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I love the fact that every Saturday Bill Maher is trending for something he said. And I say to myself, okay, I get that it's a political show and stuff, so you know those things make news. But every week, every week he's trending. And I'm trying to figure out what is it he does that makes him trend every week. And I think the answer is he sometimes tells the truth. Now I think actually most of the time he tells the truth like most people, but they don't do it on TV. He actually tells the truth on TV and everybody goes, whoa, what the hell. The next thing you know it's trending on Twitter. And that literally is what's happening. He literally is just telling you the truth and it becomes like a national story. It's so rare.

But he apparently is joining me somewhat in this opinion that movies are no longer worth your time. And this is what he said in a tweet today about the current batch of movies. I love this tweet. So Bill Maher says, I don't have to leave the theater whistling, but would it kill Hollywood to once in a while make a movie that doesn't make me want to take a bath with the toaster? He says we all had a rough year. A little escapism would have been appreciated.

Now let me climb on that a little bit. You know I've been telling you for a long time that if you willingly consume sad fiction, there's just a bunch of people with problems because that's what a movie is. You know the movie arc is I got a really big problem and I'm going to make you look at my big problems for three hours and maybe at the end they'll be happy or maybe at the end a lot of people will be dead. One of those.

And yeah, I hear Godzilla versus Kong is actually pretty good. I'm surprised. I can't believe — honestly I can't even imagine how that movie could be good. Here's a spoiler for the King Kong and Godzilla movie. So if you're going to watch the movie, I haven't watched it, so I'm going to give you a spoiler for the movie having never watched it and never heard anything about it. All right, this hand is Godzilla. This hand is King Kong. I will now show you the entire movie. Godzilla versus King Kong. The end. That is the entire movie. And I believe I've saved you a little bit of money there and also a little bit of risk of getting COVID. So yeah, there's no reason to watch bad entertainment.

That's why I'm not trying to do a commercial for YouTube but YouTube gets it totally right because YouTube gets you short little bits that are often educational, useful, expand your awareness and don't hurt. You can watch YouTube for days and never see anything — I mean if you want to you'd have to look for it. You can find stuff that'll make you sad if you look for it. But mostly YouTube is about things that make you smarter or make you happy. Why would anybody ever watch a movie again unless it's a comedy, which they don't make anymore?

Yeah, sure, superhero one is really a comedy. When I watch these superhero movies, which I do watch those, I watch them for the dialogue in between the fight scenes because sometimes it's really funny. Like when the Hulk was banging Loki against the ground. That was just funny. So that's the closest Hollywood gets to humor now.

There's a story that 40 percent of Marines say they won't get vaccinated. What do you think of that? Do you know what would have been a good statistic to include with that story? I'll bet it wasn't there. I haven't read all of the reports of it but I would like to know what exactly is the death rate for unusually healthy young people with perfect diets and zero obesity. I'm thinking it's kind of low.

So isn't this exactly the group of people that you wouldn't be surprised — you know, forget about what your opinion is whether they should or should not do it — but I wouldn't be surprised. Because here's what we did wrong with the Marines. We meaning America, right, collectively. I've never gone through any basic training or Marine training or firearms training in the military or anything like that. But I have to make an assumption. Is it fair to assume that teaching somebody to be a Marine includes a good dose of risk management training? In other words, learning that this situation is more dangerous than this one even if it's not obvious on the surface, right? In order to win a war it's all risk management decisions plus violence. That's sort of all it is. Risk management, resources I guess, and violence.

So should we be surprised that the very people who have the lowest risk — and I think this is speculative but it se