A Conversation with Basic Logic - Cancel Culture and Public Shaming – Transcript

00:00And here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome Basic Logic to the show. Thank you so much for joining. >> Thank you for having me. >> Fantastic. So, um have you you've been busy. I've seen you posting a lot of videos, going live, and all that.

00:14>> Yeah, I've posted one 8 minutes ago right now. >> 8 minutes ago, that's fresh. I'm going to have to go watch it. What's what's the what's the topic? >> Uh the title is how to be responsibly sexist. >> Wow. >> >> I don't I have another video that's older called how to be responsibly racist, so I have to do a follow-up.

00:33>> Do you know what's funny is that you're both based, but you're also troll, and it's it's it's really funny. >> >> Professional professional troll, really appreciate that. Okay, so one thing I'm going to ask first is how do you even do cuz I mean, again, you post a lot, and you do the live streams, but even though your videos are not super long, like you don't post 30-minute videos, but then again, the animation, the drawings, how do you even do it?

01:00>> Well, it's a two-man channel. It's me and my friend K. So, I go by V, he goes by K. >> Okay. >> Uh I write the scripts, I voice things over, and I tell him what I want uh more or less for the scenes, and then he mostly takes it from there and animates. And then there's a bit of a review process. It it's a lot of work. It is 6 days 6 days a week of work, but that's how we can stay on schedule.

01:22Back when the videos were only 3 minutes long, it was a lot easier. >> Yeah. >> Uh but then we realized we want ad revenue. >> What's ad revenue? So, 8 minutes 1 second. >> 8 minutes it is. Yeah. Uh recently, the only reason my videos have been going over 8 minutes is because we put a sponsorship there for just long enough.

01:41>> Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, no, no. I I was saying Well, I was saying >> can get the ad revenue and the sponsorship the sponsorship money. Fantastic. >> >> Rather play the system. You know, hate the system, hate the game, not the player. If you need, put that music at the end if the video is 7 minutes and 30 seconds. Do you know what I mean?

01:56>> >> Yeah. It is we did that once also, like one of the first videos we did in the in the longer format. We realized, wait a second, we don't have the time here. This is like 30 seconds short. And so, I just went on a whole ramble thanking my channel members. I'm very thankful to my channel members, but I mean, like the gratitude there was more aimed at a different reason.

02:18>> Yeah, 30 seconds of gratitude. But I just said 30 seconds of gratitude. Talking about the fact you mentioned scripts. So, it's been a while for me. I used to do fully scripted videos, but of course, ever since starting to post twice a day, for obvious reasons, it became almost impossible. But one thing that happened to me is that sometimes I would write a script, and it would sound right in my head, but then when I pushed record and I said it out loud, the sentence just didn't sound right. Does that ever

02:45happen to you? >> All the time. And the worst part Worst part is I record next to K. K, like uh he administers my voice acting, he sees if I stutter because I'm a stutterer, and I don't always notice it. And I will I will be saying as a line that I thought sounded really cool on script, and I'll say it out loud, and K will be there, and I'll be cringing [snorts] as I finish the sentence, and he'll he'll be like,

03:11"V, what what are you doing?" >> Yeah, I mean, it it happens. It happens. That's why actually, when I was still doing scripted videos, and very occasionally I will make one, but like not that often, is I now started to read them out loud beforehand. It takes a little longer in the production process, but it's it helps.

03:31>> All right. >> 100%. All right, man. So, for this series so far, this is episode three, and we have a main topic, so I'm going to say what the theme is, and then we can expand on it, explore, go on tangents, and then we have three recurring questions that I have sent you beforehand.

03:49They can be rapid fire, we can dive in nerd out completely sort of whatever happens with the flow. So, the theme for today I thought we would talk about cancel culture versus public shaming. So, where the line is, how they blur together, where something is unjust, someone shares their opinion but then all the cancel culture around it trying to suffocate that opinion, but also when it's deserved and you know, we could mention a little bit first amendment

04:15rights here in the US. We can talk a little bit about hate speech if needed. That's generally the theme of the episode. But the first question that I wanted to ask you, which is one of the recurring question, is the following. Is there a favorite historical time period you would want to experience first hand?

04:33>> Mhm. Here's the thing. I don't think I'd survive very long. I was not a very healthy child. >> Okay. >> So, any time time period I pick is just asking for a death sentence unless we're talking about very recently.

04:48>> Okay. Imagine you have >> But a >> a vaccination that protects you. >> All right, wonderful. Well, in that case mhm I would like to see the era immediately before World War I. You know, immediately before Europeans decided they want to destroy everything.

05:08And themselves. That would be kind of cool. >> Why? >> It'll be a world where it's not majority but almost majority white. And so many of the issues that I am tired of would just not be a concern anymore.

05:22>> Well, it's interesting because of course people will hear you say that and they'll be like, oh, but that's racist. Here's the thing though, black people say that black people say it all the time. Like black people say I want to live with black people. I don't have a problem with it. Do you have a problem with it?

05:36>> It seems so. >> You know? So, at the end of the day I think anyone should be it's it's also cultural thing. It's it's a matter it can be a a thing. Like this this can be it could be a religious thing, although the religion kind of depends. At the end of the day, I think anyone should be allowed to prefer have a preference and decide, "Hey, I just it's not compatible." This way of living, this way of being for me personally. I have a preference. I prefer to live with these people instead of that people. Asians do it all the

06:04time. Have you ever seen like Chinese? They they kind of get a block and it's all Chinese. >> Yeah. No, it's the most obvious thing possible. We are more similar if we are of the same origin [clears throat] and the same heritage, which means the societies and behaviors that we have were better optimized for us.

06:20>> Right. >> Uh the only exception to this rule seems to be that everyone wants to live in white societies. I wonder why that could be. Like everyone wants to live with white people, but only white people aren't allowed to say that they want to live with white people. It makes It makes no sense.

06:33>> For me, it kind of depends. If people are fully assimilated, I personally don't care what they look like. But if there is a situation where, you know, those scenarios where people behave like they behave, then no, thank you.

06:47So, it really depends. It's kind of a case-by-case. I wouldn't mind living with a couple of Italians nearby. We could share pasta. >> Oh, that that would that would be good, actually. >> >> I wouldn't mind that. I'm a big fan of pasta. >> Big fan of pasta myself.

07:02>> I'd give you a heart attack with some of the recipes my family does, though. We really like lemon. >> Oh, you know, it's fine. I I make a tuna lemon pasta myself. So, it's it's fine. >> now? >> Tuna lemon pasta. Tuna.

07:17>> You are a disgrace to your ancestors. >> No, no, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. People do it. People do it. >> >> It's okay. Tomato is everywhere, but it's not like there are some pasta recipes that don't necessarily require that. So, it's fine.

07:31And what was I going to say? Yeah, so, you know, talking about that, like how you would prefer you would like to experience life in Europe specifically before World War I. You know what catches me when it comes to that? The idea that there is tech, but it's mechanical mostly, rather than digital. It's the mechanized era.

07:51I wonder what people What would you do for fun? >> Well, I I actually I don't know because uh my entire generation, I'm Gen Z, our idea of fun is playing video games. That's what all of us do. Uh >> Yeah.

08:06>> So, I'll I'll have to figure something out. Maybe we'll play uh chess or make some new board games. I know the Germans were doing war gaming then. That could be fun. >> Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's the For me, again, I'm a millennial, but uh I'm that generation that kind of started with the first video games. In fact, the first game I ever played was Pong.

08:26It So, it was old already when I was a child, but I started with freaking Pong and then moved on to the 8-bit era, Atari 8-bit era, and all that. So, I also grew up in video games. So, if even if I had to go back cuz usually I choose the Middle Ages. That's what I would love to experience.

08:42But in the Middle Ages, good luck with that. Again, chess. Chess, we can go back thousands of years. >> Yeah. >> At least that. Cool stuff. Second prompt, if you could learn a foreign language, what would you pick and what are your top three?

08:57>> I would pick German. >> And say it again? >> So that I I would pick German so that I could understand a particular painter's speeches uh with a native ability of comprehension without having to rely on translations and all that. I just want to see. I know that there are AI translations now, but I want I want to capture the real thing, you know?