My dog is very afraid of fireworks. He need to grow a set and get over it (preview)
Today we discuss the collapsed UPS-Teamsters negotiations, a likely strike, and how this time we're fighting for part-timers. Plus, a man has some tough-but-fair lessons for his dog who is afraid of fireworks and Finally, a small rural town in Maine is threatened with a gargantuan, dead-troop theme park--complete with 1776 ft. American Flagpole. Of course, the communists have a problem with it. Sign up for the full episode at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult
Uh, plan to build the world's tallest flagpole, bigger than the Empire State Building, with massive American flag, divides tiny Maine town.
That doesn't even sound like real.
It sounds like a joke, but it clearly is real.
Well, this is the New York Post, sir, so of course it must be real.
Uh, yeah, the dude designed it.
With it to be 1,776 feet tall at sea level.
Yes!
Beautiful.
At sea level.
The actual height of it is far less, several hundred feet shorter, 1,461 feet tall.
But when you add in elevation, man, what a country.
level the actual height of it is far less several hundred feet shorter 1400 1461 feet tall but when you add in elevation uh man what what a country i'm reading here from the new york post a plan to build the world's tallest flagpole higher than the empire state building to hoist an american flag larger than a football field in the main wilderness has divided a small town close to its proposed site.
*Sigh* Can you believe the imagination on this guy?
What if... Okay, picture this.
You know the flagpole?
And then there's like there's like a flag on it, too.
Yeah.
What if it were big?
What if it were the biggest one?
I mean, that'd be pretty cool to have that claim to fame and so that people from like miles around would know how much you love whatever flag you're flying.
Yeah, I think it dude, he thinks it's going to bring in tourist revenue.
Yeah, that's pretty... The 1 billion dollars... Gotta go see it!
Sorry, go ahead.
Gotta go see the flagpole!
Gotta go take a picture with it!
It's so freaking big, I don't even gotta go to your stupid little town to see it!
I can see it from the next state over!
Moron, how are you gonna... I don't have to pay anything for tickets!
The $1 billion project, dubbed the Flagpole of Freedom Park, is intended to bring Americans together, remind them of the centuries of sacrifice made to protect our freedom, and unite a divided America, said Moral Worchester, founder of Worchester Wreath, a company that makes Christmas wreaths.
Instead, it has split residents of Columbia Falls, a town with a population of just 485 people, closest to the plot of land where the immense flagpole would be erected.
Man, I love it.
It's kind of nice to have enough people to like ask every single person if they're down with it or not.
Totally, yeah.
You can actually, you know, take a poll.
Oh.
Maybe they don't want to take a poll.
Hey, I notice we're more divided than ever.
That's why I wore my American flag Speedo and am rhythmically shaking my crotch in your face to bring us all together.
To salute that, because you're a patriot.
I noticed, you know, just, man, it's never, we've never been so divided.
That's why I built a giant homemade Uncle Sam that, you know, screams the Star Spangled Banner out of his mouth for 24 hours of the day.
Yeah, I thought this was going to bring people together.
And what's crazy is that, you know, people who claim to be patriots are even against this.
So many people hate this, dude.
Everybody in the New York Post comment section is like, listen, I'm an American as they come.
I'm patriotic.
I have my own flag that I raise and lower every single day.
And this is, this is insane.
It's not even a small one.
It's a pretty big, considering the size of my house.
Let me read more from this story.
Instead, it is split residents of Columbia Falls.
That's the town.
Again, this is like the middle of nowhere.
Residents have debated whether the flagpole, which would be visible for miles, would spoil the gorgeous natural landscape and have questioned its environmental impacts.
The project has also faced backlash at a time when the American flag itself has become so politicized.
It's been pretty politicized like for a while, right?
I think it's been a minute.
I think it's always been politicized maybe I mean at least since 2001 Yeah, I mean it's like a political item.
I don't I don't know how I don't know how better to explain it to you like it's I It's an item representing, like, a political body.
The flagpole would stand 1,461 feet tall, seven feet taller than New York's Empire State Building.
Okay, well, at least I can commit suicide off of it.
Yeah, I was going to say, that's kind of cool.
Can we like, I was going to say, can we like bungee jump off it or like set up one of those giant swings or it's got to be something to make it a tourist thing because just a flagpole is not enough.
Oh, just wait.
Just wait till the tourist idea comes in.
Oh, hell yeah.
And including elevators to bring visitors to observation decks where they could experience stunning views of vast green clear into Canada.
Not if the fucking flag's in their way!
What are you ta- Yeah!
But um, I, this is actually like, sure, that could be an attraction.
Fucking ride something, you know, 1.5 thousand feet into the air.
and get a view of like natural.
Yeah, sure.
That's great.
What the fuck is the American flag doing here?
You're such a nerd.
You're like such a boring dork.
But the colossal scale of the project doesn't stop there, Tony.
Worcester also envisioned a village with living museums telling the history of the U.S.
through veterans eyes.
Through veteran's eyes.
Yeah, so one thing you may not know is this Worcester Worcester wreaths.
They are like they're a gimmick wreath.
They, you know, they give money to the vets.
They have like a nonprofit.
They're all there.
They're like, OK, whatever, you know, Black Rifle Coffee Company, but for wreaths.
But they've been, they've been around for a while.
I, you know, this is like a- I think I know who you're talking about now, Evan.
A main- Well, they're like, we give, we give a vet a wreath for every wreath that we give a vet a wreath so they can have the smell of fresh pine.
There is a bunch of those wreath companies.
Is there, is there a firework company that I could buy the fireworks to support the vets?
Is that, is that out there?
I bet there is.
I bet there's, like, performative veteran firework companies.
Yeah.
They have one.
They have, like, a really nuts one that's called Stolen Valor that's, like, so nuts you might be able to get PTSD just from it.
I'm looking, I typed in vets for fireworks.
I want to see if there's any, like, organization around veterans supporting fireworks.
It's just gonna be sad.
It's all, it's all about, uh, pets.
How to keep your pets safe during fireworks.
See, wow.
Catering.
Vets, veterinarian, yeah, okay.
Now, we need to start a movement of veterans who are okay with fireworks.
I bet I can, I bet I can get a Facebook group going.
Oh, absolutely.
I'm a veteran and I love firearms.
Be like, I never, I never, I never saw combat or anything, but like I'm still a vet and I like, I think they're pretty pretty.
I think they're, I think they're pretty.
Yeah, but so they're like a gimmick, you know, wreath company.
So this is part of the gimmick now.
We want to create a theme park for veterans.
Hell yeah.
There are plans for a 4,000-seat auditorium, restaurants, and a monument wall with the names of every dead soldier dating back to the Revolutionary War.
About 24- Do they know how many that is?
Do they know that, like- He says right here, about 24 million names.
But I don't think that's right either.
I don't think there's 24 million- I don't think so either.
War dead?
This just gets more and more ambitious.
Like- If we didn't believe in the flagpole, I definitely don't believe in you getting 22 million names.
What the fuck is this grift?
And it's like, well, you like the flagpole, right?
Oh, well, there's a price break.
If you add a 4,000 seat auditorium to the flagpole, it's actually cheaper in the long run.
It's cheaper per unit.
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