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March 31, 2020 - Minion Death Cult
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Congrats Spears, you're the weakest link!

We cover the response towards Britney Spears becoming communist, and also we do a Q&A segment Music: Stay Gold - Never Sleep Alone

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I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are Minion Death Cult.
The world is ending.
Britney Spears is responsible.
We're documenting it.
What's up, everybody?
It's the show.
It's the show that you clicked on to listen to.
That's us, baby.
Today is a special episode because we're going to start off by talking about Bernie Spears' turn to communism and the response to that turn.
And then the second half of the episode is going to be a Q&A session.
From listeners, listeners have submitted questions that they want answered.
They want their answers, and we will do our best to give them.
But we figured we'd front load this episode with a bit of, I don't know, interesting ridiculousness, as that guy from MTV would say.
You know the guy, Tony, the skateboarder guy?
Yeah, my man's Robbie D.
Yeah.
Robbie D. That's what people call him.
People call him Robbie D. His friends call him Robbie D. Rest in peace, Robbie D. I don't like a world where Rob Dyrdek's dead.
I just imagine like, like Rob Dyrdek's dead.
Uh, the guy, Daniel Tosh is dead.
Dead, yeah.
Uh, Bam Margera is dead.
Anybody who had a twisted MTV show, they're dead.
The only one that is dead is Big, and RIP to Big.
That's true.
I couldn't remember his name, so I didn't want to include him in the facetious death honorarium.
I still can't remember his name, but here we are.
Um, I mean, that was his stage name, right?
Big?
Exactly, yeah.
People know what I'm talking about.
Which one was he?
Was Big Rob or was he Big?
Uh, you know, actually his name was not a misnomer.
It was accurate.
Big was the Big.
Big was, okay, so Big was Big.
Yeah, Big was the Big, yeah.
Rob was Rob.
Exactly.
Okay.
Let's just start this out.
So Britney Spears is like a freaking communist now, and it's kind of cool, right?
Pretty sweet.
She posted on Instagram a image of solidarity.
I'll go ahead and read this.
It's pretty amazing.
Britney Spears on her official Instagram.
She shared Like a graphic, like a text graphic from another user made this, Mimi Zhu.
But Britney Spears shared it.
Not in her story.
Posted it in her main feed.
During this time of isolation, so of course, if you're listening to this in the future, we are referring to the coronavirus, the quarantine that is going on right now.
The Great Quarantine of 2020, you might remember it.
During this time of isolation, we need connection now more than ever.
And I, this shows you how much I believe in Britney Spears and Mimi Xu, because this is in all caps.
The whole thing.
The whole thing is in all caps.
And the way that I'm choosing to read this is the most charitable way possible, because I believe in this message.
Call your loved ones.
Write virtual love letters.
Technologies like virtual communication, streaming, and broadcasting are part of our community collaboration.
We will learn to kiss and hold each other through the waves of the web.
A little corny, but okay.
We will feed each other, redistribute wealth, strike.
We will understand our own importance from the places we must stay.
Communion moves beyond walls.
We can still be together. - Sure.
And then Bernie Spears captions this with, Communion goes beyond walls, and puts the frickin' DSA rose emoji three times in the post.
Yeah, yeah.
Is that a coincidence, Tony?
I think it's a co- I think it's a co- I don't know, man.
I don't know.
Um, this is a bit, it would be a big coincidence because this, she's, this post is not just like, Oh, spreading love and good vibes.
I mean, there is that in there, but it's, we will redistribute wealth and strike and realize our own importance in this economy.
And then she, she couples that with the DSA rose emoji.
Yeah, I think... I hope it's not.
I hope it's not, you know?
And if it's not, then like, let's do a little bit more than post this, Brittany.
I mean, like, yo, shout out to you.
I'm happy you did this.
But if it's not a coincidence, let's do a little bit more than post this thing that, as far as she's concerned, is a Refinery29 post.
Which is... that's who she tagged to do it.
She probably thinks that Mimi Xu is some, like, philosopher.
Shout out Mimizu though who was like a so my my thing I my art I did my like art my text art is like going really viral and I wasn't tagging it.
Uh, that's me.
And, uh, so people were like, were generally like, oh, like, oh, I just thought that Mimizu was like a, I don't know, some like ancient, you know.
Yeah.
Communist theorist.
Like instead of the art of war, it's like the art of survival or the art of communion or community.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, yeah, this, I didn't know she didn't tag her in it.
That's kind of shitty.
Well, she tagged Refinery29 in it.
Who tagged Mimizu in it?
That's forgivable.
It does still suck to see something you did go so viral without you being directly tied to it, but anybody who saw it could have done one click and saw who did it.
Is Refinery29 good?
I mean, I kind of know what they are, but I don't follow them closely.
I don't know enough, but I think they might have pivoted more radical now?
Are they a teen vogue?
They're not, no, no one's a Teen Vogue.
Only Teen Vogue is Teen Vogue.
Uh, not even fucking, uh, whatchacallit, the...
Jacobin.
Yeah, not even Jacobin is Teen Vogue.
But they've definitely pivoted in a more radical way, because they're a publication that says their tagline is, Keeping Women Inspired and Entertained Since 2005.
And so that's what they do, they're a publication for women.
I think they've pivoted more radical lately, in the past year-ish, but they were just a For a while they were kind of just like a white feminist, but now they're way better and they've done pretty, they seem to be pretty on point.
Are they owned by that guy who owns Vice and Condé Nast?
Are they owned by that?
I have no clue.
I can see there being a Condé Nast footer at the bottom of Refinery29.
I probably shouldn't speculate though, I don't know.
This is Britney Spears, a woman who was like, you know, a huge fucking idol for like a generation of people who had, you know, mental health like issues and like real issues.
I don't mean that in a in like a belittling or reductive sense Who had issues because of the way like she was exploited because of the nature of the media and of stardom and Was therefore as far as I've been led to believe placed under like A what's called a uh conservated?
What is the word?
Concert?
I don't know.
The word is she's like under a people are like laughing out loud that I can't say this uh it's like a conservatorship that's it's not that's not the real word it's something like that um to where she has her money managed by somebody else She is not, she cannot be held responsible conservatorship.
I'm not looking at the word.
I don't remember it.
Uh, she's not able to be legally responsible for her money because of her past mental.
So she is.
You know, uniquely among celebrities, among like working artists, in a position to understand what it means to be exploited.
Yeah, I wasn't aware of that, but that makes a lot of sense.
So that's just like a little bit of background, again, as far as I've read about Britney Spears.
So it's understandable why she might be like, you know, amenable to the idea of a strike or amenable to the idea of redistribution of wealth, etc.
Because like the number one The number one response to this is, oh, when is she going to redistribute some of her own wealth?
And it's like, well, she can't even redistribute her wealth to herself.
To herself.
You're not even allowed to.
I didn't know that was a thing.
That's wild to me.
That's something I did not know was a... I didn't know that was an option.
I think her dad is involved.
I think...
Yeah, I mean, she's definitely been, like, the victim of, like, gnarly, gnarly, you know, abuse from, like, men.
Like, that's wild.
That's, ugh.
Right.
In America?
That's crazy.
So keeping that in mind, what Tony just said, keeping that in mind, um, Philip Byung posted this into Hood Republicans that, you know, Britney Spears is a communist now or whatever.
I'm sorry, what was the page called?
Hood Republicans.
Oh, yes, yes.
Okay, so I'll probably understand this more than the average shitpost.
It'll probably ring true to my ears more than the average Republican-type post.
Well, I think maybe you're assuming a little too much, Tony, because being hood isn't about the color of your skin.
It's not about where you were raised.
It's not about your culture or anything.
It's just about a state of mind, okay?
Oh, this is like hood yoga and like those things.
Okay.
This is exactly like hood yoga.
Now I'll go ahead and show it because I thought they were just making some like, you know, plea to economics.
You know, it's like, oh, it's not about identity.
It's about economics that, you know, makes you hood or not.
The administrator of this page is literally like a white woman from Florida.
Which is the big, the biggest hood in America.
So, um, Akivelosvva comments, Hollywood freaks have diarrhea of the mouth.
And then Edmundo J. Duarte comments, Hollywood is affecting her brain.
And then Michael Honus replies, Go shave your head, biatch!
Wow.
I'm really happy that, you know, we're in a place where we are having healthy discussions about mental health and abuse and that we're actually, you know, addressing those things and not just making fun of people for it and thinking that's a good joke.
What the fuck, guys?
Like, that sucks.
Well it's so there's a couple things they're very funny you know I'm choosing to interpret this as funny.
Hollywood freaks have diarrhea of the mouth.
I'm trying to think of like when Britney Spears was like in Hollywood and like the only thing I can think of is the sequel to Austin Powers when Britney Spears played a fembot.
Yeah!
That was tight.
Like what, what other movies is, like, like pretty... Oh no, remember, she had the, she had the reality TV show with, uh, with Kayfed.
I don't know, what, what was that one called?
I don't know, reality TV show with Kevin Federline.
That's all I remember.
I don't remember what it was called.
Yeah, she had like a reality TV show.
Okay, well, okay.
So you're on side A Kaivelos VVA.
Only in like the literal sense that like Hollywood and like the effects of Hollywood and Hollywood-like things have literally affected her brain.
You're being charitable.
But not to the guise of like abuse and not like a globalist cabal.
Well, you're being charitable here.
When I think of Britney Spears, I think of a musician.
I think of somebody who made music for decades and continues to perform.
She had a residency in Las Vegas.
I don't necessarily think of Hollywood, but to these people, celebrity just means Hollywood, you know?
Yeah, true.
So that part of it is funny to me, that two people came to the same conclusion just in a row, like, and I think it's...
I want to know how much this happened because I see it so much I see it in these comment sections when I go in somebody has a response to it and then like three people under that person have a response using the same word or using the same phrase and I'm like this person like kind of read the room this person like looked at what was going on and they're like yeah hell yeah this is a Hollywood freak whose brain is affected by it you know um
So if you're on the right wing, if you're one of these like right wing cultural grievance mongers or somebody who buys into this, you know, You hate Hollywood, right?
And why do you hate Hollywood?
Well, you hate Hollywood because these are like, you know, trained monkeys who are deigning to give their opinions to us.
I don't care.
Whatever.
That's like the surface level conservative grievance with Hollywood.
Hey, shut up and dance for me, monkey.
You know?
Yeah.
But when you're getting into like actual like Conservative online movements, they hate Hollywood for kind of the right reasons.
They hate Hollywood because of like the rampant abuse, sexual assault, grooming women and children and that sort of thing, which absolutely happens in Hollywood.
Britney Spears is one of those people.
That's why this series of comments is so interesting to me.
Because if there is, like, a poster child for somebody who has been abused by, you know, quote, Hollywood, by the celebrity stardom at a very young age... Yeah, dude, we forgot.
She started at Disney Channel.
She started as a Disney Channel kid.
She was part of the Mickey Mouse Club.
She's a mouse couture.
That's early Hollywood.
Yeah.
Definitely Hollywood, yeah.
This is like a victim of the people you hate.
She is a victim of the people you hate and your response is go shave your head, biatch.
Yeah!
And it's not even like when, because sometimes people will try to call him out for like, oh, but now you were a victim, but like now you're part of the problem.
Like this whole post is her not being part of the problem.
Exactly.
This whole post is her trying to like encourage people to help each other and give back.
And they're like, too late, bitch.
You already got, you already got Hollywooded.
Yeah.
I, it's, it's your, your damage is done.
Um, Olive Wheel, so this is a comment I think on Fox News.
Olive Wheel says, lead the way.
So meaning like you give up your money first that you don't legally have access to.
Lead the way.
And on another note, you'll like this, Tony.
Did she ever get bashed to Hades and back by PETA for appropriating that snake and torturing it on stage with her sexual desires?
No!
I'm surprised.
A couple things?
A couple things?
Only a couple.
Probably did.
She probably did get She probably did get a hard time from PETA about that.
Also, what?
What are you saying?
What does PETA have to do with any of this?
What are you talking about?
I love how in their own world this person is.
Like, this person has their own shorthand, this person has their own catchphrases.
And on another note, did she ever get bashed to Hades and back by PETA for appropriating that snake and torturing it on stage with her sexual desires?
Yeah, go ahead.
She did.
That's why her and Justin Timberlake wore that all-denim outfit to the VMAs that year.
As pennants?
That was a cruelty-free outfit they did just for PETA.
An iconic one at that.
How does PETA feel about working animals?
I don't know.
You can't even have pets if you're a PETA person, right?
Yeah, not even a little bit.
I'll tell you this much, you can't have no goddamn tiger cubs.
I just love, so he's like, channeling libs.
He's channeling snowflakes right here.
Olive Wheel is.
And I love the way, like, they're just running with it.
It's like jazz.
This is like jazz.
They're just bippin' and boppin'.
Stream of consciousness like snowflake, tapping into that, that part of their brain.
Did she ever get bashed to Hades and back?
Like, you could have said hell, but you said Hades.
Like, that's pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah.
You can hear people, like, snapping in the background of these comments.
Yeah, yeah.
That was smooth, Kat.
Should we get bashed to Hades and back by PETA for appropriating that snake and torturing it on stage?
I love the word appropriating right here.
Yeah, like just using buzz terms.
Yeah.
Oh, hey, you want to get mad at me for putting on face paint and war whooping to make fun of like indigenous pipeline protesters?
Well I think you're appropriating that fire that you're using as pyrotechnics on stage.
What?
If anything she was appropriating scarf culture.
If anything, she was, uh, I mean, it is like, what, I mean, snake dancing, snake charming, I guess there's probably a, there's a cultural element of that, right?
But that's not like, not really what she was doing.
Maybe, I guess, I don't know.
I don't have the authority to say.
But that's not what he's saying.
I think that was Christine Aguilera who was doing that with the genies and the bottles.
Yeah, but Christina Aguilera is like Argentinian, right?
And so, as an Argentinian, ultimate authority over what's woke and what's not.
True.
Domain over genie culture.
No, I just love, uh, PETA, uh, appropriating that snake and torturing it on stage with her sexual desire.
So she, like, it's like, it's so fucking funny, this comment.
Like, oh, did she ever get in trouble by PETA for, uh, doing a cultural appropriation to a snake and fucking it on stage?
Yeah, what?
Like...
I mean, he could have really gone with that, but he didn't.
did that snake consent to to the stage performance so this was a page that I'm not that I'm only familiar with from this episode There's a page called- Well, let me tell you about the hood.
Oh, never mind.
Different one.
Different one.
Uh, no.
This is my hood.
It is GOPUSA.com.
This is, like, not an official GOP website.
It's a website started by somebody to help further the cause of the GOP.
But it was... And this way you don't get it confused with the other GOPs from other countries.
This is the one for... This is the GOP for the USA.
Right.
Dot com.
Yes.
Uh... This is started by somebody in like... The 90s.
Like somebody has had this web... This dude has had this website... For a while now.
And there's actually like... A pretty heavy... User base?
Like, like the post that they did about Britney Spears had like, you know, 40 comments or something like that.
Damn.
And I have one here.
Capricorn1 says, come on baby, hit her one more time.
Whoa, typical Capricorn.
Mm-hmm.
Should have seen that coming.
And then Captain Jellico replies, and make it a double tap.
Jesus.
Like, the one is straight abuse, but doesn't double tap always insinuate murder, right?
That's the whole double tap thing.
Yeah, I think double tap refers to gunshots.
Yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah, so, yeah.
Hey, I'd like her to be a slave for me.
Like, literally, though.
Wow, don't you know that what I'm about to feed her is toxic and she's gonna die from it.
Put her in a toxic environment, but like the skull and crossbones kind, not like the SJW buzzword.
Not the SJW kind, yeah.
She's not a girl, not yet a woman.
She's only dead by my hand.
That's not a comment, right?
That's like... That's like you, making that joke, right?
Yeah, that's my sick and twisted mind.
Sorry, sorry.
I was really worried that that was actually a comment.
What's the one with the girl who wants to be a star?
Lucky.
Hey, she's so lucky, I'll kill her without torturing her first.
Just straight, I'll get straight to it.
I like how you were like, you weren't, you didn't say like what the lyrics were.
You were like, no, what the song is about.
Like what it's really about.
She's so lucky.
She's a star, but she cries, cries, cries about income inequality.
And I'm going to murder her for that.
I'm going to murder her for it.
She's going to be dead now.
It user maybe I don't know says well yet another pretentious schmuck Hollywood elite gets put on my shred the CD pile dot dot dot Congrats Spears.
You're the weakest link What a beautifully dated comment Hey, well when I when I burn your CD it's not gonna be to make a copy Remember that woman?
What is she doing these days, the weakest link lady?
What is she doing?
Ah, who knows?
I hope she's doing okay.
She's probably awful.
I think she's an awful person, right?
Wasn't that her whole shtick?
Was it she's like mean?
Maybe.
I don't think she was like Gordon Ramsay level mean.
That we all know he's actually a sweetheart.
Okay, you say that.
I don't know that.
I'm sorry, I thought that we'd stand Gordon around these parts.
After he stood up to Trump the way he did?
He said, no, I don't feel like working that day.
Yeah.
He said, no, thank you, I'm good.
No, I'm good.
Icon.
Congrats, Spears.
You're the weakest link.
I fucking love that.
This, this comment, this comment is from March 25th, 2020.
People are like, oh yeah, that is, that is a weak link in the chain is bad.
Like, but this is clearly, clearly a reference to the show.
Hey Britney Spears, who wants to be a millionaire?
Not you.
I don't know enough shows to keep that up.
Hey, Britney Spears, let's make a deal.
Oh, it's Trump making the deal and you're fired.
That's two of them.
That's two of them?
That was good.
That was The Apprentice and Let's Make a Deal.
Damn.
Damn.
I'm like, what's the catchline from Family Double Dare?
That's all I really watched.
Hey Britney Spears, you're about to get slimed.
Hey Britney Spears, you want to see Mark Summers, but actually it's winter for you.
Ooh, ooh, in your face.
It's gonna be cold.
What are some other game shows?
Hey, whammy, no whammy, no whammy.
Oh, Britney Spears, you got the double whammy.
Sorry.
Dang, dang, in your face.
You're going to have a terrible Plinko experience.
Hey, Britney Spears, why don't you phone a friend?
Oh, wait, you can't because you're in social isolation because you've been deemed unable to care for yourself and handle your own finances.
And I killed you.
You can't use a phone.
We shouldn't have laughed at that.
We should not have given them that.
This is all still from GOPUSA.com.
Old Tea Bag says, Okay, Brittany, how about we start by redistributing yours?
When yours is all gone, then we'll see about, quote, redistributing everybody else's.
Not so keen on the idea now, are you?
Such tone-deaf hypocrisy is just mind-blowing!
Pot, meet the sleazy, no-talent bimbo kettle.
Hey, Pot, check out the bimbo kettle. - What's a bimbo kettle look like?
It's like a real thick voluptuous kettle with some big ol' bolt-ons.
Objective lips.
It's a kettle that you get mad at because you want to fuck it.
It's a kettle that you're, like, attracted to, and it fucking makes you real pissed off.
Really, really mad.
Hey, but for real though, like, nothing but respect for bimbo culture.
Like, I fucks with it.
Good for you.
Do you.
Do you.
Go and get it.
Such tone-deaf hypocrisy.
It's just mind-blowing.
Pot, meet the sleazy, no-talent bimbo kettle.
It's funny because the saying is, you know, the pot calling the kettle black, right?
But who's the pot?
So she's obviously the kettle, right?
Well, it's like you're both in that phrase.
You're supposed to be both, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Or have the same qualities.
The pot has to also be a bimbo for this analogy to work.
Real quick though, can we talk about how they're both hot though?
What are?
Pots and kettles.
They're both hot.
Totally.
Very hot.
Don't touch them.
Ouch.
So like, it's not, that's not helping with figuring out who's who though.
I love this dude just like eyeing his, his, uh, what do you, what do you call it?
Like ironware, you know, eyeing like the, the, the stemware in his cabinet and just be like, fuck you.
You're so stupid.
You're so dumb you don't even realize that you should want me because I'm nice.
I'm so nice to you.
You fucking piece of shit.
Listen, I like you for your brains, too.
You think you're so fucking hot.
I got news for you.
I could shatter you across this ground right now.
Yeah, right now.
Done.
Done.
This dude is just like Britney Spears is like the perfect foil for this like proto boomer like Gen X or bordering on boomer because
I feel like most millennials, I'm speaking as most millennials here, like I grew up thinking, oh Britney Spears, she sucks, she's a pop princess and NSYNC sucks and whatever, but we eventually got over that stuff.
And we realized like, oh, that's like, you know, a lot of people's childhoods and like, yeah, some of those fucking pop songs rock, like they're catchy songs or whatever.
And, you know, the pop rock stuff we were listening to isn't any better than that stuff.
It's, you know, what's good is good.
Yeah.
But there's probably a generation that's slightly older than us who just doesn't have experience with anybody who liked Britney Spears.
Never acknowledged another person who liked Britney Spears.
Never talked to a girl who was like, oh, I loved Britney Spears growing up.
She was so cool.
I followed her career or whatever.
And they've just hated Britney Spears since then.
They never went to like a school dance where you would inevitably hear a Britney Spears song and probably dance to it a little bit.
Or maybe they did go to a school dance and have a specifically bad memory associated with the Britney Spears song.
Oh wow, yeah, yeah, that's totally true.
Getting just dissed.
Yeah, just not having fun at a school dance with the pop music there.
Yeah, yeah.
This one's a long one.
Tony doesn't have access to these comments and I'm just like reading them blind.
I'm just going down the list, reading them.
I think this is the last one for Britney.
Are you ready?
I'm ready.
I think.
Eldorol, which sounds like a medication you take when you're elderly, says, "Was Britney fully clothed while making her stupid speech or was she in her usual semi-nude condition?" Nothing has happened since Yo, what was this bitch wearing while she was posting on Instagram?
The speech, where she made, like, she like, stood, like, stood at some sort of, you know, pedestal, was like, was making a speech.
She got, she got front stage, front, front and center stage at the, the Clinton Foundation inaugural dinner to make, to make this speech about how, uh, you know, people from red states are What's funny is, for a piece of word art, it's great and heavy and has a lot of content for it.
For a speech, it's pretty shit.
For a full speech, it's not quite a speech.
Newsflash, being quote famous, again, like hey, it's subjective, whatever the word famous means.
This person who I know exactly who they are, even though I really have no other cultural touchstones for anything else, I know this person who's kind of famous.
I'm aware of them, but... The person who got 85,000 likes on this Instagram post that I'm really fucking mad at.
Yeah.
Newsflash.
Being, quote, famous does not qualify someone as a political expert.
Being a member of the British royal family is no honor at all today.
Being rich does not qualify anyone as a political expert.
Being in some exalted political office does not make anyone into a god.
The kindest thing to be said about those who worship the famous and slash or royal and slash or rich and slash or elected is that they are quote silly end quote.
That was it?
Just silly?
That's it.
I like how he went down this list of people he's aware of that also are not important but also he's very aware of.
He seems to have a preoccupation with the British Royal Family.
Despite them not being very important.
I also like how this is a reaction to the reaction.
You people worship her.
You people take her so seriously, but she's just a celebrity.
You shouldn't take her that seriously.
She doesn't know anything.
And it's like, who's out here?
Who are you talking to?
I don't think they're in the same circles where people are like, oh fuck yeah, Britney's gonna drop the guillotine.
I don't think they're seeing that.
What are they talking about?
Who's the prince who married the girl and everybody's mad at him for it?
William.
Okay.
Was Prince William fully clothed while making his stupid speech or was he in his usual semi-nude condition?
The man does take his shirt off a lot.
I don't know if that's true.
Yeah, we wouldn't want to impugn the royal family by saying anything false about them.
But also, where have you been?
He's still thinking of the Toxic video.
He's still thinking of the Hit Me Baby One More Time video.
Still thinking about the sheer bodysuit that I remember very clearly to this day.
He's still thinking about the schoolgirl outfit from, like, 1999.
What are you talking about, man?
Like, chill.
Well, also, like, what's your problem with women who are semi-nude?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What about that is bad to you?
What about that is invalidating to you?
Well, if you were smart, you'd be fully clever.
You know what?
I think this guy's gay, bro.
I think he's big gay.
No, I'm just kidding.
I think they just hate women.
No, absolutely.
Which is not the same as being gay.
Especially women who love themselves.
They really hate those women.
Absolutely.
That's like a horrifying concept to them.
Like, oh you're confident?
Oh no, I can't, I can't fuck with that.
I can't, I can't take you serious.
I can't take your, your thoughts seriously because you, you know, you have enough confidence to, you know, have midriff, I guess?
If I know you're, like, thinking about shit, I'm gonna be like, oh fuck, this is bad for me.
This is bad news.
If I know that you're, like, conscious and can, like, you know, think about things and, you know, maybe be critical of those things, I'm probably gonna not have a shot here.
This is bad news for ol' Eldarol.
Hey, so that's the end of the first half of this episode.
This is the normal format that we do on this show.
I awkwardly delineate the first half and the second half of each episode.
So my work schedule fucking sucks right now.
It's absolutely awful.
So we're going to do something fun and easy for the second half of this episode, which is answer listener questions.
Some of these questions go together.
Tony and I are gonna like take turns reading these questions, but I will jump in to group some of these questions together when appropriate.
How's that sound, Tony?
Very fun.
Yeah, I like that.
I'm excited about this.
Should be a good time.
So Erland Josephson's Ghost at Chick-de-la-Lynch asks, How do you self-care after consuming so much boomer trash?
Are some days harder than others when going into these groups?
So for me, I Scroll right on by the bad stuff.
That's that's how I That's how I deal with this stuff there.
There are specific topics.
I don't know.
Maybe the listener has noticed There are specific topics where I just I'm I'm more reluctant to delve into anymore those topics include uh the rights of undocumented people at the border and uh the rights of trans people those are two topics which bring out the absolute worst in the right wing uh and
Just awful stuff and it's, I'm fortunate that that is my, that is the extent of my experience with the, these people on those subjects.
You know, I'm in a privileged position where I am able to scroll past those topics in like the Joe Rogan Facebook feed or in The Tucker Carlson Facebook feed, because people are pretty bad about those subjects.
So, that's how I personally deal with those issues.
I think, you know, we pretty consistently deal with fucked up topics on this show, but I've been, maybe the listener has noticed, We've been trying to give more goofy content to the listener than just abject misery.
Yeah, the balance is crucial.
But as far as self-care, do you have any self-care?
Because for me, a lot of this is self-care.
Being able to get pissed and laugh and talk with you during all this stuff, with all these awful content, with all these awful things that are very real that we actually have to deal with in the day-to-day.
A lot of times, this is the self-care.
And also being able to see the responses from people when we post this stuff online, like from mutuals, from, you know, people like the people that are in our groups and follow our Twitters.
Seeing their responses is also awesome.
So when it comes to this, it's self-contained now.
Like you said, we've kind of Taking a step back from the really gnarly stuff.
We can't make these genocidal thoughts that are truly genocidal and not just dumb and off the rocker type things.
The stuff that's truly just hate and awful, you can't do too much of that.
It's kind of self-contained.
Yeah, I do think that there is, like, a utility in dealing with these ideas and mocking them.
And not mocking them in the sense of, oh, we're going to make fun of them and feel superior to them or whatever, but like using them as a... What's the...
Using them as like a backstop against our own ideology.
Like using them as a point of contrast between our own ideology.
I feel like there's merit in that.
And we're not doing anything by like making fun of random Facebook user or whatever, but I feel like it is helpful It's clarifying for me to be like, oh, well, that is bad.
What did that person say?
What that person is saying, uh, is, is actually pretty awful.
And I'm, I'm emboldened in my opposition to that idea.
Yes, exactly.
It kind of highlights how important, um, the real stuff that we got to do is.
I'm gonna go ahead and read this, read this next one.
By Kazura, by Kazura, by Kazura says, asks, what is your favorite boomer Facebook group to be a part of for any reason?
For me, it is the Operation Flag Drop Facebook group, I think.
Yeah, that's a banger.
There's so many Facebook groups that I'm in, like, I need to whittle them down.
I need to honestly whittle down, like, the sock-damn Facebook groups I'm in.
I've been going through them.
Get out of that shit.
Keep it to communist groups and, like, right-wing boomer groups.
Yeah.
Because the Operation Flag Drop group, we've talked about it before on this show, but it is it is like a grifter group started by a company that sells flags.
And it's a specific type of flag.
It's a flag that like rolls up into a real tight scroll.
So you can just unfurl it and spread a banner, you know, like spread your wings and fly in the face of these snowflakes that Trump is going to get reelected in 2020 or whatever.
It's a group just to sell merch like that.
But the idea behind the group, it's kind of genius, it's the idea behind the group is that you're going to like post voyeuristic photos or what?
Exhibitionist, that's the word.
There you go, there you go, yeah.
You gotta post exhibitionist photos of you either, you know, flashing these flags, these pro-Trump, these pro-right-wing flags in public, or just somehow, like, do a public display of being a MAGA person.
Yeah, I'm just doing a public own.
- And then you post a photo of that display or whatever.
And just the way that people choose to interpret that idea is so fucking good to me.
Like the one we had of somebody who changed all the screens in the all the background wallpapers of the display desktops at a Costco.
Like in the computer section of Costco where all the all the computers and laptops are on display somebody changed the the wallpaper for all of those to like a screenshot of somebody else's comment or they posted a photo of a MAGA bumper sticker that they shot on their phone's camera, you know?
And they're like, they're like, this is it.
This is how I'm doing politics.
Which is sick, which is like sick if it was something I liked, I guess.
But the way they're doing it is just so, it's so corny and so funny.
And like I said, a lot of them aren't even using the flag.
Like a lot of them aren't even using the product they're selling, they're just doing it and it's so good.
It's so good.
But there's like 40,000 people in that group.
Yeah, yeah.
There's so many people in that group.
Like, I'm not, as I've said a million times, Alex does the work.
Alex is the secret agent.
Alex is the one in the groups.
But that is the one I have gone into pretty extensively.
And that one is just, it's so fucking good.
And I also love, I know it doesn't quite count, but I do love the stuff from the Joe Rogan fan pages.
I'll get into the Joe Rogan shit in a couple questions later but the Operation Flag Drop one is just like so beautiful to me because it's like people thinking they're doing guerrilla politics by like flashing an OK sign in front of a glass window while people are eating lunch and they're like looking up at the guy and they're like, huh?
And that's the photo?
I always think of the one of the guy using the actual flag at the airport where people are like obligated to walk by him.
They like have to walk by him.
And he's like opening and closing it and just has the most smug look on his face.
Like he's just fucking everyone up that's walking by him.
He's like, I got you.
Yeah.
In your face.
Yeah.
It's, it's, that group is the epitome of like, I owned you snowflake.
Aren't you triggered?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I'm eating my steak.
Well done.
Aren't you fucked up from this?
Yeah.
Okay, so changing tracks here slightly.
Good word.
I Write A Lot asks, best album you have each heard recently?
I'll let Tony go first here.
Well I'm gonna cheat just because they're all so different.
I'm gonna go ahead and give you my like top three just like heavy rotations right now.
And it's gonna be Patience, the album by Mannequin Pussy.
I'm just like obsessed with that album.
Great album.
The whole thing is just so good.
I know it's the corny track but Drunk 2 just Fucks me up.
I got to go see them right before everything happened.
I got to go see them and I was just doing gang vocals the whole time.
I was the only person enjoying it because we're in LA and everyone's too fucking cool.
But man, I was like legit just like singing my heart out.
Great album.
That and then also the new Dan Deacon album, Become a Mountain.
It's beautiful.
Watch the video for I think it's sat by a tree or sit by a tree or something like that.
Watch the video for that if you're having like kind of a lull.
Sonically it just is really upbeat and really like good but then also the lyrics in that with the video because you read along with it just kind of uplifting and feel nice and it's kind of been a nice little Push what I need every once in a while.
And then finally the Jay Electronic album.
The new one featuring Jay-Z throughout the entire thing.
It's incredible.
I still haven't listened to that one yet.
This is the best work Jay-Z's done in a very very long time and it was like damn Jay-Z's like still like My personal opinion?
Top three all time.
And he really brings it there.
And I also really love this thing that happened to the album where they like they talk about like they take the the Muslim POV of God which is usually the Christian POV in hip-hop and it's awesome and it makes me really want to like accept Allah into my heart just to like piss people off.
But the whole album just fucking goes and it's great and it's gonna make it really hard for me to chop Jay-Z's head off when the revolution comes.
For me, it's very weird in the year of our Lord, 2019 technically is when I discovered this album, to have discovered my favorite album in 2019.
You know, I have a lot of favorite albums, you know, very into music.
But yeah, I only recently discovered Stereolab.
I'll pause for laughter here.
And Dots and Loops is probably my favorite album of all time now.
The album is an absolute masterpiece.
I get fucking like mad at how good this album is.
Like not mad in like a not mad in like a jealous sense or anything like that it's just like I don't know how else to express myself at how great this album is that I just get like like hyped to the point of physical violence at how at how great Dots and Loops by Stereolab is and Rainbow Conversation is absolutely my favorite track on that album but like Diagonals is is another one
And it's like, I don't know, maybe it's like the 5-8 time structure or 5-4, I don't know, that really gets me.
But love that fucking album.
I need to revisit that for sure.
God.
Another album that I only recently heard is Holding Hands With Jamie by Girl Band.
It's a song that came up on Shuffle, or it's an album that came up on Spotify Shuffle.
Very good noise rock.
Aggressive, abrasive, punk noise rock that's still groovy.
Very, very great stuff.
And then, you already know by Ted Poor.
I think I included one of his songs in an outro of either a Patreon or main feed episode.
He's a jazz drummer, but he's obviously doing a lot of like heavy rhythmic rock stuff as well.
And parts of it sound like post-rock, parts of it sound like jazz rock.
Really like that album a lot.
I've listened to that album a lot over the last month.
Nice.
You want to read this next one?
Oh yeah, this is a good one, especially for right now.
I forget who asked it though.
Rufinta at Nerve Salad asked us, what are your astrological signs?
What is your astrological sign, Alex?
It's a Scorpio.
Scorpio.
Well, uh, my birthday was yesterday.
Happy birthday!
And, um, thank you, uh, shout out to It's A Boy Gay Raffy for reading my chart recently and telling me that, uh, I am in fact an Aries, uh, moon.
Sorry, an Aries sun and a Pisces moon.
Apparently both my parents are Pisces as well.
Apparently this is a big deal.
Um, I don't really know what all this means, but I'm going to lean into Aries season and hope that I finally find success in my life.
Uh, so, here we go.
Here we go.
Yeah.
Send me some good vibes.
Everything I've heard about Scorpio, uh, seems to jibe with me.
And that's, like, probably because, like, I'm, um, like, narcissistic, you know?
Um, because the stuff about Scorpio is pretty good.
Like, the stuff is like, oh, we're fucking, like, sexually powerful.
We're, like, sex freaks and shit.
Yeah.
Um.
That's tight.
And then we're also dominant and assertive and mean or whatever.
And I think I've gotten a lot nicer.
And we're crazy.
I don't think I'm that crazy.
I think I'm pretty boring.
Different kind of crazy.
I'll rep Scorpio.
I'm happy to rep Scorpio.
As you should.
Okay.
Pavel says, Rose-colored at Rose-colored void.
Great username, by the way.
Says, Do you think millennials slash zoomers will have the same mindset and ideology as boomers when they're old?
Parentheses.
Assuming we'll live that long.
LOL.
Big assumption.
Adding that caveat.
Good choice.
There was another question that went along with this and I just want to give the person credit.
Sarah Trouser asked in the Facebook group, do you think that we all someday are going to have a death cult of our own?
Like, how much of this is a universal aspect of aging in an online society and how much is unique to the older Gen X slash Boomer cohort?
So, I have bad news for us.
I think there, you know, there is something to be said about Older generations just like automatically being more conservative and that is because, as we know, wealthier, more privileged aspects of, you know, members of any generation are the ones who live to be old.
Those are the ones who grew up old.
Because they have more money, because they have more, you know, a better status in society.
They're the ones who survive longer.
So they're the ones who are representative of that generation, you know, after 50 years or whatever.
Bad news for us, I think a majority of Millennials and possibly Zoomers Or in an even more precarious situation than previous generations.
That's like not even subjective.
That's not even something I think anymore, right?
That's just like the reality.
It's the reality of it.
So more of us are going to die before we get old than previous generations, right?
Yeah, I agree with you, but I also do think that if any generation is going to fall into the same slot that Boomers did, I think Millennials will, but I also think there's a good chance that Zoomers might kill us, which I'm ready for.
I believe in the Zoomers more than I believe in the Millennials.
Well, I think, I mean, as you're going down the line generation-wise, the likelihood that Zoomers will outlive the Millennials is less likely.
You know what I mean?
Like, the likelihood that Millennials will live as long as the Boomers or the Gen Xers is also less likely.
Like, as you go down the line, the prospects become bleaker.
So yes, I think that Gen Z will be more radical or what Zoomers will be more radical than Millennials.
But I also think like Millennials have been more active in politics than our boomer parents.
True.
Like, when we talk about, you know, the Summer of Love and the Hippie Dippies and all those folks, like, you know, giving up on their ideals in order to participate in Reaganomics of the 80s or whatever, like, how many of those people were actually joining, you know, Students for a Democratic Society?
How many of those people were actually like, you know, participating in local elections?
No, they were just fucking.
They were just doing drugs and fucking or whatever.
So not bad.
I'm not saying that's bad.
But I think there are more politically engaged members of the millennial generation.
And I mean, Actually politically engaged, like materially politically engaged.
But we're also in a more precarious situation.
We're also more likely to die of poverty, of exposure, of lack of medical treatment or whatever.
So it's going to be very interesting to see who turns out.
Who's able to survive this.
Um, and then also for these generations, for the Millennial and Zoomer generations, uh, global warming is going to be a huge factor for us, uh, unlike for the Boomer generation or, I mean, the Gen X generation to an extent.
Uh, but we are going to see that shit.
So I think it's... Oh, for sure.
I think that, uh, we will, our generations will have something to say about that when the time comes, but, you know, it'd be a little too late, I think.
It's, I think it's likely that we get blackpilled, like Tony is referring to.
I think that's the death cult.
It's, the death cult isn't like, oh, I'm, I'm gonna get mine and fuck everybody else.
The death cult is like, no, humanity is, is the devil.
Yeah, totally.
We're definitely going to see entire coastal cities just disappear.
We're going to see that, and that's kind of gnarly.
It's more of a timeline shorter for us, so it's going to be interesting to see.
StolenVelour, very good, asks, What's the most soul-sucking piece of Boomer content you've come across?
Where is it here?
Jeff Marsak asks, Worst Facebook group you've encountered?
These are kind of similar.
There's another one here.
What is your favorite?
Who asked this?
Somebody asked this somebody asked what the favorite Facebook group for any reason Sorry, I don't have your name here all of these all of these questions are answered with the Joe Rogan podcast experience It's not quite boomer, okay, so that's that's a bit of a caveat but The boomer shit isn't as soul-sucking.
The boomer shit is like you're looking at people who have no...
Like, media analysis skills?
Like, you're looking at a generation of people who are just at the whims of whatever media is put in front of their face.
So that, like, in general, is very soul-sucking.
Because you're just like, there's no... We'll get into it in another question, but it's like, how do you combat that?
How do you deal with that?
That's pretty soul-sucking.
But for me, the worst and kind of the best Facebook group is the Joe Rogan Podcast Experience Facebook group.
It's like It has nothing to do with the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
It's like totally separated from that.
It's just a bunch of people with like very minimal reading comprehension, media literacy, congregating in one group of like a popular podcast group.
With, like, an extreme attitude.
Like, they all have, like, an attitude.
Like, this, like, extreme, like, livid attitude.
This is the group where, like, open fascists are in there trying to trigger people and there are, like, libs pushing back on them by calling Trump gay.
Yeah.
It is the worst.
It's the worst fucking group on Facebook.
Every time I think of like a... I see one of those gnarly posts that you share from there.
I also think of like the girl who was like dancing to Eminem like on live in there.
Was it Eminem that she was dancing to?
Oh yeah, yeah dude.
She was stripping.
She wasn't just dancing.
She was stripping to Eminem on a Facebook like live stream.
And it's like that.
It feels like a bar.
It feels like you're inside of like a bar.
Like your shitty local bar.
Um, for instance, like one of the libs posted in the group, fun fact, it was a tweet.
I think they shared a screenshot of a tweet.
The tweet said, fun fact, Donald Trump is the first president in us history to simultaneously hold records for the biggest stock market drop, the highest national debt, the most convicted team members, and the most pandemic infections in the world, all in his first term.
Wow.
Guinness Book of World Records is going to save some ink this year.
It's holding the record for the most pandemic infections in the world.
You know, you know that, you know, that thing that you can do, you know, how that's registered.
Kyle Hinkle comments in the Joe Rogan Facebook group.
Most heroes are hated by the media.
Spider-Man, Batman, et cetera.
Okay, like in the Batman universe.
They're hated.
So like, that's what they're saying.
Saying that Trump is Batman.
Most heroes that we know of, like Spider-Man and Batman.
Yes, you know.
They're actually despised.
By the media.
Yeah.
I mean that one motherfucker that was trying to take pictures of him.
Why shouldn't I get a picture of him?
Like, it's haters.
What is that?
Dog, you know that's not the real world, right?
Like, you know that?
I'm gonna, like, see... What's his name?
What's Andrew Cuomo's brother's name on CNN?
No clue.
I'm gonna see that... I'm gonna see that motherfucker on the street, and I'm gonna yell at him, Get... Get... Away... Go... Like... Like... Move somewhere else, you J. Jonah Jameson bitch.
You leave Spidey alone.
Most heroes are hated by the media.
Spider-Man, Batman, etc.
I mean, think about the Hulk.
Think about how hated the Hulk was.
He had the whole army against him, which is kind of like the Deep State when you think about it.
It's true.
That's very true.
We are all the Hulk.
Somebody, Dave Goliath posted another tweet.
For the United States of America to have the worst COVID-19 trajectory in the entire world, even accounting for questionable data from China, represents a catastrophic failure of national leadership.
The warnings were there.
There's no excuse.
Yeah, so this is the kind of like lib stuff that gets posted in the Joe Rogan Facebook group and everybody's like, oh, you're fucking gay, dude.
Yeah, that's like the response to it.
People just saying gay with like 20 A's?
Rafi Jerugosian says, remember this is Dave Goliath who posted this into the Jerugosian Facebook group.
Rafi says, "Guys named Dave chug Chinese jizz." What?
What?
Is this that whole dude, guy, bro mentality?
People think that listening to Joe Rogan makes you kind of smart, like you're aware, and this is the dude bro.
They go to Joe Rogan to learn about stuff, so that should be an indication of what's going on here.
Um, there's like so many things I like about this comment, um, like I like that he's saying like, you posting about how many people are sick in the US, uh, that means you, you chug Chinese jizz.
That means you love, uh, Chinese cock.
Hey, uh, why don't you, why don't you take the Chinese cock out of your mouth and put Donald Trump's in there?
That one won't get you infected.
But also, guys named Dave chug Chinese jizz.
That part of it is beautiful.
It's like not even subtweeting or anything like that.
It's an attempt at that but it's not.
It's so good.
It's not like you.
It's like, hey, I got a fact for you.
Yeah.
It's like, you want to put some facts in this podcast group?
I got a fact for you.
Guys with the last name Goliath are actually butt munchers.
That's why I love this group.
I love this group and I hate it because you will get like the most fucked up, like racist and transphobic, just like baiting people to kill trans people posts in this group.
And those are the ones I scroll by.
I don't, I can't engage with those because it's like, It's too, uh, it's too blackpilling for me to try and engage.
I, I do, I, I do, I think we talked about it on, uh, the Onward, the episode we did about Onward.
There was, uh, a lot of... Fuck.
Oh well.
Uh, let's do one more question.
Uh, I, I don't have it in front of me.
I don't have the name in front of me.
Uh, somebody asked what our five favorite hardcore bands were.
Oh, what?
I didn't see that one.
Oh, shit.
Alright, can you go first?
Yeah, please.
So I gotta do this by like by like style.
I can't I can't it's it's a very hard question for me.
I gotta do this by like era slash style.
So like my favorite hardcore band is is Ringworm.
That's easy for me to say.
Hands down Ringworm.
Just like their fucking blend of punk and metal and like human furnaces fucked up vocals.
Uh, very easy choice.
But that's like, that's like metalcore, you know?
That's like punk metal metalcore.
Uh, and in that vein, I also love Disembodied.
Uh, and also Cave-In.
Cave-In, uh, Until Your Heart Stops is now one that blew my mind.
I was not a big fan of like technical or like spastic hardcore until I heard that album and it all kind of like clicked for me.
I fucking love that album.
I was also a big fan of more youth crew or like almost posi hardcore stuff.
So like I like locking out stuff I liked a lot in like the early 2000s.
So Mental was a huge, huge band for me.
Love that fucking band.
But a lot of the locking out stuff I liked a lot.
Melodic Hardcore, big fan of that.
Suicide File, another one of my favorite, favorite bands growing up.
Another, if you're probably, I mean Suicide File is a pretty big band.
If you're familiar with them, listen to Stay Gold.
Stay Gold's Pills and Advice.
That's a very good melodic hardcore album.
Ignorant Heavy Shit, the First Blood EP with all the sound drops from the movie First Blood.
That album is insane.
That album is insanely heavy.
Power Violence, I gotta go with Crossed Out.
Crossed Out is just like a great, pissed off, heavy band.
Love that shit.
What's the Matter?
Didn't make the football team?
Love that band.
And then like Krusty Stuff, his hero is gone.
His hero is gone and like cursed.
Yeah.
God damn.
I somehow missed this comment.
This is something that I would, you know... I told you to look.
They were all there.
I didn't see that one.
Well, I didn't see it in the ones you sent me.
It's in the Facebook group.
No, but you didn't see the ones you sent me.
I didn't prepare for that.
I told you to look.
I told you to look.
I did look.
Uh, but I didn't think we were going to answer this one because it's hard.
Um, so okay, uh, just to kind of like keep it simple, I'll probably just talk about the ones that are like maybe most important and influential to me.
Um, I would say like Converge was a big deal for me.
Uh, Converge is super important to me.
They're like heavy.
They're one of the few that will bring me out of like mosh retirement, um, any day of the week.
Um, uh, Definitely cursed, for sure.
And then, being as we are where I am, Terror is huge.
Terror is huge to me.
No doubt.
Terror is huge to me.
Terror has one song and it fucking rules.
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
I've seen him a thousand times and I've enjoyed it every single time.
Dang, and let's see.
Soul Glow.
Soul Glow is our new favorite hardcore band.
I was kind of saving that one for the last one because I knew but they're so it's so good so good just like Bad Brains Worship in the best way possible and like that latest album they just figured something out on that one because I didn't the first one I was I heard it I was like whatever it's latest one though Incredible.
They figured something out and it's like the heaviest shit ever.
And then also they released a single this week and I'm excited about the next album but shout out Zabalba.
Zabalba.
Dude.
Zabalba.
I will break anyone's face to Zabalba any day.
Shout out Zabalba.
Homies in Zabalba from Pomona in LA.
Shout out Nate.
Shout out Big Brian.
Yeah.
Um, that, that single is amazing.
The album artwork is fucking amazing.
That album's gonna be nuts.
I'm very excited for that album.
Yeah, I've listened to the single at least a dozen times since it came out a couple days ago.
Um, but yeah, Soulza Balba, for sure.
Yeah, alright.
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