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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

10 months

I spent the better part of four months working on a video essay on the complete history of the reality competition program The Mole in english speaking countries. It is now finished. I hope you enjoy this behemoth of a video.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

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3 years

@nbcsnl idk how much communication you have with lorne or the higher ups, but someone needs to tell them that absolutely no one wants this. i can not think of a single person who wants this. and i don't mean miley

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7 months

from downtown,

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who got that one Jeopardy clip

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6 years

James McAvoy, actual scotsman, is pulling off an award-winning Philly accent. Give this man a fucking Academy Award already #SNL

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11 months

@snlhostsintro the cheeky look that says "we have something in common, dear viewer"

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1 year

@yugiohtas they've been doing this a lot with great actors lately. simon russell beale, shakespearean actor and tony winner, was in Thor Love and Thunder, and i cannot for the life of me remember who he played. Give these people something worthwhile to do, Marvel!

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7 years

Nice of #SNL to add a new clip of @Lin_Manuel urging people to donate to PR, right before his episode's rerun ends. All class, SNL (& Lin!)

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2 years

@lydia_meredith first thing that came to mind

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4 years

@ShadowTodd Hollaback Bone, just as you predicted

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7 years

Before you go and call Warren Beatty the next Steve Harvey, they legitimately gave him the wrong envelope. Wasn't his fault. #Oscars

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2 years

@ShadowTodd Malcolm in the Middle of Sharks

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

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4 years

Okay. We need to talk about Harlan in the Umbrella Academy. And his relation to autistic portrayals in the media. SPOILERS for Umbrella Academy Season 2, and yes, this will be a thread. A very, very, VERY long thread.

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2 years

@stephenfishbach he micromanaged the fire on day 1, he micromanages the fire on day 25. some people never change

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6 years

@ericandre @VICE

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5 years

if you don't think that Cecily Strong is an integral piece of the #SNL cast, then I direct you to how flawlessly she fell off that chair.

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7 years

Foo Fighters's killer performance on #SNL is the catalyst to potentially get more rock/alt-rock acts on the show. So please, guys. Ease up on the pop acts, get back to the rock.

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4 years

@JOSH_BENNY this scene looks like you guys wrote AND shot it. uncut mets, if you will

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2 years

@EricMGarcia this could have been any one of dozens of my relatives that live on staten island yes, they're all conservative, but i don't think this is a partisan issue

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3 years

@snlhostsintro ladies and gentlemen...jamiuughhaquaurghhh

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4 years

@MaraWilson my grandmother lives in austin, and nothing mcconaughey does seems to faze people down there. we're on some highway, and she motions to some area and goes 'oh, over that way is the bongo house'

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@daraobriain at least nobody went "i think i've seen you before, weren't you on the back of a bus once?"

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

@ITYSL for context:

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@TallGuySchmidt

7 years

@Lin_Manuel (i'm not being sarcastic, this is insanely important and respect points through the roof for SNL, and for Lin for having time to film this)

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5 years

Not really a contest, but this was the best #SNL of the season, solely because it was all weird, conceptual writer's sketches, and because Mulaney is not only a great sketch performer but a trusted presence in any writer's room. An A+ show from me. Well done.

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2 years

@RahulKohli13 You literally just were in a show about this very topic

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

i dunno, i think ben platt looks great in the DEH movie guys..

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2 years

@PoorlyAgedStuff Oh so you meant LITERALLY and not musically. Alright. That I’ll allow.

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@TallGuySchmidt

5 months

@realJaredGilman fun fact this isn't acting they just showed him what the cg render's gonna look like

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 months

@realJaredGilman It should be like the before trilogy where every so often an acclaimed director should cast you two alongside each other in a different time period

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4 years

@JennyENicholson "MY GOR FREN"

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

that performance of the Lightning 1 and 2 from Arcade Fire has to be one for the trophy case for #SNL . Lighting, cinematography, sound, feeling, editing. Holy crap.

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4 years

@JennyENicholson that is woody harrelson

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 months

@thunderrmuffinn yeah imagine being a casual listener and everything goes over your head, how wild would that be heheheh anyway,

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@PoorlyAgedStuff Is it poorly aged if it was being sung ironically? Pretty Odd was purposely a different direction than the first album.

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@TallGuySchmidt

5 years

@billyeichner @Sethrogen @iamjohnoliver @disneylionking @DisneyStudios "...is this the real life... ...is this just fantasy..."

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 years

You know what? Props to Alec Baldwin for stepping in and covering Pete Davidson’s part in this bar sketch. #SNL

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

-the r-word is not used at all over the course of this show. nor is 'slow'. -Harlan is not a blank slate. Harlan's eyebrows are arched a lot. He's in thought, he's capable of thought. He is not zombified, like a lot of nonverbal autistic characters.

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@Seinfeld2000 now i become jery, getter of ipads

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@realJaredGilman It’s because Bakshi had all this leftover animation he didn’t want to waste so he just stuffed it wherever he could in the movie

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Harlan is 8 years old in 1963, when this series is set, and he has autism. He is nonverbal, communicates monosyllabically, if at all, has an extreme artistic eye, and is one of the chief macguffins of this season of Umbrella Academy. Which is nice.

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6 months

@ShadowTodd Progressive rock

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@ShadowTodd been thinking about this. is perhaps the simplest criticism of this song that sam smith wanted to do montero but they forgot they weren't lil nas x?

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@jareddashevsky I think I wrote in your fifth grade yearbook to have a great summer, so I hope you also have a great summer while also being a doctor. That’d make both of us right.

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@ShadowTodd she also headlined the soundtrack of the first hunger games, so that...sort of balances it out?

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

The most important takeaway for anyone who's been able to make it this far, and I commend you all, is this: Cast autistic people in autistic roles Cast disabled people in disabled roles Representation matters in media, and it will never not matter.

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@TallGuySchmidt

5 years

The Neurotypicals Are At It Again™

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Before I get too critical, I'll go over some things with this character that I like. -Harlan doesn't reek of tokenism, and his autism is not the only facet to his character, though it is the only facet that isn't plot-related -he is shown tied to special interests happily

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@DaltonRoss "mark it's jeff, they just asked for a can of the survivor trivia pringles we gave for a reward in season 10, i don't know if any of them still exist, please help they're standing there judging me"

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

@DaltonRoss apparently it was more important for probst to include yet another montage of boston rob being awesome

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@yugiohtas right?!? i can admit to enjoying that movie more than most and i still have no idea who the hell that is.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Studios need to stop casting neurotypical actors in autistic roles. Especially nonverbal autistic roles. Because there is nothing more embarrassing than an actor who's playing an nonverbal character being able to talk when the director calls cut.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

-yes, Harlan is in peril at points in this show, but A.) this show doesn't go towards the tired 'deadbeat dad abuses autistic child' trope [though it feels like it might], and B.) the ending points him towards an environment where he will thrive, and the potential to recur in S3.

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@TallGuySchmidt

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@SNLinReview literally every great moment in snl history has happened due to lorne michaels' complete lack of proper social skills

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@TallGuySchmidt

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-Sissy, his mother, is portrayed as an understanding, compassionate advocate for Harlan's needs, and appreciates Vanya, our protagonist, further for being able to help Harlan, especially during meltdowns [forgive me for the outdated vernacular, i can't think of a better word]

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@ShadowTodd that Changes cover that Bowie duets on with butterfly boucher is...ascendant. Bowie showing up on that track FLOORED eight-year-old me [who only kinda knew who bowie was to begin with]

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@KyleKallgren you're not a 'channel awesome kid' until you start a minor controversy and refuse to apologize for it while acting like nothing has changed. you're a channel awesome grown-ass adult, a much rarer breed

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 years

@thunderrmuffin I just have this visual of Tyler and Josh just laughing their asses off, watching all the frantic clique tweets, going 'alright...what do we wanna throw 'em next?'

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@EricMGarcia you jest, but it literally is, though!

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

....okay, i've got one

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@ayoedebiri that wasn't i am telling you, that was I Have Nothing from The Bodyguard. but yes, i agree with you wholeheartedly

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@ThatWeekInSNL -Fishbone in 91 jumping all over the stage -Janelle Monae in 2013 instantaneously leaping onto everyone's radar -Prince in 81 saving one of the most notorious SNLs ever. -any one of Billie Eilish's recent ones. -Foo Fighters at Christmas in 2017 -David Byrne and friends in 2020

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

7 months

@AMikeBloomType then there should be all-newbie seasons and all-celeb seasons. no reason to leave the civilians out, they've worked well in the UK

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@JamesGunn kinda love that you kept that take. even more surprising that the other two actors didn't break either.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@realJaredGilman op is forgetting that Sam's late teens coincide with the rise of the vietnam conflict and hippie movement. there's no way he's pro-cop even at the end of that decade.

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 years

@thunderrmuffin @twentyonepilots .....jumpsushi? [runs away from horrible pun]

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Nonverbal autistic people cannot turn it on and off like neurotypical actors. Autistic people can mask, but a neurodiverse person passing as neurotypical is a lot easier to stomach than a neurotypical person passing as autistic. We're not a role challenge. we're not a costume.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Now. The Umbrella Academy has done a lot correctly in this regard, and a this is a lot more progressive of a portrayal than most autistic characters onscreen lately. However, despite this, the writers still commit a few sins in crafting Harlan, and I will detail them as well.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

6 months

Let’s get another WB writeoff trending, the more we rail against the more pressure against Zas. Like, I really wanna see Salem’s Lot as well, but apparently the masses don’t mean anything to the studios anymore.

Stephen King

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Between you and me, Twitter, I've seen the new SALEM'S LOT and it's quite good. Old-school horror filmmaking: slow build, big payoff. Not sure why WB is holding it back; not like it's embarrassing, or anything. Who knows. I just write the fucking things.

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Also, autistic people aren't going away. There are lots of autistic writers and actors out there. You wanna write an autistic character? Consult us on how to write them. Cast us to play them. You literally cannot do this without us. We'd rather not be spoken for.

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4 years

With autistic characters in media, especially nonverbal ones, a lot of the conflict lies with 'oh, this is a horrible thing to happen to a person', and here is no different. We get a few cutaways of Harlan's impressive drawing skills, and the rest is focused on drawbacks

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

@colinmochrie @WhoseRyanStiles was this it?

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@tradercracks here ya go

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@xtine_files everyone who has played survivor in the past 42 seasons:

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@daraobriain significantly slower al must have been in

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@ShadowTodd I just wanted to tell you that I’d never heard this song before I watched your video on it, and today as I was driving it came on the radio. So…I turned it up.

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 months

@realJaredGilman he's doing an A24 film next, he wants to look good with that crowd

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Firstly, despite no uses of the r-word or similar vernacular, Harlan's father, himself an antagonist of this season, makes note of, and jokes about, Harlan's inability to speak. Several times. So the amount of time in which Harlan's autism is portrayed positively is...limited.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

You can make the argument that autism was less reported-about in 1963, which is true. But Vanya, from 2019, makes a point that present-day advances have made for an easier climate for people with autism, and yet she doesn't...say...the word.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

When working with other autistic people, I tell them to focus on the parts of themselves the autism has embellished. Special interests, perfect pitch, fantastic abilities. This way, the drawbacks seem more minor. Harlan's portrayal is 90% drawbacks.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

@benning17681066 It’s the last time we all were happy

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Harlan is an autistic character. A nonverbal autistic character. He is played by Justin Paul Kelly. As far as my research tells me, Justin Paul Kelly is a neurotypical actor. Not only can Kelly talk, he has Paw Patrol voice credits on his resume.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

In conclusion. The Umbrella Academy Season 2 is good, wonderfully insane, and features a nonverbal autistic character that is pretty well-written and slightly more progressive than other recent ones, despite more progress still needing to be made.

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@TallGuySchmidt

1 year

@RedmondSurvivor and also appearing on survivor 46...

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4 years

@colinmochrie

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@4thContext funnily enough this is a direct reference to a similar Bob Hope fourth wall break in Road to Morocco, which this is spoofing. "whatever villains we may face, we haven't any fears" "Paramount will protect us cause we're signed for 5 more years." Seth was clearly a fan.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Why do they need to stop doing this? Because this will tie the magical powers directly into the autism, which is another unrealistic message for autistic viewers. My autism gives me cool abilities, but they are not magical powers. Anxiety is not a magical power.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Secondly. Harlan is the newest entry into the latest infuriating Hollywood uber-specific trope- AUTISTIC PEOPLE WITH MAGICAL POWERS! Okay...really, it's just Harlan and Jacob Tremblay from The Predator, but really, Hollywood needs to stop doing this.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@SurvivorPenner how about 'penner is the only player in survivor history to get his own close-up confessional while directly under another player's ass'?

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@TallGuySchmidt

11 months

'A Film By Please Don't Destroy' is an opening credits inclusion, as it should have been this whole damned time #SNL

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

@Seinfeld2000 how is it that the moment he tweeted the phrase 'it was a tuck', i immediately thought 'there's a seinfeld 2000 tweet in here somewhere'

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@TallGuySchmidt

3 years

@birbigs the smash cut from peaceful downtown b-roll to a dozen thirtysomethings going apeshit in a clothing store was so perfect

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@TallGuySchmidt

2 years

@GeorgeTakei and 'macho man' as well

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

This could potentially give the uneasy message to autistic viewers that your difficulties are more important than your strengths, and therefore will be focused on more. We don't want that.

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@TallGuySchmidt

4 years

Think about that. Vanya could easily say the words 'he has autism'. But they are never said, even by people who know full well what autism is. This decision must have been made by the writers, or even the producers, to purposely not say it. How else can you explain it?

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@TallGuySchmidt

8 months

@daraobriain did they just do an ai image query of 'bald man with microphone' and picked the first one that came up?

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@TallGuySchmidt

6 years

ah. so we're wasting 5 minutes of #survivor showtime to plug a glorified Wipeout ripoff fronted by Kevin Hart. Wonderful.

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Jordan Schmidt, Local Tall Person

@TallGuySchmidt

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@SNLinReview i think about the fact that people wanted him to get back on the show for 5 years just to show everyone he could do it, and then he goes and bombs in his monologue, fumbles multiple laugh lines and alienates the audience early. and that makes me laugh harder than this show did.

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@TallGuySchmidt

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@yugiohtas i love explaining to people that the iron giant was pitched as an adaptation of pete townshend's rock opera adaptation of the book and seeing them wrap their head around all of that.

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@TallGuySchmidt

5 months

Meanwhile, in hell:

O.J. Simpson

@TheRealOJ32

5 months

On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. -The Simpson Family

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