The Best Debate in the Universe

Things at Disney World: Florida that would be helpful for guests to know: nearest elevator, wi-fi code, ice location and the fact that their lagoon is teeming with gators. This week: alligators and kids. Who wins? Turns out, alligators. A family checked into the Disney World resort in Florida and their son was attacked by a gator. People were quick to blame the parents, but according to reports, Disney had no signs posted about alligators. Definitely worth knocking a star or two off the review. I'm joined by Joe Hanson from the Joe Goes show as moderator this week. We did a debate video together which will be posted on his channel and here as soon as it's finished. Spoiler: I win everything. Not sure about Disney's culpability in this gator attack? Here's a video of a Disney employee warding off a gator near Splash Mountain: https://youtu.be/ZONXg4QRSDA I also talk about some very deep and specific Armenian stereotypes at the top of the show. Got any more? Sound off here: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853). Also, stay tuned to this page for my E3 wrap-up video. I'll post it as soon as it's live this week. Sources: ABC News - http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nebraska-family-devastated-fatal-gator-attack-disney-39927671 - Nebraska family's fatal gator attack Romper.com - https://www.romper.com/p/this-is-the-wrong-reaction-to-the-disney-alligator-attack-heres-what-we-can-do-instead-12546 - What actually happened at the Disney resort News10 - http://news10.com/2016/06/15/local-family-says-disney-didnt-warn-them-of-alligator-risk-during-recent-trip/ - Family says Disney didn't warn them of alligator risks CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/us/alligator-attacks-child-disney-florida/ - Alligator attacks child at Disney Florida (video) CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/06/us/harambe-gorilla-death-investigation/ - Parents exonerated in Harambe gorilla death "Mining by Moonlight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Music to Delight" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Tick-Tock the Crocodile" is property of Disney, and is used under the fair use doctrine for commentary, news and criticism. All applicable copyrights and trademarks belong to their respective owners. madcastmedia.com

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: Conservative commentator, Milo Yiannopoulos got banned permanently from Twitter recently for targeting Ghostbusters actress, Leslie Jones, to online harassment and abuse. The question this week is: IS IT GOOD TO BAN PEOPLE WHO HARASS OTEHRS OR IS IT A VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH? BANNING IS SOMETIMES NECESSARY or VIOLATION OF FREE SPEECH? I'm joined by the Dating Advice Girl, Erin Tillman this week. She's a dating expert and radio show host on 99.3 KCLA FM, voted one of the 10 best dating shows in 2013. Erin was banned from Tinder a while back, and we get a surprising concession during this episode. Also, satirist Rucka Rucka Ali is back dropping wisdom and terrorizing the studio with a false-shirt operation. A caller noticed the resemblance between Rucka and the character Scooter from Borderlands. We discuss the Twitter ban of Milo Yiannopoulos for harassing Leslie Jones on Twitter. Was it a fair ban? Does it matter when it comes to a private corporation? Or is the alt-right's outrage to this a little too alt-righteous? After all, isn't part of the complaint against the tumblr generation is that they're offended too easily and too often? Why all the outrage? Or is the outrage justified because we don't know if Twitter was self-consistent with their own policies, as there was no transparent arbitration process and no clear reason for the exact violation that triggered his banning. We have a spirited debate about free speech and the implications of this ban. And speaking of free speech, some Starbucks baristas are refusing to write #BlackLivesMatter on their cups when customers request it, in order to not take a stand on racial issues... coming from a company that had the "Race Together" campaign last year, which encouraged its customers to have a "conversation about race" in its stores. I think all the typical Starbucks customer only cares about #BlackCoffeeMatters. Boom. Plus, I received about a billion "corrections" about the evolution of Koffing into Haunter. The voicemail number is: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853). madcastmedia.com Sources: NPR - Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer For Targeted Abuse - http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/20/486726291/twitter-permanently-suspends-conservative-writer-for-targeted-abuse Observer - Michael Malice's article about Twitter's Stalinist unpersoning of Milo Yiannopolous - http://observer.com/2016/07/twitters-stalinist-unpersoning-of-gay-provocatuer-milo-yiannopolous/ Quartz - Firing Roger Ailes and exiling Milo isn't going to fix much of anything - http://qz.com/739364/firing-roger-ailes-and-exiling-milo-yiannopoulos-isnt-going-to-fix-much-of-anything/ Independent.co.uk - Suspending Milo's account has played the man rather than the ball (supplementary reading) - http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/in-suspending-milo-yiannopoulos-account-twitter-has-played-the-man-rather-than-the-ball-a7146901.html India Times - Wikileaks threatens Twitter to start its own micro-blogging service - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikileaks-threatens-twitter-to-start-own-micro-blogging-service/articleshow/53332257.cms Mic - Starbucks barista refuses to write #BlackLivesMatter on woman's cup - https://mic.com/articles/148633/starbucks-barista-refuses-to-write-black-lives-matter-on-woman-s-coffee-cup#.iOAss9Mcv Daily Caller - Teacher who had threesome with student responds to lawsuit - http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/23/teacher-who-traumatized-male-teen-during-9-hour-threesome-responds-to-lawsuit-with-sick-allegations/ "Mining by Moonlight" and "Music to Delight" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

What's the most overrated movie of all time? Debate starts at 26:28. Chris Ray Gun (https://www.youtube.com/user/MindfreakCM) joins us this week. His most overrated movie pick(s) are the entire Chris Nolan Batman series. A very controversial pick because the second movie was not a hot pile of shit. Plus RUCKA GETS A DEMOTION?! And a promotion in the same episode. Listen for the twist-ending near the end of the episode before the news. Watch the video version here at Watch the video version here at Madcast Media Network YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChMUFeIZ1l9uRJ4bIXuAKDg?sub_confirmation=1 Here's the crew from this week: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bamo9ivlSHN/ Rucka (https://www.youtube.com/user/itsRucka) brings in The Matrix for his "most overrated" movie choice and we simultaneously find out he's blue-pilled. Mikey Bolts (https://twitter.com/MikeyBolts) brings in Mrs. Doubtfire and has a real Scooby-Doo-esque criticism of it. We really took this 20-year-old movie to task! Also, my book, F*CK WHALES, is finally here! Order it now and send me your quotes / reviews / impressions. You're welcome. http://amzn.to/2oiF2xi Finally we round out the episode with a guy who gets his nuts clamped by a crab in Thailand. The video is in The Sun article below. Worth watching. Plus a fatso tax schemer, and a man tries to sweeten his prison sentence with doughnuts. Doesn't work. The voicemail number is: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853). The Sun - Man gets his nuts clamped by a crab - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4390278/crab-clamps-genitals-thailand-video/ ABC - Man too fat for prison sentence? - http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/attorney-convicted-tax-schemer-fat-prison-50528545 US News - Detroit man arrested with doughnuts - https://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2017-10-17/sweet-surrender-detroit-area-man-arrested-with-doughnuts "Mining by Moonlight, Music to Delight" and "Lobby Time" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Jingle Bells (Cocktail Lounge) by Haim Mazar, Licensed Premiumbeat, Royalty Free

Our guest, (Kristen Brancaccio)[https://twitter.com/kristensreality] joins the debate this week, with a surprise answer: nothing. That is, nothing sucked about the 2000s. I point out a little thing called 9/11, and Rucka brings up drug PSAs from the 90s. But since it's the second week we've discussed the reward for saving a life, that's the second debate question this week: is $300 and a banquet enough of a reward for saving someone's life? Or are firefighters getting screwed? Watch the video version here at Madcast Media Network YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChMUFeIZ1l9uRJ4bIXuAKDg?sub_confirmation=1) https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLf-OiH3ea1_CE0fjmDw3njnqjo2LTl8bu Here's Kristen's Walking Dead video she directed for Bonnie Von Duyke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuQpsx-Bpdc And here's a Walking Dead short she directed called "Lost and Found:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-GqbNqsfCY Rucka (https://www.youtube.com/user/itsRucka) recaps his story about a guy who saved someone's life in a "Plum" market (think: Whole Foods) and only got $300. Is this a shitty reward? Vote now! Plus ya boi Mikey Bolts (https://www.youtube.com/user/michaelbalalis) is back from a stint with the flu and the NFL. Here's the bonus episode (https://madcastmedia.com/shows/maddoxvsuniverse/3/) for all the winners who want to support the show: https://madcastmedia.com/shows/maddoxvsuniverse/3/ And here's my new book, F*ck Whales: Petty essays from a brilliant mind: http://amzn.to/2CdkfSI This week Mikey Bolts brings in the news, where one of the stories sounds suspiciously like an ad. What do you think? Chime in below. Also this wasn't an exhaustive list of things that sucked from the 2000s, any big ones we missed? And by "we" I mean everyone but me because I know everything. Chime in below: The voicemail number is: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853). Sources: Maddox - Maddox (http://maddox.xmission.com)

Debate starts at: 3:10. Should swimsuit contests be a party of beauty pageants? Model and actress Lauren Francesca (https://www.instagram.com/iwantmylauren/) joins us to debate this week, and I make a strong case for why objectification is... a good thing. It's just a sample of the brilliance you'll be exposed to by watching and listening to this show. Speaking of, we also did a pilot run of our first-ever LIVE EPISODE. We're experimenting with broadcasting live on Saturdays when we record. Stay tuned for more information. Watch the video version here at Watch the video version here at Madcast Media Network YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChMUFeIZ1l9uRJ4bIXuAKDg?sub_confirmation=1 Special thanks to Ian who sent us this amazing care package! http://beta.madcastmedia.com/shows/bestdebate/105/e105_gift2.jpg http://beta.madcastmedia.com/shows/bestdebate/105/e105_gift3.jpg Here's Lauren's Instagram: https://instagram.com/p/Bh7oYH2HA_Z/?utm_source=ig_embed Ron Babcock (http://twitter.com/ronbabcock) is back this week, but had to leave early to catch a boat. I guess that's a thing that happens now. Thanks Obama. Taylor Nikolai (https://www.instagram.com/taylornikolai/) brought the headlines as always, and got a special shout-out at the end of the episode from our own Bad Hombre (listen past the credits). Support the show and shop at The Best Store in the Universe: http://www.maddoxrules.com/ And here's my new book, F*ck Whales: Petty essays from a brilliant mind: http://amzn.to/2oiF2xi We finally round out this episode with headlines from Taylor. Some idiot gets bit by a rattle snake's head after he chops it off. Then some munkin dies. Are the stories related? Listen to find out. Or read the end of this sentence for a spoiler: no they are not. Voicemail below: The voicemail number is: 1-562-58-I-RULE (1-562-584-7853).