Fear& - Woke Is BACK Ft. Pokimane | Fear&

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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No! No, let me finish the sentence. Wait, you look! Oh, I've been literally speaking to my job. It was hard to go from his leg up on the teeth. You're going, action. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, good evening, good afternoon. Hello, how are you?

Good days. Buenos Tardes. Bienvenitos, El Fyrian podcast. Good I do. Bonjour. Oh. Not the French Chumsky. No, no.

I just love French. I love French. What about Turkish? Turkish? I love Turkish. I love Turkish. Because when I said something in Turkish, you immediately snapped in the way. Well, that's because your pronunciation was a little off.

Oh. Oh. Yeah, it's a little off. Little rough. He speaks Arabic. Arabic. Arabi. I'ma.

Shui. Shui. Shui. Shui. Shui, shu. Shui. Shui. Appreciate.

Poki and I, we don't want to We don't want to flex on you guys too much. We also think it's We think it's a little inconsiderate Considering more than the difference Is you're Lebanese You should be able to speak Arabic And maybe even a little bit of French

She actually does You don't have anything No, I was at Poki's family reunion And we were all speaking Arabic Wait My mom loves him She's from. She's from Morocco

She's from Morocco She's from Canada Both Oh, and we were born at the same time In both countries? That's crazy Yeah, well, is you a born in Morocco. You know what?

I actually posted an IG story about this recently where I'm like, if you meet someone in L.A., most of us are ex-plants, you know? Yeah, right. And they ask, they look at you and they're like, where are you from? Yeah. What does that mean? Like, ethnically, my citizenship, what part of L.A.?

I don't know what they're asking anymore. Yeah. And then, you know, sometimes you'll be like, oh, I'm from, I don't know, this part of L.A. I'm from Canada. And they're like, where are you really from? Oh, no. They lean and they go, what kind of Asian are you?

Oh, no. What kind of Asian are you? But I really, yeah, so I was born in Morocco. That's what they say to Austin, too. It's crazy. Well, a lot of people racially profile me. Yeah, yeah. No, all the time. He's constantly, people are constantly like, you must be Arab.

People come up to me and they said, we know you're white, but there's something going on here. We just assume you're white Chinese. Right, right, right. Well, I'm so sorry. We're so rude. Pokeyman is here, ladies, and everybody. Such a pleasure to have you on the podcast. I'm so happy to be back.

How are you? I'm good. How are you guys? We're all doing great. We're doing wonderful. I think we've been... I'm doing terrible. Why?

As for usual. That's the fucking ruined. Jesus. Bives in the toilet. What is your minor inconvenience? No, it's not a minor inconvenience. I was going to say the world is just terrible in general. Oh, fair enough.

Yeah. But let's try to brighten people's day. We're trying to forget about it here. That's why you do this podcast. I know. That's why we don't do politics on the on the fear-in podcast. Yeah, we don't do politics. way to make me look like an asshole.

I thought you're going to be like, my backer. Geopolitical situation is it untenable. No, I was, that's what I was thinking of. That's what I'm thinking of all the time. But I will say one good thing, one positive, which I think of us. Like, do you ever take a moment, like in the middle? Like, you're thinking of geopolitical situations. And you're just like, wow.

I wonder what Will's doing. The world, yeah, the world is collapsing. You know, people are being torn apart. How's Austin shows mental health? And how's WNF and how's... Yeah, when I'm covering the atrocities unfolding all around the world, I always go back and think to myself, what's my Portland, Oregon millionaire friend Austin doing?

Well, now, when you put it like that, you make me look like an asshole. I mean, I'm just, I wonder, I hope he's... I hope he's doing all right with his daily routine and he didn't like, I don't know, accidentally drive over a nail on the way to his local coffee shop. It has not a chain. That's so cute. I actually had a pothole.

whole pokey. I was Christmas shopping and I was ran over a pothole and I hit the hole and I was like well maybe I can maybe my car could take it and the sensor went off and I said fuck because your next 5M comp. So like slice of life of you. Yeah so

it completely destroyed my tire and it was Christmas Eve Eve at 10 o'clock. That's actually really sad. Yes and I had a car full of presents like fucking Santa Claus and I'm sitting there and I'm like what am I going to do? So I called my friend and he He rescued me. He came and pulled up and...

He rescued me. He changed my spare tire because I don't know how to do that. And then somebody pulled up next to me, same fucking shit. They hit the same pot roll. And then I got her phone number and I was like, hey, we should do a class action lawsuit. Because I'm dead serious. And she... He's white had Karening.

She never texted me. She faked it. She acted all excited. She thought I was fucking crazy, I think. Maybe that you were that you were heading. on her. Oh. Yeah.

Oh, you are very straight-coded. Oh, my God, Poki. The only evidence that she would have that you were gay is that you were having another man changed your tire for you, which had something is a straight man, even if he doesn't know what he's doing, he's going to gut his way through that. So, Poki, if we were out in public and you had blown your tire and we were, happened to, you know, pull up next to each other, and I was like, may I get your phone number so we can do a class action lawsuit?

Wait, do you hear how it sounds though? Do you hear it? Okay, okay, okay, okay. When you put it that way, when you put it that way, I'm not so sure, but it depends how the conversation went. That's true. Like, were you like, hey, girl, wasn't that the worst?

I was like, yeah, that was the worst. Like, it depends on the combo. Wait, you're fucking right. We should clock their shit in tea. Sorry, in court. We should clock their tea in court, yes. I didn't, I didn't play it up at all. I should have played it.

it up. Yeah. I mean, what am I, what sort of signal am I supposed to get? Sometimes. What am I supposed to be that? Hey, girl. No. No, that's not sure. No. They're going to be a. No. They're going to be requiring a bloodline. No. Oh my God. No. They're requesting it. I didn't mean that. There's a crazy man who, who's talking about attacking the city with some kind of class action laws. And then he asked me for fallacious. I need help. Officer, he gestured in my direction with a blowjob.

No. But what I was trying to tell her is I'm sucking the dick. You're not doing it. I'm sorry. Who's dick? I can't just... You're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, everywhere. Dicks everywhere. No, my mouth. My mouth.

Your dick! That's what I was trying to say. I was trying to tell her that I'm with you, but like we're not doing this together. You do it independently of yourself. I love that this is your version of like the Black Power Solidarity Fist is just going around Craig and Hollander

you don't get it I'm so sorry I'm so sorry I was just going to say that it is indeed like 10 19 a.m. Well I was going to say in spite of everything being horrible overall

the first story I want to talk about today Oh wow That's unusual isn't it? Yes not a big deal He looks young he's got It's not a big deal guys We've been filming the evenings We need to start filming in the morning.

Yeah, Song Gun is groove. It's better. It's better. Because like either, yeah. I went out last time. He's wearing tie-dye again. Oh my God. Yeah, Woke is back.

Wow. That's one of the stories that I do want to get to. Is that you're going to? Excited? Yeah, Woke is back. It's 2016. It's 2020. I'm wearing tie-dye.

I'm going to the public gyms and I'm filming myself. Oh, my God. Your story is about Woke's back? Yeah. Okay. I have a story that matches this. Husband stories. Go out of the fucker.

Go out of here, pokey. I, well, the first story that I wanted to is not just woke his back. The first story I want to get to is Kai Sinat. So, Kaysanat is, for those who don't know, if you've been living out of Iraq, a prolific streamer, very famous,

you know, voice of the Gen Z, all this good stuff. He has decided that he is no longer going to stream as much or at all. And instead he's going to focus on himself and focus on a journey of self-improvement. And in the process, he's like starting a fashion brand as well as one does in their self-improvement journey. But the thing that I actually like about this is he started reading books.

And he's filming himself reading books for 20 minutes a day. And here's the video. Let's just get started. Kaysenat kept having to look up what certain words meant during his reading journey to become a better speaker. and this person is basically clowning on him and I don't like that and I'm gonna get to it in a second but here you can play the video

go for it he's reading atomic hot habits spontinity Spondentity Spondent Spont Oftentimes when I don't know what a word it's pronounced

I want to I get to look at how it's pronounced and what it even means Spontaneity Spontaneity The condition of being spontaneous me, spontaneity.

Spontaneity. Spontaneity. So a lot of people were making fun of this. I think that's so cute. I think it's great. That's so awesome. Also, he's not chalant about it

because looking up a word is not chalant. Yes. Yes. There's so many words that I don't fucking know what they mean. I think there's something else that needs to be pointed out that I think is fascinated. In the last 10 years, the amount of readers who have consumed one book

one book has dropped 3% every year and now like do you mean one book period or one book in the entire year oh I see one book and now literally a reader someone who reads a book in a year is considered an endangered species in the world I haven't read someone protect me yeah wait are you a reader I love reading I was going to say the only thing about that clip that I don't like is I think we should give him a better reading list atomic habits is so okay You're queen. Yes. I think all the self-help...

I think all the self-help books like that are garbonzo beans. It's just not like... It's not good. But hey, look, I'm not going to knock anybody for reading anything. Like, I have friends that I try to get invested in reading. And I'll straight up tell them, like, to my lady friends, I'll be like, you should read smud. Like, just get right into it. Just read smut.

Yeah. Because that is a big driver. Like, women read a lot. Women read a lot. You never forget. where you were the first time you read the words throbbing member. And where were you,

there I was, the hotel of the... Women read a lot. No, no, no, no. If it's a girl, it's like, there I was, taking the train to my 9 a.m. shifts. He's surrounded by the... But I always notice there's such beautiful, flowery language

that female writers have for cock, right? They don't just call it cock. There's all these, like... Because it's too much if you're doing that. Hogg is not a good word to me. No, it's not interesting. I want to note that like, I feel like smut is a very large umbrella term that, to be honest, encompasses books that are like 80% fantasy romance.

Actually, maybe even like 90 and then 10% like a little raunchy. Yeah. But the ratio is really not that crazy. I'm saying, I'm saying, well, yeah, because I think men and women are wired a little differently in what soothes our appetite for for

arousal. Can I admit something really shameful? Please. The first smut I ever read was Atlas Shrugged. Atlas Shrugged is smuggish.

No, because I don't know the last time you read Atlas Shrugged is a Atlas Shrugged is famously like a libertarian Bible where it's like radical self-reliance, but the main character is a woman named Dagny.

And Dagny, like, out of nowhere has some kind of really hot sex with some very powerful men. Yeah. I just remember being like 20 years old being like, oh, shit. Like, I was into it. Ayn was getting her back blown out. She was loving it. Okay.

She was. By Francisco Dantonia. She was, she was right. And Ragnar Danajal. So, I ran wrote it. She's a very famous libertarian objectivist, I think. Like, she's the, she's, she wrote these fictional books that are seen as like very important works of literature for a lot of right. Go ahead.

So, Pocky, do you read Smut? Um, not really, but I've read the popular smut-ish books. How do people, you know, get off to it? No, no, it's like outer course. You're not just jerking off. It's, it's just a sexy feeling. No one is flicking the bean while reading a book. I mean, actually, just the other day I was on a flight.

And I, And I, not me. No. No, let me finish this sentence. Wait. Oh, yeah. Well, we're told.

I've been literally speaking to It was hard to go from his leg up on the table to you going, action. The other one of, anyway. So,

later continue. Basically, no, so mind you, you know, I'm in business class. I'm flying somewhere cool. And I see another cool.

lady in business class. She's a bit older. And so she's reading on a Kindle. And since she's a bit older, that font is up my guy. Oh, wow. I walk by, I take one glance at what she's reading. Okay. Oh, no.

What was she reading? Something very, very wrong. Yes. Yes. Bless her heart, though. You know, and she's not like doing anything crazy on the plane. You just read it. Going back to the Karsanat thing, though, like, I think a lot of people.

I think a lot of people were clowning on him because, like, they are, well, one, they fundamentally don't understand the process of learning, okay? You have to be curious, and that's a good thing. Yeah. And to be vulnerable like that is also a good thing. Some people are clowning on him saying is performative, but technically everything that we do is performative. We are performers.

And I would rather have someone with this much influence be performative in that direction than, I don't know, whatever the fuck like clavicular is doing, being, talking about smashing his face. Oh, just a little bones. Yeah, with goddamn hammers. So that's good. That's a good thing overall. And I hope that it'll influence other people.

Yeah, I have it smashed today. Yeah, I have not bone smash today. I actually think if people are clowning on him, it's just because they're in a completely different generation than he is. Because I, either that or... They're insecure. Yeah. I think they're insecure and insecure people love putting other people down for the same things

that they're worried about. So I think most of the people clowning on him are like, you didn't know that. You didn't know how to say words, stupid. And it's like, there are plenty of instances where that person probably also felt the same way. And now they want to signal to other people how much smarter they are. I also think people kind of take any chance that they can get to signify that they are smarter or better than an influencer or content creator that they deem unworthy of their success, their money, or whatever. Which, I mean, to be fair, that's just the internet.

But I do just want to say, I think so many people in his generation maybe don't know. the word spontaneity amongst many other words. And so it's not from his generation. It's totally fine to look words up, no matter the word. Well, like, there's a word he showed up with one day, and I was like, besmirched. I was like, what the fuck does that mean? You know what I mean? And I didn't know what it meant.

And everybody was pissed at me. They were like, oh, my God. Bismurched. Well, Austin, we weren't pissed at you. You just, you just insisted that no gay man would know the word. Yeah, you went civil rights with it for some reason. He looked at us in the eye and he went like that. And what about it?

Yeah, what about it? I don't think we know. Yeah, true. I don't think we know. True. Yeah. I don't think, I don't think, I don't. Pocky, would you believe me if I said he also followed up by calling every gay man he knows

and checking in on them? It was a 15 minute side man. That's kind of cute. Well, I'm gonna tell you, Poki, I apologize, but they are besmirching me. Love you so much, awesome, but then you're proving your point or you're The other reason why we clown around you is because, one, that's just what we do on this podcast. And two, you went to college. Like, you have a degree.

Well, I did. So? The smirch is an old tiny word. And it's not like, you went to college, you have a degree. And we know your ass wasn't out partying. You were a whole ass loser in college, so you should have been hitting the fucking books. Wow. Look, I mean, he's right.

Pocchio was a loser in college. I wasn't getting any policy. play. How, yeah, how are you hanging out at Applebee's by yourself? I studied engineering my girl, and I played League of Legends at the same time. We were from the same generation of loser. You weren't a loser. Well, well, I was more so

just like nerdy. Yeah. Like student council type. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Now we're fucking hip and cool. Everybody here at this table is very very, very, that's what you say hip? Yeah, we're a bunch of young whippersnappers. So, you're a break a hip, what, yeah. We like to Listen to hip-hop style music.

The people that are clowning on Kyson at for bettering himself and, yeah, bettering himself are the same people that like the same type of person that would make fun of somebody for going to the gym. You know what I mean? The same type of thing. It's the same type of person. You see somebody at the gym. It's like how embarrassing that they're not already super fit and at the gym. Exactly.

And it's always the people. That's the point of going on a little time. Exactly. And it's always the people that like have no place saying that. And nobody has any place. saying that. Tell him. Yeah.

Nobody, nobody, I don't care how good a shape you are. I'm getting a very righteous vibe from you today. I like it. Of course. I'm on one.

For me, it's just like, does your, actually I was just talking my friend the other day about this, the difference between um, vocab,

vernacular and like lexicon. But either way, I feel like depending, not just on the generation that you're in or like what age you are, but also what you do day to day, like your everyday lingo is extremely different.

Yes. There are certain words that I probably knew in high school when I was studying for whatever or in college for whatever exam that I don't know nowadays because maybe people around me don't use it. Yeah, SAT words.

Yeah. You said one. Lexicon, I don't know what the fuck that means. Okay, that's not an SAT. Well, the thing is, like, I think a lot of people go through life not knowing what the fuck words mean and people just be saying,

like they are just saying words. You can just be saying words like on this podcast. Like you said Lexicon, normally I wouldn't be vulnerable and I wouldn't say, I don't know what the fuck Lexicon means. Like a glossary.

I know Lexington, Kentucky. No, it has nothing to do with that. Lexicon. It's like a glossary. It's like a bunch of terms. I'm trying to figure it out. It's a bunch of words in terms that you use. Okay, got it.

No, you're absolutely real. I know that. Not bad. Not bad. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. A little, I feel like Lexicon is almost like the units. Hmm.

And then vocab is like a bunch of words. And then vernacular is. like everyday words that you use, is that correct? Yes. I also don't think that like how many... So it's just like small differences between words that people kind of use interchangeably. I don't think how many words you know

is a measure of intelligence because I just haven't come across that word before. Right. I agree. I think I use a lot of different words because my dad is so old. Yes, right. He is very old. Very old. But he's very sophisticatedly old.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As opposed to like different kinds of old? Yeah. Well, I mean, you worked with the Rockefeller. Yeah. I mean, he's like, he's specifying, though. It's like, he's not like any schlubby old guy. He's not just like old racist old.

Yeah, he knows all the words in the right. He's a pinky up kind of. Yes, he is. He's like a smoker's jacket old. Yeah. You know what I mean? Fucking cigar. Right.

Like that's, I want to grow up to be that old. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm serious. I mean, he made you. You definitely do need to read a lot more books if you want to grow up to be that old. I haven't read a book in 15 years. Oh no. All of my podcast members are sick. It's because they didn't use Zock Doc.

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Like that doesn't make you atypical. I know I'm going to be attacked by a bunch of readers. No, so here's the thing. They should not. My reflex to that as someone who loves to read is like, I want to find a book that he would really enjoy. Because I feel like people don't read just because they haven't found their niche. Yes.

Well, you're, you're, books are so captivating. But I feel like a lot of this stuff we tend to come across is like, boring. Yeah. There was another study that was conducted on reading that I find very funny. But the number of people who self-reported how many books they read was actually a lot higher than the, when followed up with the second question, named the, the books that you read. Right.

It would drop down by, I think, like, 50%, 30% to 15%. Batman, the long Halloween for me. Yeah. The funny thing is I thought about a book that I had read, and I was like, wow, this is such a good book. I want to open it up again and reread it because it's such an amazing book. 15 years ago. No, no. This was, I don't know when it was.

This is probably in college. And I was like, searching for Candlestick Park. What a fantastic novel. And I opened it up, and the text was this big. And I was like, oh, my God, this is a grade school book. Right. You're like, I remember this one.

Good night, moon, good night, spoon. Fuck. I had a... This is dense. I had something that I wanted to bring up. Yeah. And I was going to bring it up in the car to Hassan. Oh.

But since we're in the, I'm in the presence of people that speak multiple languages. Sure. Here we go. I'm just acknowledging that... Japanese. Yeah, he speaks.

Yes. He speaks Turkish. Chinese. You speak Chinese. Chinese. Yeah. Yeah. He speaks Chinese. Yeah. God forbid a white boy get a little bit. Poki, you speak Arabic, French and English. A little bit. Sometimes.

My question to, how many languages do you speak? I speak to. Oh. Maricio. To get, if you get, if you're in Spanish with my friend. With my friend. Thank you. Thank you. Why can't I speak with my friend? No, no. I say, why don't you? You say, why don't you?

speak with me. Anyway, because he's Asian. No, no, but he never engages me in speaking Spanish. How am I supposed to learn, Marge? You're really good. Thank you. Thank you. So, my...

De Nada. Oh, see? Nailed it. That means you're welcome to those that we're listening. For those of you who don't obla, ask you all. So, don't they? My question is, at a certain point, and I don't think anybody's ever crossed this gotten into this theory.

Oh, wow. At a certain point, does your second language become your first? Well, they talk about that you start dreaming in the other language when you're truly fluent. Yes. So, like, for example, Hassan talks often about how English is his second language. At a certain point, can you even claim that? I think there needs to be different terms for what language you use primarily versus, to me. For example, in French, the term is maternal, which almost signals like kindergarten instead of like first language.

it's literally like the language I learned in like kindergarten. Or like my mother language. Mother tongue. Yes, mother tongue. What I learned when I was really, really, really young. French has some great little. I think we kind of need to differentiate. Like for example, clearly English is Hassan's primary language now.

That's it. Primary, not first language. Right. Okay. See, we just need better words in English to describe things. A better lexicon. Yes, there we go. A better lexicon.

I spent the first 18 years of my life exclusively speaking Turkish while learning English as a second language. And then I came to the United States of America and I exclusively spoke English. And yes, when I go back to Turkey or back in the day when I used to go back to Turkey and I primarily spoke Turkish, I would notice that my, like there would be a cultural shift first. Like the first week you get like a little weird now. Well, you had the greatest motivator of all. You were trying to get laid. That's yes. in Turkish we have a saying

Dill Dill deemadeemada Let me guess Okay Dill dele deemedan Dill Dill deemad deemad I have no fucking Yeah take it crack Dill de laebedan

Fucking You gotta fucking speak to lay it down No it means Before a tongue touches another tongue You will not learn that other tongue Implice So you need a kiss first Then learn

This is just a very horny saying in terms. Anyway. Wait, wait, wait. Dile de'a-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-l-d-d-d-d-l-d-d-l-d-d-d-l-d-d-l-d-d-lis-a-lis-a-lis-a-old-a-lis-a-h. That's not, you're not even saying anyway. I'm behind on the triangle. Jesus Christ. Turt From here.

This is getting racist. Yeah. I do want to add to that, though, and say, I think Hassan says that English is his second language, because as someone who also, like, I first learned French and Arabic, I started learning English properly in, like, the fourth grade. And, like, then middle school and solely transitioned out of primarily having French classes to having English classes. I feel like what he's trying to signal is that your brain,

when it comes to understanding languages, functions a little bit differently. Like, for me, my A's are a bit different, because if you learn different, different languages. You know that the sentence structure is different, different languages kind of prioritize different things when it comes to how you're communicating. So that's why even as you learn a secondary language and even as it becomes your primary, you're still used to maybe forming sentences in a certain way or pronunciating vowels in a certain way. A couple things I can tell you right off the bat. Which is why I mess up on words a lot. A couple of things I can tell you right off the bad. The reason why I say that is because

there are always instances because I sound and look so American, I think people go, what's wrong with this guy? When I like do certain things, do certain quirky things with the way I communicate, like W's and V's, right?

If there's a lot of Ws and Vs in a sentence, I still have a really hard time. Like I have to actually lock in and say it correctly because there's no W sound in Turkish. There's no W in the Turkish. I'll It's not a W sound in Turkish. Also, English is not a phonetically consistent language at all.

And that pisses me off so much. Which is why it's like somewhat difficult to learn, even though it's like the common language. Everyone universally learns as their second language. It's actually phonetically inconsistent. So there's certain words that are still, even for someone who is... It took me so long to learn Indianapolis. Oh, that word pisses me off. Yeah, Indianapolis.

Should it not be Indianapolis? Well, I couldn't pronounce... Indiana Polis. That's why I say Arkansas is a joke. Someone told me, think of the word apple in the middle. I said, damn. Indian Apple is. Oh. Yeah, you got Kansas and then you got Arkansas.

How does that work? That part. I couldn't pronounce Massachusetts for the longest time. Or even simple ones like bomb and tone. One of my cousin or one of my uncle convinced me that Massachusetts was Massachusetts and I couldn't pronounce it any other ways. Yeah, like two shits. So I was like trying to, I was like out there and.

this is Christians But I was like I was out there in class In school talking about Massachusetts I'm okay Thank you Anyway I have another thing to speak on And I think all of you are gonna

Can weigh in on this I As everybody knows Everybody that knows me From the Fear Am podcast Knows that nobody stands up For workers harder than me That's what everyone's always saying

And I encountered a situation situation at a restaurant. Well, Marsh is, fuck, I have to pull stuff up, but, um,

yeah, I encountered a situation at a restaurant and it made me so fucking angry. I was so mad. Mars, pull that up for us. I've, well,

I'll, I'll signal you for it. Um, so I went to out with Christian. We went out to sushi. Right. And I, um,

you know, we pull up to the restaurant. Everything's great. food is fantastic. I get the bill and I see an extra 16% charge on top of everything. And I go, I always ask

when they put the charge on, we weren't a big party or anything. When they put the charge on, I don't mind paying it, no problem. But I always ask the server, do you guys get this? Because I want to make sure that this money is going to you.

This is gratuity. And they said, no. This is a no-tipping establishment. And I said, well, where does it go? And then they slipped me a note to explain where the 16% went. Marsha, have a photo. Note? They have it on the menu.

Who were you eating? Peculiar. No, no. They're feeding us back. So they don't ask you many questions. They just slip you a note. They just showed you the menu. What?

Austin. Austin, you made it seem like this was a... This man made it sound like they scratched something on a piece of paper mark. Like, help me. I'm a storyteller. He's making it sensational. Enjoy. So this is what they say.

This is not a gratuity or tip. We are a no tipping estuagement. The fee is revenue that is not segmented or designated in any way. It is taxed per state law and is used to fund all operations. I want you to pay attention to something. What? First of all, on my bill, which I have... have my bill there. Yeah, my bill is there. They said tax via state law. They're thinking,

oh, this is another sales tax, right? No, there's sales tax already in there. See that 1476? Yeah. The 16% fee is on top of that, right? Right. So I did a little investigating, right? I didn't ask the gentleman what his salary was because that would have been rude. But he said, well, we get paid a little bit more than usual because we don't have tips. And, I just got, I'm just like, am I missing something here? Why are they putting this, they're just putting a 16% fee, basically like, we need more money for the restaurant is basically what they're doing. I think for me, the missing piece would be knowing how well that waiter is paid.

If it's like significantly better. You missed a fundamental part of the story by not asking him this. No, and I can't believe you're defending the interest of capital here because, hear me out. Oh my God. I'm calling you out. I'm telling you. I'm saying, why didn't you ask the waiter out? How much against behavior?

It's rude to ask how much they're paid. That was not. I think, well, a little bit of a faux pop. You can ask it in a nice way. Like, oh, if you're comfortable. What is your wage? That's the heart of the story. Hear me out.

If you are a profit, I'm making an assumption here, but if you're a business for a profit, you have made an assumption that, or excuse me, you have made a calculation that that's 16% on top of everybody's bill, you are making out ahead than if you were to just pay people the normal wage and allow them to accept tips.

That business has made that calculation. Am I being presumptuous? I mean, it's a for-profit business. That's just how they operate. Can I ask a question? Yes. Is it a nice sushi restaurant? That's what I was...

Yeah. Nice. We're not saying this as a judgment to you. Yeah, it was nice. Did the staff seem as though they were happy? I mean, I couldn't, I didn't ask him. It's tough because on one hand, it could be the restaurant trying to ensure that their employees are paid well. If their wages are really good and are either on par or above what someone could generally make with tip.

Well, fuck. But. And they also want to remove the stress of having to perform for your wage. Yeah. Right? If it's built into the tip, there's no like. Also, I. You went to a more pro-labour establishment, I think, and you just got mad.

Maybe in a higher-end restaurant, they want to hire better workers, but then they need to offer better salaries. And in order to do so, they need like a minimum-ins-in? Well, why did they put in the note that we have this fee so we can pay our people higher wages? Yeah. I don't know if that's, like, too detailed or unprofessional. Okay, so you guys are just... Or maybe they would then be legally liable to pay all that money to... I just don't have enough information about the workplace conditions of this restaurant.

because you refuse to ask the waiter any So I walked in and I made a few assumptions because I was passionate about defending the rights of labor. And we appreciate that. Instead of asking them if this is a better situation or a worse one, you just chose to continue. You know what? I like his instinct that he didn't trust them.

I don't think. Don't trust anyone. You're tracking on a fee and I can't tip the waiter or waitress. We should tack on the fee and let me tip on top of it. Then there's no stress. You should tell nobody. Have you seen the other things? that's been going around where

they will have the 15, 20, 25% tip and the numbers won't actually match what that percentage is. I haven't. That dollar amount will be higher than the actual percentage. That sounds kind of illegal. Well, yeah, it was trending on the internet. You know why?

Lack of interest in doing math. I'll tell you why. This happens on delivery apps all the time. When you get Bogo, the app will calculate the tip based on the, if you were to pay the full amount. And they calculate that out. So I imagine the system performs very similarly. And by the way, to put a pin in that last one,

I want to let everybody know, I was, my intention was not, I wanted to tip. I was passionate about tipping. I wanted to give a tip to the service worker and I always make sure

and I really get frustrated when I feel like an establishment is taking money like adding, adding, patting my bill. I will plus one now. Yeah, patting my bill. I hate not being able to tip.

Yes. I hear you. There's certain countries where it's also like not very cultural. kosher to tip. Right. But one cool thing I found out in case anyone didn't know.

Sure. You can tip airline hostesses or like flight attendants. Oh yes, I didn't know this. I didn't know this until recently. Yeah. Basically, I lost my phone in the deep, deep, deep crevices of my. We've all been there. And I couldn't find it anywhere, but I knew I knew it was in there.

I'm cranking that. shoot up and down and left and right i cannot get to it ask a flight attendant hello they had to dismantle it i'm so sorry they got it like a ton ton from star wars no she was just real good at her job she like knew what to press knew where to reach found my phone i said thank you so much because i was so pressed about it and um and i said gosh i wish i could like tip you guys or something she goes actually you can oh and she came back like two minutes later with her venmo on a napkin and i I said, here's $200, my girl. I really did not want to replace my phone.

She was about it. She was like, about it. She's like, oh, actually, you can. I'm going to be honest. My mom is a flight attendant. I've never heard this. This is good to know. Yeah.

This is good information. Also, because they can be so freaking sweet and helpful. Entrepreneurial. The entrepreneurial spirit. No, but she said it in a way where I am assuming that it's not like against company policy. So if you guys are ever in a situation where you really like your flight attendant. I'm going to start tipping my. tipping my client.

Yeah. Why not? Well, it's, it is like, I, I, I, I can see it be a little awkward of a conversation sometimes, you know, if you're, no, if you're just like, you're fantastic. You're fantastic. I'm going to have a better time in Japan because you were here. Okay, perfect.

And you have to tip everybody. No. No. Okay. You're usually only helped by like one or people. That's right. You're right. You're right.

You're right. You're right. You're right. No. Wait, no. You're like marching around the plane. Like, Austin Show here, I tipped someone up in front. And I wanted to make sure that you back here in Stowage got tipped as well.

No, I mean, it is. Make sure you know I tipped someone in front. I don't have any money left because I gave it to the people up front. But I just want you to know I'm a good guy. Yes, Poked. I mean, I am. Did you guys see the drama about the influencer on the flight who was screaming? No.

Oh, my God, I did see this. Oh, wow. Pokey. What a fucking topic. Marsh, I think you should bring it up so they can see. What a fucking topic. Are you kidding me? Austin's about to tip Pokey. The way to Austin's heart is bringing up random plane-related stories.

He loves that. I cannot believe my story. Did you see recently there was a flight that landed in L.A. from New York where the back of the plane literally Oh yeah. A tail strike. Yeah, and a bunch of people got like their... Anyways, I know too much flight stuff.

You know, I love. That was an American Airlines, A321XLR coming from JFK. Look up on TikTok. What that? That was a rain man moment. Literally the matches hit the table and you went 48 matches. TikTok influencer panic attack flight. Yep.

And to preface the clip, basically this girl was showing like, oh, this is me on a flight as someone who has flight anxiety. Half of the, most of the video is her just like eating yummy food in business class. But then there are these clips of her screaming her literal head. Head off. No. Is that how she gets rid of her anxiety? I don't know.

That's how Austin gets rid of his anxiety. It'll be like the slightest tribulence and she's like screaming very loudly. And then everybody else on that flight also like came out with their stories. Because some other people I think were recording too and they were like she was causing such a ruckus. Everybody was so worried. I get a little nervous during tournament. You want to know what I do during turbulence? because sometimes it takes me.

No, no. Slurs. It's crazy. It's like slurs I've never heard before. So I was flying from Portland to L.A. like a couple days ago and we entered the, we kind of, we're flying south, and we hit the jet stream,

and the jet stream is usually going this way. And then so a huge gust of wind hit our plane. And the plane went, boom. And I went, I usually flail. Because I flail? And then I compose myself. Like, do you lean into the?

the motion, so in order not the damage your... Well, I just like... Yeah, I don't know. I gotta see this. Since the dawn of man, technological advancement has demarcated epochs in time. Before and after the cotton gin, the invention of the computer, and now we are facing a modern day revolution, the bidet. That's why I use Tushy in my home.

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I usually take medication for any. Why are you so much? Why are you so I don't know. I feel like they heated up nice and hot for me so I really appreciated that. I just didn't expect her to be Asian really. I thought she would be white. Oh. Wait, wait, wait, hold on.

Maybe I'm being, maybe I'm being racist here, but I feel like, I feel like loud abrasive influencer. When you say that, I immediately assume it's like a white lady. Yeah, I'll take that. Go to her profile. And it'll be the 20. 26 M1. God damn! That's the one that we were watching.

Okay, yeah. Wait, she fucking filmed herself having a back. Wait, why would you do this? For like a year? Because out of the all rotation of the oriental food choices. No, I want to see... Okay, okay. Yeah.

The best of coconut rice and then the tofu and then tempe 10 out of 10. I really love the food, but I couldn't finish it because I can't eat when you. I can't eat when the pain is like going left and right, left and right, you know. She's clapping for the food. So I used my meal early so I can watch the movie and relax, but I could not relax because you can see it's shaking. I'm scared. I'm holding them to the side and my pinkies up. That means I'm really scared. And then the captain announced that we're going to go through some turbulence so everyone buckle up and I was really shitting myself. Okay, I'm so sorry for the scream.

What? Who is that guy? who were on that plane? Because more to the turbulence itself. No. No. Fas! You can't. No.

Everyone that was there, their lives have changed. Okay? This is a transformational experience that took place. You can't just go back to sipping orange juice after. Like, nothing happened. Dude, I just imagine, like, if I had a child on that plane and they heard someone fucking belting, like, they would be so terrified. Wait, that was the story.

Everybody on the plane. said that she kept waking up this baby that then proceeded to yell so much. And then she started complaining about the baby. No. Yes. This is hearsay, though. I will say, this is hearsay. People are just making up shit.

I was on that flight. To be fair, though. Wait, so I need to know something. Was the guy someone that she knew? I actually don't. When I saw these clips, I actually didn't see the hand. So just randomly a guy out of no one. starts grabbing you.

Maybe that's the reason why she's screaming. There goes my hero. He's like, oh, don't. He's not in there! Yeah, don't worry, I got you, baby girl. This plane goes down. I'm gonna lay on top of you. Okay, but.

Oh, oh. This became a very large, you know, typical influencers moment. Right. And people commenting on it and pointing out how rude or inconvenient or inconsidered it is. Then she came out with a follow-up video where she said, hey, guys, I was in a sort of plain accident before where there were a lot of injuries.

And so I have plain trauma. And that's why I reacted this way. I think so. Did she specify what plane accident? Austin will find the accident. Actually, if you play the video, I believe she does. Oh, my God. We have Rain Man for this.

Well, a little too many people have seen my video. So let's talk about it. And don't worry. I want scream in this video. I'll do about that scream. I'm sorry to disappoint you guys, but it was real. And I am really sorry for all the other passengers from the same flight. Like if there was another anxious flyer on board,

my scream really made her journey so uncomfortable. I fully understand their pain, so that's the last thing I want to do on the plane. Just because it doesn't look like an anxiety that you know. Or maybe because you were never in a situation where you were afraid of flight. It doesn't mean you get to decide whether my anxiety was real or not. I'm not, I'm going to speculate. A lot of people think that they were in an accident that wasn't even that dangerous. Let's see if she's one of those people.

All right. Rain Man's on the case. Wait, can I just wait, keep, stay, stay in a minute, wait a minute. Plain man. I love that. But a lot of people feel like they were in a question. Plain Man. Plain Man.

Plain Man. Answer my question, Plain Man. Yes. I have, for those who you know, I have a brother who, I have a brother who builds. I have a brother who builds planes and rocket ships and things of that nature. Flies, too. And now he has a license.

and he has a pilot license and he flies. So here's the thing. One thing that he has told me in the past, and I feel like you know this as well, is that turbulence, albeit scary, is never actually a reason for a plane to crash. These things are built specifically to withstand turbulence. Yes or no.

Oh, my God, he's going in plane mode. Plan man, lock in. Answer the question. Well, here's a deal. The planes that you fly on, the commercial aircraft you fly on, are tested. Go look at some of these tests.

Not right now, but don't look at so, if you're in your free time, look at some of the test videos. These planes are meant to withstand forces that you will never experience in flight. And so a lot of people are like, oh, it may feel violent. You're actually never really in danger. Is there ever an accident that was called, like a fatal crash that was caused by turbulence? There has not since like the 50s. Yeah. And there was a, there was a, there was a, rather famous crash of a, I think it was a Boeing, may have been a Boeing 7-0.

It may have been like even a plane that wasn't even in the modern, well out of the modern era, but they flew next to actually Mount Fuji. And as everybody... Why actually Mount Fuji? Well, I don't know. Because it was famous. Because it may have been Mount Fuji or some very tall mountain. Maybe it was Everest.

I don't know what it was. But they went... Regardless, it was a big mountain. Austin, that's a very different... Could have been Mount Rushmore. Well, anyway, because what happens is, and I'm going to give you a very loose explanation, but like when air travels, the mountains disrupt the flow of the air.

So they don't, the air doesn't just like calm down. Like, so they, imagine your air and you're, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And then that air and then you're flying. Yeah. Boom, boom.

And then you ride the road a little bit. So anyway, the planes are meant to, to, to handle crazy, crazy forces. Even the most insane turbulent videos you see where like, oh, the cabin was shaking. The after a video where like the carts are in the aisle.

plates are broken. Those people were, the plane was not damaged in the slightest. Yeah. You are most in, they tell you to buckle up because the most danger.

Is the landing. Well, no, you could get the most dangerous part is you flying up and breaking your neck. So my reaction to this. I'm so sorry. Can I interject quickly? Yes, you may.

Okay. Thank you. Because I saw a video that really, really reassured all my nerves during turbulence, which explained, and please tell me if this is correct,

it explained that basically when you're feeling turbulence, you think that it's just like the plane going up and down in the sky whatever but actually because of the air pressure around the plane it's more like imagine the plane was like in jello yeah and it's just like tapping slightly right yeah but really there's like pressure kind of securing you from all sides and so now I just imagine that in turbulence I'm like actually I'm good I'm in jello right now you're actually not even dropping that much altitude typically like if you're in the cockpit I've you know flown the one-to-one simulators and when when you turn up

simulation to like max turbulence, you're getting fucking tossed around and you look at the altitude and it's just like 10, 20 feet, it's not that much. My mom was a flight attendant for 30 years and I was on a flight one time that dropped like 200 feet in one second because there was like a crazy down draft or whatever

and the captain came on and it was like that was the craziest thing. That was the craziest thing I've ever been on in a plane. And so once you experience like that level like the crazy like just won't falling out of the sky you're like oh this thing's bulletproofing No, even that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They hit your head. But I think my, like, people's issue with this and the immediate issue with this is like The performative nature of it all. Yeah. It's like filming yourself crying. Not just that, but she used it as the hook for the video. Yeah.

You know? Yeah. And I think, I think that if she doesn't understand that that's, if you, like, listen, we might all put her foot or mouth and she has genuine trauma from this, but I think that the filming it. I'm so curious if he's going to. Yeah, because, yeah, I mean, it could have been like a general aviation. Let's, let's see.

She's about to tell us. I can a person screaming on the plane. I can 100% guarantee that she's struggling for her life. For those who can't relate, I'll tell you how I got my fear. I was on this flight, which was extreme turbulence. Oh. I think it was more than a plane man. Wouldn't keep going.

100 injuries and one death. And let me tell you, when this happened, I was in a boss. through and I fracture my spine. In my head, I couldn't even register it as a turbulence. I think the plane was really going down. Oh my god. So this is a terrible to have a meltdown while filming. It took me two years, babe.

The turbulence accident and I just mentioned, the plane dipped down 54 meters. This is why I'm so paranoid with the sensation when the plane goes downward. Okay. And this is exactly what happened when I screamed. Here's a new. Was she holding his hand? Valid fear. Yeah.

But her flight that landed was never in danger. It looked violent. Remember how I described like the violence or whatever? Well, she was also in the bathroom. That's what I'm saying. So the most dangerous part is when you're not buckled in. Yeah. But I will say, I think it would be crazy to say that I wouldn't have a little trauma from something like that.

Yeah. Because that what she experienced is valid. Yeah, very valid. It's not going to, it's easy for me to sit here on the ground. I think people just don't. Yeah, yeah. I think feeling the way that she felt, even reacting that way could be valid. I think, though, when you film it and then put it online for whatever purposes. That's the reason. That's the reason why people were, like, clowning on her.

I think people just don't like when you film any sort of public disruptance. Yes. Because then it feels less legitimate. Also, obviously, people are saying, oh, I was on the flight, and flight attendants were checking on her, and she said she was just filming and it's all good. Yeah. So then people wonder if it's performative. But I think people don't want to assume that any sort of trauma is performing. Because she went from that to sipping on orange juice.

So that's like the reason why people are like, the fuck. Well, yeah. And also like one thing Hassan taught me was people don't like the disruption of the public order. No. So even if you make a scene and you're right. Yeah. People don't like that. Because I like, you know what I mean?

Have you guys heard about the Mamma Mia guy? No. Oh, we won't even get into that. say that for the Patreon. You want to talk about Woke is back. Yeah. No.

So take off all your clothes. Well, we can, I mean, it's just more so a general thing. This is the idea that I've been talking about. I have,

some might call it the gift of foresight, the gift of prophecy when it comes to cultural trend lines. I very famously talked about how anti-woke was popping off

during the line. during the Biden regime. And it obviously ended with Donald Trump winning the election on this cultural resentment. Obviously, there was a lot of other factors at play as well, specifically the economy. But because of Trump's inability to address any of the economic issues and really, really hamming up the anti-woke factor

and also Twitter being purchased by Elon Musk, I think there is a lot of cultural resentment now. for the toxicity that these people represent. Like, you know, people basically wearing it on their sleeve, what I like to call vice signaling, just trying to be as bad as possible in public. And I think that now the cultural forces are shifting. The pendulum is swinging back in the other direction.

And I give it a couple more months, but I think we're going to reach peak woke, woke 2.0. Well, I wouldn't give it a couple of more months. I'd give it to the Super Bowl. And that brings us to this week's... Bad Bunnings! No, listen. America me up.

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I've also noticed that you didn't invite me to go to the game and I'm available on that day. So I couldn't. I think we could all. Do you want to go to the rep? You know what? Yeah, you'll come with me. We're locking it in Sunday. So we're going to the Rams game.

but if you want to go to the Rams game or for whatever event, you got to use Seat Geek with Code Fear 10 for 10% off any tickets on Seatgeek. Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Have you seen America? Have you been a part of this segment before? Nope. Okay. There have been prophecies.

Last time I came, we talked about cheese. Was that an American segment? No. Okay. It may have been. There have been prophecies. It actually was. Throughout time.

The end of the asses. Tech calendar, the rapture. And now have the theory of Chicago sports. The year is 2016. The Cubs are in the World Series. The Cubs, who famously, because of the curse of the Bambino, are fated to never win a World Series again. They win the World Series the day before what?

Donald Trump becomes president. There are people that think that when the Cubs won that World Series, they broke our timeline. They removed us from the timeline that we were supposed to be in, and they placed us in a tangential timeline where everything is horrible. And is that ending soon? Listen, pokey. I'm so sorry.

I'm a really active listen. We're trying to get out of this time. You're right. And so everything has felt off. Everything's felt askew since the Cubs won the World Series. Until one of the worst football teams in the country have become viable this year. What football team, you ask? The Chicago Bears.

Going from last to first. Yes. If the Bears win the Bears. the Super Bowl, there are those that theorize. We will return to the intended timeline. Woke will return. The Trump presidency will come down in flames. Everything will return to equilibrium.

Homeostasis achieved. For those of you watching on Monday, the Bears have already played because the Bears play today at 3 p.m. They play against the L.A. Rams, a team that is scheduled to be a much better team and win. So our fates hang in the balance. Can the bears return us to our rightful timeline and end this nightmare that we've been living in since 2016?

And Matt Stafford's got a funky hand. Funky. He's got a, Matt Stafforda's the quarterback for the same thing. Quarterback. What do you mean funky? Like not deformative, he just injured. He doesn't have like a.

Got it. He doesn't have like a hand. Were you about to call it a strong hand? What's a strong hand? He doesn't know. the reverence. What's a strong end? It's a scary movie.

Don't worry about it. God damn it. If I would read more. No, that's just a movie. There's just a movie from our generation. Well, that's fantastic. Look, I'm rooting.

I can't root for the Bears because of the NFC North. Right. The Minnesota Vikings. So you would keep us in a horrible nightmare timeline because of your football rivalry. That's fine. Yeah, no. That's fine.

I guess it's okay. It's not like you're going to ever win a Super Bowl anyway. Your team's not even the playoffs. Yeah, fucking. Also, there's a rumor that you might have a new quarterback next year. Quickly, Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers. We won't talk about that, though.

Who else has got a topic? No, I was curious. Hassan, what are these signals of woke being back? I think for the last three or four years, there has been an environment of just, like, overt bullying of anyone that has even a minutia of, like, progressive opinion. and it's and I think people have just been forcibly pushed aside in public spaces partially because of Twitter after the Elon purchase

and that like that that corrosive cultural force has basically made its way to every other platform including Twitch including Reddit including YouTube and TikTok as well and because of that people have been feeling a little discouraged about saying how they feel when they see something that's going on, like an injustice that they want to speak out against. And we saw this with like Israel, Palestine, especially for like the last

in the last three years, I would say in the last, the first two years post-October 7, like there was an environment of panic and fear where if you had an opinion that was aligning with like Palestinians, you were not allowed to say it because, you know, you were dangerous, you were scary, you were a bad person, you're anti-Semite, you're terrorists, all the stuff. And I feel like through direct force and activism and advocacy, we were able to push through that. And even arrests and all this other stuff that took place. And Trump has obviously continued that tradition of punishing people for saying the

truth or speaking their minds. But there was this social stigma associated with like anything that came across as, whoa, people, a lot of people encounter. counter politics, I think, especially in the Western world, especially in America, from vibes. Like, there's peer pressure that plays a formative role in the way that people slot themselves into certain political movement. So this created an environment where, like, the largest voices that were speaking on politics were right wing. And any kind of person that spoke out against that was ritualistically humiliated and basically forced into submission,

forced into silence. And now I think that's shifting because more and more people can't hold it in. They find it to be gross, repulsive, toxic and now more and more people are just speaking out against what I consider to be this aberration that these right wing forces are representing

and we do have the numbers and people are finally realizing that they have the numbers and slowly but surely they feel more emboldened because they get courage from other people also coming out and speaking. I'm fucking annoyed because I keep tracking his approval rating and it's not fucking moving.

it's like at 38% I'm like fucking move cunt well he said his lowest point is it is it rude can I is that a word I can say can I say dark woke dark woke yeah

you know what I think are maybe some signs of better times ahead I like a little I'll say one fun thing and one less fun thing okay the less fun thing is not the Chicago um I am hopeful that we're headed

in a good direction because one the Epstein files, oh God, I don't want to talk about politics, sorry, but, you know, it's an agree. It's a bipartisan thing that we can all kind of agree on. And I think that might be shifting people's opinions. And two, a more fun signal, boy love is on the rise. Peter Robbery? No, no, no, no, here's the thing. Boy love is on the rise worldwide. Even in places. Boy on boy love. Yeah, I feel like, especially, entertainment and media. It's something that more people are embracing, which I think is beautiful. And to me,

signals hopefully more inclusive times up ahead. Here's another clear cut sign. Sorry to cut you off. I'm used to it. Yeah. Sorry to cut you off, but Bad Bunny Super Bowl. Yeah. So excited. Bad Bunny came out. Bad Bunny came out. We already know he's woke as hell. He has

been King woke for the longest freaking time. Right? And I think a lot of people Fuck it What am I fucking chop liver? Yes, you are. Hold on. That's crazy.

Boy love is on the right. Shut up and tell your story. You can't. And I'm the only girl here. You need us. Hassan, you need gays and women. That's right. We are the ones that are voting.

You said woke is back. So be woe. Yes, your constituency. Anyways, just keep talking. That's right. You're white. Bad Bunny. Men don't vote.

Bad Bunny in anticipation for a Super Bowl half talk. show performance, release this video, and I know this is going to piss conservatives off. Here, let's play it from the start because it's, it's very, it's beautiful, it's natural, as Austin would say, and it's very woke. That gave me shivers because it was so heartwarming, wholesome, inclusive, fun, lighthearted, nonetheless. Yes, and it's going to piss off all the worst people. And I'm sitting here like, yeah.

To be honest with you, I care about that. I want them to feel bad. I almost don't get it. I can't imagine someone looking at that and being upset. Yeah, exactly. They should. They should get so upset they kill themselves. Also, it's so well done.

From a production model. I just want everybody to realize we are better when we are diverse. Better together. On that note, ladies and gentlemen, Poki, thank you so much for coming on. We're going to be a Patreon. Let me fucking close it out. You don't know how to do it. Yes, I was doing it.

We're going to the Patreon. Patreon. Patreon.com slash fear and where we'll be having the paywalled episode. But poking before we go, where can people find you? What do you want to promote? Thank you so much for coming on. Thank you guys for having me. If you'd like to check me out, I have been a little more active on TikTok and IG recently.

So I'll be there. I recently posted a book review. I read Metabolical. It was really good. I also ask for book recommendations. on my IG story. I got you. I'm reading Mao,

the man who built China by Philip Schult. Oh my God, you're in a Chinese period of your life too. I like that. Searching for Candlestick Park is a fantastic read. It's a real page turner.

Good night, moon. Or a hot-night spoon. Hatchet. Fantastic book. And I'll take a book wreck from Will too. I feel like you must have some good ones. I've been reading a lot

of absolute Batman, which I don't know if is a book unless you pair them all together. No, that's valid. All right, we will see. you on the Patreon. And thank you very much for watching. You sound like David Koresh right now.

You sound like a cult leader. You're like, you've always wanted to explore your inner faith base. Haven't you? Tell them. Tell them right now. Tell them. Tell them the truth. World War II makes me so horny.

I don't know. I like both. It's camp in two different ways. No. That's all right.