Pokimane joins hosts to dissect the resurgence of "woke 2.0" culture, sparked by Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and predicted to peak at the Super Bowl. They analyze a viral video of an influencer screaming during turbulence, debating whether her trauma response was genuine or performative content creation given modern aircraft safety standards. The conversation also covers racial profiling assumptions, the ethics of mocking self-improvement efforts like Kai Sanat's vocabulary study, and bizarre conspiracy theories linking the 2016 Cubs victory to current societal fractures, suggesting a Bears Super Bowl win could restore the timeline. Ultimately, the episode highlights how cultural shifts and media consumption are reshaping public discourse on identity, safety, and historical narratives. [Automatically generated summary]
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Born In Morocco, Love French00:02:19
Well actually just the other day I was on a flight and I not me no no let me finish the lentils crazy sense it was hard to go from his leg up on the table to you going
ladies and gentlemen good morning good evening good afternoon hola como estas buenos días buenos tardes bienvenidos a el firan podcast No no, I just love French.
I love French.
And what about Turkish Turkish?
I love Turkish, I love Turkish, because when I said something in Turkish you, you immediately snapped, well, that's because your pronunciation was a little off.
Oh oh yeah, it's a little off, a little, a little rough.
He's needs to work on his Turkey Arabic Arabi, Yellow Pokey and I, we don't want to uh, we don't want to flex on you guys too.
Yeah, we also think it's in.
We think it's a little inconsiderate, considering the difference is, you're Lebanese, you should be able to speak Arabic and maybe even a little bit of French.
She actually does.
No, you don't have anything.
No, I was at Pokey's family reunion and we were all talking Arabic.
Wait, my mom is she from?
She's from Morocco.
Well, she's not from Morocco, she's from Canada.
Both oh, she's born in Morocco.
You were born at the same time in both countries.
That's crazy.
Yeah well, you were born in Morocco, which is interesting because you actually posted an IG story about this recently, where i'm like, if you meet someone in L A, most of us are ex-plants, you know yeah, right.
And they ask, they look at you and they're like, where are you from?
Yeah yeah, what does that mean like, ethnically, my citizenship right, what part of LA?
I don't know what they're asking anymore?
Yeah, and then you know, sometimes you'll be like oh, I'm from, I don't know this part of LA, or I'm from Canada, and they're like, where are you really from?
They lean and they go.
What kind of Asian are you?
Oh no, what kind of Asian are you?
But I really, yeah.
So I was crazy.
Well, a lot of people racially profile me.
Minor Inconveniences On The Road00:04:51
Yeah yeah no, all the time.
He's constantly.
People are constantly like, you must be no Arab.
People come up to me and they said, we know you're white, but there's something going on here.
We just assume you're white.
Right right right yeah well, for well, I'm so sorry we were so rude.
Pokemon is here.
Ladies and gentlemen, such a pleasure to have you on the podcast.
So happy to be back.
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you guys?
I'm doing.
We're all doing great.
We're doing wonderful.
I think we've been.
I'm doing terrible.
Why oh, Jesus vibes in the toilet.
What is your minor inconvenience?
No, it's not a minor inconvenience.
I was gonna say the world is just terrible in general.
Yes, it's all fair enough.
Yeah, we're trying.
Let's try to brighten people.
Yes, we're trying to forget about it here.
That's why you do this podcast, I know.
That's why we don't do politics on the ON THE Fearm podcast.
Yeah, we don't do politics.
I thought you're gonna be like my background.
Oh, no, no.
Geopolitical situation is tenable.
No, I was, this is what I was thinking of.
This is what I'm thinking of all the time.
But I will say, one good thing, one positive, which is.
When you think of us, like, do you ever take a moment, like, in the middle, like, you're thinking of geopolitical situations, and you're just like, wow, I wonder what Will's doing.
The world, yeah, the world is collapsing.
You know, people are being torn apart.
But then you're just like, yeah, how's Austin show?
And how's Will F?
And how's my father?
Yeah, when I'm covering the atrocities unfolding all around the world, I always go back and think to myself, what's my Portland, Oregon millionaire friend Austin doing?
Well, now, when you put it like that, you make me look like an asshole.
I mean, I'm just, I wonder.
I hope he's, I hope he's doing all right with his daily routine and he didn't, like, I don't know, accidentally drive over a nail on the way to his local coffee shop.
That's not a chance.
That's so cute.
I actually, I actually hit a pothole, Poke.
I was Christmas shopping, and I was, I ran over a pothole and I hit the hole.
And I was like, well, maybe I can, maybe my car can take it.
And the sensor went off, and I said, fuck.
He's a slice of life of you.
Yeah, so it completely destroyed my tire.
And it was Christmas Eve Eve at 10.
That's what she really said.
Yes.
And I had a car full of presents like fucking Santa Claus.
And I'm sitting there and I'm like, what am I going to do?
So I called my friend and he rescued me.
He came and pulled up and he changed my spare tire because I don't know how to do that.
And then somebody pulled up next to me, same fucking shit.
They hit the same pothole.
And then I got her phone number and I was like, hey, we should do a class action lawsuit in Mississippi because I'm dead serious.
And she never texted me.
She faked it.
She acted all excited.
She thought I was fucking crazy, I think.
Maybe that you were hitting on her.
Oh.
Yeah.
Oh.
You are very straight coached.
Oh, my God, Pokey.
The only evidence that she would have that you were gay is that you were having another man change your tire for you.
Which that's something a straight man, even if he doesn't know what he's doing, he's going to gut his way through.
If we were out in public and you had blown your tire and we were happen to, you know, pull up next to each other, and I was like, may I get your phone number so we can do a class action lawsuit?
Do you hear how it sounds, though?
Do you hear?
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
When you put it that way, when you put it that way, I'm not so sure, but it depends how the conversation went.
That's true.
Like, were you like, hey, girl, wasn't that the worst?
I was like, yeah, that was the worst.
Like, it depends on the comma.
Fuck it.
Wait, you're fucking right.
We should clock their shit in tea.
Sorry, in court.
We should clot their tea in court.
I didn't, I didn't, I didn't play it up at all.
I should have played it up.
Yeah.
I mean, what am I supposed to?
What sort of signal am I supposed to get?
Sometimes what am I supposed to be like?
Hey, girl.
No!
No, that's actually right.
I want to be out.
No, they're going to.
Oh!
They're going to think you're requiring a blowjob.
Oh, my God.
No!
They're going to call the cops on you.
I didn't even think about it.
Officer, there's a crazy man who's talking about attacking Mississippi.
He didn't even think about it.
And then he asked me for fellacio.
I need help.
Officer, you gestured in my direction with a blowjob.
No!
But what I was trying to tell her is I'm sucking the dick.
You're not doing it.
I'm the fucking.
Who's dick?
She said no.
You're like, no, Everywhere.
Dick's everywhere.
Girl, my mouth.
My mouth.
You're a dick.
That's what I was trying to say.
I was trying to tell her that I'm with you.
But like, we're not doing this together.
You do it independently of yourself.
This is your version of like the black power solidarity fist.
It's just going around cracking all of it.
You don't get it.
Words That Mean Nothing00:15:26
I mean, these things are delicious.
I'm so sorry.
10 a.m. I was just going to say that.
It is indeed like 10, 19 a.m.
Well, I was going to say, in spite of everything being horrible overall, the first story I want to talk about today.
Sure.
Oh, wow.
That's unusual, isn't it?
Yes.
He looks young.
He's got a big deal, guys.
It's not filming.
We've been filming the evenings.
We need to start filming in the morning.
Yeah.
Sanga is grouping.
It's better.
It's better.
Because, like, either, yeah.
I went out loud.
He's wearing tie-dye again.
Oh, my God.
We're tie-dye.
It's woke.
Yeah, Woke is back.
Wow.
Woke is back.
That's one of the stories that I do want to get to.
But yeah, Woke is back.
It's 2016.
It's 2020.
I'm wearing tie-dye.
I'm going to the public gyms and I'm filming myself lifting public gyms.
Your story is about Woke is back.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have a story that matches this.
Husband Surprise.
Okay.
Go ahead and fucker woke up here, Pokey.
Well, the first story I wanted to get to was not just Woke is back.
The first story I want to get to is Kai Sanat.
So, Kai Sanat is, for those of you who don't know, if you've been living on Iraq, a prolific streamer, very famous, you know, voice of the Gen Z, all this good stuff.
He has decided that he is no longer going to stream as much or at all.
And instead, he's going to focus on himself and focus on a journey of self-improvement.
And in the process, he's like starting a fashion brand as well, as one does in their self-improvement journey.
But the thing that I actually like about this is he started reading books and he's filming himself reading books for 20 minutes a day.
And here's the video.
Let's just get started.
Kai Sanat kept having to look up what certain words meant during his reading journey to become a better speaker.
And it's this person is basically clowning on him.
And I don't like that.
And I'm going to get to it in a second.
But here, you can play the video.
Go for it.
He's reading Atomic Habits.
Spontaneity.
Spawn.
Spawn.
Oftentimes, when I don't know what a word is pronounced, I want to, I get to look at how it's pronounced and what it even means.
Spontaneity.
Spontaneity.
The condition of being spontaneous.
Spontaneity.
So a lot of people were making fun of it.
I think that's so cute.
Yeah.
I think it's so awesome.
Also, he's nonchalant about it because looking up a word is nonchalant.
Yes.
There's so many words that I don't fucking know what they mean.
I think there's something else that needs to be pointed out that I think is fascinating.
In the last 10 years, the amount of readers who have consumed one book, one book, has dropped 3% every year.
And now, like, do you mean one book period or one book?
One book in the entire year.
Oh, I see.
One book in your year.
Now, literally, a reader, someone who reads a book in a year, is considered an endangered species in the world.
I have someone protect me.
Yeah.
Wait, are you a reader?
I love reading.
I was going to say, the only thing about that clip that I don't like is I think we should give him a better reading list.
Atomic habits is so okay.
Yes.
I think all the self-help book is.
I think all the self-help books like that are garbanzo beans.
It's just not like, it's not good.
But hey, look, I'm not going to knock anybody for reading anything.
Like, I have friends that I try to get invested in reading, and I'll straight up tell them to my lady friends, I'll be like, you should read Smut.
Like, just get right into it.
Just read Smut.
That is a big driver.
Like, women read a lot.
Women read a lot.
You never forget where you were the first time you read the words throbbing member.
But I'm just where were you will now?
There I was, the hotel of the women, women read a lot.
No, no, no, no.
If it's a girl, it's like, there I was taking the train to my 9 a.m. shift.
But I always notice there's such beautiful, flowery language that female writers have for cock, right?
They don't just call it cock.
There's all these like because it's too much if you're new.
No, cock is not a good word.
No, it's not too smut.
Plus, I want to note that like I feel like smut is a very large umbrella term that, to be honest, encompasses books that are like 80% fantasy romance.
Actually, maybe even like 90% and then 10% like a little raunchy.
Yeah.
But the ratio is really not that good.
I'm saying, I'm saying, well, yeah, because I think men and women are wired a little differently in what soothes our appetite for arousal.
Can I admit something really shameful?
Please.
The first smut I ever read was Atlas Shrugged.
Atlas Shrugged is smut.
No, because I don't know the last time you read Atlas Shrugged Shrugged.
Atlas Shrugged is famously like the libertarian Bible where it's like radical self-reliance, but the main character is a woman named Dagne.
And Dagni, like out of nowhere, has some kind of really hot sex with some very powerful men.
I just remember being like 20 years old being like, oh, shit.
I was into it.
Ayn was getting her back blown out.
She was loving it.
Okay.
She was Francisco D'Antonia.
She was, she was writing.
Ayn Rand wrote it.
She's a very famous libertarian objectivist, I think.
Like she's the she's she wrote these fictional books that are seen as like very important works of literature for a lot of rights.
So Pokey, do you read smut?
Not really, but I've read the popular smut-ish books.
How do people, you know, get off to it?
No, no, it's like outer course.
You're not just jerking off.
It's just a sexy feeling.
No, it's flicking the bean while reading a book.
Actually, just the other day I was on a flight and I. Not read!
No, let me finish the sentence.
Wait, you look into it!
It was hard to go from his leg up on the table to you going, action it.
And someone was slicking.
Better continue.
Basically, no, so mind you, you know, I'm in business class.
I'm flying.
So cool.
And I see another cool lady in business class.
She's a bit older.
And so she's reading on a Kindle.
And since she's a bit older, that font is up, my guy.
Wow.
I walk by, I take one glance at what she's reading.
I go, okay.
Oh, no.
What was she reading?
Something very, very members.
Bless her heart, though.
You know, and she's not like doing anything crazy on the plane.
You're just reading.
She's just reading.
Going back to the Kai Sana thing, though, like, I think a lot of people have a lot of people were clowning on him because they are, well, one, they fundamentally don't understand the process of learning.
Okay.
You have to be curious, and that's a good thing.
And to be vulnerable like that is also a good thing.
Some people are clowning on him saying it's performative, but technically everything that we do is performative.
We are performers.
And I would rather have someone with this much influence be performative in that direction than, I don't know, whatever the fuck like clavicular is doing, talking about smashing his face.
Oh, just a little noise.
Yeah, with goddamn hammers.
So that's good.
That's a good thing overall.
And I hope that it'll influence.
Bone smashed today.
I have not bone smashed it.
I actually think if people are clowning on him, it's just because they're in a completely different generation than he is.
Because I think either that or they're insecure.
Yeah.
I think they're insecure and insecure people love putting other people down for the same things that they're worried about.
So I think most of the people clowning on him are like, you didn't know that?
You didn't know how to say words?
Stupid.
And it's like, there are plenty of instances where that person probably also felt the same way.
And now they want to signal to other people how much smarter they are.
I also think people kind of take any chance that they can get to signify that they are smarter or better than an influencer or content creator that they deem unworthy of their success, their money, their whatever.
Which, I mean, to be fair, that's just the internet.
But I do just want to say, I think so many people in his generation maybe don't know the word spontaneity amongst many other words.
And so it's totally fine to look what's up, no matter the word.
Like there's a word he showed up with one day and I was like, besmirched.
I was like, what the fuck does that mean?
You know what I mean?
And I didn't know what it meant.
And everybody was pissed at me.
They were like, oh my God.
Austin, besmirched.
Well, Austin, we weren't pissed at you.
You just insisted that no gay man would know the word besmirched.
Yeah, you went civil rights with it for some reason.
You know, looked at us in the eye and you went like this.
And what about it?
Yeah, what about it?
We said gay rights back.
Yeah.
I don't think we know.
True.
Yeah, I don't think he.
Pokey, would you believe me if I say he also followed up by calling every gay man he knows and checking in on them?
That was a 15-minute segment.
That's kind of cute.
Well, I'm going to tell you, Pokey, I apologize, but they are besmirching me.
Oh!
Love you so much, Austin, but then you're proving your point.
The only reason why we clown on you.
No, no, no.
The only reason why we're clowning on you is because, one, that's just what we do on this podcast, and two, you went to college.
Like, you have a degree.
Wow.
So besmirched is an old time.
And it's not like you went to college, you have a degree, and we know your ass wasn't out partying.
You were a whole ass loser in college, so you should have been hitting the fucking books.
Wow, look, Pokey, I was a loser in college.
I wasn't getting any play.
Yeah, how were you hanging out at Applebee's by yourself?
I studied engineering, my girl, and I played League of Legends at the same time.
You're from the same generation of loser.
You weren't a loser.
Well, I was more so just like nerdy.
Yeah, like student council type.
Yeah, Hey, now we're fucking hip.
Everybody here at this table is very.
Did you just say hip?
Yeah.
Yeah, we're a bunch of young whippersnappers.
So you're gonna break a hip.
Yeah.
We like the old hip-hop style music.
Is the people that are the people that are clowning on Kaisenat for bettering himself and bettering himself are the same people that like the same type of person that would make fun of somebody for going to the gym.
You know what I mean?
Same type of thing.
It's the same type of person.
You see somebody at the gym.
It's like, how embarrassing that they're not already super fit and at the gym.
Exactly.
And it's always the people.
That's the point I'm going on a drink.
Exactly.
And it's always the people that have no place saying that.
And nobody has any place saying that.
Tell them.
Yeah.
Nobody, nobody.
I don't care how good you're going to be.
I'm getting a very righteous vibe from you today.
I like it.
Of course, I'm on one.
For me, it's just like, does your actually, I was just talking to my friend the other day about this, the difference between vocab vernacular and like lexicon.
But either way, I feel like depending not just on the generation that you're in or like what age you are, but also what you do day to day, like your everyday lingo is extremely different.
Yes.
There are certain words that I probably knew in high school when I was studying for whatever or in college for whatever exam that I don't know nowadays because maybe people around me don't use SAT words.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The one said one.
Lexicon.
I don't know what the fuck that means.
That's not an SAT.
Well, the thing is, like, I think a lot of people go through life not knowing what the fuck words mean and people just be saying like they they, they are just saying words.
No, they are just saying words, like on this podcast.
Like you said, Lexicon normally I wouldn't be vulnerable and I wouldn't say I don't know what the fuck Lexicon means.
Like a glossary Lexicon I know Lexington, Kentucky.
No, it has nothing to do with right Lexicon.
Like it's like a glossary, it's like a just a bunch of terms.
Well, I don't give a fuck, i'm trying to figure it out.
It's a bunch of words and terms that you use.
Okay, got it.
No you're, you're absolutely right.
I know that not, not?
Yeah okay okay, that makes sense.
I feel like lexicon is almost like the, the units, and then like an ego.
Vocab is like a bunch of words and then vernacular is like everyday words that you use.
Is that correct?
Yes, I also don't think that like how many, it's just like small differences between words that people kind of use interchangeably.
I don't think how many words you know is a measure of intelligence, because I, I just haven't come across that word before.
Right I, I right, I think I use a lot of different words because my dad is so old.
Yes right, he is very old, very old, but but he's very sophisticatedly old.
Yeah right yeah yeah yeah yeah, as opposed to like different kinds of old.
Yeah well, I mean he worked with the Rockefeller.
Yeah, I mean, he's like, he's like I like that he's specifying, though it's like he's not like any schlubby old guy, it's a system.
He's not just like old, racist old.
Yeah, he knows all the words and the right hand.
He's a pinky up kind of.
Yes yeah, he's like a smoker's shaggy old.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Fucking cigar right, like that's.
I want to grow up to be that old.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
Yeah no, i'm serious.
I mean, he made you.
You definitely do need to read a lot more books if you want to grow up to be that old though I have that kind of I haven't read a book in 15 years.
Really I, I genuinely mean this and I I normally do bits, but I, I don't actually remember the last time I read a book.
Well, I mean, to be fair, you're part of the vast majority.
Now, like that doesn't make you atypical.
That makes sense.
I know i'm gonna be attacked by a bunch of readers no, so here's the thing.
We should not.
My reflex to that, as someone who loves to read, is like I want to find a book that he would really enjoy, because I feel like people don't read just because they haven't found their niche.
Yes well you're, you're books are so captivating, but I feel like a lot of the stuff we tend to come across is like boring.
Yeah, there was another study that was conducted on reading that I find very funny but um, the number of people who self-reported how many books they read was actually a lot higher than the.
Uh when, when followed up with the second question, name the books that you read right, it would drop down by, I think like 50, 30 to 50.
Batman, the long Halloween for me.
Yeah, the funny thing is I thought about a book that I had read and I was like wow, this is such a good book.
I want to open it up again and reread it because it's such an amazing book.
15 years ago no no, this was I don't know when it was, this is probably in college and I was like searching for Candlestick Park, what a fantastic novel.
And I opened it up and the text was this big and I was like, oh my god, this is a grade school book.
Right, like I remember this one.
Good night moon, good night spoon.
I had a.
I had a uh, this is dense.
I had something that I wanted to bring up um, and I was gonna bring it up in the car to San.
Learning English From Kindergarten00:05:40
Oh, but since we're in the, i'm in the, i'm in the presence of people that speak multiple languages sure, here we go.
I'm just acknowledging that Marshall.
Yeah, he speaks.
Yes.
He speaks Turkish.
Chinese.
You speak Chinese.
Yeah, he speaks Chinese.
God forbid a white boy get a little brush.
Pokey, you speak Arabic, French, and English.
A little bit, sometimes.
My question to you.
How many languages do you speak?
I speak two.
Oh.
Mauricio.
To get.
Siquerez alaras Banyol Comigo.
Can I speak in Spanish with my friends?
With my facia.
Why can't I speak with my friends?
No, no.
I say, why don't you speak with me?
Anyway, because he's Waysian.
No, no, but he never engages me in speaking Spanish.
How am I supposed to learn?
Mark.
Yeah, Mark is your fault.
Thank you.
Gracias, gracias.
So, oh, see?
Nailed it.
That means you're welcome to those that were listening.
Yes.
For those of you who don't, Abba.
So at a certain point, and I don't think anybody's ever crossed this, gotten into this theory.
Oh, wow.
At a certain point, does your second language become your first?
Well, they talk about that you start dreaming in the other language when you're truly fluent.
Yes.
So like, for example, Hassan talks often about how English is his second language.
Right.
At a certain point, can you even claim that?
I think there needs to be different terms for what language you use primarily versus to me.
For example, in French, the term is maternal, which almost signals like kindergarten instead of like first language.
It's literally like the language I learned in like kindergarten.
Or like my mother language.
Yes, mother tongue.
What I learned when I was really, really, really young.
French has some great little.
I think we kind of need to differentiate.
Like, for example, clearly English is Hassan's primary language now.
That's it.
Primary, not first language.
See, we just need better words in English to describe things.
Better lexicon.
Yes, there we go.
A better lexicon.
I spent the first 18 years of my life exclusively speaking Turkish while learning English as a second language.
And then I came to the United States of America and I exclusively spoke English.
And yes, when I go back to Turkey, or back in the day when I used to go back to Turkey and I primarily spoke Turkish, I would notice that my, like, there would be a cultural shift first.
Like the first week, you get like a- Well, you had the greatest motivator of all.
What?
You were trying to get laid.
Oh, that's yes, that's the big part of it.
In Turkish, we have a saying, let me guess.
Okay.
Dil de de la medan.
Dil de la de medan.
Dil orenil más.
I have no fucking idea what it was.
Yeah, take it crack.
Dil de la le bedan.
Fucking.
You gotta fucking speak to lay it down.
No, it means before a tongue touches another tongue, you will not learn that other tongue.
I mean, I'm not sure.
So you need to kiss first, then learn.
This is a very horny saying in terms of anyway.
Dil.
She's a good tongue twister.
She sells seashells by the seashore.
Yeah, exactly.
Wait, we need to do a song.
That'd be a hit Turkish song.
That's not.
You're just not even saying it.
I'm behind on the triangle.
Jesus Christ.
Turn from here.
This is getting racist.
I do want to add to that, though, and say, I think Hassan says that English is his second language because as someone who also, like, I first learned French and Arabic, I started learning English properly in like the fourth grade.
And like then middle school and solely transitioned out of primarily having French classes to having English classes.
I feel like what he's trying to signal is that your brain, when it comes to understanding languages, functions a little bit differently.
Like for me, my A's are a bit different because if you learn different languages, you know that the sentence structure is different.
Different languages kind of prioritize different things when it comes to how you're communicating.
So that's why even as you learn a secondary language and even as it becomes your primary, you're still used to maybe forming sentences in a certain way or pronunciating vowels in a certain way.
A couple things I can tell you right now.
Which is why I mess up on words a lot.
A couple things I can tell you right off the bat.
The reason why I say that is because there are always instances, because I sound and look so American, I think people go, what's wrong with this guy when I like do certain things, do certain quirky things with the way I communicate?
Like W's and Vs, right?
If there's a lot of W's and V's in a sentence, I still have a really hard time.
Like I have to actually lock in and say it correctly because there's no W sound in Turkish.
There's no W in the Turkish alphabet.
There's no W sound in Turkish.
Also, English is not a phonetically consistent language at all.
And that pisses me off so much.
Which is why it's somewhat difficult to learn, even though it's like the common language that everyone universally learns as their second language.
It's actually phonetically inconsistent.
So there's certain words that are still, even for someone who is...
It took me so long to learn Indianapolis.
Oh, that word pisses me off.
Yeah, Indianapolis.
Should it not be Indianapolis?
Well, I couldn't pronounce Indianapolis.
That's why I say Archapolis.
The only way I learned it was someone told me, think of the word apple in the middle.
Restaurant Tips And Fees00:15:29
I said, damn.
Yeah, I literally have to rewrite that word in my mind.
Okay, you got Kansas and then you got Arkansas.
How does that work?
That part.
I couldn't pronounce Massachusetts for the longest time.
Or even Senator.
How did you pronounce like Massachusetts?
Well, one of my cousins or one of my uncle convinced me that Massachusetts was Massachusetts and I couldn't pronounce it any other ways.
Yeah, like two shits.
So I was like trying to.
I was like out there and this is a this is Christians.
But I was like, I was out there in class in school talking about Massachusetts.
I'm okay.
Thank you.
Anyway, I have another thing to speak on.
And I think all of you can weigh in on this.
I, as everybody knows, everybody that knows me from the Fearam podcast knows that nobody stands up for workers harder than me.
That's what everyone says.
That's what everybody says.
And I encountered a situation at a restaurant.
Well, Marsha, fuck.
I have to pull stuff up.
But I encountered a situation at a restaurant and it made me so fucking angry.
I was so mad.
Pull that up for us.
I'll signal you for it.
So I went to out with Christian.
We went out to sushi.
Right.
And I, you know, we pull up to the restaurant.
Everything's great.
Food is fantastic.
I get the bill and I see an extra 16% charge on top of everything.
And I go, I always ask when they put the charge on.
We weren't a big party or anything.
When they put the charge on, I don't mind paying it, no problem.
But I always ask the server, do you guys get this?
Because I want to make sure that this money is going to you.
This is gratuity.
And they said, no, this is a no-tipping establishment.
And I said, well, where does it go?
And then they slipped me a note to explain where the 16% went.
Marsh, I have a photo.
No.
They have it on the menu.
Where were you eating?
Patrick.
Not that one.
They're feeding us back.
So don't ask.
They didn't slip you a note.
They just showed you the menu.
Austin.
Austin.
Made it seem like this was a man, made it sound like they scratched something on a piece of paper and help me, i'm a storyteller.
He's making it sensational, enjoy.
So this is what they say.
This is.
This is not a gratuity or tip.
We are a no tipping establishment.
The fee is revenue that is not segmented or designated in any way.
It is taxed per state law and is used to fund all operations.
I want you to pay attention what?
First of all, on my bill which I have, my bill there uh yeah, that my bill is there they said stats tax via state law.
They're thinking oh, this is another sales tax, right?
No, there's sales tax already in there.
See that 1476.
Yeah, the 16 fee is on top of that right, right.
So I did a little investigating, right?
I didn't ask the gentleman what his salary was, because that would have been rude, but he said, well, we get paid a little bit more than usual because, because we don't have tips and I just got, i'm just like, am I missing something here?
Why are they putting this?
They're just putting a 16 fee, basically like we need more money for the restaurant is basically what they're doing.
I think, for me, the missing piece would be knowing how well that waiter is paid, if it's like significant yeah, you miss a fundamental part of the story by not asking him.
No, and I can't believe you're defending the interests of capital here because, hear me out, oh my god cuts your heart out.
I'm telling you.
I'm saying why didn't you ask the waiter?
Because he gets paid first.
Look at the trader.
It's rude to ask how much they're paid, but that was not this, I think.
Well, a little bit of a phobia.
You can ask it in a nice way like, oh, if you're comfortable, what is your wage?
That's the whole, that's the heart of the story.
Hear me out, if you are a profit, i'm making an assumption here.
But if you're a business for-profit, you have made an assumption that or, excuse me, you have made a calculation that that 16 on top of everybody's bill you are making out ahead than if you were to just pay people the normal wage and allow them to accept tips.
That business has made that calculation.
Am I being presumptuous?
I mean, it's a for-profit business.
That's just how they operate.
All ask a question, yes, is it a nice sushi restaurant?
That's what?
Yeah, nice.
We're not saying this is a judgment to you, but um, did the staff seem as though they were happy?
I mean, I couldn't, I didn't ask him.
It's tough because, on one hand, it could be the restaurant trying to ensure that their employees are paid well if their wages are really good and are either on par or above what someone could generally make with tip well um but, and they also want to remove the stress of having to perform for your wage.
Yeah right, if it's built into the tip, there's no like.
Also, I you went to like a more pro-labor establishment, I think, and you just got mad.
Maybe in a higher-end restaurant they want to hire better workers, but then they need to offer better salaries and in order to do so, they need like, Like a medical.
Well, why did they put in the note that we have this fee so we can pay our people higher wages?
Yeah, I don't know if that's like too detailed or unprofessional.
Okay, so you guys are just or maybe they would then be legally liable to put it in the middle.
I just don't have enough information about the workplace conditions of this restaurant because you refuse to ask the waiter anyway.
So I logged in when I made a few assumptions because I was passionate about defending the rights of labor.
And we appreciate it.
Instead of asking them if this is a better situation or a worse one, you just chose to continue.
You know what?
I like his instinct that he didn't trust them.
I don't think don't trust anyone.
If you're tracking on a fee and I can't tip the waiter or waitress, we should tack on the fee and let me tip on top of it.
Then there's no stress.
You should trust anybody.
Have you seen the other thing that's been going around where they will have the 15, 20, 25% tip and the numbers won't actually match what that percentage is?
That dollar amount will be higher than the actual percentage.
That sounds kind of illegal.
Well, yeah, it was trending on the internet.
You don't get to know that.
You know why?
Lack of interest in doing math.
I'll tell you why.
This happens on delivery apps all the time.
When you get BOGO, the app will calculate the tip based on the, if you were to pay the full amount, and they calculate that out.
So I imagine this system performs very similarly.
And by the way, to put a pin in that last one, I want to let everybody know.
I was, my intention was not, I wanted to tip.
I was passionate about tipping.
I wanted to give the tip to the service worker.
And I always make sure, and I really frustrated when I feel like an establishment is taking money, like adding, adding, padding my bill.
I will plus one now.
Yeah, paddy my bill.
I hate not being able to tip.
Yes.
There's certain countries where it's also like not very culturally kosher to tip.
Right.
But one cool thing I found out, in case anyone didn't know, you can tip airline hostesses or like flight attendants.
Oh, yes.
I didn't know this.
I didn't know this until recently.
Yep.
Basically, I lost my phone in the deep, deep, deep crevices of my head.
We've all been there.
We've all been there.
And I couldn't find it anywhere, but I knew I knew it was in there.
I'm cranking that shit up and down and left and right.
I cannot get to it.
Ask a flight attendant.
Yeah, they have to dismantle it.
They got it like a taunton from Star Wars.
No, she was just real good at her job.
She like knew what to press, knew where to reach, found my phone.
I said, thank you so much because I was so pressed about it.
And I said, gosh, I wish I could tip you guys or something.
She goes, actually, you can.
I said, and she came back like two minutes later with her Venmo on a napkin.
I said, here's $200, my girl.
I really did not want to replace my phone.
She was like about it.
She's like, oh, actually, you can.
I'm going to be honest.
My mom was a flight attendant.
I've never heard this.
This is good to know.
I just get information.
Also, because they can be.
I don't think other people knew about it either.
This is the entrepreneurial spirit.
No, but she said it in a way where I am assuming that it's not like against company policy.
So if you guys are ever in a situation where you really like your flight attendants, it is like I can see it'd be a little awkward of a conversation sometimes, you know.
No, if you're just mad.
You're fantastic.
You're fantastic.
I'm going to have a better time in Japan because you were here.
Okay, perfect.
But you have to tip everybody.
No.
No.
Okay.
You're usually only helped by like one or two.
That's right.
You're right.
Like five.
You're right.
You're like marching around the plane.
Austin Show here.
I tipped someone up in front.
And I wanted to make sure that you back here in stowage got checked as well.
No, I mean, it is.
Make sure you know I tipped someone.
I don't have any money.
Let's do damage to the people up front.
But I just want you to know I'm a good guy.
Yes, Pokey.
I mean, I am.
Did you guys see the drama about the influencer on the flight who is screaming?
No.
Oh, my God.
I did see this.
Oh, Pokey.
What a fucking topic.
Marsh, I think you should bring it up so they can see.
What a fucking topic.
Are you kidding me?
Austin's about to tip Pokey.
The way to Austin's event, though.
The way to Austin's heart is bringing up random plane-related stories.
He loves that.
I love that for you.
I cannot believe my story.
Did you see recently there was a flight that landed in LA from New York where the back of the plane literally cooked?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, and a bunch of people got like their.
Anyways, I know too much flight stuff.
You know, I love that.
That was an American Airlines A321 XLR because it was a little bit more.
Look up on TikTok.
That was a Rainman though.
Literally, the matches hit the table and you had 48 matches, 48 matches.
Influencer, panic attack, flight.
Yep.
And to preface the clip, basically this girl was showing like, oh, this is me on a flight, a son who has flight anxiety.
Half of the most of the video is her just like eating yummy food in business class.
But then there are these clips of her screaming her literal head off.
No.
Is that how she gets rid of her anxiety?
I don't know.
Is that how Austin gets rid of his anxiety?
It'll be like the slightest turbulence, and she's like screaming very loudly.
And then everybody else on that flight also like came out with their stories because some other people I think were recording too.
And they were like, she was causing such a ruckus.
Everybody was so worried.
Stop looking at my screen.
I get a little nervous during turbulence.
You want to know what I do during turbulence?
Because sometimes it takes remedy.
No, no.
Slurs.
I go like crazy.
It's like slurs I've never heard before.
So we was flying from Portland to LA like a couple days ago and we entered the, we kind of were flying south and we hit the jet stream and the jet stream is usually going this way.
And then so a huge gust of wind hit our plane like boom.
And the plane went boom.
I usually flail because I flail.
And then I compose myself.
Like do you lean into the motion so in order not to damage yourself?
Yeah, I don't know.
I flail.
I gotta see this.
Oh, yes, this one.
This is the girl that was screaming.
Wait, why are you shooting, but I didn't this time, which is a huge mistake.
I don't know.
I feel like they heated up nice and hot for me, so I really appreciated that.
I just didn't expect her to be Asian, really.
I thought she would be white.
Oh, okay.
Wait, wait, hold on.
Maybe I'm being, maybe I'm being racist here, but I feel like loud abrasive influencer.
When you say that, I immediately assume it's like a white lady.
Yeah.
I'll take that.
Go to her profile.
And it'll be the 26M1.
God damn.
That's the one that we were watching.
Okay, yeah.
Well, it's Turkish.
Wait, she fucking filmed herself having a back.
Wait, why would you do this?
For like a year?
Because out of the whole rotation, all of that.
Maybe you can skip to the part where she was screwed.
No, I want to see.
The best.
The coconut rice and then the tofu and then tempeh.
10 out of 10.
I really love the food, but I couldn't finish it because I can't eat what the plane is like going left and right and right.
Clapping for the food.
But I could not relax because you can see it's shaking.
I'm scared.
I'm holding to the side.
My pink is up.
That means I'm really scared.
And then the captain announced that we're gonna go through some turbulence, so everyone buckle up.
And I was really shitting myself.
Okay, I'm so sorry for the scream.
What?
Who's that guy?
What is happening?
What is happening?
Basically, it fell at the plane dip and I screamed alongside.
I'm so sorry for everyone who were on the plane because more than the turbulence is held.
No, no, boss!
You can't, no!
Everyone that was there, their lives have changed, okay?
This is a transformational experience that took place.
You can't just go back to sipping orange juice after.
Like, nothing happened.
Dude, I just imagine, like, if I had a child on that plane and they heard someone fucking belting, like, they would be so terrible.
Wait, that was the story.
Everybody on the plane said that she kept waking up this baby that then proceeded to yell so much.
Oh, and then she started complaining about the baby.
This is hearsay, though.
I will say.
This is hearsay.
Wait, people just making up shit.
I was on that flight.
I didn't know that.
To be fair, though.
Wait, so I need to know something.
Was the guy someone that she knew?
I actually don't.
When I saw these clips, I actually didn't see the hand.
So I don't know.
So just randomly, a guy out of nowhere starts grabbing you.
Maybe it's someone she's.
Maybe that's the reason why she goes my hero.
He's like, oh, you're.
Shut in here.
Yeah, don't worry.
I got you, baby girl.
This plane goes down.
I'm going to lay on top of you.
Okay, but this became a very large, you know, typical influencers moment.
Right.
And people commenting on it and pointing out how rude or inconvenient or inconsiderate it is.
Then she came up, came out with a follow-up video where she said, hey guys, I was in a sort of plane accident before where there were a lot of injuries.
And so I have plane trauma.
And that's why I reacted this way.
Did she?
I think so.
Did she specify what plane accident she did?
Austin will find the accident.
Actually, if you play the video, I believe she.
Plane Man Trauma Explained00:07:39
Oh my God, we have Rainman for this.
Well, a little too many people have seen my video, so let's talk about it.
And don't worry, I won't scream in this video.
I'll do about this scream.
I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but it was fun.
I am really sorry for all the other passengers from the same flight.
Like, if there was another anxious flyer on board, my scream rib made her journey so uncomfortable.
I fully understand the pain, so that's the last thing I want to do on the plane.
Just because it doesn't look like an anxiety that you know.
Or maybe because you were never in a situation where you were afraid of fighting.
Doesn't mean you get to decide whether my anxiety was caused or not.
I'm not, I'm going to speculate.
A lot of people think that they were in an accident that wasn't even that dangerous.
Let's see if she's one of those people.
All right.
Rain Man's on the case.
Wait, can I just wait?
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Plane man.
I love that.
A lot of people feel like they were in a plane man.
Plane man.
Answer my question, plane man.
Yes.
I have, I have, for those who know, I have a brother who builds.
I have a brother who builds planes and rocket ships and things of that nature.
He flies too.
And now he has a license and he has a pilot license and he flies.
So here's the thing.
One thing that he has told me in the past, and I feel like you know this as well, is that turbulence, albeit scary, is never actually a reason for a plane to crash.
These things are built specifically to withstand turbulence.
Yes, sir.
Oh my God, he's going in plane mode.
Plane man, lock in.
Answer the question.
Well, here's the deal.
The planes that you fly on, the commercial aircraft you fly on, are tested.
Go look at some of these tests.
Not right now, but don't look at if you're in your free time, look at some of the test videos.
These planes are meant to withstand forces that you will never experience in flight.
And so a lot of people are like, oh, it may feel violent.
You're actually never really in danger.
Even is there ever an accident that was caught, like a fatal crash that was caused by turbulence?
There has, but not since like the 50s.
Yeah.
And there was a rather famous crash of a, I think it was a Boeing, may have been a Boeing 707.
It may have been like even a plane that wasn't even in the modern, well out of the modern era, but they flew next to actually Mount Fuji.
And as everybody actually was always famous, yeah.
So it may have been Mount Fuji or some very tall mountain.
Maybe it was Everest.
I don't know what it was.
But they went, you know, they, regardless, it was a big mountain.
Austin, that's a very could have been Mount Rushmore.
Well, anyway, because what happens is, and I'm going to give you a very loose explanation, but like when air travels, the mountains disrupt the flow of the air.
So they don't, the air doesn't just like calm down.
Like, so they, imagine your air and you're boom, boom, mountain, boom, boom, boom.
And then that air.
And then you're flying.
Yeah.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
And then you ride the road a little bit.
So anyway, the planes are meant to handle crazy, crazy forces.
Even the most insane turbulent videos you see where like, oh, the cabin was shaking.
The after video where like the carts are in the aisle.
The plates are broken.
Those people were, the plane was not damaged in the slightest.
Yeah.
You are most in danger.
They tell you to buckle up because the most danger.
Is the landing.
Well, no, you could get the most dangerous part is you flying up and breaking your neck.
So my reaction to this.
I'm so sorry.
Can I interject?
Yes, you might.
Thank you.
Because I saw a video that really, really reassured all my nerves during turbulence, which explained, and please tell me if this is correct.
It explained that basically when you're feeling turbulence, you think that it's just like the plane going up and down in the sky, whatever.
But actually, because of the air pressure around the plane, it's more like imagine the plane was like in jello.
And it's just like tapping slightly.
Right.
Yep.
But really, there's like pressure kind of securing you from all sides.
And so now I just imagine that in turbulence, I'm like, actually, I'm good.
I'm in jello right now.
You're actually not even dropping that much altitude today.
Like if you're in the cockpit, I've, you know, flown the one-to-one simulators.
And when you turn up the simulation to like max turbulence, you're getting fucking tossed around.
And you look at the altitude and it's just like 10, 20 feet.
It's not that much.
My mom was a flight attendant for 30 years.
And I was on a flight one time that dropped like 200 feet in one second because there was like a crazy downdraft or whatever.
And the captain came on and was like, that was the craziest.
And my mom was like, that's the craziest thing I've ever been on in a plane.
And so once you experience like that level, like the crazy, like just boom, falling out of the sky, you're like, oh, this thing is.
But you were never in danger.
No, you didn't.
That's what I'm saying.
Yes, it hit your head.
But I think my like people's issue with this and the immediate issue with this is like the performative nature of it all.
Yes.
Yeah, filming yourself.
It's like filming yourself crying.
Not just that, but she used it as the hook for the video.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
And I think, I think that, if she doesn't understand that, that's if you like, listen, we might all put our foot in her mouth and she has genuine trauma from this.
But I think that the video.
I'm so curious if he's going to ask me.
Because, yeah, I mean, it could have been like a general aviation.
Let's see.
She's about to tell us.
There's a person screaming on the plane.
I can 100% guarantee that she's struggling for a life.
For those who can't relate, I'll tell you how I got my fear.
I was on this flight, which was extreme turbulent.
Oh.
I think it was more than plane man.
Keep going.
100 injuries and one death.
And let me tell you, when this happened, I was in the bathroom and I fractured my spine.
In my head, I couldn't even registered it as a turbulence.
I thought the plane was really going down.
So this aspect of your flying.
For those who think it's impossible to have a meltdown while filming, it took me two years, babe.
The turbulence accident that I just mentioned, the plane dipped down 54 meters.
This is why I'm so paranoid with the sensation.
When the plane goes downwards.
And this is exactly what happened when I screamed.
Here's a minor.
Was she holding his hand?
Valid fear.
Yeah.
But her flight that landed was never in danger.
It looked violent.
Remember how I described like the violence or whatever?
Well, she was also in the bathroom.
That's what I'm saying.
So the most dangerous part is when you're not buckled in.
But I will say, I think it would be crazy to say that I wouldn't have a little trauma from something like that.
Yeah.
Because that was a very good thing.
I think her trauma and fear is very valid.
Yeah, very valid.
She was not, she's not going to, it's easy for me to sit here on the ground for the safety of my chair.
Yeah, yeah.
I think feeling the way that she felt, even reacting that way, could be valid.
I think, though, when you film it and then put it online for whatever purpose.
That's the reason.
That's the reason why people were like saying clowning on her.
I think people just don't like when you film any sort of public disruptance.
Yes.
Because then it feels less legitimate.
Also, obviously people are saying, oh, I was on the flight and flight attendants were checking on her and she said she was just filming and it's all good.
So then people wonder if it's performative.
But I think people don't want to assume that any sort of trauma is performing.
Because she went from that to sipping on orange juice.
So that's like the reason why people are like, oh, fuck.
Well, yeah.
And also like, one thing Hassan taught me was people don't like the disruption of the public order.
No.
So even if you make a scene and you're right, people don't like that.
Because I like, oh, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Have you guys heard about the Mamma Mia guy?
No.
Oh, we won't even get into that.
We'll save that for the Patreon.
You want to talk about woke is back.
World Series Timeline Disruption00:04:58
Yeah.
It's hitting hot in yours.
No.
So take off all your clothes.
Well, we can, I mean, this is just more so a general thing.
This is the idea that I've been talking about.
I have, some might call it the gift of foresight, the gift of prophecy when it comes to cultural trend lines.
I very famously talked about how anti-woke was popping off, starting with Biden during the Biden regime.
And it obviously ended with Donald Trump winning the election on this cultural resentment.
Obviously, there was a lot of other factors at play as well, specifically the economy.
But because of Trump's inability to address any of the economic issues and really, really hamming up the anti-woke factor and also Twitter being purchased by Elon Musk, I think there is a lot of cultural resentment now for the toxicity that these people represent.
Like, you know, people basically wearing it on their sleeve, what I like to call vice signaling, just trying to be as bad as possible in public.
And I think that now the cultural forces are shifting.
The pendulum is swinging back in the other direction.
And I give it a couple more months, but I think we're going to reach peak woke, woke 2.0.
Well, I wouldn't give it a couple of more months.
I'd give it to the Super Bowl.
And that brings us to this.
No, listen.
America me up.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Have you seen America?
Have you been a part of this segment before?
Nope.
Okay.
She probably doesn't remember so many episodes.
Prophecies.
Last time I came, we talked about cheese.
Was that an American segment?
No.
Okay.
It may have been.
There have been prophecies throughout time.
The end of the Aztec calendar, the rapture.
And now we have the theory of Chicago sports.
The year is 2016.
The Cubs are in the World Series.
The Cubs, who famously, because of the curse of the Bambino, are fated to never win a World Series again.
They win the World Series the day before what?
Donald Trump becomes president.
There are people that think that when the Cubs won that World Series, they broke our timeline.
They removed us from the timeline that we were supposed to be in.
And they placed us in a tangential timeline where everything is horrible.
And is that ending soon?
Listen, Pokey.
Listen.
I'm so sorry.
Sorry.
I'm a really active list.
We're trying to get out of this time.
You're right.
And so everything has felt off.
Everything's felt askew since the Cubs won the World Series.
Until one of the worst football teams in the country have become viable this year.
What football team, you ask?
Chicago Bears.
The Chicago Bears.
Going from last to first.
Yes.
If the Bears win the Super Bowl, there are those that theorize we will return to the intended timeline.
Woke will return.
The Trump presidency will come down in flames.
Everything will return to equilibrium.
Homeostasis achieved.
Hallelujah.
For those of you watching on Monday, the Bears have already played because the Bears play today at 3 p.m.
They play against the LA Rams, a team that is scheduled to be a much better team and win.
So our fates hang in the balance.
Can the Bears return us to our rightful timeline and end this nightmare that we've been living in since 2016?
And Matt Stafford's got a funky hand.
Funky.
Matt Stafford's a quarterback for the quarterback.
What do you mean funky?
Like not deformative.
He just injures himself.
He doesn't have like a strong hand.
What's a strong hand?
He doesn't know the reference.
What's a strong hand?
It's a scary movie.
Don't worry about it.
God damn it.
If I would read more.
No, that's just a movie.
This is just a movie from our generation.
Well, that's fantastic.
Look, I'm rooting.
I can't root for the Bears because of the NFC North and the Minnesota Vikings.
So you would keep us in a horrible nightmare timeline because of your football rivalry.
That's fine.
Yeah, no, that's fine.
I guess it's okay.
It's not like you're going to ever win a Super Bowl anyway.
Your team's not even in the playoffs.
Yeah, also, there's a rumor that you might have a next new quarterback next year, quickly.
Aaron Rodgers.
We won't talk about that, though.
Who else has got a topic?
No, I was curious.
Bad Bunny Boy Love Rise00:08:13
Hassan, what are these signals of Woke being back?
I think for the last three or four years, there's been an environment of just like overt bullying of anyone that has even a minutiae of like progressive opinion.
And I think people have just been forcibly pushed aside in public spaces, partially because of Twitter after the Elon purchase.
And that like that corrosive cultural force has basically made its way to every other platform, including Twitch, including Reddit, including YouTube and TikTok as well.
And because of that, people have been feeling a little discouraged about saying how they feel when they see something that's going on, like an injustice that they want to speak out against.
And we saw this with like Israel-Palestine, especially for like the last, in the last three years, I would say in the last two years post-October 7, like there was an environment of panic and fear where if you had an opinion that was aligning with like Palestinians, you were not allowed to say it because, you know, you were dangerous, you were scary, you were a bad person, you're anti-Semite, you're a terrorist, all this stuff.
And I feel like through direct force and activism and advocacy, uh we were able to push through that and even arrests and all this other stuff that took place.
And Trump has obviously continued that tradition of punishing people for saying the truth or speaking their minds.
But it but there was this social stigma associated with like anything that came across as woke.
People, a lot of people encounter politics, I think, especially in the Western world, especially in America, from vibes.
Like there's peer pressure that plays a formative role in the way that people slot themselves into certain political movements.
So this created an environment where like the largest voices that were speaking on politics were right-wing.
And any kind of person that spoke out against that was ritualistically humiliated and basically forced into submission, forced into silence.
And now I think that's shifting because more and more people can't hold it in.
They find it to be gross, repulsive, toxic.
And now more and more people are just speaking out against what I consider to be this aberration that these right-wing forces are representing.
And we do have the numbers and people are finally realizing that they have the numbers and slowly but surely they feel more emboldened because they get courage from other people also coming out and speaking.
I'm fucking annoyed because I keep tracking his approval rating and it's not fucking moving.
It's like at 38%.
I'm like, fucking move, cunt.
Well, he's at his lowest point.
Is it rude?
Is that a word that I can say?
Can I say cunt?
Dark woke, dark woke.
Yeah.
You know what I think are maybe some signs of better times ahead?
I like a little hop.
I'll say one fun thing and one less fun thing.
Okay.
The less fun thing is.
Not the Chicago Board.
I am hopeful that we're headed in a good direction because one, the Epstein files.
Oh, God, I don't want to talk about politics.
Sorry.
But it's not about politics.
It's a bipartisan thing that we can all kind of agree on.
And I think that might be shifting people's opinions.
And two, a more fun signal.
Boy love is on the rise.
Heated rivalry.
No, no, no, no.
Here's the thing.
Boy love is on the rise worldwide.
Even in places.
Boy on boy love.
Yeah, I feel like, especially in entertainment and media, it's something that more people are embracing, which I think is beautiful.
And to me, signals hopefully more inclusive times up ahead.
Here's another clear-cut sign.
Sorry to cut you off.
I'm used to it.
Yeah, sorry to cut you off, but Bad Bunny Super Bowl.
Yeah.
Slay the clip.
Bad Bunny came out.
Bad Bunny came out.
We already know he's woke as hell.
Like he has been king woke for the longest freaking time, right?
And I think a lot of people...
Fuck it.
What am I fucking chop liver?
What's going on over here?
Yes, you are.
Hold on.
That's crazy.
Boy love is on the rise.
Shut up, entire story.
You can't.
And I'm the only kid.
You need us, Hassan.
You need gays and women.
That's right.
We are the ones who are voting.
It's back to be woke.
Yes, your constituency.
Anyways, just keep talking.
That's right.
You're white.
Bad bunny.
Men won't vote.
Bad bunny, in anticipation for a Super Bowl halftime show performance, released this video.
And I know this is going to piss conservatives off.
Here, let's play it from the start because it's very, it's beautiful.
Natural, as Austin would say, and it's very woke, I think.
All right, that gave me shivers because it was so heartwarming wholesome inclusive fun, lighthearted nonetheless.
Yes.
And it's going to piss off all the worst people.
And I'm sitting here like, yeah.
To be honest with you, I care about that.
I want them to feel that.
It's not that I don't care.
I almost don't get it.
I can't imagine someone looking at that and being upset.
Yeah, exactly.
They should.
They should get so upset they kill themselves.
Also, it's so well done.
From a production model.
I just want everybody to realize we are better when we are diverse.
Better together.
On that note, ladies and gentlemen, Poke, thank you so much for coming on.
We obviously want to move on.
What do you got going on?
Patreon.
Let me fucking close it out.
I got you don't know how to just doing it.
We're going to the Patreon, patreon.com/slash fear, and where we'll be having the paywalled episode.
But Poke, before we go, where can people find you?
What do you want to promote?
Thank you so much for coming on.
Thank you guys for having me.
If you'd like to check me out, I have been a little more active on TikTok and IG recently.
So I'll be there.
I recently posted a book review.
I read Metabolical.
It was really good.
I also asked for book recommendations on my IG story.
I got you.
Please let me know.
I'm reading Mao, The Man Who Built China by Philip Christ.
Oh my God, you're in a Chinese period of your life too.
I like that.
Searching for Candlestick Park is a fantastic read.
It's a real page turner.
Good night, Moon.
Or Hatchet.
Hatchet.
Fantastic book.
And I'll take a book rec from Will 2.
I feel like you must have some good ones.
I've been reading a lot of Absolute Batman, which I don't know if it's a book unless you pair them all together.
No, that's valid.
All right.
We will see you on the Patreon.
And thank you very much for watching.
And you sound like David Karash right now.
You sound like a cult leader.
It is wild.
You're like, you've always wanted to explore your inner faith base.