The Rankin Bass Kong show begat Mecha-Kong who later crossed the Pacific to appear in the live action kaiju “King Kong Escapes” (in partnership with Toho)

The staff on “Ellen” had to deal with monstrous egos, pettiness and creepy bosses. Meanwhile, people are losing fingers cutting up your chicken McNuggets for minimum wage. Still, you have my sympathy if craft services runs out of oat milk.

The King estate is brutally litigious when it comes to anyone excerpting or quoting MLK’s work. Sure, it’s fine for them to expect to be paid when someone grabs a sample for a pop record but they have also created unreasonable barriers for television projects and small-time documentaries.

The biggest obstacle facing “The Simpsons” is the sheer viewer fatigue after 700 episodes. Nothing really new to present just retooling the same dynamics with different elements. It is far from unwatchable and often quite good, it’s just a little creaky.

“Hardcore Henry” was indeed a one gimmick film. But a filmmaker with the nerve to try something like that is someone with nards.

...featuring a bongo-fied version of Ravel’s “Bolero” by Pink Martini.

Wow. Magic beans anyone?

Wow. Magic beans anyone?

Peterson once asked a class “Raise your hand if you would have voted for Hitler if you were a German during WWII...” Of course, none of them raised there hands. He said “Probably half of you are wrong.”

Yeah, the “Elvis shakin’ his hips” analogy is a bit of a stretch. Elvis didn’t record “Do The Clam” until a decade or so after Sullivan.

You “get a say” about what your kids listen to.

Sick burn, brah. Guacamole.

I thought “The Game” was brilliant. I am also 100% convinced that it was 100% malarkey. I know that some of the major players were apparently actual people but Neil Strauss was pretty notorious for concocting tales out of thin air on at least two occasions. He wrote a Rolling Stone profile of The Strokes where he made…

Your arguments seem to rest on assumptions unsupported by any utterances from me. That’s more Evangelism than journalism. Your Peterson fixation is much deeper than my casual interest. You guys should totally bone.

Still interesting. I don’t know how useful “vetting” is in matters of religion or philosophy and I’m unclear what incentive there is to do so. To me, Peterson is basically a Christian preacher, a species that I seldom find provocative or interesting. Plenty of the stuff that passes through the stoner intellect circle…

I think Peterson’s ideas are “interesting.” I think there are plenty of ideas that live on the fringes that are worth examining. You don’t have to agree with them. If you have a political orientation that contains only two possible categories, you’re not going to get much done.

Other than using “cancel” as a zeitgeisty catch phrase, this video has absolutely zero to say about “cancel culture” pro or con. Which leads one to believe the participants in the ensuing free-for-all here have not actually watched the video. That is exactly why both sides of this argument are problematic.

Yeah, for real. I always have a bunch of Dollar Store toothbrushes on my workbench. (Hell, they’re actually 3 for a dollar.)

Pepe Le Pew has definitely not “always been an uncomfortable character to watch.” That’s just dumb. He’s a cartoon. That’s like saying it was always uncomfortable to watch Bugs Bunny spank Elmer Fudd with a lobster.

Maybe this is the video you meant to post?

Using the criteria outlined here isn’t going to tell me if a video is fake with any real certainty. But it does tell me that this is not really an article about detecting deepfakes.