Barbie, plastic capitalism, and Ben Shapiro’s little comments 💖
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I love Tanner's Ben Shapiro impersonation. 😂 Also, I agree with y'all. Is Barbie capitalist and an ad for Barbie dolls? Yes. Is it also a commentary on how patriarchy hurts everyone? Yes. It can be both.
The illusive, both and phenomenon. Thinking doesn't have to be black and white 😮😂❤
So Ben Shapiro is mad that the Barbie movie wasn't made for him as their target audience. 😅
Not only that, but he is willingly misinterpreting who the target audience is, to try and find a reason to call it a bad movie.
@@InakiArzalluzAgree 💯He deliberately misinterpreted a lot of things. It was so irritating to listen to; you could hear the force of effort he was putting into misrepresenting EVERYTHING 🙄
I watched his whole bit. It seemed his main complaint was that it was poorly written. I haven't seen it yet, so I can neither confirm nor deny how well written it in fact of matter is. I can confirm that my adult daughter loved it. I can also confirm that it isn't the kind of movie that has to really work out all of the kinks of motivations and so on to be hella fun. FFS, it's about a plastic doll! I can further confirm that it has only started to make the money it will make, but has already exceeded everything Ben has ever had a hand in writing, so it really comes off as sour grapes.
Meanwhile, my transphobic TBM son likes it, because he thinks it is a sneak attack on feminism. After all, at the end (he tells me), [spoiler alert] she knows she is a real girl when she obtains genuine female anatomy that she did not previously have. To him, this makes the movie anti-trans. I'm guessing he doesn't remember the time he put messed up his sister's toys by putting a Ken's head on a Barbie body....
1:39 My TBM mom told me the other day that sometimes she feels like the rules of mormonism were just pulled out of a hat and it took everything in me not to burst out laughing 😂 have I got news for you mom!
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I love the outfits! I went and watched barbie by myself, took myself on a little date. Best decision i’ve ever made. Going with anyone in my circle would’ve made me feel judgement for crying during that movie and it was honestly a very healing movie for my inner child. 10/10 would recommend and will be buying when it comes out
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The magicians at r/magic and r/exmormonmagic have been waiting for you to do a magic podcast for a while.
I saw the movie with my best friend the second weekend it was out. It was cheeky fun… and we’re both 52.
I am not a huge fan of Barbie but there are some really good lessons to be learned in the Barbie movie. Which i found quite surprising. After watching it i kind of felt like this sense of peace wash over me. An acceptance of who i am and who i may become.
I felt that too! Very cathartic.
“I want an action hero who’s super power is diplomacy!” This is why I like you two and love Star Trek next gen. That describes Picard so well 😂
Superhero who’s power is diplomacy… most of Doctor Who…and She-Hulk.
I'm allowing myself to believe that ring magically moved through the string. Because I think its fun and joyful.
My mom and I went to a grocery store right after seeing Barbie, and somehow everyone in the grocery store looked beautiful.
Awwww
Actually, part of my religious trauma is wrapped up in magic shows as my father did frequent “Gospel Illusion” shows for our church 😅
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Oh my!! 😮
My friend's dad did those for our church too... mostly for Sunday School. He would put on a magic show and use it to preach the gospel. Things like turning water red, then turning it back clear to demonstrate sin and then grace, etc.
The fact that there are two of you in the comments is crazy. As a kid who loved magic tricks and the circus and did circus stuff, magic feels diametrically opposed to Christian fundamentalism, given all of the queer and disability history
Oh god…
My dad loved this movie so much that he said I absolutely had to see it and we went to a showing the next day 😂 I thought it was super fun, and a great introduction to basic feminist concepts. Would definitely watch again!
See oppenheimer if you can. I too want to stay away from war and politics, but the personalities and human stories are amazing. Growing up during the cold war myself, it filled in the gaps historically. According to my brother who is very educated in the science and the history, the movie is amazingly accurate. Can't wait to see Barbie with my friends. As always, i love you guys! Your humor, your perspective! 😊
Best magic trick ever, Tanner is the next Amazing Randy or Houdini.
I love how long the cat hung out for this chat. ❤
How are we not talking about the Will Ferrell exec scene that’s straight from Mormonism?? 😅
I’m now intrigued to see a movie I never otherwise would watch.
Just saw Barbie last night with my son - so fun! We loved it and it gave us a lot to talk and think about after.
Also so true about Bridget Jones! I loved the book and when the movie came out I was disgusted with the way they focused on her being “fat.” It’s pretty clear in the book that she’s not actually overweight (she lists her weight daily and it fluctuates between 125 and 135 lbs) so with that context you get that she borderline has an eating disorder.
Didn’t expect to see the VerilyBitchie shout out! Her videos are fantastic, although I do agree with Sam here that she went harder on Barbie than the movie deserved
tbh I would listen to just a podcast of you guys talking about anything! always great conversations :)
I seem to always be right on your wavelength, Sam! I LOVED America Fererra's monolgue about womanhood, and I absolutely cried 🥲. It was so validating 👍
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I normally just listen to the videos. I am glad I watched this time because kitty.
tanner is gorgeous always but I gotta say
kencore tanner is a winning combo
I just support the exploited workers organizing and the only products I stopped consuming was R Kelly songs because i felt like I was funding a child sexual exploitation ring and organization.
Haha, there already exists the word monasticism, but i definitely prefer the new word "monkiness" or "monkeyness"!
finland has had a female president too
Yes, they are much more progressive!
Treat time for Banksy!!!!
Really fun commentary! Love you guys.
I haven’t made it to see the Barbie movie so I’m not watching this until after to avoid spoilers! Can’t wait to hear what y’all have to say
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(I swear Banksy's not the only reason I watch the channel)
I watched Oppenheimer and Barbie on consecutive days. I thought Barbie had some nice messages and commentary to offer, plus it was super well made. Loved hearing your opinions and thoughts on it!
TY for your sturdiness to the aesthetic Sam :)
Guys I’ve been watching for a couple years now and I just wanna say you really are such a light in my life
I loved the Barbie movie and I loved this video! I'm definitely introducing both of my mormon grandmas to your channel 🤣
A HUGE thumb's up for the magic trick! 😅
This just in, Tanner the Magician stans the Prime Directive! Can't say i agree, but i respect your opinion on it. If I were a powerful spacefaring alien, I would reach out to start communicating with a planet wherever it would be possible to engage in a relationship of reciprocity. We have to be able to respect each other enough to recognize that we all have stories and gifts to share, even if one party has more tech.
Man I was so sad I didn’t have a group to dress up with and catch the premiere together! But my fiancée and I took our nine month old baby who only cried once, so even he must’ve loved it haha
Awwww 💖
Throwing the ring on the string was pretty cool and mysterious! Maybe not packaged in the most effective way, but I appreciated it!
When I was a girl my Barbie's were cowgirls. I had plastic horses and we had a ranch. Lol
When my daughter and I were playing Barbie s my sons brought in their GI Joe's. We had the babies and Ken's dancing and singing. Having so much fun. When the GI Joe's came in, well let's just say? They through out the Ken's, took the women. It was a bar room brawl. My little girl was crying, the boys were ruling. I still shake my head.
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Even as a swiftie, there are no ethical billionaires. She can't be the first one to get there on merit alone because we like her music. She's a great artist, but still rich. Great video though!
Turns out she’s in the 700s still lol
@@ZelphOntheShelfI stand corrected!
A superhero whose real power is diplomacy and understanding people's wants and needs? Tanner is describing Miraculous Ladybug
I will be seeing Barbie tomorrow! I’m so excited! I will also see Oppenheimer because I love Christopher Nolan movies and I don’t think he has ever disappointed me. I also heard that it was actually a very accurate movie.
Ok fine you’ve convinced me!!!
@@ZelphOntheShelf 😂 “Excellent” ( I said that like Mr. Burns in case you were wondering).
It's true that it was whimsical, fun and sincerely made... maybe some people who were raised by very conservative parents were not encouraged to be whimsical when they were children (even punished for being whimsical), so when they see something whimsical, it makes them feel uncomfortable and hostile towards it!!
TOTALLY. I think about this all the time-how so many boomers, especially men, had zero permission to be whimsical and truly child-like even at a very young age.
I loved it, more magic always
So on y’all asking if anyone did see Oppenheimer, I did Barbieheimer it, and it was an intense experience, and heads-up, this is way more about Oppenheimer then it is Barbie. As an AFAB person, who is from an ethnic background of both a Jewish and Japanese (specifically Okinawa and Hiroshima), going from Barbie to Oppenheimer was very hard to process in all honesty. Like going from the existential identity crisis of that Billie Eilish song to a movie about people my family has very recent ancestral ties to being picked to be nuked was really overwhelming.
Like yeah, it didn’t feel like it was romanticizing the history necessarily, but it still felt like propaganda, the way it framed things felt very,”well we had to be the ones to make it, because otherwise Soviet Russia or the Germans were going to do it and do worse things with it.” The only plus I could see in the framing was that they did acknowledge that the war was already coming to an end without it anyway, and it was for sure not necessary beyond being a dick measuring contest to allegedly dissuade future atrocities from Russia, however it seemed to try and diminish his responsibility by making a point to say he was lied to and mislead about the role the bomb would have, and imply that he had no real say in how it was used (when it still showed him directly involved in meetings deciding where it would be used, and the fact that he 100% knew while making it that almost exclusively civilians would die) and showed him feeling bad about people dying, which while it is possible he was lied to, and didn’t have much choice, and felt guilt in the deaths by his creation, that doesn’t change that the damage was done. However I’m pretty big on impact over intent, in that it doesn’t matter if you didn’t mean to cause unnecessary harm, you still did.
And idk, I just really don’t feel like anyone who had a roll in the oppression and/or death of civilians deserves any sympathy.
It felt very much like trying to root for the people who had my grandpa in Manzanar vs the people who had my Jewish side in the other camps. I couldn’t not see just another type of cruelty and diminishment of other lives as acceptable collateral.
So basically, TLDR; my takeaway was humanity is responsible for so many atrocities, and honestly beyond that it felt as pointless and steeped in propaganda as the US dropping those bombs in the first place.
Also, edit: I didn’t realize how long this comment was, I just have a lot of thoughts and feelings, about this, oops 😅
Thank you so much for sharing them!!!! Couldn’t agree more
My takeaway from it was "think through your morals before you start an endeavor" cause 5 yrs later he regretted being involved and had he thought through potential ramifications he could've at the very least not contributed to the atrocities
I also appreciate that through every step you understand why he makes the decisions he does and you know he's making the wrong choice. It really emphasized to me that anyone can become a monster if we don't check ourselves and listen to other perspectives. Nobody is a villain in their own head and if you allow yourself to exist in an echo chamber it's easy to get to some messed up extremes.
I loved the magic trick! Here for more 👍
I was not aware how much Tanner's magic tricks were missing from my life. More magic content, please! Perhaps actually pull the book of mormon out of a hat?
Yayyy i’m glad you guys did a vid about this i just watched barbie last night 💕
When do we get the Tanner Magic Livestream Extravaganza?
Magician Barbie pulls a rabbit out of her hat.
Kid: Mommy, what's that?
Mommy: It's a ra...Oh! Um... It's an ear-cleaner.
Kid: ....? It looks too big....
Mommy: Let's go look at the Legos, m'kay?
Kid: Do they have pink ones?
Going with your gal... Because men shouldn't be interested in something so relevant to modern culture. What a fuck stick. I loved the monologue and the Kens' epiphany but felt there was fairly legitimate room for criticism. Generally about the things that could have been addressed and weren't but like y'all said, a single movie can't be everything.
34:07 I love Verily Bitchie! She's amazing.
I never watch biopics and I was skeptical even 30 minutes in that I would enjoy Oppenheimer-I was loving it but how could it be gripping for three whole hours? It was on level with Barbie for me, I really really loved it. Very nuanced, very interesting, doesn’t tell you what to think but leaves you to reflect on it
Perhaps I’m biased tho, Florence Pugh is in it and that’s usually enough for me to like a movie
Oppenheimer presented his reasoning/excuses for what he did but to me the film wasn’t saying he was correct or right, just handed it to us and said what do you think
So good to know!
Omg I didn’t know Florence was in it!
Well I Googled and I was right. Ben Shapiro is no one who deserves my attention.
If you want to see a campy biopic you need to watch Gina Gershon as Donatella Versace LOL
I'd watch you two do a Mukbang/ASMR video. The sounds of chewing and slurping into a microphone are indescribably relaxing.
But i do say that about the Weeknd all the time
I would just like to say I would be perfectly fine if you occasionally or regularly started videos with magic tricks
Crucial feedback
What is this betacon video? I can't find it
Okay. Sounds like I really don't want to know but who the heck is Ben Shapiro?
a dude who runs/is a presenter for an oil billionaire sponsored rightwing "news" company called the daily wire. (His sister Abby runs a tradwife youtube channel).
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I thoroughly dislike Taylor Swift because I find wealthy capitalists milking performative advocacy distasteful, disingenuous, self-focused and unproductive, personally.
Barbie was fantastic.
Is it performative if she raises an enormous amount of money for orgs like GLAAD? Or genuinely encourages people to vote against harmful conservatives? Maybe I’m missing some context to this comment so feel free to share more if inclined! 💜
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this is basic billionaire philanthropic activity(bill and mellida gates foundations has donated more money to people in the 3rd world,we r not saying bill gates is a good person we should support him,should not criticize the fu*k out of him, there no.s of yt videos where they explain how shady those philanthropic activities are and not to mention the existence of charity is the symptom of a broken System.)
This is even done by the multi millionaires too
Even labor billionaires like Jay z,rihanna,Kayne /ye(used to be a billionaire),labron James(including other 700 million plus artists like Taylor)
They don't have billion dollars by their name by just selling their work directly to their audiences ,they engage in corporate business which includes exploitation of the working class just like any other billionaire(non labor) does ,they have to buy and sell stocks which is parasitic in nature for the working class , they have put out other smaller artists by using their capital's leverage(stocks,bonds,media apparatus covering them which makes stay on the top)
Just consume their art(music,movies,etc),that is totally fine,moral judgement of personal consumption is pretty much useless movement(slacktivism) to engage in to.
But we also don't have to defend a billionaire or a multi-millionaire(even a labor billionaire or multi millionaire).
Taylor Swift is not a person ,Taylor is a brand
,But they want to sell that perspective to their audience (their consumers) that Taylor Swift is a person(seems like u r that person that they were targetting towards bc how u write this reply,even though u have the aesthetic of a leftist person,or atleast a progressive I guess)
Her brand/company can't talk about actual movements which will impact the status quo which will impact the bottom line of their funders (label,online and offline campaigning brands,events organisation, merchandise) which r backed up by the shareholder of different other corporations,and the funders don't want to upset their shareholders,boards members.
Just like any other brand which engages in liberal slacktivism,performative activism(in Taylor's case it's performative white feminism marketed as a liberating product for the majority white audience of hers(and few poc audience of hers) to feel like they doing activism while consuming Taylor's work,it's like Mr beast clean the ocean campaign he tried to do, normies were all for it
FIRST comment.
Tanner is beta? Never see that.
Also who is this Candace?
39:00 It's a PR thing ,you admitted yourself,
But u r saying it was a good thing for the people who are watching this movie in general?
It's gonna be negatively influential(greenwashing of Mattel,and normies will buy more of their products and the products associated with barbie from other brands would also be bought by the normies more) to the normies who watched this movie.
U r progressive but u r in the minority in the 1st world/imperial core nation u live in.
And Socialists r in the negligible no. In the 1st world.
u cant expect the normies to have a materialist(leftist sense) understanding of the world,they have a shallow understanding-they take bits and pieces in the form of ideas from different ideologies and what they see in their immediate environment and try to assemble their "structural" pov of the world and how it works.
Generally normies don't have much of a media literacy (libs have more than reactionaries,fascist plebs) to not fault of their own ,it's the system they live ,that is failing to provide them with class consciousness, materialist pov,critical thinking skill,media literacy.
I think it's an entertaining movie ,that's it
Seeing it that way would be productive
Also I think this movie was gender essentialist (binary) which is bad and holding back patriarchal structure,there is no gender abolition pov in that movie at all,
btw it was a fun movie experience (theatre experience).
I am a nb btw.
I am criticizing this movie slightly bc this movie is supposed to be about "gender" and "patriarchy".
Also i know that whenever a media is created by capitalists and that media can't be made which is a threat to the status quo(capitalism, patriarchy)
It will always be mild criticism of capitalism and their Consequences of patriarchal and heteronormative,gender essentialist dynamics in society in a global capitalistic system.