Hollywood’s Message Is Dead - Critical Drinker - #591

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Critical Drinker. He's a movie critic, an analyst of modern entertainment media, and a YouTuber. Cinema is no longer about entertainment. It's now a platform for social and cultural ideologies to be pushed through. If you don't like what Hollywood execs are telling you to like, too bad. That's your prejudice showing. You bigot. Today, expect to learn why there are no positive heroic role models in movies anymore. The problem with Velma getting naked on a cartoon, why Rotten Tomatoes' reviews are diverging more than ever before, why Matt Damon was always right, just how destroyed Rick & Morty is as a franchise, and much more. Reflecting on this, I really would hate to be in the movie business at the moment, but one of the big signs of positivity, a glimmering light in this sort of heap of feces, is that according to Critical Drinker, because of the lead time between making stuff and when it gets published, in about three years or so, we should actually have a ton of good new movies and TV shows, so hold on tight because good stuff is coming. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. You are not eating enough fruit and vegetables in your diet, and you know it, and this is going to help if you are looking to make an improvement and an upgrade to the way that you eat every single day, to the micronutrients that you get into your body, and the way that you care for yourself from a nutritional standpoint. This is a fantastic place to start. Athletic Greens contains 75 vitamins, minerals and whole food sourced ingredients, including a multi-vitamin, multi-mineral, pre- and probiotic, green superfood blend and more that all work together to fill the nutritional gaps in your diet. It increases energy and focus, aids with digestion and supports a healthy immune system all within one scoop. You don't need to take anything else. All that you do is take this once per day. It tastes great. It's got less than one gram of sugar. It's keto, paleo, vegan-friendly, everything that you need. And it's NSF certified for sports in the US, meaning that even Olympic athletes can use it. Also there's a 90-day money back guarantee and a year's free supply of vitamin D. Plus up until the end of February, they're giving away 10 free travel packs instead of the normal five. You can get all of that if you go to athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom. That's athleticgreens.com/modernwisdom.
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