Boomer Fight! Shatner VS RLM Explained!

hello and welcome to the mike and jay podcast on youtube [Music] today we're going to talk about some current events some star trek and i happen to have right here an actual star trek phaser oh wow yep now this is the same kind of phaser they used in star trek the original series the 1960s tv show so this is the phaser that captain kirk would use when battling the klingorns kirk enterprise beam us up how do you keep track of all this star trek information jay you know just years of watching the shows movies you know i just i'm an encyclopedia of knowledge but we're here today to talk about not just star trek but some new information that's happened on twitter and we're here to explain it to the best of our ability twitter aka the worst place on the internet oh i've seen worse hey mike why is everybody tweeting at us about william shatner because william shatner is tweeting at us even though he blocked us well why i legitimately have no understanding of what is going on so i need you to explain to me this twitter kerfuffle yes um that's why we're here today because uh we've been getting messages and we've been seeing threads and tweets about this william shatner they call it a boomer fight and we are not fighting with william shatner we haven't even talked to him we haven't even talked to him technically we have nothing to do with this we didn't invite him onto our podcast [Music] that's number one number one william shatner and people out there we did not invite william shannon to come on our podcast or any of our shows no people did originally this all started august of 2019 someone said william shatner you should go on red letter media to that shatner replies i don't know who they are he was talking about red letter day by the pet shop boys so there's some confusion right off the bat was he trying to make a joke don't know is he always trying to make a joke and you know what just to lay this right out on the table i don't even know if william shatner's you know verified account is actually william shatner could be a lot of celebrities have have people that take care of their social media accounts for him and then i wrote back oh bill how could you not have heard of us we are formerly called the pet shop dudes so i understand the confusion oh then he replied to us i had a look at your link which i didn't send a link i think he meant i clicked on someone probably sent him a video of ours or something in those replies and he might have been replying to somebody else yeah but but or he could have clicked on our twitter and then went oh what's you know oh their youtube channel blah blah blah had a look at your link looks like a series of podcasts that you do i wish you the best but as most who follow me know i do not book podcasts it's great to have you here bill thank you it was joy and uh absolutely you guys absolutely thank you so much oh thank you dude ah to that i responded what's a podcast and that was the end to further add to the confusion because it's fun yes because there shatner's feed is just him arguing with people about tons of stuff that's why i would think it's probably really him because what social media handler would do let's say all the weird nonsense yeah i mean like hot button political stuff to there was like a clickbait article about how in this new uh star trek show pike the adventures of pike and spock that's allegedly being made by cbs all access uh they're going to have kirk on the show and he's going to be a bisexual okay and so they're like shatner what do you think of this like you know kind of baiting them to say because would never be gay you know and they're they're trying to bait and he's like this was only one one uh one article on a unreputable website if people are just trolling him or he's trolling them there's a lot of trolling okay going on okay i guess we mildly contributed to it uh with the what's a podcast response but but that's the only two times that you've ever talked shatner right yeah yeah and i never tried to i mean he doesn't follow us so i couldn't message him i never tweeted at him hey william shatner come on one of our shows no you can't tweet adam no and and neither can anyone who ever recommends red letter media to him apparently he just starts going on a blocking spree i i i actually really like william shatner well i've been admirer of mike's for a long time uh unironically i think he's actually a really good actor especially in the original series i started with the original series um and and and the original movies kind of segued into tng rich and i talk all about this in our upcoming video mike and rich talk about their favorite star trek the next generation episodes oh my god it's an exclusive yes it's a two and a half hours of talking about star trek the raw footage the raw footage i haven't edited it yet but it's coming up um we might delve into tos um movies who knows because we're not talking about new trek anymore we're done with that you're not going to talk about upper decks lower depths probably not oh this is the new shuttle with the blast shield then more stuff happened recently and i don't know what spawned that it's very hard to dig through this mess but shatner doesn't book podcasts or streaming media as stated in this response to a tweet thank you but i don't book podcasts or streaming media parenthetical just in case you are affronted by the term podcast sorry and i think that's because everyone in the world started to tell him that red letter media does not do podcasts so when it all started he you know he kind of glanced over our site saw that we weren't a major television network saw youtube and just said podcasts and moved on totally fair i do not blame him one bit in the initial twitter exchange in august of 2019 even our friend macaulay culkin chimed in do you think he blocked macaulay culkin probably he said do it bill it's a lot of fun or something like that i'm imagining the first video he clicked on was an episode of the nerd crew and he thought it was for real oh god it's sparking oh jesus oh my god i did not expect this to happen oh god rich get the toast out it's going to start a fire he probably looked uh at the nerd crew for five seconds and it's like that's what i won't do yeah stuff like that people were trying to explain to him that we do actual shows right like review i guess is our most like legitimate show where we like talk about a film that we love there's no goofy skits or nonsense yeah half of the bag we have goofy skits uh and then best of the worst which is a a drunken rage-fueled nightmare so much that it's uh permanently scarred patent oswalt so there was there were a slew of responses mostly defending us saying that we are a decent youtube channel with quality content good reviews some tongue-in-cheek humor a lot of satire but the point was made that we can do decent reviews of stuff then people were linking him the star trek the motion picture review which starts off a little silly but then jim and i talk about the movie in detail then if you re-watch the entirety of the original series kirk shatner he's great i took the proper steps in the proper order i did exactly what had to be done exactly when it should have been done it's like he knows when to be sober and when to be focused and when to play it up and be sort of playful with things but on top of playing a character he's also as a as a leader he's he's also acting on top of acting because as a captain you have to you have to the movie's on his shoulders to face delete it so shatner watched the first 60 seconds of the star trek the motion picture review here's a quote serious i watched the first 60 seconds and not only did i find it offensive parenthetical especially in the current culture of things but the overt product placement when someone else argued that they make fun of podcasts that are corporate shills make it laughable sorry not for me so to explain that somebody was telling him that the nerd crew is a satire of podcasts that are chilly for corporate interests like marvel or you know major studios although i can't feel anything right now because i've been taking gonk zonk a new antidepressant from pfizer chemicals made specifically for star wars fans so when we sat down to film the episode we usually have a beer and somebody had sent us a little six pack of like federation beer star trek the next generation beer courtesy of schmaltz brewing company in clifton park new york it's star trek the next generation beer captain's holiday but it wasn't product placement but no and nor have we ever done product placement right not at once remember you and i had zombie dust on the apocalypse uh we're like exactly what we're drinking wait like if we like a beer uh we'll we'll say we're drinking this today and and we have never received financial endorsements from anybody not even the new glarus but we have never seen they owe us money by this point yeah um ten years of shilling for uh for zero dollars so yes we make fun of corporate shills because we are not corporate shills and the the nerd crew is that maybe maybe he'll learn a little if he if bill watches this video maybe he'll learn a little but bit about us he's already clicked off the video he's uh he's already clicked off yeah and then somebody said he he was stupid for thinking we were shilling for fake star trek beer because they should just expect him to understand everything about this youtube channel he doesn't know anything about yes to which he replied no i'm not a simpleton sporto they were plugging federation beer which would have been fine but someone else pointed out they make fun of podcasters who are corporate shills so what was that about plus i wasn't appreciative of the ageist comments made about sir patrick well that we can't defend our mocking of the elderly we can't really uh come up with an excuse for that my joke was was in reference to you know 1980s patrick stewart okay i opened my beer the beer overflowed oh the beer was called captain's holiday i think okay which is an episode of tng where picard is like forced to take a vacation and he ends up on a little adventure with a lady named vosh and there's some ferengi's and they're searching for like hidden treasure or something um and uh picard falls in love with vosh uh arkey she steals archaeological relics and sells them okay so picard likes archaeology but he appreciates it and she's just like a con man who steals it and sells it for profit so they got along because they they had similar interests but she's a little shady still they fell in love and they smooched at the end but the beer was called captain's holiday and i opened it and it foamed over and i said looks like captain had a good holiday the captain had a good holiday it was an ejaculate joke and that's what he thought was an aegis joke no oh and then uh i said picard then why did you explain all that well i'm setting it up jay humor is about setting things up because it has to do with sex and then i said oh that was the episode with vash you know that vash really worked her magic that was a deep cut whereas picard calls her she loves picard's because she's into artifacts because her character searches for artifacts and the actor you know patrick stewart at the time was probably a little bit older than her it's a quality joke she's into artifacts that's why she loves books um do you even get that joke um and so it wasn't really like an aegis joke but that's as far as it got he didn't get to the other hour of of dissection and praise of william shatner's acting and the quality film that is star trek the motion picture so they gave up trying to show them something real like our video talking very nice about star trek the motion picture um and then they started showing him nerd crew this is out of control oh no we got to put the fire on oh my god i've got a spider-man oh my god it's spreading oh [ __ ] then he started posting pictures of me and making fun of my face so this is what he wrote so this mic guy is a huge fan but not a fanboy and he does a show where he sits in front of a microphone with a bunch of star wars stuff podcast style and makes fun of people like himself okay that doesn't sound like eighty percent of the podcasts out there now does it hmm see how is he just trying to [ __ ] with people is he trolling or is this an attempt at a like a gotcha i don't know then you may never know then there's the picture of me holding the coffee mug like cross-eyed with my silly hat on and he wrote is this a screen grab from the podcast with effort because i think people had said they put a lot of effort into their stuff sure it looks like a podcast of a star wars slash marvel fan [Music] i mean he's kind of right he's kind of right it does look like that it does look like that it's by that's almost like it was by design uh and then there's a picture of me from um the famous intro with dick the birthday boy where we're all in halloween costumes oh yeah you're wearing a star trek house and it's like okay i went out to grab a star trek costume and all they had was the jj abrams crap i saw i could find i literally searched i searched for a tos era spock costume could not find one so i had to buy the the new zachary quinto version and and then he wrote whomever this is even though he's been told this is mike this is my he likes star trek this is like would you let him know that he's wearing a kelvin timeline tunic not my timeline the only use of the hashtag not my timeline so then there was some controversy over what is and isn't a podcast you could consider having the bag review a podcast because sometimes i don't but sometimes podcasters have a camera set up to where they can put it as a video yeah mike tyson does that oh yeah he does he does yeah he has a youtube channel and he has his podcasts on there so shatner wrote to that effect really so the mike tyson podcast i did here isn't a podcast you want to tell mike he's wrong and they're talking about mike tyson but he doesn't do podcasts i don't know that that's the story jay if you were curious and i haven't quite figured it all out myself okay i i can totally understand william shatner's perspective where he's it's not his world and people are throwing pictures up of that's when you just mute everything mute the conversation the fact that he's egging people on is why i think he has to at least to a certain extent be just kind of messing around with people you know we just wanted to throw it out there uh what happened uh clear clarify it a little this is our story this is our story this is our truth we're sharing our truth um we did not ever invite william shatner to come on any of our shows nor did we encourage or engage in people bombarding him with tweets about red letter media stuff we had nothing to do with that do you remember we went and saw william shatner live he took credit for the moon landings he took credit for the moon landings and and the show ended with a giant screen with the photo montage of of himself and him sitting on the stage next to it just looking up and admiring the photo montage of himself it's a magical night anyway that's our little video we did our best to explain the the william shatner red letter media twitter fight of which it was not a twitter fight we barely had anything to do with it our name was besmirched and smeared all over twitter and it made it appear as we were harassing william shatner we weren't i made a joke about the pet shop boys a year ago and this [ __ ] thing is still going on william shatner is not coming on any of our shows he never will and leave him alone because i just can't take captain kirk pulling up pictures of me on the nerd crusade and calling me a [ __ ] i just my heart can't take it okay i've already been through enough star trek misery over the last three years i i can't take any more okay mr spock teleport me up to the star trek enterprise and prepare to go to hyperspace oh

Channel: RedLetterMedia

Views: 1,046,277

Rating: 4.9600515 out of 5

Keywords: redlettermedia, red letter media, red, letter, media, plinkett, half in the bag, mike stoklasa, jay bauman, rich evans, william shatner, star trek

Id: pF28Zednl10

Length: 20min 12sec (1212 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 23 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/ProKrastiTRON]

Mike Stoklasa presents: Messaging The Elderly

[u/JoeySadass]

God I'm so looking forward to the rich and mike discuss tng episodes video

Release all 2 and half hours of it

[u/Easy-Tigger]

"Hey Mike, remember that time you posted an embarrassing photo of me on the internet and through sheer force of will got it to appear in front of an audience of literal millions?"

"Why yes, Rich, that was very funny, I thought."

"Yeah. Yeah, you did think it was funny. I'm just gonna send a few tweets, nothing major."

[u/the_456]

It’s weird seeing Mike being sincere and defensive instead of sarcastically blowing it all off.

[u/Archyes]

Look, first it was Picard, now its shattner. Whats next? Rich getting into a fistfight with Janeway?

[u/McMaster2000]

Aw man, the ending actually kind of got to me. I know Mike was joking, but Shatner is clearly a childhood hero of his, who he still deeply admires into adulthood - I can't even imagine what it would feel like if someone, who I admired my entire life, would take the time to actively make fun of me...

Edit: Shatners "response" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/1286389457298497536?s=19

[u/JoeBagadonut]

I guess this is official confirmation that Mike is indeed the one running the RLM Twitter account? I’m sure we all suspected as such but now we know for sure.

[u/DynamixRo]

That moment when you click on a video expecting something fan-made but it's actually an official one.

[u/Bertrum]

People have somehow managed to penetrate Mike's cold heart and hurt him. This needs to stop.