Steven Seagal Wrote a Book (We Read It) | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

[@fett01]

At this point, I don't judge Steven Seagal for hanging out with dictators. I judge dictators for hanging out with Steven Seagal

[@mrcritical6751]

Yeah, like Putin…Buddy, there are so many more important people you could be hanging out with other than Steven

[@nickscurvy8635]

This aint it, commander in chief

[@doccomics1995]

"The Shadow Wolf MOONWALKED out of the theater." I fixed it. You're welcome, Steven Segal!

[@siobhongaull9161]

Having just finished a degrees in archaeology and in women and gender studies I have had the privilege of interacting with and reading a lot from Indigenous folk. In comparing Steven’s descriptions versus what I have heard from indigenous people there is a distinct tone difference in their descriptions of cultural practices. There is a particular fetishistic tone encountered when I hear outsiders talk about Indigenous culture that is well represented here, often emphasizing how Indigenous people are “a world apart” from others and have all the answers. In my own experiences learning from Indigenous people there is usually an emphasis on imparting lessons and being a part of the world, as opposed to manufacturing a strange world seemingly absent of meaning.

[@marocat4749]

Arent they big enviromentalist, due them like living with the land culture heritage. Which i big agree with, we shouldnt screw over nature shortsighted. Even more. Also pretty big migrating natural disaster and other , oh god depressibg climate change stuff. which, bad. And i respect being closed off,being that ,oh god all the aproviating and stealing and ... of tribes. Bloody give them way more funding at least ok. And maybe respect. Or how cody said,hire them with whoever has any knowkedge how to maintain forrests, and not just mow them down. And pay them. Hire the tribes whoever there. I dont know, its a great idea.

[@patchso]

I think Sea Gull just interprets indigenous culture as a kind of cool magic.

[@petebondurant58]

@@patchso It's mostly about alcoholism and domestic abuse.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

​@@petebondurant58 why are you here?

[@esimonsays14]

@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305 He's an annoying AF troll, and I don't know why "he" bothers.

[@raskov75]

"Celebrate death with Raytheon." Robert is a born pitchman.

[@TheWonkster]

Pork is one of those things that's very commonly forbidden in ancient religions because pork can carry a lot of really bad parasites and is incredibly hard to cook throughly over open flame or tell when it's cooked by looking at it. Same with carrion birds.

[@Aryasvitkona]

Yeah, it's also why Jewish, Islamic, and earlier Christians engaged in male circumcision. Like I want to be clear that this is NO LONGER TRUE but there WAS a very good reason for it back then. When you bathe once a week with crude at best soap and this is if you're RICH, you can develop some really fuckin nasty bacteria ridden dick cheese. Removing the foreskin to allow it access to the air and to prevent the warm+damp+dark triad that basically are a bacterial petri dish would help a lot with preventing some NASTY ass problems both for the male and any potential sexual partners (consenting or otherwise, we're talking older times). So the "circumcision is good for cleanliness" that people weirdly still tout WAS kinda true IN THE PAST. It no longer is. We bathe usually at least once a day and have access to good soap for basically free, the risk of such a bad dick state nowadays is basically zero as long as people wash their junk properly. You have a higher risk of giving STDs than giving someone a nasty dick cheese based infection nowadays unless you never learnt how to wash it. (Also worth stating for anyone who has seen comments from me before and know I'm femme, I'm a trans woman, I was never circumcised, so I am aware from personal experience of these things, I'm not some weirdo freak who has absolutely no clue.) I'll end off with this seeing as I'm talking about dicks and rarely get the chance. Men, or anyone with a dick really whether you want it or not, regularly trim pubic hair. I'm not saying you gotta shave it, I know having a razorblade down there can be a fucking frightening thing, but get some decent scissors and just trim things back a decent bit. This has 2 uses. First, less hair will make it easier to notice any problems, like lice, rashes, or multiple symptoms of STDs. Too much hair will make it harder to see, and also less hair means less bacteria (warm+damp+dark remember) and also less likely chance of receiving lice. Second, it just looks better. Anyone you show it to will appreciate having it done so, and it may also boost your confidence as less hair may make you look bigger if you care about that. It's easy to let it birds nest, but especially cis het men, please trim. Get a small desk mirror that pivots so you can see well, and trim it as close as you reasonably can and are comfortable with. Not just near the shaft, everything. I'd personally also recommend shaving your pelvis around the shaft but at that point it's more taste, but please for the love of god at least trim everything up, it's better for you, it's better for your partner, it's better for your sex life, etc. (I do hope this isn't new advice people are hearing but I've had too many men I've interacted with where they acted like trimming was some weird thing to do, it's not, it's just fkn polite. It's not gay, it's not feminine, it's helpful. I make a point of telling anyone but especially men this whenever dick cleanliness comes up because too many people aren't told, I know I wasn't pre transition, though I did trim occasionally still just for myself)

[@stinkytoy]

That sounds plausible, but I believe the jury is still out on the historical basis for there being a pork taboo built into two out of three Abrahamic religions. The parasite everyone cites when discussing pork is Trichinosis, and the idea that the illness may be related to the taboo came about during the Victorian era, when there happened to be the convergence in the western world of a major Trichinosis problem, and a scholarly pursuit to rationalize humanity's more old fashioned and superstitious beliefs with our growing grasp on science. As it turns out, there is basically zero evidence that Trichinosis was more of a problem than any other vector for disease in the near and middle east way back when, and it would be almost impossible for people of that day to trace a case of it back to bad pork, since it can take quite a long time for health problems to arise once a person is infected. There are a number of pretty compelling alternate theories about why the pork taboo came to be. One of them involves the gradual desertification of the near/middle east, leading to less food surplus, which means less interest in raising big hungry animals that have essentially the same diet that we do - they can't peck at seeds and bugs like chickens, or eat grass like cows or goats, so they kind of represent a source of competition with humans for calories. There's a few more. Lemme know if you're curious.

[@ryle2965]

Another awesome fact I recently learned about Seagal, courtesy of the Corridor Crew channel is that he was apparently notorious for disregarding safety and beating the living shit out of stuntmen in his movies. Great dude all around!

[@BeastNationXIV]

But you know who won't beat the living shit out of your supporting staff....

[@buttlord4204]

Yeah, that's something I heard on some kinda TV show at some point, from a stuntman that once had the displeasure of working with him. Said that he refuses to pull punches and kicks, which makes his movies actively worse because he's acting with people who know a full-force fatman kick to the ribs is coming. But it's more important for Seagal to have this physical interaction with random men than it is for him to put out a decent product

[@nickdonaldson692]

That's absolutely what happened in the "That time Steven Seagal shat himself" story - that he was flinging stunt actors around, and the stunt co-ordinator, "Judo" Gene LaBell was getting pissed about and it culminated in in Seagal's ill-advised challenge. 😂

[@cybercop0083]

He’s „disregarding safety“, he‘s being a shit. He’d kick stuntmen in the balls, under the pretense of teaching the importance of a jockstrap

[@mrcritical6751]

That’s also how he wound up breaking poor Sean Connery’s wrist

[@CyreneDuVent]

I think my favourite blatant lie was the statement "political parties, generally two parties per country" because it just makes it so clear the authors have never paid a shred of attention to a country that wasn't the US (and like mayyyybe the UK bc while it's not a two party system the tories have formed government for so long that it still gets covered like one internationally)

[@josephpotter5766]

To all intents and purposes the UK does have a two party system. Due to having an electoral system that is functionally still in beta (it's the first one, pretty much, and has never benefitted from seeing other peoples mistakes) it's set up as a brutal 'first past the post' arangement that actively makes it *functionally* impossible to have more than two parties, while not having anything written down to prevent other folks running, with the result that the only effect of having more than two parties is splitting the votes on the left in such a way as to guarantee decades more of Tory rule.

[@CyreneDuVent]

@@josephpotter5766 Yeah, I'm canadian so... basically the same system here lol. Most provinces are basically two party systems that might elect a couple third party candidates (be that green, ndp, or one of the right wing generally purple ones). Honestly need to do some more history reading to find out how the NDP managed to become a legitimate third party federally, but yeah, I'm all too aware of the whole vote splitting on the left in first past the post systems thing. Current govt claimed they were going to do prop rep, then release a bogus survey and buried the issue, but I really hope that one day I will never have to hear the phrase "strategic voting" in that context again.

[@TheloniusMUnk-DrUnkPhD-]

Please, please do the next part of this one… it’s a painful, painful experience, these book read throughs have grown on me, not unlike melanoma, I tried to make a run on sentence with too many commas, but I couldn’t seagal and Shapiro it up enough.

[@BeastNationXIV]

"I just read the best book ever written..." "Who wrote it?" "Me" 😂

[@sholem_bond]

When your professor lists his own book on the course syllabus

[@sholem_bond]

"PETA gave him an award." If he was alive today, PETA would give Hitler an award for promoting vegetarianism while being a political leader. I'm exaggerating but not by much. PETA probably deserves its own episode here.

[@TheThing4444]

Hitler was Time's man of the year, so I actually think PETA would do something like that. Hitler was a popular figure.

[@stinkytoy]

Holy shit, peta absolutely needs an episode. Speaking of hitler, peta is well on its way to racking up enough pet killings to reasonably call it an animal holocaust

[@MrPooleish]

Nothing as terrifying as controlling *MOST* snakes. Allways wondering if this will be the one you can't control, while also having to know if it's venomous or a constrictor.

[@TheWonkster]

He just can't manage to break the adamantine will of the mighty hog-nosed snake

[@Samstrainsofficially]

His finest work is under siege 2: dark territory, it's got it all, train hijacking, space weapon hijacking, quality 90s movie hacker memes (a gig of ram), it's got a sassy and in hindsight mildly racistly written side kick, a train that lacks continuity from one shot to the next, quality henchmen to protect the nerd bad guy. It's a masterpiece of the genre of a bad movie that's so bad it almost comes full circle to be a pleasant watch

[@VCV95]

Some of his movies are fun bad watches. Under siege 1 is probably his best movie, arguably an enjoyable watch and not total dogshit.

[@Samstrainsofficially]

@@VCV95 a simpler time where you could get away with a cake with a semi naked lady in it at your party aboard a battleship and not fear disciplinary action.

[@VCV95]

@@Samstrainsofficially lmao. Jesus, stripper cakes were HUGE in 80's/90's action movies. So many had a scene, even the parody movies did.

[@marocat4749]

The one sword fighting scene where he actually tries?!

[@Samstrainsofficially]

@@VCV95 Bring them back! 🤣 next Bond film needs one.

[@rustkitty]

Inside you there are two wolves. Both are kissing Steven Seagal's forehead.

[@thomasgiles2876]

You could have stopped this comment before the apostrophe.

[@rustkitty]

@@thomasgiles2876 You mean like "Both are kissing Steven Seagal"? Sure, that's an option if you want the mental image of Steven Seagal french kissing a pair of furries...

[@HarryDirtay]

Then he danced off into the desert with the wolves. You know, dancing with wolves!😂

[@rosalynredwood4542]

When I'm upset I come here to listen to them n read THIS comment idk why but it's so funny I manage to laugh every single time😂 the imagery is top notch 🤌✨

[@flatbunny]

"As the sound rode the air to his animal like ears." Well now I have to picture him as some kind of catboy. Or maybe a wolfboy.

[@MaterialMenteNo]

I pictured him as the only human who didn't mount some cyberpunk-style hearing aids in a world where heavy body modifications are normal and common.

[@patchso]

Aren’t all ears ‘animal like’?

[@Supahdave1000]

Definitely mantis-like.

[@hillside21]

5th Palace Publishing only did this one book, and according to Bizapedia, one SF Seagal is one of the contacts. I imagine "5th Palace" is a Tibetan Buddhist reference.

[@Sammyandbobsdad]

Steven Seagal film titles: Out for Lunch On the Can Driving for Uber Slipped on Ice On Parole

[@makeitthrough_]

Alex Jones and Kurt Angle are the only two I could see being naturally immune to being choked out lol. Necks like Chun-Li's thighs

[@ghintz2156]

Henry Rollins as well

[@TentacleBeast]

Curt Angle had his neck broken in an Olympic wrestling match... he went on to place with a medal in that event... I'm sad for trashtalking hi. So much as a professional wrestler.

[@dsnodgrass4843]

There are several sumo wrestlers similar. Takarafuji and Tsurugisho come to mind.

[@bre4kd0wn1]

And Yoel Romero, a former UFC fighter and now Bellator Light Heavyweight fighter.

[@ohbluescouser6267]

Glad you shared the gene lebelle story about him choking out seagal, causing him to shit himself. One of the instances where karma catches up with an asshole

[@steverogers7601]

It’s one of the great stories of bullshido being exposed. Gene Lebelle was an actual judoka, so anyone who messed with that dude would have had a bad time.

[@mwc1707]

Power of some people and most snakes? Is Seagal trying to make himself Native Harry Potter? Is the villain a man with no nose? Things I want to know without ever reading his book.

[@Caldwing]

The fact that, in the punani song, he is also pretending to be Jamaican, is a fat layer of extra cringe.

[@Supahdave1000]

"Fat layer of extra cringe" would have been an excellent title for his book.

[@Caldwing]

@@Supahdave1000 ahaha perfect indeed

[@farkasmactavish]

Homeboy will really bend over backwards to pretend he's anything other than an extremely normal white boy.

[@kinyutaka]

Wait, "everything in this book could happen", but Johnboy here has magic powers to control snakes?

[@mrcritical6751]

What? You don’t?

[@sholem_bond]

Hanging out with dictators and having allegations of human trafficking, makes Steven Seagal sound like the villain from a 90s cheesy action b-movie that Steven Seagal might star in.

[@natebetts9426]

Nice! Been binging all of these, lately.

[@anthonyedmonds6043]

He and Ben write like I did in 5th grade where I thought commas told you when to breath and slow down reading for dramatic effect.

[@sholem_bond]

I feel like at least one English teacher (or maybe even elementary school-level general teacher) did once teach us that commas represent pauses (I think it was in the early grades and they were probably trying to teach us to read and read aloud). Bingus Shapiro clearly also heard someone say this one time, and has accepted it unquestioningly ever since.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

thats how they should be used! so annoying that they don't.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

​@@sholem_bond yes! I think it only applies to dialogs?

[@farkasmactavish]

57:07 In the words of James Tullos, Steven Seagal is 1/4 Cherokee, in that he weighs 1/4 of a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

[@ffordesoon]

“wait, he was already dancing into the darkness, though.” “yeah, he keeps doing it.” lost my mind there.

[@MediaMunkee]

_He remembered being told that he had the spirit of the snake in his bloodline, and that gave him power over some people and many snakes._ I can't. This is where I lost it. Seagal's book is unironically Half-Life: Full-Life Consequences tier fiction, if it were written by a bigoted paranoid schizophrenic.

[@patchso]

We need a footnote detailing which snakes.

[@VildhjartaFanGurl]

Peace and love

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

Sophie must be protected at all costs.

[@Iwuznothere]

After buying himself a reincarnation and lamahood, an aging Seagal has abandoned being a Whispery Count Dante to now appropriate whatever spiritual ancestral super power he can. Lord help us if he finds out about something like the Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit and suddenly claims he's also part Indigenous Australian that can Death Punch people through Dreamtime.

[@ZeldaQueen64]

How does a wolf even kiss someone? They don't have lips. I know people sometimes refer to dogs licking as "kisses", but I feel like that's not what he had in mind...

[@marocat4749]

He probably means licking, i dont want to think about zoophile seagal 😢 or furry seagal if that wolf was humanoid.

[@memph1ston]

0:17 how dare you, JCVD is priceless

[@lukemccann8930]

I actually prefer the idea that they are specific people and snakes he has power over. Like 5 people and 800 snakes, which sounds like a lot but only those specific ones and he hasn't found them

[@patchso]

That’s really not many snakes in the grand scheme of things. I’d say you and I have control over about seventeen snakes.

[@Tha_Pencil]

Guest was amazing id love for them to be featured again

[@kennethmoore7770]

Seagal at his best always looked like he was fighting guys who were letting him win

[@johnkneeshaw8008]

"...his animal-like ears..." Ben Seagal, confirmed furry. "...and then a wolf kisses him..." Jesus, Steven Shapiro! Keep it in your pants!

[@sholem_bond]

All of his bullshit happened because Seagal lived his whole life without ever knowing that just being a furry was an option.

[@TheWinterscoming]

I would love to see an episode on the Panama Papers

[@matthewmaceda5042]

@22:10 fun fact in AZ now you can concealed carry almost anywhere with no permit "fun" times

[@jenniferbrewer5370]

Not a place I'd want to be a cop, ngl.

[@M_M_ODonnell]

@@jenniferbrewer5370 Or anyone a cop might want to "I thought they had a gun."

[@robertbensch7748]

I just HAD to look up that cover image. This is the same quality as that "graphic design is my passion" thing with the cat and comic sans typeface.

[@MrGksarathy]

Honestly, the way racists think pork works in Islam is kind of how impure foods work in Hinduism. As someone from a high caste vegetarian family, my more orthodox relatives go out of their way to prepare food in areas where no meat has touched, and they themselves also need to be ritually clean before cooking. Or st least, that was the tradition.

[@Strykenine]

There is a scene in Star Trek The Next Generation where Q shows up to molest the crew (I refuse to use any other word and he gives everyone a hard time until he comes to Worf, then he says something like 'Microbrain! Eat any good books lately?' So Worf kills Q, and the series is over. I don't know why, but that was what popped into my mind when I read the title of this book. I'd like to think that Worf killed Q because he accidentally read this book. Anyway, back to my timeline!

[@bkd69ster]

"Kissed by Wolves" sounds like a Steven Seagal ripoff of "Dances With Wolves"

[@embrikchloraker8186]

The whole thing about pigs blood isn't just offensive, it's really stupid. If it's against your will, it's not a sin. I doubt they'd be particularly happy about it (I mean, who would be about getting stabbed) but you're not willfully violating any commandments.

[@farkasmactavish]

45:48 No, it's pretty common when you're writing your book on a digital medium. Otherwise it goes chapter 1, chapter 10, chapter 11...chapter 19, chapter 2, chapter 20 on your file list.

[@patchso]

Sea Gull has such oriental and Native American roots that he is only truly at home slap bang in the middle of the Bearing Strait. As far ‘east’ and as far ‘west’ as it’s possible to be.

[@alisaurus4224]

It’s the Bering Strait, but i assume you changed it because Seagal is A Bear Of A Man

[@Chasmodius]

2:35 you wouldn't say that the "best person" among male 90s action film stars is maybe Keanu Reeves? By all accounts, he seems a pretty stand-up guy, and I hope beyond hope that's true.

[@DichotomousRex]

Keanu wasn't an action star like these guys until the 2000s. In the 1990s these other actors had already been in dozens of action films.

[@Chasmodius]

@@DichotomousRex _Speed_ was one of the biggest action films of the 90s, though. And people love _Point Break_ . Admittedly, _Johnny Mnemonic_ and _Chain Reaction_ were less action-oriented sci-fi films, but you can't get bigger or more action-y than _The Matrix_ capping off the decade. I'm not saying you're wrong: he only had a few action films in the 90s, and none in the 80s, where Stallone, Schwarzenegger, et al each had dozens throughout the 80s and 90s. But I would still call him an action movie star in the 90s.

[@marocat4749]

Arnold schwarzenegger? He is fine, but keanau would be if he were. Is jackie chan, he seems ok other being a ccp shill. Ok big minus Samuel jackson,dolph lindgren? Jet lee sounds fine. Dunno who is 90s thou. Is sylvester stallone that awful? And is bruce willis bad?!

[@tHiNk413]

I think he is like the pioneer of a revolution in action films that happened early 2000s. He started in the 90ies and was a convincing hero minus the hunking muscles but also not the low-down McClane type. So he is a 90ies action star, but isn't? Kinda?

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

​@@Chasmodius i think its because those were good movies and not vehicles for reeves as an action star

[@emh.1178]

A man who could be mistaken for a saguaro... i can only assume he is 15 ft tall and has 7 arms and has no neck

[@sholem_bond]

Also can't touch him or he'll sting you with spikes

[@TheBonkleFox]

​@@sholem_bondThat ain't a man at this point that's a Final Fantasy Cactuar

[@TheWinterscoming]

50:20 "Inate magic natives" I think Steven Segal just honestly believes he lives in a movie, like a 13yo boy. Unlike a 13yo he has the money to keep himself living in the delusion.

[@stuartsmith4369]

Has anyone actually read this book? This is not the first time I have heard people try, and nobody has ever finished.

[@MrJohndoakes]

The term "camera device" and all the over-explanations are right out of the L. Ron Hubbard style guide, but the awful grammar is pure Steven Seagal.

[@Bryan-qz4np]

Shout out to "Judo" Gene Lebell, the man who made Seagal shit his pants.

[@Hudson316]

Michael Ironside would be very offended by that confusion in the opening

[@DeliveryMcGee]

I'm pretty sure that's a tanker holster on the cover -- tank crews have to have individual self-defense weapons in case the tank gets knocked out, and it goes in that position in the middle of the chest so it's out of the way and doesn't get hung up getting in/out of the hatch. You can adjust the straps to make it a better/more conventional underarm rig when dismounted. Tangent: Sometimes the tank crews get carbines/SMGs in addition to/instead of the pistol. WWII Sherman tanks had clips in the turret walls for Thompson guns or M1 carbines. Former tank commander @TheChieftainsHatch kept his M4 carbine on the roof of the turret in Iraq, because the only use cases would be shooting at something not worthy of even the .50 machine gun, or bailing out, grab it on the way rather than trying to drag it through the hatch

[@duncansouthern2255]

Ive listened up to chapter 18 btw...

[@TWb-bu9tl]

Steven Seagal is before my time, but I can't help but think of that "Rex-Kwondo" guy from Napoleon Dynamite.

[@TheWinterscoming]

56:51 holy hell, I think he genuinely believes non white people are magic...

[@guiltygearalonecompl]

I honestly thought they’d get Sean for this one. Not complaining though

[@thomasgiles2876]

3:50 Whats that fancy word for a grilled sandwich?

[@germ1770]

Hard Target? Soft Walmart.

[@roentgen571]

From what I understand, Seagal is a legit high-level aikido practitioner/instructor through the Aikikai, the main/most mainstream style or school of aikido. He's a 7th degree black belt, which is extremely high and very well-respected. I can remember threads about him on the old Aikido-L mailing list, and everyone who'd been to one of his clinics had nothing but praise for his technique. Yes, aikido demonstrations often look like the partner is willingly being thrown...because he is. The thing is, the techniques use wristlocks and the like in which the other guy has to go with the throw or get torqued really badly. This sort of practice is a matter of controversy in martial arts, but it's not like Seagal is paying guys to come be his fall guys in demonstrations. That's just what aikido looks like--you'll see the same thing if you look in your yellow pages and drop in to watch an aikido class at a local school. None of this is really meant to defend Seagal--I think the guy's a scumbag predator with some crazy delusions he insists on projecting out to the rest of the world, no matter how ridiculous they obviously are. Just trying to add a bit of insight that I might have, as little as it might be. He's legit in some ways, and a freaking fantasy gone crazy in many others.

[@wesleywyndam-pryce5305]

you're probably right. but its a fake martial art. also listen to the other episode, he absolutely did hire people to be his fall guys and pretended it was real.

[@hmnhntr]

Maybe back when he was in decent shape. But now? I highly doubt he has those skills, even if he once did

[@RJKilroy]

There are more triple parentheses in that preface than a math major’s final project

[@robertbrown380]

Every time you pronounce the G in saguaro, a part of me dies.

[@BigSmiley0TV]

Btw Spaceice on KZbin does reviews of action movies, in a comedic way, and nearly 50 percent of the reviews are dedicated to tearing into segal

[@piedpiper1172]

On drinking on airplanes: There are many things to be upset about, but this will always be a personal source of rage for me. During a global plague the fascist fan club got so worked up over being asked to wear one extra trace of cloth that they routinely caused so many violent disruptions that airlines and airports stoped serving alcohol. While screaming about freedom, they took a basic freedom from us. The facts over feelings people took my fundamental right to mock the sky gods while drunk in a giant metal tube. Which is absurd on so many levels. If you’re this upset about the masks… JUST BUY A DRINK AND FEEL BETTER OMG. The exact privilege they ended up taking from everyone could have been the cure if they had a single ounce of self control.

[@bethanychatman9531]

The thing is, you wouldn't want those assholes drunk or drinking. They're already entitled to know end.

[@piedpiper1172]

@@bethanychatman9531 That’s my point about self control, I think I failed to express it. For a normal adult with just a bit of self control, a few drinks can help you chill out and go with the flow (in this case, not verbally or violently assaulting the poor flight attendants who are just trying to make a living). But, for these self-centered pricks, they get wasted and use it to fuel behaving even more selfishly than usual. In the process, while ranting about MUH FREEDOM they take privileges from all of us. And I will never forgive that. It is my fuckin right to buy a beer at the gate at the exact moment that state allows legal purchase of alcohol and to giggle about sky gods while doing shots tens of thousands of feet in the air. Anyone who takes that from me is my foe!

[@matthewmaceda5042]

My brother in Jane that intro sorry had to just listened to that episode

[@KwantumFizzix]

As a Stephen: Unbelievable.

[@Carlos-Mora]

One fact that makes Seagal movie titles make a lot more sense, is that they're all designed around following the phrase "Steven Seagal IS...". Seriously, give it a try

[@JesseMaurais]

Never be surprised when people who sincerely believe pure nonsense also cannot write or speak properly. Some people feel its an affront to their American freedom to be constrained by decent grammar or basic logic.

[@jthompson7175]

Wait, was this novel shadow written by Lyndon LaRouche's ghost?

[@filipb.2631]

God damn, I wanted to listen to it, but those two girls chirping every five seconds made it impossible. I believe the topic is relevant, keep up😊

[@FilthyKingsRock]

All that "What if" stuff reminded me a bit of that flat earth book 😮

[@SW-cb7ut]

1:06:00

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

How many baby elephants do you have to kill to get an award from Peta? You'd probably have to kill more than they have, so I'm guessing it's quite a significant number.

[@gregmark1688]

You left out an important source of their expertise, to wit, their degrees from Prager University.

[@Bombsuprise]

My apologies on behalf of all Stevens.

[@Altimaden]

Shadow wolves = 40k grey knights

[@vfxninja5503]

i love how steven seagull just loves to imagine himself torturing people to death like he very clearly gets off on the idea of having power over other people, whether it be fantasies about killing them horribly and damning them to hell or the many women he's raped in real life

[@MrBonified66]

Morrissey the singer's first name is Steven so he could be up there.

[@firefox5926]

1:14:54 well there you go thats it isnt it .. the reall power behind the throne of this book was big comma ... probably in league with grammerly ... :P

[@piedpiper1172]

Honestly, I’d feel much better knowing grammerly is behind the deep state. It’s a great but not perfect product. It’s one of the only annual services I pay for and I do so because it genuinely delivers on its promise. If only everything we bought could claim the same. I’m sure they’ll get bought by some larger corporation group and undergo enshitification in a year or two.

[@kinyutaka]

If you had two women pressed against your junk, is that a poonini? Sorry, I'm terrible.

[@joshv.1490]

Did sea gull steal his character's name from a Springsteen and later RATM song (The Ghost of Tom Joad)?

[@williammoriarity7411]

Was the hundred year old book about goat ball transplants? The world needs to know.

[@duncansouthern2255]

Im reading your book Robert. No offence to your narrative but i preferer my own mind to decide what your words say, if you know what i mean? Bloody great story though!! Good job Sir!

[@KitaBFawkes]

Are you talking about practicing Death of the Author? We heavily caution against a Death of the Author interpretation of anything. You can't psychoanalyse an author through their work, but you most assuredly can gather a deeper contextual understanding of a work by learning about its author. In our opinion, Death of the Author *detracts* from media literacy, and there is some evidence that fiction or non-fiction, we engage with narratives the same way, because we engage in a suspension of disbelief for the purpose of consuming fictional narratives. As a result, training yourself to practice Death of the Author harms your ability to critically analyse historical narratives through the lens of who is telling them. If this was a joke, we're sorry to whoosh ourselves, we just have a bone to pick with Death of the Author.

[@duncansouthern2255]

Erm ok dude. Was just saying i like the book man. You might have read too much into my comment. Anyhoo.. @@KitaBFawkes

[@MrDevival]

@@KitaBFawkes i think they're just saying they're not listening to the audio version, 'narration' instead of 'narrative'

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

@@KitaBFawkes Who's "we"? The new critic school of post structural analysis is one lens, a single framework through which to consider a piece of media. It in no way detracts from media literacy if applied appropriately. It offers one method through which to detatch authorial intent from individual interpretation of a piece of work, but it's actually much deeper than that as it was also largely concerned with the very concept of a singular "author" in new media. For instance cinema, where there is no "author", it's a collaborative effort of script writer, director, actor, set dressers, costumers, cinematographers, camera operators - there is no "author" in the new media, the collaboration of all of those efforts deeply challenges traditional conceptions of 'the author'. More broadly, it challenges older cinema critiques that dependeded on "auteur theory" - that seeing each directors film as part of a larger body of work that should be judged as one continuous entity with each previous film contributing to the next, rather than examining each film in and of it's self and on it's own merit. It's not supposed to be taken literally, that you discard all authorial intent and focus entirely on subjective interpretation... "Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile." - Roland Barthes, Death of the Author (1967)

[@KitaBFawkes]

@@MrDevival If that is the case, then we imagine our comment would come off as being out of left field. Regardless, we'll take any opportunity to say Death to Death of the Author.

[@Barbayat79]

Wow mistaking Lance Henrikson for Steven Seagal, that is probably the worst thing ever to happen to the poor guy. ;)

[@mintman325]

I am now a different person after seeing the cover of The Way of the Shadow Wolves also a big HUGE FUCK YOU for taking that edgy ass title away from some poor d list author or fan fiction writer who could have done amazing things with it.

[@Sadiqi]

The disrespect of Hinduism and Jamacian patios in terms of punani is terrible .

[@banjohero1182]

"camera device"

[@izwe794]

18:19 good anarchists rip and upload first

[@maggiedacatt]

This book is an ad for copy editing.

[@gailcbull]

From the Bio: "He loves to tell a good story..." We would have loved it if you'd told a good story too but instead, you wrote this crap.

[@firefox5926]

56:55 lsd .. its ahell of a drug lol

[@raymarshall4809]

😂this is painful. He needs to disappear into darkness forever never to be remembered again. Along with their weird stories.

[@Caldwing]

He for sure needs to be cast into the void. I don't want him to be forgotten though. I am hoping people are still laughing at him decades after he finally shits himself to death.

[@xXBarbDwireXx]

45:30 I'm too goth for this shit because every time they mentioned Tom Morrissey, I was just assuming they goth Morrissey's name wrong and he sucked way harder than I thought

[@Lorventus]

This is deeply painful to listen to

[@Wickpheme]

existence is pain

[@maggiedacatt]

Oof, Keanu Reeves is obviously the best of them.

[@rothloaf1980]

14:25 in and it's all punani.

[@DemocratLibertarian]

Ghost in the shell is deep and complicated. The scarlett Johansson movie was a Hollywood job. In short, her body is artificial. The fact the manufactured body is white is part of the commentary the show and other movies made about internalized racism. It's in the title: what is the ghost in the shell? What is the nature of the soul regardless if the shell is flesh and blood or plastic and metal.

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

Steven Seagal actually has the 7th Dan in Aikido a japanese martial art. I know this because my old aikido trainer told us that hollywood celebrity Steven Seagal is an Aikido master. I don't think there is a single thing that has more damage to the perception to Aikido than this guy to the point where apparently people like Robert think he doesn't even do a real martial art.

[@cliveadams7629]

Aikido is not considered a real martial art by anyone except Aikido practitioners.

[@sholem_bond]

Aikido L

[@HyenaDandy]

Robert, I will tell you how you wear a shoulder holster that badly. You get confused and think that shoulder holsters are just suspenders with a pouch on them.