Xtranormal Peak Oil Video

Awesome job, Noodles!

Here's the link for those who want to watch it here:

Peak Oil Video:

Other text-to-movie videos:

Quantitative Easing Explained

The Federal Reserve Is Laundering Money

Lastly, just because this is what I get all the time...

Moms Of Multiples Are Freaks Of Nature

Poet

Noodles & Poet,

                    Thanks, that was really funny! I love the QE characters. "The Ben Bernanke and the printing of the money!" 

I suggest one on Social Security and why it is a Ponzi scheme. A lot of people believe the surplus will last until 2037 but that's not true because the government spent the surplus collected every year already, and last year started paying out more than it took in, etc. So the only way it can continue is either to borrow more money or expand Social Security taxation or raise the retirement age, meaning only those who live to 65 actually get to benefit from it...

Another one could be Medicare. I hear of so many people who are against "socialism", yet they fight for their Medicare, which is socialized medicine, subsidizing those who are poor and those over 65 so insurance companies don't have to cover the poor and the elderly. Lots of fun stuff.

You don't have to do "The Roosevelt" to be funny. You can have your own style.

Poet

Hey Noodles,

This video hits a little too close to home. I showed it to my wife because I thought it was a riot and I wanted to see her reaction.  She thought it was great. She thought the woman showed spunk to tell the guy to F off.   I sent it to my son in college and he asked (as a joke) if my wife and I wrote the dialog.  My wife told me she wanted to send it around to her friends, and then she said she was doing it to make fun of me, not to raise awareness about Peak Oil.  She doesn't care if Peak Oil is true or not, she just likes that the woman wasn't going to let anyone tell her what to do, no matter how much sense it made, or how much fact there was backing it up.  She doesn't want to know. It's not because she wants to live the cheap oil life, it's just she's too afraid to even think that it might be true, and that life as we know could/will change dramatically.  Like when you're driving an old car that's dying, she'd rather turn up the radio and not hear the problem, than face it.  I think at least 50% of the U.S. is in this same boat (or car, as it were).

Anyway, I love the video.  I hope you do more, and I hope you post more often on CM dot com.  Though I like what Jim Kunstler has to say too.

DrHolden

This guy just linked his video series to my xtranormal vid.  I've only watched a few so far, but I think you guys will like it...I'm getting a laugh from it!

OK,

OMG! I needa vacation. All I could do was laugh and think.... "is that what I sound like to my family?"

Blue pill.... where's that dang Blue pill!

I am the creator of Business as Usual and its spinoff, Astra and the Apprentice.

At this time I am only planning to resume Astra and the Apprentice.  Doing these videos has been very therapeutic to me, as kind of the real-life equivalent of Gil Sanford, and if you watch through the show you'll see the tone start shifting from sitcom to something much darker.  Astra is my attempt to get down to brass tacks about doom whereas BAU was more of a way to scream in my pillow, so to speak.

All of this desperation culminated in an anxiety attack and a trip to the ER, after which I needed to go off and do something more mainstream and escapist but I will take what I've built and do justice to the Astra story.
 

When I saw the newer Peak Oil video I was a little upset that it got so much press whereas my old show kind of got lost in the cracks.  I knew my idea wasn't that original, though, and it was only a matter of time before someone else used XN for the same reason I did, as it provides a great soapbox for people who for whatever reason feel disenfranchised.