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The world is ending.
Privacy in children's bathrooms is responsible.
And we're documenting it.
Oh boy, are we documenting it.
Don't worry, folks. We have a large viewing window with which we document it.
Wow. You know they're called your private parts for a reason.
I disagree. They're called private parts because the government should have no control over what I get to do to yours.
Private property. There you go.
Yeah. Have you heard about this one, Tony?
No. Right wing school boards are so concerned with children's safety in the bathroom.
They have now put windows in the bathrooms to monitor them.
And I for one think this makes sense.
That is incredible.
This is real, huh?
This is from Pennsylvania.
They've since backed off.
The conservative Christian law firm who recommended putting the windows in in the first place have now also recommended boarding up the windows after public outcry.
That was a pretty fast turnaround.
Yeah, I think it was like a two or three day turnaround.
This is... Ani sent me this story firstly, or that was the first time I saw it, and I was just like, oh boy, what an episode.
And it was resolved before we could even record, which I'm not upset about.
No, I'm okay with that.
I'm glad it has been resolved.
So this is from the York... I'm happy there was never a week of that happening, hopefully.
This is from the York Dispatch, and this is an editorial that helped broadcast what was happening.
There were also Facebook posts from parents who saw these windows in their children's school and were like, what the fuck, posting about it online as you would do, and the whole thing kind of went viral for obvious reasons.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're pretty transparent reasons, just like windows, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, let me get into this editorial.
Bathrooms with a view.
Cutting windows into student restrooms is a new level of weird.
This is the photo that was taken, Tony.
It's just a viewing window.
It's like looking into a study hall.
That's wild. Right in front of the stalls.
It's like when you go to a fancy restaurant and you get to watch the cooks make the food, but this time you get to watch the kids pee.
Kids make poop. So crazy.
Nobody wants to know how the sausage is made.
We're just trying to blow the lid on what really happens behind these doors, folks.
What's really going on? It's disgusting.
I've heard rumors about what's happening in these toilets, and frankly, it's sickening.
It's pretty gross. Yeah, no, I love the fucking takeout window.
You know, in case you're hungry for some child bathroom fare.
The window's pointed right at the stalls too, which if you know anything about American bathroom stalls, they kind of differ in the rest of the world in that you can still see people's feet and there's like large cracks in the door, you know, where the hinges are or where it clasps.
They often don't lock. Sometimes you have to hold the door closed while you're shitting.
Have you seen restrooms in Europe and other countries?
The actual stall is a stall.
The door goes all the way up.
What luxury? It's like a room.
It's like an actual room with some actual privacy.
And it was like, I thought I was crazy, you know?
And this is the way the world makes us feel crazy, is that this is acceptable, to have giant gaps where people can look in and see your wee-wee through the stall door.
And I just thought, well, something's wrong with me.
Something's wrong with me for not seeing the good side of things.
And then you're opened to new inventions and stuff, and it really makes you feel sane again.
Yeah, you didn't realize we just needed less privacy.
We need our kids to have less privacy, especially when they're at school, when I'm not there with them.
That's when they really need less privacy.
Yeah, and let me just...
Okay, so I'm in favor of the bathroom windows at schools.
I just want to say that.
I'm not in favor of the teachers looking through them.
Absolutely. These teachers are freaks, okay?
Teachers are not allowed to look into it.
Members of the school, you know, the administration, they still work for the government, folks.
Not trustworthy either.
The only people, I think, that should be allowed to look through these windows is the veteran volunteer outside...
The door, you know, they're outside the front door, but they can't be outside the bathroom door.
Yeah, the armed veteran is the only one I want seeing my child.
I mean, think about everything they've seen overseas.
They're not interested, okay?
They've seen it all already.
They've already been there. This is just like a vessel for wet wads.
Is that what you would call it? When they ball up the toilet paper and throw it out there.
That's what's going to happen day one, hopefully, and completely cover what you can see.
I love that it actually got constructed and we're looking at a real picture of a hole they cut into a perfectly good wall just for this.
Yeah, it's a brick wall, too.
They had to, like, demolish part of the wall.
Yeah, this window would have looked like that Waymo car by the end of the day.
Yep, yep. And we haven't really said it yet, but I'm guessing this is under...
This is all because of Transpanic.
Yeah, so at the risk of stating the obvious, this is by the entire editorial board of the York Dispatch.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Southwestern's elected school board is making some strange decisions.
For the last two years, they fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ plus kids use in 2023.
Officials in this Hanover area district played musical chairs with school bathrooms in a misguided attempt to appease the loudest bigots among them, ending up with five different types of bathrooms, Tony.
I was reading about this.
What's the fourth and fifth one?
So it's male assigned at birth, female assigned at birth, trans bathroom, non-binary bathroom.
Maybe it's like trans female bathroom, trans male bathroom, and then non-binary bathroom.
So there's still like there's in their efforts to like uh they're still trying to like separate they can't just do one ungendered bathroom this is like when they asked joe biden how many genders there there are he should have said they're five they're five there's five we learned this from uh pennsylvania school districts yeah we have a president for this It's amazing.
And to be clear, the gender-neutral bathroom is the one with the windows in it.
Oh, of course. It's so funny.
I mean, it's the only one with the windows in it.
And so people are rightfully like, well, this seems like you're targeting...
I don't think it's like a non-binary bathroom.
It's like a gender-neutral bathroom or whatever.
I want to see if they figure out iconography for these bathrooms.
You know, because we have the classic male and female silhouettes.
Do they do something different with it?
Do they put a bow on the male figure?
They put like a boxy silhouette on the gender neutral bathroom.
Like what the hell?
After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning books, and reopened the bathroom issue.
Let's go. Board President Matthew Jelazela.
I'm going to say Jelazela because that sounds better.
Wow, it's such a beautiful...
Word. Yeah, there's no good way to say this one.
Jelazela. Jelazela?
Jelazela, for sure.
Matthew Jelazela, who was elevated to his post after previously serving as the board's most vocal bomb thrower, pointed to Red Lion's discriminatory policies, Red Lion is a different school district, as something to aspire to.
I was reading in another article that, yeah, Red Lion had...
Instituted these very strict, we will not use your child's pronouns unless we get a signed letter home from the parents.
You have to comport with the bathroom that's on your birth certificate.
They instituted all these rules, and in the article I was reading, the district has 4,700 students And all these rules only affected like seven of the students there.
Jesus, yeah. And that's, I don't know, that's one of the more damning bits of evidence against the way these people are freaking out and hyperventilating and targeting specific members of society to fix a problem that doesn't exist.
It sucks. If I would have seen the direction the world was going, I would have put a question mark and Penny's on her birth certificate, you know?
TBA. Yeah, TBA. Or just like, fuck it.
Write that in there, and then she can use whatever bathroom they want.
Go for it. Yeah, like for gender, you could put rootin' tootin'.
Gender, all of them.
That is going to backfire eventually.
They're going to be like, the pronouns are freedom and liberty.
Okay, so we actually don't have a bathroom for that one.
Just put a flag on the door.
My kid goes.
Dude, the bathroom for that has a window that's six feet tall in it.
Yeah, it's just a full glass panel window.
It's like a lineup, but you're facing the window.
The urinals are transparent.
How do they get, like, urinals made out of glass?
Well, it costs a lot, but we had to see through them from in front of them.
Um... Yeah, so they looked at this other school district's policies as something to aspire to.
Now, upon the advice of that firm, the Harrisburg-based Independent Law Center, the board approved spending $8,700 to cut windows so passersby can look into the so-called gender identity student bathrooms.
You got to keep the sickos out somehow, folks.
And once they're already in there, how do you know?
I heard the school district was putting sickos in every child's bathroom, in every public school bathroom.
Yeah. Everyone knows that you can't ask for someone to show you their genitals, but if you were to accidentally walk by and catch a glimpse of the window that was cut out there for you to see it, that's not your fault.
It's like when I inspect a bag when I'm working, I look at someone's bag.
I don't touch the bag.
I just have to open it for me.
Whatever they open and show me, they can show me.
So it's the same principle.
These adults want to make it easier for other people to watch your children
while they're in the bathroom.
It's absolutely mind boggling.
Jelizella, who steadfastly refused to explain the logic here,
said in a public meeting that the windows help, quote, add privacy
in the toilet facility and that they, quote, increase oversight of the wash area.
Well, those two things sound diametrically opposed.
Yes. I'll be honest.
One I will say is for sure true.
The increased oversight is for sure there.
I don't think you know what privacy means.
There's a reason public restrooms tend not to have windows, or if they do, they have frosted glass.
No one wants to be spied on when they're relieving themselves.
Just again, like these basic principles you have to reiterate.
You have to tell conservatives like their children.
Remind them about having empathy towards other people, that other people are entitled to privacy, even children that you hate.
And yeah, just like common sense stuff, like don't watch children while they're in the bathroom.
Yeah, it's pretty simple.
All these poor kids are going to grow up with piss anxiety.
They're not going to be able to use public restrooms at all.
Oh no, that's the worst.
They'll be able to get over it.
I hope so. Yeah. We've all been there.
We've all been in front of a window with 35-year-old men looking out for groomers.
I did that thing yesterday where I was on a hike and I went pee.
And I thought I was kind of in the middle of nowhere.
And I just happened to be staring at the one porch that existed in that area.
I looked up and I'm like, oh, that's a porch.
I'm now looking at somebody.
No one was there.
Yeah, but the Amazon saw you.
Yeah, I'm on TikTok somewhere right now.
This guy thinks he can just piss in the forest.
Jelazella, in pursuing his book ban, repeatedly said he's trying to protect the children.
But this latest decision does just the opposite.
The parents who spoke to the York Dispatch about the latest bathroom renovation said their children no longer feel comfortable using these bathrooms.
One of the parents went to the principal and asked for an exemption to allow her son to use a different bathroom further away from class.
Her 13-year-old doesn't want to be spied on while he's in the bathroom.
And we don't blame him. It's creepy and weird.
And let's not ignore the bigger picture.
This is happening at a time when this and other York County school boards are pushing policies that would restrict what books students read, what sports teams they compete on, and even which pronouns they use.
All of this is part of an attempt to erase LGBTQ plus people.
Yeah, absolutely. Cutting a window in these bathrooms is an intimidation tactic designed to make sure students who use the so-called gender identity facilities Yeah, just as this is an invasion of privacy and a waste of taxpayer dollars, it needs to stop. And now you'll have to waste more taxpayer dollars boarding this shit up because...
I'm reading from the AP. Pennsylvania school boards up window openings that allowed views into its gender-neutral bathroom.
Let me get it up here on screen for you.
What's really funny about that, too, is as someone who's done contract work for schools, if it's the school district and the city and stuff, you charge as much as you possibly can.
That's why cutting this hole and installing this window, that's not an $8,000 job.
It's just not. But you can make an $8,000 job.
And guess what? It's going to cost probably, I would say, at least $2,500 to board it up.
It's going to cost more if they really want to put a wall in it, if they want to fix the wall for real.
But yeah, it's just so funny. It's going to be like 12 grand down the drain now.
And you couldn't even watch it be flush because the window's gone.
You know, if they have to fire a teacher or two, that's the price you pay for children's safety.
Pennsylvania school boards up window openings that allowed views into its gender-neutral bathrooms.
This is in the AP. It's by Mark Skolfero.
A Pennsylvania school district has reversed course and boarded up window openings it recently installed that allowed people in a middle school hallway to peer into two gender-neutral designated bathrooms, the superintendent said on Friday.
The two windows, so we only saw one of them, but apparently there's fucking two of them.
The two windows were installed in recent weeks following a vote in August of the Southwestern School District's Conservative Majority School Board, a move that board president said was designed to monitor and prevent misbehavior.
Such openings weren't installed on any of the school's non-gender neutral bathrooms.
Yeah, where was it? One of the points I thought was very interesting was...
You know, one of the justifications they're using for having these windows is they're saying, well, the washroom area, that's public area.
Kids aren't doing anything private in front of the mirror or in whatever, you know, by the hair dryer or by the hand dryer.
It's only in the stalls where kids are doing something private.
Never mind that you, like we talked about, you can see into the stalls.
You know, you could, like, you know.
It's embarrassing enough to have your feet visible for To everybody who might be inside the bathroom, but to have them visible to somebody outside the bathroom who can just watch them for fun, that's like nightmare shit.
And we're both tall enough to where there are a few stalls to where if I were to just look over, I could just see over it.
Yeah, most stalls.
All the time. I check and it's abysmal.
See if they're good, you know?
Well, it's just, you know, I'm keeping a running tally of this nation's bathrooms and they're just awful.
I can see everything, guys.
No, but one of the excuses, you know, they were like, we'll be able to cut down on absenteeism.
We'll be able to cut down on whatever sexual assault or yada, yada, yada, like, and drug, you know, we'll be able to cut down on drug use or just like loafing in general, you know, and it's just like, What a beautiful example of how targeting trans people, targeting gay people, targeting gender non-conforming people is just another example of using a minority scapegoat, using a minority sacrificial lamb To eventually erode the rights of all of us.
To eventually erode all of our rights.
Because, oh, well, it's actually to prevent, you know, illegal contraband or it's to prevent ditching or whatever.
And it's like, congratulations, now because you hated trans people so much, all the bathrooms are going to have fucking windows in them.
You know, if not for this, like, outcry, if not for this...
Pushback, but that's where it would have gone.
Yeah. And you know, that's I think a great lesson to take away from this is that human rights are human rights and you can't try to exempt the people you don't like because that's just a that's that's a you're opening the door, you know?
Yeah. Yeah. It's like it does affect everybody.
No matter how fucking masculine your little boy is, it will still impede on his rights, too.
The openings were covered by plywood on Thursday on the advice of lawyers from the Harrisburg-based Independence Law Center, a conservative legal group the board consulted before ordering the windows installed, Superintendent Jay Burkhart said.
That's the funniest part to me.
After they consulted the what-do-you-want-to-do-if-you-want-everybody-in-the-world-to-get-mad-at-you law firm, they were like, hmm, let's go back to them again.
Yeah, let's check them out again.
And they were like, sensibly, they were like, oh yeah, yeah, stop, stop, cover them up, cover them up.
Too much attention. You're supposed to do this quietly.
We're just supposed to have a nice little quiet view through the window.
So funny. Quote, I believe that we have to protect all of our students, Burkhart said in a phone interview.
Students are entitled to privacy, and I don't want to violate that.
Yeah, good call, man.
The superintendent finally poked his nose to figure out what these freaks were doing in the school board.
The board, quote, has been targeting transgender students and stripping away their rights for a while, said Christina Moon, a lawyer with the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, which has asked affected students to reach out to it.
She said the, quote, multiple tiers and assignments of bathrooms, quote, overcomplicated a non-issue, stigmatizing students.
Yeah, absolutely. That's exactly what it is.
Now they've cut actual holes for windows in the student bathrooms, but only the bathrooms they expect trans and non-binary children to use.
There's a horrifying violation of children's privacy and cruel discrimination targeted against trans and non-binary kids, Moon said in an emailed statement.
Yeah, that's the funny thing about this is like...
They're identifying the gender-neutral bathroom or whatever as like, well, that's an ideology bathroom.
And only the gay kids, only the queer kids are going to use it.
Whereas, like, if I knew there was a bathroom close to me that I was allowed to go into, I would be like, yes, I'm that.
I go to the ideology bathroom.
It's going to become that thing, too, where it's like, no, dude, I only shit in the non-binary bathroom.
It's the cleanest one. Are you kidding me?
You know, provided it doesn't have giant windows in it.
Yeah, yeah. The mother of an eighth grader at Emory H. Markle Middle School in Hanover said Friday that she considered the decision to cover up the windows a small victory.
Jennifer Holahan, who drew attention to the bathroom window openings by posting a photo on social media, said she's nervous to see what happens at a meeting next week of the conservative majority school board.
Somebody, I went to Jennifer's Facebook page to find the post, and, you know, I wasn't really looking for people to defend this, you know, for the show, because there weren't any, like, right-wing articles about it.
Like, the right-wing is not talking about the conservative Pennsylvania freaks who put a peephole into your son's bathroom.
Yeah. so hard to find like pushback against the pushback most people are like it seems like most conservatives either are unaware of it or are intelligently keeping their mouths shut yes you know holstering their their pedo guns for now but I did see one person who pretty who was like sympathetic to the quote current school board who said their hands were tied And that the window was because of the previous school board wanted it for safety reasons and the new school board didn't actually want it but were forced to do it and they were going to make sure that the stalls were more private because they were going to install a private ventilation system and light in each stall and ensure that the students had privacy because outside the stalls that's not a private area and she was like repeating The justification for the window in it, but trying to pretend like she hated it.
Listen, but it's not actually public area.
It will be very interesting to see what happens at the next city council meeting, and I bet that's what the story they're going to go with, is that their hands were tied from a pre...
Actually, it was the previous school board sickos made us do this.
And it's like, well, then why did we skip the part where we did do the separate ventilation and the more privacy in the stalls?
Why didn't we do that part first?
It would make sense. That would make a little bit of sense.
Seems like someone gave this the fast track, some sort of priority, regardless of...
Weird. Yeah, whose idea it was.
I mean, this is like, this is a freak's wet dream.
Of course they wanted to do this.
Lots of pushback from parents.
Happy to see it. Happy to see these freaks back down for once because a lot of times now it seems like they just won't.
Yeah. In the face of public outcry, in the face of shame, in the face of just being wrong, increasingly the right wing is just refusing to back down and live in the reality that the rest of us live in.
So it's nice to see this victory here.
Let's go.
I can't get away from the game.
I won't take time to die.
My life is ruined when I have nothing to lose.
The pain I'm gonna pour in war.
This is a party that's burning away.
I'm too much of a mess, I'm close to the ground.
I can't even get a gun.
I'm drowning.
I'm just a body to the ground.
I'm drowning.
I don't fucking like this shit.
Moving on, we gotta talk about this Shell Shock 2 festival that was making waves for having a lineup that nobody
wanted to see and also inviting Kyle Rittenhouse.
No, I'm just kidding.
The lineup I saw, so they like announced Kyle Rittenhouse as a special guest Or not even a special guest, like an act of some kind.
Yeah, what are you booking Kyle Rittenhouse to do?
I don't understand. Like, I imagine he gets up on stage and just kind of mills around, like when Strickland Propane got the Orange County Chopper guys to appear at the event, and they didn't even have a motorcycle with them, so they just kind of said their catchphrases over party music.
Like, I just imagine him, like, up there miming, shooting people with, like, an invisible rifle, you know, like, yeah, what's up?
It's like, did you even bring an AR? Did you get your mom to bring you one?
Is she here? I kind of want to meet her, actually.
There's a small business owner three doors down.
Definitely got something for you.
Insane. Why would you ever...
I don't know. Just incredibly funny.
Yeah, I can't remember where I saw this, you know, when I guess it went first was announced that Kyle Rittenhouse would be an attraction on this lineup.
And I looked at the lineup and the only band I recognized was Evergreen Terrace.
Who's a band that I did like growing up.
Yeah, I didn't know they were still active or active again.
And I was like, oh, that's weird.
Are they like reactionary?
Because they do have some unfortunate song titles.
Just like probably have...
I was listening back to...
God, what is it?
Burned Alive by Time.
Their like 2002 album.
I think so, yeah. Oh my god, dude.
Like, one of the songs is called My Heart Beats and Breakdowns.
Hell yeah. One of the songs is called something, and then parentheses, aka Foshizzle My Nizzle.
Fuck, I forgot about that.
And I think that's the cover song.
I think that's the song where they cover Enjoy the Silence.
But they have a ton of covers, which is like, I think how I first heard them, I heard like their cover of Sunday Bloody Sunday.
Oh yeah, yeah. I think that's why for sure too.
I think that was different than their breakout hit.
And they were like one of the hardcore bands that my dad said he liked so he could go to a show with us.
Tight. And I think it was just because of like the U2 cover and the whatever, Enjoy the Silence, whoever sings that.
But do you get it though? They called it for Shizzle My Nizzle.
Do you get it? It's funny, because that's a rap reference, and these guys, they're not rappers at all.
Yeah, oh, and then they have a Lebowski quote as another one of their song titles, and it's just like...
So, eventually, to spoil it, they pull off...
Evergreen Terrace pulled out of this festival and just got a ton of gnarly comments, which, you know, we're going to take a look at.
But it's just like, yeah, you can't really name yourself after a big Lebowski quote and not expect that.
I know it was back in 2002...
You should have known better.
You know, you're not playing minus the bear music, alright?
Yeah. Can I tell you something?
Yeah. I've never actually seen The Big Lebowski.
I've never actually watched the whole thing.
And it's kind of because by the time I had discovered it, I already met the most annoying guy in the world wearing a robe and ordering a white Russian.
So it was already ruined for me.
But I was told I should give it a shot, and I probably will soon.
So look forward to that, folks.
Yeah, I've seen Big Lebowski.
It's good, obviously.
It's a Coen Brothers movie, so of course it's fucking good.
I made your mistake with Big Lebowski with Anchorman.
I made the mistake of not seeing Anchorman like the first weekend because the only thing I heard for the next week were Anchorman quotes yelled at me on the high school quad or in class or whatever.
And I was like, I never want to see this movie.
Yeah, it gets ruined real fast.
But, you know, we can't do that to things.
It's just not fair. It was funny though because I revisited that Evergreen Terrace album and I was like, oh, it's not too bad.
Some of it's kind of...
Dumb. Some of it's kind of like melodramatic because it's like, you know, and this isn't the exact correct term, but it's kind of like that emo core stuff, you know?
Totally, yeah. Whatever. Not like real emo or real screamo or whatever, but it's like, you know, poison the well.
It's kind of like the, it's not quite kill switch engage, you know?
It's a little more like raw than that, but it's...
It's got some pretty melodic parts, you know?
And I was just like, man, I forgot this whole album.
It reminded me kind of of like Hope's Fall, The Satellite Years, which is an album I really like still.
And then when I was looking up Evergreen Terrace's stuff, they have a whole album of like all the covers they've done.
And one of those covers is Stars by Hum.
And I was like, that's crazy.
Yeah, that's crazy. Because, yeah, the guy from Hum produced that Hope's Fall album.
Evergreen Terrace doesn't sound as spacey as Hope's Fall.
I don't remember what else.
Maybe a Weezer song or whatever.
They're that kind of a band.
Kudos to them because they seem like cool people.
I'm reading here from the PRP News.
Following a wave of lineup departures in light of booking Kyle Rittenhouse, Shellshock 2 Festival announces Slipknot tribute band Sick.
As their headliner.
It's funny because the whole time I'm looking at this picture and it's like it is Slipknot and I was like, oh man, Slipknot's involved in this?
Yeah, it's two-thirds of Slipknot.
That's amazing. It's six people.
Aren't there more Slipknot?
I think there's like 12. Yeah.
No, you don't have to have a giant band.
You do have to have a percussionist, though.
You have to have a couple. You have to have a keg guy, a guy who beats on kegs.
Yes, absolutely. That's the most important part.
I am not going to lose my mind or order another round of drinks unless I see a keg clown on stage.
True. Yeah, the name of the band is Sick Texas.
It's uppercase S, lowercase I, uppercase C, and then just TX is Texas.
And I have their Instagram over here, Sick Texas.
1,900 followers.
We are Sick Texas.
The fastest growing Slipknot tribute in America.
American flag emoji.
Their logo, you can't see it, Tony, but their logo looks like...
A combination of like Fullmetal Alchemist and Emily the Strange.
Okay. From Hot Topic.
It's like red and black alternating with a, you know, some sort of, not a pentagram, but some sort of multi-sided star glyph behind the logo, but then it's got a little banner, like it's got a little, you know, like a coat of arms banner in front of it, too, that says sick.
It's so awful. Why are you not just writing the word sick with a Slipknot S? Why are you doing anything else?
Yeah, they're doing too much.
Well, I think that would be copyright infringement, so they add the IAIC or whatever.
Yeah, but this is all that's left.
So after some dramatic lineup turbulence, this year's Shellshock 2 festival has found its new headliner in Slipknot tribute band Sick Texas.
That outfit described themselves as the fastest growing Slipknot tribute in America.
The cover band will be taking over the closing slot previously held by Evergreen Terrace at the Fest, which will take place on October 19th at the Level 13 Event Center in Orlando, Florida.
The past Sunday saw Evergreen Terrace drop off the bill, citing their concerns with the involvement of Kyle Rittenhouse.
The Shellshock 2 Festival, which aims to double as a fundraiser and awareness event.
Event for PTSD among first responders and veterans booked Rittenhouse as a VIP guest for the event.
So I guess you go like backstage and you shake his hand and you can fantasize, you two little dweebs can fantasize about murdering protesters.
Just like, there's no way that Kyle Rittenhouse is mentally okay and someone you should be having up being like a poster child of PTSD. There's just no, I refuse to believe that.
Yeah, you gotta handle...
The PTSD events have no place in music concerts.
They should all be held at gun ranges.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's the way to go. Let him take some people to the gun range.
Something masculine and healthy.
They would do that and they would totally put the stage behind the targets.
Fuck, yeah. To prove how safe the targets were, the backstops were.
Uh... That did not sit well with Evergreen Terrace, who also cited other associated entities, probably the fucker, the douchebag promoting this, the douchebag who put it on, involved with the festival in announcing their departure from the bill.
Since then, three other bands booked the bill, or sorry, three other bands booked for the bill.
Southpaw, Let Me Bleed, and American Hollow.
Like, forgive me, I don't know any...
Southpaw sounds familiar.
Southpaw sounds like a tough guy hardcore band from like the late 2000s or early 2010s that I didn't have any interest in listening to.
But, you know, kudos to them if they're good.
They've also dropped off the fest, seeking to distance themselves from either Rittenhouse or political associations in general.
The anti-hero podcast.
So this is a fucking podcaster's idea of a metal fest.
That's why it sucks so much ass.
That's so awful.
He's like a fucking bro metal podcast.
He probably just interviews butt rock washouts from the mid-2000s.
He just interviews people who mod the Five Finger Death Punch Discord.
The Antihero Podcast, who have been promoting the event, responded online yesterday, October 1st, stating, We have been silent, but we are prepping.
The liberal mob attempted to destroy Shellshock, but we will not allow it.
This is now about more than a concert.
This is a war of ideology.
Okay, so you're saying it.
You're saying Civil War time of ideology because of your metal fest that no one wants...
Your headliner was Evergreen Terrace, bro.
Your headliner was Kyle Rittenhouse.
Your headliner was Kyle Rittenhouse, yeah.
It was already a war, but by war, it's like you accidentally let off a grenade in barracks while your troops were sleeping.
Yeah, he fucked up.
He threw- you tried to- you tried to launch a mortar over your fucking wall and it just plinked off of- off of one of the poles and came right back onto you guys.
That's so fucking funny.
Oh, now it's a war. Now that we lost the war, now it's a war.
So funny. We believe in a united front among brothers and sisters who continue to fight the battles even after having served their country.
This includes not only our veterans, but also the first responders who stand alongside them, confronting the challenges and struggles that persist long after their service.
Together, we form a strong and resilient community dedicated to supporting each other through every battle.
These things kill me because I was at a golf course recently and one of the holes had a fundraiser where you can donate to help vets with PTSD. They'd rather raise money to help with PTSD than fight the reason they have to pay for PTSD. That shouldn't be a thing you should have to worry about, especially a vet. You think in America, Fight that thing.
Go put the energy towards making to where you don't have to raise money for it anymore.
It's like that social conservative fiscal liberal tweet.
Yeah. Like, oh, I hate PTSD, but I love what makes it.
Yep. I love the thing that creates it.
Each year, numerous major music festivals take place, but few prioritize mental health and fewer, and even fewer, parentheses, if any, specifically address PTSD. This is shameful, guys.
Why are our promoters and our bookers not honoring PTSD? And what's funny is I can think of several fests now that have made a point to acknowledge mental health.
And do things like that.
That is a common thing you'll see at a FESH. You'll see at a booth that does address things like mental health awareness and getting help for anything.
But they're like, that doesn't happen.
Because they're talking about specifically first responders.
All I see are festivals put on for top surgeries.
Festivals put on for homeless encampments.
The other day I saw Seattle clear a whole park of homeless people to throw a homeless benefit festival.
It was disgusting. It was gross.
I love this so much.
It's just like, what about homeless veterans?
It's like, what? We were talking about death metal?
Huh? So he made a video that we have to watch.
I sent it to you earlier, Tony, but he's now deleted this video for some reason.
I'm so glad that I was still able to screen record it somehow.
Like, it's great. Whatever glitches are in Instagram, I don't use it too often.
I DM'd this post to Tony and I was like, hey, you heard about this?
And because it seems like a threat.
It seems like a threat to all upright men in America.
It does. It does. It seems like he's addressing a threat, rather, and...
Then you couldn't see it.
And I was like, you were like, oh, it's deleted.
And I looked and I was like, I can still see it.
What the fuck? But then I clicked on it and it was playing and I was like, I better just get it.
I better get it now. And I'm so glad I did.
So, yeah, we're going to go ahead and play this.
This is him on his Instagram.
I'm trying to...
What's his fucking...
Suck a free Sunday.
But sundae is spelled like the delicious dessert, the ice cream dessert.
Wow, what a funny guy.
Of course, he's a backwards trucker hat.
Oversized Wayfair bearded bro guy wearing a fake band t-shirt.
This is definitely like...
You know, started by an investment firm.
Death and glory. You know, but it's got a skull with a punk, with a mohawk, a green mohawk on it.
Like, this is just some lifestyle fucking...
They probably sponsor his stupid podcast.
It's like you don't have, you have like a metal pot, you're throwing a metal fest, you don't have like a cool metal shirt from even like one of the shitty bands that you wanted to be on there.
And you said this is not real, this is not a ban or anything, this is just like a, this is not even like a Hot Topic shirt, this is like a Walmart kids section shirt.
Yeah, Hot Topic has real bands.
This is like, this is like Wolves Among Sheep trying to do a Capitalists, or not, Casualties, trying to do a Casualties knockoff or something.
It looks like an old navy shirt.
That's what it looks like. Anyway, let's listen.
What's up? It's Tyler here.
Owner and CEO. First of all, what's up?
It's Tyler here. Oh, of course it is.
Of course it's fucking Tyler. Get back on your fucking dirt bike, dude.
You're out of your realm.
I'm sorry. Like, dirt bikes are cool.
You could have been having fun right now.
I love dudes that have a small business that call themselves...
Imagine if we reintroduce ourselves.
What's up? My name's Tony, owner and CEO of Minion Death Cult.
That's exactly what he's doing right now.
Co-CEO. When I'm doing my threat, I can't yield like that when I'm challenging internet.
Oh no, what have you gotten us into?
What are we legally obligated to now?
Right? You've been comporting yourself as the CEO. Oh no.
The CEO? Like, CEO of what, bro?
Like, calm down. Of his podcast.
Of his podcast slash booking agency.
I'm the founder of Shellshot, and guess what?
I'm here to tell you, you're not punk.
You're not hardcore.
Oh, fuck! No!
I thought I was so punk and so hardcore.
Do you think this guy even, like, has ever listened to Jawbreaker?
No. No way.
Because he would have made a, you're not punk and I'm telling everyone joke.
Like, he's fucking clueless.
Fucking tourist. Get the fuck out of here, dude.
I don't even like Jawbreaker and I know that shit.
Fuck you. You people, the people that are...
Oh, the music in the background?
I think this is a Hatebreed cover band.
This is the number one rising Hatebreed cover band playing in the background, I believe.
No, I don't know who's playing.
It says Original Audio by Sucka Free Sunday, but it just...
I don't know. I've never heard this song before.
I'd be willing to bet it's a Hatebreed song.
Okay, so now he's giving a message to all the haters.
The people. The people that are trolling.
The people that are talking s***.
You guys are the mentally ill portion of society.
You guys are the ones that are manipulated.
So you guys complaining, you guys are the mentally ill, you're not punk, you're not what's neurotypical, like real punk rockers.
Yeah. What punk rock is known for stereotypically.
Also like, listen, you guys are coming after my fest for mental health awareness, you guys are mentally ill.
Like what, brother?
You guys are the ones that are sold tickets to.
Every single person.
So he says, you guys are manipulated.
You guys are the ones sold tickets to.
And then he keeps going.
I just wanted to emphasize that point.
Every single band and every single promoter and every single outlet that I've talked to have told me, not conservative, but the fans.
So he's saying every single promoter and outlet that he's talked to, the people who sell the tickets, they're all conservative.
They're all secretly based conservatives.
And they're just manipulating the sheep.
Who actually like the music and participate in the scene and go to shows.
You're all just sheep.
Isn't it your job to get people out to the shows?
We know you're in it for the money because you're telling us right now.
Oh, the people who are all trying to scam money off of you and get in between you and the bands, they're all conservative.
Did you know that? It's like, oh shit, no way.
And another reason to hate their guts.
I mean, are you talking about Ticketmaster?
Because sure. And also, have you not been paying attention to any of the other fest controversies over the past summer?
People are pulling out because they're Zionists.
People are listening and people are paying attention.
Your little thing is so little and stupid.
No one gives a fuck to try to...
You're not worth defending yourself, bro.
Right, and I don't want to say that I think that all promoters are, you know, Weasley, Parasitic, Middlemen.
Obviously, like, DIY booking is a huge part of the hardcore and metal scene, but if somebody has a podcast and, like, an agency for booking metal bands, and this is the kind of shit they're doing, I'm like...
You don't even like any of this shit, man.
You don't like the scene. You obviously despise who you're selling to, who you're booking in the first place.
Yeah, who are you doing this for?
I love it. I love it.
Hey, you know all those people trying to make money off of you and grift, like trying to monetize the scene?
They're actually all right-wing.
That's what I've been saying.
I was saying that my friends were like, hey, chill out.
That's mean. Yeah.
I've been out here and been like, listen, you're not really hardcore.
It's not about coming out to the shows.
It's actually about not going to the shows.
Because if you don't go to the shows and you're not supporting these conservatives, real hardcores don't go to shows.
Yeah. Um...
I don't pay more than $5 for a show.
I think it's wrong. That's why I haven't been to a punk or hardcore show in 15 years.
It's because, you know, I like real punks, you know, like Ian McKay and Fugazi and stuff.
I believe that shows should only be $5.
Yeah, all the real punks like Ian McKay and Fugazi.
Oh, wait, I'm just hearing that...
Because they actually raised their tickets to $15?
Wow. Yeah, even more of a reason to give up on this fake scene, I think.
I might go 12. I might go 12, but I'm not going 15.
Not only the server, but the fans. The lynch mob here to take down Shellshark will not win. It doesn't matter,
because guess what? You can't win.
It doesn't matter, because guess what?
I can pay a different band $250 to play.
Yeah. Maybe.
They have a GoFundMe, this concert.
It's a fucking GoFundMe.
So if you want to give money, but you don't even want to see the mediocre bands they have left, you can just give money.
If you have a cover band being your headliner, give up, dude.
You don't got to do this anymore.
I mean, it better be on a cruise or something, you know?
That's it. You can't kill Punk.
You can't f***ing kill Shellshock.
Wow. You can't f***ing kill Shellshock.
No, you can just watch it die slowly in hospice care.
They have how many logos underneath their thing?
Like, ten logos underneath their logo?
I'm assuming those are all like sponsors?
These are all just like rip-off nine-line apparel clothing companies.
So good. One of them has the firefighters logo, but I don't know if it's like an actual firefighters association that's sponsoring them, or if it's just another one of these working-class Brands that are, you know, all made in China that is at a significant price or not just China, but all made with like, you know, cheap labor at a significant market.
How are people going to know I'm blue collar unless my T-shirt tells them I'm blue collar?
Some of these Some of these are spot.
It's so funny for like evergreen terrorists to be like, listen, you know, we're dropping off the show because we don't want to associate with Kyle Rittenhouse.
Like, it seems like there's a weird culture war or like a glorification of violence or something that's happening because they brought on you know a vigilante killer to be part of a music festival like that seems seems like maybe they just made a mistake a really bad mistake uh because of their own sick ideologies um and legions of people descended in their comments to confirm that it was the right decision to drop off this festival yeah uh Just like mountains of people just screaming pedo at them, screaming pedophile at them, accusing them of being pedophiles for not wanting to play a fest with a vigilante murderer who was like a guest of honor or something.
Lawrence and the Machine said, did anyone who works for this event ever...
Let me read Evergreen Terrace's statement.
Evergreen Terrace has always supported and continues to support philanthropic events for veterans, PTSD awareness, child poverty, and many more, but we will not align with an event promoting murderers such as Kyle Rittenhouse, capitalizing off their pseudo-celebrity.
Unfortunately, we did not do our due diligence with this particular event.
we didn't realize we were dealing with a fucking moron.
Even after they offered to pull Kyle from the event, we discovered several associated
entities that we simply do not agree with.
As advocates for free speech, we are respectfully canceling the Shellshock Festival.
We will be personally contributing to a veterans charity and urge you to do the same.
You don't have to do that.
They're not going to give you any credit for that.
The promoters have been nothing less than understanding.
Quote, lines we draw in the sand depend on where we stand.
And then another fan reposted the band's statement from June, 2020.
Quote, some of you won't like what we have to say in this new material.
Some of you prefer vague references to quote relationships.
Some of you prefer your musical digestion to have no political additives.
Some of you prefer breakdowns over lyrical content.
We don't give a fuck. Listen to Trapped if that's your preference.
Not that they have breakdowns.
We have historically spoken out via lyrical content, but now more than ever, it's our obligation to speak out even more.
Black lives matter. LGBTQ lives matter.
Our collective freedom matters.
Fuck systemic racism.
Fuck inequality. Now is the time we write, not just from personal privileged experience, but as advocates of the unheard.
I hope we do you justice.
So sick. Like I wasn't listening to them in 2020 and I, you know, I'm not, I don't know if, you know, I would, but that's really fucking cool.
Yeah, that's much better than, you know, a lot of people did.
And it's funny, yeah, it's funny that, like, I feel bad for whoever got him in that situation.
You know, I feel bad that they did get that far in here.
But it's like, damn, just, like, maybe check out dude who's booking you's thing, you know?
Just a little bit. Just look at his face.
Just look at his face and know, I probably don't want to do anything this guy's doing.
I mean, they probably have, like, a tour manager who was talking to him, you know?
And they didn't... I guess realize that there's a reactionary chud side to metal concerts, which you should know that by now.
You've been playing hardcore for 20 years.
But I guess it's just something you don't want to have to think about unless you have to.
Because you're not going to like...
Get booked for a show and be like, well, what are your politics?
You know what I mean? Like, it's not until they start putting fucking, you know, Kyle Rittenhouse on the bill or George, you know, whatever, the other vigilante fucks, George Zimmerman on the bill that you're like, wait, what? Who am I talking to?
You seem like a fucking demon.
Why? This is part of your metal fest?
And you know, a lot of these comments were like...
This is...
Well, I like the cope in this one.
Nick Lawler says, quote, Someone I don't like is going to be there, so therefore I'm going to not show up and happily let down all my fans who bought a ticket because I'm so sensitive and precious.
First of all, I would say that this was a concert, I think, in Florida by a band from Florida.
I think Floridians, I don't think this is the last that Florida has seen of Evergreen Terrace.
Yeah, I think they're going to be fine.
And also, like you said, if they are fans of Evergreen Terrace, then they're going to be complete understanding of this.
And it's not that someone else is going to be there that they don't like.
It's that someone else is getting paid.
Like, that's the big thing. Because if someone is there, I don't think anyone would care, but they're getting paid.
And they're making money off of the idea of it.
Like, that's, yeah, that's worth saying no to.
And it's just the event is now going to be an expression of this guy's goodness.
This guy's, like, appeal somehow.
It's like, ugh. Like, you just, you just, like, uh...
I don't know what's...
You, like, put me off.
You put me off from the whole thing now.
Like, the vibes are going to be way off.
I'm not interested anymore, you know?
You're the ones who made it weirdly political.
Yeah. You know? And this is a funny cope.
Oh, I guess you can't have friends anymore.
Yep. I guess you're not allowed to hang out with your friends if they committed a vigilante killing or two.
Dudes can't have hobbies anymore, you know, like harboring bigots.
Lawrence and the Machines on Instagram said, did anyone who works for this event ever think at any point, hey, maybe bringing a very controversial figure isn't a good marketing strategy?
Instead of taking a second approach, you just double down for a cover band.
Misery Ops, who's like a goth kind of, like, maybe biker kind of...
Instagram model chick I think she's like also trying to sell working-class epic you know barbed wire working-class type shit you know that this generation's whatever famous stars and straps her or fallen or sullen or whatever shit she says when did self-defense become controversial sounds communist And then she also says, wish you were this concerned about the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt at J6. Crying laughing.
Emoji. I think if they had the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt at J6 doing like a speaking engagement and being booked and billed on the tour, they might have a similar reaction.
That's just fucking weird.
I wish you would save all this energy you have for killer cops and put it on the only cop I don't like.
Yeah, the one. The only one.
It's so funny. And I love the crying laughing emoji.
It's like, you know, you're literally crying about Ashley Babbitt.
You don't get to play the I'm aloof triggering you card.
You're like triggering yourself about Ashley Babbitt.
It's so fucking funny.
Wish you were this concerned about the cop who killed Ashley Babbitt.
And for me, I'm like watching this guy melt down.
And, you know, talking about how punk's not dead or whatever.
And that's really funny to me.
And then you also bring up Ashley Babbitt getting shot by Secret Service while trying to crawl headfirst through a window into Congress.
And that's all that now I'm like, well, this is too much.
I got to, you know, I got to comport myself.
I'm in public here. Yeah. I can't.
That's my line. It's just funny.
Oh, yeah? How about this other time we got owned?
How come you don't care about that?
How come you don't care about that?
It's like, well, I care about it in the sense that I... I remember it.
It was, you know...
I wouldn't say, like, I like that she got killed because she didn't have to do any of that.
You know, it's just something that happened.
It's just... Also, ask her that.
Since when did self-defense become controversial?
Sounds communist. If you think that Kyle Rittenhouse, what he did is self-defense, then what that cop did on J6 did is also self-defense.
Just a lot of stuff happened on that day, and sometimes you forget about little moments, and it's nice to be reminded of them.
Tyler Livingstone Drums says, LMAO, a quote, hardcore band against a man's right to defend himself when being attacked.
Sounds pretty authoritarian.
Yeah, you're authoritarian if you don't appreciate a guy traveling to a protest specifically to shoot people.
Yeah. Sorry, bro.
You're on the authoritarian side.
You guys usually don't have trouble kind of rolling in it, relishing it like a dog and shit.
Yeah. What side do you think Cal Rittenhouse was on?
The authoritarian side, the authority side, like literally.
Yeah, this is pretty funny.
Ogie's dad, 88, says, I could care less about Kyle Rittenhouse.
I think he means I couldn't care less here, folks.
I could care less about Kyle Rittenhouse, but that doesn't change facts and tangible evidence.
Clearly exonerating the guy from any crime.
It takes a few minutes to figure that out.
There is nothing worse than a band, quote, taking a stand without taking five minutes to do the research.
This is really lame.
And I would agree, like, as a fan, I'm a fan of music, and I'm a fan of heavy music, but I'm also a fan of facts and logic.
And the facts are that the court system said Kyle Rittenhouse was good boy.
Yeah. He said he was a good guy.
And for you to say that you don't like him anymore is just a fantasy.
You do like him.
Get your head straight.
Don't you realize it? Also, just because someone didn't go to jail for something doesn't mean I don't have to like him for it.
There are plenty of people who are not in jail for things I hate them for and I don't want anything to do with them for, you know?
What do you think the world is, brother?
Mac of the Big Sky says, Dude successfully defends his life.
Upload soyjackcry.exe!
Well, then you should have just done it.
That's, I think, the most masculine, red-pilled way to express that sentiment.
Upload soyjackcry.exe!
Because, like, using a meme is actually, like, pretty gay.
But, like, just referring to one and its exact thing, that's fine.
Yeah, speaking in stage directions.
Definitely based and not Reddit.
And it's about a file name too, man.
I'm sorry, dude. Sorry.
Yeah, this is the last one.
How on earth can someone rise to fame after killing some people?
This was on, I believe, the PRP's comment section.
Guitarfan70. This was an interesting comment to me.
Because they have to say this in order to not sound like weirdos for supporting a vigilante who was obviously very bloodthirsty, obviously wanted to go kill protesters.
I mean, they just released text messages with him and his friends about how he was literally fantasizing about going to shoot protesters.
Not the most level-headed, clear-cut case of the Second Amendment.
I would say defending yourself in your own home would probably be a better case.
But you guys love this kid so much because you love the actual proactive nature of what he did.
He went out hunting for somebody to shoot and he got away with it.
And it's kind of unseemly, I think, to admit you like that.
I mean, a lot of these guys are admitting this in public and have been, you know, since it happened.
But if you're trying to sound reasonable, if you're trying to reach a broader audience or whatever, you have to pretend things like it was the most clear cut example on why we have a Second Amendment.
Most people who are actual staunch advocates of the Second Amendment, they're not using this as a case study.
They're not using this as a clear-cut example.
That's not happening. You're not going to find it anywhere.
It'll be used in precedent later, I think.
Oh yeah, exactly. The only people who are using this fervently are people who just want to be vigilante freaks.
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We talked about that some more with some new material that NBC listeners have not heard.
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Anything else to add, Tony?
Yeah, I'll be joining the Woke Mob on election night, doing a little fun party that night with the likes of Jamie Peck, Jake Flores, Max El Talena, Anders Lee, Felicia G, Kevin Anderson.
We're all going to be getting together and just kind of having a good time, doing some fun little...
Some good jokes, a little bit of comedy, a little bit of solidarity in the wake of electoral politics.
It should be fun. Definitely, I'll be posting the flyer on my feed and stuff like that.
It should be a good time. Definitely pull up November 5th in LA at the FKA church.
The address of that would be on the flyer.
Sick. Yeah. Well, is there a link?
There will be a link.
There's not like a pre-buy tickets, but we are raising money for Gaza.
So we're looking for, you know, like donations to come on in.
So yeah, no need to like pre-buy tickets like that.
But yeah, come through. It should be fun.
It should be a good time. So I guess check out Tony's social media for the flyer.
