Carol ReMarks
From Football Frenzy to Social Media Censorship: A Post-COVID Catch-Up
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Hello and good morning, happy Sunday.
Speaker 2:Good morning, one and all to a beautiful day.
Speaker 1:Beautiful day, beautiful day, and we slept in so hard. Woke up at 7.30.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I'm feeling better too. Just for those of you who really, you know, care. I'm feeling a little bit better today, so that's a good thing.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:Glad to hear it. For those of you who don't know, I'm recovering from the vid the vid covid rona got rona the 19 whatever yeah oh so that's not no, you're not silly, but just for more info on that go back to yesterday's episode. But yeah, feeling much better and also yesterday was was kind of the sort of start of football season. Yay, yay Go team.
Speaker 1:Yay.
Speaker 2:There was one big game yesterday Georgia Tech and Florida State. And Florida State was going to ride their wave of undefeated last year and, by God, proved everybody just who they were and they did. They lost to Georgia Tech yesterday. God bless them. So that means that they lost to Georgia 65-3 and to Georgia Tech 24-21. So they don't like the state of Georgia, I don't think? Oh well.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:As the word goes, tough titty, said the kitty.
Speaker 1:Wow Blast from the past. I haven't heard that phrase since high school, probably Absolutely, oh my gosh. So when's the first big game that you want to watch coming up?
Speaker 2:That would be Georgia and Clemson. There are a couple of them before that, but the one that is on my radar, of course, is Georgia.
Speaker 1:Well, that was going to be my next question. When is the first game of Georgia?
Speaker 2:Georgia-Clemson. That's coming Saturday at 11 o'clock. This coming Saturday At 11 o'clock.
Speaker 1:All right, yes, so that would be the first one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and high school football has started. I don't know if anybody knows this, but I'm a big fan of high school football too. Yes, yes, and the matchups with California versus Florida and Texas versus this and Georgia versus that.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a college.
Speaker 2:It is, it's all. College football has started and I got to watch those games and see some of the upcoming college players play, so that was very entertaining to watch some of those games too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, looking forward to it. Are there any games on today?
Speaker 2:There's a high school game on today.
Speaker 1:What time?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure. I think maybe 11 o'clock or something like that. Anyway, and it's a Georgia team. There's a Georgia team. Play Well there you go. And then you know there's some preseason, probably pro games, but I don't care anything about those.
Speaker 1:Now, is there any other thing that you watch, football related, like commentary shows or anything like that? That's out there that you would watch during football season if you're not watching an actual game.
Speaker 2:Paul Feinbaum.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:That's a blast for me that you did not know that.
Speaker 1:Well, I did, it's a podcast, I'm interviewing that. Well, I did, it's a podcast, I'm interviewing you.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm going to interview you. Okay, trying to cue you up. I thought we were just Okay. Yes, the Paul Feinbaum Show, absolutely. I don't watch ESPN Anymore. I don't watch ESPN.
Speaker 1:Man, you know the thing is, I used to even like to watch ESPN when Mike and Mike were on. I loved Mike and Mike. I loved watching that show.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And I know nothing about sports, but it was fun watching them, listening to them. I would learn something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, of course, going to work in the morning that was one of my go-tos was being able to listen to Mike and Mike in the morning and all of ESPN was good. But you know, it got to the point where you turn it on and they're drilling you on some kind of woke policy and you know this is racism and blah, blah, blah. It's just you don't want to hear that anymore. It's like going to MTV. You know when I'd turn in MTV to watch music and instead it was. You know I'm pregnant and single, or I'm a teenage pregnant person. Yeah, like this isn't MTV, right?
Speaker 1:So I don't know why AESPN went that route. I really don't. I don't know ESPN went that route. I really don't. I don't know and they had to have known. They've lost millions of viewership, but they're still on air, so they're not doing terrible.
Speaker 2:The only reason you know that I'm going to say this. The only reason people in the South watch it is they watch for the college football games.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that's principally probably how they make ESPN makes most of their money.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is on that? That's true, I would think that's true. I mean, they make money off of other sports as well, but I'm not sure. There's a lot of people that in the morning make sure they turn in Stephen A Smith, you know, to see him yell and scream at you.
Speaker 1:So I have a question. Just while we're sitting here talking, this thought entered my mind. So you know how there's seasons for everything, how everything goes in fashion and out of fashion kind of rolls around every so many years. Do you think we will eventually get it back around to what it used to be like again, where you could get on tv and talk about whatever you want and have fun and I mean, you know, within reason, you know what I'm talking about like would there ever be a mike and mike again that actually talks about sports and and be fun and popular, or uh, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:I think in a regional sense there is, but I don't think in a national sense there is.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's what podcasts are for nowadays, yeah.
Speaker 2:I think a lot of you get a lot of that off of Paul Feinbaum.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay.
Speaker 2:But that's you know, he's centered around the Southeast. That's true, there are people outside the Southeast that listen to him, but it's you know. It's not going to be a national like Mike and Mike that you can turn into and listen to it.
Speaker 1:That's a shame. That was a good show, I mean, for a woman who's non-sports. You know, I don't really. I like sports, don't get me wrong, but I don't know sports. I'll sit down and watch football with you, all the you know all the time, but I don't know the game, I don't know the players, I don't know the backs. You know what I'm saying, but Mike and Mike was fun to listen to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they were entertaining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they were Absolutely Anyway, and you learned something, yep, and they talked about sports. It was fun, yep. Okay, we got way off on a tangent there. Didn't mean to do that, all right, so we watched Gosh. I keep saying so, I'm sorry I got to get off of that, anyway, um, anyway, any, I don't want to say anyway either, anyway, and so how do I stop doing that? I will, how about this? I'll say a sentence and then stop and think about what I want to say first you can go some anyway okay moving on well how about?
Speaker 2:well, moving on moving on oh gosh.
Speaker 1:Now I've lost my train of thought. Oh movies, we watched a doubleheader, I guess that's if you want to call it that.
Speaker 2:Yes, we did Twinville. Twinville no it wasn't a Twinville because they weren't the same actors. Yes, doubleheader.
Speaker 1:For some reason. I don't know how the sting got brought up, but we decided to watch the Sting last night as well as Because I think it's a great movie. I think somebody said something on TV about it.
Speaker 2:I said it was a great.
Speaker 1:Oh, we were watching Gutfeld and one of the guys. The question was what movie can you watch over and over again? One of the answers was the Stained.
Speaker 2:To which I replied that's one of the greatest movies ever. Yeah, and you scoffed.
Speaker 1:I didn't scoff.
Speaker 2:I didn't scoff, and then I read to you how many awards that it had won and I was surprised you were surprised at it, because I had watched it before with you many years ago and it was good.
Speaker 1:but I just remembered, thinking, remembered it as reward winning. No, I didn't think it was very award winning, absolutely, but you know. So we watched it again last night and it's a good movie.
Speaker 2:And I think one of the things that people don't realize for that movie is you know they take it to just be that it's the scam, but you've got to remember. You know throughout the movie why they're doing this and they go to this elaborate thing, for what reason.
Speaker 1:Because they killed one of their friends. That's right.
Speaker 2:They go to this elaborate thing, just to, and then most of that money is going for. Luther Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Which was a black man in the movie. It was a good movie, a very good movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you haven't seen it, go see it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because it is. It's not a sex-filled dirty Right. It's well-acted.
Speaker 1:Yes, Of course the actors are. Well, you know. It's well-acted, okay, I mean it's not very deep, it's just, you know.
Speaker 2:You had to ask a lot of questions all the way through, right? Huh, you had to ask a lot of questions.
Speaker 1:Yes, I meant the characters were not very well deep developed or anything like that. I mean not considered in like some of today's movies, where some of them can get really emotional.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but today's movies suck.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, some of them do. Yeah, most of them.
Speaker 2:I mean, how many movies are at the theater that you got to go see right now? None, oh my Zero. I rest my case. And how many movies are at the theater that you've got to go see right now? None, zero.
Speaker 1:I rest my case, and that's been a while, for years, yeah.
Speaker 2:So the second movie that we saw.
Speaker 1:Yes, the second movie was Thor Ragnarok. See, now, that's a classic. That was different. As far as the Avengers movie goes, that Marvel movie, that was a little different.
Speaker 2:There were a lot of zingers and one-liners in it.
Speaker 1:Who in the world came up with this one and why? Did it add anything to the Marvel story? Not really. It was like off base of everything.
Speaker 2:I think it was filler just to try to get money. We've got to get some money for the next movie.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, that's true, maybe True that could be, because there wasn't anything like an Infinity Stone involved. What added to the story of the Marvel Avengers? Nothing. They had the Hulk in it and it was just ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was kind of weird the way Hulk could speak as the Hulk, because normally he can't do that, but he could actually communicate as the Hulk. That was kind of weird.
Speaker 1:I mean it was kind of light.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Of course he had the sister. That was evil, but it was okay. It was nothing special.
Speaker 2:It got me. I thought it was entertaining. All of Hulk's one-liner, not Hulk's one-liners, Thor's one-liners you know how he'd come up with a funny. Yeah, I like that about his character.
Speaker 1:There has to be a background story about why his hair was cut in real life. I mean, what if he had to cut it for a movie or something? So they had to add that into the story somehow.
Speaker 2:That's true.
Speaker 1:I got to look that up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, that was strange.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I just felt like this movie didn't add anything to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know exactly what was the building block. Like this movie, didn't add anything to it. Yeah, you know exactly what was the building block on this movie.
Speaker 1:To get you to the next, one None, and the next one is Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I think we're getting close to the end of the storyline. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I did notice that I didn't realize that there was a.
Speaker 2:what's the name of the group of the four? That, oh, what was it? What are the names of the movies? Help me out here.
Speaker 1:I don't know what you're talking about I know. Oh, Guardians of the Galaxy, yeah I didn't.
Speaker 2:I was on the list I didn't realize there's the Guardians of the Galaxy 3. I didn't know that either. I think there are more movies out there on this series than you think there are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, we also talked to our daughter yesterday and she said there's also like side gigs or whatever you call it, a series of some characters like wandavision. I've heard of wandavision, I've never watched it, but it's like a whole t, like a tv series of her character and I might, I might get into that. I don't know if you would or not, but check it out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's a garden, is a galaxy three wow uh-huh I think there's.
Speaker 1:I'll have to ask great gracie. She knows all about that. She'll tell me what the other ones are too. She mentioned another one, but I've already forgotten what it was yeah, it was put out in 2023 wow, I did not know that I did not know that either. Okay, Well interesting?
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I always thought those were funny, fun movies to watch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they are, they are. Well, let's see we are at how far are in. We are at 14 minutes.
Speaker 2:Gotcha.
Speaker 1:Do you want to talk about the other story we talked about? We're switching gears into something more serious. What about France? Yeah, france is a mess, but I think I don't know what you saw on the news the other day. But the story here with the WhatsApp oh where did I go?
Speaker 1:The co-founder of Telegram messaging app, ceo Du Durov, arrested in France. Let me just read a couple of paragraphs and then we'll talk about it. Right, his name is Pavel Durov. The Russian slash French billionaire. Founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app was arrested at some airport I can't pronounce outside of Paris. On Saturday evening, tf1 TV and BFM TV said, citing unidentified sources, duroff was traveling aboard his private jet. He was arrested in France as part of a preliminary police investigation. This was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app. So he landed in France and he's arrested for lack of moderation on his social media app. What are your thoughts on that? I know it's not a lot of information.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just what does that mean? Does it mean that, you know? Is he saying allowing stuff you know, positive stuff for the conservative party to be broadcast and they're going to need to censor that? Or is he saying bad stuff about the liberal party and they need to censor that? Or is he allowing child pornography on there? You know, we don't know, right. Um, you know. So that brings up that fine line of what's what is censorship and right, what is moderation and all that kind of stuff right and our?
Speaker 1:what are the? What are the laws? As far as social media I mean? Do they have who? I mean it's a social media app on the Internet. What is there? A governing body worldwide that makes up these rules that you have to follow?
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't. Maybe, maybe it's different countries have, perhaps they have their own laws, so he landed in France and they're like, oh, we got him because he violated our laws.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And their laws as far as censorship is ridiculous.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Over there in Europe what's happening? Arresting people for posting stuff online. Meanwhile their illegal immigrants get to run wild and free over there and do whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 2:That sounds familiar.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, it was all, you know it was seen coming. Yeah, well, it was all, and you know it was seen coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It was seen coming.
Speaker 1:Douglas.
Speaker 2:Murray, exactly, don't do anything because it might offend them. Mm-hmm, yeah, so I don't know. It's just one of those situations that you know. I'm sure all countries have different standards and different practices for that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But in the regards or in the things that I saw posted, a lot of people were you know, boycott France, boycott France, boycott France. So they must feel that you know boycott friends, boycott friends, boycott friends. So they must feel that you know that it's a censorship issue, yeah, instead of a moderation.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right Issue.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree, so I have to look more into it, but I think any form of censorship is not good.
Speaker 1:Agreed, absolutely. I. You know we have that book, the Strange Death of Europe, by Douglas Murray. You have read it. I started reading it and it's wow. I need to sit somewhere where it's real quiet and not be disturbed in order to understand it and read it. Therefore, I think I'm going to get an audio of it and listen to it. I think I could better listen to it than read it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I want to listen, I want to understand. I want to listen to it than read it. Yeah, because I want to listen, I want to understand, I want to read it and know about it what he has to say, because it's very terrifying and I want to be knowledgeable on it.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, it's almost to the point now where that book if you read it several years ago, you would have laughed about it Really Well. You said like, oh, have laughed about it Really Well. You said like, oh, that could never happen.
Speaker 2:One of those, one of those things, but now you read it and you're like, well, this is what's happening here and you look back and look over in Europe and you see how far it's progressed and where we're at, where we could stop a lot of it right now. But it's filtering into our government, the way the government responds to things, the way it's acting about stuff. We saw a lady on TV this morning talking about how her kids aren't being able to be bused to school because they have to bus the illegal immigrants that are there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they don't have to.
Speaker 2:But it's read the book. They have to do it because you know it's read the book. You'll see how it's infiltrated. All of this has infiltrated into our government.
Speaker 1:I don't know how many times I've read or watched a headline on TV, on the news or something came up and people hinted at stuff and I'd be, oh, that's not going to happen, oh, that'll never happen. People would be on the news warning about stuff and, oh, that'll never happen, happen. And here we are, as you know, especially with the gender thing too. That's where it got me, you know. And now this case in Australia. Oh, wow, this woman, her name is Sal Grover. She created an app for women and it's called Giggle and no, no, yes. And then there's a trans. There's, I'm sorry, let. And then there's a trans. There's, I'm sorry, let me back up.
Speaker 1:There's a man pretending to be a woman who wanted to get on the app. She kicked him off and his name is Tickle, his made up name is Tickle, so it was Giggle versus Tickle. It's so stupid, I know, I know, but it's very serious. And she, the woman who created the app, lost her case. They voted, they turned, they voted against her. So now this man pretending to be a woman can, can do that. So we have, we're losing. Wow, yeah, it's crazy. You have to look into if, if anybody you look at. Looking at it. Her name is Sal Grover S-A-L-L. Grover. You can go Google her and you'll read all about it. Wow, that's crazy. Mm-hmm, it's ridiculous. That's not right. No, not at all.
Speaker 2:Oh well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, we're getting into this, because now we're at 21 minutes.
Speaker 2:That's time.
Speaker 1:Well, we go way over on the weekends, but that's all right.
Speaker 1:There's two of us, so we've got double the time. Lots to talk about. You have a question of the day? I do not. All right, well, I have one. Since we started off with football, my question of the day is, well two-part Do you watch football? And if you, favorite team who do college? Professional doesn't matter, I know I don't really have a favorite team, especially I know we're in the south. We're a big college, uh, oriented down here in the south rather than pro, and people pull for their colleges, but I feel like I don't have a right to pull for a certain college since I didn't attend college. Oh, that's another. You just stepped in a pile of doo there.
Speaker 1:Oh, I did.
Speaker 2:We'll go into that at another time. Oh, I want to know about that.
Speaker 1:So I've pulled for the Navy, go Navy, since I served in the Navy.
Speaker 2:There you have it, go Dawgs All right.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening.