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Quentin Tarantino's Fascinating Interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Racism and the N-Word in 'Django Unchained'
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A wide-ranging 3-part interview on The Root with Quentin Tarantino conducted by its editor, the Harvard Prof and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. , offers the public a chance to hear Tarantino's thinking about slavery, race, use of the N-word and the making of his latest film, 'Django Unchained.' Prominent figures including Spike Lee have attacked Tarantino in recent days for being disrespectful and exploitative of America's racial past and present in 'Django.' The following are excerpts of some his most interesting remarks:
On working with Jamie Foxx to build the character of the hero, Django:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: I watched Jamie Foxx recently on Leno. He said that he was playing Django with too much self-confidence and bravado at a time when Django had not evolved, and that you sat everyone down and said we have to go back in a time machine and be slaves and imagine what that's like. And he said it was a profound moment for him. Were there any awkward moments with the cast about what you were doing? Did they ever say, "This is too much"?
Quentin Tarantino: Nothing during the making of the movie at all -- and only when it came to just Jamie's arc, at the first day of rehearsal... Frankly, it was a situation where Jamie, being a strong, black male, wanted to be a strong, black male. But we're dealing with the first 15 pages of the movie.
But the more it went on, we kind of just worked all day, and when it was over with, I got together with Jamie, by ourselves, and I said, you know, we don't have a story if Django is already this magnificent heroic figure who just happens to be in chains.
There is also a reality that you need to play here in this opening scene, which is just before this movie has started, you've been walking from Mississippi to Texas. So when we see you, you're half-dead from this walk. There will be people in the opening credit sequence who aren't on that chain gang when we pick it up in the first scene -- so there's this just survival aspect. And they only had so much food, just so you know, for the trip. So they had a little bit of food for you at the beginning, but after that if they don't find an apple tree, you don't eat, and that's just the deal. So you're weak and all this.
I actually took a piece of paper and I made seven X's on it. And I took the little legs of the X's and connected them with little loops, like chains. And I circled the sixth one, in the back. And I go, this is who Django is when we first meet him. The sixth from the seventh in the back. He is not Jim Brown. He is not a superhero. You want to be Jim Brown too soon. It's just that simple. You gotta grow into the jacket. You have to express a lifetime of slavery. You have to express a lifetime lived on the plantation.
Henry Louis Gates: And Jamie said it was a transformative moment immediately.
Quentin Tarantino: Well, he realized that I wasn't asking him to be meek. I wasn't asking him to give up his strength. We have to build it in front of the audience's eyes.
On use of the N-Word:
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Spike Lee's on your ass all the time about using the word "nigger." What would you say to black filmmakers who are offended by the use of the word "nigger" and/or offended by the depictions of the horrors of slavery in the film?
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Corals Call on Fish Bodyguards for Protection
When there's invading seaweed in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Well, a new study by scientists at Georgia Tech shows that when corals are threatened by toxic algae they use chemical signals to call for help from their "bodyguards", the unassuming goby fish.
The study, carried out on coral reefs in Fiji and published in the November 8 issue of the journal Science, shows that within moments of the coral's "911 call" the gobies respond to these chemical distress signals and pick off the offending seaweed. What's in it for the fish? Gobies spend their entire lives with the same patch of coral, using it for protection from predators and even feeding on mucus produced by the coral. It comes as little surprise then that the goby takes any threat to its shelter very seriously.
"The fish are getting protection in a safe place to live and food from the coral," said Mark Hay, a biology professor at Georgia Tech and the study's co-author. "The coral gets a bodyguard in exchange for a small amount of food. It's kind of like paying taxes in exchange for police protection."
For one species of goby, feeding on the toxic algae has the secondary effect of making the fish itself more toxic to predators.
Coral is under threat worldwide from pollution and ocean acidification from human activity. When corals are stressed, aggressive algae competing for sunlit patches of ocean floor can represent a death blow to coral reefs and the magnificent ecosystems they support. At least one fish, though, isn't letting the reef go down without a fight.
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In Panama, A Sad Retreat from the Rising Sea
While the retreat from rising seas may seem like a distant, if abysmal, end-of-the-century scenario, it is in fact already taking place in some low-lying island communities. For the Guna (pronounced "Kuna") people of Panama the abandonment of their ancestral homeland, the San Blas Islands, has become the only option after frequent floods have made their way of life impossible.
While the flooding of the San Blas Islands is partly a consequence of rising sea levels, the Guna are not entirely blameless. Coral reefs that once surrounded and buffered the islands from storm surges and flooding have been destroyed after decades of exploitation (ironically, the Guna mined the reefs to build up the islands). It has been enough, according to Reuters "to submerge the Caribbean islands for days on end".
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Google Earth Tour of a More Acidic World
Above is a good primer on ocean acidification narrated by Dan Laffoley of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The video spans the vulnerable corals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the equally vulnerable shellfish industry of the Pacific Northwest, detailing the potential effects of a more acidic ocean.
To those unfamiliar with global warming's "evil twin", the video does a good job of explaining the basics of ocean acidification: simply put, carbon dioxide reacts with ocean water to make carbonic acid. The ocean absorbs about a quarter of civilization's carbon dioxide emissions, and as a result they are now 30 percent more acidic than before the industrial revolution. What does this mean for animals like clams, corals, or oysters that rely on a more stable pH range to build their calcium carbonate skeletons and shells?
Mother nature has provided some of her own experiments, as documented in the video. Near Vesuvius in the Mediterranean carbon dioxide bubbles up from below, rendering a glimpse in to a future, more acidic, and bleaker ocean. Closer to the vents, where the water is more saturated with carbon dioxide, the communities of life become less diverse and invasive algaes thrive.
Off of Australia, the Great Barrier Reef is already struggling in the new man-made environment. As more and more acidic water continues to erode the corals in the coming decades, these ecosystems of otherworldly beauty and diversity could simply go extinct.
Perhaps most worrisome of all is the effect of acidification on pteropods, a shell forming plankton at the very bottom of the ocean's food web, nicknamed the "potato chips of the sea". These animals are especially vulnerable to acidification, and as the narrator ominously intones: "If their shells dissolve a critical part of the food web dissolves with them".
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Sandy and Climate Change
As a record-breaking hurricane pummeled the Northeast almost into November--this on the heels of a scorching summer that saw arctic ice shrivel to its smallest extent ever recorded--the specter of climate change lurks just under the surface of any discussion of what can only be described as our freakish recent weather.
Climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research talked to Slate about Sandy:
Most of what is going on with Sandy is weather, and there is a large chance element to it, but it is all occurring in an environment where the ocean is a bit warmer, the air above the ocean is warmer and moister, and that is fuel for the storm and especially adds to the risk of heavy rainfalls and flooding.
After the necessary caveats about tying any one event to global warming, the New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert despairs about the notable absence of the elephant-in-the-room issue in our electoral politics.
The storm fits the general pattern in North America, and indeed around the world, toward more extreme weather, a pattern that, increasingly, can be attributed to climate change . . ."
Coming as it is just a week before Election Day, Sandy makes the fact that climate change has been entirely ignored during this campaign seem all the more grotesque. In a year of record-breaking temperatures across the U.S., record drought conditions in the country's corn belt, and now a record storm affecting the nation's most populous cities, neither candidate found the issue to be worthy of discussion."
Environmentalist and journalist Bill McKibben, who earlier this year penned a jeremiad in Rolling Stone about climate change that went viral, sees in Sandy a frightful spectacle not unlike Frankenstein's monster, as he writes in the Daily Beast:
Our relationship to the world around us is shifting as fast as that world is shifting. "Frankenstorm" is the right name for Sandy, and indeed for many other storms and droughts and heat waves now. They're stitched together from some spooky combination of the natural and the unnatural.
Sandy was likely influenced by a combination of factors that we know are tied to climate change such as a melting Arctic, a warming Atlantic Ocean and rising sea levels, but to what extent is not yet known. But under the water, and out of sight, the effects of emissions are just as severe. The oceans are absorbing 90 percent of the heat from climate change and carbon dioxide emissions absorbed by the oceans have led to a 30 percent increase in the ocean's acidity since the Industrial Revolution, a trend that threatens to topple coral reefs and food chains worldwide in the coming decades.
Learn more about climate change, what Oceana is doing to fight it, and what you can do to help.
Oceana Ranger Explores Spanish Seamounts
Our friends in Europe have wrapped up the Oceana Ranger's 2012 expedition, capturing more than 100 hours of footage documenting the incredible variety of life, both familiar and bizarre, living on underwater mountains known as seamounts off the coast of Spain and Portugal. What they documented, as seen in these pictures taken at the Seco de los Olivos or Chella Bank seamount a mere 10 miles off the coast of El Ejido, Spain, seems fitting in the run-up to Halloween. Above, the ghoulish specter of a rough shark approaches the Ranger's underwater robot, or ROV. Below, a posse of some 20 conger eels peek out from the sheer face of a seamount cliff.
Oceana's work on the seamount has uncovered octopus, monkfish, Norway lobster, coral communities and even a carnivorous sponge. As Ricardo Aguilar, Research Director of Oceana in Europe says, this is truly unique habitat and one that can be destroyed in an instant by such human activities as bottom trawling:
"The images obtained . . . have confirmed that fact that Seco de los Olivos is one of the marine areas with the highest environmental interest in Spain. However, as this is a small seamount, relatively close to the shore, it is in a state of constant deterioration from recreational and commercial fishing, and so management of the area is urgently needed if we want to preserve its abundant natural wealth".
Using this footage, in 2013 Oceana will be joining a coordinated effort to try to put conservation measures in place for these biodiversity hotspots. Learn more about the Oceana Ranger here.
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Baiji, Vaquitas, Extinction and You
In this thought-provoking piece on the National Geographic's Ocean Views blog, Mediterranean Science Commission director general Frederic Briand discusses the precarious and uncertain fate of ocean creatures staring down extinction. About sharks and rays he writes:
These are not target species in Mediterranean fisheries but increasingly threatened, as unreported bycatch, by highly intensive fishing and bottom trawl. The status of many of them is unclear, even for species as conspicuous as the sawfish Pristis pectinata (last seen in 1902), the mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus, or the sandtiger sharks Carcharias taurus and Odontaspis ferox, once abundant and now presumed locally extinct.
But it is the baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, the first marine mammal to go extinct in modern times, that captures the imagination--the passenger pigeon or dodo for our day.
Nearly blind, the baiji patrolled the turbid waters of the Yangtze River for millenia but has not been seen in almost a decade. It was declared extinct earlier this year by the Chinese government. The dolphin likely succumbed to decades of development, pollution, entanglements in fishing gear, ship strikes and an increasingly chaotic acoustic environment in the Yangtze that proved lethal to a species almost entirely dependent on sound to communicate, find food and find mates.
Now the vaquita, a porpoise in the Sea of Cortez (literally "little cow") takes up the unenviable mantle of most endangered cetacean in the world. The largest threat faced by the vaquita are gillnets.
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©OCEANA Juan Cuetos
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Anchovy Poop Fights Global Warming
Add fish poop to the growing list of unlikely allies in the fight against global warming. A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports outlines the critical role small forage fish, in particular northern anchovies, play in burying carbon in the deep sea.
It turns out that small fish like anchovies, smelt and sardines are a major component of the so-called "biological pump" that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and sequesters it in the deep, where it can no longer contribute to global warming. That pump begins with photosynthetic, carbon dioxide-absorbing, single-celled algae, like the wonderfully intricate diatoms and dinoflagellates, at the ocean surface. Anchovies then feed on the algae, digest it and release it as fecal pellets which sink to the ocean bottom.
At 22 micrograms of carbon per pellet, the contribution might seem inconsequential, but as the study's authors, Dr. Grace Saba of Rutgers University and professor Deborah Steinberg of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, explain, the cumulative effect on the carbon cycle by large schools of small forage fish could be considerable.
"Our findings show that—given the right conditions—fish fecal pellets can transport significant amounts of repackaged surface material to depth, and do so relatively quickly," says Saba.
Those "right conditions" are found off of the western coasts of North and South America where cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep upwells along the continental shelf, and subsequently drive the production of enormous schools of small fish and invertebrates. It's these conditions that are responsible for Peru's anchovy industry or California's iconic sardine industry immortalized in Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
But besides delivering carbon to the deep, forage fish also play a critical role in the larger foodweb, feeding whales, dolphins, seals, larger fish and seabirds. For all these reasons it's critical to employ science-based fisheries management to prevent the collapse of this vital resource. Unfortunately, that has not been the trajectory of forage fisheries management in the Pacific. Learn more about forage fish and Oceana's work to conserve these small but invaluable species.
Ranger Expedition Uncovers Seamount Life, Pollution
In the past few weeks Oceana's Ranger expedition has been exploring a series of underwater mountains 130 miles West of Portugal known as the Gorringe bank. Formed along with the Atlantic Ocean as Pangaea pulled apart 145 to 155 million years ago, the Gorringe bank juts from depths of as much as 16,000 feet to only 100 feet below the surface. These underwater mountain ranges are a hotspot for marine life, as nutrient rich water upwells to the seamount peaks.
Closer to the surface a familiar parade of whales, dolphins, swordfish and barracuda visit lush kelp forests, while shearwaters and petrels circle above. As you dive deeper though, as the Ranger expedition has with its underwater robot (ROV), you enter a somewhat stranger world, but one that is no less diverse. This is the domain of the dragon fish, the fan corals, the otherworldly deep-sea sharks, the churlish-looking pink frogmouth and still more species unknown to science. Other animals are ambassadors of the deep, patrolling up and down the seamounts in search of prey
"During last year's expedition we found some new species whose existence in the Gorringe was unknown, such as branching black coral, hydrocoral, dogfish, bird's nest sponge, and various gorgonia", says Ricardo Aguilar, Director of Research at Oceana in Europe. "There are dozens of species which have not been identified yet. We hope that they will provide new data on these ecosystems, and facilitate the protection and conservation of this unique enclave."
Unfortunately, as the ranger expedition has also discovered, this habitat is also home to an increasing amount of trash, especially abandoned fishing gear.
By documenting and exploring habitat, Oceana is gathering data about this unique ecosystem that will be crucial in formulating conservation plans that will hopefully protect the area from malign human influences like pollution and bottom trawling.
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James Bonding #005: GOLDFINGER with Alie and Georgia
By Katie Levine on October 3, 2013
Alie and Georgia come on the podcast to talk about the controversy they found in Goldfinger!
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Love the show! I too am looking forward to the Moore years.
Please consider doing Goldfinger again w/o the harpies. Not much Goldfinger got discussed.
Please have more women on the show BUT pick someone who has a) seen some Bond movies and b) seen ANY movie made before 1980. Also someone who knows who to have a conversation.
"Why were the credits so long?!" Really?
Love this podcast but this one was a bit chore to get through, especially when they went way off topic all the time and the hating (typically hipster practice) rather than pointing fun.
I don't want to listen to people shit all over the movie. It's not very fun.
I sent my Bond nerdist buddy to this podcast to check it out and of coarse he landed on episode 5 before I had listened to it. Hey, podcasts and commentaries aren't for everyone but I was a little surprised at how much he HATED it. Having listened now I didn't hate it but I had the first episodes to go on. I did think this episode could have been edited and overall it was about and 80 minutes too long.
Today I hope to listen this very special episode of Bonding over Bond. I hope I laugh. I hope to have my own opinion, and I do find it fascinating that the Matts invited guests who do not like Bond. (Well I gathered that from the comments, since I have not listened to it yet) I don't have people who hate Doctor Who on my Doctor Who podcast. I understand there are people like that exist, and that is totally cool. Not everyone needs to love the same thing, but I don't have them on the show. Sounds counter productive. Well I will leave a follow up not that I think the Matts should change their show to what I think.
Look at those intellectual posers, Allie and Georgia, appropriating only the "cool" bits of retro culture, skimming the surface to create personas based 100% on the aesthetics of a cultural era that seems to deeply offend their so clearly superior feminist sensibilities. LOL – hypocrites. And no, I wouldn't be this harsh if they hadn't been. It's bad enough you don't have an original idea in your heads (your critiques were painfully tired and nothing we haven't heard a million times from tween feminists before), but what's worse is that you both present your appearance based on an era you have nothing but contempt for. But wait…I just thought of something…
Is this some cooler-than-thou hipster statement about "embracing your chains" or something? Ahhhhh…now I get it. I'm in awe. You're both sooooo "cool".
I cannot imagine being trapped in a room with these shrill children for even 10 minutes, let alone 2 hours. Terrible episode, but Matt and Matt certainly have my respect for getting through it. Goldfinger really deserved better.
I have now listen this episode. I think I understand why people have such a strong reaction to this episode. The fact that they both admit they disliked Bond was a problem. The fact that five minutes in to it, they tell the audience whom most likely only enjoyed was because their father did (which is probably true) and that their father's beat and locked their mom in the closet was not putting your best foot forward.
I listened this episode and some good points were raised, but not as many or novel as the hosts may have believed.
*The fact that they both admit they disliked Bond was not a problem. The fact they insult the audience for enjoying Bond is why there is such a strong negative reaction. I laughed some, so thanks Matts. Look forward to future episodes.
Are they both Lesbians or is it just Alison. In my day they would have got a good toe punt in the guts for that kind of spirited opinion spurting. but afterwards i would be all kind and get them to stop crying, and they would be all sweet and nice again. I am not made of stone and i would accept their apology for making me hurt them and then i would buy them something pretty.
I really enjoyed this podcast, I really enjoyed Alie and Georgia. I disagree with them and think Bond is great, i totally agree with all the points they made. I can do both. I would like to hear their views on the modern take on Bond but also understand if they don't want to. Nothing should be for everyone, that would be rubbish.
Loved every bit of this episode. C'mon nerds, let's get with the program. If you don't like people shitting on Bond movies in a funny way, you might want to not listen for like HALF of the following podcast episodes. Especially Thunderball. And you're just gonna have to deal with ladies shitting on Bond for being a misogynist. I know it's hard, and you really really don't want to hear it, but it's better to have a good sense of humor about things that you enjoy that are clearly dated in awful, glaring ways than to act like something is wrong when someone pokes holes in something you love during a comedy podcast.
Did you listen to another podcast about Goldfinger where there was comedy?
Do you have the link for that.
B/c I didn't hear a whole lot of comedy here in this episode.
I did hear an ill prepared rant by two women who dress like subjugated 50's housewives.
If there had been comedy maybe 99% of the commentators here might have found more to enjoy.
Comedy- hey – that would have been a good idea.
There's tons of comedy in that episode. Look, if you listened to that episode, and all you heard was two women who dress like subjugated 50's housewives ranting then you've got some REAL WORLD issues here. Like, issues worth pointing out and highlighting when comparing 1950's/1960's era misogyny with today's world. So, uhhhh, at least your wounded pride is topical?
Who said anything about pride?
That makes zero sense.
I think maybe it's hypocritical to wear the virtual uniform of an era
where women were practically forced to stay at home be pretty
and have dinner ready b/c you like the fashion and then take a zero tolerance policy against a movie made in decades past in a very different time socially but Not be able in the least to see anything through the lens to find anything redeeming about the movie b/c the would somehow endorse misogyny??
And for what it's worth I love the betty paige- drive in red listick style.
B/c I can divorce something as trivial as fashion from larger more impactful issues of equality and humanism.
I also know what fuc*ing forum is appropriate to bring this issues up
for debate and what places are just about entertainment and trust in understanding what everyone is here for.
I was erring on the side of "my pride was hurt and that's why I thought it was necessary to attack these women by insinuating that the way they dress indicates any kind of support towards an offensive sexist stereotype." The alternative reasoning behind that argument frankly doesn't say a lot of nice things about you as a person, but I wanted to grant you the benefit of the doubt.
It's also nice that you can divorce "something as trivial as fashion from larger, more impactful issues of equality and humanism," and that makes you an excellent judge as to whether or not other people can do the same thing? And that apparently do not have a sense of humor at all about it?
Look, I don't want to fight with you, or anyone here. I loved the episode, not only because I thought it was really funny (Barbara Broccoli as a Bond Girl had me laughing really hard), but because it had actual things to say in a current-day viewing of an old film that has some truly terrible sexist characters/events, and because it had more to say than just rehashing the plot, and because it's worthwhile to get a perspective on a Bond film from people not familiar or even positive towards the Bond franchise. And most of all, because Alie and Georgia were funny and not the least bit apologetic about their views. James Bond IS an unrepentant, misognystic asshole – and it's okay to make fun of him, the movies, and the people who love them both for that reason! Notice that Matt and Matt didn't call them out on what they were wearing or say, "you're being hypocritical!" They didn't say, "hey, you have to love Bond to be on this show," or get really defensive when two women started making fun of something they loved. They actually hoped that their fans would see the humor in poking holes in this plot, and these characters, and how frankly AWFUL it all appears today.
I have to think they're probably as disappointed as I am to scroll through a lot of these comments and find out they were wrong.
I never attacked anyone and if anyone is any kind of hurty it is you- Sir?
I made a point that is considerable given the laser seriousness they brought to an otherwise light heated podcast about a movie that was Never meant to convey the absolute truth and justice of morality and sexual identity.
Even typing that out seems silly
It was the wrong message
on the wrong podcast about the wrong thing.
It was maybe the most redundant commentary in film.
Early James Bond movies contained themes of sexism.
No sh*t.
Being insightful is in part knowing when what you want to say has Already been said and either contributing something new or knowing
when to hold.
I found these two guests to be able to do neither.
As for comedy- that I suppose is subjective.
But I am clearly not the only one with a well founded and substantiated opinion that their comments had heaping amounts of vitriol and straight up attack mode for anyone enjoying this film or any James Bond movie.
They made it a crusade to scorch the earth.
What about the fact that he has a license to kill?
Where was the debate about gun control?
Why not enter into that discussion?
Why? Because it would be inappropriate and
boorish to do so here.
Also because James Bond is damn Fictional character.
Remember that?
And Who are you to speak for them?
" They actually hoped that their fans would see the humor in poking holes in this plot"
How the hell do you know what they thought?
This was the wrong fight in the wrong venue.
And finally since you decided to extrapolate what a few comments I have made say about me as a person in a larger sense – allow me a go-
They don't know – they don't care what you have to say- and they're not going to be besties with you because you "get it"
That's not a lance that's a sonic screwdriver from Toys -r-us- that's not a horse it's a moped
Get back on it and go home.
Hey, just wanted to say I love James Bonding and I'm enjoying every episode. I have a request, it's probably stupid but I'm trying anyway. I just got done with the Goldfinger episode and I'm asking: Can we please get a do-over? I understand why you had the two feminists on the show because you wanted a fresh perspective on what's probably the most sexist entry in the series, but I felt like they completely impeded you guys from analyzing the film like you have in all the other episodes. I love both of your takes on each film and since Goldfinger is one of my favorites I feel like so much content got passed over. At the end of the day it's your show and I'll keep listening to each episode regardless of whether or not you even read this. Keep up the awesome work.
I'll second that. I'd love to hear Matt and Matt take another shot at Goldfinger.
Fun fact: the number of rows of text in your pointless argument is directly proportionate to how hurt you are by the other party.
In other news, can someone explain the concept of "white knighting"? Apparently, it's a thing. It seems like empty attack words when someone defends something, but I'd like to know what I'm talking about before I shit my half-baked hypotheses into the angry, hateful mouths gathered before me.
Hey Dude and Bob:
Did Allie and/or Georgia track you guys down, friend you on Facebook, and give you sex as a reward for defending their online honor? Cuz, boy lemme tell you – chicks love the white knight act.
Clint, punks. Sack up.
Oh dear…
Oh, and happy 100th everyone! Let's keep this going for a really long time!
POW! The white knights are pouring out of the woodwork. Go on with your bad self, Picklemeth!
And if you want to know about white knighting, it's called "Google". Yes, it's also a "thing".
ZING! Got me!
So this "Google" tells me that "white knighting" means defending someone, possibly in hopes of recognition. I only know Alie and Georgia from this, and an episode of Jonah Raydio. They are not a part of my life at all, and I don't really care what they think of me. They also probably aren't reading the 100+ comments here. I just disagree with the majority here. No bullshit internet slang necessary, just differing opinions.
Ahhhh, yes. In order to disagree, I must be white knighting or must have received/ must be expecting sex in return. A classy, moral high ground argument from a classy fella.
This was a good episode, I enjoyed it (as I have all the episodes, and all the Bond movies), and these comments have shown me that it was worth it. You all wanna rage on about those not-really-feminist shrill bitches ruining your Bond flick comedy podcast, go for it. Didn't mean hold up the momentum for the MRA pep rally. You guys go crazy.
Man you've just got me All figured out.
How about this- GO FU*K Yourself?
No more justified argument – no substantiated opinion or debate.
I am just going to tell you to SHUT UP.
Stop talking.
GO Away.
You don't know me- or these women and the degree and scope that you seem comfortable in assessing the totality of people is nearing
sociopath levels
Shut Your Diet Tab hole.
I was completely unaware that sex was a possibility. I would like to change my previous comment to one of total support for this episode. I too am a staunch feminist and enjoyed the lack of bondversation more than anything. I hope future installments are equally bereft of commentary about bond films. Might I suggest members from the Animal Liberation Front for Thunderball? Is there a specific process for collecting on my sexual favors?
I'll second that second. I'd love to hear Matt and Matt take another shot at Goldfinger. With some who isn't surprised by the sixties.
Hey ericmci, if you desperately want everyone to shut up, you could just stop reading these comments. I think you've had your views validated by enough people, right? You can be done here. You don't need any more INEXplicably
Where- Show me where I said everyone.
One dude keeps calling me out specifically.
And for once I felt like addressing blow for blow.
That seems pretty clear.(for anyone who bothered to read it)
Anyone who didn't bother to read this- Two sided rant, good for you.
So either stay out of it or go back and read the whole exchange
before You comment on it.
iS ThAt o-K w/ith You?
Oops, my mistake! Please reread my previous comment, but replace "everyone" with "that one guy", then give me an intelligent response. Sorry for the confusion. <3
When you ask an intelligent question maybe you'll get an appropriate response.
And coming into a conversation like this- what is your stake in it?
Why would you care enough to sit down and try and pry into it?
I personally want it to end, but you just seem eager to participate?
And let's Really get into it.
You apparently deem yourself qualified to gauge intelligence based on what?
Feel free to post your CV, any post college accomplishments, letters of note.
I mean we want to make sure everything here is official and vetted right?
Maybe you should drop your email as well.
It seems like you and the other esteemed scholar might have a lot and common. Maybe you could grab a Lime-A-Rita together.
I suggested you stop reading this shit, and you just posted a long attack comment, which seems to be almost entirely based on my use of the word "intelligent". But you're the one who wants this to end, and I'm the one keeping this going? I love you.
You're great!
LOL! Picklemeth's got a crush. This is so great. You probably think you're coming off all slick and casual about this, don't you?
Kid, you aren't fooling anyone. Reality:
He wears the armor, and it is white like sweet, sweet cocaine.
When he sees a damsel in distress, online of course, he rushes to their side.
The reckless misogyny and rape apologist behavior of James Bond will not stand – not on his watch!
He calls himself Picklemeth. And if you girls ever need a shoulder to cry on, if you ever need someone to talk about how frustrated you are with your boyfriends, if you ever need a really solid "friend" (*who will be pining for you sexually and harbor deep feelings for you and masturbate to thoughts of you returning those feelings -which you never will- after you leave), Picklemeth is your guy. The friend who *could* be something more…right?
Sounds about right. What's your excuse?
I'm a complete asshole.
I like your style!
I've always thought of myself as an asshole as well. Can't that be my motive instead of fantasizing about being pussywhipped?
Other than that, I'm just about done here. Bye everyone! I'll never forget you!
I dunno – I'm on the fence, as it's not really selling for you. Maybe more with the "asshole" piece, less with the "rescuing the damsels" material? Food for throught. Though, you did handle the rage guy pretty well. Kudos for that.
I don't care about rescuing the damsels. Fuck those cunts.
Top marks!
So, Octopussy anyone?
Sanity will return in, Live and let live.
Bwada da bwada da, ba ba ba da da.
I Heart Nerd Rage :).
Oh man, the new episode is on iTunes now, and you guys are gonna hate it!
The problem is: they weren't fans. I agree with most all of their points, but you catch more flies with honey. This podcast hadn't previously been a Huffington Post article, but it became one, and that's a bit misleading for regular listeners, and you simply can't blame them for their reaction.
Some people have fragile tastes, and sometimes those escapes are the ONLY things they can enjoy in their shitty day at their shitty job. Some peoples' enjoyment is easily tainted, and if they go into a podcast made by people who typically reinforce their tastes but instead wind up having to listen to people who hate it, they're gonna be pissed. To expect less would be silly, and it would be elitist to say that only the content-makers get a say in what worked and what didn't. And I'm pro-content-makers, for sure, and the way some people have expressed themselves here is stupid as hell, but sometimes I DO have to blame bad content choices regardless. Amateur nitpicky criticism is one of my least favorite modern trends. It's horrible. But sometimes it's… well… a lot more than a nitpick.
At the very least, it would've been better if the observations were more matter-of-fact, and less pushy. Be a set of eyes, absorb it, don't let your social complaints possess you, and you can actually express them more clearly in the end. Do you have the right to watch it however you want? Yes, but it's not all about rights. The right to say whatever you want about anything you want, the right to watch stuff how you choose to watch it and so on… that's what got us YouTube comment sections. No, as much as the move toward looseness in entertainment is probably a good thing, a little professionalism in production choices isn't going to hurt you. It's not unlike the whole Dork Fork thing that happened a while back; just because your network is all about positivity and the content is free doesn't mean it's beneficial to shit on an overwhelmingly put-off audience. Instead, call a production meeting. Fix some stuff. Or, yunno, if you really believe in it, don't fix anything… but don't complain about people on the internet complaining. You get to do your thing, and you have a big audience. Isn't that enough?
(The above advice doesn't have so much to do with this ep, but could be listened to by many Nerdist network hosts. I've seen an above-average clustering of these incidents around here.)
Now… this episode was simply a bad call because it didn't sell anybody on anything. It was a book-burning. Any sexist idiots who heard it are still idiots. On the other hand, a fan review could have actually enlightened some people. Beyond an element of spectacle, it just wasn't entertaining… and yunno, that's not the end of the world. Quality control is still a thing. You're getting ad dollars. And really, if I wanted to watch somebody do whatever they wanted without any accountability, I'd watch the rednecks across the street smoking on their porch all day.
I love you with all my heart, boys.
I'm female. I'm gay. When I saw Goldfinger as a kid I wanted to be Bond and hug Pussy Galore. When I was a teenager I wanted to be Pussy Galore and do the flight squad. That kind of projection is common – kids with capes. Quoting Plinkett, "It's not the character, it's the idea of the character". I won't stoop to a personal attack on the guest hosts – everyone grows and discovers they didn't know half as much as they once thought they did.
Yeah, after comments not only about the chauvinism, but about long opening title sequence and "janky" GPS, I had to call it quits on this episode. Don't watch a movie from the sixties and be surprised that it is from the sixties. I get thinking the chauvinism is bad, because it is, but would they also rip on Citizen Kane for being black and white?
This is why I prefer the company of men.
This is my favorite episode as of yet of a podcast I very much enjoy. Please try to have them back for another episode or ten. And thank you for doing the podcast.
At the risk of taking the side of some of the huge idiots in this thread…I really wish you stuck to people that like the Bond movies. ESPECIALLY for Goldfinger. I was looking forward to an in-depth discussion of the quintessential Bond movie, but it really got sidetracked. And it's not like I disagree, but the podcast got so vitriolic that I couldn't enjoy it. Was it an interesting discussion? Well, maybe at first. It got to the point of hyperbole and nothing was really being discussed, they were just jumping on every topic with the same approach.
I'm coming late to this comment party, but I'll chip in my thoughts anyway. The episode was good for me, but think a little more structure could have improved it. Alie and Georgia seem to stymie any further conversation, which stopped interesting trivia from coming out. If Matt & Matt could have channeled them into a quick "Top 5 most insulting moments" or allowed a quick "what is wrong with this scene" then they could have moved on with other stuff.
Still, I like the theory of bringing in newbies to the Bond franchise and if they hate the movie, then that's fine. The episode can still be interesting. But maybe a bit of structure could carry the episodes through the awkward parts.
Speaking of which, I would like to see a Tropes segment. Bond has his own tropes, so it would be fun to call them out. If not a segment, then just calling them out right before you say it.
I made it 45 minutes through before switching off. Such negative guests. Even valid points presented so negatively without humour became awful to listen too. Super obnoxious guests. Ah well – onwards and upwards!
So…yes, I was annoyed at first but now looking back on early Bond films, holy crap. Bond WAS such a psycho! It was like Mad Men without the examination and justification. lol
Great job Allie and Georgia. I respect you. No, I'm not "White Knighting," I was genuinely annoyed but then I dropped my entitlement issues and realized…dude, Bond was fucked in the head.
Still love these films no matter what.
These broads are really annoying. Had to bail on this episode.


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I have a lot of trouble with girl names so this is tough! Assuming DH was happy with them, I suppose...
Clara Margaret
Hazel Katherine
Jane (Janie) Caroline
All middles are honour names. And I'm torn on the last one because I'm crushing on June a little, and it might fit a bit better, but I've loved Janie since I was a kid and just don't have the same affection for Junie.
May 6th, 2013 11:21 AM #45
Jane Cosima | Jude Caspian
Fiona*Thea*Gwyneth*Alice*Evangeline*Bridget*Lucy*M aren*Faye*Rosalind*Naomi
{middle names}Lotus~Athena~Annika~Eleanor
{honor middles}Florence~Constance~Lorraine
Oren*Lars*Bram*Griffin*Nolan*Otis*Dylan*River*Pier ce*Asher*Rhett
{middle names}Drake~Caspian~Caius~Penn
{honor middles}Wolf~Edward/Edmund~August
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Savanna Italia Macy - I prefer no h on Savanna b/c it's more reminiscent of the environment (not the city). Italia is Italian for the country itself, a wonder place I'l love to travel to. Macy is a cute spunky name I've always liked, but never felt belonged in the first spot.
Caroline Vienna Joy - Caroline is so beautiful and reminds me of Caroline Kennedy. Joy is an attractive one syllable middle that I don't know why it's used more. Vienna is a gorgeous place name that sounds lovely.
Genevieve Luna Sage - Genevieve is so elegant and sounds beautifully French. Luna is modern and associated with the moon. Sage is adorable and my favorite of unisex names.
All of mine have 3 syllable first names. Plus, they all have exactly seventeen letters!~ Larissa
Olympia Primrose
Waverly Claire ~ Amaryllis Joy
Holiday Elise ~ Bellamy June ~ Seraphina Daisy
Genevieve Scout ~ Romilly Violet ~ Laszlo Oliver ~ Darwin Blake
Gideon Levi ~ Fisher Gray ~ Jasper Elias
Simon Apollo ~ Orlando Archer
Phineas Jack
Crushing hard... Saylor Adeline ... Mazarine Alice ... Penrose Elizabeth
May 6th, 2013 08:09 PM #49Raquel-21 year old who loves names, books, and languages
Ladies: Catherine Isabella,Helena Margaret, Clara Josephine, Amelia Juliet, Louisa Genevieve, Eva Rosalind, Rose Fiammetta, Edith Lenore, Charlotte Rosamund, Eleanora Winter
Gentlemen: Asher Frederick, Nicholas Hugo, Henry Oliver, William Grey, Matthew Isaiah, Thomas Alaric, George Everett


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Forced to return to Mars in order to reveal what happened for his memory to be erased, he finds himself to be on a continuous journey of self discovery. Mars has been determined as a livable colony, full of monetary issues and fight for control of power. Having realized he had been turned over to the wrong side, he decides to make up for his wrongs now that he has a clean slate of memory. Having to team up with his old allies will prove to be a feat in itself, for to them he is still a traitor to their cause for survival. Having no choice but to abandon his old life of lies, he is now made to participate in the saving of the lives on Mars. Farrell's depiction of the revamping of this sci-fi classic holds true to the original, while advances in special effects leave lovers of the original in awe from beginning to finish.
This faced-paced adaptation guarantees to pack enough punch for anyone who found themselvesino love the first installment. The view of scientific advances on the human consciousness gives way to ideas of what the future may hold, and how it may be used incorrectly in the wrong hands.
Rumor has it the attractive duo has already tied the knot at the ski resort where Timberlake proposed last year.
It's a done deal. After four years together - including a brief split - Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are now "husband and wife." The "Total Recall" and "New Year's Eve" actress wed the entertain and sometime "Saturday Night Live" guest in a private ceremony in Italy Thursday.


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The point of all of this is that the iPad functions here as a very motivating object for joint attention and communication. By adding communication boards, choices are more thoughtful, and more language is generated in making choices. I can't wait to find some simple Thanksgiving apps, and do the same type of communication enhancements!
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Hello, 21st century, Major League Baseball finally is coming your way.
Baseball, which has largely resisted the technological advances of TV cameras, announced Thursday that it's ready to embrace all-encompassing instant replay, adding it for the start of the 2014 season on nearly every questionable play but the strike zone.
Who knows what's next in store, but the initial phase already is baseball's most sweeping technological change since its first night game in 1935.
"It's historic, there's no question about it" Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said after the conclusion of the owners' meetings here. "We did it in my usual slow process, but a good one."
The replay proposal, which still must be approved by a formal vote of the owners in November, and agreed to by the Major League Baseball Players Association and umpires' union, would cover plays that accounted for about 89(PERCENT) of the incorrect calls in the past, said Atlanta Braves president John Schuerholz, who led an MLB study along with career baseball men Joe Torre and Tony La Russa.
And, if you can believe it, MLB says its replay system could speed up the game. Schuerholz said arguments over calls typically run longer than three minutes, but claimed the replays can be reviewed and decided in less than 90 seconds.
"That's what they told us," said one National League owner who asked not to be identified because the plan is still under consideration, "but I'll believe it when I see it."
This will be Phase 1 of baseball's recovery program out of the dark ages, with MLB planning to review and modify the replay system, Schuerholz says, after the 2014 season.
"Of course I like it," Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon says. "I like flat-screen TVs with high definition. I like air conditioning in my 1956 Bel Air. I like computers.
"That group that argues against technology and advancement, I challenge them to throw away all this stuff. Their microwaves, throw them away. To just bury your head in the sand and just reference old-school all the time is really a poor argument.
"This is our time to make the right decision. Live with it, understand it. It makes thing better, makes things more accurate, so what's wrong with that?"
Schuerholz said the move is a "chance for baseball to dramatically reduce the number of incorrect calls that are made in any game that impacts the outcome of the game, and hence, the outcome of division races."
It still has come nearly 30 years too late for former St. Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog says, who still bristles at first-base umpire Don Denkinger's blown call in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series. Denkinger missed the call at first base in the ninth inning, enabling the Kansas City Royals to win the game, and a day later, the World Series.
Yet, it may help assure there are no more infamous blown calls, such as Jim Joyce's missed call that ruled a Cleveland Indians runner safe with two outs in the ninth inning on June 2, 2010, ruining Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga's perfect game.
The replay system gives baseball managers three replay challenges a game. They will have one replay challenge available in the first six innings, and then two challenges beginning in the seventh inning through the game's duration.
But sorry, managers will have no red flags to throw on the field to initiate challenges like NFL coaches.
"We thought about a red ball," Schuerholz said, laughing.
Upon further review, baseball will go the old-fashioned route, with the managers still coming onto the field and alert the home-plate umpire.
Just like the NFL â(euro) " which began replay in 1986 and went to its current system in 1999 â(euro) " if a manager's replay challenge is upheld, he will not be charged with a challenge. An umpiring crew will be allowed to call for its own review only to determine home-run calls â(euro) " a rule that went into effect in 2008.
Yes, fans and the media will now have yet another way to second-guess managers â(euro) " to challenge or not to challenge?
"Managers will have a new tool that they will have to learn how to use. They may have some wonderment, or consternation, perhaps," Schuerholz said.
Well, before the managers begin their restless nights trying to decipher the art of the replay challenge, baseball still needs to get the umpires union to agree to the new system. The majority of umpires are strongly in favor of expanded replay, but with more technology, they want to make sure no jobs are eliminated. They want the replay booth to be manned by an active umpiring crew, not low-paid technicians.
"I can't comment on it," said Joe West, president of the world umpires association, told USA TODAY Sports. "It's in the negotiating stages."
Yet umpires love the idea that if there's a blown call, a manager will be blamed for misusing his challenges, instead of umpires hearing their own names berated on sportscasts.
There's only one blown call every five games, according to MLB's research, but those blown calls have a shelf-life that can last a lifetime.
"The umpires are very, very receptive to this," Schuerholz said. "They have spent enough time being abused or being the butt of bad comments about what's happened, and what's been viewed on replays."
While Selig believes baseball will formally adopt replay Nov. 13 at their next quarterly meetings in Orlando, Fla., the owners still will have to make their own call on how much it's worth. The start-up fees for the replay system will be $25 million to $40 million with annual fees, one MLB official told USA TODAY Sports, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations.
Yet, the owners were told that MLB will attempt to recoup a bulk of the annual operating costs with corporate sponsorship of the replays, minimizing the fees.
"Ultimately, I think it's a good thing," Oakland A's infielder Jed Lowrie said. "It would be hard to argue with getting the call right. There's no reason, with the technology we have, with the camera angles we can produce now, not to take advantage of it."
And, for those who miss the days of Earl Weaver screaming into the faces of umpires and Lou Piniella throwing bases in the air, those temper tantrums won't be eliminated.
"Arguments will be still part of the game," MLB vice president La Russa told USA TODAY Sports, "we're not going to eliminate that."
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Hiroki Tōchi (東地 宏樹 Tōchi Hiroki?, born May 26, 1966, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese voice actor. He has frequently appeared in many anime and appeared in some video games mainly created by tri-Ace. He is the official Japanese dub-over artist for actors Will Smith and Sam Worthington.
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- Cius Warren from Star Ocean: The First Departure
- Cliff Fittir from Star Ocean 3: Till The End of Time
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- Xenos Langley in Growlanser and Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice
- Malik Caesars in Tales of Graces
- Volsung in Wild Arms 5
- Tachibana Muneshige in Samurai Warriors 3
- Arumat P. Thanatos in Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Yaag Rosch in Final Fantasy XIII
- Hugues Courand in Mobile Suit Gundam Battlefield Record U.C. 0081
- Chris Redfield (Japanese Dub) in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Resident Evil: Revelations, Project X Zone, Resident Evil 6, and Resident Evil (HD Remaster)
- Dimitri Petrenko (Japanese Dub) in Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Zhuyu in Final Fantasy Type-0
- Desmond Miles (Japanese Dub) in Assassin's Creed
- Twice H. Pieceman in Fate/Extra
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- Satoshi Omiya in Initial D Arcade Stage
- Sougen Esaka in Rewrite
- Aeon Lasse, Daguza Mackle in 3rd Super Robot Wars Z Jigoku Hen
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- Angel Beats! as Chaa
- Bleach as Kūgo Ginjō
- Bokurano as Kokopelli
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- Chihayafuru as Hisashi Suō
- Cobra the Animation as Crystal Bowie
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- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 as Lasse Aeon
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- Zipang as Lt. Commander Takumi Kusaka
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- Any Given Sunday - Willie Bimen (Jamie Foxx)
- Avatar - Jake Sully (Sam Worthington)
- Bad Boys II - Detective Mike Lowrey (Will Smith)
- Batman Begins (2007 NTV edition) - Bruce Wanye/Batman (Christian Bale)
- Hitch - Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage)
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage)
- I, Frankenstein - Adam Frankenstein (Aaron Eckhart)
- I, Robot (2007 Fuji TV edition) - Det. Del Spooner (Will Smith)
- Kyle XY - Tom Foss
- Men in Black - Agent J (Will Smith)
- Men in Black II - Agent J (Will Smith)
- Open Water 2 - Dan (Eric Dane)
- Prison Break - Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller)
- Resident Evil: Afterlife - Chris Redfield (Wentworth Miller)
- Supernatural - Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles)
- Terminator Salvation - Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington)
- The Prestige - Alfred Borden / The Professor (Christian Bale)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2009 NTV edition) - Chris Gardner (Will Smith)
- Wild Wild West (2002 NTV edition) - Captain James West (Will Smith)
Animated Films[edit]
- Bolt - The Director
- Megamind - Metro Man
- Ratatouille - Horst
- Toy Story 3 - Ken
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The new president of THQ says he wants to take a more serious approach to sr, but the reason I like the Saints Row series is because of its humor, and its overall feel, and I don't want a super serious non funny saints row, also on a side note, do you guys think shaundi will be alive in the next game? I hope they don't kill her off :)
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Probably not, I think he just wants SR4 to be as good as it could be, though I'd be very happy if they toned down the goofiness some.
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They do need to tone down the whole revenge thing, but I don't think we have to worry about that because I think gat is alive, but I just hope they keep the whole fun (and funny) tone of the game :)
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They can do goofy humor. I have no problems in that. However, they need to go back to the roots. The mind set of "how over the top can we get" needs to go. It's all about story, custominzation, and game play. SR2 was epic. I think we can all agree to that. SR3....................Amusing at best. Very little replayability.
They should look at the foundation they built and rebuild upon that foundation. Not this mind set of: What can we pull from pop culture and twist it to fit into SR. That fails and should be scrapped.
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And he remembers another day, nine years later, when a state highway agent told him his custom-built home was in the path of an eight-lane highway project. He would have to sell to the California Department of Transportation.
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Its land holdings are so vast, Caltrans has trouble accounting for it all. Until this summer, the department didn't know about a Laguna Beach day-labor site on land it has owned since the 1950s. And 14 months passed before Caltrans workers discovered an illegal skateboard park in Oakland near a freeway overpass.
The department's record keeping, meanwhile, is so shoddy that when asked, Caltrans officials couldn't estimate the value of its land. Its antiquated databases make it next to impossible to pinpoint how much land Caltrans actually owns.
"It's a disgrace," said former state Sen. Ross Johnson, who represented Orange County for 24 years and repeatedly tried to get Caltrans to sell unused land. "It's an understatement to say they've done a very poor job managing their assets. Their abuse of power adds up to real money that could be used for a lot better purposes than maintaining ownership over a slum."
In an interview, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the department but said his efforts to fix the problem have been thwarted.
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