Timcast IRL #235 - DC Rewrites Hero To Gain Super Powers From BLM Protest w/ Ryan Long
Timcast IRL
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🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia invite comedian Ryan Long to discuss DC's ridiculous rewriting of a hero to win woke points, the new law in Virginia preventing police from pulling people over for minor offenses, Amazon's choice to change a logo that strange internet people said resembled Hitler, and Bill Burr's defense of Gina Carano.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, if you listen to this show, you've heard me talk about one of my favorite superheroes, |
| 0:05.0 | especially growing up watching the old WB, and that's Static Shock. You don't want to know why I like |
| 0:10.8 | Static Shock as a character because it really did tackle social justice issues, but it was like legit, |
| 0:15.7 | old school good liberalism about hey, be kind to your neighbors, respect people, |
| 0:20.2 | you know, live and let live and all that stuff. And I really liked the story. It was the WB version. |
| 0:24.8 | It wasn't the same as the comic book version. For those that aren't familiar, it's basically some |
| 0:27.9 | kid who gets bullied into joining a gang. He didn't want to join. He gets forced down to these |
| 0:32.7 | docs with a gang war and then long story short. There's a chemical explosion and all these gang |
| 0:37.4 | bangers get super powers and they're all basically villains, but he was this kid who didn't want to |
| 0:41.2 | be there and was mixed up. He becomes a superhero. Well, in the latest rewrite for the series, |
| 0:46.8 | it's now the most absurd storyline ever. He's attending a Black Lives Matter protest and the police |
| 0:51.9 | fire tear gas at the crowd for like no reason. And the tear gas just instantly gives everybody super |
| 0:57.2 | powers. Welcome to the era of social justice and comic books. And I'm sorry, you know, like, |
| 1:02.4 | maybe we should have opened with some like very serious political commentary. But this, |
| 1:06.8 | this is this is personal because I've talked about how much I really like static shock. So we |
| 1:11.0 | we were we were talking about this one. I'm gonna get all triggered. But we got a bunch of other |
| 1:15.5 | really ridiculous stories. We got, what was it? Amazon claimed that their logo looked too much like |
| 1:21.3 | Hitler. Yeah. And so they had to change it. And it was literally a cardboard box. Again, |
| 1:26.9 | welcome to the social justice era of 2020. And apparently now bill burr is getting slammed because |
| 1:33.1 | he called Gina Crono nice. They're claiming like it was this big defense of Gina, |
| 1:36.8 | Carano. It's like, okay, these people are so desperate for some kind of weird angle and all |
| 1:40.8 | the stuff. We're going to get into it. And I figured that the cultural commentary stuff is probably |
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