#620 The Sixpence None The Richer you grew up with no longer exists.(preview)
TODAY: Alex encounters two separate MDC style coworkers in his UPS facebook groups using dead coworkers to promote their awful, reactionary politics. Let’s see how this one plays out PLUS: Terrace K Williams has $25k stolen from him (?) but won’t stoop to naming the guy who did it (??). We investigate. FINALLY: We look at the objects of two bizarre instances of nostalgic fascism: Sixpence None The Richer’s “Kiss Me,” and Alien Ant Farm’s cover of “Smooth Criminal.” Strong Men (Dawson) create good times (Dawson’s Creek). Niko B - it's not litter if you bin it Jack Johnson- Flake Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $5/month and get 2 bonus episodes a week Subscribe to our youtube channel at http://youtube.com/miniondeathcult
The liberals are destroying California and conservative humor gone awry.
Conservative humor gone awry is going to fascist-phonia today.
So stay tuned.
We're going to take a few pictures of the desert and how their policies are actually messing it up.
It's not beautiful when you go across that border.
Stay tuned guys, we'll show you exactly what it looks like when you're at.
Just going to get this.
All very remarkable stuff.
Stay tuned.
Okay, the last thing I wanted to talk about today is when things in this country used to be great.
When things in this country used to be meaningful and filled with purpose and beauty.
Of course I'm talking about 1998 when Sixpence, None the Richer, released Kiss Me.
This is...
This is like, you know, they... I mean, in general, these, like, nostalgia fascists, they focus on, like, you know, Coca-Cola ads from, like, the 1950s, and they're like, remember when your life was like this?
The cultural change, though, was the time that Tyrese stepped onto the bus singing the Coca-Cola song.
They want anything before Tyrese is what they're looking for in Coca-Cola ads.
That's like their Donald Trump being elected and splitting the timeline.
Yeah, exactly.
This is the latest one that, yeah, I saw that a lot of people saw because it has like 68,000 likes now at this point.
It's, yeah, it's this account on Twitter, Historic Vids, but the at is history in memes.
So you know they're a fascist.
And the text says, the world you grew up in no longer exists.
And then it's literally just the Sixpence None the Richer music video.
For people who aren't familiar with this, we're gonna have a very good analogy and just a couple replies that will definitely give you a frame of reference.
This is, uh, what would they call it, Tony?
This is, like, a girl song?
Uh, this is a girl song.
This is, yeah, this is, like, it's not quite girly pop and like that, but it's, yeah, it's a girl song for sure.
It's a song I associate it with, like, Dawson's Creek?
Totally that energy, like teen romance movies.
It probably also played in one of the more serious moments of Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore, you know?
Like when she actually does get kissed by a minor.
We need to revisit Never Been Kissed.
I haven't seen that in a minute.
Yeah, Drew Barrymore goes back to high school as a reporter and becomes one of the cool sluts on campus.
Just kidding.
She doesn't become a slut.
But she makes out with a high school boy and then also a teacher, too, I think.
Not at the same time, guys.
Not at the same time.
It's okay.
It's not that bad.
It's a real ladies rock kind of movie, I think.
That's, yeah, this is like, I don't know, I remember when this came out.
It is like the most saccharine, the most like overly sentimental, heart-on-your-sleeve, wistful, youthful, romance, pop song.
There is, almost.
It's funny because these guys who are yearning for this time here, they're like alpha males, right?
Yeah, they're supposed to be.
They're like the strong men that are going to be built from this weak society.
And it's like, if you had said you liked this song back then, you would have been called, they would have said you were gay.
Oh, yeah.
You would have been gay for liking this song.
And I mean, that's like probably half the reason they want to go back there.
It's because they do want to call their friends gay.
But you can call your friends gay now, still.
I just, you don't have them to call them, you know, the funny slur or whatever.
Yeah, I think is the big, you know, spoiler alert.
I think that might be what we're talking about.
*music* I got twos off a blem off a bounce and a bend.
Small pack.
I've smoked like 2 out of 10 and I'd do it again.
I'm stood with a friend of a friend and I'm trying to pretend that I heard what they said.
But I'm too anxious to make them ask me again.
What's the price of the shoes that'll give me elegant moves?
I'm stood in a terrible group cut class be stuffed in an evidence tube.
I don't want to be rude but me and this girl got opposing views.
She just loves starting feuds with random dudes and it's half past two And now I gotta fight some guy that I sort of like cause I think he's nice We've spoken a couple times on random nights and he bought me pints He's even sold me white, there's numerous times we've snorted lines We're having a gorgeous time but he rocked my jaw now I'm on my bike Too many fights, I'm fighting, fighting for you Would you feel my fights when I'm fighting, making me lose?
I'd buy more shit from the states if it weren't for the customs charge Garments cost me an arm and a leg and I gotta pay more just to post it far.
I'm whizzing round in electric cars, leaving texts of a double ex confess my love on a VCR.
I just got told to lickety split.
Miu Miu on my belt loop walking round with the wickedest hip.
