Yeah, I need to change the intro...
Added 2024-11-10 23:17:44 +0000 UTCHey folks,
Like many of you, I'm just not feeling the current show intro. I honestly want to totally change it up and make different music as well, but that's just one more thing I don't have time to do so I'm not sure.
But at a minimum, I think we need an emergency substitution of quotes.
Give me your most inspirational clips. I think we all need to hear things that reinforce why we need to stay in the fight. I think we need things that give us hope and energy.
So, short notice, but if you all have any suggestions I could use them! Thanks.
Comments
Literally thus entire short https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5kEX87wq_Ko
ADHDProgrammer
2024-11-13 01:00:47 +0000 UTCUnderstood. They guy himself was problematic to say the least, but he produced a lot of quotes that are inspirational.
Gmork
2024-11-11 16:19:46 +0000 UTCLove the new intro!
Katie Herrmann
2024-11-11 14:21:55 +0000 UTCThis. As much of this speech as possible really. “There’s absolutely no evidence that we’re the greatest country in the world” https://youtu.be/ML3qYHWRIZk
Marcus
2024-11-11 13:07:23 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/k6C8SX0mWP0?t=27 Sam’s speech about the good still worth fighting for.
Marcus
2024-11-11 12:48:46 +0000 UTCIt's been used before but the Will Ferrell "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" seems appropriate
Dr Cog
2024-11-11 11:35:19 +0000 UTCplease, not churchill.
lauren
2024-11-11 11:26:18 +0000 UTCSomething about the tempo has always felt off, probably the outro more than the intro. It feels uneven or inconsistent in a way I can't really explain.
Chris Conley
2024-11-11 09:52:13 +0000 UTCOk, what's so bad about Coldplay? I never understood the heat!
Maria Kladaki
2024-11-11 09:12:41 +0000 UTCI don't think a lot of quotes in the new intro should be about how there is still good in the world or in humans or whatever because that almost lands as toxic positivity or even delusional right now, given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. But maybe messages more along the lines of Solnit's Hope in the Dark or Butler's Parable of the Sower, recognizing that yes, everything is in fact that irredeemably shitty, bleak, awful, horrifying, despair-inducing (and, to be clear, was already the case for many long before now and would have also been so under Harris, eg in Gaza) -- but that despite that, or maybe precisely because of that, we must hope and fight anyway.
Patreonymous
2024-11-11 07:12:34 +0000 UTCAnd for Good Place, too many gems, but maybe either 1:00 ("Earth is a MESS, y'all. Woof") or 4:22: "The system's broken, you guys proved it. I just want to reboot the whole thing and go back to my chambers." https://youtu.be/iRYwkDoxIxg?
Patreonymous
2024-11-11 06:49:05 +0000 UTCCertainly my favorite video game on the Citadel
Tavernaut
2024-11-11 06:42:05 +0000 UTCGot it, this is it this is the one! 3:18 - "In my defense, I believe that assault should be legal if the person is a jerk" https://youtu.be/0aBbeZEUaOk?
Patreonymous
2024-11-11 06:41:03 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/1LS9YPZJwnU?t=75 through to "mostly about humanity"
Karl Zipple
2024-11-11 04:45:03 +0000 UTCJust trying to make Thomas's life a tiny bit easier. And thank you.
Jason Coughenour
2024-11-11 03:42:16 +0000 UTCI'm a big fan of the OA music, it shreds. But much like the art I'm sure you can do something that is great and new
ToddTheOdd
2024-11-11 03:11:04 +0000 UTCI've personally always resonated with "oh, I'm not brave enough for politics" from revenge of the sith
abbott and costello who's on first cross examination
2024-11-11 02:59:11 +0000 UTCRBG: “fight for the things you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you” https://youtu.be/KJyfz71f_1c?t=63&si=4Fdeb3Z-BGgYR0AI
Chris S.
2024-11-11 02:34:44 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/GDm3qr3Zlu0?si=sPV7TTJspSrzY_S_ 0:06 “Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win” from Casablanca
Audrey Arnett
2024-11-11 02:15:12 +0000 UTC14 years old!
Graydon Armstrong
2024-11-11 01:53:18 +0000 UTCI don't have the time to find it right now but there's an early Leverage episode with "the world doesn't work that way" - "then change the world" right at the end. s1e2 the homecoming job I believe, just an idea in case someone's so inclined to track that down
Irene Wendy Wode author of The Grafting Mark, a queer sci fi survival adventure, now querying
2024-11-11 01:15:06 +0000 UTCThe current intro music is a mini-celebration that Thomas is back in charge of the podcast. I feel happy every time.
Jason H
2024-11-11 01:01:33 +0000 UTCYou're a gentleman and a scholar.
William LaFrance
2024-11-11 00:55:10 +0000 UTCDad! This is too hard! Obstacles do not block the path. They ARE the path. https://www.tiktok.com/@vaynerspeakers/video/7333607058756963630
Emily Olsen
2024-11-11 00:47:28 +0000 UTCObi wan’s quote from revenge of the sith “our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendships. But we must persevere. And in time, a new hope will emerge.”
Itswulfy
2024-11-11 00:44:50 +0000 UTCCheck out this speech from the show "Andor" -- which, by the way, just became required viewing for every non-MAGA out there, in my opinion. --------------- "There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. "Remember this: Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. "Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. "And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. "Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege. "Remember this: "Try." -------------------------------------- https://youtu.be/-asb8zTiuZ4
Maytree
2024-11-11 00:35:16 +0000 UTChttps://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFErwEjM/ James Baldwin "The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people."
Aminah
2024-11-11 00:33:26 +0000 UTCNice, my favorite video game of all time.
Grant Cosper
2024-11-11 00:33:20 +0000 UTCThe ERA being read aloud by Linda Johnson Robb: Equality of Rights shall not be denied or Abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex! 0:03 here: https://youtu.be/Y5mEJInnC2A?si=GLH9O56Fsywg7et-
Carrie Leigh
2024-11-11 00:12:39 +0000 UTCI have always loved the intro music! One vote for not changing it!
Hypercube
2024-11-11 00:11:13 +0000 UTCYES! Thank you, I've been wanting a new intro honestly since the first day this one came out and have been fast-forwarding to skip it every episode, even though I love the instrumentals. I don't get amusement out of bad powerful people being bad or incompetent, just depressed at their existence, and try not to normalize them and their voices in my mental space more than necessary. Apologies, I can't think of any immediate quotes but I think it would be amazing and in the desired spirit to have something from Judge Gen (Maya Rudolph) in The Good Place, and/or Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) from Parks and Rec.
Patreonymous
2024-11-11 00:09:34 +0000 UTC@35 seconds "I'm the Secretary of Energy. He won a contest and got to be a cabinet member." From the movie Idiocracy. https://youtu.be/S8s-Xx7aJsg?si=NeQXQAXLnMLW_WZE
Shad Riley
2024-11-11 00:07:15 +0000 UTCPBS's remix of Julia Child feels like an anthem for some reason. The section: "I like to smell something cooking, it makes me feel at home. Bring on the roasted potatoes! Bring on the Montrachet!" makes me cry. 😅 0:45 here: https://youtu.be/80ZrUI7RNfI?si=ipulzQQNq_oFZlWM
Carrie Leigh
2024-11-11 00:03:50 +0000 UTCThe whole thing is too long, but you could clip something from Paul Giamatti reciting Churchhill. https://youtu.be/DEtLlGSxqhs?si=dmSAebwtHaGGbH7-
Gmork
2024-11-11 00:01:10 +0000 UTC4 seconds thru 14 seconds is the most obvious decision you will ever make. https://youtu.be/Ylu0O0_rTMI?si=sJdicLnqn87CSsfY
A master Satanist is never to be taken lightly
2024-11-10 23:55:17 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/-xHTE65ngyk?si=fxgliTLU_Wd5XJfY Lance Riddick on IASIP on handling bad news.
Gmork
2024-11-10 23:55:07 +0000 UTCA classic from hamilton. https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJ6lX0BTTidpxL-jetVxsU585QcP5EN9x?si=-l6z_bDCoqYR054l
Jason Coughenour
2024-11-10 23:54:30 +0000 UTC" we cant just give up" Aron Ra https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxhSdC5iHrarCLDIouOoD6F2M0TUd781-y?si=vh55buenud9OSRcd
NSaneAtheist
2024-11-10 23:53:43 +0000 UTCMost of the quotes from this trailer from Mass Effect 2. Corny, but legit inspirational over the music. https://youtu.be/lx9sPQpjgjU?si=YO8KPsHAEm7gfepE
Gmork
2024-11-10 23:53:22 +0000 UTChttps://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxt5z6heU6E5htRXNrcLRHmHnUd12GIdhz?si=ZE3p2u1zbhs9GU9V Aron Ra
NSaneAtheist
2024-11-10 23:52:27 +0000 UTC"I feel comfortable using legal jargon in everyday life." [Guy whistles] "I object!" https://youtu.be/pJUGDghqnKY?si=0T2vgWuv6XPt6zC3 Or the classic: "You...got into Harvard Law?" "What, like it's hard?" https://youtu.be/3P_4qs6rp78?si=18auLp4UQOPkZqKF
FROTUS
2024-11-10 23:52:23 +0000 UTCJohn Adams tv show from President Adams at 1:04, “Government by fear is no government at all.” https://youtu.be/lwl5N0Nc8y0?si=Gr3x-38VzD-4UIdC
Ryan
2024-11-10 23:50:10 +0000 UTC"People like Coldplay and voting for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LEK6VYjtQ0
Astro
2024-11-10 23:46:29 +0000 UTChttps://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJ6lX0BTTidpxL-jetVxsU585QcP5EN9x?si=-l6z_bDCoqYR054l
Jason Coughenour
2024-11-10 23:45:56 +0000 UTCLucille Ball: "Call off your dog. I might bite him. I might bite you too." https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFEjc9c1/
Carrie Leigh
2024-11-10 23:42:47 +0000 UTChttps://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJE-W6mw7iM_ZFYnhMABK3pXKOUH-sTN6?si=9i_nfOLAhbWBlQz3
Jason Coughenour
2024-11-10 23:41:50 +0000 UTC"Nothing in this world that's worth having, comes easy" https://clip.cafe/e/428617
Astro
2024-11-10 23:41:39 +0000 UTCThis one’s great. Can we also have his 7 words you can’t say on TV?
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:39:51 +0000 UTC45s is also pretty good
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:37:43 +0000 UTCSome good trouble maybe? 0:20 in https://youtu.be/NjduuQd58J4?si=Fm6PmRe2IpnLG2Mc
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:36:43 +0000 UTCMore or less anything from this Futurama clip, but I'm partial to: "...We favor unreasonably large subsidies for the brain slug planet" "Ok, but what are the brain slugs that control you going to do for the working man?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKdRTfcZ2N4
Mike Bifulco
2024-11-10 23:36:30 +0000 UTChttps://movie-sounds.org/quotes/464/well-let-me-just-warn-you-i'm-gonna-go-through-with-this-and-the-more-everybody-fucks-with-me-the-more-i-wanna-gut-it-out.mp3 https://movie-sounds.org/quotes/297/you-can-overcome-any-adversary-no-matter-how-bizarre-their-powers-may-seem-there-is-always-a-way.mp3 https://movie-sounds.org/quotes/231/even-the-smallest-person-can-change-the-course-of-the-future.mp3
Drew Vogel
2024-11-10 23:36:23 +0000 UTCThis got played at some point in the OA past, and it's always brought me some amount of hope since. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx3dGh8RxHJR3R0yUVtRU3i3YHoK9bbEry?si=7FOKBn1Dm4RGHDRE
Jason Coughenour
2024-11-10 23:36:05 +0000 UTCWithout the background music it’s 1:00 in this clip https://youtu.be/X1hETEbLpgU?si=ldniKqpDorCDL81T
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:35:12 +0000 UTCSorry for the comment spamming, 30s seconds into this clip is a nice little line https://youtube.com/shorts/8xJL0fNuG6A?si=OuNX9oVr9CJHfIyo
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:33:55 +0000 UTCI apologize for not having the clip handy, but I think Steel asking the judge in the Young Thug case if he can be jailed with his client to prep the case deserves a spot.
Steno Pun'd it
2024-11-10 23:32:40 +0000 UTCThis part of Howard Beale's rant from Network is apropos. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4aiA17YsM&t=98s
Dr. Clerk
2024-11-10 23:32:15 +0000 UTC1:18 in this clip maybe? https://youtu.be/A9jI7id8c1Q?si=eoTLF0o6F7PjKq9G
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:31:26 +0000 UTChttps://www.tiktok.com/@upnorth905/video/7385253930793553158 (Timestamp for 1:43) Shoresy: Never lose again. Nat: What? Shoresy: "This team will never lose again"
Astro
2024-11-10 23:30:44 +0000 UTCThank You for Smoking: There is no best government. There is no measure by which we determine which government is the best. The American government may be the most entertaining, but it is not the best.
Lisa S
2024-11-10 23:29:39 +0000 UTCI don’t have a link for it, but the quote is: 'The Great Debaters' (2007) "We must never kneel down before the tyranny of a majority."—Jurnee Smollett (Samantha Booke)
Lisa S
2024-11-10 23:28:13 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/n0wWHTMMuSc?si=qNwNBlr1zNBPfiij 0:16 or so to the end. "That there's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
Alex Dunn
2024-11-10 23:27:20 +0000 UTCMaya Angelou's And Still I Rise. Or Morgan Freeman reading Invictus.
Tara Churchill
2024-11-10 23:27:15 +0000 UTCCharlie Chaplin’s speech in the great dictator has got some good lines. Mainly from 1:20 onwards. https://youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?si=3CE1nU29zpK0GKUy
Jack
2024-11-10 23:25:19 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20&t=83 1:23-1:43 ain't bad, but this vids got plenty I'm sure people have heard before.
a.Log
2024-11-10 23:24:29 +0000 UTCSome positivity from Sotomayor. 1:30 in this clip. https://youtu.be/HcMhgKywE1c?si=hcgKetRm_I5MQhXK
Michael Ardron
2024-11-10 23:23:29 +0000 UTCI like this line from A Series of Unfortunate Events. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1NmbqQ44eg&t=192
Dr. Clerk
2024-11-10 23:23:04 +0000 UTCSo, who gives a crap if they're socialists? They could be fascist anarchists. It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car. ~ Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Rick & Sara
2024-11-10 23:21:29 +0000 UTC42nd second to 44th second https://youtu.be/xIraCchPDhk?si=uOaRdiXfV4bTsqVM
Kevin
2024-11-10 23:20:52 +0000 UTC“Though in reviewing the incidents of my administration I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable I may have committed many errors.” -George Washington (speech written by Alexander Hamilton)
William LaFrance
2024-11-10 23:20:30 +0000 UTC
