This is a headgum podcast.

Want to watch this episode?

Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media.

Nature is threatened by a lot of different things simultaneously.

At the center of the Venn diagram, that connects

all of those things, is animal agriculture. This was director James Cameron, explaining to

CNN's Fareed Zakaria the environmentalist motivation for his vegan diet. After his 1997, horny

boat pick Titanic saw overwhelming boat box office and award season's success,

defying skeptics who warned of a boondoggle that would be the cinematic equivalent of the ship itself,

Cameron took a lengthy hiatus from narrative film to focus on oceanic exploration via submersible

and captaining visually stirring documentaries about the deep.

Joining the non-c culinary subclub is in part why the director, who somehow occupies both

the roles of Auteur and Crowd Pleaser, was inspired to make his next film a full 12 years

after Leonardo DiCaprio painted Kate Winslet like one of his French girls, 2009's Avatar.

Again, overcoming expectations that J.C. was about to fumble up an expensive disaster,

the horny blue sci-fi eco-terrorism epic would again see Cameron acquire the global

box office crown and multiple Oscar nominations.

It would be another 13 years before theater goers were introduced to Jake

Sully and Natiri's growing family, along with Pia Khan, the noble Tolcun, via the 2022 sequel

Avatar, The Way of Water. All told, James Cameron films, including 2025's Avatar, Fire and

Ash, occupy three of the top five and four of the top 20 slots for all-time

box office. And while a new strain of global fascism driven by late capitalist avarice, undoes

...