And if the shit he pushed was honest I’d say you had a point. But to use your analogy, Joe advertises an Automatic Housewarming Device. Then when it burns your house down his defense is “Hey, I’m not an HVAC guy. I’m too amusingly dumb to know I sold you on a piece of shit.”

Joe’s friendship with Alex Jones, the king of true believer grifters, supports this.

He shills snake oil to dumbshits who want to feel smart or “free thinking” and constantly broadens the Overton Window in favor of right wing ideologues by occasionally interviewing a lefty to *appear* more centrist than his Gym Bro Liberturdian identity actually is. Fuck Joe and fuck people who cape for him.

The Archetypes podcast actually did decently well.

The deal is also more complex than just “They got $20 million.”

Not disagreeing with your view of Rogan, but worth noting that around half of all grifters are true believers.

Anyone who is okay platforming Joe fucking Rogan has no right to call *anyone* a grifter.

The fact that there’s basically no way that Harry and Meghan could possibly produce interesting content means its pretty much entirely Spotify’s fault that they offered that much money to them without hammering out more concrete terms about how much content they would actually be producing. It’s not a surprise to…

Box office has never and will never equate to quality.   It’s correlation, at best.

Hot taek - Inside Out always seemed to me like a movie for adults disguised as a movie for kids. Other good Pixar movies can have broad appeal to all ages, but Inside Out seemed like it was pandering a bit to adults but wanted to consider itself a kids movie. It’s still good, I still got bummed for Bing Bong, but it…

I’m a Pixar hipster (I think “When She Loved Me” is a bigger tearjerker than the Up montage) but I think this list is alright, as lists go. No real controversy bait to speak of. My quibbles:

Yeah, i like Life Aquatic but at the time there were all these complaints that it didn’t “mean anything”. As if all movies had to have a moral or something.

Comptroller is the peak Colin Robinson job.

I actually loved Darjeeling. That’s the thing with Anderson, everyone has their favorites.  My list below will look so much different than anyone else’s.

Every other director makes not-Wes-Anderson movies, I don’t need him to make them too.

I feel like I saw a completely different movie than the people who say this. It was a rich anthology of incredible performances and interesting stories tied together by the overarching plot, the complete opposite of flat.

There are in fact thousands of movies that are not Wes Anderson movies that you can watch.

I don’t see why; at least it’s consistent, and there are plenty of “just movies” out there already. People who like that stuff know what they’re getting, and people who don’t know what they’re missing.

I think by ‘amateurish’ they meant ‘British.’