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time for Jay and Jamie movie show. We haven't done this in a long
time because we were on the cusp of mad love and I had to break
Jamie out of the mental institute and we went on a cross country adventure.
We had a car wreck, just kidding, none of that happened. I
did wear my hair full frizz with riz. It's past sweet cream. What
is it now, it's freaking fabio, It's pirate or fabio full Fabio love.
We have achieved full Fabio anyway, you look all serious. You don't
like Fabia. I was just mas Maris, Yes, exactly. Let's go
over this a little bit. I'm in too much of the screen. Turn
here, there you go. All right. So Jamie's wearing her Sublime T
shirt because that's the closest to gen X that she had. I think that
counts. It's definitely an older Brother's band, yeah, right, because there's
like the boomers birth both the gen X and the Millennials. So yeah,
eighties and nineties count for that. Yeah, and the Older Brother's band sounds
like a boomer Southern rock band, right. Yeah, it's like they were
a lesser known opener for the Doobie Brothers that never made it. Yeah,
the Older Brothers definitely. They sang about old rivers and weed. They like
the DeBie Brothers. But like gen X is like Nirvana, who else for
sure? Pretty much Chryl Crow eighties and nineties. Yeah, they all count
as gen X. And certain actors and actresses make the cut as essence of
gen X. And I would say we're talking about John Depp, We're talking
about Ethan Hawk, We're talking to Uma Thurman, We're talking with a rider,
all essence of gen X, Ben Stiller, Right, what is that?
I just dieate in your arms tonight. That's that's a gen X.
I guess anything for ladies, and isn't it. Don't be looking at the
chat. They're talking about your beautiful hair. Of course there are else you
thought that else will talk about. He said that you take what that sounds
like? That sounds like some freaking boomer products. It's the best Canteen hair
product onto some damn panting and panting. Yeah, Molly Ringwald's essence of gen
X to yeah, who else? Yes, she is all the all the
brat pack elis is he in any of these? No the brat pack?
Yeah. So, because we're not doing eighties, we're doing nineties drama edies,
al dramedies, right, yeah, don't you remember what we did?
Yeah? I remember Chasing Amy, Mad Love, Empire Records before Sunrise,
Reality Bites, that's so good, and Beautiful Girls, which will we will
mention Chasing Amy and Beautiful Girls and then move on because they're all essence of
gen X. You don't remember Beautiful Girls with Uma Thurman and a young Natalie
Portman who has a crush on is it Clive Owen no, not Clive Owen.
Remember vaguely, keep reminding me she they had this inappropriate crush when he
comes back to his hometown. Oh yeah, and then that's the only weird
part of the movie, only the reason that we mentioned it. You think
he's gonna get with Uma Thurman and she just like skips out of town.
Stop bring the chat, you're gonna get distracted. Beautiful girls. Well here,
let me pull it up. Since we'll briefly mention it. Chasing Amy
was cringe. We didn't finish Chasing Amy. It was too cringe gross.
All they talked about was yeah, gross stuff is it's all the beautiful girls?
Right? No, that's a dang prince. Maybe it's just beautiful girls.
This was an obscure This is it Matt Dylan? Right, so you
got Matt Dylan. What is this gen x? She is princess? Yes?
Right, so in this one, Timothy Hutton, that's so I couldn't
think of. Not Clive Owen. You got Rosie o'donald. Very gross.
What happened to Rosie? Unbelievable relief, Shad Rosie O'Donnell is the comic relief
in this. You've got what Michael Rapaport as the horny man. Yeah,
you've got Timothy Hutton going back to his hometown because he can't make it as
a piano player in New York. And he decides, I'm gonna go back
and just be a normal, you know, small town dude working at the
factory. And then he meets his next door neighbor, Natalie Portman, who's
like thirteen. Yeah, and she has a crush on him when he comes
back. Very weird. Nothing happened, nothing happens, but it's just bizarre.
He tries to think in his head that she's mature, Yeah, more
mature than she is. And you got Matt Dillon over here being a player.
Everybody learns their lesson. It's fairly predictable but forgettable, right, and
so Uma Thurman doesn't end up being who he gets with. So anyway,
not much to it, just the weird element of the temptation, so to
speak, between Timothy Hutton and the way too young Natalie Portman character, which
I thought was an odd, odd element for just sort of a random nineties
anyway, So that one didn't make the list, but it was an honorable
mention for this genre. And Chasing Amy as we said was too gross.
Baffleck is not funny in it. There's some very bizarre scenes about debates about
the trinity. There's too many nineties Goates in it, right, very goe
all the dudes at Goates, Yes, and a very thin leather jacket.
And it's not very There was one funny part of the comic con at the
beginning, at the beginning with the nerds of the comic con, that was
kind of funny. Jason Lee. Everybody's forgotten Jason Lee. Without him,
he became a scientologist. Right, Who's the Kevin Smith in the movie.
He's a very gen X MovieMaker. Oh, he's absolutely essential gen X filmmaker.
However, we're not focusing on straight comedies. We're looking for dramedies.
So that's why we chose today's selection. And why do we choose this?
We want to get into the psyche of the gen X. How do they
think? What are their motivations, what are their traumas, what are their
positive aspects? Why is that because the Boomers will soon be in are presently
past the torch too. The next crop of overlords, namely the gen X
overlords, will they be benevolent leaders. Will they be failures like the boomers?
Will they do better? We'll have to see as we bequeath our failty
to our new lords. What are you there? I think they're the older,
like I said, the older siblings of this whole dynamic one that was
like a little neglected. I'm sure gen X would say that they were the
first latch key kids, and so they had to do a lot of growing
up and parentalization of themselves, and I think that comes out. And then
a lot of just kind of being lost and not wanting to be like your
parents is a common theme. And a lot of these like we hang out
and we don't we don't hustle and grind like the Boomers. We just kind
of like think about things. They're very existential thinkers. Yeah, this is
the Ethan Hawk character in Before Sunrise. Yeah, Sunset Sunrise Sunrise. Okay,
and I've not seen this trilogy. We've only seen the Jamie might have
seen the other ones. I don't remember if you've seen them. No,
Okay, so we've only seen the first of this famous trilogy by link Later.
And that's relevant too because Alex of course is in two link Later films,
So Richard Linklater is gonna be another essence of gen X film film buff
film directors. But so we want to understand where they're coming from their mindset,
and what better way to do that than to find the essential gen X
films that deal with love, relationships, philosophy, existential angst from the nineties.
We'll kick it off with Mad Love, which is not a very good
movie. So we're starting with the worst. This is not everybody's forgotten chrystll
Donald. Remember the controversey that he paid like ten thousand dollars to have his
cod piece and Batman be significantly bigger. I never heard. Yeah, this
was a controversy in the nineties which they were all making fun of him because
he paid to have the cod piece look bigger than was it George Clooney?
Was he was with George Clooney, Right, I would have paid to have
the script not be so ho m ower rodd it the I don't remember the
Batman with his with George Clooney? Is it is it skittles pretty well,
like just like suggesting weird things, you know. At the time, I
wouldn't have thought about that, but looking back, I'm sure it was right,
Like, I didn't even know in the nineties, I was too innocent.
It was very I was too innocent to know that Interview of the Vampire
was all freaking gay, powdered toast Man, remember that who you cling to
his bottom and run and stimpy. He's like, they're just being funny,
though, that's I'm talking about, Like Interview of the Vampire is explicitly skittles.
Yeah, but I didn't recognize that. I wish we could go back
to, you know, a more innocent time. But so this is a
kind of Romeo Juliette story and what really wanted to tap into the alt vibe
of teenagers older or I should say gen X sort of graduating and going into
college around the time in the mid nineties. So this is nineteen ninety five.
We have the total nineties essential soundtrack, We've got Nirvana, We've got
all these kinds of characters, We've got other staples of nineties gen X,
like Matthew Lillard. I mean, all we're lacking is basically Sketele Rick and
Jamie Kennedy, Right, yeah, we would have been like essence of But
so it's a Romeo juliet story where you have this sort of middle classish dude
who lives I think we're in Oregon. Seattle. They love to set these
nineties films in Seattle, Oregon. This was part of the grunge scene.
I don't know why we're supposed to think so that Seattle was so cool in
the nineties. Maybe Nirvana why is it? And Soundgarden and there was a
tech Yeah, there was a tech phenomena at that time then before silicon silicon
valid correct, Seattle and gen X was like one of the first generations to
make like going to therapy as an adolescent thing and also being put on different
chemicals. Like Breakfast Club is kind of not touches on that a little bit,
but this one is explicitly like she is cuckoo. Now there's a huge
element in this about big pharmaceutical medication. Yeah, that's actually a plot that
you needn't dare step between someone in their meds, and that's cryst O'donald's chief
sin here in this film is to step between somebody in their mads and he
thinks he knows better for the sake of love, right, but turns out,
no, you don't understand this chick is like basically whack a doodle institutionalized
on a regular base. And the fact that she's from a wealthy family doesn't
mean that she's not whack adoodle. So, like I said, we've got
Romeo Juliet story. You've got also the class distinction. He's upper middle class.
Drew Barrymore is from very wealthy class, right, And so she lives
across the lake where the richies live. He lives over on middle class side
of the lake. They begin to flirt and have fun, and they start
dating, and she is off the hook. She's just like, Okay,
let's skip school, let's pull the fire alarm, let's go do she does
the most. She has no governor self governor for self harm. What's the
word I'm looking for where you have a you don't have the desire or the
necessary programming to like stop at a certain moment. There's a word I'm looking
for. Well, she's the ultimate manic pixie dream girl. Correct, that's
part of this. Yes, and remember in the nineties the Volkswagen Beetles were
such a thing. Yeah, she she has one of these. Correct.
Let's look at some of the trailer here. You've got Voyeur Chrys O'Donnell over
here peeping on her. Remember he starts creeping on her. He looks at
her through Yeah, he's over here looking at her like, oh yeah,
let me see what what the richies are up to in the bedroom. Oh,
she's, you know, changing her clothes. This is not him.
Look, this is when she's at the library. But then, yeah,
here's her beetle. So she's got her Drew Barrymore beetle wearing that nineties baby
doll dress, baby doll dress and the stocking socks. Right, you got
Matthew Lillard with some nice hair. You've got Matthew exactly. Totally zero cool
baby. Anyway, this this is another phenomena that occurred that we saw in
the in the nineties. Mannic Pixie dream Girl is almost an archetype. Okay,
this is like when Owner Ryder in Reality bites. This is Drew Barrymore
and mad Love. This is oh the girl in Empire Records. Who's the
one that's suicidal. Remember her, she's man At Pixie dream Girl. Remember,
they have to have a ritual for her where she undergoes her death so
that they could hear how everybody's talking about how awesome she was and they missed
her. Yeah. Uh so mental problems is a theme for the adolescence of
gen X. But the point of this movie is not just that. It's
a great point about Heather's. Heathers would work too, but Heather's we thought
was a little too satirical and not enough of a of a of a dramedy.
But yeah, we've talked about Heathers many times. But the point of
this movie really is, No, you need your meds, right, Like,
what did Jordan Peterson? Be sure and take your meds? Do not
take your meds. I noticed in your notes that there's a lot of butterflies,
and there are monarchy. There's monarch imagery throughout this movie. Yeah,
Now, every time a butterflies used doesn't necessarily mean monarch mind control. It's
a classic symbol for transformation. She's also got those damn nineties eyebrows. Yeah,
look at those plucked nineties eyebrows. Like so in the nineties, every
chick had these like super thin, plucked up eyebrows. Do they grow back
or they stay like that? No, that's why they sell you eyebrow serums.
Really. Yeah, anyway, so there's not a lot to be said
about this movie, except that she's diagnosed as bipolar. He keeps he breaks
her out of the facility. You got boom her dad over here, Like
why is he trying to keep her out of the you know, keep her
out of the mental institute. Chryst o'dnald thinks he knows better. They go
on this road trip they get this idea. Well Elope, okay. And
this is funny because it's on the trip where Chris o'donald gets to realize she's
actually insane because she has multiple mental breakdowns, once at a restaurant and it's
not cute anymore. And then uh, he wakes up and she's like plastered
their Mexican rental apartment with like magazine magazine images with two paste. Yeah,
she's gluing the apartment with magazine images and it's like all seeing eyes. And
what they don't tell you is like you get the impression, Okay, has
she been sex abused? Right? It Also it almost seems like she's gone
through some kind of s a and that's why she's so manic and her here's
her now is this her mag You can see this is one of her manic
breakdowns here, but she plasters the whole room with like eyes. She cuts
the eyes out of magazines, plasters and everywhere. She's like, everyone's looking
at me. Everyone's looking at me, And you actually start wondering to wait
a minute, does she actually have some sort of literal trump And that's like
the underlying theme of the film. But this is the height of grunge,
by the way, it is nineteen ninety five. The whole soundtracks basically grunge,
and it's all just really to promote psycho psychoactive help and the big pharma
message of prozac. Well did you notice with the eyes and people watching her?
He was watching her through the telescope and she caught him and instead of
being like, stay away, creep, she's like, oh, okay,
I'll be your girlfriend. Well, at first she's creeped out, but then
she likes it. Yeah, so we get the impression that again, maybe
something odd has happened to her and her dad. I think it says he's
a military industrial complex Boeing executive. So is this a monarch pixie dream girl?
I mean it's implied, but not explicit. I mean, I mean,
why would you have the dad being an executive at a giant military industrial
complex, you know, war entity. He could be he could be working
for you know, Microsoft or something. You said, angry boomer dad energy.
So yeah, that's a big thing in gen X. They're always completing.
My dad's so angry. My parents are so miserable. I don't want
to be like them. Right, And of course, you know Drew Barrymore.
We just covered her with Scio Cinema and Firestarter and the Long Listory,
the Long Hiss and the Long the long list in history of Drew Barrymore films
that have the theme, you know, of trauma mind control. Again,
fire started being a key example. Right. There's also a kind of a
bodying Bonnie and Clyde element to this, right, when they run off and
they think they're going to be like criminals, and she keeps having her manic
episodes when she's over stimulated. Her eye collage scene I think was very telling
eyeing through the telescope. Eyes pop up a lot in this right, which
is again is very bizarre. When they keep mentioning Castor and Pollux the twins,
so it's almost like they think that they're twin flames. And I don't
really understand the purpose of the astrological references unless this perhaps relates to her occult
programming, if she is in fact a monarch person. I mean, why
would they keep bringing up castor and pollocks and the constellations and the twins?
Right, they said she's bipolar, but they didn't really say how or why.
And this is the beginning of the chemical imbalance you put here error,
Yeah, like, oh, we don't know why, right, so we
wouldn't look at the abuse perhaps from the father, and the movie does imply
that her father's abusive, right this executive, But instead they said, no,
she just has a chemical imbalance, and you're a bad person, chrys
o'donald, because you tried to wide night and save her from this relationship.
It actually, it turns out he's kind of right, yeah, like cryst
o'donald's actually kind of got the right picture here. He's almost stumbling upon the
fact that she might be like an abused you know, MK victim by this
military social complex goon. But they shut that ship down pretty quick and make
sure to let him know, no, this is this is mad love of
teenage idiocy, right, yes, And so it's very take your marriage,
like you said, Romeo and Juliet and they're ripped apart by chemical imbalances.
No, they're ripped apart by the system. The system try and keep this
apart. Yeah, which is ironically it is kind of true, Like it's
actually kind of true. But that's the thing, though, is that it
never addresses the underlying problem. It's always about getting her the medications to treat
the symptoms. Yeah, well, what's the underlying trauma that causes her to
be this way? Exactly? It's the misdirection. All right, let's move
on because that movie is again not very good, So again we're moving up
the scale as the movie is get a little bit better. That doesn't mean
that they're necessarily all that great. I do think Reality Bites and Before Sunrise
are good. They're they're decent. Reality Bites held up better than I expected.
Empire Records as not that great of a film. It's almost like they
conceived of this as a TV show and they thought it was going to be
a recurring series. It feels like the pilot of a nineties want to be
sitcom dramedy and it just never really manifested, and it was really trying to
capture the essence of the Seattle record store, independent music scene, the grunge
scene as well. It's not just grunge though, because you have, you
know, sort of a cast of goofy characters that like all types of film
of musical genres, they do have a funny character who's kind of like a
it's kind of like a Michael Hutchins mixed with I don't know, like George
Michael. Do you remember the guy? It's his day. He comes there
every every year or so to sell his records. It's in our notes here.
But so you'll have a young Renee Zellweger, we have liv Tyler again,
essence of gen x he Rex Manning day. Correct. Yeah, so
this is like in the nineties. I don't they probably don't do this anymore,
right, but in the nineties you would have like a musician or a
pop star or somebody would have like a big day where you could come kind
of like kind of like an an author does a book signing, right,
like, all, let's go meet Stephen King and get our book signed,
you know. But here it's this fictional sort of Rex Manning character. That
part was kind of clever. I thought that was a funny character. But
overall, it's just not that great of a movie. The store becomes the
sort of replacement family for each of these characters. So everybody's family situation is
basically totally dysfunctional, and the store is the replacement family. But they all
don't really realize that until they have the threat of losing the store. And
you've got this idiot guy who's sort of the rebellious dumb guy who thinks,
I'll take the stor's weekly deposit and I'll go gamble it in Reno and see
if I can get enough money to Atlantic City excuse me, Atlantic City right
to keep it. So is this not I thought this was? This isn't
New Jersey. Oh, excuse me. I thought it was. I thought
it was a Orlando excuse me. So this is not this is Jersey.
Pardon me. Yeah. So the idiot character thinks he's gonna win all this
money back to save the record store because he hears this being bought up,
bought off by these corporate elites. They're gonna turn it into like a Tower
Records or a what's another one of those nineties chains that popped up Tower.
And this is the first time we see that kind of thing, like corporatization
and then seeing the soullessness of like big conglomerates taking over their neighborhood businesses.
It's this guy's the idiot guy, right with the Caesar cut, the George
Clooney Caesar cut, which everybody I had that the haircut in the nineties too,
everybody had their haircut. A lot of these gen X movies too,
are very conversation driven, Like the thing is just kind of like a set
to have this dialogue of thoughts between them right in Empire Records, I think
is like the backdrop for just like a lot of important conversations that young people
are having about it. That's a really good point because most films nowadays are
not narrative or or they're not a conversation driven. I mean think about you
know, pulp fiction, right, even pulp fiction with its sort of inane,
mundane, idiotic conversations, it's still convert it's still script driven, right.
Clerks is like that. I think that's a really good exam that's a
really good point. And then you got this sort of idiotic goofy character who's
the he's the punk guy. You've got the pop star like liv Tyler is
obsessed with the Michael Hutchins type of pop guy. This guy's the punk guy.
They all have their different genres. Well, speaking of last Key kids.
So this group of people that work at this place, they all treat
it as a second home because they have problems. Exactly dysfunctional and neglected.
This is the Hodgepodge family that they're looking for, because no one's literally at
home because the boomers were still working or they're still out. So this is
Lucas. He's the one that blows all the money for the weekly deposit,
which means that they're going to lose the record store even even sooner because he
thought he could win it through gambling. I forget this guy. This guy's
like a nineties sort of Italian staple guy, but I forget his name.
He's in a bunch of different things. I'm trying to find the So then
you've got liv Tyler, who's sort of the the one that everybody has a
crush on, but she has a crush on the stupid pop star guy anyway.
So there's not a whole lot really that interesting in this film, except
that it is a very good slice of what pop culture was about in the
nineties, and there is one bizarre esoteric element to this film, which is
the they're all pretty much idiotic. I'm trying to find the girl that shaves
her head. Okay, so this chick, right, is she the Gilmore
Girls chick? I always get all these nineties people mixed up anyway, but
she's in a bunch of you know, nineties things, and she represents she's
the manic pixie dream girl who's essentially, you know, tempted to unlive herself,
and she's like a super drama queen. She also I think they speak
about her, you know, on meds or whatever, and she's always just
she's like the ultimate sort of narcissistic, self absorbed, manic pixie dream girl
who has to undergo a death, burial and resurrection ceremony in the film,
which rehabilitates her. I guess it's very bizarre. But the only reason that
all these people are having these problems is that the film is actually saying that
it's because of extreme dysfunctional problems at home. And so I think in her
case, were her dad's abusive or she's been abused as well, and so
this is her surrogate family. But interesting that that's a recurring theme here.
It is, here's her resurrection ritual where she lays down and they all do
a eulogy, lamenting what would happen if she died? Right? So,
anyway, first time at sex lib Tyler, there's Rex Manning in there and
she tried to she's seducing Rex Manning, but he something happened in Renees Elwiger.
Well, she'd found out he was he was like slimy and gross,
and then she didn't like him, and then he goes and sleeps with Renes
Elwiger. Right, Yeah, But then there's a younger kid who keeps robbing
the store and then they teach him a lesson and he becomes part of the
family. And so it's almost like, I don't know, like youth like
youth gangs can find familial solace if they if they find a record store.
Also, I think that was a very big gen X thing too, because
they were trying to make another family that wasn't so messed up. Well that's
the point right now. The story course is that they're able to save the
record store by all working together and fighting the corporate man. And I mean
that was kind of the theme. I think of a lot of grunge and
alt music, all of the alternative scene of that time. The whole premise
was corporations are bad and they're they're screening everybody over and we need to do
our own thing, which is actually correct, Like I mean, the essential
ethos of this whole genre grunge as well, was spot on. But the
problem is that almost right away, all of these movements, whether it's the
grunge movement in the nineties, or whether it's independent music which evolves out of
grunge and alternative indie indie rock right in the late nineties early two thousands,
and it's almost all immediately bought up and bought out by the corporations. So
it's a noble sentiment, but it's it's just almost it's almost always immediately foiled
by the man. What do you think I really wanted to live Tyler's outfit
back in the day, her skirts, skirt with the sweater, when I
was twelve years older. Whenever this came out, I thought that was the
cutest thing. You did you want Rex Manning? No, no, you
wouldn't try to say to Douce the Rex Menning with the skirt in the switter
No too old. I think you know that like all of the girls at
this time wore this right, you had Clueless Elizabeth Shu wears the same outfit
and the Saint So yeah, this was like a super nineties girl outfit for
sure. Anything else to say about Empire Records? What do you think of
it? I don't think it's that great. No, it was kind of
a mid movie. They do bring up film school. One of the guys
wants to go to film school, and film school comes up in Reality Bites
as well as a key element of the narrative. That's because in the nineties
everyone talked about going to film school. I'm not joking like I had multiple
friends. I had one friend that actually did it. He didn't actually end
up making any films, but everybody in the nineties, well, okay,
wait to go to film school, dude. It was like a super popular
thing in the nineties because documentaries was like the hot that's when they were starting
to get popular. And in Reality Bites, remember is that unette? Is
it is it Steve's on or is it Jenine Garofolo that's making the documentary?
It's Winoda writer taking clips and Ben Stiller takes her clips and cells. Oh
Soona's making the documentary. Yeah, okay, that's right, and that has
all the things we've just been talking about. Well. Also, unliving is
a big theme here and reality TV, so you do reality by absolutely right.
So this one is way ahead of its time, a lot of important
elements. As Jamie just noted, this is right when reality TV was first
popping off getting really popular. I remember at this time, when it was
really kicking off, you had road Rules, uh, Real World and then
Roll road Rules, and I, believe it or not, I was trying
to remember Real World was actually way earlier than I remembered. I thought it
was mid nineties. It's more like ninety two or three. And then you
get road Rules the spell off of that, which was later nineties, and
everybody can remember. I remember all the not all of them. I remember
Pedro, remember him. He's the gay guy that had aids Pedro and they
were following Pedro's story of I'm serious, I know. I remember John was
the guy that was the country musician, the Christian They all made fun of
him. Yeah. So they are countering the boomer culture of a fake world
where everything is scripted and so they're saying, we're not interested in the boomer
culture. We are wanting our real stories of real people. But they don't
realize that they are also contributing to making another fake counterculture because they're adding skittles.
They're adding like all of these different ethnicities in the same house, like
this is like some kind of microcosm of real life. When it's not.
It's like alternative living styles, which exactly was promoted by the white white papers
written by the Sanford Research Institute. They were saying in the nineteen seventies,
as we roll out the technocracy, we're going to promote all manner and forms
of alternative ways of living. And so I think, although not everybody in
the alternative music movement intended this, alternative music played into this narrative coming out
of the think tanks and the foundations to create everything as an alternative, and
this really set the stage for where we are now. By everybody who's now
existing in some weird, bizarre fetish or all thing, I'm special because I'm
in this. This is my consumer identity that I've chosen. I identify as
a bird, I'm a furry. All that stuff couldn't have happened without this
phase where you have people adopting the first phases of alternative. I mean you
could say, okay, the sixties and hippies were an earlier version of this.
It's just new versions and new levels and layers of the plan that's rolled
out. So in the in the nineties, this key figure here by played
by Ethan Hawk, Troy Dyer dire hello, Troy Dyer, philosopher, is
a philosophy student. It's very busy, so all of this. I didn't
pick up on this until we recently watched it. He's seen reading Heidegger as
well as a bunch of other very unexpected technical philosophy books. So that was
interesting. But you're he made a great point, right that the premise of
the film is that the characters want to get You're gonna be in the shot.
The characters want to get to reality. What is reality? What's real?
Dude? Yeah? I remember the nineties. I would even see bumper
stickers like alt indie people. It was popular for them to have bumper stickers
like what is real? What is real? Man? Right? And so
when Onda Ryder thinks I'm going to film a documentary about my real life and
that will be authentic because we're all searching for authenticity. There's always in a
lot of these gen X all films, the existential search for authenticity man,
So they're very influenced by existential's philosophy, hence him reading Heidiger. And what
makes her life interesting enough to make a documentary is her going through her parents'
divorce. So that's what kind of spurred her on to go to film school
and do all these things, is because this is also the generation of the
great boomer divorce. Well, remember she also works at a network station,
and her network job, she can't stand it because it's so fake. And
she's got this local TV host boomer who's really arrogant and rude to her.
Remember he's always talking down to her and he's really mean, and she's like,
hey, I have really good ideas about how we could update the show
make it more appealing to a hip or younger audience. And the boomer guys
just like I don't listen to women. Shut up. Yeah. Yeah.
So she's graduating college and Houston. I thought this was an interesting setting for
a movie. You don't get too many movies set in Houston. It is
a very odd setting. For for a movie, and she's conflicted then her
reality story about herself for documentary, which by the way, is very narcissistic.
I'm going to make a documentary about myself because I'm on the search for
authenticity in my own life. Super super narcissistic. But she is. She's
the manic pixie dream girl, and Ethan Hawk is the manic pixie dream dude
to her. Yes, that just reminded me of that kid in American Beauty
who films everything in like the paper bag blowing. And it's all very,
like you said, narcissistic. And it's also this this sort of voyeuristic preparation
for where we are now that everything is live streamed right our I r L
streaming right or Twitch streaming, or the idea that I need to post every
aspect of my life life for the public to see, right. You couldn't
have had any of that without this important phase of reality TV and what you
see Winona Writer's character embodying here. So, just like I was talking about
with Scott on a History Homo's podcast, and by the way, that means
Homo Sapien, not History Homosexuals, but History Homo's podcast, we had a
great conversation that the other day Scott and I and we were talking about Gene
Hackman's character in the nineteen seventies film The conversation. He's an archetype, he's
a he's on the cusp of Panopticon, surveilled man. That's what his character
represents. Guess what, so does Winona writer here, she represents the future
of Panopticon. Everybody's being filmed at all times. That's a preparation for the
world that we live in now. But the drama kicks off. We have
to mention Garafa Hoo because who she slept with sixty six people, her body
count, her body count is sixty and she is very open about this.
She's always talking about it, and she keeps thinking she's getting AIDS. And
that's interesting because of the nineteen nineties, AIDS was talked about all the time
everywhere. This is odd because and we know this, if we know the
history of it, did a Fauci He was the one that was the architect
of this nineties psyop. I'm not saying that everything about AIDS is a sie
I'm saying that the fear of this was a syop. It's admitted now right,
you know this, right, So how could we train people with fear
through AIDS. I'm not saying that there's not something to it. I'm just
saying that Fauci's role in this was very crucial and was being studied as a
preparation as we now know for the last three four years of Kouf exactly scaring
people through a viral issue. And then we get the drama element that's introduced
through the Ben Stiller character. So we have a very responsible, well established
Jewish guy who has his ducks in a row, and he begins to court
and flirt with Winona Ryder, who still is infatuated with the lay about roused
about Troy Dyer mannic pixie dream dude. And so the question is, and
who will she choose, the responsible corporate man or the bad boy lay about
philosophy man. You just let me think of a lot of the plant parenthoods
and stuff. We like getting footholds in neighborhoods through the AIDS testing and the
young kids. And it was almost like a rite of passage that they talked
about have you had your test? Yeah? And like the chat says,
Magic Johnson kick popped off in the nineties. Exactly right. Yeah, he
was huge for the whole you know, image and persona of aids. Band
AIDS won't give you aids. So it's a meta documentary. Like you said,
Ethan Hawk is the near duel mooch, and she's kind of social justice
before it was such a thing. Oh that's a great point. Yeah,
she's social where why Barbie is bad and like gender roles and stuff like that.
Yes, she's she's proto woke. At one point, what she has
to work at Wiener Schnitzel and her bosses in the David Spade David Spade.
Yeah, and so she's humiliated because she she feels that she's due, you
know, this media attention due to her ground baking breaking work. And then
she thinks she's finally hit jackpot when she starts dating Ben Stiller, and ben
Steller's like, hey, look, I know a way to get you in
your project on you know, major And what she doesn't understand is that he
wants to corporatize it and change it, so her whole project gets revamped.
It's not an actual Reality Bites documentary. It's turned into a TV show called
Reality Bites, which is just little bits of reality. It's not her actual
documentary. Also is another interesting element, not just the jening Gerofelho character sleeping
with sixty six people, but the steves On character who doesn't want to come
out as Skittles. So we have the thing again. Now Skittles is being
normalized in the nineteen nineties, and you shouldn't be afraid to come out.
That's crucial to the narrative as well. So they're making a comment about how
these jobs are a little dehumanizing, like working at Wiener Schel, fighting about
if you have to wear the hat or not. So yeah, they have
a point that the corporations take the soul out of everything, and they also
make you into some kind of cartoon character. But what's always, I guess
absurd about especially nineties even critiques of corporate culture is that it's almost like the
film version of hot topic. It's always coming from a corporation, which is
part of the system exactly. So movie counter culture is the film equivalent of
hot topic, because you can't have a hot topic without a corporation. That's
the mall, right, promoting all the other corporations to you at the mall.
So it's manufactured fake rebellion, and that's really what's going on in the
movie, but of course the characters never recognized that. And here's Wiener Dude,
So there's David Spade as her boss at Wiener Dude, you know,
making her wear the hat. And essentially it's just sort of them too,
walking around and not really being clear on whether they're dating or not, smoking
cigarettes and drinking coffe in every scene. So many cigarettes in every scene.
I mean, it's like, you think you thought Don Draper was smoking cigarettes
and drinking He's nothing against Troy Dyer and went on a Rider right now.
This movie also has one of the most famous scenes that encapsulates the nineteen nineties
as well, and this is the scene when Troy has left town to go
ten two I think is dying mom uh, and you know when on a
Rider still likes him, and she doesn't really like Ben Stiller, but she
doesn't know who to choose, and she's laying around and she starts kind of
going crazy because she's watching like and this part is actually pretty funny because she's
watching all the nineties like infomercials that come on, like the psychics that would
come on, like Deon Warwick. She starts going crazy. A nineties thing
is the multi hundred dollars phone bill, Like one time you messed up the
own people and your parents, Like what on called one nine hundred party line?
One nine hundred party line? That happened to me, Mary, she
called the party line one time. So that's just a bunch of creeps,
Like why did you even call it? Just to see what it was?
The teenagers? And then the commercial came on, like you call the number
and n creep. Yes, let's see, let's see an add on one
of these, because there's a lot of people who are young and they won't
know about this one nine hundred party line from the nineties, and like who
was actually calling these and taught like what teenage girls like me here creeps,
Harry got party line? This is it. But according to what you were
saying, when you call the one nine hundred party line, it's not actually
dirty. It's just people talking about a party. Yeah, that's so stupid.
Yeah, it wasn't phone sex. It was a party line. What
does a party line mean? Like? Multiple people? What are you doing?
I'm bumping on a boombox? What are you doing? I've spoken a
cigaret. This is a party that is, it's the phone version of like
chat Roulette or chat root. Okay, okay, okay, all right,
let's see here's a one nine hundred party line number. Let's see what's going
on. Recently we asked some that's just mom, dude, So what's my
mom doing on the party line? Why? Why is she just calling people
on the party line. She's an executive secretary? What are you a secretary
of executive? That sucks. I'm just a secretary. She's an executive.
What's Gary doing the party? Oh wait, he's a professional surfer. Whoa
oh he calls me girls. That's definitely why I called. See now,
this is where we are now. We couldn't have tender if we didn't have
this. So this is tender in the nineties. It's not specifically for dating
those Well he just said, well that's his reason. But some people are
like, I just like to meet. Well what other reason? Exactly?
Make friends and to make friends. I'm at my best friend of the party
line, Bill Johnson. I call the party line because it's fine. Maybe
everybody in the nineties actually wasn't sane. Look at this guy per minute,
that's one ninety six cent says per minute. Damn, there's another party line,
which is this one? You called yes to meet people? Yes,
Yes, pick a football called one. Let's see what happens if we call
it the party waiting for you? It's the party line one line? Ahe
a are you waiting for one? Nine? Five? Poor? Chat?
One? Hold on? I didn't have my damn thing turned on? One
eight oh nine five four four c h A T. I want the party
line? Party line? Can I speak to? Can I speak to?
Bill Johnson? I don't think it's working. It's busy, dude. Somebody's
still on the party line. They've been on the party line since nineteen ninety
two. Mm hmm. These are funny. I know. Club team?
Is that the one you call? Probably? What's like me? Right here?
Did you call nine on nine nine? Cry? No, look at
this moment. This is a joke. This is a joke. This is
a joke. What makes people all over America breakdown like this? Well?
One nine nine nine nine cry and you hear it for yourself. Two dollars
for the first minute, forty five cents each edition a minute? Is that
this girl? What kind of pun The guy with the skateboard. I would
cry too if I was in this infomercial incredible, I'm in tears there.
I think it might be real because in the nineties there was all kinds of
weird phone lines like this. So here here's one for teens to call that
looks like my esthetic. What if we pull this up in your in one
of these commercials, I wouldn't be surprised. Don't forget to dance, don't
forget to party on dance party, I won't forget Hi. I'm definitely I
want to tell you about something I know you like to on the phone.
Let's see, you'll never guess what happened. Call me talk about it or
just listen? Who anyone who used excellent get your parents permission? Call one
night. I couldn't believe it. Club Tea cool, just two dollars for
the it's you're calling. None of these numbers work. I don't think you
should try call Club Teina. Why? Because we're grown people. It doesn't
say that you have to be a teenager to call party line ord again.
Yes, interested in a new way to meet people? Just pick up the
ball they call one. You can talk to moms right now, exactly you
Look at that dude. He's over here talking to like six chicks at once
the party line. Look at that cool party people. Those are the people
you'd be talking That's who you're talking to, literally radical all right. So
that's how win Ona Warna got in trouble in the movie by calling the psychic.
She called a psychic exactly, but she that was because she couldn't sleep
because she was upset from who which dude to choose, and so she basically
watched TV for like three days straight and went crazy. Right, But anyway,
this movie has like the most famous nineties essence of nineties scene where I
can't play it, but it's where he calls her from the payphone. You
see right the YouTube midget song you won't double the ring of story to remain
until the process we didn't make from the crater to the wein No is you
me right? Is you two at gen X? For sure? Yeah?
That's an essence of it. What are you even talking about? Anyway?
So you guys can watch this essence of nineties one of the most famous gen
X nineties scenes right here, This right here capsule encapsulates the nineties four A
lot of people. We even had some of our mods when I put this
up, even saying like this is the nineties for me, so go ahead.
Somebody said, miss Cleo, that was like one of the most Yeah,
Dion Warwick and miss Cleo exactly. So I'm trying to find that her,
her laying in the bed with her cigarettes. You see, you will
a midget to fly. I'm reading the video of the midge is flying around.
Yes, a big gen X thing is choosing the path of love and
art over the path of like stability and security. Yeah, exactly. Do
I want to grow up and be responsible or am I gonna follow your heart?
Yeah? Your she did? She followed the heart in reality and so
yeah, so if you haven't seen it, spoiler alert, she does not
choose responsible Jewish business man. She chooses Troy Dyer's the he's the rolling stone
rambling man. He can't pin him down, you know, he's like that
whole like he's a loose. But all I'm thinking about is if you want
to fly in a flying short person, right, he climbs, he climbs
with that thing. But if you watch the video, he he climbed up
and died. So he thought he was going to impress this chick with his
trick. But he actually dies. I'm serious, that's the It's like a
tragedy. And then they're carrying his little little baby coffin and it's like,
why is it is Bono carrying his coffin or something? Stupid? Right,
Bono's leading his procession, his funeral procession a midget to fly through the sky.
All right. Last one, This is a very odd film. It's
more of an art house film. I had never seen it. I didn't
know what to expect. Of course, I have seen many Richard link Later
films. I do think Richard link Later is a is a good director.
Waking Life is a good film. It's it's gnostic and bizarre, of course,
uh classic with Lord Voldemorre. You also have Ethan Hawke. I think,
isn't he laying on the bed talking to Uma Thurman in that scene.
You've got weird professors. I think Tristan and I did a breakdown of Waking
Life. Remember that. And then you've got Scanner Darkly which is great with
whoa right Keanus, Robert down Jr. And Alex Yes Alex is in essence
of gen X two. Oh yes he is Robert down Jr. Too.
Now, I'm not saying licorice pizza yet, but I hear it's good.
I'm not a huge fan of Dazing, Confuse. I like Waking Live Scanner
Darkly. I'm not a huge fan of Dazing Confuse. I mean it's okay.
I think you know, we're kind of introduced to like Matthew McConaughey,
there, Mili Jovivic, isn't it Do you remember all that? It's it's
it's weird, but all, not all of his films are are focused on
storytelling. They're very character driven and like the the what's going on in the
character, even more so than what is the story? Do you remember the
one we watched about the baseball team from the seventies, Yeah, that one
is that way. It's not really a story. It's just kind of like
a weekend with a bunch of baseball dudes. So it's a guide of reality
sort of more than an adventure or like a fantasy or sci fi. Well,
I mean he does sometimes tell I mean, Scanner Darkly tells a story,
yeah anyway, But Ethan Hawk is always an artsy, fartsy character,
like reading a book, pontificating Yeah, what's the Sofia Coppola movie that had
to be influenced by this, which the one where she's walking Bill Murray's walking
around What's Cheat with Scarlet Johansson Lost, Yeah, that has to be.
It's this is that before that? So yeah, this is also a very
conversation driven. It's just them walking around Europe or Vienna or what was it.
Well, it's two people who randomly meet and kind of hit it off
on the train and they're both just sort of like finding their way. You
know, this idea of you know, individuals, eat, pray love ideology,
right, like I have to go to Europe to find myself that this
is still going on. Yeah, but I mean Europe specifically because it's like,
you know, white heritage and the whole backpacking through Europe. Well,
in the nineties, as you even pointed out, there was this idea that
Europe was automatically way more sophisticated. America was very dumb and stupid, we
don't know anything, but if we just went to Europe, right, we
would, Oh, you would see how sophisticated it is. There's an element
to this with like history and architecture. Outside of history and architecture. It's
not more sophisticated, but they don't understand how much is packed into a tiny
space. So of course we're not going to know lots of different languages.
Like she even makes a comment in the movie only Americans only know English,
but in Europe is very small geographically, like, there's no reason for us
to know several languages because I'm not crossing borders. That's a great point.
Yeah, it was. And they were very snobby in the nineties about this.
If you talked to Europeans or meet then they're always like, do you
even speak more than a language? You talk to a stupid American. That's
like asking everybody from a different state to like learn a different language just for
the sake of It's kind of crazy. But and backpacking across Europe was like
a popular thing in the nineties and early two thousands. I mean, maybe
people still do this. I don't know. There's people in the chat saying
I did the back pack three Europe thing in the nineties. I had two
good friends that did it. I never did it. I didn't go to
Europe until or well areas of Europe until more recently. But I had friends
that did ithay, Well, he's also got a idea for a live streaming
show. Oh really, yeah, he was like, I'd like to just
record daily lives. Oh he's talking about reality stuff. Yeah wow, And
they're both Oh. This is another key element that characterizes gen X is agnosticism,
right, Apathy and agnosticism is supposed to characterize the gen X, and
all of the characters for the most part in all of these films are struggling
with that to some degree. But it's a contrast to like boomer atheism.
Would always like, I don't think boomers are at Boomers are more like,
you know, maybe just his dad or something. What his dad an atheist
and we wrote something about that. Well he says something like, oh,
you know, my parents are hypocrites, so I reject all their whatever they
say. Yeah, so it's like I'm in rebellion against boomers. But then
the interesting thing about this is like they actually start debating at one point,
well, why are we even in rebellion and what are we rebelling against and
for what? So that that was actually a good question, right, because
most of the time people who want to be counterculture, they want to rebel
against something they don't actually think about, well, why they're rebelling to rebel
for rebel's sake? I mean, why are you rebelling against what? And
what is the better thing or the solution? Right? And she has an
interesting conversation at one point in the film where she even says the Julie Delpy
character. She says, on the one hand, I don't want to be
a feminist, but I feel like I have to be because of everything I've
been taught. But she's like, but I want to have a family and
a husband and I want to be a mom. And she's like, but
I think, like it's revolutionary to say that. Do you know that conversation?
Yeah, definitely, And I think millennials feel like that too. Like
at twenty years old, most women if they said, well I just want
to get married to have a family, people are like, what's wrong with
you? Are you like con person? Don't you want to earn your own
way? So yeah, this go ahead. Well, I was just gonna
say gen X is jaded about love too, that's true. Yeah, the
divorce, Well, but they also want it right. So he wants to
love her, and he likes her and likewise with her, but then he's
like, and remember this is pre internet, so like he's like, well,
if I get your number, then it'll be a situation where I'll be
tempted to not call you back. He's like, so maybe I shouldn't get
your number and we should just enjoy a you know, fling, And she's
like, interesting, I never thought about that. Okay, well let's do
that. Yeah. So they have this fling, but they don't but they
don't want any attack and they and so it's almost like they're doing an experiment
to see if their philosophies actually work or makes sense, because the whole discussion
is like three days of philosophical debate and discussion about their existential gen x angst.
Then we're going to have a one night stand and then we'll see how
we feel about it. And this is also like European culture gen X versus
American culture gen X. But they go to a German bar and they're playing
Nirvana, right, so the grunge had become the American pop is global and
they even make a comment how it's like MTV generation and she even says the
media are trying to control our minds and it's a new form of fascism.
So well, yeah, it's like every now and then they'll actually almost in
a brilliant way, hit on the real conspiracy, right they'll talk about how
maybe that maybe we're being atheism and nihilism on purpose, and then they'll like
go right back into well, but we just saw a Catholic monk a fortune
teller, and they're both ridiculous. So it's like they don't know where to
go. They're constantly, you know, just sort of up in the air.
Everything is unclear, hence the gen x agnosticism and apathy. Well,
you made a good point about souls, like if reincarnation is true, because
they're having all these deep existential conversations, like she's scared of death, and
he says, well what about reincarnation? And you were like, if reincarnation
is true, they're actually he playing he's almost playing Troy Dyer again. He
refused reincarnation, which he's like, my parents were boomers, they went through
the sixties counterculture and were feeding me all this reincarnation bullshit. And he's like,
but I started thinking, like reincarnation doesn't make sense. He actually has
a good argument against it because like there's not enough souls. I don't remember
the exact argument he makes, But it's something like that, like, well,
where where are the people going? Right? Like, how are we
getting more people if we're just recycling the previous people right? Right? Which
is an obvious kind of self evident critique. Where do new souls come from?
Yeah, if you're a reincarnation believer, like, where are all these
new souls coming from? We should have essentially the same number like coming back
each time. So you know, he's actually making some interesting philosophical, almost
pre level critiques at times. But every time they start to hit on a
breakthrough, they kind of get sucked back into their programming. Yeah, which
ironically she identifies. She even says the feminist programming or something. She's like,
I was brainwashed or programming with this feminist thing to make me not want
to have a family. She's like, but why do I desire it?
Mm hm. So well, and they're scared to fall into a cycle that
they witnessed people just stay together for their kids. Yeah, they talk about
it again, and they say that that's a boomer thing, right, where
the boomers were sacrificing to stay together even though they didn't like each other and
they didn't want to experience that, which is very ironically, very actually very
self centered because they're actually making the point that the boomers were doing that for
the sake of the children. And from their mindset as single people, they
can understand why anybody would make sacrifices for another person. So they're very narcissistic
as well, and they're both skeptical. And so they make this pact that
they will meet, they will not speak, but they'll meet at the same
place exactly ten years later and see where they are. Was it ten years
or yeah, it's ten years? What do you think it's five or something.
I didn't remember exactly how long. It's a long time. I think
it's ten, but I mean chat can correct me if yeah. And so
they come across these different characters and one of them is a psychic, and
the psychic tells them that everything we know is star dust, so therefore and
all of your decisions and consequences are they don't matter because ultimately we're just star
stuff. So that kind of influences their decision making process. Do they have
the stupid free will predestination debate, which every Hollywood movie thinks is like the
deepest conversation that you can have what's this twin flame thing? Oh, just
like psychics and those kind of people pray on lonely people. Oh that's what
she says, right, she says that they're just praying on lonely people and
basically grifting. Yeah, and then you wrote the twin flames and tills one.
So then they start having but like different marriages, like the Quaker marriage,
they just stare at each other. Did you ever hear that? Well,
once you mentioned that, yeah, and then I went and looked up
the Quakers were also pioneers of social justice, and they also have pretty large
holdings in both banking and candy industries. Right, and that interesting, which
is a crazy cult. Quakers are a lunatic cult. But and then they
come across the like bohemian homeless poet man. So it's very Greek dialoguey,
like one of those stories where it's just about again about the conversation, and
then they come across these archetypes like is the rich man happy or is the
poor man happy? Or is the artist happen? Yeah, exactly, that's
a Plato's apology. Yeah, and yeah, so for those in the chat,
this is actually a trilogy. So there's before Sunrise, and then there's
before Sunset nine years later, which is supposed to I think signify the ten
years Okay that they were going to meet, right, So they meet up
again, and I've not seen the sequel, so I don't know whether this
is any good or I definitely want that black man to teach me yoga though
I know that much. But yeah, So then they meet up again ten
years later to have again this conversation, and the whole trilogy is critically acclaimed,
so all the critics and a lot of people, especially gen X people,
they like this trilogy. Again, I haven't seen two and three,
so I don't know where the story goes. I do think they end up
together at some point though, because I think in the third one they're reflecting
on their relationship. So what's the third one called after something after Before Sunrise?
I don't know anyway, the third one came out not that long ago,
before Midnight for Midnight twenty thirteen. Yeah, so anyway, so,
yeah, he's skeptical of romance and so they still have like lives to live
before they can what take on the responsibility of families and stuff like that.
Well, I think the gen X were at the stage of being afraid of
things that shouldn't really be be fearful, like marriage and children is not this
thing to be deathly afraid of. And the movies were presenting this as like
this traumatic experience, right, and that the Boomers hadn't sufficiently gone through you
know, philosophical rooms nations about how to face these things. Then that was
their mistake. So we as gen X are going to be smarter. We're
gonna read Heidegger and we're gonna read Jean Paul Sartre and we're gonna figure out
how to handle these things better than them. We're gonna go to film school
and we're gonna go to film school and we're gonna know authenticity, and we're
gonna know like what what reality is? Man? Not this fake corporate thing,
right, But it was all a fake corporate funded revolution. Yeah,
so the rebellion, even of the gen X is still like this corporate controlled
opposition thing. Yeah. She even makes a comment she says she thinks rebellion
is good, but she doesn't know what that means. Why. Yeah,
it's good, but why I don't know. So anyway, Yeah, I
think that summarizes these alt comms, dramedies, all dramedies. They summarize the
essence of the psyche of the the gen x. But clearly the best of
all these would be for that would be before sunrise and then reality bites.
The rest of these are kind of stupid. We'll have to watch the next
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much vaunted, much sought after philosophy one oh one. Now he just
got this page up. We are just testing it out. You guys are
some of the first people in the world to see it. I want to
say, for my part, it's not philosophy one o one. I think
this is as mistitling. I really think is as like philosophy unleashed. Because
a philosophy want on one course, they give you kind of some useless information
that you can't make sense of. Jay actually lay out over twelve weeks,
dozens and dozens of hours put into just the presentation of this let alone the
hundreds and thousands of hours of research that it takes to have a coherent evolution
and history of the origins of philosophy, the uses of philosophy, the different
ways to look at it over time, and how that has been brought about
to what we have today, which is almost an absence of philosophy on the
object. Oh Man, we had that. We had that muta the whole
time. I apologize Ellie five dollars was George Clooney movie from Dussell Don was
a Quentin Tarantino movie. Correct, And Salma Hayek was the vampire s a
villain, that is correct. L E ten dollars. You know about the
false memories and our foundations. Yes, I've covered the m c I talks
in Culture Talks because that was a Martin Orn was connected to CI and that
was a front for disinformation and deflecting away from people who were reporting real sra
stuff. Brell of the second three dollars, you want to read that one.
It seems as if gen X and others in the West were all subconsciously
expecting some kind of end of the world at Ono two thousand, hence their
nihilism and apathy and bad existentialism. But when the world didn't end. This
led everyone to live even less responsibly. It makes me think of that Ray
Fine angela Bassett Matrix ish sci fi movie, What is it Last Day's Last
Day? Because that's kind of the theme of that movie, right, that
the world's going to end Strange Days. Excuse me, excuse me, it's
Strange Days. I remember falling asleep in the theater at this movie. Yeah,
this is it, and it's like a yeah, nero, the kind
of young rave Fine is he looks It almost looks like Bradley Cooper. Yeah,
wow, But yeah, in Strange Days, right, it's like a
Matrix spinoff type of thing. You got the same thing going on where well,
it's actually a pre matrix because Matrix is like ninety eight, but it's
supposed to be the end of the world. And then, of course I
don't think the end of the world doesn't actually in the world, but the
the matrix definitely, I would say pulls from this movie. Thank you guys
so much. I'll be sure and subscribe to the website rockfin dot com.
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And you have shows coming up with Courtney tomorrow night. We're doing Courtney and
what the heck is going on at the UN? Yeah, you were telling
me it's some sort of cosmic sexual something, some weird thing that the UN
has now decided to promote. It doesn't make any sense to me, but
I don't think it's supposed to make sense. You'll never understand it with your
mind. You just have to feel it. You have to feel it.
Okay, follow your heart, yes, follow your heart whatever. Anyway,
everybody have a good night and follow your heart.