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00:00 – Balenciaga Slammed For Selling $1,850 Destroyed Sneakers
02:26 – Halsey Says Label Won’t Release Song Without Forcing Viral TikTok Moment
07:14 – Sponsor
08:04 – Ricky Gervais Faces Backlash Over New Netflix Special
11:06 – Activision Blizzard Employees Win Vote to Form Company’s First Union
15:04 – Leaked Documents Reveal China’s Lies over “Re-Education” Camps
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Balenciaga Slammed For Selling $1,850 Destroyed Sneakers:
https://www.businessinsider.com/balenciaga-is-selling-destroyed-shoes-for-1850-paris-sneaker-collection-2022-5
Halsey Says Label Won’t Release Song Without Forcing Viral TikTok Moment:
https://roguerocket.com/2022/05/23/halsey-tiktok-music/
Sizzy Rocket: https://twitter.com/sizzyrocket
Ricky Gervais Faces Backlash Over New Netflix Special:
https://roguerocket.com/2022/05/24/ricky-gervais-criticized-netflix-special/
Activision Blizzard Employees Win Vote to Form Company’s First Union:
https://roguerocket.com/2022/05/24/activision-raven-software-union/
Jessica Gonzalez: https://twitter.com/_TechJess
Leaked Documents Reveal China’s Lies over “Re-Education” Camps:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-8df450b3-5d6d-4ed8-bdcc-bd99137eadc3
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Today's show was finsihed before the horrible news out of Texas. We'll obviously be talking about that in the next video. Love yo faces <3
I felt the exact same way about the Ricky Gervais thing. A very obvious marketing tactic to me and not worth the energy. I like his shows usually but this was clearly just him trying to get the attention that Chapelle had. It's transparent af.
Dude those shoes are like post apocalyptic grunge punk.
If they're actually pretty tough, tie up completely and don't have holes for dirt and such to get in….
Then I'd actually wear them with some uber punked out tank girl outfits. Cus thats what punk is. A massive f you to the status quo.
It'd be extra hilarious to dress punk in designer … oh wait thats already happening. 😅 the world is on it's head f it. I just dgaf either way. I still wear clothing i bought 10 years ago. I wouldn't spend on them but I'd wear them. And rich ppl should satisfy their whims but probably support good stuff and use their priviledge more… for humanitarian and environmental efforts.. siigh
This is why we can't have nice things!
TIK TOK TANTRUM. Halsey's next single?
good to see america catching up to the 1900s and discussing unions a lot more
ricky gervais explains how jokes are constructed and that people are offended because of the wrong part of the joke. and not making jokes about some group or part of society isn't that excluding them out of the society?
But justin trudeau says the ccp is good 🥰
Having quality QA engineers is essential to any successful software product. QA is just as vital as developers, but we're often treated as less important.
Someone at Balenciaga watched Zoolander and genuinely thought Derelicte was a good idea.
Regarding the music story, Kpop does viral really well. They always have something called a "point dance" which is a certain section (usually in the chorus) that is easy to dance for even beginners. It's usually repeated in every chorus as well. Basically, TikTok is the perfect platform for Kpop due to Kpop's standard of having catchy songs and dances.
It's interesting to see the music industry in the West starting to pull this move when its business is completely different. Korean companies do this because they can and their groups are under (usually ethically questionable) contracts. Artists usually don't have the power to reject anything because their contracts are that restrictive. This is something that wouldn't fly in the States. All this is to say that the music industry in the West should not actively try to be "TikTok Viral". It's a slippery slope and could end up damaging more things than they realize…
You're getting some legit pecs, biceps and triceps now too!
I cannot. Stand. Ricky. Gervais. He’s insufferable.
Sooo unions were created by people working nonsense easily replacement jobs that are brain dead easy and wanted better pay? Interesting.
I hope that one day people will realize that being an "equal-opportunity offender" isn't equality in a society that isn't equal. I was going to watch Ricky Gervais' special, but now I will not. Phil's right that he knew exactly what he was doing–he's not an idiot. He's only giving tacit permission to continue to other trans folk and treat trans women in particular as lesser women. Fuck that, no more Ricky Gervais for me. Something's gotta give.
Please stop the weird shift zoom effect. I hate it
Hmmm I’m getting the feeling that Phil thinks “everything is bullshit and nothing matters” but I’m not sure 🤔
at least some luxury brands have shit that looks good, even if it isnt everyones taste. torn up sneakers and basic atheletic wear is just so… ugly.
Bruh, they take their organs too
Hey Phil I love watching u but this new podcaster vibe is not sitting right with me
that's why you always always own your masters why do these artist keep making the same mistakes as everyone else its 2022 look into owning your own shit
China is fucked up in so many ways
11:20 Wait, Call of Duty has QA people?!
This guy is either overly opinionated or has no opinion at all (if it’s not the popular opinion and he feels he might get backlash)
I think $40 is still too much for a shirt 😀
I've always loved Ricky Gervais, I've watched all his specials and like alot of his philosophy – he's been one of my favourite comedians for a long time.
But..
This recent special just felt lazy and repetitive and contradictory to the values he's spouted all these years – How can you still say your jokes aren't aimed at the subject itself and that it's all about intention then talk about how ridiculous pronouns and the language/validitiy of trans people are. It was just disappointing.
"Everything is bullshit and nothing matters" needs to be a new t-shirt or hoodie. I would drop another $80 for that hoodie lol
im extremely liberal and LGBT, and I thought Ricky Girvais's special was hilarious. it sounds terrible when you quote it like that, but the way he tells it, he's actually making fun of people who say horrible things and mean it. he's right, he pokes fun at EVERYONE, so why is LGBT off the table? He even explains in the special that he will take any position to make a joke work, and that his jokes are told ironically. The audience laughs because they know it's wrong. Gervais has been purposely pissing people off since the beginning of his career, thats literally his personality. It's not something he adopted just for this special, or to get cancelled on purpose, this is what he has always done. If you go watch the entire thing, it will make a lot more sense. it doesn't feel fair to critique someone's art without watching it.
Saying "I support trans rights" while gatekeeping transness is a whole other level of fake allyship. Bug off, Ricky.
Ricky Gs stand up is in its own sphere and his barely concealed disdain is part of his humor
horrible what is happening in china and I hope it gets better somehow
I literally watch for news to come out about a comedian's special to know whether it's good enough to watch.
Wait people are mad about what china does but the US profiles and with some does the same thing
China and russia governments need to be destroyed.
when will people understand that virality is almost completely unpredictable and therefore cant be manufactured??
New subscriber, no idea how I got here, but fuck me im glad I did!
Everything’s bullshit and nothing matters, is a mood I didn’t know I need, cheers mate!
Fame use to be a Bi-product of being good at something.. Now people want to be famous but talentless pieces of shit. Now a song doesnt even have to be Good, it just has to trend? fuck that shit. thats why i dont have a tiktok or twitter. nonsense plague on society.
I actually fuckin love the opening to this show, SO SASSY LMAO
I saw Ricky jervays on my suggested in nextflox, laughed and thumbs down. I also haven’t engaged with anything related but semi-accidentally in this video. Let’s not do this together 😁
I have not and will never download TikTok. Also, vote YES for unions.
And now your long sleeves are $75? How is adding sleeves worth adding $40 to the shirt price?
A million and one ways musicians get fucked.
Another reason why I’m totally ok with tiktok going away lol. Toxic community, the top creators come from extremely affluent backgrounds so don’t even need it and the fact that all the code has been revealed that it’s straight up China spyware? Or maybe all the nasty fucked up cruel trends? But it just goes to show how easily media controls you and no one can objectively be against something so mainstream that is so clearly bad for us. Plus it’s a babysitter for most-_-