Red Letter Media

[Akerman]

I don't necessarily disagree, but if these guys are pirating anything there's no way they'd ever advertise it.

He did mention in the previous video that he knows someone who pirates and heavily disapproves of it, I honestly suspect it is Rich. I do like that they don't pirate the shows though for reviews, one of the most annoying aspects of the atomization of streaming services is the endless monthly costs you have to take on just to watch something and that should factor in to a review for something like NuTrek which is trash regardless but on top of that you need to eat a Paramount+ subscription too.

For people with a minimal technical know-how to torrent it isn't an issue, but it is for most people.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

He did mention in the previous video that he knows someone who pirates and heavily disapproves of it, I honestly suspect it is Rich. I do like that they don't pirate the shows though for reviews, one of the most annoying aspects of the atomization of streaming services is the endless monthly costs you have to take on just to watch something and that should factor in to a review for something like NuTrek which is trash regardless but on top of that you need to eat a Paramount+ subscription too.

For people with a minimal technical know-how to torrent it isn't an issue, but it is for most people.

No, for a review show, pirating is both the sound business decision and a moral one. Businesses that make bad shows don't deserve money or attention and no one should get buyer's remorse with bad media because the only way businesses learn is whether their products sell or not, not whether it is good or bad.

 

[MrSlongDong]

Also his son trooned out, and now he is an enthusiastic supporter of troonery

It's not the son of Penn Jilliette who trooned out but his daughter, "Moxie CrimeFighter Jilliette" (name at birth) who pooned out. So Penn Jilliette has a pooner daughter.

Spoiler: Penn's pooner daughter

Her instagram is soda_brand13 if you want to have a laugh (she is very public about it so no secret here). Trooned out in 2020 during Covid. Calls herself a "Taken gay boy" so basically, she is dating a normal guy but since she is also a "guy", she calls herself a "gay man". What's hilarious is the situation of the guy who has to pretend he is into men so that his autistic trans gay girlfriend doesn't break up with him. It's so wonderfully stupid and complicated. She is "super pro-palestine" and reminds people she is a jew so she "literally cannot be antisemitic". She says the family does pass-over. I didn't know Penn was Jewish.


Here is a public reddit post from her account where she talks about a Penn and Teller show where she appeared as a (semi-)pooner


I wonder what caused her to poon out given that she is obviously straight.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

He looks like he's about to try to eat Rich Evans.

See: attachment.

Mike presents himself as a bumbling, unsophisticated, Midwesterner, but in his private life, he is bidding in overpriced movie prop auctions for Star Trek relics

Normally I don't care about Youtube celebrity gossip, but what's that all about? I remember someone on 4chan pointing out that the prop of a damaged ST shirt Jay wears in one of the trivia videos sold for a few grand at an auction. Did someone shoop the auction screenshot or did Mike really blow that much money on something that useless?

 

[Retink Retunk]

Normally I don't care about Youtube celebrity gossip, but what's that all about? I remember someone on 4chan pointing out that the prop of a damaged ST shirt Jay wears in one of the trivia videos sold for a few grand at an auction. Did someone shoop the auction screenshot or did Mike really blow that much money on something that useless?

Considering he owns an original Gremlin from Gremlins 2 and bought one of the Star Trek control panels they used on set, I wouldn't be surprised if he did pay that much as he's basically building a mini museum in their studio.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

It wasn't that hard to find.

$12,500

 

[#lurker]

It wasn't that hard to find.

$12,500

Brought to you by the same guys that cried about the poor starving African children. Think about how many kids they could have fed with that money. Shame!

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

It wasn't that hard to find.

$12,500

A used car or ten gaming PCs.

 

[RollerGator]

In awe at the size of this lad. The DVD cover in the middle is appropriate.

Nigga turned into Mersh

 

[Roy's Food Repair]

It wasn't that hard to find.

$12,500

That's a whole half a month's worth of Patreon money!

 

[Idiotron]

Like I've said, Mike is a millionaire celeb and his thing is collecting and preserving pointless media related junk.
It's the equivalent of Joss Whedon collecting Victorian Era novels.

I had this idea while typing this post:

Lucas used to be this indie edgy director but then, he became really popular and wealthy doing something that he wasn't even that passionate about and he thought would flop, started his own company, made industry connections and over the years, he lost his passion and became the kind of hack he disliked when he was starting.

That's who Mike is.
His early movies and videos are super edgy, he made Star Trek reviews because he had something to say and then, he did Star Wars even though he doesn't care about it, expected probably like 30k views, but went viral and legit changed the way internet criticism is done.
He then turned his side project into a real company, became wealthy and popular, made industry connections, lost his passion over the years and became the same kind of hack he would criticize in his early videos.

It's sad but it happens.

 

[TheMonkeyMan]

I was kind of shocked to learn from the Sinners review that Buddy Guy is still alive.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Oingo Boingo. I recall him and Mike getting into a mini-argument over that band.

Although considering it is a Danny Elfman project I don't know if that counts as being something other than film.

Considering that Oingo Boingo existed LONG before Elfman started doing movie scores, and it took Tim Burton a LOT of effort to convince him to do the Pee-Wee's Big Adventure score as his first movie work, I definitely do not count Oingo Boingo as movie-related in the slightest, aside from them contributing songs to the soundtracks of some great 80s comedies.

As to the piracy question, a lot of artists and filmmakers don't pirate out of the fact that they know that their livelihood depends on people paying them for their art and not wanting to fuck over others in their profession.

They probably have comp subscriptions to all the services anyway, much like how game journalists all got XBox Live Gold for free.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Brought to you by the same guys that cried about the poor starving African children. Think about how many kids they could have fed with that money. Shame!

Third Reich Mike isn't going to give money to Africa.

 

[Jobama]

I think peak HITB was from 2015 to 2019 when the force awakens came out to when TROS came out. That’s when most of their best episodes came out. Early HITB was a bit too rough around the edges and modern HITB feels too stale. COVID broke their habit of going to the movie theatres which is why it has become boring the last couple of years.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Considering that Oingo Boingo existed LONG before Elfman started doing movie scores, and it took Tim Burton a LOT of effort to convince him to do the Pee-Wee's Big Adventure score as his first movie work, I definitely do not count Oingo Boingo as movie-related in the slightest, aside from them contributing songs to the soundtracks of some great 80s comedies.

I was more talking about Jay's interest in them stemming from whether he just liked the music or if it was because of Elfman's involvement, y'know? At any rate it's not like we'll ever know.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I was more talking about Jay's interest in them stemming from whether he just liked the music or if it was because of Elfman's involvement, y'know? At any rate it's not like we'll ever know.

He's probably into them because the little redhead chick that used to be in some of their videos was.

 

[That Chris Guy]

I think it's clear from their Sinners/Thunderbolts video they don't want to step on many toes when they do their reviews now, but what we're left with is a Johnny Everyman review where they have nothing unique to offer and just have the most pedestrian takes unless it's safe to trash them. It's also why I stopped watching The Critical Drinker - too damn safe and their reviews have no teeth or worthwhile critique.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

I think it's clear from their Sinners/Thunderbolt video they don't want to step on many toes when they do their reviews now, but what we're left with is a Johnny Everyman review where they have nothing unique to offer and just have the most pedestrian takes unless it's safe to trash them. It's also why I stopped watching The Critical Drinker - too damn safe and their reviews jave no teeth or worthwhile critique.

I only bother with BOTW episodes these days.

Everything else is toothless and usually douchey as fuck if Mike is involved.

 

[Nigger Respecter]

I think it's clear from their Sinners/Thunderbolts video they don't want to step on many toes when they do their reviews now, but what we're left with is a Johnny Everyman review where they have nothing unique to offer and just have the most pedestrian takes unless it's safe to trash them. It's also why I stopped watching The Critical Drinker - too damn safe and their reviews have no teeth or worthwhile critique.

I think they liked the movies generally and it was refreshing to see takes that weren’t warmed over culture war dogshit. My main critique is that they just don’t seem to care too much about doing videos about movies they found decent and not either amazing or horrible so they just sit there and barely discuss things because they aren’t actually that good at reviewing movies like that. Regardless I’ll consoom whatever slop they put out