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Jen Garner's avatar

Brilliant! This will be more fun than the Oscars!

Although a root canal is more fun than the Oscars these days. I’ll have to think of a better comparison. 🤣

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Spiderbaby's avatar

Sorry I've had 2 root canals. They suck. Although I did think that the smell of my own burning teeth would have made a great incense cone.

Oscar banality always comes with something none of my root canals offered which is an off switch.

Once Dr. Giggles starting grinding I was in for the duration.

On the other hand I haven't seen an Oscar airing in about...well, actually, I've never seen the Oscars.

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Zayphar's avatar

This is going to make me sound old, but Once Upon a Time the oscars was mildly fun and entertaining. The failure of this entertainment venue is down entirely to the obliviouslness of the people running the AMPAS.

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Jen Garner's avatar

I actually loved the Oscars when I was a kid in the 80s. So I guess that makes us both old! 🤣👊

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Roger Kimber, MD's avatar

No, you have another 30 years to go before you can claim that title, sorry honey (showing you just how old I am); besides haven’t you heard 60 is the new 50 or something like that.

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Spiderbaby's avatar

Not really an awards show kind of guy.

I've never cared about "best of" lists because many of the things that I love would never make anyone's "best of" list.

I've seen Oscar winning films that have literally put me to sleep.

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Philip Lewis's avatar

I presume you mean 6 pm EDT, not EST. 6 pm EST would be 7 pm EDT.

I'm an engineer. I can't help it.

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Matt Taibbi's avatar

Ugh. I mean 6 ET, sorry?

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DaveL's avatar

Is there a Rumble link yet?

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Jane in Michigan's avatar

Philip, you made me laugh out loud with that last comment

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Patrick's avatar

My brother had a slide rule. It was really cool looking, but there was no way I was gonna ever try to figure out how that shit worked.

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Noam Deplume, Jr. (look,at,me)'s avatar

Slide rules were at best an approximation. Imagine a pocket calculator that had a different answer depending on how you held it.

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DaveL's avatar

So they required a bit more interpretation than punching numbers into a calculator or computer. Not a bad thing!

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Kate Cahill's avatar

Don't worry Phil-- engineers are essential!!

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MH's avatar

Lol

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John Kirsch's avatar

I got a few seconds into the NYT video before I felt the need to vomit and turned it off.

The smugness and sense of superiority were nauseating.

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Mark Blair's avatar

Wish I had had time to participate in this! First, I would have had to learn some skills :-)

I'm hoping you do more of this in the future as we need to build a culture around sanity, and every small step towards that matters.

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Jose Weto's avatar

I was thinking the same thing then remembered I knew less than zero about editing videos, graphics and writing satire. Other than that, my video would have been fantastic.

There's no doubt that these videos are going to be awesome. Hopefully Orf is DQ'd from submitting. That'd be like Lebron playing in a college game.

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

OMG, that video is unwatchable. I got through the first couple of minutes, but when it came to the water part, all I could think about was the situation in Flint, MI. There's a new video on Flint, better watch that instead. https://flintfatigue.com

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Michael's avatar

Have you thought about enabling chat during the livestream? That can be a fun way for the audience to interact with you during the show, but you're not obliged to engage if you dont want to.

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Matt Taibbi's avatar

We’ll try absolutely

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John J’onzz's avatar

You guys gonna wear tuxes and make it official?

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MH's avatar

Lol.

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Alan N's avatar

NYTimes threw down the gauntlet, I'm looking forward to the challengers.

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Carlos Marighella's avatar

This makes me think of the first time I watched "This is Spinal Tap" in 1985 and the first time I watched the Ramones documentary "End of the Century" in September 2004. To this day I still can't tell which band is more absurd.

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Patrick's avatar

Just turn them both on up to 11

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MCL's avatar

How about doing an interview with an expert on producing propaganda? That NYT video could set the stage.

Might AI be used for detecting it?

Maybe there should be a propaganda index and each mainstream outlet gets measured.

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Ken Bashford's avatar

We desperately need an AI Hunter Thompson.

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Spiderbaby's avatar

Joe & BO begging for money at the start of your embedded NYT Trump video was far beyond anyone's recommended daily intake of Joe & BO.

I may have to detox with a cup of coffee ground enema to go with my cup of Morning Joe.

You should warn people that there will be a Biden/Obama hazard ahead.

Or least put up a blinking orange light gif.

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Paige McCormick's avatar

Racketeers, please consider watching on Rumble. This is a plug for Rumble.

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MelodicMethod's avatar

My age has taught me to temper excitement for an event with realistic expectations. But I am having a hard time doing so for this event. I am so glad it is only a day away. Thank you for deciding to do this on a livestream

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John Kirsch's avatar

My theory is that the NYT doesn't merely support the CIA, it IS the CIA, as in funded and operated by the agency.

Ditto for Slate, Salon, Rolling Stone, Google and Meta and Microsoft.

It would explain a lot.

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MelodicMethod's avatar

that sounds an awful lot like CHYna

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John Kirsch's avatar

Yes.

It would explain how the financial fortunes of the NYT suddenly and dramatically improved after the paper nearly shut down.

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Ryan's avatar

Any chance we can see a montage of the submitted videos?

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