SNL Lost Its Edge

After NBC blocked my video worldwide, I discuss what happened to Saturday Night Live, why modern comedy feels corporate and unfunny, and how fake internet culture may be shaping entertainment today. #SNL #NBC #Comedy #WillFerrell #PaulMcCartney #SaturdayNightLive #GenX #PTPOP

Transcript

Cold Open And No Trespassing

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Well if you ever walk in past my house and you think you have a reason to knock, I can tell you that reason ain't good enough, and you can just fuck right off.

When The Show Started Slipping

Coming Back For Ferrell And McCartney

SPEAKER_03 0:23

Hey there everybody, Peachy Pop here, leaving you out of the rabbit hole, one grain of truth at a time. And thank you so much for downloading me and watching my videos and listening to my podcast. I got a doozy today, my friends. So let's just jump right in, shall we? Let's just jump right in. So when I was a child, it was 1975, it was September of 1975, and a brand new show was broadcast on NBC in Cleveland. It was WKYC Channel 3, and it was called Saturday Night Live. And I was 10 years old, soon to turn 11, and the host that night was George Carlin. Now, as a kid, I was a huge George Carlin fan because my older brother and my brother-in-law and my family watched him whenever he was on TV, Ed Sullivan, places like that. I thought he was hilarious. And so we watched a show. I was 10. And it was a different time. It was a different era. It was a different era of TV. It was a different climate, political climate, and different social climate in the country. And Saturday Night Live was considered to be an edgy show. Now, number one, it was live. They broadcast the show live on TV. So whatever happened, happened. If they made mistakes, you saw it raw and live on the air. And my parents wanted to see the show. I remember this vividly because they used to watch a show in the 1950s and up through like 1960 called Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. And I had seen some of those shows on tape. They had rerun that show, and the ones that they recorded, they re-ran on TV. And it was funny. But that show was live on TV in the 1950s. So I remember my mom at the very least wanted to watch Saturday Night Live because I think she was kind of expecting it to be kind of like the Sid Caesar Imogene Coca humor. But it's not, it wasn't. The original cast consisted of Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Lorraine Newman, Gilda Radner, and a whole bunch of other cast members came along the way. There was Garrett Morris who was in the original cast as well. Father Guido Sarducci. And the show was iconic. The original first five years were iconic. And the way the show was written, the way the show was produced, the guest hosts they had on, the people that played the different parts and the different roles and the different skits were professionals. There was no obvious reading of cue cards. There weren't a lot of mistakes. When when the people interacted with one another, you could believe what they were saying. You got pulled in because their performances were so real and so authentic and so funny. You got pulled right into it. You got sucked in. And I bring this up because this last Saturday I watched Saturday Night Live for the first time in 14 years. I stopped watching it many years ago when when the show became very political and it began to make fun of political candidates, candidates, almost every other sketch was some type knock of of whatever candidate predominantly was Trump. They would constantly make fun of him and his campaign, or when he became president, things like that. It just became a giant propaganda platform for the for the left. And I got sick of it. And I'm not I'm not pro-Trump, I'm not pro-left or right, but it was just obviously a platform run by some nefarious force designed to undermine one side of the political spectrum over the other. So I stopped watching it. It wasn't funny anymore. It wasn't clever. It wasn't well produced. It wasn't well written. It was just crap. It was like a bunch of high school kids who decided to start a TV show and do stupid skits. Stuff like my friends and I would do in my living room with the tape recorder. And I don't know if any of those guys even listen to me. But they know if they're listening what I'm talking about. Because I used to sit in the living room with a tape recorder and we'd make up comedy skits and say goofy things. And I still have the tapes here in my closet. But the show was horrible. It was it wasn't funny anymore. Back in the day with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase and all those people, it was funny. It was hilarious. There were skits in the first at least 15 years that were iconic. You know, there was Chevy Chase doing a weekend update. Jane, you ignorant slut. Well, that's Dan Aykroyd. That's not Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase's impersonation of Gerald Ford, I still remember it, it's hilarious because he didn't look any at look or act anything like Gerald Ford. He just stumbled around and fell down and made a lot of physical jokes because Gerald Ford was known to be kind of accident prone, bumping his head and falling and tripping and stuff. There's a bunch of iconic skits, you know, up through to Chris Farley, you know, Matt Foley, the inspirational speaker, living in a van down by the river. You had cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger with uh John Belushi. You you had a whole bunch of characters and skits that were co topics around the water cooler the next day at the office, and and people would uh uh impersonate the people in the show and they would emulate what they had said, and they would repeat the lines became part of culture. They became ensconced in our everyday conversations and our culture, and people love the show. It it's that's not a lie. That's that's a fact. But somewhere between like 1995, maybe 2000, the show started to go downhill. It just began filled with people that weren't funny. If you ask me, the show started to die when Phil Hartman was murdered. I don't know if he left the show before he was he was killed by his wife, but when he left the show, regardless of the circumstances, the show went downhill for the most part. And it became, I mean, Saturday Night Live was a a cultural thing, it was a family event. When when it first aired, my whole family was there for this. My brother, my mom, my dad, me, my other siblings, siblings had moved out. But we were all in the living room to watch the show every Saturday night. Now my mom and dad didn't particularly like the show. I don't know about my dad. My dad's uh only real interest in life was porn and booze. That's about the only thing that got him going in sports. But my mom was a very cultured lady. I don't think she liked the show that much because it was very what she would call blue humor. Back in the day, Serenet Live was an edgy, edgy production to make you think well produced, well acted, well thought out. It was a great show. So let me go back to why I'm talking about this. So this last Saturday, after 14 years, I decided to watch Saturday Night Live again. And I watched it for two reasons. I watched it because Will Farrell was the host, and I love Will Farrell, or I used to, not romantic love, just comic love. And Paul McCartney was the musical guest host or the musical guest. And I, as a kid from the age of eight, up until I was about 45, was a huge, massive Beatlemaniac. And I love Paul McCartney. I've seen Paul McCartney Live three times. I saw him 1989. I saw him in 2002, and I saw him in 200 something like eight. I think it was 2008 in Phoenix. I've seen Ringo Star Live. I've got every Beatle, I've got every Beatle record, you know. Like that's something really to brag about. All my Beatles records are over here. And they sit here collecting dust and getting moldy, and I haven't listened to them in years. But as the years went by, I kind of grew tired. Kind of, I kind of outgrew. I grew up and I outgrew Beatle Mania. I outgrew my fascination with the Beatles, and I had stopped watching Will Farrell because the last movie I saw him in that was really funny was like Stepbrothers. Everything he's done since then has not been very good. We tried to watch a few of his things, and he's just not funny. He's in he's in all these horrible commercials. Now he's an elf. Elf is one of the most insipid pieces of garbage I've ever seen. And we went to the theater to see that.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

I was like, whoa, whoa.

Cue Cards, Weak Sketches, No Timing

SPEAKER_03 9:48

I I just so I wanted to watch the show because I thought, well, maybe Will Farrell will be funny. This will it they they hooked me. They hooked me with the with the advertisements and they said, hey, come watch our net live. We've got Will Farrell as the host, and Paul McCartney will be in. I'm like, well, okay. How can you go wrong with both of those people? So Saturday night I tuned in, and for the first 25 minutes of the show, I got my mouth was just a gape in astonishment with how horrible the show was. How awful it was. Will Farrell, and and the reason I bring this up, I already did a commentary on this on YouTube, and NBC, NBC blocked me worldwide because I showed video from the show, commentary of their skits and how bad they were without the audio on, and NBC blocked me worldwide. And every time I talk about NBC, you're gonna hear this. Which is funny because Saturday Night Live used to be about going against the grain, going against the establishment, being counterculture, being something to make you think, to be edgy. But now, if you even show any of their video or stills from the show, you get a copyright strike on YouTube. So NBC blocked me worldwide. So I'm redoing my original video with no visuals, unless you have to block me now for just talking about them. And so I made this video because I was so shocked about how horrible Saturday Night Live was. Will Farrell apparently, I don't know what it takes to rehearse for Saturday Night Live. I've seen other, you know, cast members talk about the rehearsal process, but Will Farrell basically hadn't memorized any of his lines, and he was constantly just reading the cue cards. So with someone staying there, he's like, Oh, really, Billy? That's why I'm wearing garder belts and stockings. Ha ha. Oh, oh, page two. And and it was almost like he was just a professional cue card reader. There was nothing organic. There was nothing spontaneous about it, there was nothing real about it, there was nothing you'd wanted to make you laugh. The the writing was atrocious. And one of the skits was the skit where Will Farrell was dressed in half his front, his front half of his clothing was a male clothing, buttoned out a shirt and slacks. But when he turned around with his backside facing the camera, it was a garter belt bra and panties and stockings. Black. And when his wife came in the room, she had the same thing. She had a feminine blouse on and pants in the front, but when she turned around, she had a tramp stamp in the back that said enter here. And she had, you know, it was supposed to be a garter belt and panties, the whole thing. And so that was supposed to be funny. It was a visual gag that was supposed to make, I guess, the 12-year-olds in the audience go, Oh God, that is so funny. Oh my God. And I just sat there going, why is this funny?

SPEAKER_01 13:07

Why is this funny? I I still don't know why it's funny.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

And in my original video, I did I brought up a muted video. I muted a video of Richard Pryor from 1975 in a skit with Chevy Chase, where Chevy Chase is a personnel manager and he's interviewing Richard Pryor for an interview. It's a word association skit. And it is very well done. They're they're neither one of them are reading cue cards. You believe the interaction between them. It's believable, it pulls you in, it's funny, it's well written, it's well timed. The timing is immaculate. Of course, they're both funny people and they're both comedians. The people that are on the current staff of Saturday, Saturday Night Live don't know anything about timing. They don't know anything about comedy. They don't know anything about facial expressions or how to use your face, your voice to be funny. And I do know stuff about this. No, I'm not a comedian, but you can tell when you watch the current staff of Saturday Night Live, they have no idea what they're doing. They're just kids that they threw in front of a camera and they somehow passed the audition and gotten into the show. These are not funny people. And I just don't, I didn't understand what I was watching. This skit with Will Farrell in his un in his women's underwear was just horrible. It was atrocious. And what was even more atrocious was the comments people made on the NBC YouTube page just how funny people thought this skit was. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't go into comedy skits analyzing them for perfection, comedy perfection, and technique and analysis like that. But you if you have to sit back and go, why is he reading the cue cards? Why are Will Will Farrell's eyes and the guy he's in the scene with and the woman he's in the scene with constantly looking off camera to see what their lines are?

SPEAKER_01 15:06

Okay I mean what happened to Saturday Night Live?

NBC Blocks Criticism And The Irony

SPEAKER_03 15:10

And and why would NBC block it worldwide? Not partially blocked, worldwide, just because it was it just because I was using their fine artistic image? Or was it because I was mocking their show and criticizing it? I mean, it's really kind of ironic when you think about it, because the entire point of the video was that SNL no longer feels rebellious. SNL now is corporate. It's homogenized, it's been taken over by the corporate elite. And nothing says corporate entertainment more than a billion-dollar media company instantly vaporizing criticism from the internet. So fine. Let's do it without clips. Because honestly, the clips weren't the important part anyway. The important part is what SNL used to represent.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

It used to represent contradiction, edginess. You know? I and I don't know what happened. I mean, Lauren Michaels is still the head of the ship. Why isn't it funny anymore? I don't know. The writers are terrible.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Who writes this stuff? I I hear that the cast sits around a writer's table and they come up with ideas. So you mean to tell me that these group of men and women sat in some smoke-filled room with a bunch of uh iPads, going, How about this idea where we dress Will Farrell partially in male clothing, the other half of him in garter belts and stockings, and it's the gag, it's a visual gag, and they bring a guy over, it's a new boyfriend to the girl. And oh my God, Jake, did you hear that? That's a great idea. Oh, that's hilarious. Oh my God, I have never thought of heard of something ever. So funny. Managing Will Farrell in under women's underwear. That is a blast. Is that what it came down to? Or did they just run out of ideas and say, yeah, just go with that one. We we gotta fill up the airtime somehow. I mean, SNL lost its soul. And honestly, I don't think there's any good comedies out there at all across the board. Do you think this is but by design? Do you think maybe comedy is dying because they don't want us to laugh anymore? They don't want us to feel good. Music is dead, music is all AI driven. Nobody knows comedy at all. You know what's what is funny is the old Saturday Night Live used to mock corporations. Now it behaves exactly like one.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

I know it's it's like the death of authentic comedy.

Did Comedy Die On Purpose

SPEAKER_03 18:02

And and the the problem I have with all of it is this show has been on for fifty-one years. And it should have died out at least 15 years ago. It should have just got they should have said, hey, forget it, we're done. We we don't have any more fresh ideas. But maybe the real problem is that comedy used to come from outsiders. Now it comes from institutions, now it comes from corporate desks. Old comedians felt dangerous. Like George Carl was the host of the very first SNL, and George Carl is one of the most controversial comedians of his time. Nowadays he might not be considered that way, but his comedy still lives on. And some of his thoughts and his philosophies live on. But Will Farrell isn't funny anymore either. Will Farrell is like Jerry Lewis. Now, if you don't know Jerry Lewis, look him up on YouTube. But when I was a kid, he was the guy I thought was hilarious when I was little, six, seven, eight years old. He had all these funny movies with Dean Martin, like the bell boy and stuff like that, nutty professor. That I would sit in, you know, and watch these films laughing hysterically. And then Jerry Lewis got serious. He got real serious about MDS or MD or muscular dystrophy, which I'm not going to make fun of muscular dystrophy. But Jerry Lewis got all serious because I think his son hit M MD or something. And he so he started a telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, like on July 4th weekend. And he got serious. He started going into serious acting roles and he just became Mr. Serious and became full of himself and self-righteous and condescending. And I hear in in the biographies and autobiographies or just biographies I read about him, he is a real a-ho. But he stopped being funny and he stopped making movies and he just started doing the I'm Jerry Lewis, and we're going to do the whole thing about the MD now, yada yada yada. And he was not funny anymore. He lost, he lost me, but you know, that's the way it is. You grow up and you don't find things funny that you once did. But Jerry Lewis just wasn't a funny person anymore. He outgrew the shtick that he did with Dean Martin and want to be taken seriously as a serious actor. Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Lewis, you missed the boat. It didn't work. And he's dead, so it doesn't matter. But Will Farrell is the same thing. I mean, how long can a grown man carry on like he did in Step Brothers? How many movies can you make like that till people finally go, okay, it's not funny anymore. Well, it's just not funny. How many times can we see a Will Farrell run around on women's underwear and the world go, oh, that's so funny? I mean, when did people lose their sense of humor and understand what's funny and what's not? That wasn't funny. It was poorly acted, it was poorly written, it was poorly produced, it was poorly carried out, it was ill-conceived from the start, yet it somehow got aired. I have no idea how this got aired. But SNL is now brand safe, market tested, optimized, homogenized. Like somebody ran the joke through a focus group before anybody was allowed to laugh at it. This isn't John Belushi. This isn't, you know, Dan Aykroyd calling Jane Curtin an ignorant slut.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

You know?

SPEAKER_03 21:24

Comedians like Richard Pryor and George Carlton wouldn't make it today because everybody is so politically correct and everything is so uptight and weird today. So what was the point of this skit with Will Farrell and his wife wandering around with half dressed? What was the point? Were they were they making fun of trans transvestites? Were they trying to show that it's a welcome thing now? I mean, I have to give NBC, you know, a heads up. People are out of the closet now about transvestitism and transgenderism and being gay and Cross-tressing, that's they're out. It's 21st century, and everybody's running around in their boots and their leather and their mini skirts and their heels and their makeup. It's not a new thing, guys. We're kind of, it's not funny anymore. So if if you thought that was funny to make fun of that group of people, or are you trying to reinforce it for the younger generation to go, yeah, it's okay to run around on women's underwear? Maybe if you had uh any doubts in your mind, you want to be transgender, it's okay. It's so is that what they were doing? Well, because it wasn't funny. What was the point to the skit? I mean, I'm old enough to remember when comedians wanted controversy. I mean, George Carlin had the seven dirty words, and he got put in jail for it, for indecency. Okay, now giant media corporations erased criticism before breakfast. I mean, because I went up against the NBC giant. They blocked my video worldwide. So much for the First Amendment, my friends. That's gone by the way of the dinosaur, I guess. And everything I said was reinforced with visuals, with authentic criticism of their show. And there was nothing fl flagrant about it. There was nothing that was over the top.

SPEAKER_01 23:20

It was actual, accurate, inline criticism of their show, their horrible show. But I, you know, and then there was there were two other skits with hints of witchcraft that weren't even funny.

Shock Humor, Symbolism, Real-World Harm

SPEAKER_03 23:40

They were making fun of there was this one where this guy was uh the drama coach in a high school, and all these characters were pretending to be high school kids, and it was almost obscene because they were saying dirty, filthy things to the little girl was saying something to Will Farrell, who was playing the co the drama coach who was pretending to be like the flamboyant gay guy, being all critical, but there was all kinds of sexual innuendo. Now, granted, all the people playing the parts were adults, but the other the group of people were pretending to be underage high school kids. Hello? In this climate, in this age, you're going to talk about that with the epiphiles out there, with all the elites and all the billionaires that are running around trafficking young people. It was a horrible skit. There was another one that was a takeoff on Lord of the Rings or something. There was, it was, it was a highly produced, like a little short movie for like six minutes that went on and on and on with Will Farrell pretending to be this little elf guy from Lord of the Rings or whatever, one of those horrible things that everybody has made into a movie now. And it wasn't funny. It wasn't funny, it wasn't funny. And they spent probably a couple of days producing this in a studio somewhere. That's what it looked like. It looked like it was all produced in front of green screen and a psych and everything else. It was like, well, what was the point to it? Was it just to fill airtime? And there was all kinds of hidden imagery and symb symbolism, evil symbolism and satanic symbolism in the in the in the um high school drama scene and in this l the Hobbit or Lord of the Ring scene. So it's more than obvious now when you watch these shows that they have an agenda they're pushing. They're pushing Transvestitism, they're pretty pushing transgenderism, they're pushing witchcraft, they're pushing Satanism. This stuff isn't funny, guys. There's people out there, people I know who are witches, people I know that like to drink blood, that get off on it. I know these people.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

It's not something I'm interested in, it's not something I understand. But people die.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

People die, people disappear, kids get kidnapped, and the last thing we need is a bunch of corporate assholes making fun of it.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

I know people that are transgender.

SPEAKER_03 26:24

I had a friend in Arizona whose boyfriend was trans transgender, and one day he showed up because he was resentful that he he made the transition. He blamed her for talking him into it because that's what she wanted. Well, he showed up with a nine miller and blew her away and shot himself because he couldn't handle it at life anymore. This is not fun. This is a huge commitment, mental and emotional, and physical commitment that these men and women make to become transgender. My niece is transgender. I don't know her. I've not spoken to her since 2012. But my sister has told me she wrestles with a variety of things. We all do. But the last thing we need is to make light of it with a half-assed, broke dick comedian who can't memorize his lines and has to read off of a cue card. Surrounded by incompetent, alleged comedians that don't even know what comedy is. They don't. These people are not funny, and I I'll bet you any money, I know I'll never speak to Chevy Chase, but I bet you if I could get Chevy Chase on this show and say, Do you think the current staff of Saturday Night Live if any of them are funny? And he this guy shoots from the hip, and he would say, No, I bet you any money, he would say, No, these guys are not funny. They don't even know what funny is. Because I've heard him say that about other people. You know, and you know, I know I'll never speak to Chevy Chase.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

I'm you know, I'm not of that elite status.

Corporate Media, Algorithms, And Bad Culture

SPEAKER_03 28:03

And, you know, I'm old enough to remember when comedians won a controversy, you know, they didn't want giant media corporations erasing their criticism. George Carlin was considered to be one of those people who went up against the establishment. So here I sit questioning what I'm watching, and and I'll never watch Saturday Night Live again. And I I am pulling and hoping that show gets canceled. There's nothing to watch on TV anymore, anyway. There's nothing on TV worth watching. I can barely make it through the local news for half an hour. It's so horrible. It's just all somebody got murdered, somebody got shot, somebody got raped, they found a body in a field. Okay, here's the weather, here's the sports. Okay, and now we're gonna tell you about a puppy dog that was found wandering in the field surrounded by monarch butterflies, and it was saved by angels. And, you know, I'm tired of it. I can't I can't watch anything. There's nothing worth watching on the internet. It's all been taken over by the corporations. I mean, think about this. NBC is obviously, you know, controlled by billionaires of God knows of what race and religion, predominantly white and who knows what faith they follow. But they've got an agenda. And their agenda, number one, is to make money, but it's also to influence its viewers with propaganda. And YouTube, when it originally hit the scene, was run and operated just by regular people like me with a camera and a microphone. Now the corporations have swooped in and taken over. Google runs it because the original owners sold out to make a buck, so they didn't have to work anymore. And now it's run by, they've got every media outlet is on YouTube, and they're telling you what you can say, what you can't say, how you can say it, what you can dress like, what you can talk about. It's total corporate problem now. And every time I log in, it's NBC this, NBC that, Fox this, CNN that. This politician said that it's no longer about the creative artist. And it's obvious, it's more than obvious. If it's not obvious to you, it's got to be. You've got to start realizing that we have no choice anymore. They tell us what to watch, they tell us what to think, they tell us what we can say and can't say, they tell us what to listen to and what's funny, what's good to listen to, they tell us what music to like, they tell us what music to like by paying playing the same shit over and over and over again until you finally go, hey, I don't that song I used to hate, I've heard it so many times, I kind of like it. Taylor Swift is one of the most talentless, lifeless entertainers in the history of entertainment. She's not that good looking, she's clumsy, she's dopey, her songs are insipid, but somehow they've convinced all the young people that that is where it's at. That's good music, people. There's no basic song structure. I'm sorry, I'm not Rick Abido, but I know about music theory and I know about song structure, and Taylor Swift's songs are basic, insipid, bubblegum crap poured into a skin tight camel toe leather cat suit and thigh high boots. They're selling little girls, girl power, and leather and boots, and being a tease, and that's that men are bad and they should be treated like crap. That's the whole agenda now. Put down men, emasculate the man, make the woman look powerful. And it keeps going on and on. Why else would you dress Will Farrell in garter belt and stockings? Is it is it to make men look stupid? And then they made his wife in the skit look like a whore. So are they are they promoting whoredom? Are they promoting promiscuity? There they made that woman look like a tramp. They had a tramp stamp on her back. Then they had part of that scene where he was looked like he was humping her from behind. That's funny. So in this skit, the girl's mom is made out to look like a whore and a tramp. Aren't we trying to go against that image of women now? Aren't women supposed to be up uh in arms against the objectification of women? Isn't that the whole thing?

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Our our country is against now the objectification of women and children. There's no way NB NBC doesn't know about this.

SPEAKER_03 32:39

They've got to know how sensitive the world is now about the objectification of women, but instead they went ahead with it and made a woman appear to be a tramp and get humped by Will Farrell like a dog. So are they trying to push that agenda even further? Are they really are they really sensitive to the the rape of women and the objectification of women and children and the uh the enslavement of children? Are are they just are they throwing it in our faces because they're are they part of the epiphiles? I don't get it, guys.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

I don't know, maybe Saturday Night Live didn't lose its sense of humor.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Maybe America did.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

You know, maybe America lost its sense of humor. It because I don't think people even know it's funny anymore. The younger people, I don't even know they know it's funny. If you're sitting here staring at your iPhone all day and playing video games, how are you gonna know what's funny? Well, Pete, what does it matter? What funny humor, funny? That was your era. No, it's not my era. Humor and comedy has kept generations going through hard times. It kept me going. Music and comedy kept me going through some of the most horrific times of my life as a kid. With two alcoholic parents and and sex abuse and everything else we all experience as siblings, my siblings and I. So if you take the humor way and you take the music away, and you take all the entertainment away and and homogenize it and whittle it down, eventually people have nothing left to look forward to other than going to work, collecting a measly tiny paycheck, and getting on their knees to the corporate giants like NBC. Right? I don't know, man. Maybe humor stopped being something we experienced together, and it just became another product fed to us by algorithms. Hank, I don't even know if the comments I read on the Saturday Live page are real people. They were probably bots. Because everything was so positive, especially on the Paul McCartney performance that was horrible. Paul McCartney can't sing anymore, and the people are like, oh, this is so great.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

This is so awesome. I'm so glad to see such a living legend and croak his way through band on the run.

unknown 35:06

Boom.

Freedom, Daily Life, And Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_03 35:08

On the run. Oh my god. And people like, oh, this is so awesome. No, it's not awesome, it's sad, it's elder abuse. Nobody knows good from bad anymore. Nobody understands culture, nobody understands good music versus bad music. And the stuff that's out there now is just like, what is this crap? The movies are bad, the TV shows are bad, the sitcoms are bad, the comedians are just some of them are funny. Comedians are still funny, but you don't see them anymore unless you go to TikTok. And and everything else is a political platform. All the late-night TV shows are political platforms. It's all run by some nefarious group of the CIA or the FBI or something. How else does everybody get to be a political statement against one president or one group or another? So uh let me know what you think, man. I I don't know. I my original video about SNL, I had to cut out the two scenes where I had the muted video of their precious, precious show that I was commenting on because I no longer have any First Amendment rights. You can no longer comment on the massive giants. You cannot dare go up against them or you'll be punished. And we say we're free in this country, and I don't I don't see it. I don't see freedom anymore. We're we're now all sequestered to our homes. Nobody leaves the house anymore. You don't go into the office to go to work. But when you do go out someplace, nobody seems happy at their jobs. You go to a restaurant or a retail store, everyone's miserable, they're nasty, they don't do their jobs, they're incompetent. Believe it or not, it wasn't always like this. Even as a kid, I took pride in the work I did in the little electronic store I was in in the grocery store, or I tried to. And it's gone. And nobody takes pride in anything. Other than uh stroking their their or their weasel. And immediate gratification and putting uh drugs in their veins and up their nose. People are very proud that they can get high. That's where they want us. They want us stupid, they want us numb, they want us just feeling hopeless.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

I don't know, guys.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

Well, I'm PT Pop on a Mind Revolution. See you in the next episode. Good night.

SPEAKER_02 37:39

Would you like fries with that? Would you like fries with that?