Things that must be happening right now based on Trump's weekend

It has been a wild political weekend to say the least.  There were the debates of course and well, we all know about the video.  Oh my goodness, the video.

Now is the time that we look forward, though.  Trump apologized and that is the end of it, right?  So how are we this fine Monday morning?  There are so many things that must be going on right now, as we speak, based on this weekend's events.

Somewhere, let's be honest, there is a young girl lying flat on her back doing goodness knows what in a porn parody of this whole election.

Somewhere, there is an intern, combing through hours and hours of tapes basically with his or her eyes taped open so that they can find something else as damaging.

Somewhere, there is someone putting together a lot of cash to pay off the owner of the tapes perhaps, to keep them quiet.

Somewhere, there is someone putting together a lot of cash to pay off the owner of the tapes, perhaps, to make them public.

Somewhere, there are people who are constructing elaborate arguments as to why Trump is still viable, spinning his debate performance, and conspicuously avoiding eye contact with their mothers, sisters, and daughters.

All of this is happening right here in America,

This ad is why Black People Support Hillary and here is a hint, it is not the ad itself...

This ad is powerful and not for what it says, but for the fallout and the comments.  The most powerful result of this ad is what people are saying about it. See a lot of the reaction is from white people and that is not necessarily a bad thing.
When I first saw this ad on Facebook, I thought it was very compelling and it made me think.  Then, I looked at the comments underneath.   The range is spectacular.  The vast majority of them were what blacks see on a regular basis. 
First, there are those who change the subject to attempt to mitigate its power. There are comments about her emails, Benghazi, the usual.
Second, there are those who inform blacks that Hillary is only using them.
Third, there are those who try to light things up by saying things like "these people need to go back where they came from..."  and they stop just shy of saying anything related to color.
The first two camps have a singular goal, no matter how benign it seems on the surface.  The goal of one and two are to remove agency from the black population.  It boils down to people saying to black people that they do not know what it means to be black.  It is a rhetoric that tells blacks their experience is invalid and "Don't let Hillary Clinton tell you that you can think for yourself, let us tell you that she is trying to control you so that you will vote for Trump."
The third camp is a group that ties themselves in knots trying to say this is all about race while not using terms like African American and black or "nigger".  This is the same group that uses terms like monkey to describe our current president and have spent the past 8 years saying that he was a Muslim born in Kenya.
The interesting thing is the fourth group.  I read through all of those comments and I found a voice that was missing was ...wait for it... the voice of many black people.  This ad is going to circulate.  It is going to gain ground but it is not going to circulate in the places frequented by people in those first three groups. 
It is like when Trump went to those huge rallies and spoke to predominantly white crowds to talk about what he had to offer black people.  Or the way he brings out Omarosa et al to talk to us about how sensitive he is to the plight of the black man!
So, people can attack the ad and swamp the comments section, but the problem is and always will be that you are not talking to the people you think you are talking to. You are preaching to the choir.  I read the comments because I have an interest in this, but for the most part, it is a bunch of people talking to themselves.

How to fund a podcast: Step 1

I wanted this to be a "How did this get made: Podcast Edition but it really very quickly became a really, how did this get made?
There are so very few things that you need to form a podcast, it seems.Mainly it is a microphone, a computer and something to say. Podcasts are the HAM radio of the new milinium.  We all have things to say and whether or not you say them may often depend on the platform you have and your will.  If you can read this, you are almost there.
When we thought up this page and the accompanying twitter account (follow us on @thep_c_d__g on twitter or on facebook at The Podcast Drinking Game,) we looked for a gimmick, but then we settled on just saying what we wanted to say.  These are the things that podcasts are about. Many of them are comprised of the same kind of conversations that you overhear people having in bars and so on, but who do you want to listen and why?
The Wheel of Hate and Vitriol
We did some studies (mainly drunken listening to podcasts, but they were somewhat scientific)  The vast majority of podcasts are critical.  They seek to either reinforce a thought that is out there already or refute it.  A lot of people out there do not feel like they are being heard.  How often have you heard yourself yelling at a podcast through your phone or other listening device.  I tend to stop them, fume over what was said, then continue.  The interesting thing is that what tends to top the charts and get the ratings are just people being mad.
There are some people who should not be allowed on the internet.  Can we say that?  Take Patton Oswalt.  I love him to death and he is a brilliant comedian.  Recently, he got involved in a kerfuffle on Twitter about the new Ghostbusters movie.  I can tell already that I am going to hate it.  He said that it should be given a chance and should not be judged by the trailers.  I think the premise overall is problematic, but so be it.
The problem comes in the fact that there are people out there who want to get noticed.  Coming to Patton (we are in my head, on a first name basis) with a logical, sane, and cordial argument will not get you noticed.  Noooooo.... Some douche had to bring up his recently deceased wife.  Was this a horrible thing to do?  YES.  Did it get written about and shift the conversation from the actual thing to these disgusting morons? YES!  Did said morons get what they wanted? YES!
To pull this all together, there are podcasts out there that I hate!  There area uninformed people with squeaky voices who rant on and on and on and on about anything and everything.  Your first goal is to figure out where you on that Wheel of Hate and Vitriol..

The Campaign for Better Writing #drunkenrebuttal

30 years from now will we watch any of our favorite movies and feel like they hold up?  I have to say that I doubt it.  Writing is not very good lately...there I said it.   The average movie now is based on a series of events that are set in motion by someone some where doing something that they wouldn't do.  Thus you have a series of events that tumble into place based on silliness and, I believe this silliness needs to be written out.
For  a lot of action movies the goal is how to get the people to do the thing. Look at a movie like Pacific Rim.  We wanted to see a giant robot fight a giant monster.  Forget the fact there is no compelling reason whatsoever for them to do so.  People pointed out that there were remarkable holes in the plot like if you know when the Kaiju are going to arrive why not just have a giant laser cannon posted at the opening of the chasm that kills them as they come out? Still, we wanted to see two giant things punch each other in the middle of the city so we ignore that there is no real reason for them to do so.  The writers did a poor job of attempting to explain why world governments would forego the cheaper simpler and more effective solution in favor of building giant robots.
We see this with a lot of movies.  In any of the Transformer movies, why are they fighting in the middle of major cities?  Why does Godzilla go to San Francisco?  Who cares?  We want to see something big, hit something bigger.
Goodness forbid we try to add a story or some layering to the conflict.  Look at Dawn of Justice versus Captain America: Civil War.  The essential conflict in each story is the same; how does the world deal with the existence of super beings and villains?  How do the heroes themselves deal with being super?  How does the world deal with the destruction they leave in their wake and the lives they save?
Marvel loves its heroes and apparently hates everyone else whereas DC dives headlong into the inner conflict that its heroes feel.  Batman is tortured and jaded with a deep sense of right and wrong and no compunction about doling out justice after years of dealing with The Joker, Penguin, Bane etc.  Superman is dealing with the weight of being the most powerful being in the universe and essentially being seen as A god or THE God.  These are big questions.
Marvel on the other hand, goes the path that favors one of its biggest properties and just Hulks its way through these stories.  These movies ask you to suspend disbelief to a great extent.  In fact they encourage you to throw disbelief out the window...bury it.  We thought when our heroes were brought to life, they would take on a reality that would blow our minds, but when seen outside of the frame of  a 2D panel, they don't make a lot of sense and that should be addressed in the writing.
Thousands of people died in Man of Steel.  Of course Superman should think about that.  He sees himself as the protector of the world and has to look at the idea the deaths he is a part of matter.  He and Zod nearly destroyed a major metropolitan city.  Jobs are lost.  Lives are lost.  In the DC universe, they think about that.
In the Marvel universe, it s narrowed and anchored by personalizing it with one or two interactions.  In Captain America: Civil War, Tony Stark is confronted by a woman who has lost a son, the overall plot is driven by a grieving father's desire for revenge.  Just one.
Soldiers return from war having caused death and destruction on a level that people cannot imagine and that is in real life.  In each of these stories, the stakes are much MUCH higher yet, the thoughts about them are much less.  The Marvel universe focuses you on the action and not its consequences.  Let's be honest, I am not asking people to think about whether or not the henchmen have insurance or anything like that but just think about how in the Marvel universe, the extreme has become mundane.  Take a moment to think about the real life ramifications of the existence of Thor.   Religion, as we know it would collapse with the presence of a living god.
In Capt. America:Civil War, Tony Stark evacuates an airport so they can have a fight on the tarmac. How many people would miss connections?  Or could you imagine trying to get insurance to pay out on your car because Scarlet Witch threw it at someone?
In the Marvel universe, 9/11 sized and larger tragedies are happening every day and people barely give them a second thought.  I like that DC is looking at that and at least glancing off of it.  Overall, we need better writing.  Just take a moment to write a better movie and sew those plot holes shut.  It only takes a moment.

Why Batman v. Superman is better than all things Marvel #drunkenrebuttal

Here is the problem with the Marvel Universe.  It is not real.  (I KNOW...Let me finish.)
The difference is that DC has  at least one foot in the real world and NOTHING in the Marvel Universe.

With the Marvel Universe, we are talking about a giant green man, an ACTUAL NORSE GOD, etc. etc.  The worst part is that when you look at the timeline of the whole movie and television franchise, everyone in the world seems basically ok with everything they know and believe to be true falling apart in one fell swoop.

With the Marvel Universe, we realize that we are not alone in the universe, that there are aliens, gods, gamma powered men, and so on.  No one seems very upset about all of that though.  Think about it,  If you lived in a major city, most of which was destroyed by aliens and gods and super people wouldn't you grab the kids and move to Kansas?  In the Marvel Universe everything goes back to normal pretty quickly.

Also, lets look at that scene where Hydra goes after Nick Fury...In DOWNTOWN WASHINGTON D.C.!  No cops, no Army, no Air Force...all about a mile or so from the freakin' White House.
The TV shows don't even really touch on what has happened in any real way.  There are kids running around with Capt. America and Iron Man action figures and constantly showing up at things where the Avengers are.  If I EVER see Capt. America or Iron Man running through the streets I RUN!  The people in this universe stand around take pictures and then the next day...well, they go on about their business.

The DC Universe at least tackles that.  Yes, it is very emo, but that is how the world would be if there were aliens and psychotic clowns running around blowing things up.  The DC Universe has been criticized for being too death oriented but you can't get into a real life incarnation of these things without examining the real life consequences and reactions.

Also DC starts and I hope, keeps addressing the idea of a cohesive world where the heroes exist from movie to movie.  I hope they create viable excuses for Superman not being around to help when Gotham is on the verge of destruction.

There are plenty of reasons why none of the stuff in either of these worlds could not and would not happen. The DC Universe has at least one more toe in reality.