This week Alex gives a deposition on attending Kirk Cameron's Christian Storytime Hour at the Seattle Public Library, learning about diverse, pluralistic utopian anthropomorphic (capitalist?) animal societies with free housing, communal parenting, and varying types of intelligences Also: more Target derangement including an epic dis track about washing the the aisles with the blood of christ and Newsmax commenters share their extremely proportional responses to the "Transget" pride collection. Get the full episode and hundreds more by signing up for $5/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult
Kevin uses his trunk to shoot water as like a propulsion system.
And they end up catching up with everybody and getting in second place.
That's... Good job?
That's pretty underwhelming.
So the lesson I'm getting here is it's it's it's actually good and cool for people with different anatomy to compete together and use that use that anatomy to their benefit, actually, because everybody's different.
And, you know, sometimes what you thought might have been a liability or something shameful is actually something to be proud of and something that can help you out.
Yeah, a trunk's kind of a bad thing to lean on to for that metaphor.
So it has it has like nothing to do with trans competition, trans swimmers or anything.
It's about pride.
It's the pun.
For pride being the sin and like his message at the end of this was like, now don't you see why it's so bad?
Why pride is so bad and listen to your parents when they tell you that pride isn't a good thing, right?
Everybody.
Oh my God.
I didn't even.
So I'm yeah.
Cause I'm thinking here, like, you know, like, like Jake, you said this seems like this is wholesome.
This is like a good thing.
It's it's standard, like liberal, cultural, like sensitivity stuff and like, you know, different strokes and multiculturalism.
Except what it is, what it is, it's it is to say it's specifically the word pride.
Yes.
It is specifically to like.
Associate the word pride with negativity.
If you celebrate pride in June, then you are never going to work it out with your elephant partner and win second place in the race.
They're equating pride with being mean.
He said, it's, that's why when, uh, it's not nice to be, uh, it's not nice to be proud and only think about yourself because that makes you mean it's, it's, I like, I would say that a lot of pride is people who might not necessarily be queer themselves.
Being nice to a marginalized part of the community, right?
Like, because a lot of this was like, you need to think about things that are bigger than yourself.
You know, you need to think about other people, by which I mean God.
Well, the whole thing is like they do, they don't view pride as like a thing for queer people.
They just view it as something they're being excluded from.
So that's what it is.
It's like, oh, like you, the pride was getting in the way of like, They're excluding people.
It's not cool to exclude people.
And you're excluding me just because I'm straight?
That's what they're doing here, you know?
Well, it's also like... Sure, maybe being gay is real, but I don't want to see it.
I don't want to have to know about it.
Yeah, maybe you can't change who you love or whatever, but that doesn't mean it's not evil and you shouldn't be proud of it because it's evil, you know?
Yeah, I just thought it was fascinating.
Like, shouldn't, shouldn't this race be like segregated by species?
Like, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Like what?
I don't know.
You're teaching kids the wrong lesson here.
At any point, do they tell the elephant that it can never be a bird?
Do they tell the elephant that it can't be a bird?
No, never.
How do the kids react to this book?
They were partially engaged with it.
It was funny, the way he was working the crowd, the child crowd.
He was trying to get them to say certain things.
This whole book takes place in Freedom Island.
This is okay.
This whole book takes place in the like freedom island.
It's the freedom saga.
And he was like, how many, how many of you have animals in your home?
And the kids were like, yeah, I do.
And he's like, well, what do you have?
And she's like, I have a dog and two cats.
And then he went to another kid and he's like, oh, how many do you have?
And okay, dogs again.
Does anybody here not have a dog or cat?
Does anybody here have an animal that's different from a dog or cat?
And then kids just kept saying, I have a dog at home because they're like, they're like three years old, four years old.
And you're, I don't know, trying to coach them live.
Yeah.
But then after he finished this, he was like, okay, who wants to hear another story?
Uh, or do you guys want to hear another story?
Some kid literally shouted, no.
Awesome.
Awesome.
That kid's fucking, that kid rules.
And then I just had a rough day for us the day, but I'm happy that happened for that kid.
I wish I would've caught it, but I started, I started recording like right after that.
And he was like, OK, dude, well, maybe you can go have a coffee break or something.
He like got got upset at the kid.
The second story he told was or he read from was like growing up.
And it was about a maple tree that grew from an acorn into like A giant tree that all the all the animals lived inside, like they developed a neighborhood and stuff and into the tree, and it was like the different stages until it got to that point.
I'm wondering, how much are they charging for these tree bungalows?
Who owns the tree?
Who has the rights to that land?
You know, who who has the rights to that land freedom responsible for maintenance?
Freedom Island.
Like who who owns it?
You know, like who's the largest landowner in Freedom Island?
That's what I'm curious about, because it seemed like he was because they're trying to portray these books as like, wow, look at all the happy animals living together.
And then there's also a church over there.
Mm hmm.
And they're not acknowledging like how this is cool and how like, oh, yeah, this is possible.
But what's the like, what's the underlying thing?
Like where the landlord's at?
Where's where's where's the government at?
Because I think if you had a kid's book where you were like, we should all be able to live in a free community where we all support each other and.
And you know, nobody privately owns the land that they're not like currently living on, uh, and charges other people, you know, just, just to stay alive.
Like that would be probably considered indoctrination, right?
If you, if you were to like teach kids about communism, um, but, You, it's like you shouldn't be able to do that.
Just implying it because no kids are thinking, Oh yeah, you know, you got to pay the tree landlord, uh, 12, $1,200 a month.
Like, no, they're thinking what you're presenting, which is a utopia where everybody lives in harmony with each other.
Parentheses for free in up in this nice tree.
Yeah, and co-op, they work together.
Sometimes the tiger has to work with the elephant to win a race.
You can't think about it too hard.
It's going to break itself.
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