that's happened. It's it. That's all that's happened. Guys. That's a big the It's not going to do anything. I don't it's not going to do anything. It's a minor gesture, which is not a bad gesture, but it's not going to do anything, and it does not pertain to the issue. And yeah, it's not a it's not I don't think it's going to is likely to save any lives. Um, I don't. It's not something I'm hugely

concerned about particularly either. But it's it's also just like as the president, he has the ability to do this thing, whereas other gun control regulation you have to like Congress and stuff has to be involved. So this was a thing that he could do right in order to say that I'm taking action on on gun violence, you know. So that that's why this was done. It is because

there's not much he can do about anything at all. Yeah, yeah, as the especially about guns, because there's you know, Constitution and stuff like, this was the thing he could do to say I've taken action and on ghost guns because it's a thing that scares people. I don't expect it's going to have a huge impact on anything. Um, it seems like the start of because again it's mid terms, right,

It's midterm right. Uh, So like he's done this and also has started to speak up about gun regulation and like universal background checks, like the things that never get done. So it seems like I'll do I'll do this, I'll do this, talk about the things that we could do,

but we just need more people, uh in Congress. Well, and you know, there's a number of things that are like, uh, frustrating about this from just a pragmatic point of view, because like there's a bunch of articles coming out right now that Biden has the least support among young people of a Democratic president and like our fucking lifetimes, um, and it doesn't seem to be he's not They don't seem to have any idea how to fix it, and

that clearly are talking to the wrong people. That the things that young people want is like forgive student loans, give us fucking something on healthcare literally, and release people from prison right and legalized the thing in the world that's the easiest thing in the world. We would all be excited. You don't even have to do anything about Democrats would be excited about that. Not everything very frustrated by um, all of the conversations around this and seeing

what's happening. You know, we've talked about it, but yeah, Democratic voters are fucking apathetic young people, all of us right now, the real progressives, the people that want it done, because all we've seen over the past couple of years is a person stepping back from his campaign promises and the Democratic Party incapable of winning any kind of a fight, messaging any not doing or saying the right things, and

instead walking back. Right now, right now, we are facing all this, these these huge energy questions, and instead of turning to green energy, we're we're looking for oil in other places, releasing oil reserves. If you're going to do that, at least say also what we're gonna do is invest in these technologies. Make a case as to why we have got to stop depending on on on foreign oil, on oil in general. How would this this can't it's not sustainable. No, there's not doing anything. He's not doing

anything like that. He's just capitulating and for and and pretending like you never said it, um, And I'm sick of it. I don't know, I don't know. Why do we keep voting for people that aren't going to do ship because they very accurately say, well, your other choice is a guy who said he wants to murder you. Yeah, and you know, and I tweeted this and like, people

don't necessarily agree with me. But I was just in the mountains for the weekend and talked to a lot of conservative people who have why range they care about issues or whatever, they can care about climate change. Everybody I talked to does, and I'm link I don't know that the Republican Party ever will. But if they decided to, if they decided to make it a thing like yep, we're gonna make new jobs with green technology and and we're gonna do this, motherfucker, everybody would vote for them.

Because Den's won't do it. You don't have the background for a long time. It's so because again, you have number one, these issues that are very popular among the young people. The Democrats are trying to offer, one of which is at least simple fucking change, even if you can't get it through Congress because the Republicans decided to be dicks. You can ram Republicans for being dicks, and Biden can order the d e A to alter the schedule,

like their ship. He can do as president that will at least reduce the degree to which people are getting fucked for because of pot stuff. Um. Meanwhile, like he's I don't know this, like the gun stuff. Part of part of why it's frustrating is that this is not to deal with the problems, the very real problems of gun violence. Um. Because again there's four million fucking guns in this country. Uh, and you know there there they

will remain very available after this, as will ghost guns. Um. But another part of the issue is just that like as a tactical move, gun control support is the lowest it's been uh in like a decade. Um. For some for some information, like how that's changed. In two dos nineteen of Americans told Gallop they wanted stricter gun laws, and in November of Americans said they wanted stricter gun laws. Like it's it's plummeted, and it's plummeted, particularly among a

lot of young people for a variety of reasons. We don't need to make a big gun control argument here. That's certainly not my intention, but it's just worth noting that like this is contentious and not super effective and provides AMMO to Republicans as opposed to do something, Moe fucking pot. Bro, it's the easiest, it's the and you know what, you know what, it'll save more lives if you consider people thrown in prison for years and years and years to be like loss of life. It will

save more lives. Just fucking do it, bro. No one else is going to save some more lives. Robert the Washington State High Patrol. Maybe, but these ads together everything, Oh yeah, boy, Yes, we did a break, we did some talking and we're back. We're back. We're back now. Now you what do you want to talk about? Davis Sereni The truth about parajuana, the violent drug. Oh gosh, yeah, I have been seeing there have been some very fun posts of people trying to revive pot panic. That's always

a hoot. It's the they call it the Devil's uh gun. Yeah, there's I like when people try to point out that, like, well, you know, people have withdrawal symptoms from pot and it is addictive, It's like, yeah, motherfucker, you know what else is addictive? Fucking cross fit. We don't throw people into prison for doing it. Um, you know what's addictive? Driving

too fast on your motorcycle. We don't. Well, I guess you do throw some people in prison in there, but it's whatever, you know, it's addictive little glowing shapes and colors that you have to match up, and then when they match up, you get little coins, little artiitial coins, and the dings go off and it says, be a good job, and then you play the next level and you keep going and going and going. A lot of things are addictive. Maybe maybe human beings, uh, I can't

exist without addictions to some extent. It's just figuring out which ones are you can continue to be a productive human being and a good member of your family. An empathetic way of looking at things, Robert, Yeah, simple, it is that we all maybe have a struggle and we have something that we rely on, but we judge or um incarceerate people for being human especially Yeah, anyway, I don't know how we how we feeling. Folks do think that we should talk about the matrix resurrections. Who wants

to want what we're about to do? I haven't seen this movie, so I will preface this by saying I have yet to see the I have a pretty fun movie. Okay, so the only one that's seen this movie. Perfect because I'll have questions for you throughout this. So this I don't know if our listeners are aware of. There's a guy an He also goes by Leo. Okay, yeah, okay, I do yeah, so you might know him as as David uh David m j riney. Um. Anyway, do you want to give some you're gonna give some background on this?

You can do you remember us talking about him at Cracked back in the day vaguely there's he's a character. He is uh, he's not a character's actual human being that if I'm gonna go that hard. It's made YouTube videos in the past. I would say he's the most decade for a long time video views. Now, um, I'm first of all blown away that uh okay, okay, So first of all, he's a big big guy. Not big guy.

He's like you made videos about like gamer Gate and like a yeah um and like he's just and it's very like stereotypical, kind of like neat headed approach to

analyzing anything, talking about anything. Um. He has a if you if you're familiar with h Bomber Guy, Harris has a great video on this first couple of a couple of them, um where he sort of goes through his videos and aside from pointing out that he has one skull that he moves from room to room for his shots, for a little bit of like context on this guy. He he looks like Anton LaVey and he dresses like

a Canadian military reenactor. So he'll usually have like a leather vest and like a fucking he's a bald dude. He'll have like a cavalry cap on or a fedora in a suit, and he's always dressed in some like obnoxious like again like a suit in a fedora or or whatever. And he's he'll sit in a chair that he's like posed everything in his room carefully. He's like a weapon, yes, and embarrassing scotch and it's you every

now and then. You can see the bottle. It's like a gigantic it's from a gigantic, shitty cheap plastic bottle of terrible scotch that he fills with ice and he never actually drinks it. Yeah, he has. It's like he's a up guy. Um when he really wants to, he really wants to emulate and just sort of project this idea of like I feel like he's like a theater geek guy that or like like he was never allowed to. He just wants to. He wants to project his idea

of masculinity. Um, if you imagine, like it's a low five version of I think like a pragger, you are like a daily Wire like roundtable discussion where like everyone's in a leather chair and there's everyone's wearing like they're smoking jackets and they're all pretending to like cigars, and it's just this idea of what they think they should look like. And it's him, but it's like really low budget.

I was actually watching this originally and I was like, why are we going to talk about ten year old review of like the Matrix Revolutions, But no, it's about the newest one. This video came out in December. It looks like it's ten years old. It's incredible. He's not bought got any new furniture or anything like that. Everything about it he might have moved. It looks like, Um, he's got the same skull. He's still pretending to drink,

uh drink. It looks like he's drinking white Russian this time though, Um and uh smoking cigarettes in a proper kind of way. It's just very performative and funny, just aesthetically that and he talks about feminism a lot. He's like very big in like the Anita Sarkasian days, you know, complaining about women, complaining about video games, and just like

that kind of guy. So he has this review of the new Matrix film, The Matrix Resurrections, and he thinks it's actually pretty good, despite what all the antis g ws ws might have to say about it. Um So, I've not seen the New Matrix yet. I want to. I'm sure it's really good. I look forward to it. I'll see it eventually. I've watched this review from start to finish. I know he's wrong about so many things he says. I will have questions to follow up having

not seen the movie. But so if you can help me out out with that, Robert, you have, Cody, why are we talking about this bad film review with two hundred and fifty views from a fascist? Who the reason? So this guy the thing that brought him to prominence. There's a woman named Anita Sarkesian who did video game reviews from like a feminist perspective, and it's got a bunch of people very angry, and their anger wound up playing a role in the election of Donald Trump. It's

a stupid story. It's Davis Serini and this other guy who I don't want to name because I'm kind of worried that he's, uh, will hurt himself. Um, wound up crowdfunding a documentary called The Sarkesian Effect, where they got like tens of thousands of dollars to try to make a documentary that's supposed to be like showing the dark, evil sides of this, like the sinister reality of this lady who is again like talking about video games on

the internet. Um, and then it they they never really made it because they immediately had a fight and spent the money on cars and released like the shittiest like it's all very funny. But he was kind of in the era before the alt right really got formed. He was fairly prominent. And then h bomber guy did a video laughing at the fact that he was very like pointedly posing the same toy skull behind himself and every

shot where he would like do a monologue. Um, and it was it was such a good own that he disappeared. He just he got torpedoed off of the internet. It's extremely funny the degree to which he just got blown out of the water. And now after ten straight years of making videos and writing articles and ship his his ship gets like two hundreds something. It's just incredibly funny. It's a beautiful sight to see again and again. It looks like it was made ten years ago. I don't

I don't know. Like that's one shot, which I love. It's one shot. It's like good Fellas. Yeah, yeah, exact exactly good Fellas. We make a show that's primarily one shot, but we have we cut the things. We cut the things. We also like a puppet. You've got it clots, can't bought a camera. Prepare do some research, like minimal research. There's a section in this cody I've ate on what the director might think about stuff. You're capable of handling more than a tiny skip of sip of scotch over

the course of an hour and a half. You know what I really am. It's oh my god, it's so funny to wash him pretend to drink. He was a pioneer of a kind of content near and dear to my heart, which is when a right wing ship heads, sits in their car with a glass of scotch and a cigarette and smokes in their car while complaining about a movie. It's so groundbreaking in that field. It's still art. It still gets me. It's still still you know, they're

still playing the hits and we appreciate them for it. Now, is there any real pragmatic reason us to be talking about Davis SERNI absolutely not, But it can't hurt anything. He's had his stab at being a prominent right wing influencer and he failed because he's just too silly. So it's sometimes fun to laugh at him. I miss laughing at these guys, and he's like the last member of an era where like it was fun to laugh at them because they there was no chance of them actually

really hurting people. And I don't think Davis is capable of hurting anyone anymore. Yeah, there's that's but whatever. Um, But this video in particular, it's it's mostly innocuous and only funny. There's some like language he uses where I'm like, wait, did you say that did? But like there's no there's very little like most of these, you know types of guys, especially prominent ones now are like really pushing, like very toxic, bad lies um and this is just a guy watching

movies wrong. And he admits in the opening of the movie that he has for his entire adult life patterned way he dresses off of the first Matrix movie, which, if you see pictures of this guy is the funniest thing in the world. Died when he said that it's incredible. I can't funny. He looks like if Anton LaVey shopped at Ross. I feel bad for him. I do. I don't. He's he's a really bad person. Like he's very racist,

he's very sexist. Here's he's he's The most famous picture of him is him sitting in a chair with his scotch that he doesn't drink in a cigarette and a T shirt that says, this is what a patriarch looks like. Oh boy, he's an incredible Oh my god, that's really funny. It's also like it's perfect. It's this again. This sort of like ten year old sort of like idea of a guy and he survived somehow, and he's still he's

still that guy. And like like if you watch this, if you didn't know who he was, you would think this guy is doing a bit. This is like a funny bit about this type of guy from ten years ago. It's a get right, like I I don't know the source material maybe, but there's like clearly satire going on. No, it's a real guy and this is these are his real thoughts. Um. And so I don't know. I don't even know where to start because this is it's such

a funny. There's so many misinterpretations of this movie again that I haven't even seen. Um, there are complaints he makes in this in this video throughout the whole thing. It's fascinating because he's complaint. He complains about people's false readings of the Matrix trilogy. And there's this like talking about how like you you put your own like opinion on it, which like, hey man, watch your own review

real quick. But uh complain like you know, people like oh they get about like capitalism and like commodification of X and Y and and the sort. He doesn't talk about the trans of it all, which is interesting. Um, but in very he talks a little bit, gets a little bit um, which is the really dicey stuff. I would say, um, but but honestly, even then, not that bad for a fascist today. Right. Yeah, it was like I was like, one thing he said, maybe go like, oh man, really, and then I was like, I guess

it's not. It's not worse than what other more prominent people say publicly. Um. But it's funny because he talks about this and then there's a brief period where he talks about how in the early two thousands there was this move towards more freedom, which is like a hilarious thing to talk about, like post like an incredible thing

to claim about the way society was moving. And then he talks about like, you know, it was also the height of these movies like like The Matrix and like and like fight Club, and it's like, man, it was in which only Gilbert Godfried stood up for liberty. That's that's right. The hero in American Clay like talking about how like people are like putting these like fake like anti capitalist, uh perspectives on these movies and then talking about Fight Club for a while is so funny to me.

There's like there's literally a scene in that movie where they show the prices of everything in the guy's apartment and he like half the movie takes place in his like soul sucking office where he literally beats the ship out of his boss and like it's just like what a weird disconnect um to to have that. Um. And then there's a whole section where he talks about how, uh it's incredible actually, so he's talking about this movie and he talks about it as if it's a remake.

He first to it as a remake a bunch, which is very weird, and then he talks about how like you know, and they're all these remakes these days, and like, you know, I understand the pushback against this movie originally, like you know, there's so many, so many your remakes these days. And then he as an example, he talks about the Marvel movies, which I get, I understand if you're saying, like, yeah, they're a little like they kind of repeat themselves and like it's kind of like the

same sort of thing over and over. They're not remakes, it's a series of movies. Um. And then he's like, but there's a recent era of remakes that I think is really really uh like proves the sort of like creative spark is alive again. And his examples are the first one is Doom, which fair enough, um, I would argue. First of all, he says he didn't see it, so

he has to see it yet. Um and also claims that well, also, like I would say, if he did see it, he probably wouldn't like it because he'd be like, but they they made it political or whatever like that would be a complaint. But he hasn't seen Dune. Um. And then he says, another example of a really great remake these days is Ghostbusters, not the feminist Ghostbusters, but the new Ghostbuster that summer. I haven't seen it. I

haven't seen it. Your Ghostbusters haven't. If you love it, it's fine if you like it whatever, it's that's great this movie and says it was, it was really really great. Um. But again that you enjoyed a thing. Not a remake, my friend. Uh, that's a sequel. It is a sequel. That one is. It's a direct sequel. It was called After Life for a reason because it's does in fact have the original characters come back to the extent that later on in their lives. Um. And uh, So I

thought that was interesting. And then his final example was Blade Runner, which again is not a remake, it is a sequel. It says right in the title that it takes place in a year after the original movie. It's literally in the title that it's not a remake, and that's like a really specific nitpick, but I just thought it was very funny. I would argue it's an important just like just like yeah, just like not talk about

remakes correctly. Also saying that claim. His claim is that like, uh, you know, there's like aside from like you know, he like talks about like the presidents and movies in the same breath where he's like, yeah, we had Clinton and Bush and then we had you know, the lame duck Trump, and now we've got Biden, but also we have this creative spark of movies and remakes. And it's like those

thoughts don't go together. What like you and you could talk about politics and art and the connection between the two, but he doesn't. He just says that we had presidents and now we have these remakes. Um. And I would also pose it that a remake directly negates your claim that there's a creative spark. If they're remaking movies, then there isn't a creative spark. And you could say that there is by citing other movies that are original movies

that are good that exists now. But he's saying that we have a creative spark in Hollywood now because of Ghostbusters Afterlife, And I just don't know what to say to a person like that. I don't know how that person's brain exists in society. So there's two kinds of people who are profoundly wrong. There's the kinds of people who are wrong, and you you have to deal with it, right, you have to either try and convince them of that they're wrong, or you have to deal with the consequences

of their being wrong. Right, Yeah, politicians, cops, whatever, fascists, I mean, some fashions, and then you get and and David Sereni is a fascist, but he's someone where it doesn't matter that he's wrong, Like he's incapable of being taken seriously even by the people on his side, and we can just we can't just marvel at what a what a weird goblin he is. And I love it. I love it. I I can't get enough. I completely

it's delicious. I like watching this entire thing again. I've not seen the new movie, and I'm like, well, that's hilariously wrong. Well that's a gross misreading of the movie that I haven't seen yet, Like it's so obvious it is. It is really funny because the question I keep having is he's like trying to analyze this movie in a way that number one makes it really clear. Oh, you've never read or listened to a single thing that any

of the Wachowskis have said about it. But also you've never liked, You've never liked looked at the movie and and just like looked at the things that are on set, like the copies of the books, and Neo's off has been like, Oh, I wonder if that might have anything to do with like this stuff, Like for somebody who's obsessed with these movies, he's I don't think he's he's never had a real thought in his head about them

other than they're cool. They're neat, No, they're cool, and they firm his priors right, Like it's just like I can I can push my view through this movie. Hey boys, I hate for my only interdirection to be such a buzz skill, but it's time for an ad break that Robert. You know what Davis SERENI will never have is sponsors because nobody cares for he has to say about anything except for people like us who want to laugh about it. Well, he's just so against uh I guess for the capitalization

or modification of or he's against it. It's unclear. It's unclear to break capitalism. But yeah, we're going to add break now together everything, So don't don't don't back from that. And I am back to resuming listening to you guys talk about this. We are we are talking about the only issues that really mattered, which is laughing about this

weirdo and his bizarre takes. Again, if you think we're punching down, there's a bunch of videos of him, like saying the in word and and being being a hearty. He was talking about tewish conspiracies. He's terrible person again, horrible man y. But just don't feel bad for him. No, don't make a mistake that I made looking at him being a drip. It's such a drip. Honestly, I don't know. I couldn't watch this video. I didn't realize. I half

thought it was a joke when you sent it. Use he was so unpleasant to look at, and I was like, we can talk about this sign and that's mean I don't mean unpleasant to look at, like, oh, physically, I just mean everything that he's putting out there, it's I don't want to do with his body. He's unpleasant to look at for the choices he's made of how to

present himself. Then he chooses to wear the fact that he decides to always pose in front of a plastic skull while holding a glass of scotch that he doesn't drink it repeated for smoking cigarettes in his own house. I guess my mistake was thinking that we couldn't possibly be talking about this. We are absolutely are. So I kept that and I am enjoying listening to you to talk about it. We are talking about the ship out

of this ye, So don't let me stop you. Also, I just can't stress enough that it is thirty minutes one. Take him flipping through his little journal and like slowly remembering the points that he wanted to bring up and talk about. Uh, there were a few. I had to pause it every once in a while to laugh, uh,

and to like jot something down. And every single time I would unpaus it, I thought it was still paused because he physically like doesn't move for periods of time when he's thinking about what he's about to say or like trying to remember what he's Again, he's been doing these for ten years and he has he never learned to edit. That's ten minutes learning how to do like a cutth like download I movie. Man, It's like you would think that, like, like, how many views did you

say he gets? You think after doing this for so long and continuing to not have success, um in the you know, like a successful channel would would grow your audience, right you You you would think that you would be like, what can I do to make this better? Oh? Yes, editing people enjoy editing? Yeah, you know he's Um, he's a narcissist, I think. So he does have to he has to have his opinion out there, and he he has to portray himself as this like badass right wing

revolutionary thought leader, military historian. He really wants to portray himself as like tough. So he made this. He's Canadian. Um, I think he lives in Vegas now if I'm up on my ARENI but he's Canadian or your loreny. So what before he before like gamer Gate happened. One of the things he did before kind of became prominent is he got a bunch of funding from the Government of Toronto to make a short film, Like it was like

ten thou dollars that they gave him. Apparently, Garrison says, this is something the Government of Toronto does a shitload. Is just like that out terrible art fund or art funding for which is fine. I have no problem with this um and I have no problem with the fact that gave it to Davis Sereni because the resulting movie is very funny. So he made a movie. It's like twenty minutes. It's called are you ready? Have you seen

his movie? It is called Lust in the Time of Heartache Boin and the whole movie, the whole movie horrible sound quality, by the way, Like he doesn't know how to mic people. So it's like him giving a narration about how like fall in the modern world is, and like men and women don't know how to get along, and like women are you know, shallow, and men don't

understand how to take control. And it's like him giving this like speech while walking around in a suit and a fedora past like groups of men and women having hackneyed conversation that you can Yeah, well, I'm getting to the movie having Hackney conversations that you can barely hear

because again he doesn't know how to mike people. And then it's like the halfway point, after he's finished this rant about like struggling in YadA YadA YadA, like just really dull, fascist bullshit, a bunch of the men who have been like he's been walking past on the street attack him with ninja weapons and he pulls out Size, and then it's like a ten minute fight choreography of him with Size fighting guys with swords and bats, and it's really bad. It's really he doesn't know how to

do blocking. He doesn't like, he clearly hit, He clearly got the funding from Canada so he could buy a bunch of ninja weapons for himself to make a movie. Then it's the funniest fucking thing in the world. Sounds like something you make when you're like, yeah, he's like when he makes this thing, it's a it's a high school uh learning, Like, Oh, if I jump off this roof and I put in reverse, it looks like I'm

forced jumping onto the roof, like it's that ship. But a three year old man year old man who needed the government of Canada's funding to buy a pair of Size I was an incredible mind funny. Um, I didn't know about that movie now I now, I can't wait to find out what he thinks about the matrix. I swear, I there's okay, there's two other things I needed to mention about this incredible review. Um, and you can correct me if I'm wrong about this, as you've seen the

movie and I have not. That's right. So one of the main things I think that is worth discussing is well aside like misunderstanding and like it's like it's constantly he's constantly contradicting himself about like what the movie is about and what like. He didn't like people misinterpreting the original to be about. Um, which is this a very fun little disconnected to sort of see like dance around

in his eyes. But he does start to talk about Lana Wachowski and how like just because she's trans although he's, uh, he doesn't I don't think he says she but like no, he says, we all know who they are and what they are. That was the one that was like, wait a second, you're disgusting. So he's talking about Lana Wachowski and how like just because of who she is doesn't mean that like that's what the movie is about. Like it doesn't mean like that's what she's putting like into

the movie. Um, like that's us playing identity politics by assuming that she thinks this. And it's is such a funny like thing because he he's wrong here, but also he's right in that, like yeah, that's what people have been like saying, like he talks about the bugs character with the purple hair, blue hair or whatever. It's like people say she's like the s j W character because she has blue hair, but like not everybody has blue hair is like that. It's like, man, watch one of

your videos from eight years ago. That's all you did, like like five minute like cringe compilations of people with blue hair and calling them s j wes. What do you what is this growth? That's it's like anti growth. It's so weird to see him talk about it. Um, but the important thing, and this is where I need you to help me out, Robert, because he's talking about because he makes like these passing uh mentions about society and how this movie is about like the libs and

the pandemic. Pretty sure it's made before the pandemic but whatever, um and how it's like it's about like the libs and the bots and like the NPCs and uh, you know you can, sure you can pick your own gender or whatever, but you've got to wear a mask and stuff like that. And he's like very flippant about the

gender and stuff like that. And then he starts talking about the movie being about the separation of man and woman, and I assumed, like part of this is about it's like Neo and Trinity and like their separation and bringing them back together. And he talks about the separation of man and woman and the yin and the yang and how like if you know when you're when you have

the separation, you can be controlled. But when you have when they're the union, there's a union between the man and the woman, Uh, then then that's when you're like

you're truly free. And I it's just like every step of the way during this review, I'm like, you're so close, man, You're so fucking close to knowing what the movie is talking about of this like the separation of man and woman and like this union by this trans director and how if you like like the freedom that can be gained from like rejecting this idea of like the separation between man and woman. And again, I haven't seen the movie.

Maybe you can speak a little more to that, but it seems like just like the most basic reading of the movie being taken and made to be like yeah, man and a woman should be like together and married or something like right, am I am? I? Am I misreading that? Am I misinterpreting what he said in the review? I don't think you are. I think I just remember remember watching that and being like, you're a little bit further, just like like why are they constrained? Why? Like what

is what is constraining them? Why do they not feel free by this dichotomy of man and a woman? Like just like what what do you think talking about Davis? Um? So maybe I don't know, Maybe maybe I need to watch the movie and i'll i'll, I'll get it a little. That'll that'll give you you should watch the movie to

gain a whole new appreciation for Davis. SERENI like like but like right, like yeah, like the thing about Davis so like some of it's that like okay, you could choose to do death of the Author, Like that's a perfectly valid way to look at art, Like it doesn't matter what It doesn't matter what the what the person who created it intended. What matters is like what what

can be like taken away from it? Right and like my, you know, the interpretation of the person watching like it doesn't I don't need to go to the I don't need to like look up what the what the creator says about, like why they made this and what it meant. Like Lord of the Rings can be about World War One if that's the thing that you you you take out of it or whatever, Like, it doesn't matter that

token yelled about that his whole life. But if you're going to say, like this is not what Lana Wichowski meant, then you do kind of have to look at what Lana Wachowski has said about the things that she's made you like, yeah, it's it's wild, like and he's even he even alludes to like and you know, maybe she said stuff about this. I don't know, buddy, it's a

thirty minute video. You gotta you gotta google for a second to see what this person has said about the world and like her worldview a sound a literal second um like she's alive you can find out. Um, it's just so funny to watch that movie again that I've not seen and be like, this is about the pandemic and what I think about, like men and women and gender.

To close us out talking about Davis Areni, I just looked up he's blocked me on Twitter because his profile picture used to be him on a trip to the US shooting a hand I'll think at Arene, so his his Twitter used to be his profile used to be him holding a handgun, and the way he was holding it was with like he had one hand around the gun in another hand under it. It's called a teacup grip, and it's not how you're supposed to hold a handgun.

People did used to do it. It doesn't. There's a lot of reasons why it's bad, and I like pointed out this was like eight years ago. I made fun of him for it because he brags about having been like a Canadian soldier, and then he went on this whole rant about that's how they totally how they teach you to hold a gun in Canada, and I didn't pulled up a bunch of Canadian military training documents to show that he was wrong and probably lying about having

been in the Canadian military. File picture is him in a cowboy hat and but um in the snow, but he's his back is turned to the camera. Are you seeing his pronouns? Katie? And you can't his hand in so he's either pissing or holding a gun. His pronouns are daddy, sir. No one's ever called you either, ever, ever ever unless it is sir. You need to leave. You're making a scene. You can't smoke here and record

your videos. Not No, I'm not followers shaming. But again, the man has three thousand followers, he only has five gab his I just found a Medium post where he apparently wrote a seven thousand word essay on how our institutions are clus your be capture collapse theory. He has four followers on Medium. Very funny. Again, he's dedicated his

whole life to this. That's I guess that's the point is it's like it's sad, it's like it's not do not feel bad, but man, no, it's just funny to see a fascist try really hard to have an influence on the world and completely fail because everybody thinks he's silly. It's really funny. It's just really funny, and sometimes it's nice to just laugh at that, to just laugh and a terrible person failing, just failing in like the in

like the silliest way too, like just wrong about everything. Yeah, and and like half of its like horrendous stuff and the other half is like, well, you're just a silly man. You're just a silly, silly man. But the important thing is that the creative spark is back in Hollywood now that they made very questionable things. Oh no, he's oh he's he's a heart questionable. That was a nice way of phrasing it. But um, just scrolling through his media posts and no, thanks, Um, I think we've done it

here today. I think we've got it. I think this is clearly what the people wanted was for us to talk about the news for ten minutes and then Davis SERENI for forty anybody that's still listening as a hero and let us know what you think this fuck. I'm just I'm just glad that we finally got back to the basics what we wanted to do with the start of the show, which is make fun of Davis Serene, a guy no one listening to this the original pitch. Yeah, we went to our bosses at my Heart and said,

let me show you this fucking guy. Eventually he's gonna keep making videos and one of them. Look, we're not gonna say anything about him for a couple of years because it's not quite as funny as it's going to be if we let him have done this for a decade without any kind of impact. He's actually been doing this for quite a while, all Right, I just go just like go look for the video because it really does look like it was made in it's ro it's so funny. We're taking two weeks off and then we'll

be back. Yeah, we're taking two weeks off, then we'll be back. In the meantime, go look up h bomber guys videos about Davis SERENI definitely do that. Yeah, look like it's just it's such a beautiful, amazing, hilarious primer to this. I'm going to do that while I'm sending these files to Daniel do it. That's great? You know what else? Bye? So great? I read Dan Worst Year

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