Support the show at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $3/month and get a bonus episode every week This week Tony talks about his small business tyrant boss replacing him while he was on Covid quarantine without telling him, I explain why I'm right about David Sedaris and a group of trendy youths tear down a monolith to prove their loyalty to Based Jesus
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| Moving on to the next segment. | |
| Really have to do a follow-up to our segment on David Sedaris. | |
| It sucks how much I've had to think about David Sedaris. | |
| Somebody I really, really don't give a shit about. | |
| Like, emphatically don't care about. | |
| The thing is, what I do care about is being right. | |
| True. | |
| And... I mean, you're good at it, so... Well, not according to some people. | |
| And I just want to make sure that people know that I'm right. | |
| Like, I don't have, like, the energy to come at David Sedaris anymore. | |
| I don't care, again. | |
| But, I do have the energy to, like, defend my name, right? | |
| So, people seem to think, you know, we covered David Sedaris on the main feed this week. | |
| The bit of humor he did about how wouldn't it be funny if we were able to fire customer service employees who didn't go the extra mile for me and who like, you know, looked at me like an idiot when I said, what am I supposed to do without a bag? | |
| You know, they're just like fish mouth gaping open, you know? | |
| He looked at me when I was like, give me your panties. | |
| So people seemed to think that I didn't know David Sedaris was joking. | |
| Yeah. | |
| A lot of the response was, uh, he was joking. | |
| He doesn't really want that girl's panties. | |
| And furthermore, more particularly, the response was, it's satire! | |
| It is satire. | |
| It's satire! | |
| That's like, that's like the word now. | |
| That's the word that means humor. | |
| People say he did a joke and that's called satire. | |
| Having no clue. | |
| Like you said, I think you summed it up pretty well. | |
| With the satire thing. | |
| On Twitter. | |
| On the internet. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, it's just... People think the word satire is interchangeable with joke. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And it's not. | |
| I don't know if it's because they're online too much and it's like irony is the currency of, you know, Twitter comedy or whatever, but it's... Humor isn't just saying things that are the opposite of what you believe. | |
| You know? | |
| There's plenty of different types of... | |
| David Sedaris, from my understanding, he's known for his memoirs. | |
| He's known for anecdotes and essays, stories about his personal life, that sort of thing. | |
| Maybe his personal ideology, thoughts, opinions, or whatever. | |
| He's not on Mr. Show. | |
| He's not on SNL doing, like, bits. | |
| He's not on Netflix's The Characters in a wig. | |
| Like, doing sketches. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| He's never been a kid in the hall. | |
| Not once. | |
| He's not a whitest kid you know. | |
| Not even close. | |
| He's a humorist, okay? | |
| Which means he, like, he, like, sits there in a wing-backed armchair and, like, talks about himself or his family and, like, what annoys him, right? | |
| He doesn't do sketch comedy. | |
| He does, like, Bill Maher New Rule type shit. | |
| The difference really is the phrase, isn't that funny? | |
| That's when you're dealing with humor. | |
| Why don't you say, isn't it funny when... isn't that funny? | |
| That's when you're a humorist. | |
| Yeah, because another defense of his is, oh, he was doing a character. | |
| And it's like... Here's my new bit, it's called The Entitled Customer. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Like, I don't see that as being the framework for this thing, okay? | |
| But, um... A lot of people were pointing out how in the Santa Land Chronicles, which is like the... What's it called? | |
| Santa Land Diaries. | |
| Okay, is it like Gangland Diaries? | |
| Is that what it's like? | |
| I think it predates Gangland. | |
| Okay, um... That's like the work that sort of like, you know, got him notoriety and made him famous or whatever. | |
| There's a story in there that he tells about working as an elf and getting really mad at customers who were, you know, being rude to him. | |
| And I think the punchline of one of them is, of one of these stories, is we should be able to kill customers like that. | |
| Right? | |
| That's the gist of it. | |
| You should be put to death. | |
| Customers like that should be put to death. | |
| Capital punishment. | |
| Was he doing satire when he said that? | |
| Is that satire? | |
| Was he making fun of an angry worker who thinks we should literally kill customers? | |
| Or do you think perhaps he was embellishing his own opinion for comedic effect? | |
| It's the embellishing. | |
| The difference here is that the reason he can have both these things is because when he's writing as the character of the elf, customers are being rude to him and being bad to him. | |
| But in his mind, he was never bad to the lifeguard or to the person he bought the teacups from. | |
| So, like, I'm being, I'm not, since I'm not being mean to you, you do need to, like, lick my feet. | |
| I think Brett said something similar in, on Facebook, which, which I agree with, because one of the things he says in, in the piece is that, you know, we like a, we like an employee who's a go-getter, who's gonna do what needs to be done. | |
| And it's like, I wonder if he thought when he was employed as an elf that he was a go-getter. | |
| That he did put 110% into his work or whatever. | |
| I don't know enough about him to know that. | |
| He had the shiniest bells. | |
| His bells were shiny. | |
| His shoes were pointiest. | |
| His ears were prime. | |
| Therefore, these employees who are clearly slackers, you know, and didn't care about their jobs, they deserve to be fired or whatever. | |
| The point that I'm trying to make is A, he's not holding both of these things like you suggested, Tony. | |
| He held one of these things 25 years ago, and now he holds this thing 25 years, 8 million dollars later. | |
| Yes. | |
| It's still the same style of humor. | |
| It is the same style of humor where he is airing his grievances and cranking them up to 12 for comedic effect. | |
| Okay? | |
| Yeah. | |
| It's not, it's, this isn't a new brand of comedy. | |
| Okay? | |
| It's, it's just an absurd reaction to what he thinks is a real annoyance. | |
| This is basically Like the rich liberal equivalent of a Jeff Bezos guillotine meme from the left. | |
| He is fantasizing about like doing, you know, bringing justice to these snooty, snippy employees or whatever. | |
| It's like the NPR liberal equivalent of the conservative guy who tweets about wanting to spank David Hogg. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| Like, does that guy really want to spank David Hogg? |