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If we're reviving everything then start with Mythbusters (lemmy.world)
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I don't think any amount of money in the world could bring Jamie back to a revival.

I believe Adam's already said he's no longer interested in filming television.

Plus, Grant has since passed away, Kari is a big oil sell-out, and Tory has been floundering around on Amazon's streaming service for a while now

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah it's been sad seeing some influential people go into really questionable areas. I think reddit shit a brick when Aubrey Plaza went shilling for milk producers of America.

    Terry Crews did a commercial for Amazon, right around the time that unionization was lifting off.

    I get that you got to eat but these people aren't without choices.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Being charitable, their agents are typically the ones that secure those deals, and they, being a bit more affluent and marginally more privileged than the rest of America, may not think to push back very hard on the jobs their agents line up for them. And of course their agents may even go as far as to try and convince them it's not a big deal.

    It doesn't excuse it, but I also am willing to let it slide provided it doesn't happen routinely after they've been called out.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Kari is a big oil sell-out,

    I watched the video and a behind the scenes how an off shore rig works isn't much of a sell out. Showing the behind the scenes complexity of drilling makes solar even more appealing.

    Mythbusters regularly featured weapons but they weren't shilling for the US Military Industrial Complex.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    No, but getting a respected "science person" to go on camera and repeat their clean-sounding PR "Deepwater Energy" name is just one of the ways that Big Oil legitimizes their actions to the public, and I'd have hoped someone who spent a decade plus in both the entertainment and soft-science industries could've seen through it. It would be like if Bill Nye or Neil DeGrasse Tyson made a multi-part webseries about Clean Coal.

    Regardless, it wasn't the first time the MB cast was tricked into shilling for fossil fuels, but an episode about clean-burning diesel in 2009 is a lot less aggregious than an episode about underwater oil drilling in 2023, in my opinion.

    Mythbusters regularly featured weapons but they weren't shilling for the US Military Industrial Complex.

    Not the MIC, but I have no doubt that the NRA or other gun lobbyists helped produce those episodes.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The U-2 Bomber episode was a little shilling, there wasn't even a myth. But what were they gonna do, not take a cool ass ride to the edge of space?

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