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Constellation, Episode 23 | Trigger Warnings, The Movies That Make Us Cry, Our Favorite Books and Authors, Swimming (Patreon)

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2023-06-19 16:25:25
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2023-06

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It's time yet again for another episode of Last Stand Media's conversational podcast, Constellation. This week, the Brothers Moriarty are joined by associate editor Ben Smith and coordinator Micah Watson. Dagan's topic explores the media -- primarily the films and TV shows -- that quite literally bring a tear to our eye. What sets off our waterworks? Micah thinks trigger and content warnings have gotten out of control, to the detriment of both the content that's being endlessly targeted and the people who are apparently being protected. On the back of Cormac McCarthy's unfortunate passing, Ben wonders which authors and books speak most to us, and what our reading habits have even become as adults. Does reading play a role in our lives? Finally, Colin brings something easy and breezy to the table, a seasonal inquiry: Are we going swimming this summer or what?

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Tim Sierzega

Trigger Warning: subtle racism /s

Anonymous

Lmao I’m Mexican and I thought the racism was funny

Anonymous

I had to log in and give props to Micah for the Cormac McCarthy burn. Too funny. long time (on free feeds), first time

Michael Thew

Great conversation, gotta agree with you on a lot of it. Old Man in the Sea is prolly my favorite historic fiction book, short, sweet and has a powerful message of what it means to grow old from both the old man’s and kid’s POV. The Outsiders is also very good, guess it was a good thing had to read and watch the movie quite a lot going through my school life, NWO 4 Life lol. Just a quick shoutout to ender’s game, first book was so good I ended up reading all of them. If you liked the tone of Ender’s Game, check out Ender’s Shadow. It takes place after the second formic war and how earth deals with its aftermath. Revolves around Bean and Peter. So more action, less jerking off of piggies like in Speaker and Xenocide books. Forrest Gump got me choked up at a few points of the movie, maybe the end of Last Samurai as well. Take it easy and keep fighting the good fight.

Joshua Jones

Colin you should Look up, George Carlin's. I love it when a lot of people die. Because he recorded that on September 9th in New York on 2001.

Trevor Myers

the Gilbert Gottfried Joke wasn’t a 9/11 joke, It was a tsunami joke after Japan had the tsunami that affected the nuclear plant. the joke was “ boy. Those Japanese are smart, they found a way to make the beach come to them!” that’s the joke that got him dropped as the aflac duck. I thought the joke was hilarious.

Michael Thew
>>111078534

That’s the one that ended coming out quite abit after it was recorded, right? I miss that guy, his comedy was amazing

Henry Velasco

Keep the Mad Men references coming

Omar Rosa

Up! is a sad ass movie too.

Luke Silletta

I always get teary when I watch Band of Brothers. Knowing that this is a true story and the little interviews with the real people just gets me.

Anonymous

Micah was absolutely rolling this episode, god damn. Best thing to happen to LSM

The Fred Durst Death Hoax

Didn't expect the suicide of Budd Dwyer would be brought up through a MTN Dew meme, but here we are

Surge!

Ah yes The Land Before Time, and what could go better with a devastating film about parental loss than some Pizza Hut toys to better occupy the young kid's mind with afterwords. Lord knows he'll need it.

PRETENTIEUX

Tradition is often a solution to a problem that we have long since forgotten. As traditions are broken, we see these issues coming back. Look at what society is and what it used to be.

Tyler

Just a comment on the trigger warning convo… you discuss the MPAA, etc. for film, etc. which basically allows everyone, adults included, to have an idea of what to expect. The internet doesn’t have anything like that so, if you’re like Dagan and doesn’t want to watch violence/gore, or something similar (sexual assault, incest, suicide), I think a trigger warning isn’t a bad thing. Do these maybe go too far? Sure, but that’s kind of how anything goes.

Anonymous

🤣 Micha is in rare form this episode! Freaking love it!

Avery Abrams

Ben talking about people having hipster book opinions and then saying Dean Koontz is better than Stephen King… pot calling the kettle black my dude

Marc Cairney

Perhaps a topic for next week. I know you guys have covered this in the past. But what about this question: Should couples stay together in an unhappy marriage? Saying this as a divorcee with 1 child to the previous marriage.

Clara Martin

Colin you mentioned how Netflix lists tobacco use as a warning and how therefore we are now "soft". Hasn't the MPAA listed similar things for decades? When did we become soft? Didn't Nixon ban the use and promotion of cigarettes on TV in the 70s?

Anonymous

The Land Before Time was the very first thing I thought of for Dagans topic, absolutely could not handle that film but like Micah just had to watch it when it was on. Colin you were spot on, the 80’s-90’s era for children’s movies was fucking cruel, but I loved them.

start a infection

Iron giant is the best western animated movie of all time, I used to say best animated movie until I finally gave ghibli movies a chance and I’d say a few of them are absolutely on par

Angel DeJesus

The trigger warning stuff reminded me of a recent article I read. There's a landlord here in NYC, that's only renting to people who agree not to cook any meat or fish in their apartment, cuz the landlord is Vegan. And lawyers are basically saying it's legal. But I wonder if I rented a space and said your application is eating a double cheeseburger in front of me, would that be received the same way?

Tyler

Dagan MUST see About Time if he needs a good dad cry. That movie fucking broke me. Also, Ted Lasso made me bawl when he basically gives his wife the divorce.

Anonymous

I equate knowing how to doggy paddle with knowing how to swim. The swimming where you kick your feet out of the water is just a bonus in my book.

Adam Barnes

That rain sounds fucking epic haha

Angel DeJesus

I like Dean Koontz better then Stephen King also. King writes too much about shit that doesn't matter, and Koontz gets to the point faster. From the corner of his eye my favorite book. The odd Thomas series is my favorite series. Odd Hours changed my life, and I'm not exaggerating.

Out_Of_Focus_Bigfoot

Massive shoutout to Dagan for having absolutely immaculate taste in books. Blood Meridian is by far my favorite book of all time, I've read it once a year, every year, since I discovered it in 2015. It gets better every time. I'm beyond stoked for the KB episode about it. Second, surprised it didn't come up but the movie that gets me every time is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There are so many moments in it that just cut straight to the core. Third, shoutout to Micah, absolutely hilarious in this episode. RIP Bozo

Michael Thew
>>111136971

To this extent I want to say is getting abit out of proportion, why doesn’t the rating system not work like it had in the past? Not looking for an argument about it and I’m not coming at you like if I was.

Clara Martin
>>111158259

Sure yeah! to be clear im not defending "tw: fish" in Twitter posts, thats egregious I'm just confused why some people are acting like putting content labels on things - smoking, for example - is a new phenomenon and that we're therefore overly soft as a society. As i understand it, MPAA required smoking to be part of a movie's content warning as of 2007. ESRB has been around for decades, outlining similar content, including smoking. Legislation was passed in the early 70s that prevented smoking from being broadcasted, at least in commercial form. Unless we want to say the 70s is when we became soft, that seems to be a consistent position to me at least

Michael Thew
>>111136971

We were pretty soft as a country + desperate. The hippy generation was just about dead and getting out of Vietnam was also a sore spot that needed covering up. Lol we even had solar panels on the White House, that sums it up pretty nicely

PRETENTIEUX
>>111140896

Vegans are on the way to becoming a protected class. It's cheap and easy to feed the flock on grains and as a bonus they destroy our health, hormones, and mental faculties.

Jorge Sosa

Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

Pretendo

Imagine trigger warnings for trigger warnings

Justin Credible

Reign Over Me made me cry so much and it’s an Adam Sandler Film.

Dimitreus Newell

I can never watch Grave of the Fireflies again even though I think it’s a must watch film. And more recently, The Whale gets me in the last 30 min every time and the newest A Star is Born film

Forrest Hunter

Micah is off the fucking chain!!! She nearly killed me several times while driving hahaha

Dana Anderson

Dagan, I agree that To Kill A Mockingbird was one of the most important books i ever read growing up that really hit a cord with me. I looked at Atticus at the time as a hero. However, I recently saw the play and my views have changed. I no longer see Atticus as a hero, but as a naive. He was so oblivious of his surroundings and the people around him that if you go back and read it, Atticus is potentially at fault for getting Tom killed. Not 100%, but his naïveté contributed. Just a perspective I have after being separated from it, and recently consuming it.

Jason

Guys... if you want to make the land before time even SADDER just look up what happened to the voice actor of ducky.

The Devmeister

Toronto is on Lake Ontario lol.

NinjaDC

The TV (anime) show that made me cry the most was the last ep of Anohana. When that last letter was read, it broke me. Broke me worse than the economy. I was a complete sobbing mess grabbing a tissue box. Absolutely fantastic show 👏

Taylor kazemba

Colin I have a cleaning business. You really need to have your house cleaned every 2 weeks. That way it never gets that dirty and the cleaning people Don’t have to be there as long.

Taylor kazemba

Doki doki is censored on ps4. Play the switch version.

JohnOfTheDead

The Neverending Story destroyed me when I was a kid.

Lou & Rei Loper

I am that person who cannot STAND watching Mad Men. I think I made it 1-2 episodes in and that was that. It's not for the acting, it was purely because I have a pretty serious anger problem with watching those ladies get treated like that by those guys. It just made me angry and my wife knew there was no way I was going to continue watching it. I don't remember how she felt about it, but she was certainly much much less angry than me. While I'm outing myself Colin...I also absolutely can fucking not, watch Handmaid's Tale. Literally the first episode made me angry enough to start getting teary-eyed levels of angry. I was properly 'I will fucking fight you' kinda angry haha. Certain things just get under my skin, and those two shows ESPECIALLY Handmaid's. It's weird because I can watch Game of Thrones and loved that...I have issues haha. Rei loved watching Handmaid's Tale though. She'd wait for me to leave the room before watching though and warn me if it was on and I came out of my man cave. Hopefully I don't get kicked out of the LSM fam for hating good things lol. 😂

Josh Gamez

Thank you Ben for giving King Sanderson his props. I was afraid y'all were gonna get through that topic without him being mentioned. Lol

Hybrid Theory

Damn Micah with the zingers 🤣

Josh Gamez

Shout out to Ben for mentioning Brando Sando during the favorite authors topic. I was afraid y'all were not going to at least touch on the King of Modern Fantasy in a book discussion lol.

Michael Cook

Micah kills it every time on stelly

Cami Black

Micah even bringing up Shippuden sad moments got me teary eyed 🥲

Anonymous

I’m late but I can’t believe no has brought up Old Yeller as a movie that made them cry. I thought for sure Someone in the comments would have brought it up, I’m almost 40 and it was before my time but I’ve seen it once and I’m sure I ugly cried lol. When I was younger Willy Wonka with Gene Wilder made me cry. I for sure thought all those kids were dead and seeing Violet get bigger and bigger and being rolled around I thought she popped. Love the show and all the east coast nostalgia I was born and raised in Philadelphia and south Jersey but have lived in Colorado for 20 years now so I love hearing about all the old stories from back east!

Anonymous

I loved the talk on books! I finished Blood Meridian for the first time a couple of months back and found it to be for myself, as of yet, the single most impressive piece of media I've crossed paths with. It's stellar for so many reasons and it truly humbled me as a person. I feel vindicated in hearing Dagan have such a high opinion of it. Would love more book talk on this channel, personally.

Kaz Redclaw

If you liked Ender's Game but didn't like the Speaker/xenocide/children series, it might be worth going over to the Ender's Shadow series instead, where Speaker did a massive time-hop, Shadow sticks around earth for several books and deals with what's going on between the first two books of the original series, and what happens with all of the other children from the battle school. Eventually they sync back up with Shadows in Flight though.

Kaz Redclaw

I get bored in pools as well, but I figured something out to do. I put my phone in a ziplock bag, and went to the hot springs this year. Just sat in the hot springs reading an e-book for 3 hours, until the sun went down and I started getting frost in my hair like a hot springs monkey.

Marco Maluf

Please Micah, PLEASE, more racist comments, I almost died from the “gingo” part omg! 😂

Benjamin Pope

Really expected Dagan to say Grave of the Fireflies for one of his movies that makes him tear up. I always say it's the best movie I will never watch again because it kept me sad long after the credits rolled.