What Comes After Hollywood? w/ Nerdrotic
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hollywood is dying, but what comes next? Gary “Nerdrotic” joins me to unpack the rot and his wild journey from battling addiction and prison to fatherhood and YouTube with 1M+ subs, and why pop culture is still worth fighting for.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:37 Nerdrotic’s New Book
00:05:38 How Gary Went From Prison to YouTube
00:19:49 Going to Prison For the First Time
00:24:22 Getting Out and Going Back to Prison
00:29:28 Prison vs Hollywood Myths
00:34:00 Starting Over
00:42:48 Relapse and the Addictive Mindset
00:43:22 Politics and Government
00:49:43 How Gary Recovered
00:53:05 Fathers, Masculinity, and Cultural Guardrails
00:58:09 Nerdrotic’s Critique of Pop Culture
01:05:53 Outro + Where to Find Gary
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to making the argument. |
| 0:02.9 | All right, guys, this is where you get to see me, me fanboy, over a guest that we've had on before. |
| 0:10.1 | And the way I met this guy, the way I met this, this lovable, hostile, well, self-described nerd was I was going through and I was just so frustrated with |
| 0:24.0 | all of the, like just the woke kind of just crap coming out of Hollywood. And it wasn't just |
| 0:30.1 | the politics, right? It was the bad writing and it was the destruction of our heroes. And I'm |
| 0:35.6 | sitting there and I'm trying to figure out like everything I don't like about this. |
| 0:39.1 | And then I come across this YouTube channel called NerdRotic. |
| 0:42.8 | And I watch this guy do reviews. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm like, yes, yes. |
| 0:46.7 | That guy is explaining everything that I am so frustrated about because it wasn't just a bad movie. You actually |
| 0:56.6 | sense that there was something just subversive, subversive going on. Like, dare I say, evil |
| 1:04.5 | and some of these things. And all of a sudden, this guy, Gary, is just explaining all of it |
| 1:10.4 | beautifully to the point where now, I can't tell you that the last time I went and saw movie in the theaters was John Wick 4. |
| 1:18.3 | Right. |
| 1:18.9 | And I wasn't going because I was going for like a really powerful dialogue. |
| 1:22.1 | No. |
| 1:22.6 | I wasn't going for great story. |
| 1:24.0 | But I spend a ton of time, not a barely, barely a couple of days goes by that I don't |
| 1:29.7 | watch nerd-rotic. And Gary, it is a pleasure to have you once again on the show to talk, |
| 1:36.2 | but a number of things, but you've got a book coming out. Well, thanks for having me on, Nick. |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah. And yes, I have a book coming out a little bit later this year. It's in pre-sale, which is very unusual for most books, but, uh, I have a lot of friends. I have, uh, Eric July, a good friend, but I have a lot of friends who create comic books independently and they do the crowdfunding thing. And we thought it would be a good idea to maybe do a |
| 2:00.8 | pre-sale. So that's what we're in right now. And it's a little different because it's not a |
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