#716 "Israelophobia is out of control. It is the most dangerous bigotry of our times."
TODAY: Alex wins a grievance for management stealing union work, and Tony wins an audible audio track. ALSO: We discuss the assassination of two Israeli diplomats, the outsize coverage their deaths receive from mainstream media vs. the tens of thousands dead in Gaza (including diplomats), and whether this is “like Nazi Germany.” Violence? In my imperial core?? It’s more likely than you think. FINALLY: Babylon Bee makes one of their scheduled anti-racist jokes and their fanbase loses it. “Is this some kind of a joke??” Get a bonus episode every week by signing up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for only $5/month Music: Nikitch - Arps Bruce Springsteen - American Skin (41 Shots) Panda Bear - Ferry Lady
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you I'm Alexander Edward.
And I'm Tony Boswell.
And we are completely audible.
Just wanted to get that before I even finish the intro.
Tony has a working everything now.
As far as we know, we are not responsible for any new problems that arise in this episode.
But as far as our rigorous troubleshooting has determined, Tony is completely normal now.
Is that right, Tony?
Yes, I think we are coming in loud and clear.
I do want to say that I'm pretty sure that somebody, some entity, some organized chaos, somebody poisoned my interface.
I think we were speaking too much truth to power.
They did something, you know, they threw something in my mainframe, and that's why I was so glitchy.
And just know it wasn't my fault.
It has nothing to do with my type of, like, I'm not incompetent.
They're just after me.
It's not the same thing.
Right, totally.
It sounds perfectly plausible.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons you don't want to buy a 10-year-old audio box interface is because the deep state has a kill switch inside each one of them that they could flip at a moment's notice.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, it was kind of when I realized, oh shit, that thing is really old.
No wonder it does not work anymore.
When I bought this new one, they offered me a warranty.
And they said, I got a two-year warranty.
I said, I got seven out of the last one.
I'm good.
You can go ahead and keep that warranty.
Smart.
No, you made the right choice.
Yeah, so anyway, welcome back.
Welcome back to the show, Tony.
We missed you.
Thanks for coming.
I miss you, too.
I miss you, too.
You know, from my end, I felt like I was in Interstellar, and I was trying to send you guys messages.
Totally.
You had to decode them.
Luckily, just like in Interstellar, love was able to transcend reality, time, and space to still allow us to do the podcast even without a functioning audio line on Tony's end.
Yeah, I just had to go to an alternative universe called Guitar Center.
Yeah, anyway, so, okay, no, but the world is ending.
Israeli phobia is responsible.
And we're documenting it.
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For sure, yeah.
There is a Tony's Mom clause, and there's also a management clause.
No managers.
A management clause, no.
None of my managers are allowed to listen to this show, which I think is a good segue into, I just wanted to, before we get into the heavier topics, announce a win I had this week.
I finally got paid for a grievance I filed two months ago, and you know what?
They said it wouldn't get paid.
They said it was petty.
They said, forget about it, Alex.
It's Chinatown.
You will not be able to fix any of these injustices.
And I said, we'll see.
Anytime somebody expresses Skepticism about filing a grievance.
It's like, that's not my job.
I'm not a lawyer.
I just file the grievance.
If it's not real, then okay, it's fair enough.
But how do I know?
I let the experts handle it.
It's just the way you've got to approach it is, even if it doesn't get approved or paid, the worst you can do is say no.
And so that's already happened.
That's already happened.
Worst case, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Worst case scenario is now your boss knows you're watching him.
And that's good.
That's always good.
That's just an inherent good thing for a good, strong culture at work.
I'm going to go ahead and say, I mean, I know I'm speaking at a turn here.
I'm not a teamster, but I think that maybe he can continue to do the podcast as long as you keep on winning grievances.
No, I'm attributing this to my local team.
I don't think O 'Brien had anything to do with me winning this grievance.
This was a grievance that I filed on a manager shuttling out next-day air packages to me and apparently a bunch of other drivers.
It's so funny.
I think I might have talked about this on the show because I posted about it in one of my workplace Facebook groups to encourage other people to...
Management's getting laid off, too.
And a lot of people were like, well, he was just doing what he had to do to get the job done.
And it's like, yeah, that's not fair to him either.
His job isn't package handler.
His job isn't delivery service provider.
That's my job.
Why do you want him to do my job, too?
You know, they're under these pressures from corporate to get these numbers to look a certain way no matter what.
And we as the union are the only people stopping them from fudging every number in existence just due to, like, corporate pressure, you know?
And so I will gladly, like, be that backstop.
I'll gladly take that where I'll just be like, this is the contract.
You got it.
You know, I don't hold it.
Personal at all.
If a manager was targeting me for personal reasons, then I would hold it personally.
But this is just business.
That's the push and pull of capital and labor and union and non-union.
And union and management.
Like that's just the relationship and you can make it And this is one of the ways you make it good.
You just hold your management team accountable, and you might make some money.
I don't know.
Your manager is never going to quit their job to save your job.
They're never going to put their job in jeopardy to save you from discipline or whatever.
Why would they?
That's not going to change.
They'll put a new manager in there who will just jeopardize your job again.
That's just the way the system is.
Of course, I'm going to be making sure that everybody's playing fair.
Shout out to Teamsters.
shout out to uh my local i i was able to i got i got it was funny because i didn't even know when you file this grievance I need to see your timesheet for this day.
And they get to look at how long you were doing the stuff that you had to document, which is funny.
I didn't even, you know, like they have to document.
I was shuttling packages, you know.
And it turns out a bunch of supervisors were shuttling packages and it turned like to multiple people.
So we had five people on this.
On this grievance, and we each won $100, so not too bad.
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
That was a longer turnaround than usual, right?
I don't know.
I haven't had to file a supervisor's working grievance in a minute, so I don't know.
I don't know what the average turnaround time is, really.
That's awesome, though.
Yeah, I'd love to hear it.
That rules.
Yeah.
It was, because, you know, like, I, you know, we're...
Just necessary stuff that we needed to do on the house.
And I wasn't able to buy concert tickets.
There were so many shows that were announced that I was just like I can't I can't but because of this I was able to get a couple tickets to Makaya McCraven the jazz drummer that I don't know.
I'm excited to see how he does those weird beats in person.
That's awesome.
That's perfect.
I'm happy that worked out.
You filed a grievance and literally saw an improvement in quality in life.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, let's move on to our first topic here.
Yeah, Israeli phobia.
It's the bigotry that's sweeping the nation, Tony.
And people who are sort of touting this or trying to will this sort of bigotry or like classification of bigotry into existence are pointing to the assassination of two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C. last week.
I'm sure.
Most people have heard about this.
It's been covered nonstop in the news that these two young people were killed.
And I'm just reading here from the New York Times on Facebook.
Sarah Milgram and Yaron Lashinsky, who were killed by a gunman outside Capitol Jewish Museum on Wednesday, met while working at the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Her father said Lashinsky had just bought an engagement ring and planned to propose in Jerusalem next week.
An official said, and we get a giant photo selfie of them smiling together at the camera with the headline, they were days from getting engaged.
Then they were killed in D.C. Yeah, so it almost, you know, like, it's almost like they're doing the, like, family, guy kills his whole family.
Here's a smiling picture of him on vacation.
Kind of a thing with this.
You know, I don't know.
There's an incredible amount of shock about this act happening.
And I just, I don't know.
All I have to say is it's called Blowback.
Yeah.
There's this podcast you should check out about it.
Yeah, it's a good one.
You know, violence in my imperial core.
It's more likely than you think.
I don't, I'm like, no amount of breathless reporting about two deaths in the midst of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of deaths in Gaza for the last two years is really going
to stop me or like reevaluate my support for Palestine or anything like, like because you already have these Zionist organizations doing propaganda off of this, like JewBelong.org posting like a, A meme calling you an assassin.
See, okay, they say, make no mistake.
If you screamed, quote, free Palestine, you helped pull the trigger.
I like a meme that is trying to not get you to be an assassin.
That's a nice change of pace.
I'll admit that.
Just to be fair, it's nice to see a meme that's like, you're already an assassin and that's bad.
That's different than the normal kind of memes I see.
The fact that it's coming from a pun org, it makes me feel like they're like, are they giving us valor?
Is that what they're doing with this?
You know, it's hard to take seriously.
Yeah.
It's what a stretch.
And like to not Yeah, I mean, all you're doing with this meme is reinforcing the idea that Palestinians existing is anti-Semitism to you.
Yes.
Which, we've known that about Zionists for a while now.
They just consider the very existence of Palestine to be anti-Semitic, or at least they're trying to convince us all that it is.
Yeah, I don't know.
No, I don't think these ambassadors to a ruthlessly violent war crime machine are small beings.
Also, of course, I don't think lone wolf assassinations of low-ranking diplomats are going to be effective or necessarily worth throwing your life away.
Organized resistance will always probably be more effective.
But I can understand that these people went out of their way to work explicitly for the geopolitical PR, public relations side of a government that's waging war on a captive population and conducting mass slaughter.
And in my mind, these people helped conduct it.
They've helped Israel evade responsibility and they've cheerleaded it in general.
These people had like a public presence.
They made public statements on behalf of Israel.
You know, there are all types of people involved in a war, and for these to be just a young, you know, almost engaged couple, like, think of how many stories that haven't been told of young people in Gaza being killed.
Very young people.
Yeah.
Older people whose lives will never be documented.
Nobody will ever know about the things that they've done or accomplished or people they've loved or their hopes and dreams.
They have helped Israel do this and I think it's shocking they weren't targeted sooner or they didn't experience Something like this sooner.
And I do think also we're going to be experiencing a lot more vigilante violence as the non-violent democratic methods of stopping Israel and stopping the genocide are either criminalized or just ignored by the people who are supposed to be democratically running these countries.
Like, Israel just last year bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria, killing civilians, killing diplomats and civilians.
And, of course, Israel is currently killing civilians by the tens of thousands in Gaza.
And so, if you condemn Hamas or if you condemn this attack, you have to condemn Israel 1,000 times.
So, just make sure you're doing both.
Yeah.
I mean, the whole thing about this is that what Israel is doing is so normalized that these two people who went around advocating for literal genocide were able to operate in a manner where they were just walking around freely and this could just happen.
They were able to do that with confidence and feel so good about it.
They were able to just live a pretty regular life.
They didn't have security or anything like that because it's so normal.
It's so not a big deal that they're advocating for because it's normal to just say that out loud.
And it's romanticized because they're destroying families as a family, and it's cute.
It's cute that they get to, on their honeymoon, they get to go take over an apartment complex.
The one that's still left standing, they're going to go kick people out of it and go move in there and raise a family there.
Yeah, there should be an Eli Roth movie.
About IDF couples like this.
Yeah.
The family that slays together stays together.
Like, this guy is a Christian, like, devout Christian who loves Israel so much he joined the IDF in their fucking holy war.
Like, I don't, you know, I don't know.
You can't make me care.
I don't like this.
Like, they're like, "No, you guys gotta do this war thing "so that we can bring on the end times." That's why they advocate for it, and the Jews are just fodder in that, and that's like incredible that they just, Yeah, well, I mean, it's just narcissism on both sides.
Yeah, absolutely.
On the side of Zionism and on the side of evangelical Christian.
A lot of the belief systems line up.
Yeah, but this is like, you know, the top comments on this New York Times article was like Craig who says, casualties of war, I guess.
shrugging emoji, shrugging emoji.
Like, yeah, if you guys want to convince us Then it's like, yeah, some of your guys are going to get hit too.
At the very least, that's a war.
Again, like I've said, you're already doing it.
You're already killing foreign diplomats.
Israel's already normalized this, like you said, Tony.
And then the New York Times is trying to, well, this is a totally different thing because it happened here to us.
Yeah.
To Americans or whatever.
And it's like, sorry, Americans are the ones who are doing this.
And I don't doubt that that's not a bug of this.
It's a feature.
The more that people take this shit into their own hands and commit acts of vigilante violence, which are going to be called what, Tony?
Terrorism.
Then we get Patriot Act 3.0.
You know, it's just...
It's an obvious...
Things that do happen by virtue of material pressures and people's humanity.
Yeah, Craig says, casualties of war, I guess.
And Fritz replies, you guess wrong.
And it's like, how do you dispute it?
How is it wrong?
They're in a war and people killed them.
That's just what happened.
Even if you think it's terrorism, that's still a casualty of war.
No, they did it wrong.
They killed the people wrong, Tony.
That's not the proper way to do it.
You have to do it with a drone from 10,000 miles away or whatever on a different country's budget.
Yeah, exactly.
And that's why I don't know why they did it here.
That's the only problem with it here is it's too many limitations.
We can't do the drones.
How long until you think there is a drone attack in the United States?
It's going to be from us.
Probably already have been, bro.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Yeah, Kelsey says, oh, the hierarchy we keep of human lives.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just like, imagine if the New York Times even tried to do this glowing piece on the tens of thousands of dead Palestinians.
It's just laughable.
I liked this a lot.
So, you know, conspiracy, like, of course, people have conspiracy theories about the way this shooting happened.
The shooter called the cops on himself, from what I read, waited for the police to arrive, you know, went without a fight or whatever.
Did you watch that interview with his neighbor?
No.
I'll get Audrey to put some of it in here.
That was some of the most stellar or stunning reporting and response to this incident that I had seen.
Oh, awesome.
We have two people dead in D.C. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza.
And how many children?
Starved to death last night.
In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai.
They invaded Gaza.
The United States president at the time, Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down.
And he told the French and the British, Get the heck out of the Suez Canal.
And he told Israel to get the heck out of Sinai and out of Gaza.
Now, where would we be today if we had a president that could have said that two years ago?
He was wearing like a Bernie hat and he just he spoke from written statements about the genocide in Gaza and about the violence that's being perpetrated against a captive population for the last two years.
And he didn't allow.
That was nice to see.
But, you know, some people are calling this a conspiracy theory because, like, well, you know, people were finally starting to turn on Israel.
You know, leaders in Europe are, like, they're Sturmer.
No, I'm just kidding.
Keir Sturmer.
Hey, Israel, that's not cool.
About something recently, probably when Israel was shooting at their diplomats.
Yeah.
you know, public sentiment in America is turned against Israel pretty strongly.
And so this idea that both it's meant to like distract against the anti-Israel sentiment that's growing, but also tie this particular shooter to the left because he was, I don't even really know the name of the party, but he was supposedly a member.
They're spreading this theory that he was a dues-paying member or whatever.
The PSL had to...
Then people got mad at them for saying that they don't support the action or whatever.
And so it's easy to see how like, God, this was all just designed to fracture the left and this was designed to get people sympathetic with Israel again or this was designed so that Trump can get anti-left Group terrorism bills passed in Congress or whatever.
And it's just like, well, I don't think we need any of that.
I don't think we need this to have happened for any of that to also happen.
People have been getting fired and sent to fucking Gitmo for protesting Israel already.
I don't necessarily buy the false flag explanation.
I think if there is a conspiracy theory, it's that Israel fired a bunch of warning shots at actual diplomats who were visiting the West Bank.
And they were, like, straying too far off the prescribed path, so the IDF fired a bunch of warning shots in the air to get them back on the path, and it, like, generated worldwide condemnation from, like, a dozen countries or so.
And then now, if you search Israel diplomats fired at, all you get is this assassination attempt in Google, you know?
Yeah, that would not make sense.
But this was the conspiracy theory I saw that I really liked from Charlotte, who says in the New York Times comment section, it seemed like a good distraction from that late night vote, doesn't it?
Oh, I don't know.
I didn't see a late night vote.
That sounds like it's for adults only.
Yeah, I was past my bedtime.
Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.
I go to bed at a reasonable time.
I think eight hours, sure, like...
Rising authoritarianism and white nationalism, that's all bad.
But you can't fight any of it without eight solid hours of sleep.
True, true.
But the thing is, you forget that democracy after dark is when it gets spicy, and you're missing out on that.
Is that when Nancy Mace showed her rack to Congress?
Did you see that?
No.
No.
Yeah, Nancy Mace, she was, like, being targeted with revenge porn, and so she did a mom's spaghetti and showed everybody the revenge porn, I think.
Power move.
But it was, like, blurred out.
I think it was Nancy Mace.
Yeah, Nancy Mace shows naked photos in house hearing and push to tighten sexual misconduct laws.
Yeah, there's been a recent push.
Against revenge porn and against, I guess, sexual misconduct that I'm sure the right is extremely happy about.
We will I think probably be covering that on a future episode but her It's so wild that we've had to come to that point.
Right.
It's just a female body.
It's not vulgar.
It's not inherently self-examined.
Right, Tony?
I mean, yeah.
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
That's why these are only streamed on Showtime.
These sessions.
Yeah.
Late night.
No, the big, beautiful bill was not referring to Nancy Mesa's body.
It's referring to the budget that Trump...
And it was a close vote, too.
I think a couple Democrats had to die in order to lose the vote in the House.
So that was a pretty good thing for Republicans.
Charlotte seems to think that the assassination of these Israeli ambassadors was to distract from them passing the bill that Trump's been bragging about how he wants to pass.
Yeah.
I think that's a pretty cool conspiracy theory.
Yeah.
I mean, was the theory that he didn't want people to know exactly when it happened?
Is that why he had some people killed?
Yeah, it was too close.
He was embarrassed that it was a squeaker.
So Mike Johnson had a young Israeli ambassador couple just whacked.
He's like, I cut this a little too close.
Trump's going to be mad.
Oh yeah, it was him trying to distract, you know, to Trump and Kushner and Ivanka.
You mean to tell me he was doing the thing he campaigned on and didn't want anyone to know?
It's so funny.
And it's also just like, even if they were trying to hide the vote, what are you going to do about it, Charlotte?
Yeah.
You're going to vote harder?
I'm going to vote harder next time.
I'm sure Democrats may eventually vote hard in the midterms or whatever.
Democrats are never going to reverse anything that Trump does ever again.
So just be prepared for that.
Buckle up.
There's going to be a lot of diplomats.
A lot of double mats you're going to have to go.
I just love like...
Just like, so we're past that.
Like, there's a total capture of our political and governmental system by the wealthy.
That's just, that's it, okay?
Yeah, that's where we're at.
You're going to have to be willing to do a lot cooler stuff than voting or spreading awareness online.
And even if you are going to vote hard, they still get to do the thing you don't like until you get to vote again.
Yeah, exactly.
That sucks.
JoJo Mendoza says about the assassination, this is like Germany 1934 once again.
Jesus!
And JoJo Mendoza's profile pic is of Mr. Bean's face on the Mona Lisa painting.
This is classic.
How does he talk?
He talks all weird like that, doesn't he?
What's funny, I don't think he does talk.
Doesn't he not talk?
Well, I guess I've seen him in other things even more than Mr. Bean.
So yeah, this is the guy who plays him.
We don't know if this is actually the character.
This is his character from Rat Race, I think.
On the Mona Lisa.
I think you're right.
I think you're right.
But you're right.
But it's the same.
This comment is this exact energy.
Like, you're stepping in it.
You're like, oh, now this is like the Holocaust.
Oh, now.
Oh, now this is like 1934 Germany because of this.
Like, you're stepping in it.
You're really late to the game.
You look really foolish.
This was kind of a common sentiment.
Jordan says it's one thing to hate a country's government, but it's a completely different thing to hate individuals, especially saying hateful things after their death.
I didn't see him say any hateful things.
I saw him say casualties of war, which they, in my mind, I agree with that.
That's what they sound like.
Your comments are anti-Semitic and it's very scary.
You're all just jumping on the bandwagon of what's, quote, cool to say right now.
It's all very similar to 1930s-40s Germany.
It's like, sure, you have mass industrialized death.
Of women and children and men and civilians and resistance fighters and all that.
Just fucking flattening entire neighborhoods, killing off entire families.
But then on the other hand, you have somebody saying, hey, war sucks.
Yeah.
So, on the other hand, you have people saying, hey, that's bad.
This is just like Nazi Germany.
It's so wild to be like, it's completely different to hate individuals, especially saying hateful things after their death.
And it's like, you know this person was like, no, those infants were terrorists.
Those infants were guilty.
Israel is on the record saying they have to kill babies because they'll grow up to be terrorists.
It's saying the exact same shit that the Nazis said to justify their mass slaughter of the Jews.
Yeah, but have you thought about how saying that's bad hurts their feelings, Tony?
I forgot about their feelings.
Yeah, like the spectator here who keeps trying to push this phrase, Israelophobia.
It's apparently a book.
I had to look it up, and it's apparently a book, but you can see when it gets deployed, the Israelophobia of college campuses.
Yada, yada, yada.
The spectator says, Israelophobia is out of control.
It is the most dangerous bigotry of our times.
Incredible.
When you said that word, I was like, at first I was like, what?
But this is the word they're using now, I guess.
They're trying to.
It's funny because anti-Zionism was not good enough or whatever.
So, like, Israelophobia, it really puts a period on it.
It's good.
I like it.
Listen, I'm not afraid of Israel.
I just think they're degenerate.
I just think they're breaking God's commandments, such as thou shalt not kill.
Look, I'm not Israelophobic or anything like that.
I just, you know, just don't do it around me.
*pain* *pain* *pain* *pain* *pain*
They're so good at hair, though, you know, and dancing.
They're so bad at dancing, I think.
Their music sucks.
Well, it's just art, you know?
They're a very artistic kind of person.
And art's not for everybody, you know?
And sometimes it can be a bit flamboyant or whatever.
Yeah, but the way they had, like, pop stars, big pop stars, like David Draymond, signed bombs that they dropped on civilian populations, you know?
That's, like, sure, it's provocative, and it's, like, pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable, but all good art does that.
Dude, my coworker just went and saw Disturbed, and he told me that he spent $120 on a long-sleeved Disturbed shirt.
Fuck yeah, dude.
Fuck yeah.
I can't wait to see it.
I need to see this shirt.
What do you think?
What is their aesthetic anymore?
Like, what do you think they're going for?
I don't know.
Do you think they still do, like, the Hot Topic, grinning, smiley face guy?
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be like an all-over print of like...
Yeah.
I think it's going to be an all-over print of that.
That's what I'm hoping it is.
I'm hoping the shirt's just disgusting.
I think it'll be disgusting either way, for sure.
For $120, I want to make people feel really uncomfortable with my Disturbed shirt.
It should have, like, on the back, it should list every USO show he's done.
Every time he's played Israel and every USO show he's done.
How many times have you played the sound of silence for crying troops?
Like, that should be on the back of the shirt.
Uh, yeah, I just, I can't get over, like, like, just, yes, like, the same day, basically, that this happened, Israel was firing at visiting, like, intentionally firing a state, a government, like, what a, what a, like, crazy militarized Judge Dredd society.
You know, like, you were straying off the approved path.
You know, they were there, like, to supposedly be able to see for their own eyes, like, the situation in the West Bank.
And even then, Israel almost shot all of them.
Yeah, it's like a Judge Dredd society, but Judge Dredd is vegan and non-binary and cries about you being Israelophobic as she slash they wipe out your entire family.
Brutal.
Yeah, absolutely.
But don't worry, though.
They'll get your cum for you.
I think your cum has to be, like, blessed first or something.
Oh, they'll bless your cum and then they'll take it for you.
Sick.
Thank you.
Bye.
Bye.
Yeah, okay, moving on.
So, I don't know.
You know, the most dangerous bigotry of our times, Israelophobia?
False.
the most dangerous bigotry of our times is that against christian nationalists uh shout out to shout out to sasha here for uh Sorry, that's another topic.
Sorry.
False alarm, Sasha.
You do not get any credit.
For this.
I saw this myself actually in my Facebook feed Babylon B, uh, Like an article?
What do you call it?
A piece, I guess?
A piece is like the generic.
Yeah.
Babylon Bee did a piece titled, Christian Nationalist Asks St. Peter to Direct Him to Whites Only Section of Heaven.
And the caption of this says, Which way to the eternal white utopia?
And it's got a guy in a flannel talking to St. Peter, I guess, and pointing at something off camera.
Is that where the all-white ethno heaven is?
It's really good.
It's really funny.
What do you like about this, Tony?
It's because making fun of white guys.
That's always funny to me.
I like that.
The flannel really is doing it for me.
This is him.
And I love that.
He doesn't look like an extremist.
He looks like a regular dude.
I think that's really funny.
They made him look handsome, too.
You can't see all of them, but he's got a good profile.
And St. Peter's looks pretty annoyed.
Looks pretty annoyed.
Like, it is saying, like...
Maybe this stuff doesn't matter.
I feel like they're at least saying, hey, this stuff won't matter in heaven.
And I really didn't see it coming from...
Yeah, let me read from the article here.
This was posted on May 22nd.
Article.
Peace is what I meant to say.
Pearly Gates, according to Heaven's There's like a pop-up that's blocking it.
According to heavenly sources, maybe?
That sounds about right.
According to heavenly sources, St. Peter had an unexpected run-in this week with a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist who asked the apostle to kindly direct him to the, quote, whites-only section of heaven.
Christian nationalist Robert Longstreet was killed Tuesday when his homemade bourbon distillery exploded, bringing him one step closer to all Caucasian heaven, or so he thought.
Quote, which way to the eternal white utopia?
Longstreet asked, prompting St. Peter to once again dig around behind his desk for the prepared script he reads to all Christian nationalists.
Okay, so I was like, I was kind of curious about this article because it's not white nationalist.
It's all Christian nationalists.
And so I was like, It's funny that this Christian publication or this Christian entertainment site is calling all Christian nationalists racist.
Like, I mean, yeah, sure, of course.
But just the idea that you're not even hedging it with more specific language like white nationalist Christians or something like that.
That you're just...
And, you know, I think it's like one of those...
I think it's one...
Remember when we were talking...
People were like, that guy can't be a white nationalist.
He's not white or whatever.
Yeah.
And it's like, well, White nationalism is an ideology.
You're trying to pretend like you're talking about a white person who is a nationalist.
And they just happened to be white.
And this dates back to, there was like, I think it was either Trump's reelection or Trump's first term.
He tried to reclaim nationalism.
And Trump said something like, what's wrong with being a nationalist?
You love the nation or whatever.
And after that point, whenever anybody said...
Well, first of all, nationalism, like we've said many times on the show, typically is bad, no matter who's doing it.
It tends to be a reactionary force for evil.
Second of all, that's not what anyone else means when they say white nationalists.
They do not mean a white person who is a nationalist.
They mean somebody espousing or trying to further the cause of white nationalism.
Yeah.
And so yeah, it's like you said, this like circumvents that.
This is saying like, because they're saying Christian nationalists, so they're saying nationalists doesn't inherently mean racist.
Nationalists now at this point, even according to this right-wing satirical post that does espouse right-wing views.
Right.
Yeah, it's amazing.
They're like covering their asses with this.
I'm pretty sure like every quarter they have to do one anti-Nazi post or else, you know, whatever, like Israel doesn't send them a check or something.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, so this is this is what they just mean nationalists who are Christian, which it's like.
It does not make sense.
And, you know, I'll read more.
They kind of get to that point here.
Peter, who had been checking names against the Book of Life for almost 2,000 years, said dealing with Christian nationalists never gets any easier.
Quote, some of them have a sudden pain of pang of guilt as they approach the pearly gates.
He said the facade of their worldly life fades away and they remember that God doesn't see how man sees.
He looks at the heart.
But others, like Robert Longstreet, believe there must be an exclusive part of heaven reserved only for whites, like the elite membership level of a day spa.
And I guess maybe you could point to this as a difference between the evangelical right wing and the nationalist Nazi right wing, the nationalist racist exclusionary right wing.
Even more exclusionary right-wing.
I'm sure there are a lot of Christians who are like, yeah, we like helping Christians escape countries and coming here and making this a more Christian nation.
It doesn't matter that they're Latin American.
It doesn't matter that they may be some other culture or some other, quote, race.
Because we like Christianity.
We like these reactionary values of Christianity that seek to control other aspects of our life, like reproduction or freedom of speech and that sort of thing.
And so we're doing a slightly different project than, I guess, the more overtly ethnostate kind of guys are.
Because a lot of those guys aren't even Christian.
You know, a lot of those guys are like fake pagans or whatever.
Well, it's even more simple than that.
A lot of these people, you know, they want to save everybody.
They think that everybody needs to be saved and everyone should be saved.
And some of them take the whole approach where certain people don't go to heaven.
But most of them take the approach where everyone goes in heaven and it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what you look like on earth.
But we're on earth now.
We're on Earth now, and they're not equal to me as a superior race here on Earth.
And that's unfair to them.
And that's unfortunate for them, but it's just the facts.
But when they get to heaven with me, we'll be cool even then.
And I won't feel this way.
But we're on Earth now, where I'm a sinner.
I'm a sinner!
A hard R sinner.
But when I get to heaven, I won't have that burden anymore.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Heaven's an ideal where nobody has to be racist.
That's the beautiful thing about heaven, is that we can be free of being racist to other people.
But you've got to live in reality, where sometimes you have to be racist.
You have to live in reality where sometimes you do have to let kids starve because it's better that I don't imagine a welfare queen gets a free meal.
In heaven, when I look in the mirror, I actually see my wife's black co-worker who I know she's sleeping with.
But you're allowed to see him?
That's what I see in the mirror.
That's who I get to be in heaven.
Oh, that's who you see in the mirror.
I get to be in heaven.
Wow.
You know, I think they have a surgery about that.
I watched this movie where you could actually do that.
Yeah.
I'll look into it.
Listen, in heaven there are no welfare queens, okay?
You don't have to worry about that stuff.
They all went to hell, okay?
Yeah.
Longstreet, so the Christian nationalist in this joke...
Oh, maybe he was a Mormon.
Maybe he wasn't a Christian nationalist.
He was just a Mormon.
With people from all nations, tribes, and tongues all living together in the type of harmony that he found detestable on Earth.
Quote, I thought heaven was supposed to be perfect, he scoffed.
But there are people here who aren't white Americans.
some of them might even be jews at publishing time robert longford uh robert longstreet found a nice spot reserved for him in an all-white suburb of hell Like, even just for the chance to not fuck this up.
Like, he still got to go to heaven and still was like, where's the all-white section?
But he still got to go there?
That's kind of wild.
Well, I think Peter has to look in the book first.
He's got to check.
We're working on AI.
AI will fix that.
Sure, 0.15% of people will wrongfully be sent to hell where they will never be able to escape just because that's not how it works down there, unfortunately.
But it will be more efficient and you will be more comfortable in the waiting period.
Well, people don't realize that the cloud, Is actually heaven.
And heaven is actually being filled with our data now.
That's what the cloud is.
Cool.
Yeah, so we're going to have to reassess the way we're doing heaven.
Cool.
I'm glad online will follow me to heaven.
Yeah.
That's going to make it so much better.
So much more entertaining.
You know, what was I supposed to do up there without it?
All your stuff will be waiting for you up there in the cloud of heaven.
Yeah, no, this is, you know, like, this is a direct, they're trying to own the racist right wing, because we'll get to it in, I think, the next episode, or maybe an episode after that, but there, you know, there's some infighting on the right wing about how racist can we be?
You know, how racist is it good to be with a lot of these guys saying, Hey, don't get too racist.
Don't get too racist.
You gotta throttle the racism.
And so, like, you know, an example of this fight that's going on, what's his name?
Nick Fuentes, that Twitch Nazi, whatever he streams on, you know, he tweeted out, like, Heil Hitler or something like that.
And Joel Berry of the Babylon Bee quote tweeted it and said, Heil Jesus.
Oh, hey, brother.
Something like that.
Am I right?
I think maybe Nick Fuentes said Team Hitler and Joel Berry said Team Jesus.
Maybe it was that way.
I like Heil Jesus.
Sorry, dude.
The hell Jesus shirts are already going off to the printer.
I hope I run into Kanye.
Hey, have you considered Kyle Jesus?
And then he'll just yell at me.
He's like, you didn't listen to my gospel album?
That's how I got here, brother.
Mein Kampf?
No.
Mein Christ.
Mein Christ.
And you could do it in the Minecraft logo.
Oh, shit.
But then you gotta make sure how you spell it, because you don't want people thinking that you're mining Christ.
Oh, I'm mining Christ for his love and wisdom.
I can say that.
Minecraft?
No, mine Christ.
Mine Christ.
For his values.
For insight into how to live your daily life.
I mean, he's goaded.
He was goaded with the sauce.
Yeah, that's true.
He did go sicko mode on the Pharisees.
Or maybe they did it on him.
I don't really remember.
Yeah.
I got some responses here, Tony.
You want to see some of the responses to people on the Babylon Bee for Babylon Bee making fun of Christian nationalists?
Yes.
Okay, so first, the Babylon Bee comment section itself is such a fun, cool comment section because every time I've gone there, it's been an 87-year-old woman commenting first as the top comment.
In this instance, it's Sue Peterson, who has 14.13 million impressions.
I'm guessing that's what that is.
Holy shit.
I'm hoping it's not posts.
I'm hoping Sue Peterson does not have 14.13 million posts.
Or maybe it's likes.
Maybe that's how many updates she has on the Babylon beat.
That would be a lot.
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
That's a lot of anything.
That's so true.
Sue Peterson first.
That's how you know you're in a good forum.
People still know how to have fun.
It's not all serious.
It's not all doom and gloom.
Sometimes it's just fun little internet games.
You play with your friends.
Like, who gets to comment first?
P. Von Rudin replies, Congratulations, Sue!
Mouse emoji.
Cat emoji.
Dog emoji.
Birthday, like celebration, blowing the...
Called the birthday noisemaker things?
Yeah, I think noisemaker's good.
Not kazoo.
It's not a kazoo.
It's the one that unrolls and rolls back up.
And then like a horn with confetti coming out of it.
Congrats, Sue!
You were first!
It's like you're part of a community.
It's really nice.
It's great.
So many times people, they would make fun of Sue.
They would try to dunk on her, call her lame for example.
But not here.
They're like, no, this is great.
Good job.
I came here to say this.
I came here to say first, but then I saw you did it, so congratulations.
Hey, who's commenting on this Babylon Bee piece in 2025?
Can I get a like?
You know?
Yeah, yeah.
Or like, I heard that when you go to heaven and Peter doesn't listen, It's because you secretly had AIDS the whole time.
The whole time.
And it's really sad.
And also, you're secretly gay.
And also, it's about heroin.
You're addicted to heroin, too.
And also, that woman you sexually assaulted, she was your mother.
And that's why Peter didn't let you to heaven.
What's the...
I was just trying to think of every YouTube comment I could think of.
Yeah, yeah.
But then it turned into Dance with the Devil.
So that was a separate thing.
It always becomes Dance with the Devil.
It's always Dance with the Devil.
That's why it's so important that every teen hears that song.
I'll go with Old Boy next time.
Ooh, yeah.
Uh, yeah.
I just, man, I love a place where you can go and just, you know, you have memes.
You have inside jokes.
Like, first, David Johnson comments, I'm like 90% sure this is a joke.
Well, it's not an actual, like, document of somebody going to, um, somebody going to heaven.
They didn't actually, like, watch Robert go to heaven.
Sorry, David.
Maybe you're thinking of the website, not the bee.
This is the bee.
This is the Babylon bee.
Sorry.
Don't get it twisted, brother.
Sorry you don't get joke.
I'm 90% sure this joke on this joke website is a joke.
Wayne responds.
Oh, sorry.
Go ahead.
Is he convinced they're doing some sort of really heady-ass, really self-aware satire thing?
Yeah.
Wayne H. responds to David Johnson, it has to be, quote, Christian nationalists are a leftist boogeyman.
There might be a few somewhere, but they are almost as rare as unicorns and government intelligence.
And it should be noted that David Johnson, the person Wayne H. is responding to, their avatar is literally a crusader knight about to kill you with his sword.
Swinging his sword at you to kill you to expunge you from his newly conquered lands as a Christian nationalist.
Like, the realest depiction of Christian nationalism in history.
It's amazing.
Amazing.
I've never even seen one of these guys and you're just like talking to a guy in a full suit of armor with a cross on his chest.
Amazing.
Not only that, I think Matt Walsh has this shit in his bio that he's a Christian nationalist.
Yeah.
Most of the right wing are Christian nationalists.
Like, the only people who aren't are the libertarians who are totally fine with going along with Christian nationalism anyway for the time being.
Also, sorry, your name is Wayne.
You're so full of shit.
You know a million of these guys.
Like, get the fuck out of here.
you're trying to you're you're protesting too much uh sue peterson They love to post GIFs in these replies, but you have to click the logo that says GIF in order to see the GIF.
So I had to click because I wanted to see what Sue was posting.
The first one is a GIF from SNL of Michael Che.
Is that this guy's name?
Yeah.
The weekend update guys.
Saying there's only one Jesus and he's white.
And this is like a joke on SNL about Trump being orange Jesus, I guess.
And then Sue Peterson posted another GIF of a woman dancing with the words white people superimposed over her.
So I don't know what's going on with Sue.
I think Sue might just be an AI bot.
I think she just automatically searches up words that are used in the article and deposits gifts that are relevant.
That's the only thing, because otherwise I don't know what she means by these.
Her avatar is that of a 70-year-old suburban white woman.
I think this is a robot, Tony.
Do you think Sue is?
Well, I think Sue has to be.
14.13 million impressions.
Yeah, that's insane.
I just, I don't know what to think, I guess.
I wonder how many firsts she's had, too.
You know, like, it's definitely some sort of, like, bot going on.
In her 70 years, she's probably had a lot of firsts.
I will say, I wouldn't doubt if that quote was just Michael Shea saying there's only one Jesus and he's white.
I feel like he would say that.
I feel like he would publicly endorse white Jesus.
No, that's not out of context.
Yeah, that's just how he feels.
That's just how he feels.
Yeah, that's just it.
Running Deer comments, Ask St. Peter for the retro section.
We were a predominantly white country back then, yet everyone seemed to get along.
And then they posted a video of people on a roller coaster.
I guess this is an example of people getting along because they're seated kind of closely together on a roller coaster.
You can't even see the race of the people on the roller coaster.
It's kind of far away.
But yeah, this is like an example of, oh, I guess we're getting a little spicy with it.
Like, obviously we didn't like this article because it targets...
Now we're getting into more territory where it's just, oh no, actually we do want that whites only heaven because it was good and better when things were whites only.
Imagine like experiencing the civil rights movement and the whole time thinking like, oh, this is gonna fuck up heaven.
Like, this is gonna have crazy impact in heaven.
It's also funny because, yeah, 1979 was after, you know, a big chunk of the civil rights movement happened.
You know, that's like post-civil rights.
Imagine it being 1979, and you're like, you have reassurance that redlining is going to make sure heaven's safe for you, though.
Like, don't worry.
Like, it only impacts, like, you're comparing the country to heaven.
It's beautiful.
I love it.
Mark C13 says, you used to be good, but now you're just a right-wing hating rag.
Yeah, so if you post anything that's anti-racist, you're automatically a right-wing hating rag.
And I think that's true.
I think it's true that the right-wing are racist, and if you say anything anti-racist, it means you hate them.
Yeah, you are being anti-right-wing.
Yeah, to say it out loud is awesome.
I love it.
Sick of all this racist-ophobia, Tony.
But yeah, here on Facebook to Facebook comments, Jamie Hayes says, because again, the caption is, Christian nationalist asked St. Peter to direct him to whites only section of heaven.
Jamie Hayes says, St. Peter, yes, it's called heaven.
Ooh.
Okay.
And then line break, edit.
For a group of people that follow a comedy page, there sure are a lot of people here who can't take a joke LMAO.
Oh, so this joke didn't go over well about only white people going to heaven.
It was just a joke about how I love the idea of whites only.
What don't you get, Tony?
It was a joke about how you're racist.
People don't like the fact that you're racist, not the fact that you told a joke of any kind.
It's just people don't like you.
I'm glad you said the racist joke because now you can't pretend to not be racist.
Amazing.
God, can't take a frickin' joke where I'd say all brown people are in hell.
It's just funny.
I'm just being funny.
This was something else.
Jim, Jake.
Oh my God.
Jim, Jake.
I don't care what color anyone is, as long as it's green and yellow.
Amen.
Hey, John Deere, brother.
I don't care what color anyone is, but I want everyone to behave in a civilized fashion, comma, space, space.
Not talk loudly on cell phones, comma, space, space.
tip reasonably and not go from zero to maniac at the slightest provocation.
So I was just like, These are all just memes, like racist memes that you got on, like, talk loudly on cell phones.
Like, unless you have, unless you live in, like, a black neighborhood, or if your, like, news feed is just of people complaining about other black, like, people complaining about black people.
How have you not seen people of all backgrounds talking loudly on cell phones?
Because that is across the racism epidemic.
I was going to say, actually, the racism is when you think he's being racist here, because he's clearly describing white women.
Yeah, I've seen plenty of whites do this, and it's bad.
It's bad when anyone does it.
Yeah, this is a Karen.
Also, yeah, tip reasonably.
Yeah, white people clamoring to virtue signal on their tips.
We all know white people on the right wing especially love to tip and love to tip generously.
Yeah, everyone knows that.
No, no, they wish tipping would be outlawed.
And not go from zero to maniac at the slightest provocation.
What would you call leaving this screed underneath a Babylon Bee face?
We haven't even gotten to the end.
This is just the first sentence of it.
I would call this at least slightly maniacal.
Going into your fucking, what is it, siege?
Like writing siege in the comments of Babylon Bee here.
Amazing.
I'd also like to go to the store in the hereafter and not have get the store help to open the locked up merchandise just to purchase deodorant and other sundries.
Yeah, how am I supposed to buy things in heaven, Tony, if all the black angels keep robbing the place?
Can we just go back to having security follow all the black angels so I can get my deodorant freely?
And I know both of our robes look baggy.
I swear theirs are baggier.
I swear they're baggier.
They're concealing merchandise.
It sucks so badly that the whole thing is so effective that they see the locked up deodorant and they scream to the heavens, black people!
Instead of capitalism.
That's how good things are working.
It's amazing.
But I think he's right.
I think what we have now here isn't capitalism, Tony.
It's crony capitalism, and true capitalism only exists in heaven.
In heaven.
Amen.
Amen.
I can't wait to go to heaven and purchase products without a goddang plastic wall in front of me, without them locking it up.
Jeez, that would be heaven.
Do you need deodorant in heaven?
Aim higher.
Aim higher, Americans.
Imagining heaven is a store where nothing is locked up in cages.
I still have to pay for it.
I still have to buy it.
Sell my labor to survive.
But, you know, wow.
At least I don't have to press a button for a clerk to come over.
Yeah, you still have to wear deodorant in heaven.
And the aluminum stuff still causes cancer in heaven.
It sucks.
So winning.
The natural stuff will still dry you out, make you itchy, not work as well.
Yeah, you're sitting here complaining about having to buy deodorant or having stinky, smelly armpits in heaven or getting hungry while you're still in heaven or whatever.
But have you considered that angel over there is wearing his halo sideways?
Yep, that'd be an atrocity.
Do you not see a connection between these two things?
I saw two young angels that were wearing their robes backwards.
Like Crisscross.
I don't know if I just realized it.
Not everyone might know who Crisscross is.
Yeah, they were wearing them backwards like Taz and Bugs Bunny on that t-shirt.
There you go.
Maybe that's a more updated reference.
Where they are...
Yeah.
Alright, his comment goes on.
Yeah, he's not even done.
Also really don't want experience seeing one of the most beautiful edifices ever constructed in the history of the world, actually built by enslaved persons.
What do you think he's talking about, Tony?
Well, you've seen the rest of this comment.
I was like, is he talking about a Confederate statue?
What could he possibly be talking about as some white grievance or whatever?
He's talking about, what is it, the Louisiana slave house that was just, as he says, burned to the ground.
And that burning celebrated by those incapable of keeping a hot battery in a smoke alarm, which is another racist meme.
It's all just, like, internet grievances.
Like, he fucking, this is his profile picture.
You live on a farm.
You probably don't live within, like, two acres of anybody else, man.
What are you fucking complaining about?
Log off, bitch.
That's a crispy John Deere, too.
That paint looks good.
You're doing okay.
You're doing okay.
It sucks so bad.
These people are so despicable.
He says it was built by enslaved people.
Yeah.
And it's still like...
It's their work.
It's incredible.
It would be like destroying one of Beethoven's symphonies.
It's incredible.
Yeah, that plantation had to go.
Maybe if you guys would stop celebrating birthdays there and proposing there and shit, we could have kept it around.
But you guys had to turn it into some weird white culture thing, and that's not appropriate.
I'm sorry.
Remember when that interracial couple got married at one of those, and their whole thing was like, I'm a black guy who doesn't care that my white wife sucks?
And they got married at one of those, and they had, like, cotton bouquets.
That con, but didn't they have him like in chains so bad?
I think it wasn't like...
Shit people do for likes, man.
It's rough.
No, yeah, I mean, these people, like, they don't want to go to heaven.
They don't want to go to heaven.
They want...
And they've created, like I said, I think on the last episode, with these racist memes and this social media fucking slurry that he's turned his brain into, they've created hell on Earth and they love it.
Like, this is their hell that they're living in, and they wouldn't have it any other way.
You don't get to hate in heaven.
Like, you don't get to have hate in heaven.
It's just not a thing you're able to do because there's no reason for it.
And, like, that's what you get to live for, you know?
Because people kind of view, like, having this hate in their heart as, like, it's the same as people who are worried about survival in their minds.
Like, I have to hate.
If I don't hate, I'm not watching out for myself.
And I won't be able to do that in heaven.
And I'll have no motivation anymore.
I'll get tired of all the free ice cream.
I need hate.
And a lot of it is about, like, yeah, reaffirming, like, your...
But it also just, it like, it feels good, I think, to have an enemy, you know, and you, that enemy can't be capital.
That enemy can't be an actual ruling class because that would totally change your identity as a person if you believed that, if you believe something different.
So it's like reaffirming.
It's affirming that you, You have the right target.
You have the right scapegoat.
Last comment here.
I'm talking about the whites-only section of heaven.
Aris Contos said that would be the section where they play Springsteen songs.
Is Aris Contos not American?
I don't know.
Hey, where's your green card, buddy?
Tony asks.
I love this wholesome stereotype of whites.
Because he's not wrong.
White people love Springsteen.
But I don't think racist people love Springsteen.
What he's talking about is the feud that we just covered on this show where Trump called Bruce Springsteen a dried up prune because Bruce Springsteen made some comments about This being like an authoritarian takeover, administration.
And so this is Aris Contos's way of owning the liberal Bruce Springsteen by saying, well, he's such a white, old...
Bruce Springsteen is a boomer.
Karen, you're not relevant anymore.
That's essentially what this guy is trying to do.
He's trying to own Bruce Springsteen by saying he's like lily white or whatever.
Yeah, this is how I feel, too.
You know who has an actual diverse fan base?
Kid Rock.
Amen.
Amen.
Yeah, you know, that's Detroit for you, baby.
He represents all people.
He ran the Detroit scene, you know?
You don't think he has, like, a huge urban fan base?
Kid Rock is gangsta.
He used to be an actual DJ breakdancer.
So, therefore, he is authentic in both cultures.
He should be a breakdancer now.
He's a real racist, so he's done both.
Yeah, I think he set that whole thing up.
Like, the whole Detroit house music scene and DJ stuff.
That was all, yeah.
I'm pretty sure that was him.
Yeah.
I think people always talk about how there's no Freddie Knuckles without...
That's just a fact.
Everyone knows that.
Can you edit out where Tony corrected himself and just leave him the wrong name?
Audrey, please?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, I love...
Just like, yeah, Springsteen is like, sure, it's like stereotypically white dad music or whatever, but also Springsteen not famous for having a multiracial band.
Clarence Clemens isn't half the cover to Born to Run.
I saw Springsteen right after Clarence Clemens died.
I think it was his nephew that was playing saxophone on that tour.
I don't remember what song it was.
Maybe the E Street Shuffle or maybe it was 10th Avenue Freak Out.
It was probably a song with a street name in the title.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah.
I nailed it down.
Where they did like a five minute break in the middle of the song to honor Clarence Clemens.
And like it was like a.
Like a crazy ring-out noise break thing.
And it was just a montage of Clarence Clemens photos and videos on the big screen and his, I think, nephew wailing on saxophone.
And it was fucking beautiful.
That's awesome.
I don't know.
We didn't really go into it that much when we talked about Bruce Springsteen, but Bruce Springsteen rules.
Like, yeah, it's corny that he has a podcast with Obama.
But he has a podcast with Obama, so therefore, again, whites only?
Like, what are you talking about?
Hey, people forget this.
Obama was actually half white.
It's true.
It's true.
That's the half he has the podcast with.
I don't know if you were there, Tony.
When I was visiting my mom, we were in the backyard with my stepdad and my stepdad's friends.
A multi-racial group of people who were just singing Bruce Springsteen.
They put on the song 41 Shots by Bruce Springsteen.
Police Brutality Anthem.
And I don't think I had ever even heard that.
I like Bruce Springsteen.
I hadn't even heard that song before.
And they were like almost crying.
These are like 55, 60-year-old union guys.
Putting on Bruce Springsteen, a song about police brutality, about them shooting a kid 41 fucking times while he was reaching for his wallet.
And I think one of them said like this is the best protest song ever written Like this it's just it's funny how
You know, I think leftists are guilty of this too a little bit But I think it's funny how pessimistic The right wing is about humanity And how like low of an opinion These people have of humanity and of themselves
That anybody and everybody is ready to resort to racism, is ready to throw all of their values out the window because they got sucked down some reactionary wormhole, or because they got shown enough propaganda or whatever.
Like, no.
If they try to do the race war, there will be 60-year-old libs marching with guns to Bruce Springsteen.
Yeah, absolutely.
But yeah, great song.
Awesome.
No, that's just funny.
These people are so stupid.
I love that.
I love that.
The most dangerous bigotry of our times isn't Israelophobia.
It's bigotry against actually good dad rockers like Bruce Springsteen and Roger Waters and Brian Eno.
I apologize.
I've been kind of harsh at Bruce Springsteen.
I've never had distaste for him, but I've never given him the room.
That he deserves.
I really only listen to him around Christmas time.
Okay, well that could be your problem.
Sure, if you're only hearing Santa Claus is coming to town every year.
I mean, that's fucking heat.
That's top five Christmas songs of all time.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I do got to give them a little more room.
I guess this might be the song that makes me a real...
You're all a union worker.
I don't know he's the boss and then when you go see him Maybe.
When you go see him, you don't clap.
You say, Bruce, like you're booing.
That's my favorite thing.
I love that.
What happens in sports and anywhere, it's the best.
It happens with Mookie Betts.
It's like, I love it when an athlete's name sounds like booing, and it's the best.
It's the coolest thing ever.
Just lean into it, yeah.
Yeah, it rules.
That guy's a maniac, yeah.
I saw him when he was like 65 or 70 years old, and he played a three-hour set.
It was nuts.
That's awesome.
Oh, Brian Eno, though.
I wanted to say before we get out of here.
Yeah, Brian Eno.
Did you see that thing?
Yeah!
He wrote to Microsoft saying stop working with Israel.
And like and wanted them to or like threatened to withdraw his allowing them to use his sound as the Windows logo because I forgot that he's the one who developed the Windows logo back in whatever 90s or 80s.
The sound, sorry, not the logo, but the startup sound.
That was a Brian Eno joint.
Yeah, shout out to Brian Eno.
He has an album.
I think he might have a couple with David Byrne that are very good.
You should check out.
Brian Eno rules.
There's a lot of good stuff happening there.
That's awesome.
Yeah, I was stoked to see that.
Yeah, because imagine making something that becomes synonymous with something, and then that becomes synonymous with something evil.
Yeah, it becomes synonymous with autonomous death from the sky.
Yeah, exactly.
That would suck.
So yeah, shout out to Brian Eno.
Love to see it.
Yeah, again, Judge Dredd with somebody in an Israeli furry suit or the T-1000 Terminator making the Windows startup logo as it liquidates children.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's it for the episode.
Hey, Tony, what's going on with merchandise?
Where are we at on that?
Oh, merchandise is looking good.
I got it all packed.
It's all packed.
I'm taking a couple Adderalls from my girlfriend, and shipping labels are going to happen in the next couple days, and everything's going out.
There were so many more than I thought.
And thanks, you guys.
It's awesome.
But yeah, so everything's packed.
Just need to do the shipping labels and get them sent out.
Looking good.
And if they have any more questions about that, now they certainly should not contact our email addresses or socials.
They should probably contact you personally, Tony.
Where should they reach out at?
Sure.
I mean, you can shoot me a DM anywhere if you need to.
But give me like a week before you say anything.
Another week, yes.
Okay.
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