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The crew comes together to look at "Don't Look Up' and review how the US will look when they can't look up not at themselves.
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Welcome to the Blurred Spectrum Podcast. We are back this week to go over uh kind of a actually no, it's a blurred cube movie review, I guess, to review uh Don't Look Up. I've been getting that wrong for the past couple of weeks, so I'm going to get it right this time. Uh, this is a movie that recently came out. Uh, of course, Netflix putting out the uh the jewels uh in this current time of everybody supposed to be home, but they're not. Uh, and our panelists have not only watched it, they want to give you a review, their personal reactions uh to this movie. Uh that it has you know spurred a lot of feelings, a lot of thoughts, a lot of reasonings between each of our uh individual thought processes as pertains to politics and climate change and social media. So, who are panelists today? Let me go ahead and tell you, starting with myself, Suchino Shogun, I also have the doctor. That's good, I have Mii Skittles, hello, I have Gazay Shiru. Hola, I have the black McCoy, little Nicholas, I have Sione Cosplay, and I have Dr. Harlene Quinzel of the Shampoo Bracelets. That's good. So I'm just gonna go ahead and throw it out there. I'm not even gonna moderate. Well, I am moderating, but I'm not even gonna lead this into a conversation. I'm just gonna say, oh well, I guess not overall. Uh, what did you think of the movie? Let's just go ahead and throw it out there.
SPEAKER_00Somebody, anybody loved it. Uh absolutely loved it. So I phenomenal.
SPEAKER_01I like this. So across the depressing and depressing, and depressing. It was very depressing.
SPEAKER_08It was a touch of horror because you know that all of that can really happen. So just a sprinkle in there.
SPEAKER_01Uh uh, not good.
SPEAKER_08Well, it's happening, it's happening, yeah.
SPEAKER_07I I hear everybody about to talk real quick. I hear everybody talking. Spoilers, that's all I'm gonna say. Continue, please.
SPEAKER_10I literally sat there after watching it and was like, damn, was good, but wow. Yeah, yeah, wow. Uh this is real life.
SPEAKER_09Right, that was a what the fuck moment. Like it's really going on.
SPEAKER_03It's clearly satire, but then when you're looking at it, you're like, it's a little bit too real.
SPEAKER_00In some ways, it's the best kind of satire for that reason because it's you know, so satiric, so successfully satirical, like, you know, oh, but this actually happens, like it's close enough to reality that like it blurs that line. And it's, you know, yeah, I mean, it's just it was really they hit so many issues in society so well. Um, and pretty like I think for me, the one thing that one of the many things I'll say that just really stood out as, oh, this is exactly how this would go in real life was the social media response.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Everything with like the means and then like her being turned to this villain, like it's like I was like, oh yeah, this is exactly how this would happen. Like 100%, you know.
SPEAKER_08Absolutely. Yeah, I think we really saw that with COVID, and um, it reminded me uh everything that pertained to COVID in the US specifically. Um, just seeing how even though we had scientific data that, you know, we always want to talk about facts. We want to know about the facts, and and we had the facts, and and people just still didn't give a shit. They actually rather listen to somebody that had more of a uh a bully mentality, uh, because that was what was that was what was catchy, that was what was trending. That was something that people can kind of just joke or or make fun of instead of actually listening to the hard facts. And that's exactly what happened with COVID. And uh history repeats itself. Um, that's exactly what happened with the Black Plague when it happened when it was reintroduced into California. I think in I can't remember the time, I want to say around the 1930s or 40s. And the mayor uh didn't want people to know um, you know, the California natives that the Black Plague was there. So they tried to do everything they could to stop the scientists from publishing that the Black Plague was um, you know, really running rap rampant in the uh like little Chinatown, little China little Chinatown side of California. So it just is funny how history repeats itself. It was uh really almost about like a hundred years from then till now, and it's the same shit, even though we're more technologically advanced, the mentality is the same. So it was kind of it was a great movie, but it was very depressing because it kind of reinstated that I have no hope for humanity because even though we are more yeah, we have more, we have more education, we have more technology, and we still are not using those to our benefits to learn and be better people, we're still slipping into that very, I don't know, just Neanderthal, not even Neanderthal, because at least they fucking have something else.
SPEAKER_09That's like are are they choosing not to use it more so than just in going off their own will and wits? Because you know, some of the people that even now that are anti-vaccine or COVID still doesn't exist, like they're just listening to other people in their own circle. Like, are they even researching anything or or listening to social media? Period.
SPEAKER_08It's all in social media. I mean, even look how social media is is uh I would say organized. You have articles on Facebook, right? It's not often that people will click the article and read the article in its full entirety, they will look at the headlines and they're like, I read it, I read it, I saw the headlines.
SPEAKER_03Mind you now, Facebook, Facebook just in the past like uh maybe six months, I don't know, maybe six to seven months, instituted like, hey, you're about to share this article, but you didn't open and read it. Are you sure we want to share that?
SPEAKER_08I think it was less than six months. I think it was towards the end of last year. Yeah, yeah. And and and be and it's funny because we'll read articles, especially when it comes to celebrity gossip, and we're like, oh my god, I knew it. I knew that person was a son of a bitch. Um, but did you read the whole fucking thing? And we're like, oh, clickbait. Oh yeah, clickbait. Absolutely. It's that that extra, extra read all about it bullshit, but in the the newer, you know, 21st century edition, and that it is really going to get everybody um, I don't know, in into huge fucking trouble. And it's funny how when Don't Look Up came out, there was actually a comet that was scheduled to kind of come very close to to Earth around last year. It was like February. No, excuse me, it was uh last December. There were like two comets that were gonna be very that were gonna that were actually very close. And I posted on my Facebook, like ha I see that it's finally come, but it was like thank God. Thank God, please. Earth is ghetto and shit. Just go ahead and do what you gotta do. Stop with this anticipation. So it was it's just ironic, and people just didn't care.
SPEAKER_03Hello, like imagine imagine dying and going to like the good place, and you see God, and you're like, bro, you should have let this in the draft, son. Like this is not it.
SPEAKER_10This is not it.
SPEAKER_08Oh, yo, they should play Ariana Grande song on repeat. Oh, because I felt like she spoke, like, not only did she like speak whatever she was supposed to, but I felt like she ad-libbed a lot in there to where her own personal feelings came out.
SPEAKER_03Um Suchi and I, we had heard the song before we saw the movie. I didn't, I just like, oh, Ari and such and such got a song together, and um, let me let let's listen to the song. And I was like, Oh shit, because like when I first listened to music, I don't listen to the lyrics, I listen, I like I listen to the sound of the song. It's like, can I do I fuck with this? Okay, cool. Now, like let me hear what they're saying. But I didn't get around to that second listen. And when I saw the movie, I was like, Oh shit, this is the song.
SPEAKER_10And I was like, and then you know, when I ever I watch anything I have subtitles on, I'm like, oh shit, wait, wait, oh no, this was so lit, it was so lit and so terrible at the same time.
SPEAKER_08Like, like I was fucking jamming, and then like you said, when when you I mean, I think as anime watchers, like natural subtitles, subtitles on for every goddamn thing. So I'm reading the lyrics too, and I'm like, yo, it hit me, yo, like it was funny, but it's like, damn, yeah, sing it again, sing it again for the dumbass cinema.
SPEAKER_03It's so like I'm glad it's telling about COVID because like this movie was like, what if this movie basically replaced COVID with a comment? And it was like, even if there is something that you can literally see with the human eye that is going to murder you, yeah, it will become the most anti-politicized thing, it'll become the most simultaneously politicized and anti-politicized thing that you could ever imagine. And it was like it was depressing, is because, like, but you see, you can see the comet come right. It's literally in the face. Like, I mean, I was I was talking, like, I was talking to the doctor as I was watching the movie, and I was like, okay, so now the comet, now the asteroid comet, whatever, it can be seen with the human eye, like it is that close to the planet where you can distinguish it from other stars, other planets, if you look up and that huge, yeah, that big, that is when you can see it, and then what happens? They have this whole anti-campaign called Don't Look Up.
SPEAKER_09And I'm just like you know what that made me think of. So I don't know if we told all y'all, when we were living in North Carolina, they literally had an event called Trash the Mask that they were trying to have at Concord Meals.
SPEAKER_08So literally, when that scene came up, I was like, Oh my god, I feel like I live that, like for real. Like they literally was walking, went into the mall, no mask on, in the food court, trying to walk around the stores. The mall was like, try it and we'll shut the whole mall down. Yeah, I mean, did you see that lady who was on TV saying how if she if any of her um her children wear masks, she'll bring guns to school. Because the governor here in Virginia has started a whole fucking war because I'm like, I get it when you were on your campaign.
SPEAKER_09Your promise was to get rid of the mask mandate for the children.
SPEAKER_08Okay, Captain Dumbass, have you looked at the numbers lately? There are more pediatric doctors urging you not to do that because the numbers are so high. So now eight of the counties from Virginia have sued him now because it just doesn't make sense. Yeah, the the Virginia governor came in there like, we I'm about to be like Florida. No, you not, bitch.
SPEAKER_02No, we didn't play it like that.
SPEAKER_10No, no, no, he was like, I'm about to be on my Florida shit. Don't bring that shit over here. Okay, you tried it.
SPEAKER_00You know what's wild? Like, we're not about all you know how well this movie aligns with COVID and whatnot. And it wasn't even originally conceptualized for that. Like, you know, you're seeing just in order to focus on climate change, but it highlights these commonalities of crisis and these commonalities in how you know en masse we respond to certain crises. If it's one thing that's just really this does, this movie does really, really well. It shows how no matter what part of society you're looking at, as far as this large collection of systems that share information, they're all really strongly geared towards misinformation and towards either facilitating, propagating, or just creating misinformation. For a lot of the reasons. So some people it's just the denial. People who see the comment, you know, they can see it clearly, but they're like, oh, you know, this goes with my beliefs. I'm gonna keep my what is the lead say? Keep your eyes forward and you know, because of that, like all these, you know, the political motivations behind, oh, it's inconvenient politically right now to talk about this. Yeah, so it could only really start getting traction when the politics picked up or the economics. Um, I love the line uh we and the black woman talked about this too. Uh, where was it when uh Kate when Kate went back to um what's called the break back home and her parents said, Oh, well, you know, we want politics here because we support the jobs of comics. Yeah. Like I love that they added that line in because one of the biggest and most common capitalistic manipulations is this idea of the wealthy bringing new jobs.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00The idea that, oh, as long as you support the wealthy against, I mean it seems like it's against your interests right now, but they'll bring jobs. That everyone the term job creators was floating around for a while. And you know, it's of course we all know it's kind of bullshit, right? That's probably, but it shows the movie just shows all these pieces, this puzzle of why, you know, even systems that supposedly are designed to keep us informed, like no, they just they largely have turned into this venue for misinformation. Yeah, and it makes sifting out correct information, all that false, the much more difficult. And I love that they really showed so many facets of that.
SPEAKER_08Did you catch the news channel while everybody else is covering the comment? That one news channel was talking about either strippers or strippers.
SPEAKER_03And these these motherfuckers were like, in other news, like no find interesting um is it's funny.
SPEAKER_08I I watch the a lot of Korean um movies, I watch a lot of Asian movies, and we always say, oh shit, they're gonna have an Asian ending when everybody dies. And so um that's just kind of something that I've always noticed that if it's gonna be like a like an action or it's gonna be a horror, everybody fucking dies. There will be no survivor. And with a lot of US movies, there's always that one lone survivor.
SPEAKER_03And I was like, There's always some sort of happy ending.
SPEAKER_08And so I'm like, oh shit, okay, you last we get a Korean ending for a change. Everybody fucking died. And it was just very interesting because no one listened until the very end when you know that death is impeding on you at the very last second, when nobody can do anything, you have all this time to make a difference, to make a change. But because of ignorance and greed and power and politics, you know, it's it's scary because I can see that happening. I can see that I can see that, and that's exactly you know what could happen if people don't really start taking shit seriously. And then the serious thing is that the the person or people or organization that wanted to feed out this misinformation, those are the people that actually have a plan B to get the fuck out. It's like that. Even with I remember there's like a doomsday, um, a lot of doomsday shelters all across the US that are about a couple million dollars, and that's all to the rich. So if there was something catastrophic, there actually is a plan for rich people to who actually have these shelters reserved to fucking go up in there, and then everybody else is just left to die. So it's just very interesting how I can see this happening, and it's always the rich and privileged that's gonna end up getting the fuck out or being okay, you know, just like um don't look up. So it's it was it's it's a great movie, but it's terrifying because everything that they're doing, everything that they that they were talking about actually is real life. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, that's I think so. Uh just a quick side note, just to bring to talk about that like ending aspect, um, I'm glad the movie ended the way it did. Because that's as I was watching it, I was worried, like, oh, they're gonna find a solution to this problem and everything's gonna be okay. And um, I'm glad they went that route because um uh Little Shop of Horrors was supposed to have like a an apocalyptic ending just like that. So, like yeah, so if like if you've never seen Little Shop of Horrors, uh it's about you know this guy who finds this plant, it's an alien plant, and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger, but it's actually there for an alien. And the original ending for the movie was that their Audrey 2s were were bought up and planted all over the all over the earth, and they they basically took over the earth, they took over, and it didn't test well with audiences because they were like, oh, it's too sad, or oh, the blah blah blah. And so they made the they made the ending that we originally saw, um, that teased like, oh, Audrey 2 is still there after you know see the main character and um the lead uh female role uh had you know had their happy ending or whatever. But this film strayed from that and they they built that tension up so well. And it was like you felt the impending doom, you felt when they sat down at the uh the dinner table and they were fighting for normalcy all over again, like despite everything that had occurred in the court through the course of this movie, um, they were trying to be together, and it was so hard. Like that was one of my favorite scenes because it was so difficult sitting there watching them try to pretend that they're not all about to die.
SPEAKER_10Yes, talking about the coffee.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_08I don't know why that scene alone gave me more anxiety than the rest of the movie because it's almost like you're the anticipation of what's about to happen. Like you know it's about to happen, you just don't know at what second.
SPEAKER_03Right. Yeah, I was like, and then like they and that's that's the anxiety part about it. I think that's that's one of the things that makes like horror, like some certain horror like really, really good. They're uh really proficient at building up that that tension, that anxiety. And that moment had the most tension and anxiety in the whole film, as it should have, because it was the it was the climax of everything that we've been watching the entire time. And then like when the oh my god, when the the when everything started rumbling around them, and you saw them clasping each other's hands and just like desperately trying to cling to the moment that they were in, just so that they could die like with some sense of like care, affection, love, like you know, we we're doing this the right way, etc. And it was oh like it was a very emotional moment. And then when it finally happened, it was almost it wasn't even it wasn't even a relief. It was like, damn, damn, yeah.
SPEAKER_00One of my favorite lines in the movie was from that dinner where they're asking, oh, you know, what are you thankful for? And Kate says, I'm thankful that we tried. And like that is job wrenching.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I didn't even take the I didn't even take the um like the whole mood is pretending it felt more to me like uh grief. Yes, yes, it was acceptance. Like we we we didn't do all the stages. Uh oh my god, yes.
SPEAKER_08I was just about to say the same thing. It was the different stages of grief for sure.
SPEAKER_07And and one of the reviews I saw actually said a lot of sorry, a lot of specifically Leonardo DiCaprio's uh uh ad libs in that scene were all sorry, his words in that scene were all ad libs. Like the line he said at the end where it was like um we did, we really we really did try, didn't we? We we really did like all of that along with other characters, like like you said, the grief, the guilt, it was them speaking from being in this character and being through this process and sitting at that table knowing what's about to happen, and they were speaking from the realest place they actually could speak from because it's like shit.
SPEAKER_08Well, yeah, well, well, yeah, and it hit home, it hit home for everybody because it's actually is happening, and and that is why you don't really have to do much acting because it's literally uh right in your back backyard and it's affecting everyone. So um I think it was it had to be scary for the actors and actresses um because it's like, oh my god, this this movie, as great as it is, this is actually the road that we're that we are are are you know are basically following. Um and we're trying our best to do something about it. But at the end of the day, sometimes your best is not good enough because there are powers that be that are going to stop you from doing what is good for everyone. Um, survival. And that's terrifying. So all you can do is say that you try and hope that try just. Something. But at the end of the day, even you're trying, it's still not going to make a difference. It's the people who are at power, who have that ability to change everything. And that's terrifying. That means that no matter what you do, no matter how much type of information you spill out, it still doesn't matter. It's always the people with the money. It's always the people that are ahead of politics that are going to run this entire world. That's very fucking depressing.
SPEAKER_09And it just leaves the lesser person that doesn't have all the money to get screwed. Because, like, listen, I don't know if y'all have been listening, but listening to teachers, especially for some reason in Texas, a lot of them are walking out. So now you're at a point where you're like, are we gonna have teachers next year? Because they're getting mistreated and catching COVID at a rapid rate right now. And you're wondering, are you gonna have hospital workers?
SPEAKER_08Because a lot of them are walking out and they're being asked to come in even if they have COVID. I mean, yes.
SPEAKER_03Like even recently at the Institution X that I work at, um, a number of at Institution X, um, they sent an email out like last week because there were professors who were changing the modality of their courses. So they like they if they were in person, they were changing them to like be online, and students were complaining because they were given the you know, they were told that their classes were gonna be face to face, and now the the professors are unilaterally deciding, like, oh no, this is online, so because they have to protect themselves, yeah. So no, no, I get it. She will tell you, I am I have no problem with making a unilateral decision.
SPEAKER_08But I get it, you paid X amount of dollars for you to sit in front of me and listen to me lecture. However, to keep myself and yourself safe, because apparently you don't want to do that, let me make this decision. Yeah, it's um it's it's very it's very scary, especially as a healthcare worker. Um, seeing how at the very beginning of COVID, um, seeing the different stages of COVID. I remember when the CDC said that wearing masks were not going to be a different was not gonna make a difference. And a lot of people don't remember that. I remember specifically says you don't need to wear masks, remembers too. Right, you don't need to wear map trauma. You know, don't worry about it. And then they're like, oh no, everybody has to wear a mask. And I remember the influx of people stealing fucking toilet paper and all this crap, and Dr. Fauci saying, No, this you know, this is how many people are gonna die.
SPEAKER_07People in people try to neglect all the stuff that happened. I'm sorry to cut you off, but people try to neglect all the stuff that happened in the last two years, and it's really irritating because like people are like actually trying to act like we didn't go through a whole hoarding pandemic, like aside from the COVID, the whole hoard, like the the Black McCoy can tell you for the first year of the pandemic, every single Sunday, right before the podcast was recorded, I would go to Costco because you we'd have to get supplies. I was like, My not my parents are old old, but my parents are older than I. So I'm like, I'm not gonna force them to go outside, especially when it's cold and COVID. So I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna get supplies and bring them back into the house. The sheer amount, like the fact that Costco and BJ's and Sands Club, all these wholesale markets had to restrict us to only buying a pack of water because people were buying 10 to 12 to 15 packs of water. They had to restrict us to only buying a pack of paper towels and a pack of toilet paper because people were buying 40, 40 packs of toilet paper and paper towels for what? To wipe their ass, apparently.
SPEAKER_08Well then, and then they ended up leaving to sell it and couldn't. It's just like why did you and they couldn't resell?
SPEAKER_07I'm like, what are you doing? And remember, and those people still have that stuff in their houses. Remember, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08Containers, I don't even know about that.
SPEAKER_07They're putting it in bags in grocery bags with holes in them, tying them in knots and putting them in their trunks. This one lady was showing it on her tick tock. She's like, See, I'm ahead of the game. I had a bunch of grocery bags of gas in the trunk. I'm like, girl.
SPEAKER_03Oh my god, what do you think? Like, what do you what do you think is happening?
SPEAKER_10We had an unnecessary gas shortage for no fucking reason.
SPEAKER_08Well now we had a chicken shortage. Because every time I go to the grocery store, the chicken is gone. Yeah, the chicken sort of thing.
SPEAKER_05Okay, wait, having a wing shortage.
SPEAKER_08No, yes.
SPEAKER_10So the the uh so the chicken shortage is literally due to like um from what I hear, it's like truck drivers, like they're not, they're not, you know, out and out and about, they're on, you know, they're not doing, they're not making runs and shit.
SPEAKER_08Like well, you know, they they've been on strike since that guy originally got sentenced to 100 years. Yeah, even though his sentence got reduced, they were like, nah, fuck that. We we not going to this state, this state, and so I'm gonna ask more about that offline.
SPEAKER_10So that's why stuff is not stuff is not supply. I mean, literally, I went grocery shopping the other day, and there's random stuff that's just not shelf.
SPEAKER_01Like I was like, wiggements.
SPEAKER_03This is a Caucasian market. You're supposed to write everything.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07I went into the grocery store. This old, he's like a naval retiree, because you know, one of those guys that always wears his like his navel, his uh old uh jacket.
SPEAKER_03Yes, the the racist glory days.
SPEAKER_07It's a black guy, it was a black guy, it's a black guy. Uh, but um we're standing there. Wow. We're standing there in front of the chicken section, and there's like, like you said, it's like scattered, like the like the chicken you ain't gonna touch. And he's like, Wow, I guess we the we out here like the last of the Mohicans.
SPEAKER_05Wow, the last of the Mohicans like ain't no ain't no uh ain't no food right here. Well how we gonna stock up? Ain't no reparations, no restorations, no, no, no, no storage.
SPEAKER_10I was like you go you go you go to the chicken section, there's only thighs there. Chicken breast left.
SPEAKER_01But triple the price. There's a thigh that says it's double the triple the price, right?
SPEAKER_08Right, and it'd be one of the small packs, but one of the chicken thighs, thirty-six dollars and shit.
SPEAKER_03It ain't that there's other animals.
SPEAKER_08Oh, they mean if you go back, you go back, go have some syrup sandwiches too.
SPEAKER_03But like sandwiches. I think that's one thing that I did not see in the film that we probably would have seen, like some degree of hoarding. And it's it's and I remember I made a Facebook ads about like a while ago because I was thinking about it just randomly. I forgot what made me think about it, but no, nope, it was uh COVID test not being available because people were hoarding COVID. Hoarding COVID tests, people were hoarding um COVID tests, they were hoarding COVID tests, and then you couldn't find a place to go take a COVID test.
SPEAKER_08Like that was annoying too.
SPEAKER_03Right. And I was thinking, like, you know what? The shows like hoarders are really, really like popular. And I was just thinking, like, on a like a psych a socio-psychoanalytic level in terms of like how people actually view themselves and how they how they are like psychologically constructed just based on their environment. Like, I think people, I think I genuinely think that part of the reason those shows are so successful is because people hoard constantly, and seeing some degree of extreme that they don't like participate in almost makes them feel better and like helps them disassociate from like, oh, that's not me. But when we see shit like COVID happen, when we see like a gas shortage, which wasn't really like a shortage, we just had like a couple problems in the transportation of the gas, right? Like, and we see different stuff like that. People also there was a hack in one of the buttons. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, that that's the part that I did not know that much about.
SPEAKER_10I'm glad you brought it up, IT person, because that wasn't yeah, that was basically what happened, and then they reported it on the news, and then all of a sudden niggas was like, Oh my god, I gotta get a gas. Where were you going?
SPEAKER_03And also you weren't even going anywhere. And so um, but the gas was still coming anyway. But um, just like that, this this like this. I think and I I think that like hoarding just generally is a very American way of life. Yes, like people, regardless of you know, duress or what have you, will try and hoard as many resources as they possibly can to make sure that they have for themselves and their own, but end up wasting resources and like leaving nothing for anybody else at the same time. And like that's exactly what we saw happen with COVID when people were like water, toilet paper, paper towels. Like, bitch, do you what why do you why do you need she wasn't cleaning your ass before now? Why are you gonna charge it to all the time? You are not, and it's not like even if you didn't have toilet paper, you act like you don't have soap and water, bitch. Like, what it's it's and I think that as far as don't look up, like that is one thing that I feel like I would have liked to have seen is for like those who um because you know it it created the movie created this kind of like polarizing, like look up, don't look up kind of dynamic, which is I think the more pertinent part. And we saw some like more microcosmic effects of that, like when people like the scientist cheating on his husband and um Kate having uh you know, Kate losing her relationship, making a meme and all this stuff. Like we saw those, but we didn't see like the the people who were actually like concerned. And I think that would have helped the movie first. And like I don't think it being without that part like harmed the movie at all. Like it was still phenomenal. But I think that would have been another like interesting little nugget to have thrown in there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like I think I think I think the only thing uh where I not not to say it wouldn't happen because it would, because people stupid, but uh I think I think one thing that uh kind of goes against the hoarding in mass was they started with a very close date and they didn't even believe that date until like a weekend. Yeah, so it's like so it wasn't much that like did like like people's gonna go through their uh their all their stuff they do when they're manic and crazy and it's um so shoot some people went out and tried to do, but it's not like there was nothing they were gonna go out and buy that was gonna even make them think for a second that they was gonna let you know, so that you know, so I think some people would have ordered some stuff, but also what do you for what?
SPEAKER_10Like the part that's he's gonna save you from the comic toilet paper castle, like uh doctor, you're about to say something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no, and I definitely think it's it's interesting how some of the really common, I guess, tropes associated with end of the war movies, this didn't really highlight or explore as much, like you know, mentioning with the hoarding and whatnot. I think the only I think the only thing I can think of that touched on some of that a little bit was the scene right after where like Kate's drinking in the bar and they're like, oh, tell us what's going on, what's going on? She's like, Okay, you want to know what's going on? Kiri is roll out to die and whatnot. And then you see like the mass panic for a second.
SPEAKER_08The looting, but the looting.
SPEAKER_00But then, like, you know, and then with um, oh, what was it? The uh yeah, I guess the usual kind of like things I would often expect from end-of-the-world movies, uh, you know, things like that, like really focused on like the empty grocery stores and whatnot, which is something I don't think we ever saw at all, you know, uh, or um a really like big focus on like shelters, which was touched on with one character, um, I think her ex uh and whatnot, um, for a while, but it wasn't a big holiday of the movie. And you know, it's one of the reasons I always view Don't Look Up more as like less of a typical like end of the world movie and more of a like social commentary, you know, on all these different social issues on the real focus. And I love that they did that. You know, I absolutely love it. I think that that's I think that's something that's really you know worth worth focusing focusing on a little bit more just because of just how relevant it is. Like, you know, whether you're talking about really any major crisis of you know, climate change, COVID, but there are many others. Well, like I said, like the issue with um the bubonic plague that you know had a rearisen in uh on the West Coast. Like there were some names that applies to it. So I love that this focused on the social side of that and all the all these social systems and how they interact to basically make getting the correct information out damn near impossible. You know, um, so yeah, I love that about this, the movie.
SPEAKER_08It's amazing how people are so desperate for their ignorance and also to to be to keep their denial and and profit off of their denial, especially when it comes to uh now. They're they're starting to have counterfeit um COVID-19 tests. Uh to um that that I saw was on the news that they're stop, stop, stop. Yeah, so there are counterfeit COVID-19 tests to show that it's you're positive even if you're negative. And so it's it's an it's amazing, it's astounding.
SPEAKER_07I would I would like to I would like you all to acknowledge I would like you all to acknowledge the fact that you should not be surprised by this.
SPEAKER_08I'm not reasoning, but but also remember that people still were going were getting fake um vaccine cards.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I remember that's I was about to say so that makes sense, right? So you can't like fake vaccine cards. I can replace but don't forget, but don't forget.
SPEAKER_08Why would you want a fake positive COVID thing? Remember, people have been walking around with COVID saying it's not COVID, just so that they don't, number one, be ostracized because they feel like they're gonna be ostracized. Number two, so that they have to stay home. People don't like to fucking do what they're supposed to do. When people tell you to stay home, they do the opposite. I remember I had patients that were like, I have COVID, and they're still willy-nilly without a mat. It's just, I just they just don't care. People just don't care. And so they don't, a lot of people do not like to, they love to be defiant, even though that they know it's for the the the better or the benefit of all people, there still is a defiance with their ignorance. They don't want to be told not to do something, yeah, especially grown-ass people.
SPEAKER_03It makes me think about something one of my students said earlier this week. And then it's not no context specifically, but what their comment was you remember when everyone thought the internet was gonna make people smarter?
SPEAKER_09Yo, if I had some coffee right now, I'd tip it on that.
SPEAKER_00You know, it's it's so frustrating. And what gets me, so there are the people who are dressed like they're just genuinely ignorant for whatever reason. And maybe there's a ton of denial built in that ignorance because denial is how you cope with information oftentimes when you know when you don't have a good base of information to begin with. But the people who really agitate me or uh even more are the ones who just take the completely selfish stance of I know this works, but I want everyone else to do it so that I won't have to do it. Yeah, and these are and that and that's a super common thing. So, you know, or like uh, I've had patients before who are like, who knows, would say at some point, oh well, you know, I don't feel like, you know, I don't feel like COVID's a big issue because people just aren't getting you know dying from it as much anymore as we used to. It's like, well, it's like, yeah, that's because you know, vaccines have helped a lot more.
SPEAKER_09Right.
SPEAKER_00It's like, well, yeah, but since everyone else has gotten them, then why do I need to get one?
SPEAKER_07No, it's like people are like people. But people the fact that people are still can't obviously talk about people dying, like we're not just we're not dying as often as we used to.
SPEAKER_08Nigga, what yeah, like even if you're not dying, let's not forget that there's people still out here suffering with long haul or long hauls, or who are developing different issues that they've never had before because they've had COVID. Like, so the rationale behind you would rather be defiant and not get a vaccine, but risk your life of either dying, getting some type of other medical condition. You would rather have that than just getting a needle, like like what the fuck? Like that just mind blows me every time.
SPEAKER_00Like, oh yeah, oh, because people always talk about the death rate, but it's not just that. Like, thank you. It's so frustrating, it's not just a death rate. Like there are people who they will never breathe the same again, ever. You know, I know I have family members who their lungs are permanently damaged from COVID. Permanently, you know, you know, price shaves years off your lifespan. Right. And that's it's uh it's just it is really, really disappointing.
SPEAKER_09It's frustrating.
SPEAKER_08It's like y'all over here talking about my rights. I shouldn't have to wear a mask, I shouldn't have to use okay. But what about the people whose rights that you're impeding on who actually did what they were supposed to do? So now you're impeding on me. See, it's there's never a line.
SPEAKER_05Don't tread on me.
SPEAKER_08Like, what are you talking about?
SPEAKER_10Who literally who had COVID twice, they've had COVID twice, they're not unvaccinated, they have COVID twice. The second time they got COVID and got you know, got through it or whatever, they're like, I well, I made it through it, fresh antibodies. They like fresh antibodies.
SPEAKER_03I'm like, hot way, like you don't know how the body works, do antibodies.
SPEAKER_10And I'm like, yo, like and later later on in life, like I feel like your body's gonna be so fucked up. Like screaming after effects that you don't even know, you don't know about exactly in your head, you done made it through it. This is the second time, so it's like her booster or whatever. I I don't know.
SPEAKER_08I don't I don't know what the logic is, but I I don't get it. Like, like, especially if you go on again, social media, TikTok sometimes. Um, there's people who said one lady was like, she got dysplasia after having COVID, so she hasn't been able to swallow for a year. So she's drinking things like insure because she cannot like she's in fear of choking. One girl had COVID three months before she ended up having a stroke, so she can't use one half of her face. But y'all would rather do it things like that than getting a vaccine. Please make it make sense. It doesn't matter, homie. The most the most frustrating thing is when people like to compare. Um, well, you know, well, I caught COVID and, you know, I didn't die, or my whole family caught COVID, and I don't believe in this, I don't believe in vaccines because I don't know what I'm putting in my body. I'm like, sweetheart, there's shit that you don't have to worry about. You don't see people dealing with polio, measles. And why do you think you we don't deal with that anymore? It's because of vaccinations. These are things you get when you're when you're when you're like at birth, not at birth, but when you're an infant, these are things that even like the the flu shot, like we don't have to worry about people dying like COVID because people have been taking the flu shot for years. And and it, you know, it took decades for it to be perfected. But even still, these are there's certain things, there's certain diseases that we don't have to worry about because of vaccinations. And people just don't understand that. And it's it's very friggin' frustrating. It's very frustrating because I'm like, you don't have to worry about a lot of things that people in the 50s had to worry about because they didn't even have that technology to get those vaccinations. So it's just very interesting seeing people even in the medical field. Well, you know, I don't want to put something foreign in my body. So you know, we put shit foreign in our body all the fucking time. Thank you. I'm like, go go in your friends right now, right? So go go in your freezer, go in your fridge, and read one of those processed food labels, and let me know how many ingredients you can read before you start talking to me about oh, this vaccine got foreign stuff in it.
SPEAKER_03You don't even read the labels on your food. Shut up.
SPEAKER_10Oh, we we we said this last week, right? Didn't we have literally out here fucking shooting up hard drugs talking about like nigga?
SPEAKER_03You do cocaine, shut up. I don't want to do it. Oh, you can put that needle in your body.
SPEAKER_02Risking your life.
SPEAKER_08It's true, even the things that we cook with, like Teflon pots, and things like that. There's a uh a company called Duke. Pond that had a huge controversy because they had um toxic levels in the pots that they were making that were causing people to have cancer and kill people. And all that they did is they just renamed brand, they branded that that uh particular toxin. What is in every fucking pot we use? Literally every pot we use, even our water levels, there is we're drinking low-level toxins. And oh, let me tell you, we had a person come and do our water. Yeah, no, I got a whole system on the water now. I can't do that.
SPEAKER_03I got a woman who studies water.
SPEAKER_08She's like, Yeah, this area is not, this one's not like when he told me there was like traces of pea in the in the in the water, I was like, oh hell no.
SPEAKER_03No, yes, you know, not even recycling the water from the toilet. Yeah, water, water, yeah. Think about that.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, Tiffany, water, I I use I use a water filter, but still like ew. Water is is made from like you know, basically our waste. So they they treat it, they reprocess it, but our the drinking water from the tap is basically waste that was res like filtered, refiltered. That speakle matter NP that was filtered. You don't remember that episode of the magic. So if anybody is taking any type of drugs when they go to the bathroom, the drugs are flushed down the toilet, all of that's coming back in. All of that. The water we use to splash on our face, the water that we use to to wash our parts.
SPEAKER_03Right. Okay. Yeah, you took me a minute. I know. Wussa, baby. Take a breath, rub your knees.
SPEAKER_08Tiffany was taking that red pill water.
SPEAKER_03But that doesn't sound like the right thing to do right now. Go get you some liquor, baby. Yeah, let's take a shot.
SPEAKER_01Drink something that kills everything inside of it.
SPEAKER_03There you go. For those because y'all are listening, she left. She walked up to go get whatever you need. She got a purified, purify the test. You gotta purify the body. But no, I think the most jarring part of the movie for me was like the political aspect because it I I like it in my full awareness of just the world around me. I I I have so much confidence in the fact or the the notion, let me say. I have so much confidence in the notion.
SPEAKER_02She got like around.
SPEAKER_03Um, but no, I have full confidence in the notion that the people who were a part of the the don't look up campaign quotation marks, um, are the same people who are like, why is everything so political? It's like you politicize things, things are political bottoms up. It's like one of the most interesting like philosophical conversations is like the essential, like the uh the kind of fundamental like politicizing of our lives. Like people want to have a distinction between the political and the non-political in their lives because they think they're talking about you know, certain things that only that are only included in politics and so on and so forth. But it's like, no, there's you are constantly being politicized, or you constantly are politicized. It's not something that you can really like make a distinction and uh kind of consolidate in your life. The fact that you own property is a political fact, like the fact that you have a financial um or socioeconomic status is a very political fact and informs the things that are going on around you. And so when I think when I thought about all of that and I thought about this film, it was like the people who had the most power and the most money, of course, they were the ones who were trying to depoliticize something, and in turn, making that depoliticization a political position overall. It's like you have the fact right in front of you. The fact has, for all intents and purposes, created a political stance around itself when it was really just trying to raise awareness that, like, hey, this thing is happening, and so this antithetical thing occurred at this occurred in reaction to it of like, don't look up, it's not real, don't listen to them. And I think the part that blew me the most was when um Meryl Streep, the president. Um, she played she played that role so well, but uh Meryl Streep Leo and Meryl are just uh I don't care what they doing, they can play problematic white people all day, and they just you may hate the character, but you like damn that them motherfuckers did a good fucking job. Like they're gonna news faster, right? Oh, she she she I love Jonah Hill, like he plays ain't shit too fucking well, and Jennifer is just amazing, but um, but yeah, like just the like when she was at the rally and she was just like it was basically the rhetoric, those people think they're better than you, they think they're this, they think they're that.
SPEAKER_10It's like Donna Trump entirely, entirely red hats, all of his rallies, red hats and all, and then old boy gonna turn around and look up and was like, they lied to us, no supporters, like some waiting for his supporters to be like, You lied to us.
SPEAKER_08Do you all understand this man been back and boosted, almost died from COVID? Okay, he told y'all, hey, real, you ain't you ain't gotta do nothing about it, man.
SPEAKER_03He got COVID, and I was like, I've never seen a president die before, so this would be interesting.
SPEAKER_08I was ready, I was ready for it. He was like, What is that citizens moment we've been waiting for? Yeah, he was one of the first people to get the vaccine, which was funny because it wasn't even um it wasn't even distributed out to the public. So the person that didn't want people to get a vaccine, he was the first motherfucker to get it. And that was, I would say, about October, November of uh 2020. That's because his orange ass almost died.
SPEAKER_03Like how you that orange and don't have enough vitamin C.
SPEAKER_07That was unnecessary.
SPEAKER_08Oh my god.
SPEAKER_10But what is what is very concerning, this is completely off topic, but what's very concerning about that is who's running next time because Biden ain't doing so well, and I don't need this man trying to come back.
SPEAKER_05You already said he's coming out.
SPEAKER_08I don't uh from from what we've heard that he is gonna run in 2024. I keep hearing Biden's gonna run as well. I'm ready for a cool somebody just overthrow the whole White House.
SPEAKER_03Just just yeah, we put too too much of our money that goes into the military, and we're not France, like France will France will buck at their government and their government will be like, all right, you you you good, you're right. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_08Biden was elected really to get Trump out. Okay, so and I think that was the only reason to be honest. I don't think people really thought he was going to do a fantastic job. It was kind of like the lesser of two evils. So they just needed Trump out, and I think that's really what it was. Um, I don't think that Trump will be able to be elected again, to be honest. Um, just because it's just too much, there's too much fucking heat on him right now. All the people that rock with him is basically getting sent to jail. So I don't think they're gonna really fuck with Trump like that anymore. Uh, people are still gonna fight for for to have him as president, but I don't think Trump will definitely be a president at all. Biden, Biden, surely not, but I think that they're gonna have.
SPEAKER_03I actually heard uh I guess you could say they're just biding their time.
SPEAKER_10I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Harris because the way she just like dropped off the face of him. Right.
SPEAKER_03I got my resume builder, I'm done.
SPEAKER_10I see her one fucking time.
SPEAKER_08No, but you know, I actually had an interesting discussion about the vice president, and I was saying, you know, I think we're so used to seeing how Biden was always out with um with Obama, and they're saying usually don't see the vice president often. That actually is not their their goal, not say not not trying to um you know defend her, but it was just interesting that I was like, Oh, yeah, you're right, like yeah, you don't really see a lot of vice presidents and Obama were best friends.
SPEAKER_06That's right.
SPEAKER_03Like when you say that I don't remember who most of the vice presidents were for like exactly.
SPEAKER_08Even then, like I was very aware of who the president was, and like we weren't Dick Cheney, but that's because he got shot in the face.
SPEAKER_05That was just we knew that happened. No, first no, he shot somebody. Yeah, but yeah, so you can't.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, but is some of Mike, what was it, Mike Pence? That was his name. The only reason why you saw him, because his whole office is about to blow up because the person out there in front of him couldn't do his job. Yeah, so you usually don't see the vice president, to be honest. I'm not saying that Kamala Harris is doing anything, to be honest, but I usually don't, you're not really supposed to see the vice president out in the open because we usually don't ever see the vice president out in the open. I think we're just so used to she took it to her, yeah. Yeah, I think we're just so used to seeing um Obama invited because they were so close, and and I think we completely forgot about how it usually is, but we usually are not supposed to see the vice president out there, but um we saw Al Gore in memes, and we and after he made it I was about to say it's Al Gore's internet, that's the reason why we remember Al Gore, like it's and it's U trama.
SPEAKER_07Like I'm just saying, you gotta if you think about it when when we were understanding who the vice president was and when he came about, we weren't really paying attention. And then, like Sinee said, we really don't see them. Does anybody know who the first George Bush's vice president was?
SPEAKER_10No, anybody the first George Bush senior George Bush Sr.
SPEAKER_07Yes, no, anybody say George Bush Jr.
SPEAKER_09is funny though. I'm sorry, I'm not over that poncho.
SPEAKER_10I love it though. Like after after he left the office, he became like this little cuddly old white man.
SPEAKER_05So is he hanging out with Michelle? That'd be that'd be the funniest memes I can say is Michelle.
SPEAKER_10He loves him. Look, did nobody ready to risk it all?
SPEAKER_07Um so I did have a question. Uh so I uh as I said before when I first started this, I watched a lot of the reviews um for the movie Don't Look Up. And uh kind of going back on, I think it was Black, the Black McCoy who said this, but a lot of the people who reviewed uh the movie and you know put it on YouTube and different uh uh uh channels, uh, a lot of them were giving their reviews saying, Don't watch Don't Look Up. And their their reactions to it was this isn't real, this is fake news, what they're talking about could never really happen. Um they are trying to lead you into a false sense of security. Like literally.
SPEAKER_10They were serious?
SPEAKER_07I'm serious. This is what I was telling uh uh uh uh Dr. Quinzel earlier because I was looking for reviews to watch to prepare for this episode. And a lot of the ones that I was seeing, like I saw the IGN one had one, and it was, you know, it's more of a movie rating. It was like seven out of ten, it was a good movie, it did this, it did that. But when I was trying to find out more details about the movie, more intricate details, a lot of the uh videos I was seeing, a lot of posts I was seeing were don't watch, don't go uh, don't look up. And one even said, matter of fact, don't look up. It was like this whole parody, and I was like, okay, let me watch at least a couple five minutes of it. And a lot of them were saying, Don't watch the movie because they're it's full of lies, it's full of misdirection, it's it's showing you how the media wants you to believe that the media is giving you information. I was like, wait, what?
SPEAKER_08Like so, aren't you aren't you trumping your own rule when you said the media is sitting here giving information? I'm just saying you look like a complete fool for whoever recorded the video of don't watch, don't look up. And you're gonna be the person that is the reason why we all get hit by you're literally, you are literally the definition of this motherfucker. I want to be so bold as to tag whoever the fuck recorded these videos and be like, yo, hop on this podcast so we can tell you how stupid you are, okay?
SPEAKER_00It's a lot of hit dogs tolerant when it came to these videos. A lot of hit dogs tolerant, like you know, because a movie comes for a lot of the like social media. You don't have social media for it, it comes for a lot of like the traditional media too. And that's why there's this huge disparate, you know, response between critics and people who viewed the movie. I think like I look when I first looked at it a while back, it was something like 85% of people who viewed the movie liked it, you know. But for the critic response, it was almost a 55%. Oh, the trash.
SPEAKER_04It was critics.
SPEAKER_00Um it's a perfect example of you know, you gotta take critics with a grain of salt. Yeah, you gotta know where they're coming from and the lens from which they're viewing the media, because that lens is very different from your own. And that's very different from your own.
SPEAKER_09Well, then also you have to have to put in a perspective of the people, well, just the YouTube people, like what where their headspace is at on a consistent basis? Because are you one of those alt-left people that were out here spewing non-facts about COVID?
SPEAKER_08Or are you one of those people who are like, nah, COVID's real? Just for an example, you know, get your vaccine, blah, blah, blah. Like, which side of the spectrum are you on? Haha. Because certain people you're gonna automatically listen to because they're talking about the things that you believe in.
SPEAKER_03Exactly. Actually, speaking of media, I just want to make um a really positive point about this film. I'm so glad that Tyler Perry had as minimal he actually did. Because when I saw he was in it, I was like, fuck, sweet Lord, baby Jesus. I don't know.
SPEAKER_05He can't just be playing Michael Strahan and then a movie.
SPEAKER_03First, don't do that as Michael Strahan. What do not insult Michael Strahan?
SPEAKER_07I wasn't insulting Michael Strahan. I love Michael Strahan, but think about it. Michael Strahan was definitely on that spaceship. Michael Strahan is on Good Morning America.
SPEAKER_03See, this is where you got Sion A and I got Miss Skittles. Like you get the y'all. That's your podcast, right? That's my podcast.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. But no, but he really was he really.
SPEAKER_08He was the Michael Strahan of the movie. No, he was. It wasn't like making, you know, we're not throwing shades, that was intentional, and then um the self is problematic, and then she played Kelly Ripper, right? She's like the Kelly Ripper of the of the show. Yeah, that's what it that's what it seemed like for real. I mean, all of this was just satirical because that's what we saw. Not saying that Michael Strayhan was like Tyler Perry.
SPEAKER_03I am 95% certain that Tyler Perry picked out that horrible wave for the other black guy in the movie.
SPEAKER_01Why are you doing this? And that thing bothered me. It bothered me the whole time. Why are you doing this?
SPEAKER_07Why why was niggas' hair looks like why is it Tyler Perry's fault?
SPEAKER_08I mean, his track record speaks volumes. I'm just saying.
SPEAKER_05What did I do? Wasn't even his movie.
SPEAKER_03Man has a resume for terrible waves. Was the movie produced or executive produced by Lionsgate? That don't mean he didn't have some input on what the president is. So he picked his wig. That's what you're saying.
SPEAKER_08Did anybody else Google like the actual Apple person just to see how close that was? Like the Apple CEO. Like I had to Google it because I only remember Steve Jobs. So the new Apple president is literally like that guy in the movie. I thought it was a combination. I thought it was a hit on Apple and Tesla.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, as I said, they said he researched Steve Jobs, not Steve Jobs, but the new president and Elon Musk to get his character and figure out how he wanted to do it.
SPEAKER_08And you know, I kind of got like Virgin Mobile. Do you remember the guy who um virgin?
SPEAKER_02What is it? Oh wow.
SPEAKER_08He gave me like a trifecta of Virgin Mobile, I've um um Apple and like Elon Musk. Like he kind of gave me those vibes for some reason.
SPEAKER_00That is gonna be the most Elon Musk thing he said was when he was talking to professor, and the professor said something like, Oh, I know you're a businessman. He's like, Oh, he thinks it's business, this is human evolution.
SPEAKER_03That entire God complex.
SPEAKER_08Oh man, Elon Musk Richard Branson. Oh, who is that?
SPEAKER_07Is that the own virgin mobile?
SPEAKER_08Sorry, Virgin Mobile. Yeah, didn't Elon Musk say he wants to die on Mars? Like, he doesn't want to die on this planet, he wants to die on Mars.
SPEAKER_05You want to die on this planet?
SPEAKER_08Well, no, but I mean, I don't want to be in this galaxy, I don't want to be in this galaxy either. Like, I didn't have to be here, period.
SPEAKER_03Like, like this entire experience is already involuntary, right?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I don't want to be a neighbor, I don't want to be a neighbor to Earth. Like, get me the fuck out of this galaxy, put me on Andromeda, the neighboring galaxy. I don't want to be in here.
SPEAKER_03I want to ascend into immaterialism and just exist with whatever other like non-material beings exist.
SPEAKER_08Okay, I can see you like just existing, like just floating in space, just kind of just you know, next to the comets, you know, near saying hi to the black hole. Like, I could just see you just like floating.
SPEAKER_07I knew you were gonna say that.
SPEAKER_08Oh my god, that's not oh my god, that's not women.
SPEAKER_03But not just like the the the so another thing that really like oh my god. So when I was talking to the doctor as I was watching this film and like grading papers at the same time, um it was when this white man was like, So we're not gonna destroy the comet, we are going to mine it. I'm like, nigga, what? Yeah, very accurate. And blah blah blah. Mind you, accurate when an American would respond. They were they were months, they were like at least three or four months already into trying to prepare to take this comet out. And they had a solid plan to do so. And it took them like mind you, the entire time frame of this movie is six months. Yep. And so by the time they come up with this new plan to mine it with this technology they have, I'm like, I I was even talking to the doctor. I was I was talking to the doctor, I was like, so how so how do they expect to get all of this prepared in the next what month and a half to two months? They have the resources, did they?
SPEAKER_01It didn't seem like it by the time they have the resources, they didn't have the quality assurance time.
SPEAKER_03That QA will fuck some people up.
SPEAKER_09Oh sorry, so it got done, it just didn't get tested.
SPEAKER_01Or peer reviewed, or peer reviewed that is an accurate minute.
SPEAKER_03That is the I know the doctor was like, Yes, all my peer reviewers do not get good peer reviewed science, you know, and I'm so glad they named it like that was multiple times over and over.
SPEAKER_00Just you know, you gotta have good peer review, and oh god, I could talk at end, you know, for hours on the issues of peer review. But um, before we get this thought, this made me um it reminded me of this other like blink and he was a joke they had in the where what is it? I think it was like three months three months before the comments are here, or something like that, or maybe two months, and I'm trying to go off these like cutscenes on how the world's reacting, and the UN comes out and says, Oh yeah, we're considering a possible plan to blow up the comet, like two months before because yeah, but like, okay, it's just taking way too long to get anything done.
SPEAKER_08Way too long. I love how Jennifer Lawrence's character, um, what was it? Was it her sobriety was going to be over at the end of the world?
SPEAKER_01What was it that she put on a diet?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she had like she put a diet watch on.
SPEAKER_08And I love how, like, when when the the earth, you know, um, I guess was ruined, so to speak. You actually see on her cell phone saying, Congratulations, it's the way they memed her, like that shit was so real.
SPEAKER_10That shit was so real. The news station was like, Well, nobody watched the show, but we got this meme though.
SPEAKER_08And then and then her crazy, her ex-boyfriend profiting all a book about her.
SPEAKER_03No, she not even too. She he broke up with her via the article that he posted about her. I like I loved how do you know the crazy girl from the news story? I actually slept with her.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I love how dynamic the characters, um, all of the characters were, especially with um the person, like that punk rock guy, the Jennifer Lawrence. Um with was ended up with yeah and like how how you can't judge a book by its cover he was incredibly religious and i just thought that was very very interesting like homeboy was fucking spitting he was spitting them damn verses i'm like what the fuck and it was just so cool they were like does anybody know a prayer he's like i got this he's like bitch i got this and it was from the the least likely character which i love because even even even you know i would have never thought like you know i don't know why we we would think why not why why wouldn't he be a religious person but i think because we're just so used to seeing someone who's like a punk rocker or someone who who you know who's alternative or god but it's like we don't all we don't always think about they have different layers to them as well so I just thought that was just so brilliant I I love that and it was also that he like he he went way he went right over thou shalt not steal because that's definitely how we were introduced to him and he was definitely stealing shit in front of Jeff a lot right remember when he um uh when she when they were like on top of the top of the fucking I guess they were top of a building or a car or something and she's like oh there's the comet there it is like he immediately started praying I was like I felt like I wasn't sure in that moment I'm like I don't know if this is like this is part of your character period or if you just like threw yourself into religion because of the right that was something for me so I I still had questions about whether or not his like religiousness was based on the impending doom or was he always like that.
SPEAKER_03I think that was the only thing I didn't like wasn't fully clear about his character. I liked that it became kind of something that he was that was antithetical to how he was presented as a character. But um yeah I think that's the only thing like I mean you guys he wasn't really like a he wasn't barely a tertiary character and um so it wasn't like that important to the story to know more about him. But I think that would have just maybe like an extra little line thrown in there would have been helpful.
SPEAKER_08Well Mara you showed him again at the dinner table because he's the only I liked how it didn't have to be a three hour long movie and you didn't have to know everybody's background to to still see that each character was was diverse. And even with that with that character with Jennifer Lawrence you know we didn't really see much of him he was definitely towards like the middle end end of the movie but we saw that he had you know I was interested and I like that you know and a lot of times you just see these randomized characters that are just kind of here we don't really care about them they just kind of put them in as background but each they had the the writers of this um of this movie really had had put in the details and effort so that everybody can kind of be attached to someone or see themselves in someone in in in some way. And I really appreciated that it was it was crafty it was it was silly it had times but it was it was very important to watch. And I think that's why a lot of people gravitated to this to this movie according to what's going on with COVID because we can really see ourselves in at least one of the characters. And at least one of the characters so I really appreciated you know everybody from the the the writers to the actors um I thought it was just a phenomenal movie and um it really had a lot of people think like really stop and think about social media how powerful it is and just how how to really just kind of use use your fucking brain um when it really matters and not be poisoned by media telling you how to think. And it's very difficult because everything that we do whether we like it or not is kind of big brother forcing you either watching you or forcing information whether it's data mining um as a matter of fact it's funny because um my brother and I you know we noticed that when we're in the same house together and we're using the same Wi-Fi, things that he searches on his phone will be on my phone as an advertisement on Facebook, which is fucking sick very very scary. And it's just like I'm like I didn't really that we were talking about this and this shit is on my phone and I had to show it to him because I didn't even search for it. It's just because we're in the same Wi-Fi I don't know if that is I don't know if I think when you when you have internet it's kind of like one of those those fine print things like the data sharing but it's very insane like there's certain things that we can't even control that just ends up on our phone that's fed to us. So it's just very interesting and I understand why people say they want to go off bridge because it's like we can't even have a mind of our own sometimes we don't even know why we think certain things on social media because actually being fed to us it's being calculated to us on how to think how to react and that's how people make their money.
SPEAKER_00And it really does highlight this large scale issue with you know so our social media experience is heavily curated completely passively a lot of the time it's based on what ads we like, what we click on what we purchase blah blah blah. And that's fine when it comes to specific like oh you know here are movies you'd like or here are people that you know you may or may not want to know like you know it's that's more okay in some senses but the issue comes there becomes a huge issue when you're talking about curation of information because then it turns into oh well we're passively going to show you all this information that you already want to hear whether it's actually correct or not you know who cares? Like this is what you want you know this is something that will make you feel good and that's always showing good to you because sometimes the truth might disengage you from our platform. You know and so that's not going to show up as much in you know your initial feed. And it's it is a really pervasive issue. And this whole like approach to information the same way that we approach like you know selecting our favorite foods at a restaurant or something like that just it's wildly dangerous.
SPEAKER_03It's like a hyper realized confirmation bias.
SPEAKER_08It is it is intentionally structured confirmation bias absolutely if nobody here if no one uh well this is like me just recommending recommending a documentary if you have not watched the social dilemma on Netflix it it talks in depth about this this and how you know how social media is literally like running our lives and and this is from people who work for social media they literally work at on from Google to Facebook to Twitter literally individuals who work for social media or who have worked for social media and and they basically are talking about how how social media is is literally could could like be the end of like society and shit like and it's it's interesting that you say that because yesterday I just saw a TikTok um this white girl was like my my page is like this and this and this like I I'm really bored with seeing all this stuff.
SPEAKER_03And someone stitched it um a friend of mine stitched it and she was like uh you have you have to understand that if your for you page on TikTok looks the way it does it's because of you. Right. That's why it looks that way it is it is literally showing you all the things that you continually are drawn to that you like that you comment on that you share all of those things it's just giving you more of what you already show yourself to like. Right. So if you feel as though your page is filled up saturated with things that are that you're starting to get bored with it's because you filled it with those things I just posted a like a small snippet the other day of how Amazon think they know me.
SPEAKER_07Amazon Amazon and IG got together right quick and was like oh she a whole ass nerd here here buy these nerdy things it was it was all kind of nerdy shit it's okay that's to be trying my life every day I'm like this I was like how dare you show me these lightsabers they look they look good they was they were some really nice sabers like how how dare you how dare you don't you do this attack me with attack me with the truth like like Sayone said like you're literally having conversations with people on the and and shit will pop up in your phone i i literally had um fucking conversation matter of fact my coworker i i posted about this too my co-worker gave me some fucking uh Skittles gummies and somehow that shit showed up on my phone how like what yeah this nigga's watching me on some whole different like type level shit like I just it's weird as fuck I I I got some Skittles gummies at work I was talking to this nigga about the gummies said it was good and then all of a sudden it the shit is in my news feed news new Skittles gummies no can I be sometimes they be slipping sometimes they be slipping like I was watching YouTube the other day and I got an ad that was pro life I'm like y'all y'all you somebody wasn't working this day like y'all have somebody who has somebody who wasn't monitoring me on the radio no but that that slip up is literally uh uh uh un un you know unsolicited propaganda to make you to sway you into something else that you didn't know that well you're not the place to do it I wasn't trying to watch him even if it was some shit I was I mean it's it's it's funny that it's funny that people don't like realize or understand like going back to what you said about the for you page like when social media started the purpose of it like you're back to our My Spaces our black planets and all that other stuff the purpose of it was for us to be expressive to show you know the things that we like and show people the things that we want to see right so then the the the next the next step up is when you add a friend and you add people who you want to communicate and the people you want to follow or support. So then when you get to the Facebook and the Twitter age the purpose of these platforms were to stay well initially were to stay communicated and connected to the people from your past. And then when they started adding in adding in groups and communities the purpose was for you to uh uh uh like yourself with people with like interests like minds and like thoughts so when you start following somebody or when you start connecting with somebody what they do is they try to aid you and this is what they always say aid you in being able to get connected to people and to topics and to items that you say that you like or you say that you communicated with so for example on Instagram if y'all remember I didn't have my own personal Instagram page I just didn't it wasn't I didn't want it. So when I finally got one I had no followers I I was following nobody of course I followed the podcast I followed the panelists on the podcast so for the first month everything on my timeline was cosplayers it was cosplayers at different conventions it was blurred con it was New York con it was a taco noir like it was all these different things the moment I followed I think the next person I followed was and this isn't an endorsement but the next person I followed was The Rock because Red Notice came out I followed the rock gal Godot and uh Ryan Reynolds then all I got was uh uh uh uh uh Terramana uh tequila and aviation gin and uh pictures of Gal Godot in Greece I was like I wasn't mad at that last one she was I mean go get uh and Wonder Woman Galgadot all these different things and then after that because I like the rock then they started showing me Kevin Hart things and because I was like oh let me let me like this Kevin Hart had to pop up in there right he has to because then when I liked Kevin Hart his little ass in there somewhere and then when I like Kevin Hart then they started posting a bunch of other comedians and then it starts that way because once you tell your algorithm and I I've said this before once you tell your algorithm even iota of information regardless of if they're listening to you because we know they are but regardless if they're listening to you once you give them an iota of information they take that and they say well what can I do to please you sir madam person right and because of that they find and and uh uh uh Dr. Quinzel has been schooling me on this the last week about the the hashtag game when posting the hashtags are the hashtags are important they they're they're they're phenomenally important because what they do is based off of who made the not the hashtag based off of who posted with the hashtag they group in everything that's associated with that hashtag so if you say anything associated with that hashtag it then starts presenting itself on your timeline. So just like the movie just like the movie when they're talking about the different things going on with the comment and they're talking about the different things going on with uh uh um uh politically and how you know don't look up campaign and all this other stuff people are liking and subscribing to things and sharing things based off of what they see but also whatever they say is then grouped in and then shown to them again so it's it's it's refiltered information over and over and over and over again to the point where you got one or two choices. Like you said uh the black McCoy said about the pro life and and the miskittle's like this is just a shot in the dark we want to see if the black McCoy is going to say yes or no. Now that we know that not only have you said no because you skipped it or you were you closed the window whatever you plus you're saying it near your phone I ain't about that life.
SPEAKER_03So if there are one or two things are gonna happen either I didn't mean to say it that way okay we're gonna meet when's face and we're gonna say I love that life we got we gotta call sushi plan C.
SPEAKER_07I done you have to call a plan G and then you gonna put my baby my face on like a baby that's being dumped into a trash can oh my God oh my God um what else what was I saying oh my chest hurts oh my god crap um this is okay I remember that so because the black bookhoy was not interested in the out in that individual video in that topic in that hashtag if you will in that point in the algorithm what they're going to do is one of two things either they're going to find individuals or or or posts that have to that are supported by that particular post and slowly it uh inseminate the black mccoy into that topic you're just using all the correct language today or you're talking about you're talking about ICs though and and and technical algorithms so I'm kind of excited or the opposite is gonna inseminate and not about that life. Right what are we doing here or are we against it I don't understand oh my god um or the opposite is going to happen and they're going to completely remove the black McCoy from the algorithm and and go into a completely different direction. So with the stuff with with the social media aspect like that I would say for me um from what I saw in the movie that was the part that excited me the most was how they were like cementing the concept of social media being such a cornerstone to how this information is getting out there how this how the news is being uh uh uh I wasn't about to use that word how this how the news is being kind of uh uh given to people were you gonna use intimidate again I think you wouldn't get I was not I was not but how the news did you like a turkey baster oh god no I have hot sauce thank you um so how the news is given to people and how it is uh presented to individuals uh I I felt like that was a a a very important uh very important thing to do uh along of course with Ariana Grande and uh Kid Cuddy song that was phenomenal uh so uh that's my takeaway from the movie but I will say as a final question uh uh what is your because technically this is supposed to be a uh a movie review or blurred cube movie review what is your final uh score uh out of we normally do five or ten I always forget is it five let's do five uh what is your score for don't look up out of five and we will start and you can give any final uh critiques or ad libs on it and we will start with the doctor um 4.5 out of five everything in a nine out of ten um it I think it does what sets out to do really well I think it approaches the whole you know end of the world scenario from a much more interesting perspective and highlights you know highlighting those social aspects really I think just shows uh it just shows so many facets of how this could play out and this and the systems they're in and really all these different barriers to actually getting that really preventing the end of the world um I think it does an excellent job at what it does.
SPEAKER_00I think it's super relevant to today both in terms of climate change COVID and many other issues. So um you know I almost never give anything a 10 out of 10 because you know I don't think anything's perfect. But this is damn close for me. So nine out of 10.
SPEAKER_08Okay.
SPEAKER_07Uh Sione cosplay.
SPEAKER_08You said it's out of four so I'll give it a definitely a four uh 4.5 out of five as well um it was it was very it was very good. Um you know I loved how how the movie it wasn't a short movie either. It was about like I think two and a half hours um and I was yeah I was um I was intrigued and engaged the entire time um I was laughing and then also I felt uh a sense of dread at the same time so it's very hard for uh current movies to give me that that type of feeling when I'm watching it so I thought I think they hit all the marks uh for sure um you know going with what uh the black mccoy was saying you know would have been interesting to see a little bit more of the hoarding but I think um that that was intentional because they didn't want to make it too much like COVID so to speak but I I did I did enjoy it very much.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Uh Kaize Tinry um yeah no I highly uh I honestly I knew I was gonna like the movie uh like the first literally the first the first review I saw literally spoiled the movie and that's not so far it didn't give any information it literally told me it was uh how do you why does she keep doing this did you see the light hit her though you gonna pop in at the end looking at we even supposed we even supposed to be getting ready for and in in the middle of Kaze's review right like he's taking all my shot like I'm sorry for the listeners who can't obviously see what we see Miss Sayone cosplay after she gave her review decided to wait until his turn for Kaze's turn to begin speaking to then turn on her camera where this this auspicious light is glowing through the window in her face her curls and her sparkly ensemble just the right way for us all to be shocked and aghast and completely taken aback no I was getting ready the entire time I'm sorry like she the sun I had to get what's going on actually I have to go uh to hmart so you know get you going like that to Hmart H Mart grabbing a couple things listen i'm cheating I'm cheating with myself honey I'm gonna get me some baked goods I'm gonna give me some peach roll she got dressed for the the baked goods I went all all over the body you know what I'm saying apples wow no that was a pineapple upside down baby before you was so uh brutally interrupted interrupted uh Lord have mercy yeah she done flushed you didn't she uh no y'all can't interrupt me that I might but um no no I third that that's what I was saying yeah I was uh like they they were saying like it was a satirical take on the uh on like you know the end of the world and there's a media coming and dah dah dah and I literally like mapped out the movie I like I knew I knew 80% of what was gonna happen and I watched I'm like yeah yeah I'm like yeah no that way that description was way too apt because I knew exactly how everybody was gonna was gonna react I I I knew uh I knew America was in America
SPEAKER_01Especially down even down to the point where they uh where they when he was like, oh no, so we're gonna we're gonna send drones, right? He's like, no, no, no, we're gonna send a hero.
SPEAKER_03Yes, yes, yes. I was when when the doctor was talking about like end of the world movies, I'm like, that was the stat, that was the satirical part of my end of the world movies. Like, right, we need we need a Will Smith on in Independence Day.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that that nigga from Armor Gatten, yeah. Um but but no, yeah, like I th I thoroughly enjoyed it. Honestly, I think um I think it being the end of the world was like almost incidental. I think the real thing and the real horror and the really fucked up thing about this movie is like despite despite the fact that we are uh you know, you know, lied to, commodified, taken advantage of, and and you know, and all these things just by you know the you know the government, society, media, all these things, we we would I think it I think there's a sincere, tragic hope that at the end of the day, if shit were to literally hit the proverbial fan, we would get our act together. And this movie was a harrowing example example that we might not that might not be the case. We may be fucked. And sometimes that uh you use me that reminder, so yeah, uh definitely uh yeah, what uh they they were kind of staying between the 0.5 intervals, but I'm gonna give it a 4.7.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_07Uh me Skittles.
SPEAKER_08So I'm also gonna give it a 4.5. Like literally, literally, I so on on Netflix, I saw it pop up there and it was it was like coming this Friday, whatever.
SPEAKER_10And I was like, oh, this looks interesting. Like I saw Jennifer Lawrence and like I saw the cast on the you know little screen, and I'm like, this looks like first of all, the cast was interesting as fuck. So I'm just like, we got Jennifer Lawrence, Leo, what uh Tyler Pitt. I was like, what the fuck is this about to be? So um, so when it when it dropped, I literally watched it the the night that it dropped. And I uh like I said earlier, it like at the end of this this movie, I was just like, damn, damn, damn.
SPEAKER_08Because it literally I for me, it's it was literally even though it was more towards a climate change, like like everyone said, I could relate it to COVID, I could I could relate it to climate change. Like I I genuinely feel like if if in fact a comet was about to hit us, because we already seen what they did with COVID, if a comment was about to hit us, they would be on that shit.
SPEAKER_10And and it's sad because at the end, everybody died, like for real. Like there was a moment, even though I they sat at that table and they was you know holding each other and talking about coffee beans. I was like, is somebody gonna stop the comment or no?
SPEAKER_03You would know there is something last minute.
SPEAKER_10I was like, and then and then it ended, and I was like, that was in this university. So I was like, that that was some real ass shit. And I sat with myself for a moment and I said, and that would be some real ass shit. So yes, um, yeah, four four out uh four point five out of five.
SPEAKER_07Okay, the black McCoy.
SPEAKER_03Um, off top, my my rating is the same. I definitely give it a 4.5 out of five. Um, from the very beginning of the movie, to this this this woman discovering that there's an uh um an extinction level great asteroid headed to the headed to the planet, to this white man being thrusted into the spotlight over her discovery, even after it was named after her, to literally him not knowing how to handle the fame that came along with that, and him being thrust thrust even further into the spotlight, and having to deal with the ramifications of not being equipped to to deal with that kind of that kind of uh those kinds of problems, to the media taking advantage of him and using him to push their own agenda, um, to him ruining his own life, right? To him actually um to even like full circle to her like being ostracized and ridiculed to literally the very final moments of the movie. Uh, even even the the woman who is the head of NASA who didn't even have uh any expertise in the in astronomy or astrology in any way, shape, or form. Like every every political episode.
SPEAKER_10What's so terrible about that? Working in the government, that is literally how shit happens. Literally how shit happens.
SPEAKER_01Trump's whole cabinet. Trump's whole cabinet. Hello! Trump's whole cabinet.
SPEAKER_10That is that's true. That's true. Oh, yeah, you're right.
SPEAKER_03And like the movie, like um, I I definitely agree with Ms. Gills and everyone else. Like the movie was so it was it, we we knew it was a it was a it was a satire, and and I would even say it was a dark comedy, but it was too real. Like, we by the time you reach the ending and the world has been destroyed, it's just like yeah, no, this is exactly how it would go. This is exactly how it will go, and there's nothing to save us from these events occurring in the way that they would. And I think the thing that uh was interesting to me the most as it relates to the film is like before I even saw it, like on my timeline, I saw so many people talking about how it wasn't a good movie, blah, blah, blah. It was terrible. And whenever people say that, I'm always like, hmm, because uh because of like my philosophy background and like my love for psychoanalytics, I'm like, why did you think it was terrible? Why do you why do you think this? Like, and inevitably I I come to this somewhat vague but general conclusion, like, oh, it's because it represented it probably showed something that was an immediate reflection of you, and it just didn't feel good to see that. And I think that this film is a very, very um explicit moment where a filmmaker or the writers or the people who the person who put this project, the people who put this project together were holding up a mirror to the audience and letting them know that this is who you are, and this is what would happen to you if this were the if this were to occur. And even down to the oh, the that final, that um after that first after credit scene when all those old white people got off that fucking arc onto a random planet and just were bucked stark fucking naked and all of them died. And I was gonna say, for y'all to have millions of dollars, not like the person thought, oh, I needed an arsenal or guns, not like even if all you had was guns, what the fuck did you think you was gonna do? Like you researched, nobody couldn't have because they just they just searched for a planet that was similar to Earth, and it's like it's funny because I forgot there was this one show I was watching a long time ago. I didn't I didn't get past the first season, but it was called Zoo, and it was basically all the animals are going to be. Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, and one of the scientists in the show, he was like, Yeah, human beings without our tools and shit that we use, we're on this, we're basically pigs, like we're on the same level as pigs. We don't have claws, we don't have armor, we don't have anything about us as fundamentally as a species that equips us to live in the wilderness and be and like and take care of ourselves. Like the fact that we made tools is the thing that we try to use to distinguish ourselves. But without those tools, we ain't got shit. And you saw that happen, especially to these old white people who are like, Oh, look at this cute animal. Oh my god, no, like we would all be murked.
SPEAKER_09Uh Sammy B saying intelligence in that list of things that you were saying.
SPEAKER_01It's not like it's not like tools failed them, the tools did what they're supposed to do, and then they walked outside the tool, right? They went to go pet the wild.
SPEAKER_03Right. Like, you gotta guns, y'all don't have no guns, and then and even if they were supposed to be popular, y'all are all geriatric white people. What kind of offspring do you think? Thank you.
SPEAKER_01That's what my thoughts were no young folk, like and it was 20,000 years of the future. 24,000 years later. Yeah, I was like, Dad, who y'all make that? Y'all ain't make that it was 2000.
SPEAKER_03It was like no, it was 20, it was like 2400 to 24,000, but it was a while, it was longer than it should have been. It was like it was a cute, it was more than a it was more than a couple hundred years, like it was up there, like it was some time, it was ridiculous. And I was hey, but yeah, like the the the film itself is amazing, and like there there isn't a moment in the movie where I was like, yeah, no, that that that that's unrealistic. Oh, that wouldn't happen. Like, no, no, it's it's very much right there. And they have moments where they they they push the satire a little bit closer to your face, like rub your nose in it, but it doesn't happen so uh frequently in the film where you feel as though that you're where it takes you out of it, right? I think there's only like a couple moments where you're like doing Ariana Grande's song because you know it's a song, it's satirical. Um 4.5 out of five. Watch this film with the understanding that this is satirical, but it's also um it's also um what's the word I'm looking for? Other than a think piece, not a think piece, but it's like a it's like uh a satirical documentary. Yeah, a satirical documentary.
SPEAKER_07Dr. Quinzel of the Shampoo Bracelet.
SPEAKER_03That's a whole title.
SPEAKER_08In the middle of y'all giving y'all reviews, uh I've had two children fall off a bookshelf, and I have poured me a glass of wine in the middle of the day.
SPEAKER_03Um, how big is the bookshelf? Ain't that tall? Oh, I know.
SPEAKER_06Oh, oh, okay. I was wondering why she was pouring wine. I was like, oh, okay. I guess you could say they were booked and busy. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_08Um, okay, so I think I I would rate the movie probably I would say a five out of five for me.
SPEAKER_09Um, Shavy B ended up watching it without me the first time they watched it again.
SPEAKER_08But it was the fact that when they were sitting at the dinner table, that I've seen horror movies before, but for some reason that like literally made me nauseous to myself. Like the the anticipation, and mind you, I'm not in the room, but the anticipation of just knowing that people were so stupid for this long and y'all have to die for the sins of somebody else.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Like, like that that whole concept and thought just fucked with my emotions. And the fact that that's going on today, and that if something seriously happened like that, we'd probably be in, we would be in the same situation. Um, anything Leonardo DiCaprio does, I mostly try to watch it because he's such a good actor. Period.
SPEAKER_09Um, I definitely would recommend watching a movie. I actually had my mom watch it, and it was interesting to me how she couldn't match up the things that they were making either fun of or relating to to the point where I had to have a conversation with her to make her re-watch it.
SPEAKER_08Because I'm like, there was cues about capitalism in there, about politics that you missed, and you're older than me.
SPEAKER_09So you should have been able to pick up on those things to me a lot faster than myself.
SPEAKER_08Um so yeah, I would definitely recommend watching the movie. Do you have anything to say about the movie? You want to say something? It was good.
SPEAKER_07Thank you.
unknownAll right.
SPEAKER_07So that is our final, that is our review on Don't Look Up. Uh, so of course, this is the time where I give all of our panelists the opportunity to uh talk about themselves. Uh, I know a couple of signs here are gonna do it very excellently. Uh, but uh starting with the doctor, how can you be reached? How can they follow you? How can they talk to you?
SPEAKER_00Oh, Rod RT at Facebook. Um, yeah, so that's pretty much it.
SPEAKER_07We're gonna get him on another platform soon, y'all. I don't know which one is gonna be. The uh Kazay Sr. since you uh got the comments. Uh how can you be reached?
SPEAKER_01Oh uh Barrett 3 uh B on the gram.
SPEAKER_03The Black McCoy. You can find me at the Black McCoy on Instagram. You can also find me at the Black McCoy Cosplay on Facebook, and you can also find me at not black by choice on Instagram as well as on Facebook. Syone cosplay.
SPEAKER_08Sione cosplay on Facebook, sayone underscore cosplay on IG, sayone.cosplays at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_07Dr. Quinzel of Shampoo Bracelets.
SPEAKER_09You can find me on IG at Shampoo Bracelets and at Blur Creations. And Facebook is still blurred creations as well. And just a reminder for you all know y'all won't hear this till Wednesday. There we go.
SPEAKER_08Miss Skittles stickers are in the store. So go buy and support Miss Skittles by buying her stickers if you want more cosplay. Okay. And then we have a promo code for Miss Salna Cosplay. It's say on A15.
unknownThank you.
SPEAKER_08Yes. Absolutely what uh ShareProve Brave just said. Yes, go go get the stickers. Um, but Ms. Skittles T R underscore cosplay on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
SPEAKER_07And of course, you can find me at uh Suchi underscore no underscore shogun at or or on IG. Uh also all things umbrell starcade on all the platforms other than TikTok. Uh, then of course, also at Blurr Creations. Uh, well, I guess I have to support the Twitter since you know somebody doesn't support the Twitter, uh, but Blur Creations on Twitter. Uh, also the Facebook is Blur Creation Shop on Facebook. So you can go to the shop and buy the stickers by Miss Skittles, uh, amongst other things. Um, also, we're going to be starting the uh 25, uh, 25, the 10 favorite things of uh the Black McCoy. I don't know where 25. I'm I'm very concerned about where the 25 came from.
SPEAKER_08I mean, I know we got 25 things in the store.
SPEAKER_07I apologize. I really don't know where the number 25 came from. Um I'll have to research that later. But anyway, the 10 favorite things of the Black McCoy will be unleashed uh in February. Uh, Aquarian season is now officially in full effect. Uh, so please uh stay tuned for that. Uh actually it'll drop uh by the time you hear this. So yeah, check out the Blur Creation store to see the Black McCoy's 10 favorite things, as well as a special Black McCoy official piece of merchandise. I'm not gonna spoil it. You will just have to tune in, follow us. Actually, I believe we're actually going live to unveil it. So just be just be ready for that because again, like Mosquitoes, the Black McCoy doesn't always go live. So you will see a specialty live by the Black.
SPEAKER_03I'll be working on my cosplays instead of working on my Photoshop.
SPEAKER_07Get ready for it. Uh and as well, you can find us, the uh Blurred Spectrum, uh, the Blurred or the Blurred Spectrum on Instagram and Facebook, the Blurred Spectrum on Twitter. Uh, and then of course, uh what the Blurred Spectrum at Umbralstar K.com is our mailbag. Uh, and then look forward to all the things we have going on in February. We have two aquariums. We're gonna be uh turning up this month. Uh, we have a couple of new topics that are coming uh this uh this this month as well, as well as a couple of YouTube videos that are going to be done by a couple of our panelists talking about a couple of side conversations. So uh please stay tuned for that. Share those.
SPEAKER_09We forgot one more thing. My bad. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_07That's not true. I was like, hopefully, I'm not one of those panelists.
SPEAKER_09Shammy B's birthday is tomorrow, so there will be a special item in the store. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_08Special item will be in the store by the time you all hear this. It's a beloved character. That's all I'm going to say. So check it out.
SPEAKER_03Is it shampoo bracelets?
SPEAKER_08No, I have a picture of him. I don't think people want that.
SPEAKER_03That'd be a bit too on the nose.
SPEAKER_07Yes. So thank you all for listening. Thank you all for, of course, supporting and following. Uh, and we will see you next time. Sayonara.
SPEAKER_02Bye.