Breakdown of Davis Aurini's Matrix 4 Review

Today we mostly talk about Davis Aurini and his review of the Matrix Resurrections, for some reason. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Worst Year Ever, A production of I Heart
Radio Welcome to Get Everything. So don don ah what

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oh are we are we singing? Cody just Um, it's
a day today is a day of days, not of
the weekend. But you might be listening to this on
the weekend. Do people listen to our show on the weekend?

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You can't know steal beams. Nine eleven wasn't inside John O. J.
Simpson flew those planes into that tower speaking in nine eleven,
Gilbert Godfrey died Wait what yeah, he just died just
now after a long yeah years old. Can you explain

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

(04:14):
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

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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

(04:57):
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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

(10:05):
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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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,

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

(17:22):
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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

(19:38):
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

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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,

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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,

(20:54):
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

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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,

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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

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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

(22:25):
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

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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

(23:07):
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

(23:31):
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

(23:52):
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.

(24:13):
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

(24:37):
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

(24:59):
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

(25:21):
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.

(25:42):
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

(26:04):
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

(26:27):
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,

(26:48):
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

(27:10):
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

(27:32):
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

(27:54):
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

(28:16):
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

(28:36):
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.

(28:58):
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.

(29:21):
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,

(29:42):
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.

(30:04):
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,

(30:29):
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

(30:51):
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

(31:13):
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.

(31:34):
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

(31:55):
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

(32:16):
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.

(32:37):
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

(32:58):
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,

(33:20):
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

(33:45):
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

(34:08):
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

(34:28):
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

(34:48):
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

(35:08):
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

(35:29):
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

(35:50):
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.

(36:14):
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

(36:36):
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

(36:56):
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

(37:17):
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

(37:40):
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

(38:00):
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,

(38:22):
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

(38:44):
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

(39:04):
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

(39:24):
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

(39:48):
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,

(40:10):
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.

(40:37):
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.

(40:59):
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

(41:21):
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

(41:44):
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

(42:06):
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,

(42:27):
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

(42:49):
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

(43:11):
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

(43:32):
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

(43:55):
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

(44:16):
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

(44:36):
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

(44:58):
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

(45:19):
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

(45:40):
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

(46:02):
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

(46:25):
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

(46:46):
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

(47:08):
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

(47:31):
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

(47:52):
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

(48:15):
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

(48:35):
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

(48:57):
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

(49:19):
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

(49:42):
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,

(50:04):
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

(50:24):
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

(50:44):
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

(51:05):
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

(51:26):
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

(51:47):
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

(52:09):
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

(52:29):
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

(52:51):
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

(53:12):
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,

(53:32):
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

(53:53):
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

(54:15):
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,

(54:41):
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

(55:04):
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

(55:28):
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,

(55:49):
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

(56:10):
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

(56:33):
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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