Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 226: Happiness Is Not Found In A Documentary

Episode Date: November 24, 2021

Tom's audio for the first ten minutes of this episode is rough, but just bear with us. We talk about Tall Tales at Thanksgiving, the usefulness of documentaries, why Tanya hates the Democrats so much, and why advertisers are trying to figure out how to get into your dreams. Thanks for your patience folks and Happy Thanksgiving. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

So my neighbor called and said, hey, we got some of your mail down here, which is normal. They often do have my mail. She said, but it didn't come here. It came to some dude's house. He rode up on a white four wheeler. I thought she was about to say he rode up on a white horse. She said, and he opened your mail. She said, he opened this box.

Do you know what it is? And I figured it was some stickers because my stuff because like the sticker place won't mail to my po box because usually i have everything sent to my po i don't know man i literally have mail being delivered to about seven different places right now all the same address well i have to have my physical address and then my po box which i prefer but some people won't deliver to a po no you need like uh you need like uh not a carrier pigeon because they're not big enough to carry like large packages, but I don't know. Like just fly over and just drop that shit right on top of the mountain for

you. Yeah. It's just ridiculous. But I had to go into my neighbor's house this morning who's on oxygen and I didn't have a mask on. I was like covering my face with a fucking scarf, trying desperately not to give her COVID and had to go in her kitchen shuffle through a bunch of shit to get a little box of fucking slutty stickers i mean

shit's just too much so what did they say to you though did they give you any like side eye or give you any lip any lips no my neighbors didn't look in the i don't i don't think they looked at in the box i don't think they knew what was in there they didn't act like they did i mean i think my neighbor she would have said something should have been like oh i got you slutty sickers down here you know she would have said something but i don't think she looked at in it um but no the guy, I don't know. She said, I can't believe this guy opened your mail. Yeah, motherfucker. Does it have your name on it?

What do I do? Report it? Who do I report it to? In fairness, he did ride on his white horse all the way to give it back to you. He could have just never said anything. I think you got overlooked look the committed federal offense to give you your fucking with mail but like it could have been any rando stupid thing you know i mean most of what comes to my

house is dog related like dog food and stuff but of course the one time i've got like slutty stickers being delivered just like the weirdest thing you can open was he a dude did he look like was he the kind of dude where he looked like he would have been offended he he i didn't see him he dropped he took the stuff to my neighbor's house and asked if they knew me and she was was like, yeah, she lives up there. And he just left it there. He just left. Just left the box there.

I'm just imagining, like, the sunglasses with the Trump hat type of archetype. You know what I'm saying? Just opening that shit mad as fuck. This is mad as hell. I don't know about this. I don't know about this. This does present an ethical dilemma, yeah. this does present an ethical dilemma yeah because i guess you could throw the book at him with tampering i mean are you can you imagine me going to court over somebody like literally taking a man

to court for opening literally this sticker literally says a little soft belly for the people just the absolute dumbest shit can you imagine me in court talking about why this was such a breach of privacy the judge has to read that shit a little soft belly for the people okay just pondering how stupid his existence is exactly he gotta go pick up his kids after that shit. Mad as fuck. The wife hate him. I've been thinking about ways to spice up things you can

say to make your Thanksgiving dinner interesting. And I forgot a couple. Y'all wanna hear them? You're cutting in and out. Yeah, you are. Your audio is very choppy. Is it doing that shit that shit's doing that one time man yeah it is it's doing the same thing mother fuck fuck this

god it kind of sounds it kind of sounds like when you run an album backwards or something. Like a Led Zeppelin. Nice and demonic. It sounds weird. That's right. I knew something was wrong when y'all didn't laugh at my joke. Exactly.

We couldn't hear it. Ah, damn. Okay. When this was happening? What did we know? We knew two things. I think the problem was two things were heating for the out.

And it caused the signal to be scrambled. But I only have one microphone here. You think it's these headphones? You got another pair of headphones? Nice as it. Oh, shit. You about to go ballistic on us, Terrence?

Oh, I don't care. He's pulling his hair out. Terrence is laughing. I don't care, dude. Oh, shit. Well, we usually record on, what, Wednesdays or sometimes even thursdays right what's today tuesday yeah it's a holiday though oh i'm out tomorrow through saturday oh yeah wow man fucking it's the holidays thanksgiving riddle me this how do i already feel behind on christmas

i mean thanksgiving yet because that should shorter. Every year that goes by, it gets shorter and shorter in time. I know. I planned like a fun vacation trip in December, and that was fucking stupid. Because now I can't even enjoy thinking about my trip because my family's got so much bullshit. Where are you going to go? They're trying to fit in. New Orleans. We're going to go try to find another set of headphones.

But my friends, it's a few hours away from there. They're going to swing through and pick me up at the airport. And we're going to just bop around New Orleans for a few days. It's like eight hours. It's not bad. We're driving. Might as well see these coastal cities while they're still there. Right.

Before they become lakes. I've not been down there since the 10th anniversary of Katrina. What is it now? Like the 16th anniversary? I don't think so. I've never been there there since the 10th anniversary of katrina what is it now like the 16th anniversary i don't think so i've never been there it's been like six years i need to traverse it's gorgeous you really should go it's great what's that what's that uh street that everybody talks about oh bourbon street don't do that don't do that oh wow that's too ratchet oh yeah that's too much criminal behavior yeah that's just the that's like the i mean from it just seemed like a bunch of rednecks honestly when i was there

like that part it's just the touristy i mean i'm not saying don't do touristy things i love being a tourist i love doing touristy shit but it's too much i mean i don't even really drink anymore so i'm like people are pissing off balconies down there it's like frat dog oh yeah hell down there you know because i guess the only reason you would go there is you want to i saw one of the craziest things i've ever seen at a strip club uh on bourbon street i was with a group of my friends in college we were like 21 just turned 21 or whatever and we went to new orleans and we were at a strip club and um this um the stripper she um she went down onto the stage and like got on her back and like put her legs up like that and someone put a dollar bill on her

pussy and she i don't know how the fuck she did this if it was like some hydraulic pneumatic tube or some shit where she was like able to force air out but she fucking shot it up and she sat up and caught it in her teeth incredible bull. It was like that horny wolf beating us in the head with a match. Beating himself in the head with a ballad. Eyes getting big as fuck, popping out your skull. Yeah, we were just through our entire hands of cash.

Credit cards, everything. Clothes, watches. It was one of the best things I'd ever seen i wonder if she was as surprised as everybody else i wonder if it wasn't like just an accidental queef and she just like popped up and just happened to grab in her mouth and was like yeah it's like yeah it's like when it's like when you buy yourself and you like catch something before it falls like do some dope shit and you look around like nobody ever saw that but in this case

a lot of people were around and they all had handfuls of money and they just it's everyone's family crying throw money at you i love that getting that is somebody getting rewarded for work done. Can y'all hear me now? You sounded a little bit better, man. I had a crazy day in a strip club in New Orleans, too, but nothing quite like that happened, unfortunately. We went in there at lunchtime

just like a bunch of fucking maniacs. You just don't go to a strip club in the middle of the fucking day. It's really not the time but um we did and unless you want to take advantage of the free buffet it was the hustler um it was a hustler one because you know all uh what's his dicks Flint oh the the hustler guy he's from Kentucky yeah he's from McLaughlin County oh yeah I did know that yeah yeah I did know that he's from McLaughlin County yeah so we went in there and I mean it's like lunchtime there's I mean there's

some people in there but there were no other women in there. And so the dancers ended up pulling me up on stage. It was very fun, but it was day drunk. I didn't last, but about two more hours after that on the day. I need a nap now. Yeah, need an eight hour nap. Do it again tomorrow. Maybe not. I saw Drake just went and spent a million million dollars in Houston at the strip club.

Good. That's incredible. That's insane. Dropped a million dollars. In singles? Yeah, in singles. That's what I'm saying. No, you know he was in there

dropping 50s on 100s. That's how it happened. Well, no. The IG story, all the girls, the working girls, were saying, thank you drake

and they had piles and piles of cash of one dollar bills i don't know but it wasn't incredible holy shit tom your vocals right now sound like that pop can um is that what his name was like did that but not like on that kanye song you talk about the dance hall artist pop yeah pop con yeah that's what you sound like dude it's weird that might be a new twit did you not figure it out a new twit it's so so crazy here here y'all do it i'll just get i'll just get up here all right bye all right bye tom well we got tom on for half of it it's 2 30 we got

half tom half without tom yeah and like they could hear him we just just can't hear him. They'll be able to hear him, but not stand up. Who knows? I think what he said for his Thanksgiving dinner opener was something about not letting this ruin the Cosby show for him. Yeah, that's what I thought. I just heard Cosby. I'm not going to let this ruin the Cosby show for me. Is Bill back in the news? I think he made a comment on R. Kelly. Wow. Bill Cosby fixed his lips to discuss R. Kelly.

Talk about R. Kelly, yeah. Against lawyer advice, I'm sure. I like this. I like telling Tom's bits. Like, I'm going to ask him, hey, text us the rest of those things. Yeah, tell him to text us the rest of them. No, but you got to do a Tom voice, though. If you get to do it, you got to do a Tom voice.

Who could do that? Tom, send us the rest of your Thanksgiving, was it icebreakers? Steal your valor well i've already had thanksgiving dinner with my family this past weekend and i was on the couch but i heard from the table my uncle jeff notorious say oh they that they it was the day the kyle rittenhouse uh decision came down and i heard my uncle say that that they finally let that boy off jesus christ they finally let that boy off that boy who uh was defending himself yeah bloodthirsty murderer you know what sucks about all this you know on top of people dying and just a reminder that you're just a system it's also dead

is that they just keep going out of their way to try to make these doughy little dumb asses seem cool they're like making him seem interesting and he's just like one of the most uninteresting motherfuckers alive just so boring yeah yeah boring little bitch boys show up with their daddy's ak's and suddenly now they're i mean he's gonna have he'll have a book deal who knows what he already got a time uh this is named tucker carlson said that uh they was already filming a documentary during the leading up to the trial and shit like that. Are you kidding me? Do they like cameras in the fucking... I bet that judge liked cameras in there.

Yeah. I bet he would. Tom's dictating these to me. What does that even mean? I'm Tom's dictaphone. This podcast is Tom's dictaphone this podcast is tom's dictaphone oh i see it i see it now i won't read it but i'll see it yeah wait before we get to that i saw that

didn't rittenhouse say that he was actually pro black lives matter yeah that's one thing that tom what that's one thing that tom what to talk about we don't got to get into it but like like me and him have a suspicion that like uh the right wing is going to try to like frame itself as like social justice like reclaim it from like the libs but of course like be just as empty if not more so but like yeah man i mean nah it's just like trying to sanitize him and make him like not fit into the box that the liberals want to fit him into like he's anti blm and shit yeah it was probably i may yeah i don't know i would say who knows i would say yeah part of me the sort of conspiratorial part of me says that that was like a pr thing like them you know what i mean to kind of like co-opt it in a way or to kind of yes exactly what you're

saying yeah yeah yeah or i mean people have a host of contradictory views man like maybe like we're all wrong he's like i just didn't want to see them like loot like you know a fucking dwayne reed or some shit you know what i mean he's like he's like i think that americans should start blowing up pipelines we're like whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa, okay. I was just defending a town that isn't even mine. That I don't even live in. I was very upset that this town was

being looted and pillaged. Two hours away from where I live or however far away he is from that place now. Did you guys see that Will Smith said, don't defund the police, just defund the bad police, is what he said. Like, that should be the-

Oh, my God. Well, that's easy. Man, we got to do something about black liberals when the time comes, man. It's incredibly frustrating. Seriously. It's so wild reading. So, Will Smith, I guess, is about to come out like with a memoir or something like that right i think he's about to come out with a book or a documentary or

something and they had an interview with them and they were asking him about like pivotal moments in his life and he said that a pivotal moment in his life was when his intimacy coach in the 90s wait an intimacy coach intimacy coach yeah i don't know like a therapist i or something like i think it's like um it actually made a lot of sense but the the headline made it seem like it was wacky or weird but he was talking about how like he grew up really christian and so even after he was married like every time he would find himself attracted to someone else he would have all these thoughts of shame and everything and so i guess he told his intimacy coach in therapy that like his ultimate fantasy was like a harem with like hallie berry and like i don't know all these other people um vivigay fox whoever was a yeah

foxy black woman at the time yeah yeah he said he he wanted to travel around in a harem. But I mean, that's whatever. I don't really understand why he posed in a harem. Like a bunch of women, like sex, like a bacchanalia, like an orgy, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a, yeah. Angela Bassett, for sure. Angela Bassett. You're liking what you're hearing?

You're liking what you're hearing you're liking what you're hearing tanya i like it i like what i'm hearing tanya's doing the bird man head rub like okay right a harem you say oh i like it i kind of like the sound of that jesus um okay but that wasn't the weird thing from that interview i don't even know I remember that detail the other weird thing from that the actual weird thing from that interview was that he was like um yeah so uh I thought defund the police like I sympathize with their message and obviously with Black Lives Matter but like defund the police was just a bad message and it was always going to fail and so like why didn't they say something that doesn't scare people off like defund the bad police and i was thinking about

it's it's weird like it is so fascinating how that idea became sort of manifest that like that was a bad idea you know what i mean like it's just yeah mean? It's not even abolish the police. It's nothing like that. It's so... You put it next to the budgets of these agencies and how much money they get. It's like, why is it so controversial just to say that?

It literally is budgetary. It's a budgetary... They've been defunding healthcare, public services for decades. Right. Defunding fucking all the safety nets, public transportation. All this has been defunded. And when you're staring down a city's budget, that 80% of it goes to the cops. Like, that's fucking sick.

Yeah. Yeah. Especially if you have a small population of a city, you know what I'm saying? the most of that money like you said tony is going to the police some sick shit man yeah it's like the most bare minimum thing to be like hey we're having a budget crisis let's figure out how to move some shit around i bet um i would bet the cia probably came to will smith and they were like yo we need you to say stuff. Like they did to Pitbull or whatever his name is. Yes.

We have Pitbull. He started doing anti-keeper propaganda. It was like, Will Smith, we need you. What's funny about what Will Smith said is that he shit on what was being... He shit on a solution and then suggested the exact same solution. He suggested the cause of the problem.

He shit on it and then said the exact same thing. This is my better idea. The exact same thing. What I found is like... It's like... What did you say tanya no that i'm sorry tom has sent us like 12 my phone is like

okay some of these are kind of funny but i just want to say like it's like a messaging thing because i had a professor uh when i was taking a major in political science and like he was my mentor and i used to go to his office and like you know he wasn't didn't share my views but like you know like i guess he saw like uh potential at least in my academics or whatever and we were talking about black lives matter and he was like why don't they just call it black lives matter too you know like comma two you know and i'm like well dude that like defangs it right because if you have to say black lives matter too that kind of like obfuscates like the whole like you know racial white supremacy like you know what i mean so it's like this is a messaging thing thing for these

people where they're like well you don't want to offend people but i mean like how else do you like get shit done if you're not willing to be antagonistic you know there are people who literally like they're almost like pedants about that stuff it's really wild just like because they have their own very individual like grievance with it it is a knee-jerk thing that they don't like but they have to appear as if they like support it in theory but like their reasoning their explanation for not liking it is yeah it's like like rhetorical stuff like that it's like no slogan of any movement is going to be like universally accepted or like even perfect like things can jill around like slogans and signifiers and then like you just kind of have to work with what you got you know you're either in or you're

out it's just like it's like people who decide they're not going to get involved just for that those like little things like that it's so like imagining that people would be on board with like medicare for all if it was like dumbed down watered down to like medicare for all who want it like buddha judged it you know what i'm saying as if that's any more if that's a as if that's appealing to people right yeah anyway yeah yo tom has been uh anyway yeah yo tom has been uh tom has got uh what is this all right let's listen let's hear tom sexton's um man he really wants to be out on the field today he really wants to be out on the well I've heard his number two so many times well not that number two but I've heard that number two but I've heard his number two icebreaker so many times all right who's gonna deliver this you're the dictator right okay i'm yeah i'm the dick i'm

the dictator uh the dictaphone i'm not okay number three number two is so isis you gotta set it up here now the setting here is a lull in in conversation at the thanksgiving dinner table right it's so it's not icebreaker so much as like it's it's really the art of podcasting and it's in a way it's like you need place fillers to pivot to the next thing exactly to make people feel like you have a coherent narrative support yes exactly um number three i don't agree with what texas is doing but i respect their sovereignty what you said you've heard number two I don't even get it just so ISIS

yeah you've never heard him say that people just be like so ISIS ISIS hey you know the Islamic state hey oh shit that's a good one though Islamic State. Hey!

Oh, shit. That's a good one, though. Oh, my God. Number four. You should be reading this, Tanya. I ain't gay or nothing, but I think Robert Patterson Wait. Pattinson

will make a fine Batman that is such a right wing thing yo to preface by like I'm not gay but I ain't gay or nothing I ain't gay or nothing but I'm just saying oh my god I love this one for Thanksgiving let's not forget the real meaning of today, folks.

The birth of Christ. You say that right before you pray? Yeah, at Thanksgiving. Oh lord. Editor's note. The goal is finding common ground with your awful relatives. I should have mentioned

that. That's true. Yeah. That's true. Just because your family members don't agree with your politics don't mean you got to, you know, disown them. My bad, Tony. What did you say?

I just like that Tom is now running the show. MCing? Yeah, he's MCing. He just writes our shit now. Right. He just writes a lot of jokes. No, my aunt Sharon

is like a very aggravated liberal all the time and the rest of my family is pretty conservative but they just mostly don't care. Except Jeff. He loves to rattle off dumb shit. But mostly just because he's insecure about being dumb so he likes to try to sound smart whatever yeah uh and he tells tons of like he's like the worst for telling big tall tales and my mom for some reason gets so mad like he'll just be telling a big one. And mom's like, that is a fucking lie, Jeff.

It's a fucking lie. I said, mom. And we were in the car on the way home. I said, just let the man have a good time. It's Thanksgiving. Let him tell one or two. What's the problem? She said, I just can't fucking stand it.

He gets on one. I can't stand it. I don't know why he does that. I'm like, just leave the man alone. God, mom. Just let him. I mean, Thanksgiving the the one time where like all of your family members with their like problematic views i mean i think they should

just get the spout shit off and you just sit there and you're not you don't not have to nod your head but you know what i'm saying just like that's the one time they get a platform man just let them rock but my aunt sharon said something about Biden. Erin Thorpe. Anti-PC culture. At Thanksgiving only. Just at Thanksgiving. At Thanksgiving only. Let her go.

My Aunt Sharon said something about Biden. And my Aunt Lisa from across the house yelled, Shut up, Sharon. That's the most sacred conversation of the holiday. Shut up, Sharon. Not today. We ain't putting up with it. But what my mom got so mad about with Jeff this year was she had her boyfriend there.

And for some reason, he was trying to tell stories to convince her boyfriend how country we are. When he is also from the country. Like, he's not from far away. He's just from right around there. I don't know what's wrong with him. He was talking about how they all went to a school with all 100 people that they were related to.

Mom was like, no we didn't. My Aunt Lisa said, Jeff, you're making us sound incest. Who is more country? You got to raise the bar sorry about jeff just tell him big ones he said oh yeah he's full shit we were all related to each other and ran like a moonshine industry or some shit like that you know this one had married that one that one man we all knew each other we ran like a moonshine industry or some shit like that. He's like, oh yeah, you know, this one had married that one, that one had married, we all knew each other, we was all cousins.

And mom was like, no we didn't. They literally went to elementary school in Indianapolis because everyone had moved up there for jobs. They were in fucking inner city. They moved home from Indianapolis because they started busing, they started literally desegregating the schools.

Like integration ran my papaw's racist ass white flight for real for real but see that's what i'm saying man like you got the opportunity to just spout off some wild shit and it's harmless it's mostly harmless let him talk fuck who cares oh man i mean i'm obviously pro tall tale And obviously the taller the tale The funnier it is I know I was like hell that's why I'm here Let him rip

I'm here I just came in from smoking weed let me hit some wall shit man Yeah That's true It is funny though how he got to that one like that that you got that he went to school with a hundred relatives yeah it's like we don't even know a hundred really like you're literally just talking about a hundred people i was related to yeah we all went to school together. Okay, man. You know, I do think that there's like, I mean, of course, I mean, I can, I experienced this at 35.

Just like trying to piece together memories and make it on, you know, just sound more fun. Because I can't remember them all anyway. Like I can't remember all the details so i just make up but think about that at 70 like my man's pushing 70 he may i think he really has convinced himself all this is true yeah he don't necessarily think he's lying he's just he's just he's just shooting from the hip my man trapped and loaded and just like picking like from the stream of his memory just picking out random shit and cobbling it together to some tall tale yeah yeah we're playing brooks i'm like

this makes the game better that was the plot of that movie big fish remember that it was like yeah yeah it was like but the tall tale turned out to be real yeah yeah because what is memory like i don't know right sometimes i think like am i remembering this or did i just like make this shit up you know what i mean i can't convince myself of it i have that thought too he also served in germany it's untelling what the government pumped him full of, you know. He's in the military. He's full of LSD. Who knows? Flashbacks. We don't know.

We don't know. God damn. Tom said, okay, maybe don't do Texas or Cosby. Oh, you already did. Too late. Too late. Too late. Always miss the paper.

Were there any good speaker pieces getting close to the holidays? Oh, yeah. We haven't done Windows in a while, right? We're recording this on Tuesday, and Tuesday is Mountain Eagle Eve. You know, you don't get it until Wednesday. But I thought maybe last week's might have had

something. Well, listen, the last episode, well, I was just going to keep riffing on my Thanksgiving. I don't have to do that. But everybody's in their own... I have some advice, though, for your Thanksgiving. Surely most Thanksgivings will have a kid

playing video games in attendance go sit beside the kid and ask if you can just watch them play so can i just watch your game and i just chill here and watch your game go watch the game these games are fucking weird they are so weird i was like hanging out with my nephews and my nephew's teaching me to play this game and finally I realized, he keeps saying the mayor. He's calling this character the mayor and finally I realized this is Donald Trump. It's a shit game character. Can you believe this?

Wait, so they made a character to emulate Trump? Yes, the character's name is literally Don and the O-N. And my nephew, for some reason, is calling him the mayor. How old is your nephew? That's the mayor.

He's six. God damn. He's calling him the mayor. And in this video game, all you do is two, like, he was setting it up as two characters so we could both play. All you do is just throw an object at each other until someone dies that's the whole game it's dumb as hell and i know it's so dumb like it's just like a it's like you have to it's one of those like y'all who pull you pull back the weapon at a certain degree and angle and let it go and you just got to get it right so that

it hits the other character yeah yeah you're like catapulting. And each character had their own weapon designed to them. When he finally let me pick out my own character, there's a witch who throws a broom. Obviously, that's me. That's what I picked. But Don, I'll give you three guesses.

I'll give you three guesses to what Mayor Don's weapon was. Uh, man. Is his weapon, I don't know, man. A cheeseburger. Yeah, I was thinking like a Big Mac. A bottle of A1 sauce. Nope.

Got one more try. Aaron, what you got? My steak? Don't. It was a brick, and it said brick from the wall. It literally said brick from the wall it literally said brick from the wall what it was a brick from the border wall yo okay that's amazing this is a child's game who's making these fucking games man i don't know even my sister was like i don't know why they call him the mayor they started calling him

the mayor I don't know so your kids can see Donald Trump as a figure of authority man why they call him that I was so weirded out but it's like this wasn't a political game I mean literally that was the game you just throw whatever object but I was going

through the other characters it's just like other random shit like a witch with a broom uh i don't even know what else like a lot of different monsters but donald trump it was so random well you just say monsters yeah yeah oh shit that's funny there was like a ninja with a sword it's just like a bunch of random shit i cannot believe my nephews were like, yeah, the mayor throws a brick from the wall. See, when you started this, I thought you were going in a sweet direction. Like, you know, these kids get like kind of isolated, like when all the grownups at the table talking.

So, you know, just like be there and enjoy the kids company. But now you're like, no, this shit is weird. You got to pay attention to the games yeah no you really well that is uh that is an important piece because all the older people are like put down that game and so i just went hung out with them and i was like what are you playing let's see let's check it out what you got going over here or just like don't ask them a bunch of questions just hang out over there watch their game just like hang out but you might and i was i thought i was just being the sweet aunt but i ended up being like what is this game what's going on like the curmudgeonly like adult yeah this is inside like taking it from

grabbing the controller y'all are like fighting over it it's such a surreal detail it's there's like from the wall brick from the wall right it's so surreal have you heard about like there's all this content out there like child's children's content on youtube that is just made by algorithm so it's like you watch it and it's completely nonsensical doesn't make any sense yeah kids shit on youtube is sick my nephews all which i had to come around to being like okay this is basically just sports like but because once i described what was happening i was like oh this is just sports but but it seemed so stupid to me until i was until i admitted until i was like okay but my

nephews love to watch people play games they like watch youtube of grown men playing a video game just like on twitch or whatever but this is all on youtube and these grown men usually british acts men with british hacks brits i guess are like you know just narrating all the dumb shit they're doing in this video game my nephews will watch that for literally hours they They love it. And I'm just like, this is the most boring. I feel like I'm being tortured. I literally feel, it feels like torture to just watch someone play a game. I don't even understand, but they love it so much. And then I was like, this is so fucking creepy and weird.

But I was like, this is just like watching basketball. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was thinking too. Like, what really is the difference? They're both like spectator sports, I guess, right? I mean, esports, it's real.

It's a real thing. Tati's shouting out the gamers. It does make you wonder if there will become a sort of singularity point where they decide they don't need real players anymore. And so all of it is virtual. Do you think that would ever happen? Metaverse, man. Facebook is going to use the metaverse

to make a virtual reality. Why do you have to spend a couple hundred dollars on a ticket, like one plane ticket, and then to buy the ticket to another city stadium or some shit when you could just, you know, plug in and watch that shit. This is the craziest thing. Like that show Black Mirror, like I was never crazy about it. I watched maybe like the first couple of episodes or movies or whatever, and I was like, oh, I guess that's interesting. For the most part, a lot of the ones I saw, I thought they were pretty kind of contrived or ridiculous or cringe or overwrought.

But it seems like perhaps Zuckerberg watched that show and took it literally as an aspirational thing. It's even more dumb because the show itself is dumb. It's not even really smart. But I shouldn't say that. I haven't seen any of it. I don't know. Maybe it is smart. I like it.

I like that show. The first two seasons, in my opinion, are really good. But then, like, their later seasons, like, when it went to Netflix, like, I don't know. Like, I just read something on it. I can't even remember. But there is, like, a kind of tonal shift. You know what I'm saying? Where the stories weren't as dark or like you were saying,

Terrence, they were more contrived, but like, yeah, like, yeah, I, yeah,

I, I shouldn't rag on it. I actually don't know. Another reason to make people mad. A problem of mine. Even five years ago, I felt like I was hearing people say, and maybe I was even repeating like

you know everything's gonna be vr in you know everything's gonna be vr in five years especially porn porn is gonna be all virtual reality but really that's like i feel like we've been saying that for a long time and it just hasn't happened i know right like it feels like the technology still isn't there yet or maybe it'll never be there i mean i don't know i could be wrong but they've been saying that shit for a minute man since like the late 90s man but i don't really understand the metaverse thing what what's happening i you do you get it i just i just it's a virtual augmented reality i mean that's that's how i think of it but i don't know i could be wrong, that's pretty much it. But it's for like boring shit.

It's like meetings. Like education. To get your news feed. I mean, I think it's partially inspired by the work from home, you know, the pandemic stuff. It's like, what if work from home? What if we just lived in the pandemic? That's all right, right guys?

We're not going to figure this shit out, by the way. So we're just going to go ahead and just live in it yeah damn you know what i was thinking about man like that there have been like certain permanent changes that happened during the pandemic that are gonna stick because like for the piece that i was writing i was just looking a bunch of shit up and like uh like uh secondhand clothing right like buying and selling like clothes and shit like that shit like increased like crazy during the pandemic because most people like didn't have like the funds or i mean this is the other reason that the the article gives but like people were

worried about sustainability you know and like i don't know like certain shit like that like also with these streaming platforms and them just throwing, like, mad shit at the wall because they know that people are mostly home or have more time to watch this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty... We ain't going back, man. It's pretty weird. Yeah, well, I was thinking about that, too, because if you're trying to write anything,

it's, like you you have to like 2014 and 2016 are pretty similar even though like at at the very end of that year the election was crazy or whatever but for the most part it was the same year yeah those years are pretty homogenous but there's a pretty big difference yeah it's pretty crazy time is weird man um well um wait that reminds me of that that that vr thing the metaverse thing it reminds me of this thing i read the other day um i'll see if i can find it. It was about advertisers trying to basically figure out a way to advertise in your dreams. You know what I'm saying? Nah, fuck out of here. Nah, man.

It's like when they were talking about advertising on the surface of the moon. So when you look at the moon, it's like a Pepsi sign. What is wrong with people? Check this out. They've been talking about that for years. Jesus. Advertisers have begun invading our sleep in an attempt to place their products in our dreams. This is neither metaphor nor fiction.

It's a fact. By the way, this is an aeon. The night before Super Bowl 55, 45? I don't know what that is. The Roman numerals? I don't know the Roman numerals. It's like 10 Roman numerals. It's too much.

XVV111. This was one I've not seen before. It's an L. What the fuck is the Roman numeral L? I don't fucking know. I don't know what that shit is. Hey, my bad, Terrence. Go ahead. The night before the Super Bowl,

the beverage company Molson Coors ran what they called the world's largest dream study. They explicitly aimed to place images of Coors beer along with positive imagery of refreshing Alpine rivers, for instance, into dreamers' minds. They hired a Harvard psychologist to design dream incubation stimuli incentivize participation with offers of free drinks and in a marketing coup had the pop star

zayn malik agree to sleep or malik i've never known how to say his last name agree to sleep on instagram live while having an incubated coors dream. Though he did mention the whole project was kind of messed up. Kind of. This is wild. This isn't an isolated case. Multiple marketing studies are openly testing new ways to alter and drive purchasing behavior through sleep and dream

hacking. The American Marketing Association, New York's 2021 Future of Marketing study found that of more than 400 marketers from firms across the U.S., 77% of them aim to deploy Dream Tech for advertising in the next three years. That's pretty- But wait, I'm confused.

Dream Tech? How do you consent? Like, I'm confused. Maybe I missed something. How do you consent? Like, where does your consent come into that? that you're right i don't even know how i guess you have to literally go in you would have to be you have to ask to get the pepsi ads in your brain who the fuck would do that i don't know man it would have to be a trade-off human experience and desire

is so complex aaron will We'll never fully understand it. I'm going to say, I might consent to, like, sleepy time tea ads or something. Shelby, relax, please. Well, I mean, I guess, like, if you were off of the promise of, like, having, like, a really dope dream, you know what I'm saying? Where, like, I don't know, you were a superhero or you had the life you always wanted, but you had to allow ads to sneak through. So you could be having like the dream of your life where you finally find

like the love of your life and you get married and like right before the wedding and the dream, it just like cuts an ad for like Pepsi or some shit like that, you know? And you just have to deal with that. Yeah. I mean that I'm pretty sure that's a black mirror episode where you can just like go home and put on headphones or something and have a totally alternate reality that you oh yeah sand you dream about that dream

about commercials dream about tom raper trailers in ohio well i bet like no it's like this is this is a technology that's only available for rich people. But the way they get you to consent to it is you can have this if you allow commercials. Oh, so it's a subscription service? I bet. I bet. It's like this is something rich people can get where they can like create a whole world that they live in their dream state. And you can have it too with commercials. It's like Hulu is like you would have paid an extra seven bucks

so you don't get ads damn that's a good point it's dark bucks dark it's like your first born or some shit like that bad even worse i would be terrified to let anybody fuck with my dreams dude fuck yeah that's so scary i'm afraid of my own dreams exactly i mean dreams are fucking scary i dream will fuck up your whole day what listen listen to this though what about this hey hot shot did you think of this contrarian naysayers dreams could be used by writers musicians or anyone else aiming for creative inspiration and exploration. You know what that's called? That's called weed, bro.

Dude, the thing is, it's so bad. That's just drugs. We really have gotten down to the point where they're even trying to gamify. It's like they're even gamifying the creative process. are yeah it's like they're even gamifying the creative process it's like everything has to be meticulously formulated and calculated like just like these marvel movies you know what i mean like their paint by number their formula it's whatever but they're basically saying like so we can have people write more marvel movies and give them marvel dreams and they'll be inspired by it it's just like man one day one day they're not even gonna like have people like have the dream to do it

they're just gonna have like algorithms like they already do for like news articles you know where like it'll just be like they put all this data into like an algorithm and it just spits out a news article plot of a movie right oh shit man oh shit some dark ass shit it ain't right it ain't right um um yeah i don't know i guess this article i should be fair this article does go on to explain it's a long ass article and i did not read it you're just like scrolling through it does go on to explain how this like dream incubation i think is what they call it how i guess it can be used for good um but i'm i don't know i'm kind of with you tanya i don't i don't think we're fucking with something we don't even understand and and once

you start doing that once you start fucking with things you don't understand the game's up that's probably how we got coveted all right i mean you know messing with god's plan don't be messing with god's plan we're gonna make no lab leaks on the fucking now the dream lab leaking out the dream lab yeah god damn damn it it's good go ahead terrence i don't have anything to say go ahead yeah i was gonna say like i'm sure like if you fuck around too hard and unlock some of repressed memories that people have like you get some wild shit you know like wake up like a serial killer some shit like that truly some of this sounds like outdated science though and i mean who the fuck knows uh again i'm not a

scientist but um this says playing recordings of product names during sleep could shift snack preferences towards either m&ms or skittles and it's like isn't that like the joke in like high school like you play the book on tape and you'll learn it you know it's like are we really saying that learn a language like that right right like are we really as hell man it really it's just it's so insidious and depressing how the the most minute industry like skittle like the most like even the snack industry is just sitting around desperate to figure out how to make more money yeah off of us like that like that is what capitalism is it's constant growth and it's terrifying have we like at what point do people like where does it even and where do we be like no no more it's just the constant growth stuff is so fucking terrifying dude we've even changed like like time

like the reason why daylight savings time like became like popularized in the u.s is because the chamber of commerce was moving that shit because they knew that like people would stay out later if it was lighter out and they would go shopping the same thing with the candy industry with halloween man like they pushed really hard for daylight saving time to become standardized because they wanted kids out there when the sun was still out fucking picking up candy and shit getting candy and yeah it's dark ass shit man um uh even if we willingly give permission for the collection of our sleep data it could be difficult to fully understand what would be done with it imagine this data being

sold to corporations selling sleep aids so that after a particularly restless night the ads that appear during your internet searches are for Benadryl Ambien and Tylenol PM. I mean, that already happens to me. They're already fucking... It's probably because they're already... I wake up and I tell

my girlfriend, like, I slept terribly last night. They're already fucking listening on this thing anyway. They're monitoring how late you're scrolling at night on your phone and shit like okay he can't sleep all right just push some ads in the instagram feed about like you know oh it's so scary i'm in full-on denial about how much i'm being monitored and advertised to i'm in complete denial about it same i just can't i can't stomach it i can't take it on it would drive me crazy do you know how many people have asked me hey did you watch that social dilemma documentary no bitch i didn't and i don't plan to i don't care i don't

want to know this shit i hate documentaries one because they're rarely done well. Two, because I don't fucking care. I'm trying to live well. Okay? Happiness is not found in a documentary, my friends. It ain't there. Do not go into a documentary looking for happiness.

It's not there. No, I didn't watch it and I'm not gonna. I'm already off facebook and instagram because they're fucking cops that's enough i'm sorry i'm already dealing with climate change i'm not dealing with that i'm not dealing i'm not dealing with this little bit of happiness i got i'm not dealing with the fact that my phone is fucking with me and like actually wants me dead i can't handle it i can't take it i mean because if you think about it too much if you think about it too much like it it leaves you to like inaction where like you don't want to do anything you know you're

depressed all the fucking time i'm already hella depressed i don't need any more of that shit. I'm good. Keep it. I don't fucking care. No. I'm big bimbo hours over here. I'm regressing, okay? I want to know less, not more. I can't handle it. I've hit a wall. I can't take no more. This podcast in particular sent me off the cliff, okay? Oh, shit, dude.

I think we recorded an episode a couple weeks ago this is uh the three the three boys and we were uh terrence you pivoted at the end towards the democrats he was like all right tony's not here so we can talk about the democrats we were like hell yeah we were like hunkered down like she's not here here. Let's do it really fast. If we do it really fast. Why? Because I freak out. I'm just like, I can't take it. Rightfully so.

Rightfully so. These motherfuckers. I just snapped. I literally heard one detail about my one disease thing that my local Democrat, a like a democrat i have voted for personally did and i text her and i was like are you fucking with me are you fucking with me i'm texting her on my phone i said are you fucking with me right now are you trolling me what the fuck and she was like i don't know what you're talking about i can't take it bitch i can i'm on the fucking edge if you start this shit with me right now i cannot i'm telling you do not mess with me i know where you live i literally do

bitch i cannot hack it i sent her a deranged text message i was like are you fucking are you fucking with me see isn't that isn't that like uh isn't that like uh like one thing that we should like encourage like okay i'm gonna be careful what i'm saying here but like if you know where like these motherfuckers live you know what i'm saying like where they go to work i mean you know i guess like city hall or whatever like that kind of like public knowledge like i feel like they'd be a little bit less liable to like fuck around as a way they do sometimes you know we have a big accountability issue in this country that's obvious uh there's no accountability for these people like the fact that mitch mcconnell can get out of his car and walk into his office or wherever the fuck he walks is criminal be like people these people should have to be walking through underground tunnels

like no one should be i'm sure they do that too yes i know but they're like they should be climbing scaffolding to get into the fucking windows of their offices like i just it it is so upsetting to me that they have one that they're allowed any happiness in this world like have towers with like walkways like high high above ground so they don't even have to like touch the ground yeah just land in helicopters on their buildings to bring them in that's what they need to be doing that's how scared they should be to be seen in public i love public shaming videos when like uh fucking senators and shit try to come get in a coffee line and people are like get the fuck out of here shame on you for showing your face around i love that shit i love it

i don't care if it matters or not i don't care i love it i love to see people publicly shamed for bad behavior listen it's the one like these people deserve way worse so it's the like the smallest like pleasure that we can have you know i've said is that i mean momentarily inconvenienced i personally was able to deliver such a uh reaction to an elected official and honestly is one of the best feelings it's something i hold on to you know oh yeah like it's one of those things that they're like when things seem dire and bad i'm like dude that one time we did that thing and he looked like he was gonna shit his pants it was pretty cool yeah i mean hal rogers when he was the chair of the appropriations committee called my boss and tried to get me fired i've never felt more powerful in

my life i have i wish i had gotten fired honestly i wish they just fired me it would have been great i would have been so i want you would have been able to tell me nothing i would have walked out with your hell you had hell hot i mean at the time i was pretty nervous and fucked up about it but just so great it feels so good no i mean they you know people are making fun of those people chasing that fucking velma looking bitch into the bathroom and stuff. Fucking good. Arrest these bitches. Fuck them all.

Fuck them. They don't deserve a minute's peace. I'm sorry. You're right. I just literally asked you to tell me why you can't bring up Democrats. And then I proceeded on a 10 minute tirade about them it's fine it's fine i'm just looking out for your boundaries and mental health all right i like the idea of um like in this article they were talking about how this could help lucid dreams

like i like the um idea of the scientist who's like like every every dude knows the reason you want lucid dreams is because he's like you can fuck you can fucking yeah yeah that's the only reason why like since i was like nine years old man yeah so it's like that's what the what if the scientist was like no this is really good for lucid dreaming we're like why do you care so much about that greg like i'm just saying listen bro i feel like you could chalk up uh maybe like at least half of scientific advancements to some dude just wanting to get pussy i swear to god man the same way motherfuckers go to war and shit like that man yep you're probably right. Oh, God.

Well, anyways, the article closes out with saying that some of us might endorse dreams of Batman and Superman or trips to Spain and Chile. So that's the brave new future, guys. Like, you can dream about Batman. About flying? I guess. About flying in your dreams? they're already in our heads so much you can dream about the the george cluny batman with nipples you can think about that one wow the best one the best one the best that is pretty funny to think the costume design they were like nah let's put nipples on this i guess like i guess that was like that whole movie too with like uh whoever played poison obby and shit it was just like a very sexualized film in general so was that the one with that was

that the one highly barry was catwoman nah nah we don't talk about that one we don't talk about cat one movie it doesn't exist umma thman, that's what I'm talking about. Uma Thurman. Was Arnold Mr. Freeze? Was that a George Clooney one? I think it was George Clooney. Maybe that's why they put the nipples on the costume for that one.

They were just trying to drive it home. They just had to give Mike room for it. He had Mr. Freeze so things were cold as fuck. I think they were trying to... Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, look at that.

Okay, all right. Baby, something to think about. It's just something to think about. Something to ask your family member at the table at Christmas. Grandpa, what do you think about the nipples on the Batman, George Joel Schumacher, played by George Clooney? Let's discuss the nature of the nipples, the Batman, George Joel Schumacher, uh, played by George Clooney. Let's, uh,

let's discuss the nature of the nipples, please. Yeah. Hell yeah. Um, well, uh, thanks for listening.

Thanks for being patient. Thank both of you for being patient. Um, sorry that you're going to have to, uh, you're going to have to edit this brother. I love the whole first half of this. Just don't edit it.

Just cut it loose. No, I won't. I mean, I'll just put it out. The first half hour is just us dicking around and Tom being like, Son of a dick. Dick. Poor Tommy. Poor Tommy.

Well, hopefully he gets to use that sorted out man all right it's the holidays are officially in full fucking swing friends good luck out there godspeed yes they are godspeed seriously i'm already stressing the fuck out so um i know well i feel like i'm i'm ahead of a lot of stuff i I've got my sewing machine out. I'm making a lot of stuff because we really, our delivery systems are so beyond capacity right now that I just can't stress enough that you all should not be just like ordering tons of junk on the internet. It's going to be crazy this holiday season. Just don't do it, dude. Just don't. I mean, don't go out and buy nothing either.

Just fuck it. Just don't do it. You're not going to don't go out and buy nothing either just fuck it just don't do it make some shit you know what I did I went shopping in my house I'm giving away art I went shopping in my house and I got this idea because my friend was making fun of me and called my house a flea market okay bitch fine jokes on you

that's what you're getting for Christmas some shit out of my flea market it's just recycling back to the people man shopping in the house um yeah i'm making stuff like i mean i don't want to end this on such a downer but i don't think i ever even shared this but like a few weekends ago i was behind a fedex truck at 6 p.m on a sunday did i tell y'all about this no 6 p.m on a sunday like there shouldn't y'all about this? No. 6 p.m. on a Sunday. Like, there shouldn't be delivery trucks out on a Sunday evening. You know what I mean?

This man was flying through the rain, and I saw him. I watched him hydroplane, flip that truck three times. The whole fucking truck come apart. What? Packages everywhere. Oh, you told me about this. What? It was a fucking nightmare.

And I was just like, we have pushed people so far. Oh, my God. I mean, that's why my packages are ending up a mile away from the house like that shit is very bad our delivery systems are so broken down not to spiral you too far but like i think they're asking some like teachers and administrators like in our region to like not eat at the school because the lunches are like running the schools are running out of food basically like it's it's fucking are running out of food i don't know that's just what i've heard that's just what i've heard around here i don't know maybe people maybe things

are just really dire and people are exaggerating to like convey how dire it is but like i don't know it's fucking it's crazy we got some serious i mean my mom works in a grocery store she resets and she's having she's the person who's at food city who's having to figure out what to do with these empty shelves you know like she's staring down the barrel of this situation and she's like you know we're having to figure out how to like make this store look like it's full of shit when it's not because she works in one of these like brand new stores that they built this huge food city store they built in opened in 2019 oh shit right it right so it was like right at the pandemic yeah yeah damn son that's why you don't open businesses y'all don't open a small business so we start a podcast do something else i know like

i mean i i had like a little mailing part of my patreon i've already sent it all out i'm like i can't deal with this end of the year shit i've shut down my spell shop i'm like i can't handle it i'm not don't ask me to send that i'm sending out my like annual postcards they're already in the mail i'm not dealing with i'm not dealing with any of this year in fucking chaos looking out for your future self i can't do it yeah it's a stressful time of year yeah yeah do not go into stores the day after thanksgiving and don't order shit either good luck luck out there. Good luck. I hate to tell people what to do. I shouldn't say don't do things. Just consider.

Be mindful. Consider we're in a crisis. Yeah. And be easy on yourself. Don't drive yourself to insanity for pumpkin pie or some shit. Yeah, for pumpkin pie and presents. The whole reason for the season is to help us all get through the darkest days of the year adding stress does not help that it does not this is like a

recipe for deep dark depression to like overstress yourself during the actual literal darkest days of the year we're only getting like between now and the solstice, we're only getting a few hours of daylight a day. I fucking hate this time of year. It's getting to be so bad that my stomach issues start in August now. Because I dread what's coming. The same time that they got Christmas shit in stores in August, that's when you had stomach issues. Yes. Yeah, yeah.

My shit is synced up with early Christmas. Yeah, it ain't right. Like, yeah, just really go easy on yourself and rest. You need a lot more sleep this time of year. Like, nothing in nature blooms all year long. And we can't either. And we need to rest. And we need to lay the fuck down.

And we need to not do shit. So, I don't know. Call in. Use all your PTO you got. And go easy't either. And we need to rest and we need to lay the fuck down and we need to not do shit. So I don't know. Call in, use all your PTO you got and go easy on yourself. Well, it took me a few years to figure this out. But I usually have like a psychotic break or a nervous breakdown or something in December. And every year it's just like, why am I so crazy? And I spend the first couple of the months of every year like trying to figure it out and it's like eventually i was just like that rarely happens to me in july it seems like it's only ever in the last two months of the year so like isn't that kind of

like that's why i scheduled a trip to new orleans me and my friend had such a bad december last year and i was like we cannot we have to like plan joy we have to schedule joy in this life at this point like I just can't take it I mean last December almost killed me that's no joke I almost died last December and so I have a little bit of like you know how like right after a really bad dark time you're're like, oh, God, it's so fun to just load the dishwasher. Look, I'm cooking myself a meal. So I'm kind of feeling that way going into December. I'm like, I'm so much better off this December than I was last December.

Like I'm actually a human being. Yeah. I mean, Terrence knows. Terrence was having to bring me food up here, and I was just in the hot tub at all hours. I was just in the hot tub, just fucking ready to go out like Whitney. Just one flip away, dude. I was there. I know it all too well.

He could write a ten minute song on it, honey. That's right. Them was rough times. Them was dark days. So just go slow. Go easy on yourself and everybody around you. Ain't nobody doing well. And be nice. I want to So just go slow. Go easy on yourself and everybody around you. Ain't nobody doing well. Ain't nobody doing well.

And be nice. I want to reiterate, man. Be nice to your family members this holiday season, man. I'm not saying you got to like. Pick your battles. Yeah, pick your battles is what I'm saying. Pick your battles and chill the fuck out. Yeah.

Sorry. Yeah. When Jeff pops off about Kyle Rittenhouse, go play video games with your nephew. Yeah. Just fucking chill. You don't have to say nothing. pops off about Kyle Rittenhouse go play video games with your nephew go for that post go for that post meal smoke man take that walk you know

yes those are crucial put food in your mouth and shut the fuck up I love how like five years ago the entire the entire liberal strategy was like to organize your family oh this was my this was one of my favorites terence you i know you'll remember this non-profits were putting out

around this time of year printable placemats to talk about colonization yo that is the whitest shit i've ever heard of print these placemats about colonization and put them around um on your thanksgiving table before your family gets there to eat i want some turkey you know that's a real quick way to get your ass whooped go get your ass whooped at thanksgiving it was dope. Oh, shit, man. Love it. That's some wild shit. All right.

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