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Topics => Entertainment => Topic started by: patentlymn on July 22, 2021, 07:56:05 PM
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Watching a series of business documentaries. I was making cabbage soup with my Roku in the kitchen on autoplay I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyuJ7UCj99gsAStjVLh3-bw (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyuJ7UCj99gsAStjVLh3-bw)
E.g.
https://youtu.be/ooKSF4shDLc (https://youtu.be/ooKSF4shDLc)
The Homeless Man Who Created Domino's with His Last $15
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Yes, the inspired creation of a CW vet...destroyed by latter-day gutless cultural Marxists obsessed with skin color who claim not to see the approaching genocide...
::upsidedownflag::
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Naked & Afraid--love how most of the "bad ass" men tap out and the frail woman makes it thru
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Crap...something finally looking decent for the first time in what seems like eons...and I have to fork over $ to Amazon?
They really know how to bum a guy out...
Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books decried casting Tom Cruise as the franchise hero.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
Pretty much my biggest beef about the guy outside of his cult...
Anyway...maybe sometime, down the line...if civilization continues...
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https://youtu.be/ea4zb0j8tFU
Flash Airlines Flight 604 Crashes Immediately After Take-Off | Mayday | Wonder
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Crap...something finally looking decent for the first time in what seems like eons...and I have to fork over $ to Amazon?
They really know how to bum a guy out...
Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books decried casting Tom Cruise as the franchise hero.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
Pretty much my biggest beef about the guy outside of his cult...
Anyway...maybe sometime, down the line...if civilization continues...
I don't care about Cruise' cult; he doesn't impose it on me or anyone. He makes good movies and I liked the one Reacher movie he was in. So what he's shorter than how Child wrote Reacher, at least he's still White. And male.
Amazon's upping its fee again to $139, sooooo ....... I dunno about continuing, especially since we haven't watched anything on Prime in months.
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We just got done watching “Downton Abbey”, all 6 seasons plus the 2019 movie. Enjoyed it very much. It’s a big departure from a lot of the dark, ultra-violent stuff that’s out there now. Lot’s of flawed but very likable characters. The gay guy (but of course, there’s a gay guy) is actually the loathsome villain, rather than today’s version of the “50% of the population is canonized do-no-wrong homosexuals.” He does redeem himself somewhat at the end, but for 99% of the ride, they make it easy to hate his guts.
It’s set in the pre and post WWI era, and focuses on one house in the British aristocracy and the servant class who lives with them. According to this show, this period was the beginning of the end for the do-nothing Lords and Ladies who simply inherited wealth. It’s interesting watching how all the family characters respond to the reality of dwindling power, influence, and money as they face the reality of a changing world, and how the servant class responds to the same events as they see their opportunities for self-improvement enhanced by the changes in the culture.
The on-screen interactions and dialogue between the Dowager Countess and cousin Isabel Crawley is magical; simply magnificent acting and script-writing.
I give it a 9 out of 10, because later in the series, a couple of the plot lines seemed a bit contrived and forced. Nonetheless, one of the better shows I’ve watched in recent years. Nothing gritty or dark about it at all, and I found that refreshing.
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We just got done watching “Downton Abbey”, all 6 seasons plus the 2019 movie. Enjoyed it very much. It’s a big departure from a lot of the dark, ultra-violent stuff that’s out there now. Lot’s of flawed but very likable characters. The gay guy (but of course, there’s a gay guy) is actually the loathsome villain, rather than today’s version of the “50% of the population is canonized do-no-wrong homosexuals.” He does redeem himself somewhat at the end, but for 99% of the ride, they make it easy to hate his guts.
It’s set in the pre and post WWI era, and focuses on one house in the British aristocracy and the servant class who lives with them. According to this show, this period was the beginning of the end for the do-nothing Lords and Ladies who simply inherited wealth. It’s interesting watching how all the family characters respond to the reality of dwindling power, influence, and money as they face the reality of a changing world, and how the servant class responds to the same events as they see their opportunities for self-improvement enhanced by the changes in the culture.
The on-screen interactions and dialogue between the Dowager Countess and cousin Isabel Crawley is magical; simply magnificent acting and script-writing.
I give it a 9 out of 10, because later in the series, a couple of the plot lines seemed a bit contrived and forced. Nonetheless, one of the better shows I’ve watched in recent years. Nothing gritty or dark about it at all, and I found that refreshing.
Just so. We're on the last episode, then we'll watch the movie. We watched the series the first time when it was on broadcast tv and got ourselves the boxed set for Christmas.
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Crap...something finally looking decent for the first time in what seems like eons...and I have to fork over $ to Amazon?
They really know how to bum a guy out...
Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books decried casting Tom Cruise as the franchise hero.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
Pretty much my biggest beef about the guy outside of his cult...
Anyway...maybe sometime, down the line...if civilization continues...
I don't care about Cruise' cult; he doesn't impose it on me or anyone. He makes good movies and I liked the one Reacher movie he was in. So what he's shorter than how Child wrote Reacher, at least he's still White. And male.
Amazon's upping its fee again to $139, sooooo ....... I dunno about continuing, especially since we haven't watched anything on Prime in months.
Apparently, Cruise has done two Reacher movies and this is what Lee Child had to say about his performances:
"On paper, Jack Reacher is a mountain of a man at six-foot five. The “Mission: Impossible” star … isn’t.
Child took the height differential in stride, refuing to play along with critics. Plus, the British author gained new insights into the character from Cruise’s work in “Jack Reacher” (2012) and “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” (2016).
“What really surprised me the most about Cruise was how deeply he is into storytelling,” Child says. “For every single scene, [he’s thinking] ‘it’s not how to make myself look better but how to tell the story better’ … I really learned from that.”"
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
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Never liked Cruise. He was like a chipmunk in crystal meth.
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About the DC 10 cargo door flaw
https://youtu.be/v1Nn6rBuK5s
Watching American Auto on Peacock.
Also Das Boot new TV series on Hulu. Free I think.
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Crap...something finally looking decent for the first time in what seems like eons...and I have to fork over $ to Amazon?
They really know how to bum a guy out...
Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books decried casting Tom Cruise as the franchise hero.
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
Pretty much my biggest beef about the guy outside of his cult...
Anyway...maybe sometime, down the line...if civilization continues...
I don't care about Cruise' cult; he doesn't impose it on me or anyone. He makes good movies and I liked the one Reacher movie he was in. So what he's shorter than how Child wrote Reacher, at least he's still White. And male.
Amazon's upping its fee again to $139, sooooo ....... I dunno about continuing, especially since we haven't watched anything on Prime in months.
Apparently, Cruise has done two Reacher movies and this is what Lee Child had to say about his performances:
"On paper, Jack Reacher is a mountain of a man at six-foot five. The “Mission: Impossible” star … isn’t.
Child took the height differential in stride, refuing to play along with critics. Plus, the British author gained new insights into the character from Cruise’s work in “Jack Reacher” (2012) and “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” (2016).
“What really surprised me the most about Cruise was how deeply he is into storytelling,” Child says. “For every single scene, [he’s thinking] ‘it’s not how to make myself look better but how to tell the story better’ … I really learned from that.”"
https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/ (https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/lee-child-reacher-interview-masculinity/)
Yeah, I read the whole thing...and yes I know I am demanding that book characters (especially key characters) be matched better with actors...and yes I am routinely disappointed on many occasions...and having said that I never denied Tom's acting skill...and it's nice Child says he learned something from him...and I saw the 2 Reacher flicks and they were fine...just the 5'7" thing irritates me as much as technical stuff that in no way exists in the physical universe bugs me (in Earth-grounded flicks...everybody should understand that the stuff in Bond flicks, F&F type flicks, Marvel/DC flicks etc one has to table reality and just enjoy the ride)...and it doesn't stop me from watching...there's just those little irritations rattling around my melon...
;)
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We just got done watching “Downton Abbey”, all 6 seasons plus the 2019 movie. Enjoyed it very much. It’s a big departure from a lot of the dark, ultra-violent stuff that’s out there now. Lot’s of flawed but very likable characters. The gay guy (but of course, there’s a gay guy) is actually the loathsome villain, rather than today’s version of the “50% of the population is canonized do-no-wrong homosexuals.” He does redeem himself somewhat at the end, but for 99% of the ride, they make it easy to hate his guts.
It’s set in the pre and post WWI era, and focuses on one house in the British aristocracy and the servant class who lives with them. According to this show, this period was the beginning of the end for the do-nothing Lords and Ladies who simply inherited wealth. It’s interesting watching how all the family characters respond to the reality of dwindling power, influence, and money as they face the reality of a changing world, and how the servant class responds to the same events as they see their opportunities for self-improvement enhanced by the changes in the culture.
The on-screen interactions and dialogue between the Dowager Countess and cousin Isabel Crawley is magical; simply magnificent acting and script-writing.
I give it a 9 out of 10, because later in the series, a couple of the plot lines seemed a bit contrived and forced. Nonetheless, one of the better shows I’ve watched in recent years. Nothing gritty or dark about it at all, and I found that refreshing.
Just so. We're on the last episode, then we'll watch the movie. We watched the series the first time when it was on broadcast tv and got ourselves the boxed set for Christmas.
They’re coming out with another movie in March I believe. Looking forward to that as well.
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As I was disappointed with the expanded inclusion of Thomas Barrow's homosexuality in the current movie, I fully expect more of that in the next.
/stick-in-the-mud Carson
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As I was disappointed with the expanded inclusion of Thomas Barrow's homosexuality in the current movie, I fully expect more of that in the next.
/stick-in-the-mud Carson
Yeah, they just had to go and virtue signal. I’m so sick of every damn show having to have canonized gay characters. As I said above, if one were to judge only by TV programs in the past 5 years or so, one would assume that at least 50% of all people are gay. As it is, gays are part of real life, so I’m not too bothered when there’s gay characters, in context, not forced into the script. For instance, Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in “The Birdcage” was in my opinion, brilliant comedy, and the whole movie was gay.
But the recent trend to force gays into every single situation and storyline and make them out to be normal at best, and sainted characters with the best virtue of all at worst, makes a lot of TV nowadays unwatchable. That’s why I appreciated the take on Thomas Barrow for MOST of Downton Abbey. He was absolutely the villain. But it made sense in the story. He was a tortured soul, and part of the torture was being gay in the time and circumstance he was in. So to have that aspect played out over and over again as he made wicked decisions to balm some dark need, made sense. I even appreciated the growth of the character as he began to understand that it was his own behavior that made him so disrespected.
But then they had to go and make a “statement”. That’s when they lost me with that character. It was good while it lasted, and it didn’t make me turn against the show. But the fact that they they rose above agenda early on only to make a hamfisted effort at gay apologetics later on definitely goes on the negative side of the balance sheet.
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Totally hooked on the Stingray 'Popular Classical' & 'Classical Masters' channels! They play in my home office for 6-7-8 hours, daily.
;)
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I can't stand watching much of anything for any length...not just because of the poor offerings but because of the grotesque pandering to the fringes and proselytizing to deviancy, skin color and obedience in commercials...
Extrapolating from that noise would have you believe America is mostly black, gay, stupid and Marxist...
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Watching aviation disaster. Addicting.
https://youtu.be/L-KTV_nMjNY
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Been in that type plane many times...never an issue...
But like that pilot passenger...I know enough of jet performance to know some things from my Navy days...had one flight where there must have been something just a little off with engines...they were cycling up and and down...and I knew they were talking to ground mechs trying to figure out what is was to jump on it once landed...flight was fine...but knowing stuff can be a blessing and a curse sometimes...
And getting a pilot to get over a previous incident doesn't always end well...
Still, heck of a job putting a powerless plane down on hard ground with trees around and nobody perishing...
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Been in that type plane many times...never an issue...
But like that pilot passenger...I know enough of jet performance to know some things from my Navy days...had one flight where there must have been something just a little off with engines...they were cycling up and and down...and I knew they were talking to ground mechs trying to figure out what is was to jump on it once landed...flight was fine...but knowing stuff can be a blessing and a curse sometimes...
And getting a pilot to get over a previous incident doesn't always end well...
Still, heck of a job putting a powerless plane down on hard ground with trees around and nobody perishing...
I remember the above video from long ago because a 'safety' feature on the plane over rode the pilot.
Some ice from the wings went into the engines and caused them to surge. The proper way to handle that is to reduce power. A new safety feature unknown to the airline and pilots sensed this and increased power to the engines and caused the crash. There was a way to disable the new safety feature.
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Been in that type plane many times...never an issue...
But like that pilot passenger...I know enough of jet performance to know some things from my Navy days...had one flight where there must have been something just a little off with engines...they were cycling up and and down...and I knew they were talking to ground mechs trying to figure out what is was to jump on it once landed...flight was fine...but knowing stuff can be a blessing and a curse sometimes...
And getting a pilot to get over a previous incident doesn't always end well...
Still, heck of a job putting a powerless plane down on hard ground with trees around and nobody perishing...
I remember the above video from long ago because a 'safety' feature on the plane over rode the pilot.
Some ice from the wings went into the engines and caused them to surge. The proper way to handle that is to reduce power. A new safety feature unknown to the airline and pilots sensed this and increased power to the engines and caused the crash. There was a way to disable the new safety feature.
Yeah, he tried throttling down...the system ignored him. It's the same thing with these so-called fancy "safety features" coming out in new cars every year...yeah, no thank you, anything that takes control out of human hands, especially skilled human hands...IMO is insane. You want robots flying planes? Go for it, leave me out of it!
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I can't stand watching much of anything for any length...not just because of the poor offerings but because of the grotesque pandering to the fringes and proselytizing to deviancy, skin color and obedience in commercials...
Extrapolating from that noise would have you believe America is mostly black, gay, stupid and Marxist...
There is a free streaming channel Peacock. I watch it on roku.
There is a show American Auto. Season 1 episode 5 or 6? focuses in on races, genders, in an ad. Very funny as they try to pander to everyone.
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There is a mini series on Hulu for free I think. Pam and Tommy. It is about the infamous sex tape and the story behind it.
So far so good. About Tommy Lee Jones and Pamela Anderson.Tommy Lee Jones had a carpenter working on his house, stiffed him, and would not give him back his tools. So the carpenter stole his gun safe with lots of guns jewelry, and a home made porno tape.......
I feel sorry for her. Tommy was a POS.
https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR (https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR)
Directed by Lake Bell. I did not know that.
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Watching Single Drunk Female on Hulu. So far so good.
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Watched part of Little Fires Everywhere on Hulu. Different. Reese Witherspoon. 6 part series.
Intense.
Made me think of Reese. I like so many things she was in.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117276/locations (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117276/locations)
A scene from overnight delivery. I want to watch it again now. shot in MN.
https://youtu.be/5zVbINNj7H4 (https://youtu.be/5zVbINNj7H4)
I know so many lines from Freeway, a cult classic. Very foul mouthed.
The interrogation scene is a classic. I think it is taught in acting classes.I have seen other versions of it with acting students.
She shot a serial killer but no one believes her. In the movie her BF was black so she is not really a bigot but ... what a mouth on her.
short interrogation scene. classic.
https://youtu.be/aj1E5P89byo (https://youtu.be/aj1E5P89byo)
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Watching Wild at Heart on Acorn TV now. Many seasons, fiction supposedly set in Africa, White family. Pretty good; lots of animals, no homo, no sex.
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There is a mini series on Hulu for free I think. Pam and Tommy. It is about the infamous sex tape and the story behind it.
So far so good. About Tommy Lee Jones and Pamela Anderson.Tommy Lee Jones had a carpenter working on his house, stiffed him, and would not give him back his tools. So the carpenter stole his gun safe with lots of guns jewelry, and a home made porno tape.......
I feel sorry for her. Tommy was a POS.
https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR (https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR)
Directed by Lake Bell. I did not know that.
Tommy Lee Jones is the grizzled old actor, from “The Fugitive”, “No Country For Old Men”, etc. Tommy Lee was the drummer for Motley Crue. Just a mild point of correction.
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Heh!
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There is a mini series on Hulu for free I think. Pam and Tommy. It is about the infamous sex tape and the story behind it.
So far so good. About Tommy Lee Jones and Pamela Anderson.Tommy Lee Jones had a carpenter working on his house, stiffed him, and would not give him back his tools. So the carpenter stole his gun safe with lots of guns jewelry, and a home made porno tape.......
I feel sorry for her. Tommy was a POS.
https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR (https://www.msn.com/he-il/movies/other/pam-tommy-trailer-2022/vi-AATMcHR)
Directed by Lake Bell. I did not know that.
Tommy Lee Jones is the grizzled old actor, from “The Fugitive”, “No Country For Old Men”, etc. Tommy Lee was the drummer for Motley Crue. Just a mild point of correction.
Oops. I know nothing about the drummer guy.
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I watched Overnight Delivery on Amazon Prime. Had to pay. I liked it. I remember when they had Ayd Mill road shut down for filming some of it, at I 35E. Lots on MN locations used for filming.
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Another episode of Pam and Tommy. Interesting to see the old computer and internet stuff. E.g. the lady does a search on alta vista.
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Since I dumped cable I added a window antenna to bedroom TV. Works well. Hane a channel " The Crime Network" which I never heard of before. Anyway they have one show every nite- Locked Up Abroad- what morons. Last nite guy relocates to Saudi Arabia and what's he do? Bootleging wine and whiskey in a no alcohol country.
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Know before you go...
::bus::
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Since I dumped cable I added a window antenna to bedroom TV. Works well. Hane a channel " The Crime Network" which I never heard of before. Anyway they have one show every nite- Locked Up Abroad- what morons. Last nite guy relocates to Saudi Arabia and what's he do? Bootleging wine and whiskey in a no alcohol country.
I have no cable but high speed internet and Roku to play streaming videos over my TV.
Many channels are free. Peacock is free with ads as is Hulu.
Also I never heard of the group Boney M back in the disco era. Now I am finding mash ups of dance videos of their song Rasputin. Why now for a late 70s group? The one below is 2017.
https://youtu.be/FS-siemT6eQ
The original videos
https://youtu.be/IR2C9hHAVds
https://youtu.be/aK5taQZwgig
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Watched another episode of Good Behavior on Hulu via Roku. the actress is beautiful if you like alabaster skin.
https://youtu.be/46eiLzbKWhw
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That's one of the actresses who was on Doughton Abbey.
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That's one of the actresses who was on Doughton Abbey.
Very striking. I am told she was on Godless. I am always impressed when actors lose their British accents for American TV. Then I am shocked when I hear them speak with their natural British accents.
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I wonder why there is interest in this song now?
https://youtu.be/MGoCwNHE4ys
Official Rasputin Dance Video | The King's Man | 20th Century Studios
5,630,622 views
Dec 14, 2021
https://youtu.be/XbVGnFJdLwE
RASPUTIN REUNION!! (10 YEARS LATER!)
1,083,724 views
Apr 2, 2021
https://youtu.be/0Ctbqht5klE
https://youtu.be/02JTD7u6JkQ
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I finished Good Behavior.Very good. Intense toward the end.
Finished Pam and Tommy. About the sex tape. Well done.
I watched another episode of The Dropout, about Theranos. Very good. Amanda Seyfried is excellent. She always is.
In the real world Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on some charges and her former BF "Sunny", the former COO just began his trial. Her sentencing will be in the fall.
I watched much of Legends, about some undercover agent. Just OK.
All on Hulu.
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Broke my 38 year streak of zero TV @ the recommendation of some church friends & watched 1 & 1/2 episodes of The Chosen (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9471404/), streamed to screen via iPad, lat night.
It isn't bad -- seems well constructed -- but I doubt I'll make it through an entire season -- watching TV just isn't a habit anymore.
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Ever watch Lovelace, about the Deep Throat porn tape? I remember thinking it could be shown to church groups. It was so full of pathos. Maybe the church groups is a stretch; or not.
I watched the mini-series Dopesick, about the Oxycontin spread. Michael Keaton. It was well done. Had an inter racial lesbian subplot. Now such stuff is obligatory. Not as bad as the weird stuff in Single Drunk Female.
I continue to watch The Dropout.
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Watched on Amazon Prime. 2 seasons. Well done.
Soviet Storm: World War II in the East
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Not watching much...never watched Netflix...soon as I heard Oblowya was involved I knew I didn't want to go near that sewer...
Elon Musk - The woke mind virus is making Netflix unwatchable
https://mediarightnews.com/elon-musk-rips-netflix-by-kicking-them-while-theyre-down-the-woke-mind-virus-is-making-netflix-unwatchable/
I feel justified in never having had to try. :D
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A diver died down very deep years ago. Someone finds him and tries to recover the body and things go very wrong.
I cannot believe the depth recited. 270 meters????? That was true.
Awful.
https://youtu.be/X-6HeB1olp8
Diver Records Doom | Last Moments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Shaw
He used a Mk15.5 with Juergensen Marine Hammerhead electronics and the following gas mixtures: trimix 4/80, 10/70, 15/55, 17/40, 26/25, air, nitrox50, 100% oxygen. The cave elevation was 1,550 metres (5,090 ft) and the dive duration was 9 hours 40 minutes.[2]
On this record-breaking dive, Shaw discovered the body of Deon Dreyer, a South African diver who had died in Bushman's Hole ten years previously. The body was at a depth of 270 metres (890 ft).[3]
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I have this on Roku in background. Very long. 3 1/2 hours. It will take maybe days to finish this.
Some former KGB agent who was sent to US then later defected.
https://youtu.be/dSVLjAdo8UA
Jack Barsky: KGB Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #301
855,355 views Jul 9, 2022 Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of "Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America".
ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING SO FAR
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Let me know how that compares to Yuri Bezmenov, he was Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency and a former PGU KGB "informant" who defected to Canada in 1970 and in 1984 did an interview that is pretty amazing to listen to, and the 4 stages of ideological subversion: 1) Demoralization 2) Destabilization 3) Crisis 4) Normalization seem pretty prescient for what we've seen since his defection...from Clinton to now...from counter-culture 60's crap to now...his statements seem eerily accurate given what we now see, what some call "normal"...
The interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw)
Some snippets -
According to Benzmenov, the potential recruits and reputable people in the eyes of the KGB were narcissistic, greedy, morally devoid individuals who can help destabilise their country of origin.
“This will happen in America if you allow the Schumuks to bring the country to crisis, promise people all kinds of goodies and paradise on Earth, destabilise your economy, eliminate the principle of free-market competition, put a Big Brother government in Washington DC with benevolent things,” he remarked.
https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/former-kgb-agent-yuri-bezmenov-exposes-the-four-stages-of-a-communist-takeover-of-a-country-in-rare-1984-interview/ (https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/former-kgb-agent-yuri-bezmenov-exposes-the-four-stages-of-a-communist-takeover-of-a-country-in-rare-1984-interview/)
Remind you of anybody in politics, business, media and entertainment???
They corrupted the left...spread contagion into those we call Cucks and sheeple...and they will destroy everything.
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Let me know how that compares to Yuri Bezmenov, he was Soviet journalist for Novosti Press Agency and a former PGU KGB "informant" who defected to Canada in 1970 and in 1984 did an interview that is pretty amazing to listen to, and the 4 stages of ideological subversion: 1) Demoralization 2) Destabilization 3) Crisis 4) Normalization seem pretty prescient for what we've seen since his defection...from Clinton to now...from counter-culture 60's crap to now...his statements seem eerily accurate given what we now see, what some call "normal"...
The interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw)
Some snippets -
According to Benzmenov, the potential recruits and reputable people in the eyes of the KGB were narcissistic, greedy, morally devoid individuals who can help destabilise their country of origin.
“This will happen in America if you allow the Schumuks to bring the country to crisis, promise people all kinds of goodies and paradise on Earth, destabilise your economy, eliminate the principle of free-market competition, put a Big Brother government in Washington DC with benevolent things,” he remarked.
https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/former-kgb-agent-yuri-bezmenov-exposes-the-four-stages-of-a-communist-takeover-of-a-country-in-rare-1984-interview/ (https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/former-kgb-agent-yuri-bezmenov-exposes-the-four-stages-of-a-communist-takeover-of-a-country-in-rare-1984-interview/)
Remind you of anybody in politics, business, media and entertainment???
They corrupted the left...spread contagion into those we call Cucks and sheeple...and they will destroy everything.
Barsky was asked about Yuri Bezmenov. He thought he was a fraud for a couple reasons.
Yuri Bezmenov was based in India and the KGB is very compartmentalized. It was one of their strengths.
So there is zero chance that Yuri Bezmenov had access to any KGB plans like that.
Barsky said that he received maybe the best training. One on one. The tradecraft was good. The KGB knowledge of US culture was very poor and often wrong. So his training in that area was awful. He almost got caught thanks to poor training. Remember how western media and TV was restricted to the very few in USSR.
So he doubts the KGB had the knowledge or competence to pull off such a subversion of the US. It would require organization and competence. I agree there has been subversion of the US along the lines of Yuri Bezmenov but other explanations are needed. Just my opinion.
The said the CIA is also incompetent in understanding foreign cultures.
They sent him first to Canada so he had the initial culture shock period there rather than the US. He thinks the RCMP was onto him and was following him. He thinks incompetence in the pre computer age was the reason the FBI was not warned about him from the RCMP.
Related to that. Jacob Dreizin talked about CIA incompetence. Some clown who did not know Farsi or Iran was made the expert in some backwater country, Iran. When Iran lit up they relied on this ignorant clown who spewed BS.
https://rumble.com/v1agoyp-2022-06-26-dreizin-and-the-ayatollah-blow-your-mind-must-watch-2nd-half-don.html (https://rumble.com/v1agoyp-2022-06-26-dreizin-and-the-ayatollah-blow-your-mind-must-watch-2nd-half-don.html)
2022-06-26 - Dreizin & the Ayatollah BLOW YOUR MIND (must watch 2nd half, don't skip out)
The Dreizin Report - Ukraine War & Aftermath Published June 29, 2022
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VERY FASCINATING SO FAR.
HE GREW UP IN EAST GERMANY.
HOW HE WAS RECRUITED BY KGB
How he trained, went to Canada, then US.
He said the KGB's knowledge of US was terrible hence his training.
He was sent to Chicago sink or swim.
He told of a trained KGB agent was used in the western EU as an assassin.
He was sent to kill a KGB defector but instead told the target and did not kill him.
The assassin defected to the US.
This guy Jack Barsky later found him in the US and they met.
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WOW What a life. Had it on during cleaning and repairs.
He had been here 10 years.
He fathered a child and married a woman.
The KGB sent emergency signal that he was in danger and to execute plans to run to Canada.
He stalled because of his daughter.
He told them he could not return because he had AIDs so they would not want him back with this decadent western disease. He stopped spying. They told his wife in Germany he had died.
Over the years some pissed off Soviet KGB archivist had copied some notes. Pissed off because his sick son was not allowed to travel for treatment. He later tried to give them to the US embassy in Moscow but they were not interested. Later he gave them to UK MI5 in the Baltics.
They passed them to the FBI who looked into him and spied on him and bugged his house and heard him tell his wife during an argument that he quit the KGB and stayed in US for their family.
The FBI questioned him and learned he was inactive. Let him go.
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The Democrats have been infiltrated by communists from day one...I think Bezmenov is called a fraud because the timing is off and people want to think they and their fellow citizens aren't easily duped...the Socialist Labor Party rose in 1876...the Social Democratic Party of America in 1898...the Socialist Party of America in 1901...lots of offshoots and lots of efforts focused on unions and Marxist indoctrination and pamphleteering...folks like Eugene Debs, Robert M. La Follette, Norman Mattoon Thomas et al...after Lenin's revolution many of these waned and the left-wing (ha) faction of the SPA was invited by Lenin to join ComIntern and CPUSA was formed in 1919 and dominated the socialist movement, the old SPA hung around up until the Soviets rolled tanks into Hungary then it waned, had offshoots trying to destigmatize (de-Sovietize) socialism...some got took over by the hippies (SDA etc)...in CPUSA well know leaders like Earl Browder did not hide their ComIntern ties and affiliation with Soviet agents...and they briefly took hits in the peak of the Red Menace...lingered and waned after the Soviet collapse, but never completely disappeared...around 2000 they were relegated to largely cheering on leftist Dems running in races...they are now just another barely noticed screeching leftist...the point being, socialists of all stripes been around a long damn time and sadly never eradicated...
Oddly enough, it was old SPA "moderate" (snort!) who knew what the path to socialism was...after all it has been working through unions and politics for many years and many administrations of that party had known socialists in various posts...and while many (on the left) deny Normal Mattoon Thomas made this statement:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
All know (as did William Buckley) he made this one, which is very similar: "The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to."
So, Bezmenov is likely right on ideology taught...the contagion was planted...and flourished in the Democrat Party and the little leftist offshoots of historical socialism...
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Nice history. The movie Reds (1980) features the squabbling of various US socialist parties trying to get recognition from the commintern. If it did not look stupid enough Diane Keaton makes it clear how stupid it was. ".... Right Jack." My favorite movie.
I think the so called "Frankfurt school" was a big cause of subverting America.
Robert M. La Follette? A HS in Madison WI is named after him. Decades later some distant shirt tailed relative gas station owner came close to winning a race for political office because he differed from the politician by only the middle initial.
BTW economist Michael Hudson's father was imprisoned for sedition for leading the Minneapolis general strike.
He is worth paying attention to. If you want to spend an hour some time....
https://youtu.be/hH9pzzIIEj4
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Caught the end of " The Last Ring Home", wlli have to get the book. These true war time stories amaze me.I think of my time and wonder could I have made it thru their time.
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Nice history. The movie Reds (1980) features the squabbling of various US socialist parties trying to get recognition from the commintern. If it did not look stupid enough Diane Keaton makes it clear how stupid it was. ".... Right Jack." My favorite movie.
I think the so called "Frankfurt school" was a big cause of subverting America.
Robert M. La Follette? A HS in Madison WI is named after him. Decades later some distant shirt tailed relative gas station owner came close to winning a race for political office because he differed from the politician by only the middle initial.
BTW economist Michael Hudson's father was imprisoned for sedition for leading the Minneapolis general strike.
He is worth paying attention to. If you want to spend an hour some time....
https://youtu.be/hH9pzzIIEj4 (https://youtu.be/hH9pzzIIEj4)
There were a lot of damned socialists in MN...they like to talk about protecting the worker from the exploitation of tycoons...but they had no problem exploiting the worker to advance their own cause by spreading their contagion and extorting some of the sweat off their brow!
ETA - Also quite revealing about socialists...and very repeatable - https://www.weaselzippers.us/483917-breaking-staffers-working-for-the-squad-file-to-unionize-citing-culture-of-abuse-in-offices/ (https://www.weaselzippers.us/483917-breaking-staffers-working-for-the-squad-file-to-unionize-citing-culture-of-abuse-in-offices/)
Ooh, staffers of prima donna rabid socialists treated like sh!t?
::smallestviolin::
::laughonfloor::
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Caught the end of " The Last Ring Home", wlli have to get the book. These true war time stories amaze me.I think of my time and wonder could I have made it thru their time.
Yeah, war...really brutal war...and horrible prisoner conditions...Bataan Death March et all...
Year, war is war...but being a prisoner and tortured and mistreated and fed maggot infested slop?
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https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/chris-pratt-trolls-woke-critics-not-happy-with-the-terminal-list/
Looks like something decent to watch.
But, maybe on a binge...sometime later...
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Saw it. It was good.
P.S. It's only six episodes. (That's the "modern" tv series now; forget 20-22 episodes) Hardly a binge.
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Saw it. It was good.
P.S. It's only six episodes. (That's the "modern" tv series now; forget 20-22 episodes) Hardly a binge.
Binge as in I only want to pay for that for a month and drop it...lump in whatever else might be worth a damn to check out...then let another year or two go by before considering it again...
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P.S. It's only six episodes. (That's the "modern" tv series now; forget 20-22 episodes) Hardly a binge.
Sounds like my type of show. I'm not sure if it's just me with ADD or show writers, but when it comes to a "series", I lose interest after 2-3 seasons.
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Hope there is PPV for treason executions...could bring down the national debt significantly... :D
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Not sure where to post this.
I am a huge fan of Kim Iversen and have been for years. She can think for herself. I also like Max Blumenthal although disagree with him on many issues. Both show that people who ID as progressive are not always stupid and dishonest. Neither fell for Russiagate, some of covid, and some other stupid issues liked forced vaccinations.
Max does a Fauci imitation at 11 min in. Funny.
Up to maybe 15 min they talk about Kim leaving the Hill Rising and why. They would not let her on the recent interview of Fauci.
Then they talk about covid and related issues.
The intellectual energy level with these two on was impressive to me.
They kinda talk about the Dem group think and mass hysteria on some issues.
Kim recently got married and said some family would not come to her wedding because she said vaccines did not stop the spread and they believed she was killing people! Seriously. She says this and scary thinking at 42 min.
45 min. Kim said she was anti lockdown because it screwed workers and shifted wealth to the wealthy. Most of her left friends hated her for this.
She leaves the segment around 1 hour 40 min.
The WHO changed the definition of vaccine 3 times recently?
She said there was an 8 hour FDA meeting she watched 3 times??? She does work hard.
Max noted that the covidian cult lost interest after Ukraine and Roe became "the current thing." :lolh:
34 min in Max plays the segment where Kim slams Ryan down with facts on the Duke covid spread almost all among the vaccinated. 8 cases unvaxxed out of 345 total covid cases.
They both laugh at the thinking of the vaxx cult and how they viewed unvaxxed Kim who got covid but worked remotely after a couple days.
https://youtu.be/i1YbWf_Mrxk
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A good documentary on how oxygen almost killed life on earth?
At 10 min there is a mention of banded iron found near lake superior.
Some explorer noticed his compass pointed wrong so began digging.
https://youtu.be/H476c8UjLXY
How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?
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Hulu - The Orville (Seth Mcfarlands unselected Star Trek Pitch) 3 seasons
Paramount + - Star Trek Discovery 4 seasons, Picard 2 seasons, Star Trek Lower Decks (cartoon) 3 seasons, Star trek Prodigy (cartoon) 1 season
Netflix - Stranger Things 4 seasons, The Umbrella Academy 3 seasons
Some other stuff, mostly sci-fi or fantasy related.
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There's a penguin on the telly!
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I had to watch this again. In Kazakhstan. He and his sometimes GF got a ride to a point 30 km from the likely place, then walked 30 km, partly at night to the old hangars, slept in a building, then broke in to see the Soviet Space shuttle. They had been told if caught this was automatic jail time. They got a fine and maybe a tour. Worth watching to the end.
They are such a cute pair. IRL she is a Belarusian with a MS in structures and works for some big engineering firm somewhere.
https://youtu.be/0fZ-r5Qe3tM?t=1907
This Video Caused An International Incident! ( Spaceship Discovery )
bald and bankrupt
3.84M subscribers
4,754,532 views Jul 31, 2022
🇷🇺Since we began exploring the former USSR we have discovered all kinds of wonderful examples of Soviet art and technology. However this time I went in search of the biggest prize of all…I just didn’t realise it would cause such a fuss as it did. Glory to the Soviet space engineers and cosmonauts! Glory to the Buran!
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Hulu - The Orville (Seth Mcfarlands unselected Star Trek Pitch) 3 seasons
Paramount + - Star Trek Discovery 4 seasons, Picard 2 seasons, Star Trek Lower Decks (cartoon) 3 seasons, Star trek Prodigy (cartoon) 1 season
Netflix - Stranger Things 4 seasons, The Umbrella Academy 3 seasons
Some other stuff, mostly sci-fi or fantasy related.
Loved Orville. I found ST Discovery to be unwatchable, filled with ridiculous premises that made suspension of disbelief impossible, and woke BS from wall to wall. I gave Disco three full seasons, and the only reason I watched Season 3 was because the introduction of Pike and Spock in season 2 gave me hope that season 3 would “right the ship” (pun intended). After the train wreck of season 3, I gave up on Disco. Picard Seasons 1 & 2 were watchable fan service - Season 3 was a glorious trip down nostalgia lane that left me weeping more than once. Currently enjoying Strange New Worlds. For the most part it gives me hope that Trek is not doomed to a similar fate as the Disco debacle.
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A couple shows I’ve really been enjoying are “Lincoln Lawyer” on Netflix, and “Bosch” on Amazon Prime. Both series are based on book characters created by the same author. Bosch has several seasons, Lincoln Lawyer just two.
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Season 6 of Better Call Saul. Holy cow... ::rockets::
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I am easily amused.
I rewatched a Bald and Bankrupt episode from Sokh. One of his best. His and her personalities are priceless.
He and Belarusian GF Alina try to fly into an enclave named Sokh. They previously were not allowed to drive in.
12 min they fly in a Soviet era biplane.
18 min they are introduced to their room with three narrow beds.
Alina asks for a stranger to be put next to her.
They are given a boring tour. Mr. Bald is nasty.
25 min the tour guy takes them to his nice home and feeds him.
Mr. Bald: Now I feel bad for all the bad things we said.
Alina: We??? You acted like total a**hole. :lolh:
26:43 they ditch the tour guy and ride off with some guy in a soviet era motorcycle with a flatbed sidecar.
They teach the children of Sokh in Tajik language and customs.
https://youtu.be/34XymEDY9Wc
Entering A Mysterious Exclave You've Never Heard Of ( In A Soviet Bi-plane )
bald and bankrupt
3.85M subscribers
3,200,656 views May 17, 2022
Earlier this year myself and Alina tried entering an Uzbek exclave surrounded entirely by Kyrgyzstan. If you saw the video you will know that we were not allowed in. But we don't give up that easy...And so when we discovered that there was a new flight route started up from Uzbekistan to the unknown exclave of Sokh we decided we would have to investigate and try to get in somehow to see what lay there beyond the mountains. Oh and it just happened to mean flying on an old Soviet bi-plane. How could anyone resists such an adventure?!