Sacred Symbols+, Episode 166: The Character Assassination of Troy Leavitt (Video)

Great as usual Colin. Thanks for this! Andrew Yang? Seems like a nice dude, but wasn’t part of his plan to give everyone “free” $1000 per month? We’ll just tax the shit out of you for that “free” money lol. Lastly, everything woke turns to shit!

Sam

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

He's a good guy.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks. =)

Colin Moriarty

This might be one of the best podcasts I've ever listened to.

Levelupbrady

Great interview, it’s such bullshit what The Wokes put this guy through. He seems like a fine gentleman.

BlindRiot

I already had admiration for Troy when the media tried stirring up that nothing burger about him. And this podcast only further cemented my respect for him. I look forward to the day when this woke, neo-marxist drivel gets put in its place for good. Excellent episode.

Wretched Spawn

Thank you for your support.

Colin Moriarty

Ah man so nice to see Troy again, I subbed to his channel so many full moons ago. So nice to see he is still the cool guy he was back then. Also, great conversation Colin. Thank you for this.

Fotis Lyto

I'll have him back, no doubt.

Colin Moriarty

He's great. Thanks for watching.

Colin Moriarty

Perhaps he is?

Colin Moriarty

Enjoy!

Colin Moriarty

You learn something every day.

Colin Moriarty

After watching this it reminded me of an episode you did with nick calandra from the escapist about what the hells happened to games media and was just wondering if you were gonna get him back on anytime soon ?

Matthew Perry

Same thinking. Props for wearing a Rush shirt!

Jefferson Souza

I enjoyed this the most because it introduced me to Troy Leavitt. I picked up in the interview the he has a proclivity to discuss topics adopting a more academic approach, and that was confirmed with his Power Point presentations on his channel. Now I’m binging his old videos and would love to hear more about him on current affairs. As Colin well said at the end, this guy’s a treasure.

Jefferson Souza

Great interview. But I was wierded out because Troy looks EXACTLY like my uncle.

Luke Silletta

AH YES pre-listen comment- I used to listen to Troy's stuff and have been wanting this episode for so long!

Jack Sibert

Great episode. I live very close to the salt lake area and I can’t believe I never knew avalanche was based there 😂

HaydenPotato

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

Great episode, and the fact that he wore a RUSH shirt elevates it to beyond greatness!!!

Eebo85

The LDS church is very wealthy today, but during its founding it was in debt and he was shot and killed. So not sure that logic holds. All religions are cults in a traditional sense.

Austin

We appreciate your support.

Colin Moriarty

LSM keeps hitting it out of the park with these interviews my goodness. Two thumbs up from me! Happy to be a patron here, and I am not going anywhere anytime soon. Thanks for all you do.

IslanderButNotLong

I really just think this is the case because it's new.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks for listening!

Colin Moriarty

I'm not gonna command more than 60-90 minutes of someone's time.

Colin Moriarty

Yup. Lots of unfairness.

Colin Moriarty

=)

Colin Moriarty

Thank you.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks!

Colin Moriarty

Mormonism will always look cultish because the founder benefited and was enriched by the creation of a new faith. It's very suspicious when someone says they've found secret knowledge, and that they should be King. The Christian church fathers were almost without exception tortured and subjected to gruesome deaths as a reward for their evangelization. They had no worldly incentives.

Keith W

I think from a conversation perspective it was very passionate. I feel like from an interview perspective though that a lot of time was spent with like Colin’s opinion. And that could be because the interviewee doesn’t know you very well, and so you wanna provide context but from a listener perspective I’ve heard the opinion several times at this point, and it sometimes feels like it’s leading the interviewee to a certain narrative or trying to (whether that’s on purpose or just a result of your passion I have no idea) Really glad he came on though, and y’all continue to get a great lineup of guests.

Owen

I mean it goes as long as Colin can keep the quality high, and the guests not tied down for hours on end. I appreciate the timeframe being in a more digestible form.

easelgames

Yeh longer interviews, 1hr 30mins doesn't cut it personally.

Jamie Anderson

This episode was so great. Although ss+ interviews are killing, I still wish they were longer. I especially enjoy it when guests go outside of the topic or talk about philosophy and their thought process of things. All and all, things are going in the right direction and makes LSM more worth the subscription. Great job Colin 👍🏼

Miky Sh

This was a fantastic interview. Firstly, I completely forgot Avalanche made the Tak games and I loved those growing up so the name drop made me smile. But seeing this kind man have his story told of getting raked over the coils was… it’s just unfair. No one deserves that. And some of the smaller bits, like what you mentioned about IGN was eye opening. Hope we get more content like this going forward because as many have stated, you are really good at asking the right questions and reading a room.

RK128

All this Utah talk is just making me want y’all to do a live show here. We would show out for sure!

Austin

These interviews have just been getting better and better. Thanks for the continued top notch content. My dollar is well spent here

Matthew Mendillo

Doubtful he'd have been able to reply, but I've been wondering if the HP game has gotten rewritten in some way to be more 'trans-friendly' or even make it a central plotline of the story. Was extra curious given his take on woke ideologies permeating game stories. Fantastic interview Colin.

The Funky Monk

Thank you. I'll do my best.

Colin Moriarty

Thank you!

Colin Moriarty

Thanks for your support.

Colin Moriarty

It's very transparent.

Colin Moriarty

Thanks ma!

Colin Moriarty

Glad to do it. I like Utah. =)

Colin Moriarty

GOD! Colin, you are knocking it out of the park with these interviews. Putting in the hard work and delivering some of the best content in games. KEEP IT UP!

Ambitious Casual

Yes! Thank you as always!

Tacoyaki

That was an amazing episode!

Tony Parra

Great episode Colin. Your description of people wanting to write about other things but just can’t and that’s why they go into games media/journalism is spot on. That stuff is everywhere nowadays.

Wow! What a wonderful, enlightening, honest conversation. Amazing work! Thanks to you both. 👏🏻👍🏻

BettyAnn Moriarty

As someone in Utah I appreciate you talking about the game development and discussing this with him. The first meetup on the west coast would be awesome if it was here

Card Captor Corey

Thank you. <3

Colin Moriarty

Thank you. I want people to tell their stories.

Colin Moriarty

=)

Colin Moriarty

IGN will only survive because of its deep legacy in Google and other places, and its name-recognition. No one goes there for personalities anymore.

Colin Moriarty

Excellent episode. I went in not knowing exactly what to expect but it was a great conversation to listen to.

Josh Paradysz

It's so refreshing to hear one of these people who have been victimized by the mob tell it like it is instead of making excuses for people who hate them.

Aubrey

Can’t. Click. Fast. Enough! 😳😍

Jay Lewis

Hey brotha not done with the episode yet, but it’s top notch quality. In regards to ign , I agree that it doesn’t seem like it’s people who are enthusiastic about games. I think we have a mutual acquaintance there back when I worked at igns parent company, the director of their video player, he’s a great guy. I do think the problem is that the company is trying to branch out too much and is probably hiring too many freelancers for everything. They keep trying to feed google news and social by focusing too much on google trends. Meanwhile, google is making changes so that their own proprietary content shows up now for game reviews etc. i think the site has become too much of a content machine and not a lot of it is quality content

Kenneth Oms

Thank you. <3

Colin Moriarty

Feel like I’m just saying the same thing every week on here now. But damn, y’all continue to raise the bar for guests. Can’t wait to listen to this one.

Alex Watson

=)

Colin Moriarty

😲

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