Red Scare - Stay Virgilant
Episode Date: June 12, 2021The ladies discuss Lorde's new single/video, Hunter Biden dropping the n-word, Macron getting slapped, m...
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We're back.
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How's it going?
Good.
The baby started crying.
The baby's crying because he saw the new Lord
I'm sorry for sending that over. Yeah, cuz I know it ruined his whole day probably
And he probably had such high hopes for the after seeing the album cover. Yeah
How do you feel about the album cover? I actually love the album cover. It reminds me of like 90s like Steve Madden
Shoe ads or like Jane magazine. It's like that. It's a very Gen X aesthetic fish eye
Yeah, like music video. Yeah sublime kind of exactly. Yeah
Yeah, I was very
Excited when I saw the album cover and I actually am kind of a fan of Lord or I liked pure heroin
Uh-huh, and then I didn't really listen to the last one. There wasn't another one
Yeah, I like forgot I kind of came and went but the the single was like green light. Oh, okay that song that's like
Or about like kissing on the dance floor. I'm not. Oh, yeah. I was about to
Yeah, I like her a sandpaper dipped in honey voice she's like
Both she's like perennially both 17 and 47 in my head. She's like a teenager but looks very she's extremely precocious
Yeah, and always has been yeah, and I
I feel like I vibed with her when she first came out because she was from New Zealand and
I like a lot of Auckland. Yeah, I think New Zealand's like interesting. Yeah
It's like cool Australia exactly and a lot of interesting bands have come out of New Zealand
And there's like because her music was so kind of melancholy
New Zealand has one of the highest like youth suicide rates in the world makes sense because it's so boring probably
so I kind of felt like she was tapped into some cool like
Suicidal like yeah teen impulse
Due to her background and I felt like that was coming across in the music. Yeah, totally
but
This new song
Is horrible. It's awful. Yeah, it's like so generic and bad and whatever it sounds like George Michael's faith
Does it I don't even yeah kind of it's sort of but like for chicks. I don't know um or by chicks
I like New Zealand produced by Jack Antonoff. Of course. Yeah
That guy has his uh
His hand
Yeah, New Zealand is like dark cool Australia because they don't have like bone dye beach and
Like Sydney. Yeah. Yeah, they seem less optimistic and like
Um
Outgoing for some reason like it seems like people in New Zealand are like more introspective and depressed, which I like
Well, yeah, because I think it's more
For whatever reason just boring. Yeah
Um
And New Zealand or in Australia like it's all these like coastal kind of like beachy cities where they're like very it's like california
Yeah, exactly. Yeah
It's like a good amount of listeners in australia. Yeah
Because we might go there someday. Oh, my movie is gonna play at the melbourne film festival. Mealbourne
Congratulations. Thank you. I thought about going because I kind of like you're gonna take that
43 hour flight
Yeah, I like all Australian business class. Well, hey, yeah, if they put you in business class and do it
I'll take any flight business class
Um, but I could see all mesh and um, we should congratulate me also. Yes. Yeah on my work. Congratulations, dasha. Very proud of you
Thank you. Thanks. Yeah, um, I was very surprised when I found out that I won the
For those who don't know. Yeah, I was also surprised not not because of the
Um, merit of your film, but because I assumed it would go automatically to some like woke movie
I mean, that's cool
Yeah, well, I didn't get any bears during like when the official festival was I didn't win like any
accolades right and what I won was like some foundation called the gw ff
Which stands for like some long german thing. Uh-huh. They have their own prize for best first feature
Oh, okay, and it comes with money and like a little viewfinder. So it's actually
Congrats. Yeah, how are you allowed to say how much?
Money how much loot? Yeah, I'm gonna get 25,000 euros. That's nice. What is that in in usd?
Uh, like 30. Yeah, nice
Very cool. Very cool. Yeah, super sick
Lots of frilly tops
God, I know Balthazar. Yeah, get the whole seafood platter. Um,
I'll probably try to save it. Yeah, you should. Yeah, because I do have scarcity mentality, especially around like large lump sums
You know, yeah, like there's a way that that feels different from like other money
Yeah, so you're like, I'll never have $30,000 again. I'm gonna like guard this like it's very golemy
No, I know that's how when I moved to New York, it was for like grad school to go to NYU and I had a stipend for
For my because it was in a PhD program that I dropped out of because I'm like
A flunky and a failed daughter, but they gave me, you know, they cut me a check for
$11,000 every semester and I would just like clutch this check because it's like the most money I've ever had in my life
Which is like not any money at all. Yeah, like I prevent late to the bank
Yeah, exactly. It's just like it was crazy. It's still crazy. So I still have poverty mentality
Even though I'm no longer living in poverty. I know. Well, it takes a while to like get that out of your system. Definitely
I was reading some like pro-publica publica article about how like
Billionaires don't pay any taxes, which we all know, but they like got their hands on some documents and really
Explaining in great detail how like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk just know they just don't pay taxes at all
Like I mean they pay like sometimes like very nominal sums of money
But even the taxes that they pay nominally
Are like so much money to me
Like, you know, it's like he'll earn like 60 billion dollars a year and pay like 2.2 million in taxes
Right. Well, I guess it does seem like a lot when it's all together like that
Yeah, and I was thinking about how like even rich people like then 1%
Are peasants compared to like the 0.01%
Yeah, there's definitely a whole different class of like
Super rich. I mean that's what you're satanic. You're a bloodsucker. Yeah, there's no reason you need that much money at all
Yeah, you couldn't spend it over the course of your lifetime probably and like what would you even what do you want?
Yeah, and you know, you're not going to give it to your kids so much money for yeah, I don't know
I mean, that's why they're all pedophiles. Sorry. Yeah, you know
Well, yeah, that's why they're all like into like sterilizing Africa before that population boom hits
That's how they're spending their money and like weird dystopian projects in the name of like human progress or whatever
Yeah, and then their child molesters because that's like the final frontier of like what you can acquire with well, you know
Yeah, because it's like should be like uncorruptible like yeah precious and it's like they're like no well defiled
I know they should just kill two birds with one stone and do like
Weird like genetic testing on the babies that they molest
They probably do
Yeah
Anyway
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
The scary of 61st
Yeah
It'll come out. I mean, I'm sure I announced this already. Yeah
Yeah, it'll screen in New York like in the summer once and then in LA in October and then like some other festivals abroad and then in December
It'll be it'll have theatrical distribution. Yeah, where's it's screening LA in New York and then maybe like a couple other cities
Yes, okay, but I don't know with this award. It's kind of it's pretty prestigious. I know it's cool. It's great
You should be happy. You should feel proud. I feel good. Yeah. Yeah, I think my
I I told you this but my mom asked me to say je vais Belarus when I
Accept my award. Well, are you have you decided or have you slept? I'm thinking about it
They're not gonna understand what you're saying anyway. So you yeah, and there's been there's a documentary at Berlin this year
That's about like the Belarusian free theater
That I haven't seen but it seems like they're kinds of the vibe is kind of because Germany obviously
I'm sure they'd love to make Belarus a NATO client
Yeah
But I still agree ultimately with the sentiment of you know long live Belarus
So I might just do it because my mom seemed very like she's like you're from Belarus like it's a neutral statement, right?
It's just you know long live
Long live Belarus doesn't mean anything. It doesn't
Express which side you're on it. It just expresses solidarity with like the Belarusian people
I think it was cute that you got that Belarusian write-up. I know that's really that's what my mom called
And she was like you got a Belarusian write-up or you can use Asia to Belarus and I was like, oh my god
Yeah, okay, I guess
I mean make Lukashenko and his extremely hot son proud
I mean
Well, that's the thing too is then he could torture me or what if I want to go to belers at some point and now
I'm like an activist, you know, I don't really want that smoke. Yeah, um
But I guess maybe it's the right thing to do
Yeah, uh
No, you could always just play dumb, you know, if they detain you
Yeah midair and just be like, I don't know what that means. I'm american. I just you know something my mom drilled into my head
Yeah
Yeah, anyway, all that's something for me to
Something for me to just yeah, I'll deal with that
On my own time. I think that you should wing it
Yeah, and do it like just decide last I have a lot of people to thank
Yeah, you know because I didn't really didn't make the movie myself. It's like
It's a group effort. Yeah, so then it feels a little
Look an addendum. Maybe it doesn't feel as if it was like the only thing I said, maybe that would be powerful
you're just
Up there like I want to thank hunter zimny and
Alex Huggins and Javi Belarus is my choreographer
I'm just I'm very proud as a Belarusian american
You know, that's a short wikipedia list
Yeah, it is who else is a Belarusian american?
A lot of people have distant like mario williamson. Yeah
I think lisa kudrow. Yeah, and maybe scarjo
Okay. Yeah, but they're yeah, that's just like you've raised go bavushka shit. They have yeah, exactly
I think lisa well, but yeah, marianne's grandparents are from Belarus
But she still won't come on the pod that bitch. She have we tried no
Maybe we should call her that bitch. Yeah
See if that listen you old bitch. She was singing berri weiss is
A berri weiss, how do you say it? Weiss. Yeah
Her praises on twitter and people were upset, but I didn't listen to the podcast
So I kind of reserve judgment even though I'm not a fan of berri weiss. I was like, well, we don't really know what she said
Yeah, people are mad that I like berri weiss. I think she's a nice girl. She's a nice person
I don't really care what her political views are. I can coexist with them
Yeah
But like I don't know Zionism, you mean. Yeah, I don't really care what any like, oh
People get so whipped up on this in this anti
Zionist fervor
They're really just projecting their own like American guilt. Yeah. Yeah, that's it's always like I don't know why like I
understand like we don't have to
Talk about it again. I understand
The people's sensitivity over the cause, but it's you know, a little
Baroque and bizarre when you're like an American leftist with no
dog in the fight to be so like
To be obsessed with with Palestine. Yeah when there's like equally horrendous things going on in your backyard
But that's just me. Especially if you're not even Jewish. Yeah, you know, yeah, the Jews the Jews
I understand you feel culpable for this like
atrocity
And you have to yeah
Talk litigate and talk about everything in this
They love to schmooze and quatch
Yeah, so
Yeah, war. I don't know if you have any other comments on lords. Oh, yeah
Yeah, the video it's just like very you know, it's like a for me. It was like a pinnacle of like woke aesthetics like where they like kind of like
Quirky colors, especially pastels and like ad-libbing
Overwhelmingly white people in that video though, not really like a benetton vibe at all. I know that was shocking white
Which was shocking to see I don't know why she went for that because I feel like, you know
Someone like zway should just like tear her a new one because like in 2021. What are you doing? Not uh stuffing your video full of token hires
What's wrong with you? Yeah
Like you're asking for punishment
Billie Eilish has a video that came out
Maybe recently maybe a while ago where she's like hanging out with a bunch of people also
Yeah, and this it's this like genre Miley Cyrus used to do it like genre video where like a pop star hangs out with like
A focused group. It's like mood boarded group of people who are like ostensibly their friends, but they yeah, but the ones in lords were so random
They weren't even
They just like casting process like it in me. I didn't understand
I don't know. Maybe they are like her real friends. I don't know. They just they look like
lords have that many friends lord probably has like some friends maybe but
She definitely doesn't have like a huge group of friends
I feel like we must have mutual friends with lord at this point. I feel like it's kind of inevitable
Degrees of separation. Yeah, something like that
But no, yeah, the these people again look like dime square people slash people who work for mnz
It's like that vibe. That's the upper tier of of dime square people. Yeah, exactly
scene
But I guess like as good as it gets
I mean, I have to hand yeah, it's truly like that's the if we were to do like a hierarchy of like
Like dime square. They'd be like yeah, those would be girls at the top. So if you want to send us some shoes
I don't think she's so classy. I know she doesn't want to associate but yeah, she doesn't want to
I respect it sully her brand
I respect it. No, I do too. Um
Just like Andrea long chew I just respect you. Yeah, I just don't fuck with us at all. I'm like
I really appreciate when people take a stand against us in a kind of
Honorable way where they just won't fuck with us instead of like being little cowards and talking shit on twitter
But then like saying hi at a party that that I don't fuck with anyway
But yeah, I had like a very woke look minus the diversity
Yeah, like, you know, like woke aesthetics are all about like a deliberate like unprofessionalism or amateur
Ship, but it's like kind of also like polished and classy. It's not like diy bushwick stuff
Well, it relied the video very heavily on the camera trick of it like moving and her being in the continuous frame. Yeah
Um
Which I didn't find cute and yeah, I don't like it
She's looks like she's been going to the gym. She looks great. I'll give her that she looks great
Um, but she also I don't know. I'd respect her more if she looked great and wasn't so like
I don't know
Not flaunting it. I guess but it's like the whole vibe just feels very like I'm going to the gym
And now I'm like comfortable in my body
But she doesn't actually seem to be that comfortable in her body because she's not because she's like kind of an intellectual
And a misanthrope. That's very essential. I like seeing her kind of like
Like gesticulate cutely, but that's what happens to everyone. Like I think like lord
Yeah, it's like kind of like a gothy surly jewish girl
Who had the weird misfortune of being born in new zealand and she like to like a poet mother
I think her mom's some sort of like academic or something and she was a gifted child
Yeah, and like perennially skinny fat and now that she's a celeb. She's had a glow up and she wants
I mean it happens to everybody who experiences it. Yeah
like
But yeah, it feels very
Unfaithful to her brand. I know and I have empathy for it because I bet
Obviously being like a teen
star of any sort is
challenging and yeah
It's difficult to be like a
Well-integrated well-balanced person
Yeah, I just I do like her better when she's like scribbling poetry in a notebook and wearing like gothy simone rosa gown
I don't like this. I mean
There's just also
It's not consistent with like the album art the song
Yeah, if she had gone in that direction like that 90s
Magazine gen X direction, I think that would have been better. Yeah more slutty less like
Yeah
I don't know. I don't even know how to describe it. Yeah, this this is like vitamin c empowered
Yeah, and the song is about like the sunshine and having friends and going to the beach
Yeah, it's that's all wrong. Yeah, I think she's like trying to prove too hard that she has gotten over her depression and anxiety
Yeah, we can tell she's still
depressed you can tell you can see
You can see the pain in her eyes. She's not she's not ferrell like no, you know when ferrell sings about how he's so happy
I'm kind of like yeah, you're like that's got that's a guy without an internal monologue. He's not a neurotic
Never had a bad day in his life. He's just moot grouping. He wrote a nice little song
Yeah, it's gonna make him a billion dollars
Yeah, I love that guy. He looks great too
Actually, don't I have reverse. Yeah. No, he's
A celeb's look. Yeah, blazion. Don't crack. Yeah, that's for sure. Um, what else is on the dock? Oh, yeah
Uh, hunter biden saying the n word of macaron getting slapped
The fellas verge all getting cancelled for grooming. Yeah
A lot on the that's a good docket. Yeah, I'm behaving badly when the daily mail
um
Article came out about hunter biden saying the n word soft a in his text correspondences with his white lawyers
I sent it to you immediately and was like finally like something
Finally the news cycles like giving us something
Um
Because those were a lot of fun to read the text messages. Yeah. Yeah. I mean who who among us
Has not said the n word to the lawyers that our father pays eight hundred seventy five dollars an hour
To represent us for
That god
I mean to be expected and also totally forgivable
Yeah, yeah, the daily mail article made
note of how like these
texts were leaked the day after his dad made a speech about um
um
like
Racial justice or something in the united states, but it's like yeah, and that's that's fine
Yeah, I wish people would just like grow up your fail son is going to say the n word and his text correspondences
It's just how it's it's like inevitable people need to grow up about that word. It's not the hard r the soft a
thing is like
It's a term of endearment that white people
Will use privately because they think black people are cool
That's literally what it is. Yeah, it's not
Trying to be racist or trying to
expropriate something from black people and and I get why this whole shit
Yeah, and that's why they're not allowed to say it publicly
and there's just kind of like an understanding of
Decorum and like appropriateness around like yeah, of course white people
Will be saying it privately. Yeah, and I don't think they should say it publicly. Just of course not exactly
Because it's totally cringe not because it's racist
Well, yeah, it's just like we're not allowed to say it and we don't for the most part and then but the text correspondences
Of hunter biden, I mean, I'm sure he says it like out loud too. Definitely
Yeah to girls who when he's like railing lines off of their like thighs or whatever
Um, yeah, I did not
Overall find them
You know so so shocking but what I did find funny was that
Among the text correspondences was this meme that he had saved
of
Here you take a look at it. So it's Joe Biden and Barack Obama hugging
Yeah, and Obama's saying gonna miss you man and then Joe Biden saying can I say it just this once and Obama going
Sigh go ahead and Joe saying you you my boob Barack
That's the meme. That's the meme and that's the name that hunter sent to someone
and the Daily Mail articles
Said it's unclear why
Why he saved it
What which is like
It's unclear why hunter saved the meme on his computer. It's like I think it's very it's totally
It's clear why he's saved that meme
Yeah, this is like when people
Fane confusion as to why
Like sub stacks and Joe Rogan are winning
You know, there's a clear cut reason why people save racist memes on their phone. Everybody has racist memes on their phone. Everybody have every race
definitely
Like it's ridiculous
Racist jokes make the world go around
they're they're like
a benetton style
Unification campaign they make everybody like like each other more not like talks about this
Yeah
And as I've said before
They add like a layer of sexual frizz on to relationships. It's just you it's just a
Tonal thing. It's like an affect you can tell when something is in like
good nature
Yeah, and when something has like malice behind it exactly. Yeah, and
And hunter biden calling his lawyers
The n-word is definitely without malice and his lawyers are how many lawyers have probably so many
They're all white. Mm-hmm. I mean, that's a stupid question. I shouldn't even ask but
I'm pretty sure. Yeah, they're all they're all white. Um
Towards the end of the article they also talk about how
Um attitudes have shifted around using the n-word like even in quotes because there was a smear campaign video of
Joe Biden saying the n-word in like 1985, but it's like he was quoting some other lawmakers
But they they took it out of context
um
And here I'll just read it
In october 2020 a first-year student at ruckers law school in newark used the word while quoting from a 1993 legal opinion in class
Warning her fellow students beforehand that the quote contained the slur. The student had said he said um, and I'll use a racial word
But it's a quote. He says I'm going to go to treten and come back with my boop
Eraser erupted last month when her fellow students circulated a petition demanding. She and the professor apologize
That's ridiculous. I mean, it's I mean, it's really like soviet times except instead of getting
um
shot in like
A prison cell in the basement of like lubianca you get a really annoying email
Yeah, you get and you like possibly lose your job and get socially ostracized
But I read a really good essay where the sky was talking about how I think I talked may have talked about it in the previous episode
about how the sky was talking about how um, uh
You can't kind of politicize art and how horrible that is and he talks about like how in the soviet union when
They were killing artists in mass like rounding them up sending them to the gulag. They didn't really want to do that
It was just the only mode of repression that was available to them
and now you can kind of
You know run like a lean gulag like I said and have people like panopticon style like control themselves and surveil others
Like you don't have to stoop to violence anymore because you have more kind of
So softer, right? Yeah, an efficient means at your hands. Yeah, the artist thought of it that way just won't make
Work that yeah
Threatens the regime. Yeah, and you get to keep your hands clean exactly
But that's very interesting. Yeah, I was like, wow, that's like a great insight that I hadn't even thought of but um,
but you can break free from the
The panopticon that's the thing is it's not as
as
Ultimately authoritarian because brute force really is like the be all and all I think
Yeah, no, you don't die
But you can certainly again like lose your friends and lose your job
Which is you know, you die some sort of death metaphorically speaking. Yeah, but
I mean the whole this kind of like war on
Saying like quoting rap lyrics or like legal opinions is
Just so insulting to people's intelligence. I know
and it's like we can say the n-word if
You know on this podcast like right now not like I mean the let's go
We can say the n-word and we're going to
No, um, I mean the n-word as in the phrase the n-word like if they'd rather
When I'm reading all these legal opinions. Yeah, I just use the n-word and like the phrase. Yeah, um,
Um, but what is that really accomplishing? I know it's like you still have the association in your head. Exactly, you know
Louis CK has a bit about this. Yeah, you just like you still we know what the word is. Yeah, I don't know why we have to
You know beat around the bush and
live in this fake and gay unreality
I know
It is crazy when you look at like
Um, when you watch like old tv shows or movies or like listen to Howard Stern
They really drop that word a lot and with the hard R and you're just like like that word always sounds really bad
Yeah, no, well affect once again. It's just awful. Yeah, it's just a really heinous word
Yeah, it's like not funny and not ever like
you know
Yeah, and I'll it's shocking
And sometimes the shock value of it
Can be funny, but very rarely
yeah, but also
Incidentally, I feel like this latest
Incident with hunter has not really affected his reputation that much because it's already so in the gutter that he's really also uncancelable
Yeah, well, he's
Yeah, that's that much is clear. I think he's just going to be kind of like a staple of news cycles
that
Will illustrate in some way ultimately like the
Vacuousness of the binded administration. Yeah, it'll sort of like underscore how
Retarded everything is
It will have to read about it and he'll just be kind of this like fixture
In the background that's like a source of shame for the biden family, but also weirdly manufacturers consent for them
Exactly because it makes them seem more
Human and he should have said the n word in his memoir. Honestly
I would have made it a better read. You should have snuck it into one of his father's speeches
You know joe has said the n word hard are many a time of course
Who's he friends with like strong thurman like he is like segregationist pals
um
Anyway, that's why they have to do so much damage control if they're if their conscious was clean
They wouldn't have to like he's don the white hood. Mm-hmm
macron
Oh, I was going to pivot to the race card. Oh, yeah, because it seems more macron guns slapped, but I didn't really
Read about
What happened? I just read that headline that the guy who slapped him had like mine comf in his backpack
Yeah, yeah, and I was so brain dead that I read it as him having mine comf on his person
It was an ambiguous headline. Yeah, I was like, he's really trying to compete with marine le pen
Let's go
um
Yeah, so he got slapped because he ran toward a crowd. I think he just should have slapped the guy back
That's my only take on macron. It would have been cool. That's a frenchman's fight right there
French people seem like they like slap each other around a lot
And then there was um, there was um, somebody wrote an analysis on bbc
Some guy called Hugh Schoenfeld about how um macron getting slapped is proof of french society and decline
And I was like, there's plenty of other like the fact that they like don't replenish their population
And they're like economy is stagnant. There are other signs that I mean, I felt that way when I read that men in dresses article
Yeah, that were that we'll get to later. Yeah, I was like, oh, it seems like a sign of
Of decadence and decline
But not not macron getting slapped that seems like a sign of like vitality and like a fun culture
That's what we like to see very french je ne sais quoi
They all have like what's that french expression that means like punchable face
Oh, I wouldn't know there's a really good one
I don't remember what it is, but it literally means punchable face and it's like every french person has like a punchable face
I know
Sometimes it works. Sometimes it's it's hot. Yeah. I well, okay, like when I went to paris
I've never seen so many hot people men and women alike on the street and like I live in new york
Where there's like beautiful women on the street less so beautiful men, but
Like new york really has some gorgeous people. Yeah
Yeah, but in paris was the only place I went to where I was like actively attracted to the men on the street because they had like
big
Complex louis garelle faces. They weren't like, you know cute skater guys or whatever so hot
And I was just like and they wear like, you know, like camel coats, but not in a gay way
They kind of dress
Not my fave. It's not my I've only really been to paris, but I you know
Well, it's not my fave either, but I will say like the thing that attracts me to it is that it's adult
It's not childish like they're not walking around and like jinkos, you know
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it is a little smidium vibe. It is. Yeah, it's totally it's like um, it's like
It's like early on express, but higher quality
Yeah, or like
Armani exchange. Yeah
Vibes, but I like the rich ones who have like a cashmere scarf thrown over their shoulder
Yeah, I know what you mean. No, they do their taste level is just higher. It's better. Yeah, it's undeniable
It's like it would make some annoying, but it's part of their their strength to yeah, I've really grown to to love the french
I
Just I didn't have a good time there, but I respect them and I don't you have a good time in paris
I don't know. I was kind of bored. I see it is very boring
Unless you like know somebody who could take you to like the hot spots
You kind of have to make your own way among snotty people
I think I had that thing that like
Japanese people get when they go to france where they get depressed because it doesn't like match up to there
Like the cultural shock of it not like what they kind of think it's gonna be like because I did I feel I felt very like
Empty or something. Yeah, I feel like I should feel more like
In paris. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. No, I think like Japanese people go
To paris and they think it's gonna be like amelie and like Brigitte Bardot
And it's just like a bunch of unemployed moroccan guys cat calling the woman
And like an internet cafe that sells like uh
Saran wrap croissants
And not like a beautiful bakery. Exactly
Anyway, the race card. Yeah
um
National Geographic. Yeah, has some projects
Yeah, I have to I'm gonna pull up this thread because it's really great
I'm I'm scrolling as well
It's it's a 10-year project that some like woman artists did black woman artists presumably that like photographs
I don't know how they like it seems a little suspect that it was a 10-year project and then they like just
Kind of like released it
right in the midst of this like post blm
crt
Woke moment, but she takes photos of people and asks them to describe themselves their their attitude toward race in six words. Yeah
I mean, I think
Well, it yeah, it doesn't make it seem like
Because I think the strength of doing a project like this, which is super dumb
um
Over the span of such a long time would kind of be
an interesting way to illustrate like changes in
Racial yeah ideology or something, but instead it's like they're not chronological in any way. They're kind of just random
and the project was
She asked people to describe their feelings on race in just six words
She thought few would respond here are some of the responses out of half a million so far that she's
saved
And the the drawback to doing something like this obviously is that
it forces people to
Make these
short kind of like
They don't feel like high-coo they don't feel poetic or like high-coos or something. Yeah, I feel like there's awkward arbitrary and awkward. Yeah
When I'm with kids dad alone thug exclamation point like that kind of thing
um, it's funny that like
She thought she wouldn't get any replies because everybody's such a jannis soprano today. They're just like
Jumping at the chance about race. Yeah, did
Sorry, did you want to hear six words?
Did someone want to hear my thoughts on race?
Uh, I am not an exotic creature
some ethnically ambiguous girl who's
Yeah, not that hot. Yeah, that's a elaborate way of saying you're not that hot
Yeah, you're right. Well, she then it says
Hannah people said the constant guessing game about her identity as well as the harassment and unwanted attention
She's received one quote creepy men makes her feel like a specimen. Her six word story was born of exasperation
it's like
really
What is she talking by the way like
Creepy men are exoticizing you all the time. I mean they are but it's like harmless like I'm
Whatever
A russian white person and I get exoticized all the time. You know that men are horny for you for you and you're like
When they're when they're like Anna
You know like men always exoticize you as a woman all women. You don't have to be that attractive
You don't have to be that special men are horny like get over yourself
You should be so lucky
Um
Anyway, yeah, there was my favorite one was like the couple
the
Blonde-haired wife and the Iranian guy with the beard and the wife is like after 9 11
My white husband became Iranian and the husband's was like
I don't look Iranian
Well, I am and it's just like you guys are such weird sex fetishes. First of all, he's out here looking like soya tola komini
With his like beard that he grew
He this man has like a fake beard that he grew just for the express purpose of being detained at airports
Like because he wants to be like racially right. That's why
And they also have some they clearly have some sort of like sexual like fetish play thing going on where she gets off
Like, you know, there's like those women that get off on the thought of their boyfriend donning a face mask
Like a ski mask and breaking into their apartment and raping them. That's this but for Islamic terrorism
She's like getting off on him being like a jihadi or like Mujahideen
Forcing her into like white sharia
I guarantee you that's what it is. I mean, it's hard to say
It's hard to say what really the vibe is. You don't know. They could be trapped in like a
A loveless a loveless marriage of convenience where the only thing holding them together is his
oppressed status as a
Iranian man post in a post 9-11 climate
Yeah, but like the thing is like Iranian Iranian people are like a border case. They're
Both white and not white. They're literally on the border delineating. I mean if Armenians are white
Yeah, then I remember I got into a fight with a Turkish girl on Twitter because she called me a white girl
And I was like, bitch, if you're if I'm white, you're white too. And if I'm not white, you're not white too
We're like the same genetic pool. Bill Maher was saying the other night that Sephardic Jews aren't white
I mean, yeah, they're a French case because they're they're basically whatever Arabs are. Yeah, but it's like if
Armenians are white then
Then definitely Sephardic Jews are too. Yeah, but Sephardic Jews are like what like Syrian Jews,
Egyptian Jews, like they're Middle Eastern Jews. So it's sketchy. It's literally a fringy
kind of thing
And like air, you know, certain Arabs are white like Levantine Arabs, Syrians, Lebanese, Jordanians are technically white, right?
It's an arbitrary. Yeah, it's like all this stuff is like so
like
retarded
The only thing we can be sure of is that Russians aren't white. Yeah, they're they're the the blacks of eastern Europe
Um, I'm just kidding. Those are like the Nigerians that go to study engineering in Moscow. Um
Yeah, but this is like this kind of project. The thing is like I feel like it's also like
Intentionally woke trolling people like there's no way that they didn't know that this would piss people off. I mean this
Yeah, woman
Yeah, that's like gender goblin
She says her six words are I'm ashamed for my ancestors race
Yeah, Lindsay level hydric was born in Arkansas and her ancestors ran a small plantation small plantation in Georgia and
Just like two or three slaves and owned slaves when I try and bring things up or try and criticize the south, you know
It's never gone over great with my family
She's the worst one of all because she's like
Victimizing herself within the context of her like her own heritage. Yeah, I know. It's like horrible
I try to tell people how the south is wrong
It's like my family doesn't really my family hates me because I'm always going on about my
Racial justice campaign and how ashamed I feel. I mean
Yeah, she should be ashamed of
That presentation I won't say more
But that's deliberately designed
Exactly fury eight people because you're like what this like overweight gender queer person is ashamed of her. Yeah. Oh damn. Yeah
I mean, it really does suck that her like ancestors
owned slaves, but like
Yeah, but that's what's that got to do with you?
shame is not like a
productive
Psychological state to live in. No, it's not narcissistic and indulgent. Exactly. Yeah
I'm so lucky. I don't have anything in my history to get to be ashamed about
I mean same
My family was only ever like uh
On the wrong side
Surf, yeah
Seriously, I don't have to worry about them like owning plantations or like killing people
Arguably some of the worst-off people in history
Like Eastern Europe like oh, yeah, true. Yeah that those people have been really fucked over. Yeah
Yeah, like literal serfs christian or one world war two just eviscerated like
Yeah, just a really rough spot
So we're lucky, but yeah now we get to podcast with impunity
Yeah, and because we've never oppressed anyone. Yeah an edge saying the n-word like every
This is a three-year-long performance piece
It'll end when one of us
accidentally
Anyway, yeah
But it's an interest like that kind of this kind of like
Carousel or whatever art project is very interesting because it's like a total sign of the times
It's um, you know, it it's like everybody's in on the joke like everybody knows that we live in like a fake and gay
unreality
Yeah, and the point isn't even to convince or to persuade or to convert anyone
Yeah, or even just to reaffirm like
Hegemony basically
Yeah, but everybody get that's why it's also like so soviet because everybody gets that it's fake
The only difference that it dawned on me because you know, I was like reading about like hyper normalization
And stov and all the stuff that I'm interested in
That was written a lot about by this anthropologist Alexei Yurchuk who adam kurtis took the title for hyper normalization from
and he talks about how in in the soviet union and late soviet union there was this like
consensual like fantasy agreement between the
powers and the masses that they would agree like join hands
And like agree to live in this like fake simulated society that was
Supposed to look more functional than it was right and it dawns on me that in the united states the hyper normalization takes the form of
Trying to convince people that they live in a society. That's more dysfunctional
Like we're supposed to believe that we have rape culture and patriarchy and
Racism and all this stuff well to such a degree that it's untenable and I don't buy that
Buy that well that to me maybe even is like a distraction from the real ways in which society is like right dysfunctional
which like
I mean cancel culture is a perfect example, right because it's like
It's like the venues that like we're close for covet anyway being like well, we're not letting aerial pink play here anymore or whatever it's like
or wine scene kind of
Going down just as like the studio system is like changing and like
I think covet and cancel culture and all this stuff is really underscored really how like
Bad things actually are and how flimsy the infrastructure is but instead we like
Cancel culture is this facade that makes it seem like things are like like we're taking with things are going so well that we can like be
Canceling people. Yeah, actually
None of these things have been like profitable for a long time. Yeah, exactly. They're like dying
I was a lesson industries. Exactly. So everything thus in the art world as well. It's kind of like
It's easy to feel like things are disposable
Yeah, and it's like really exposed kind of the threadbare precarious nature
of
Both economic and social relations in this country and it really
Has nothing to do with like gender or race even though it appears that way superficially
Like the core problems are
Problems that affect everybody
Yeah, and they affect poorer people more
And middle-class people in a sort of medium way and then the rich not that much, you know to not at all. Yeah
So I think like that but that
was like, you know, it like hit me that insight that they're in america the kind of
simulation
Codes for a society that's more dysfunctional. Whereas in the soviet union it coded for a society that was more functional
That's interesting. And I have to like figure out now why that is but
That's what these kind of like nat geo
projects
I think exist to reaffirm. Yeah
And I feel like if you're getting mad at them
You're on the wrong track. Yeah, you've really already lost. Yeah, like you've lost the plot in some way
anyway
No, that's uh, that's a good point
Speaking of which I guess we can talk about the
Men in dresses. Oh
I was gonna there's so much today. I was gonna talk about verge. Oh, yeah, let's do that
Because we I'm sure people are dying to hear our take
I mean, this is really
We deliberated whether or not we would talk about this but this really is our lane like grooming discourse
Yeah, that's we're really the authority on like what appropriate age gap discrepancies are and
Yeah, ages of consent and stuff like that. That's why people always ask ask us stuff like that on our love lines
Um, so I knew a new twitter account popped up a couple days ago
um
With the name jennifer seaberg
Um sounds fake sounds fake and I've read somewhere was like a reference to someone
And who like killed themselves because of online bullying all of this. There's lots of
interesting kind of mysterious details, but basically
Jennifer seaberg outed
Virgil texas formerly of
Chapo trap house as
her groomer
And it's a long thread but it starts and it's very boring when she's it starts when I was a teenager
I thought Virgil texas was very funny. I asked him to proofread an essay
I submitted to a website and emailed it to him. The essay was about turning 16
We talked a little bit and I thought he was very cool because he was funny and he lived in new york
Very interesting obfuscating happening here. Yeah, when I was a teenager. Yeah
The essay was about turning 16, right
Clearly she was 18. Otherwise she would have said she was 16, right and she's trying to link
It may be even 19. She's trying to link her state of teenage hood to an essay. She wrote about turning 16
Right. She's supposed to she's creating a psychic link in people's minds
Like kind of like aoc did when she collapsed her insurrection trauma with her sexual assault trauma
Exactly to make it impossible to contest her like political demands, right? Yeah
Yeah, that yeah, that's a smart
Not gonna work this time. Yeah
Uh, she goes on to talk about how they had like this relationship basically over face time
Before she went to college or maybe
Summer after her freshman year or something. So she was also in her childhood bedroom
When they were having these interactions
Um, and then I guess I'll just I don't know
It seems like he lost interest in her and she may be sent him a photo of her tits. Yeah, so
Um, and she also writes that they texted late at night when she was alone in her childhood bedroom, which is another kind of like very
uh
manipulative
Suggestive detail because you're supposed to see her as a 16 year old in her childhood bedroom. Yeah, it's worth also noting that virtual is like 23
At the time I am. Yeah
Um, I'm guessing he's like this was not like recently. Yeah, okay
I'm guessing he's in his mid 30s. No clue. Yeah, no clue
Asian don't crack
Uh, anyway, ambiguously aged
Virgil, so I think was even younger at the point of these interactions
Yeah, and I think like the future of of me too or whatever the remnants of the me too movement the the hipster runoff is going to be like
people making
Even vaguer and vaguer insinuations
Like there's nothing so what happened he got tired of her and
Yeah, he stopped stopped talking to her because he probably found like an irl girlfriend because she was probably being a drag
Yeah, so this feels a little sus to me, but
I guess we
Can't know it seems plausible. I guess that it happened
Yeah
But it doesn't really matter if it did or not. Yeah, I'm just the whole thing is like
Shrouded in this accusatory language
That people are responding to but
really nothing
Transgressive occurred took place and I'm just curious why all the kind of fracas furor, whatever over
Virgil, texas
Well, because people hate him
No, I know and I'm not even saying this as like an insult or a dig finally get one over on chapeau or whatever because they're
Yeah, because they're jealous and stuff
Yeah, but lots of like libs back in like
2016 twitter, I feel like
when
Libs and leftists were really beefing. Yeah
Of course now we know that they're completely the same well remember
In 2015 when a liberal became a pejorative
I distinctly remember that and now it's kind of coming back around or like leftist is the pejorative and liberal is kind of
Almost neutral. It's still negative, but it's kind of veering toward neutrality. Bill Marr was praising some like
um
Politician on his show for being a classic liberal. Yeah
I watched like 20 minutes of bill marr. That's why
That's why I keep bringing it up
How was it?
Annoying and then boring. I mean, I'd love to come on. I think we do great. Yeah, he'd love us
We're not black a lot of fun, but but no, he gets all kinds of you know
He likes to get like different kinds of people on you know, I know but he loves the black ladies
That's this thing right well, he would still think we're nice girls. We would still think we're black because we're salty
We would have a good time um
but
He is smarmy
And he's not doing himself any favors with that attitude. No. Yeah, he's he's annoying and like
Uh, I'm sorry kind of a dweeb, but I think like initially when he started out
He was brave and I will give him credit for that one show a week. That's
Cool. That's good for him. Yeah, he also I have to say that's a sustainable workload right there
Yeah, totally. Yeah, like oh you do one show. Well, we do too
Um, I have to say the other thing that I will say nice about bill mars that he has a very good voice
I thought you're gonna say huge. He has a huge dick or so. I've heard yeah, everyone has heard about his huge hog
That's why he hasn't been canceled. You think he has a smooth voice. He has a good voice. Yeah
Yeah, it's like very masculine. It's not gay or or brain or definitely brackish or whatever. It's yeah
Yeah, no big big dick. Nice voice. Yeah, he's no Tucker Carlson, but
Tucker Carlson actually has a really annoying voice. I know
He's like the he's like an eager neocon in the bay club. Definitely doesn't know. No, definitely not
Whatever
Maybe it's like wide but definitely not
Long the bow tie. Yeah
Oh, yeah, he could use a rebrand. He could. Yeah, he should go back to wearing like, um, barbara jackets
Yeah, you should take a patron
conservative men should take note of
that the preppy style
That steve bannon really does. Yeah, that put them on the map
But I mean virgil is such a virgin. I doubt, you know, if this actually went down that he even asked to see her titties
She probably sent them unsolicited, which is like your first mistake, you know
Yeah
Yeah, this happens before virgil was a chapeau, correct? If long allegedly, okay, this was like, I don't know
Unclear it's like go to sam. She references like sam hide later. It's all like
People have been trying to get virgil in trouble for a long time because he like, I don't know
isn't
But why I mean he's he actually because he was like a stand-up comedian aspiring stand-up comedian
Who like definitely said the n-word dealt with someone's savory sam hide adjacent. Yeah characters or something. Who cares?
I mean like, yeah, I look I'm not really I'll go on the record. I've never really been a fan of
Virgil. I think that he's like tedious and bloviating
uh
I mean hard to agree and like never really been that nice to me. No weird
Yeah, and I think he tries kind of hard to
To come off as like smart and whatever and the blazer
Yeah, stuff. It's not for me the kind of like
Off-brand julian casablanca's branding
He needs to grow up a little bit. He needs to clean up his act
but and this is why I hate me too because it it
Makes me and makes everybody effectively
defend
These guys who are on charismatic and unlikable. It's like the qualmo thing
Did he do anything wrong? I don't know. I don't I don't think so. Not this time
Who knows maybe there's like a grab bag of like he's yeah, I mean he has
It'll will towards him because I think a lot of people find him distasteful
And in that way he's done something wrong, but
Yeah, and I'm sure people find him distasteful and then are angry and jealous that
He makes so much money because they want his job. I'm sure that's how people feel about one or both of us too
I get it. It's all very understandable
but I think like
I really hate living in this world of like paranoia and recrimination where your only recourse is to like
Launch digital allegations against somebody. I mean, I feel that I like remember reading the responses and stuff
I remembered kind of that visceral feeling of people piling on us online. Yeah, and I was like, oh, that sucks
Yeah, even if you like
Aren't invested in twitter and are like basically
Ignoring it. Yeah, it's still like ways on you like ambiently whenever like people are like really piling on you and taking an opportunity to
Yeah, and my thing is like I don't care how much of a tedious or bloating or annoying person you are if if
um
You haven't done anything wrong and I'm like a very much a innocent until proven guilty person
Then like you don't deserve it
But I'm less concerned with that what I'm more like concerned with is as these allegations become more and more vague
And insinuating and not like well, he's not going to lose his job or anything. No, I mean, what's his job podcasting with brian a joy gray?
Yeah, yeah, he's not gonna lose his job. They're not gonna take him down
Well, yeah, and it's interesting because I feel like lately these all of these me too allegations like gray and smidium have really failed to stick
Because there's an initial kind of like critical mass when everybody was like falling, you know
And now it feels like very disparate kind of like fanatical voices. Yeah more so
Yeah, but doesn't and those are easier to tune out. Yeah, exactly. But
I think like
I can't
For the life of me put myself in the shoes of people who would launch a campaign like this against somebody
Even if they are like unlikable or enviable or whatever
No, just like what does it say about you that you're so fixated on somebody else? Yeah
This is by the way, um, it's a dark. Yeah quality of mind
Yeah, this is granting that he did nothing wrong. But even if there was some kind of I mean
I mean, just based on our allegations something wrong. She would have said what he did wrong. Yeah, and there's nothing. Yeah
She like apparently he was dating Marie Calloway at the time
And then she DMed Marie Calloway to tell her what happened
And Marie Calloway said, um, what do you what do you want? What do you want me to do? That was a pretty cool answer
Expertly said. Yeah, like what do you want her to do? Not my problem. Yeah
He didn't do anything
Yeah, surely everyone must realize that and people are just like opportunistically like
Dunking on him or whatever. I don't know. I think some people probably don't realize that and they think that
Like there is some kind of so long no one can read the whole yeah, they're like it must be yeah
I mean, he has no he has no choice now to get ahead of these allegations. He has to become trans
He has to become like Virginia or justine or something. Yeah
And then he can start a new podcast. I want to say something that's so mean, but I'm not going to
What?
Ah, damn it
Yeah, I'm gonna let it start up
Um, but he can start
I don't think I could hear it. He can start a new podcast called Chappo Tran's house
Yeah, people will love that
He's always reminded me of like, um, Stevie Janowski as Cherry Blossom from He's Found and Down
You've said that before and it's very funny
Anyway, I don't want a dog. I'm not gonna use this hour or anything. He doesn't need more critique right now
He's going through a hard time with his pedophilic allegations, but yeah, which he probably does have pedophilic desires
I don't know, but that's not that's I mean all leftist men do. It's
Like the vast majority of them. Yeah, let's just
Because they're adult infants, but that's beside the point
It's just assume if you're in the gym
You've yeah, you're groomed before. Yeah, totally
Um
It's a garage rock guys. It's like
Yeah, it's I mean, it's people who are at a perennially infantile stage of their emotional development
Which is why they're into politics in the first place. Yeah
Um, anyway, I saw a really funny tweet that was like Virgil was grooming girls to become democrats
That's really
That's really good. Whoever did that
That's funny
You have my uh
You have my um, I mean, I hope he doesn't stop doing his podcast
I've never listened to that would be so cowardly. I don't think he will he has no reason to the money's right. Yeah
But they you know, you know, he always seemed kind of like the wokest one in chapeau
Yeah, like when they apologized for doing like the Bill Cosby thumbs up picture
Yeah, oh, I don't know. He just always seemed kind of like
I don't know
Yeah, he I guess he is the wokest one in chapeau, but that's they got so successful that they had to basically start
Wokely policing themselves. I know. Well, that's what happens. I like that's why we we're we're plateauing so nicely
Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's what happens once you come into money
I actually I don't know if I should ever admit this but I read a a good piece by mold bug Curtis Jarvan on substack
About kind of the failure of right wing pundits
And it's a really long piece that gets into a lot of like minutiae and basically says that, you know
You can't urge people to vote for policies. You have to urge people to vote for
A person which is a strong man, you know, da-da-da that kind of thing
But the beginning of the of the
essay is actually really good because he describes that the problem with being any sort of
A pundit including a podcaster is that once you get into any sort of situation
Where you start making money and it becomes your livelihood
You start auto censoring yourself, which is a damn shame and you lose a lot of the fire that you originally had when you were like poor and angry
right
And you start lying to your audience
Because you have no choice. It's a totally organic process. It's nobody's fault
But yeah, I understand that like as you know, your uh
Brand or whatever
LLC, whatever becomes bigger
But I think like also you have like let this be a lesson that like when you bill yourself as woke
Consciously, you're gonna be the first one to fall because the wokes will turn on you first, of course because they stand for nothing
Yeah, and it and they can smell weakness and they
Uh, we'll punish it, you know twofold. I mean, there's that great story
About it's like an anecdote about um Stalin that he used to punish
People that would grovel for forgiveness way worse than those who would take, you know, their punishment straight very Stalin. Yeah
Yeah, I mean, it's very uh, it's very like also like Caucasian man
Yeah, but that's how people react to weakness when you show weakness they punish it more than they punish, you know strength or resilience
That's that's true
So that's all stay vigilant out there. Yeah, stay vigilant
And make sure you never scorn any
Teen that you start corresponding with yeah, I mean how many of these male podcasters have corresponded with teens
100 like all of them
Um, of course, I mean we correspond with teens on occasions
Yeah, not like, you know, I would never FaceTime a teen but like
You know, I go on the discord sometimes and stuff. I try my like, you know
I try to be nice to our you young man. Yeah to our youth audience and not steer them
wrong, uh
What was that I that thing that the girl says that he he told her that she had a nice chest for her age
That also sounded fake. What yeah, eventually Justin lost interest in me not after telling me
I had a nice chest not the word he used quote for my age
And made fun of people with autoimmune diseases and we stopped communicating
I went to college a year or so after during college
I started to realize this wasn't normal and that it had a negative impact on my emotional health
I asked Marie for help and she said, what do you want me to do?
And that's basically those are the allegations. She said he also made fun of her for vaping
And someone told her recently that he now this is indeed vapes
This is just like kind of like a grab bag of keywords vaping autoimmune
chest
What autoimmune disease do you think he made fun of? I don't know limes fibro
What are the big ones morgue?
Yeah
is um
Shit, I don't know
Probably limes that makes sense. He has no place making fun of autoimmune disorders as a person who looks like he has one just saying
Celiacs disease or something that was probably he probably made fun of someone with like a gluten intolerance
And this has been it's taken her years to like get it over extrapolate and do the levels of like woke chesery to like
Craft or perfect statement. That's gonna make it seem like he really did something wrong
Yeah, totally
I don't know. Well that sucks. I hope he can keep his uh
His lucrative broadcasting job. I wish him the best
Unless he's actually pedophile and which case we condemn his actions condemn him and we never
Or liked him and that's on the record. Yeah
I always had a weird feeling about that guy
Um guys wearing dresses. Oh, yeah
Another woke baiting take the trans pill virtual piece from the
From the failing new york times
What's this some new um
Um title mx instead of mr. Or miss mix. How do you say that mix? I guess. Yeah, that's if you're a they them. Yeah
The boys in their summer dresses gender fluidity enters its next phase as men increasingly step out in skirts and frocks
And it's sort of let those uh, have you noticed men wearing
dresses
No, I mean I live in dime square. So all the men dress incredibly gay even the straight ones
Yeah
But but even here I feel like there's I haven't seen any picked up on this trend
I saw one guy who's like my local barista
In a dress once and it was like fine. It was kind of a romper or something
I saw a guy wearing a skirt at blooming dales
But it was more like a kilt and it actually he was gay obviously and it looked good
Um
But beyond that like the instances that they well Lil Nas X wore also a kilt
On some talk show literal celebrities and pop stars will always do well kid cutty wore this off-white
Like sundress. Yeah, and I think it looked terrible. It looks horrible. Yeah, it does not it just doesn't work
Not flattering. It's weird when these like new young guys try to do like David Bowie Harry
Yeah, Harry Styles is the worst because he
seems like an insecure and mean person and he's wearing all these like
quirky things and carrying a handbag and
Yeah
Straight women are supposed to find this attraction
A man carrying a handbag like an Olsen twin, you know in the crook of their elbow. That's like so
Unbearable like even gay guys don't do that like a fragile queen
Yeah, and he can't pull it off. He doesn't have the personal charisma. No. No. No. Well in other instance
Acep Rocky
Also wearing a kilt. He looks hot. I don't feel he looks hot
He's also wearing like they've styled him in a very masculine way. So I don't think this counts neither really does a little
Nas X I feel like cool black guys wearing kilt is not the same as like
Yeah
Gender fluid people wearing dresses that they look horrible and I know yeah
Yeah, black guys can like hot cool charismatic black guys can literally wear whatever they want like Dennis Rodman. Exactly
Exactly. He's the most stylish guy in the yeah, but he was like the original
Kind of gender bender and like of the 90s and then like Kurt Cobain. I guess did it
It was made cooler the first time around because Kurt
as like a Pisces was very tapped into
Uh, you know, like there's the thing that bothers me about men wearing dresses is that it's so like
Unconsidered. Yeah, it's like they don't
In this article, they really kind of like there's just all these like random quotes for men being like women can wear whatever they want
And I am expressing like expressing yourself like for the sake of it
Yeah, and there's very little like follow through or thought into like what they're trying to achieve by
Right wearing a dress
Because when women put on dresses, they have things that they are trying to achieve
They're trying to like accentuate parts of their bodies or like provide easy access. Yeah, exactly
Like cloth fashion isn't just like
Random. Yeah
I think yeah
They I don't know. I don't think they know what they're trying to achieve
I think they're like motivated by this like vague sense of rebellion
Right where like I think where this is all going is like kind of
All-purpose low quality moomoo sewn by sterilized weaver female prisoners and like sold on essence
Like I don't think that we're in the middle of a gender revolution
I think we're in the middle of an obesity epidemic and that's where and also like a decline in
A quality of labor. Yeah
So all clothes
Now is just like really shoddily and cheaply thrown together
I know like even like I was thinking like even like expensive clothing
Like the kind you get from like farfetch or essence is basically just mall clothing of the 90s. Like it's that quality
Yeah, I know. I know it's not like
Exceptional quality unless you're buying maybe like Chanel or bull mon or anything
But I or something like that, but I don't know because I don't really on is really well made
But it's so at that but at that point then the price point is like in the tens of thousands of dollars and like what are you really paying for?
Yeah, who would buy that?
But yeah, that's what it feels like. I think that the what we're calling like a gender revolution or whatever is
misdiagnosed
And it's like two things. It's like I think people are getting
Fatter on average and I think people want to be
Enfantilized. Yeah, like there's this idea that men
even straight men now
um
as somebody else put it want to kind of inhabit the the
Weakness of strength that women have
Well, that's because men have so much. I mean women have so much cultural power
Right because they've feminized the culture to such a degree that its values are now
Fem, effeminate. Yeah, and being a man, especially a white man is like truly kind of like
Obsolescing and irrelevant or whatever, but I actually think it's it's worse than that. I think that
What they really want is to be
contained
Like a baby
Like they they want to be infantilized
And they want to be parented. It's not about being a woman. It's about being a child
Like it's almost like parented and won't in what way
Like I think they just want somebody else to take control and constrain
Restrain them. So all these acts of rebellion and provocation are really that
Like it's not really a gender or a sex thing. It's it seems to transcend
No, their identification sexual orientation that's no, I'm hearing you there's like a Freudian like look at me dad
What if I wear a dress and they want their dad to strike them down and say like no son
You're not wearing a dress, but there's no
There's no paternal superstructure there. There's no yeah, it's a pretty state. Yeah, but the state's not going to do that because the state
sanctions
Yeah
The almost like charade that we have to all participate in for some reason
Yeah, like the gender straight and it's like it's a giant cry for help. I think
It's like literally like contain me restrain me, you know, like this is like
I'm being ironic and sarcastic
But I had this idea of writing a Jordan Peterson style 12 rules for life book
From the perspective of like what adults can learn from babies now that I have a kid
Like what is my kid like like what calms him when I swaddle him in a blanket very tightly
That's what puts him to sleep because all organisms all human creatures
want
To well, they just not be so responsible, you know, you don't watch shark tank, but they're no
um on a recent episode
They're one of the pitches was like a adult swaddle like a thing that you can step into and swaddle yourself in and now it's like
I don't know a million multi-million dollar business because yeah people yeah
want to be swaddled well and people like those um weighted anxiety blankets like that's a thing
Yeah
And like weird like fur suits like all of this like it really is not baby stuff big time
Yeah, it's really not a gender thing
This also like hit me like a brick or a wall of bricks because I'm like so um, you know
Delirious and brain dead right now. So like my brain is less rigid and more associative
Chain smoking and drinking frozen margaritas while my baby
Cry
Writing your screed about the truth about gender
Yeah, but I mean it really like I think is that on some level because I think also men
As a group have no purpose now
I mean, I'm you know, I'm a big like early childhood development
Yeah, I really believe that it
Is incredibly important part of like the human experience that like for some people traumatizes them
So much that they like can't function
Um, and then everyone else is like traumatized in minor ways that just kind of give them personalities
Yeah, but that's is what it is. Yeah, it's like something happened
in early childhood
where
To a troubling amount of people where now we have this situation where adults want to be like swaddled like babies
Yeah, by wearing like whatever slip dresses and kills because no one like
Told them about dignity or something. Yeah, and it's like, you know, like when they weren't yeah, I'm sorry. No, no go ahead
They weren't like initiated into the symbolic order properly and yeah, we're having a breakdown of like
How things function. Yeah, and I think you know, like you said that this is
Struck you as like the sign of like a decadent society and decline and you know
Poglia has that bit that the any kind of like weird gender play is the sign of a decadent society
And I don't think it's decadent
Because of its sexual or gender expression though those things may be pathological
Maybe not depending on the particular situation
Again, it's decadent because it's abdicating responsibility for oneself and it's entering into this like
Childlike mode. Yeah
And that's just like
Freaky and also
Um, I know that like people
Can call me a hypocrite for this, but it really bothered me that one guy who was pictured standing on his bed in combat boots
It's like dude. What are you doing wearing your like curb stompers?
With like some stupid moomoo like on your canopy bed. God
Here's a quote from
a non-binary person
mx and claire
Says for the longest time people were so stuck on being one way or the other
Referring to waning gender dress codes queer people queer people have been playing with this for a long time
But now you see a lot of guys in dresses that don't identify as all that feminine
Again total weird breakdown about what of this symbolic order. Yeah of like, why would you wear?
Feminine gown, I guess ostensibly like to highlight what their like masculinity
You know, yeah, I guess. Yeah, but there's it's so it's it's just such a meaningless dress shirt
I feel
But that's like, you know, like when david bowie did it and I'm actually not a particularly big fan of
David bowie. I think he was like kind of fake and gay like mcjagger had that great line about how like he
You would hang out with him and he'd ask you where your shoes were from and then show up next week wearing your
same shoes
Well, but he was a you know, a very charismatic singular individual
And when he did the cross-dressing thing
It was very clear that while he was like beautifully androgynous. He was also very powerfully masculine. He was very
Dennis rodman too. He's like so high T. It's a
Right and that's the difference kind of between because what bowie did was like androgynous
And truly weird. Yeah, and this is so just like
This these instances that they point to of men like wearing dresses that I'm not even convinced even exists
Yeah, you know
It exists for the purposes of this article or like the three people that they interviewed for this
This like sinister homosexual who wrote the article just rounded up some of his house of yes friends
Or like yeah, I excited to talk about how they they they can wear whatever they want or something
I lost my train of thought. No, sorry, whatever
I thrifted this fit in westwood kilt from beacons closet. You can't stop me. My point was yeah, it's not
Truly subversive. It's not androgynous. It's not ambiguous. It's like they're point. They're going to like dress barn
and
putting on like a mu mu because yeah, I think you're right because they want their like dad
To punish them. Yeah, but daddy's not coming. Yeah, he's not there
He's a war veteran. Daddy's dad. He's a korea war bat
Daddy's strung out on opiates
um
Yeah, daddy's chinese and you can't help you anymore
Um, but it's really sad because
These kids like also have they literally have nothing to rebel against
Right because there was no yeah like order ever
Or orchestrated, which is like that why they're like rebelling at against everything at once against themselves
Yeah, and like the future is going to be like yeah, like everybody like eating soft foods wearing mu mu's
Having like an all-purpose poop shoe renting everything. Yeah, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy the great reset
Oh, yeah, who what was that ad was that for the great reset?
That was for the great reset that we like never really followed up on and it could be taking taking place now
I think it is. Yeah in the midst of it. Well, what there's some godavos style
Um con political kind of summit happening right now Joe Biden tweeted about it. I was like diplomacy is back
Let me find it. I'm actually gonna go on Joe Biden's twitter
Which I've never done. I'll never follow him. No
um
President Biden
Oh my goodness
Macron and I stand together ready to take on the toughest challenges the slappers
He should slap he looks like he's about to slap
Macron actually
That would be really funny. I would respect Joe Biden if he slapped him
Just a little tap just like a little condescending tap. You know not a full follow-through
Oh, this is it. It's g7 summit. Oh, yeah, it's another one of those like like dappostyle bloodsucker summits
Say satanic. They're standing in like a satanic formation. Yeah, I think they're social distancing, but
And I like that boris johnson is in in the middle because he's actually by far
my favorite one of these
Global policymakers for sure
At least he has like a sense of humor
um
Anyway, god Trudeau is such a cuck
He seems like a groomer too by the way. Yeah, he'll get out at any day now. Yeah groomer just means like
Like
Loser who talked to teens instead of women their age because they couldn't like tolerate them. Yeah
Because they're like emotionally on the level. Yeah
Anyway, um
What else do we have anything else? No on the docket. We've done like an hour 20
um
That's not bad. Oh, yeah, I read that study too. I sent you a study about how like globally one in five young people now identifies
non
cis
Non cis or like queer as queer because queer just kind of means whatever. Yeah
Yeah, it just means they don't want to be heteronormative because there's like negative associations with it. Yeah
and
So it's probably more like one in 10
Are truly queer. Yeah, which is probably kind of standard throughout history and time. I mean
Yeah, I just that's just very ambiguous terminology
Yeah, but there's something I think people are trying to kind of like drum up
Uh more fanfare for this like so-called gender revolution and again, you have to like look under
Under its skirt or whatever. They're quote not straight. Yeah, okay
Which means the half of them are bisexual, which doesn't count
Conducted in 27 count countries also found that 4 of those in gen z identify as transgender
and non-binary 4%
trans
But one in five
Not straight. Yeah
Which seems like the this survey seems flawed. It does. Yeah, because methodologically are you straight feels like a loaded question
That I feel like
A lot of people who probably mostly are would say no to just because
Yeah
There's also tremendous pressure amongst gen z to be like progressive around stuff like this
Yeah, they're gonna start um denying their white pretty soon the white ones. It'll be great
They're gonna be like one in five white people are not white
I mean, yeah, we're gonna have like the era of like transracialism
Transclassism, um, that'll be nice. Yeah, that'll be cool when we can just manifest
Our wealth. Yeah
I feel like young people in general are probably just more sexually experimental
Definitely you're more
Saddled with debt
I'll check in with gen z in like 20 years and see where they're at. Oh, I thought you you were gonna say in 20 minutes when you're on the discord
What did you guys what is so what did you guys think? How do you hello fellow kids?
Yeah, like a skateboard like a supreme skating slung over your shoulder. How do you access a discord?
It's like an app. You have to get invited and it's like it's an app. Yeah, okay, cool
But don't worry about it. Don't invite me, please. Don't sometimes they speculate that you might be on there
And yeah, it is definitely not on here. I'm like, I reverse psychology. Yeah, I just like
Go and look should look sometimes. Yeah, I can't
I mean, they're pretty sweet. It's not like the the I mean the reddit even is fine now
It's like expanded beyond the confines of the podcast. I feel like yeah, it's like its own thing that we're not culpable for
Yeah
Cool
Well, I no longer have to feel guilty for a dog whistling to racists and misogynists
Do you see you in hell?