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I Am Legend And Other Stories

Richard Matheson

The Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

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The Matt Walsh Show

The host referenced the novel while illustrating how curfews would make sense if the threat were zombielike, comparing COVID restrictions to the nighttime menace in the book.

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I'm sorry never mind I'm thinking of the zombies from I Am Legend

— Episode: Ep. 601 - Emperor Cuomo Tries To Invade...

Episode: Ep. 601 - Emperor Cuomo Tries To Invade Your Home

The host referenced the novel while illustrating how curfews would make sense if the threat were zombielike, comparing COVID restrictions to the nighttime menace in the book.

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I'm sorry never mind I'm thinking of the zombies from I Am Legend

The Rewatchables

The hosts noted that the film is based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson and mentioned they had not read the actual book, referring to it as "the actual book."

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the movie starts out with this 1954 novel by Richard Matheson

— Episode: ‘I Am Legend’ With Bill Simmons and Van...

Episode: ‘I Am Legend’ With Bill Simmons and Van Lathan

The hosts noted that the film is based on the 1954 novel by Richard Matheson and mentioned they had not read the actual book, referring to it as "the actual book."

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the movie starts out with this 1954 novel by Richard Matheson

I am legend. The actual book.

Timcast IRL

The hosts repeatedly referenced the book as a metaphor for how political figures are portrayed as monsters by the groups they oppose, describing its plot about a vampire hunter who becomes the legend for the dominant vampires. Raheem Kassam, Tim Pool and other guests used the story to argue that current elites see themselves as defenders while being cast as villains. The discussion highlighted the book’s theme of perspective reversal rather than recommending it for reading.

Episode: Timcast IRL #1077 Trump Assassination CENSORED By...

Buzz Patterson compared the current situation with the Democrats to the graphic novel "I Am Legend", where the protagonist realizes that he is the monster in a world where everyone else is a vampire.

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Are you guys familiar with the graphic novel? Have you seen the movie the movies terrible by the way, okay But they will Smith in a movie in the graphic novel long story short guys vampire hunter.

He's the creature that lurks while they sleep and kills you in your bed He's the boogeyman and so initially the story as vampires are taking over. They're attacking people. The vampires are legend This is what we're seeing with Democrats They have become so degenerate that a regular working-class

Episode: Timcast IRL #967 US Hit By MAJOR Cyber Attack, Goo...

The graphic novel is about a vampire hunter who is fighting against vampires who are turning people into vampires. In the end, the vampires win and the hunter is locked up. The hunter realizes he has become the 'legend' to the vampires.

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You guys ever uh read that one? I've seen the movie. Movie is the movie is nothing. The movie is a disgrace. It is offensive and it should not exist. Damn. The actual story is that there's a guy. Well, the movie is awful. The the actual graphic novel and story is about a guy who uh is a vampire hunter and the world is being overrun by vampires who are turning people into vampires in the end the vampires win. They lock him up and he looks out the window and he realizes what I am legend means to the vampires who are the dominant society at that time. He is the monster who lurks while they sleep and kills them in their sleep. He's the boogeyman. He's the legend to us. Vampires are legends. Yeah, you're sleeping they'll bite you in the neck. Oh, yeah. Once everyone becomes a vampire the day walker they're telling stories to their kids a man who can walk in sunlight when you're sleeping will stab you in the heart and kill you and he realized I have become legend. I am what I am now to them what they were to me. Oh.

My view is I don't care if the democrats take over with their psychotic Vampiristic woke crackpot parasite ideology. I will not just adapt to it. Yes. I'll go live in the woods or in a van down by the river. I'll say y'all are nuts.

Episode: Timcast IRL #878 Israel Declares FULL SIEGE Over H...

The book is about a man who is a vampire hunter and he kills vampires because vampires are bad. In the end, he realizes that because the world has fallen to vampires and he is one of the last humans, he is the legend.

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The movie is nothing. The movie does not relate to the story at all. The movie should never have been made. It's awful. The book is much better and fully admit I did not read it. I've only seen the select passages that convey the general concept of what the book is about. And the book is about a guy who is... He's a vampire hunter and he kills vampires because vampires are bad. And then in the end, he finally realizes that because the world has fallen to vampires and he is one of the last humans, he is the legend.

From the perspective of humans, there's a legend of vampires that in the middle of the night come and kill you while you sleep. When the world became all vampires, there was a legend of a man who lurks during the day and kills you when you're asleep. That was his realization that they arrested him and were to try him for the crimes of murder. And they were terrified of him. He was a monster. He was the monster.

Episode: Timcast IRL #1106 Democrats TERRIFIED Harris Will...

Tim Pool referenced the book "I Am Legend" to explain how the neocons and the neo-libs view themselves as the defenders of America, even as their actions are becoming increasingly problematic.

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They're the first order in the Star Wars series. The Empire has fallen, and the remnants of the Empire are trying to mount a counterinsurge to take back the Republic, and that's the premise, and that's what the Deep State represents.

They view themselves, you know, I'm gonna use the I Am Legend, are you familiar with I Am Legend? Not the movie, the book. Never read the book. Okay, the movie's garbage. I like the movie. No, okay, in the book, the point is this. A vampire is a legend, and a vampire hunter seeks out this very rare thing that no one believes is real. In the story, the long story short of it is, as the vampires start converting more and more people, eventually, it's now 50-50, humans and vampires. In the end, it's all vampires. They capture him. They put him in jail. Why? He is the monster that lurks around while people sleep, murdering them in their sleep. To him, he's a vampire hunter. Vampires are bad. But in the end, it's just him. He is now the legendary monster who lurks while they sleep and kills their children and their family members.

Episode: Timcast IRL #1106 Democrats TERRIFIED Harris Will...

The book 'I Am Legend' was mentioned as an example of how a person can be viewed as a monster by those they are trying to save, relating it to the current political climate.

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You're familiar with I Am Legend?

Not the movie, the book.

Never read the book.

Okay, the movie's garbage.

The movie has nothing to do with-

I like the movie.

No, okay, in the book, the point is this.

A vampire is a legend, and a vampire hunter seeks out this very rare thing that no one believes is real.

In the story, the long story short of it is, as the vampires start converting more and more people, eventually, it's now 50-50, humans and vampires.

In the end, it's all vampires.

They capture him.

They put him in jail.

Why?

He is the monster that lurks around while people sleep, murdering them in their sleep.

To him, he's a vampire hunter.

Vampires are bad.

But in the end, it's just him.

He is now the legendary monster who lurks while they sleep and kills their children and their family members.

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