Hey everybody I'm Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I just watched a couple of clips from Weird Owls at UHF, which is possibly the greatest film in the history of films.

You have not seen that movie before you are missing out and you should probably go watch it.

It is maybe the movie I've watched more than any other movie in my whole life, but there is a scene in there where the bad guy of the story,

R.J. Fletcher, he's the owner of the big important TV station, the network affiliate in town.

R.J Fletcher is in this scene. TV Station, the network affiliate in town.

R.J Fletcher is in this scene informed that Weird Al and his TV station, a UHF channel,

U62, he's been informed that the UHF channel is cutting into his

ratings is cutting into his market share and he flips out on all of his middle

management and points to a painting of his father who started the important TV station on the wall and he says

this is an embarrassment a disgrace what do you think R.J Fletcher senior would be

saying if you were alive today and then one of the middle management people is like

help let me out of this box, I can't

breathe in here, help let me out.

Which is not that funny, but it totally works on me, probably because I saw this when I was

10 and that was funny back then. But there is a point my friends. There's always a point, I promise. The point is that

R.J Fletcher is invoking the old thing where you point to somebody who is now dead and gone who figured something out and

who had some standards and then you point to what's going on right now and you're

like, hey, what do you think they would say if they were here today?

Donald Reagan's rolling over in his grave right now.

Well, our forefathers would be, you know, the trick, and sometimes it's invoked,

maybe accurately, probably usually it's invoked in a way that's pretty nonsensical

as a rhetorical flourish and the weakness obviously of this rhetorical technique is

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