Trillbilly Worker's Party - Episode 329: Naptime Of The Peoples

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

This week we talk about recently-departed singer Toby Keith's strange relationship with US four-star-general James Jones. We also talk about the current state of democracy, as well as the current state of mental health—like the health of our literal physical brains. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Did you happen to see the... I was just going to say it's my podcast and I want to talk about me. I want to talk about number one, oh my, oh my. I want to talk about I. Is that your homage to the dearly departed Tobert Keith? Dude, I went down a little bit of a rabbit hole this morning digging into the relationship between toby keith and former four-star general james jones um yeah is there something there dude toby keith claimed james jones hold on a second are you talking about capo of dipset or an actual general in the u.s military

two two a lot of important jim joneses honestly there have been jamestown jim jones this yeah historically a lot of a lot of noted jim joneses, and then there's Jim James, the My Morning Jacket guy. Yeah. A lot of JJs. Jim Jones, this one, he's a Marine Corps four-star general and consultant for Iron Hand Security. Is that as sinister as it sounds? If by sinister you mean

doing work for the Saudi government, then yeah, sure. That was one of two things. It was either that or an outlaw motorcycle group. Iron Hand. Iron Hand's MC, I could see that. Yeah, or like a fascist street gang, paramilitary street gang in the 1920s

that assassinates federal judges and stuff. Yeah, of course there's those. A lot of organized crime. As many noted jim jones's as there are there's a lot of uh potential organized crime outfits that could be called the iron hand the iron hand yeah um toby keith claimed that james jones was his best friend. His BF. And he said that he liked, Toby Keith said that he liked Obama because he hired his best friend, James Jones. So let me ask you a question then.

So is this like a real thing? Or is it like Fess Whitaker saying him and Teddy Roosevelt were best friends? It is a real thing. And the way we know it's real is because James Jones is who... Corroborated the story? Not only did he corroborate the story, my friend, James Jones is singularly responsible for the Toby Keith song, courtesy of the red, white, and blue.

So James Jones, Jim Jones yes is kind of like is to the music business kind of like what the guys that vet movies for this intelligence apparatus are well if I guess so if they were like best friends if like I don't know uh who's the head of the cia like william burns was was like best friends with michael bay like hang out on the weekends friends man like dude look let's listen to this relationship um supreme allied commander general james jones told keith outright that courtesy of the red white and blue which toby he did not want to release after he wrote i'm sure i'm sure he yeah i'm sure he didn't want to release it that's what he that's the story anyways that's what he said that's what he said in 2023. Now, in 2001, he was probably gung-ho to release it. He didn't want to release it,

but James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander, convinced him to based off of the fact that it was, quote, the most amazing battle song I've ever heard in my life. That's what James Jones said. So let me, okay, so of all the international, I mean, there's a lot of good calls to arms. The Marcelins. You know, historically.

Yes. Yeah. We are being ran by a guy that thought, we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way, was the high water mark of flight. Yeah, it's American lyricism. I got a couple things to say about this. One, as a general rule, you should not make your best friend

a guy that has the title Supreme Allied Commander. Too much pressure in that relationship right from the word go that is too much power bestowed to a man that's that's that has a direct line to a guy with that title okay there's another thing i want to say is your friends can sometimes pull you into some bullshit that's not going to age well so let's let's take toby keith on his face and say okay he didn't want to release that okay let's just let's just assume that's true okay now i think he's doing a little revisionism because you know with the benefit of hindsight or whatever but let's say that's true getting goaded it's like it's like uh yeah it's like the the multi-platinum version of,

nah, bro, it'll be okay. Do it. Jump off that bridge. The water will break your fall, man. Oh, it's fine, man. It's water. You can jump off of, it's water. It's not going to hurt you.

Look how deep that is. What they don't tell you is the surface tension of water becomes like concrete at a certain height. You know, listen, listen to how he talked him into it. Um, he told Toby Keith that it was his duty as an American citizen to record

the song. It's your job as an entertainer to lift the morale of the troops. Jones told, said to keith if you want to serve that is what you can do so basically what he did was he took so you know the incident going around the internet about chris christopherson supposedly dressing down toby keith yeah making some comments about his progressive politics or whatever. He specifically said, this guy's doing to country music what pantyhose did to finger fucking. Yeah, that's true.

I think that's what he said. So you think Toby Keith was feeling some residual guilt about that incident when he met his hero and his hero was like, no, I don't fuck with you? Yes. And then it sprung him to actually, he's like, oh no, I gotta serve. Because I remember Christofferson said, that incident when he met his hero and his hero was like no i don't fuck with you yes and then it like sprung him to actually he's like oh no i gotta serve because i remember christopher said have you ever worn your country's uniform which is like one of those like you know it's one of

the i serve so i can have these opinions kind of thing right uh so do you think like toby keith was like oh this is my chance to i never wore, oh, this is my chance to... I never wore the uniform, but this is my chance to really be part of it. Think about that. My interaction with all my veteran friends. One veteran friend I have said that after war, he could no longer jerk off outside of a port-a-john because he spent so much time jerking off in port-a-johns that the smell of shit had a pavlovian olfactory reaction and then and then i would have i had

another friend who served who was eventually honorably discharged because he would wake up in the middle of the night and find himself wandering the kuwaiti desert he would like sleepwalk he was doing like he did like three tours and by the third was like so addled with like ptsd and when he came back when i would hang out with him he would just i'd walk in the room at 4 a.m and he'd be like dipping snuff and watching ied videos it's like those were my veteran friends you know they that it yeah it doesn't leave you in a normal way so those are my better veteran friends toby keith's veteran friends were like yo bro publish this song it'll change your career and then not only that,

but that guy then goes on to work for the people that did 9-11, the Saudi government. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's almost like the whole thing's a racket. There was an op-ed in the New York Times this morning that was like, I don't know. I think it was a little too credulous.

It was trying to give Toby Keith a little too much credence, basically saying that he was like Merle Haggard, that you never could tell if his songs were satire or real. And it's like, dude, Toby Keith was not a smart man. This was no Merle Haggard. Bro. No, and also if you were just alive at that time. If you had a pulse in the early 2000s, you knew that that man meant it with his whole chest. I'm not going to let him skate on that.

Now, I do follow in the camp of should have been a cowboy, even though it's a little pro-cop banger. Should have been a cowboy? Yeah. Should have been a cat boy. It's a song pro cop banger but should have been a cat cowboy yeah should have been a cat boy it's a song about being a wanting to be a furry learn to purr and meow should i learn to purr and meow chasing that red dot sipping my milk from a saucer rubbing on my owner's leg when they sit down to take a shit oh i should have been a cat boy yeah that's just some that's just a little survey of some cat things there you go the uh the the new york times op-ed changed obviously it was like the original headline

was the pre-partisan politics of toby keith but now it's changed to toby keith was an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in the flag bro come on okay okay okay like here's the thing it ain't it ain't that deep no okay you know it ain't that deep uh toby keith was like most americans in the early 2000s only he had a platform and sang about it you know he held the same opinions that most people, a lot of people around, particularly around places like where we grew up, held. It ain't no deeper than that.

Dude, you know this. Just listen to his songs. Do these people not actually listen to his songs? Probably one of the first Toby Keith songs I ever heard was How Do You Like Me Now. It's like, dude, that was a song that every moron whoever like made it onto like the cmt top 20 would write no one would actually write that

song why would you write that song it's so stupid how do you like me now like now that i'm on my mind i don't know But you gotta say Should've Been a Cowboy is about a perfect song No it should've been a cowboy it's great Some of his songs off of that album Are good That whole album Like his first self titled album

Is great But the thing is A weird Go ahead No no no you go ahead I was just never really that into his voice it was like um how do you like my girl he kind of tried to meld the 90s grunge rock voice like late in the late 90s that is interesting yeah there is like a little eddie vedder goes country in there yeah he tried like it's not so much on the first album or like the second

album boomtown yeah but uh late by the by the time you've got to like beer for my horses and shit that's he's kind of trying to sing like that we gotta talk about that too A rare Willie Nelson album Appearing on a song that's That argued to bring lynching back Yeah dude That's what I mean There's no depth here Toby Keith is not

An enigma There's nothing here An enigma wrapped in a I mean that said I mean, that said, I mean, you know, I don't know about the whole, like, you know, well, I mean, I'm not going to scold anybody. You can say whatever you want. You know, when somebody dies, go for it.

I don't care, but, you know. Wow. Sounds like you do care. Do people not know about his song, The Taliban Song? He's got a song called The Taliban Song? How did I miss that one? It's pretty racist, man. I'm just the middle-aged.

Is that off-shocking, y'all? I think it was off-shocking, y'all. He's like, you know what we need to do? We need to kick us up a peg. We need to shock them shocking y'all He's like you know what we need to do We need to We need to bring We need to kick us up a peg We need to shock them Y'all I'm gonna shock y'all

I saw where it should have been a cat boy Appeared too Is it like a A hidden track Like a Hotel California ass hidden track Oh my god A hidden track like Hotel California-esque hidden track. Oh, my God. Yeah, what was the...

I want to talk about me. And the Statue of Liberty... That was his first big hit, yeah. Hey, Uncle Sam. And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her dick. That's the thing, too. He should have made Statue of Liberty started shaking her dick That's the thing too He should have made Statue of Liberty trans That's what Oh okay I see what you're saying

He should have For the maximum shock value Well it's hard It's hard to know now because One of his later songs One of his Let's see here I'm just tabbing through my Toby Keith lyrics tabs.

Happy Birthday America from 2021. It's all about... My man was jacked up on America. Oh, he loved it. Till the bitter end. I mean, so much so that the Red Solo Cup is honestly, like, in my opinion, like, the Red Solo Cup is, like, emblematic of America. That is really, like, the American icon, right?

Yeah, it's not the Statue of Liberty. It's not Lincoln's Memorial. It's not the Washington Monument, the Bald Eagle. No. None of Liberty. It's not Lincoln's Memorial. It's not the Washington Monument, the Bald Eagle. No. None of that. It is the humble red Solo Cup. Yes.

Yeah. I mean, he was mad that people were pissing on the red, white, and blue. See, I'm mad that people are pissing. But was anybody really

doing that, though? No. People were pissing red, white, and blue. Their piss See I'm mad that people are pissed But was anybody really doing that though? No People were pissing red white and blue Like their piss Their piss was red white and blue Yeah I don't recall any like You know

Any of that kind of stuff It's almost like you know They spat on our boys when they came home from Vietnam You know that type of I know why didn't they say that back then? Like they spat on They they spat on our boys when they came home from vietnam you know that type of i know why did why didn't they say that back then like they spat on they peed on our boys they were pissing on our boys they were pissing on our sweet boys the minute they hopped off the plane could you believe that and they all had syphilis and their piss was red white and blue they used to say that in school like if you got syphilis your piss would be blue Really?

Didn't they say that? Or is it gonorrhea? I can't remember Or did they say that it would make your dick blue? I don't know There was blue There was blue somewhere in fall I think you're thinking of the blue waffle

What's the blue waffle? Don't, don't, don't It's better if you don't. I'll stop you right there. An STD changes your dick into a waffle? It's like you wake up one morning... Hey, listen, we don't need to talk about this anymore, and you don't need to interrogate the question anymore.

No, I'm telling you, you don't want to do this. I'm doing... If you search for it, it's on Planned Parenthood. It doesn't exist. Yeah, yeah, whatever. What? They're trying to whitewash the blue waffle now? They're trying to gatekeep.

They're saying it's like Joe Biden's brain. They're like, no, everything's fine here. There is no blue waffle. Joe Biden's fine here there is no blue waffle there is no turn around um huh oh man pissing red white and blue uh well if i could take you back a little further in our proud lineage, did you see the news that Prince Charles has cancer? I did. And did you also see the news that he's opting to treat it like a Portland anti-vaxxer mom?

He said potions. Potions and herbs, right? Yeah, he's using potions, herbs, natural medicines is what he's going for. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I didn't want to say anything, but I could have told him years ago when I saw those fingers that all was not right in his endocrine system. What's the course of medication treatment that you would recommend? For starters, once my fingers started outpacing the size of my ring,

I would have reduced my sodium intake. Not for nothing, probably would have brought down my fluid intake a little bit too. Just see what that done. Now for the cancer, I mean, I can't tell any person how to approach that. But you have enough tools at your disposal. And I understand cancer doesn't discriminate, but there is something like Toby Keith rode for a country that just let him die as a rich guy.

road for a country that just let him die as a rich guy you know prince charles uh apparently choosing to go the way of steve jobs well it i will i will say that if he opted for any kind of actual medical like care like any modern medicine it would be a little out of place. Like, a monarch has to... That's the trade-off. If you're going to be a monarch in the 21st century, you should have to die like a monarch would back in the day. That's true. Bloodletting. Yes.

Things like that. Leeches. The glass delusion. Are you familiar with the glass delusion, dude? I don't think so. The glass delusion are you familiar with the glass delusion dude i don't think so the glass delusion was something from the uh late middle ages or late medieval times early middle ages um it was it was a result of the introduction of mass-produced glass into europe and so people would convince themselves that they were made of glass.

And Charles VI of France... There was a hysteria. There was a hysteria. You had a nation of glass boys running around thinking they were made of glass. Except they weren't running around anywhere. They were like, I can't move. I'm not going anywhere.

Because if I do, I'll shatter. I'll shatter. Even though they could clearly see they were made out of flesh and bone, like the rest of us. I think it's like they thought under their skin was glass. I have so many questions. Yeah, I mean, like...

One, how did these people rule the world for... I guess even imbeciles with guns can get an edge. You're asking that question now, the same week that two new videos dropped of Joe Biden that are the most concerning videos I have seen. Things I have ever seen. And listen, I saw some of those early beheading videos, ISIS beheading videos, you know?

I saw two girls one cup i've seen a lot of concerning videos i've seen some concerning videos yeah yes yeah i saw i saw a tweet that like this guy was like i walked into a room one time and norm mcdonald showed me the the bud dwyer video and i was like that's exactly how I saw the Bud Dwyer video. Except it wasn't Norm MacDonald, it was my brother in the computer room. He was like, check this out. I think I saw a guy named Shane that

had scabies showed it to me. Okay, this week Biden was talking about the border issue uh the border crisis for whatever you want to call that um and like i don't know man i'll play the clip i'll splice it into the episode but i'm sure you've heard it by now there is some movement and i don't want to i don't want to And I don't want to, I don't want to, let me choose my words. There's some movement, there's been a response from the, there's been a response from the opposition. But, yes, I'm sorry, from Hamas.

But it seems to be a little over the top. We're not sure where it is. There's continuing negotiation right now. But then there was another clip going around where he seemed to confuse Macron for Mitterrand and Angela Merkel for Helmut Kohl. Like, old politicians were like that. Listen to this quote. Okay, okay, okay.

The funny thing about that is I almost understand Merkel for Helmut Kohl more than I do the other one. Yeah, it makes sense. Francois Mitterrand. Macron. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I could see it um i mean my did mitteran died in like the 90s though i think he's been dead for a while for a while

um 96 yeah um so there's the mitteran thing but here's the the dude i like i read this let's listen let me just read this quote to you okay this is what biden said last night first got elected president i went to a g7 meeting with seven heads of state in europe and i sat down and said america's back and president of fr France looked at me and said, for how long? And I never thought of it this way. And then Helmut Kohl of Germany looked at me and said, what would you say, Mr. President, if you picked up the London Times tomorrow morning and learned there's 1,000 broken-down doors

of the British Parliament, killed some on the way in to deny the next prime minister to take office? And you think, what would we think okay here's what's concerning about that okay i get like a freudian i get like oh i said mitteran instead of macron okay yeah i'll start with him yeah whatever like he's he's ancient whatever right the fact that he botched two of them and one of them is not even the same gender as the current premier it is normal to be forgetful or to forget certain things

it is not normal to be confounded by the concept of numbers it's like you're right well like he there was two events that he did this at he made this mistake twice yesterday so he must have had like a a rough outline like a rough plan for his remarks his statements yeah um but i i love like the the the the the way that we sweep into this narrative is is so great first got elected president i went to a g7 meeting with seven heads of state in europe and i said dad said america's back president of france looked at me and said for how long and i said i never thought of it this way. Yeah, yeah. He comes in rolling all this dick swagger and then immediately backs off of it.

I don't know, actually. Mitterrand said, for how long? And I said, I never thought of it that way, man. I never thought about it that way, man. I never thought about it that way, Mitt. I never thought about temporal, extemporaneous, temporal conjectures, you know, and boundaries of time. And then Helmut Kohl Germany looked at me. Just like, dude, I don't know. Going back to what you just said a minute ago

is it really that crazy like to imagine like oh how did people rule a thousand years ago how did like syphilitic insane people who thought they were made of glass rule a thousand years ago it's like is it really that hard to actually yeah i stand correct it's actually not that well it's also the same concept as like you know i don't agree with it obviously but like you know when when there was like this call to return to normalcy like after the trump years and stuff like that you know yeah like it almost seems quaint just to have run-of-the-mill crooks just doing, like, normal, boring attack ads. Now, like, everybody's got to have, like, an epic flamethrower to burn the Constitution with or, you know.

You know, they'll, like, paint a tree the color of China or Russian flag and then, like, just, like, pull it out with, like, a big, you know, J.D. Power and Associates approved pickup. a russian flag and then like just like pull it out with like a big you know jd power and associates approved uh pick up yeah they just do wild shit like that anymore you know yeah it's like we we were it's like it's how did it get to be that only carnival barkers can hold power what's i think dude it's like i said i i think we've reversed engineered monarchism i think it's like like i made this point on twitter but like the great bargain of meritocratic democracy right is that you ostensibly it facilitates the upward mobility of the most confident or competent like rational

technocratic planners right like like you you would imagine like um obviously i don't think it actually works this way but like in its most ideal form and its most idealistic version that's the way it's supposed to work so that you don't get you know the glass delusion king so that you don't get the the king who's like so insane he just like wants to arbitrarily execute like 30 of his courtiers and torture them to death for his own fun you know what i mean like just something crazy like that you'd see in game of thrones right right right but like we've we have actually just walked backwards into that and like there's nothing we could do about it because we're

not going to convince them otherwise like it's funny how like the window passed on that like as recently as like a month ago people were still myself included like oh surely there's still a process where you can run somebody else and, you know, there can be someone else to run, but no. No, no, and the thing was, I always thought like somebody like Gavin Newsom or somebody was running like a shadow campaign, you know what I mean?

Just so that he could step in there in the event that Biden was too publicly, how do I put this delicately, unfit for office. But turns out, no, it turns out that they're going to ride with, you know, the syphilitic king until the end. There's no way to, I don't know. You have to assume that all of his courtiers and regents, like the people surrounding him, you have to assume that all of his courtiers and regents like the people surrounding him you have

to know like surely they know like this doesn't look good and that's what's so funny is like i i got online and like obviously i go seek out the most deranged takes i can possibly find but like i found one i think i found you know it's just people like obviously in blue and on twitter saying like this is masterful he's this is masterful politics this i've never like like they've convinced themselves of that dude you know you said something to me i came to you i guess probably a month or two ago and was talking to you about something in my personal life or whatever and you know and relating to you know people kind of coming unglued and stuff like that there is kind of a point of no return yeah of you

know what i mean of like like once you get so far into some of this stuff you know what i mean yeah i think so and that's just as true of liberals as it is of the trump people things gather a kind of momentum and social movement that you can't just stop those things like that's that's not i don't know it's because like something i've been wrestling with a lot lately is like how much agency do humans have how much agency do like social groups have and and even entire classes and it's like i think that there are historical moments where they have a lot of agency and can intervene quite decisively and then sometimes i think that the structural forces are such a torrential downpour that like there's really nothing you can do and like perhaps this is a end of a phase, because, like, I don't know. I've just been thinking a lot about this, like, how 1848, right, was, like, the, almost

the capstone, or it was, like, the signal event that, like, bourgeois democracy in the West had arrived. That's why they called it the springtime of the peoples. It was, like, this, like, this moment pregnant with possibility and potential and like now i genuinely feel like we are at the end we're at the nap time of the peoples it's a nap time of the peoples everybody get out your little cots and let's read you a bedtime story don't get better from here yeah it's nap time man it's nap time i watched that that movie zone of interest yeah how is it pretty good pretty good and uh you know and there's this like sort of

scene where well i mean i guess i could this wasn't this won't really ruin anything because rudolph hess was like a real person and it's kind of based off him and his wife living literally on the other side of the wall from Auschwitz and how they just kind of go about their normal life while in the background you can hear gunshots and people being burned alive and suffering and all this kind of stuff, and they're just eating cake and shit. Right. And there's this moment where he's kind of leaving his office and he's like starts retching and like like insinuating that he's like throwing up and he kind of looks you

know down the hall of that the building that they're at or whatever and it's not clear if it's like he's having a moment of clarity about his crimes or if he's just breathed too much residual like uh xylon you know the zyklon b used zyklon b in and he's got some sort of weird you know condition because of that or something right but it is like um you know i don't know it's like uh i was just thinking about that in relation to like people like cheering on like biden's senility and like his evil and his crimes like it's like you don't really think this but like the blue anon people are are just nazis yeah they are dude like no meaningful difference like the little kids walking out and saying saying hi hitler and how hitler and all this shit and these guys saying obviously but there's no meaningful difference like the little kids walking out and saying saying hi hitler and

how hitler and all this shit and these guys saying all this but there's no meaningful difference you know what i mean the numbers is what the difference is yeah you know what i mean but they're still doing the same thing they're still wiping out a race of people well and the best example of that is how this week there was supposed to be a speaker of the house mccarthy uh or i'm sorry jesus i'm like biden i'm a speaker of the house mccarthy speaking of the house dennis hastert uh d huddleston he had them dogs he's chasing mitch with them dogs where you at mitch um speaker that's mike johnson um tried to call a vote on this like aid package to israel

and the whole bargain in the senate and in the house the whole bargain was that the democrats went to the gop and said look you vote for this aid package to israel and ukraine we'll give you the most hardcore fascist conservative crackdown like fucking boot you know dragging like boot to the neck border bill you've ever seen and the republicans completely fucked it up they fumbled it they like they didn't uh apparently mike johnson called the vote before he had his votes in order and it just i don't know it's weird it's like in the annals of like bourgeois society you expect there to be this kind of like dialectic tension between like the forces of reaction and the forces of i guess you could call like moderation right like yeah the ones who claim to like oh uh you know we can't make things better

tomorrow we have to drag things out and uh we're also kind of fun we're like a the least decadent wealthy like for the nation that's the wealthiest in the history of the world we just we ain't doing much with that in terms of decadence no pretty boring for such a wealthy society um pretty boring well and and so the thing is that the republicans this up. They didn't pass this bill. And so then I started seeing like political commentary, you know, various statements from Biden, people saying, oh, I guess the Republicans don't actually care about border security. border security uh they and then and then i saw this one um tweet this quote uh this is at igor bobage uh murphy going off on gop saying they're a nightmare to negotiate with they are a disaster right now how can you trust any republicans right now they told us what to do we followed their

instructions to the letter and then they pulled the rug out from under us in 24 hours um imagine that like we followed them i guess that's greg murphy probably if i had to guess uh or maybe it was chris murphy too many murphys regardless i think the point is is that they're doing they're doing republicans bidding right they're doing Republicans bidding, right? They're doing exactly what they want. They even said it. They even said it. It's like, we did exactly what they told us to do.

How embarrassing. Yeah. No gamesmanship. No fucking negotiation. No, you know, nothing. Just, oh, we did exactly what they told us to do and then they still screwed us one is the thing it's like you get this if if you understand the sort of like historical material progress of western bourgeois society as this like i said this sort of

dialectical tension between like the forces of moderation the forces of reaction you look at weimar germany and say like okay that's a clear-cut case the forces of moderation cleared the path for the nazis they basically handed over this leverage of state power to them that's not happening here there's this like fundamental breakdown in the way this is supposed to go and so as a result you've got the democrats adopting this position that is indistinguishable from basically the most Nazi like Rudolph Hess, like Third Reich position imaginable. Because they have to. They're empty vessels. Right.

And so they have to fill that role because that's what the sort of like structural imperative of this moment demands. And someone has to fill it. And it's not the conservatives because either they're too cowardly, they're too self-obsessed, they're too egotistical or whatever. All these various reasons. And so the Democrats are like, okay, well, then we'll step in. Yeah, hey. We'll do it.

We'll beat the Nazis. I don't know.. Yeah, hey. We'll do it. We'll beat the Nazis. I don't know. Fucking idiots, man. Fucking idiots from top to bottom. Dude, it generally would not, it genuinely would not surprise me if in 50 years, maybe it might take a little bit longer than 50 years,

maybe like 100 years, we'll probably be dead by then. But if the parties flipped again if the democrats once again became like blood and soil racist like psychopaths because like the groundwork is kind of there because republicans are kind of like i need my safe space every you know what i'm saying like they yeah while the democrats are just like kind of like unwittingly just becoming bloodthirsty fucking genocide maniacs yeah yeah that's so stupid dude it's grim our bulwark against the encroaching fascists are these people and we

can't do any better, apparently. Our bulwark are the guys that said we did exactly what the Republicans wanted us to do. That does not inspire confidence, friends. Oh, man. Well, and then... And then this week, like, Netanyahu said that they weren't going to they rejected the ceasefire uh so i mean i don't know and and then obviously like you saw this like thomas friedman had this

op-ed op-ed about how oh we've got the biden plan what did he call it like the biden doctrine like oh this is the grandiose new doctrine for the Middle East. And then like two days later, Saudi Arabia is like, we're not fucking moving. We're not doing shit unless you give. Not because Saudi Arabia gives a shit about Palestinians. They don't. They don't fucking care at all.

They just realize that like if they are going to be hegemonic over the Middle East and its resources, that's the primary thing they have to give lip service to this political dream this political uh totem that has been important for fucking 70 80 years right like it's completely cynical for the saudis to do that it's got yeah yeah nothing to do with them actually caring regardless the fucking biden people can't even do that. They should get the Iron Hand guy on the case.

He works for... Yeah, get you a man on the inside. Yeah. And that guy's got connections with big country superstars. That's exactly right. Get James Jones, who's a big country song singer right now um uh jelly roll get him to sing a song about how we need the two-state solution that's exactly it man that's how dude yeah yeah you want a ceasefire done we got there's only one

man that can get that done. His name's Jelly Roll. Did you know that Toby Keith had a... Okay, did you know that in the lyrics for Taliban song... Let me read you the last... I didn't know this song existed 42 minutes ago, so... It's called the Taliban song. i think he only played it live i'm not sure that it ever appeared on a album because like he probably knew how fucking racist this was um i'm just a middle-aged middle eastern camel herding man and i got a little two-bedroom cave here in north afghanistan oh boy things used to be real nice and then they

got out of hand since they moved in they call themselves the taliban oh yeah the taliban singing oh the taliban baby um let me ask you a question do you think the taliban ever like cranks that like kind of ironically they're at their computer desk jobs that they hate now they're like yeah oh man um there's a very strange lyric in this though okay oh oh you don't say i think this one really was on shock and y'all uh um the last lyric of this you know someday soon we're both gonna saddle up and it'll be ride camel ride jesus dog is he trying to find common cause with with like the common like afghan man but he's like doing it in racist tropes he's doing white working class virtue signaling for the common afghan man yeah yeah yeah yeah but he has like no concept of how like afghan people really live so he's just like saying like oh well they're just living caves with camels

yeah yeah yeah yeah i mean it's like extremely racist um maybe that's the maybe he's doing the jason williamson thing the um big white ghetto remember when he wrote that article oh yeah yeah he's doing that with afghanistan he's like they need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps actually jason williamson didn't say that about east kentucky or kevin williamson right what's that was it's kevin Kevin Williamson, right? What's that? It's Kevin Williamson? Kevin Williamson, sorry. Yeah, yeah. Not that that's important.

He said that East Kentucky, I think, just needs to be, like, nuked. Pretty much. Didn't he? Yeah, I think it was like more contempt than you would normally have on the right, you know? Yeah. They usually panderander but he was just like nah i think we just need to get rid of them all yeah they're a scourge yeah bomb them back to the stone that would be funny if american conservatives started advocating for bombing

east kentucky back to the stage yeah let's bomb them back to us it's like let's turn it to a glass factory they can all but there's no there's no sand here doesn't to a glass factory. There's no sand here. It doesn't matter. A glass factory plays well. They've got the glass delusion. They all think they're made of glass anyways. They all think they're made of coal.

Okay, my bad. I got sidetracked hereetracked here um you know someday soon we're gonna both saddle up and it'll be ride camel ride my old lady she'll be here with me just smiling right by my side we should do just fine out around palestine or maybe turkmenistan he said palestine you could say that back then wait hold a second so okay so if you wade through all the racism technically toby keith did say that he did acknowledge the existence of palestine he did acknowledge the existence yes okay no that's that's how far we've come like it you used to be able to acknowledge that palestinians exist but you had to be racist about it and say that they're subhuman. Now you just say that they don't exist at all.

They're a figment of your imagination. There are two million holograms. Yeah, when you think Palestine, no, you didn't. Yes, exactly. That's ultimately what's behind the whole Pollywood conspiracy theory, which is honestly like straight out of protocols of elders of zion type shit what is that the um what it is is it's the idea that like every video you see of like a neighborhood getting bombed or uh people in hot children in hospitals

or people dying in the streets is actually made in a hollywood type um studio you know i'm saying yeah yeah insane basically there's people really believe that people really believe that dude like among the poorest people in the world have all these elaborate tools at their disposal to create cinema basically pretty much um oh my god i mean that is just straight up holocaust denialism stuff straight up it's yeah it's insane dude not not meaningfully different anyway um so yeah we should do just fine out around palestine or maybe turkmen All right, here's the weird lyric. We'll bid a, we'll bid a fair ado and flip a couple fingers to the Taliban. We'll bid a fair ado and give a big boner to the Taliban.

That's the lyric. We'll give a big boner. It's like, we'll send them a dick pic. Like, what do you mean? We'll give a big boner to, oh, we'll, we'll be fuck, we'll be fucking them dick pic like what do you mean you have a big boner to oh we'll you're waving we'll be fuck we'll be fucking them over by getting out of here or something i guess so or like it's you know how like in full metal jacket the guys in the helicopter like get some like it's just a guy and he's hanging out of a helicopter just jerking off over

afghanistan i'm wondering i'm wondering, I'm wondering, really and truly now, I'm sad that he's gone because I would have loved to figure out what exactly he meant by that. Pick his brain about it? Well, that's like, he's kind of doing,

he's kind of doing the, yeah, you could tell that's like him and Jim Jones sat down one day and got you know real liquored up it was like no we need to write a song but it's about like a good afghan guy who supports the cause and he hates the taliban and he's getting out uh-huh yeah i mean i think that's the thing right it's like

jim james jones was Jones was Toby Keith's muse, man. That's crazy. Four-star general, Supreme Allied Commander. Now, can you imagine all the muses that artists have had over the years? Usually it's like a woman you saw running through a field naked one time. Or in the case of F. Scott Fitzgerald. a woman you saw running through a field naked one time, you know, or, you know,

in the case of F Scott Fitzgerald, you know, Zelda, a woman you were hopelessly in love with that tried to put you out of business at every turn. Not for Toby Keith. I lost it. Did you, were you talking about Zelda Fitzgerald again?

Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, it always goes back to, were you, were you doing that thing where you wax poetic about Zelda Fitzgerald again? Oh, yeah, you know, it always goes back to. Were you doing that thing where you wax poetic about Zelda Fitzgerald again? Right. Just kind of funny that. Yeah, you were, okay.

Good to know. It's kind of funny. Did you ever hear the, you know, Toby Keith fought the allegations, I feel like, a lot during his life. Uh-huh. You know what allegations i'm talking about what do i know what allegations you're talking about you never heard that toby keith was you know was he that's i've i've heard many people say that. Now, in fairness... So it's like... Fairness what? Well, in fairness, he did have kind of a gay name. Yes.

Let's just call it that. So I think it's probably, you know, kind of... You know, people, you know, if his name would have been Jim Jones, for example, nobody would have said anything, but... Well, when I searched for was Toby Keith gay, the first thing that comes up was, before finding success with his music, Keith worked on oil fields and is a semi-professional footballer.

I guess that's supposed to say that no. Okay, yeah. Well, and I wasn't doing that to do some sort of distasteful, posthumous outing or anything like that. Oh. doing that to do like some sort of distasteful like posthumous outing or anything like that i was just i was just bringing up that that was something that had floated around for a while and you know so it's like how do you like me now now that i'm kind of gay now that you know i'm yeah that'd have been so tough though you used to hate me but now you're you've opened your mind up a little bit.

About the possibilities of human sexuality. Me and Jimmy are just friends. Nothing else, no way. We just hang out every weekend. Out on that lake. Just me and him. Out on that lake. Just me and him. Together on the boat. Living in your radio.

I'm known as the throat goat. Jesus. God damn it. James Jones. I have to know just how much of his catalog jim jones co-wrote does he have any co-writing credits on any of those songs i don't know we should look that up like if does james jones get like as cap royalties yeah and like did it would also be crazy as if he like swindled Toby Keith

into signing over his estate and then he had somebody at the State Department hit Toby Keith with the cancer gun. Wouldn't that be really wild if Toby Keith's death ended up being like

some kind of deep state, you know, mission or something? Well, dude, listen to this. Toby Keith claimed uh you know mission or something well dude listen to this um toby keith claimed to be really good friends with bill richardson former governor of new mexico who was good friends with one jeffrey epstein so there's a good chance that toby keith at least in some way encountered the Epstein world right through Bill Richardson.

If he was as friends with Bill Richardson as he said he was, then he surely came into contact with it in some way. Wonder why they were pals. Well, that's what this op-ed in the New York Times was trying to get at. It was trying to say that Toby Keithby keith had democrat friends he supported barack obama and then i looked into that stuff and i was like what it actually is the truth of it by the way the op-ed mentions nothing about natalie mainz or the chicks any of that stuff doesn't mention any of that shit uh yeah trying to drub their career and all that stuff exactly and successfully and to some degree yeah to some degree yes i would say definitely um but uh i looked into that and like i said the reason he liked obama was just because

obama gave james jones a job james jones a job and um i mean i support that like if someone gave you a job i'd be like all right good on that guy all right all right thanks guys yeah you gave my friend tom a job hey tommy's got a job he's good yeah he's good at my book now yeah like that's how stupid he was like that i'm saying like that's a that is a quintessentially american personality defect right it's just like, oh yeah, that's okay. I saw a quote from Toby Keith that said, politics is

ruining America. It's like, yes, that is the stupid thing. There's no ending here. The man that said, we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way, thinks that politics, the mechanism through which those decisions are made

to go put boots in asses or pretend to put boots in asses you know as is more accurately the case is is what's ruining America yeah he is de facto admitting

that the very thing that drives my art is what's ruining america yeah um it just gets to this thing that like i'm a big fan of mike duncan's revolutions podcast series but i've always avoided listening to the revolution to the season about the american revolution because it's like i just never really like found it that interesting like it's the stuff it's the shit you had to learn in school and it's like oh second continental congress whatever but i was like all right i'm gonna give it a fair shake there is this like marxist argument that i've seen people make that like even if you think that the american revolution was in hindsight reactionary whatever it was historically

progressive and therefore you have to find something good out of it and i'm like okay well i'll give it a fair shake i'm a fair person that's what people have said about me i'm fair that's that's true you are a pair of god of fairness i am i give everything a shake that's what people have said about me i'm fair that's that's true you are a paragon of fairness i am i give everything a shake that's why you were named to the penultimate core that's exactly right you don't ascend to those heights without being you know have a reputation for fairness that's exactly right and like dude i'm sorry like i i have tried so hard to get into it, but it is so fucking boring. There's nothing interesting, compelling, dramatic. Like, compare it to the French Revolution,

which has some of these amazing set pieces, right? It's just like... Wild characters. Yes. Like Marat and Danton and, like, the fucking Cordillier Club and, like, these amazing fucking set pieces like the women walking to the national assembly and kidnapping the king and all this incredible drama and then you fucking get to the american revolution and it's just like this guy's kind of

pissed off about having to pay some taxes and this guy's pissed off that the british it's the same shit we're mad about to this day you get an insight into the psyche of the politically active american and that's why like i you know i saw a video that was going around of like this woman who was boasting about how she participated in january 6th and now she's voting for biden and it's like, man, you could not come up. History has granted this amazing gift to us, which is that it's finally proven that both Democrats and Republicans are so poisoned stupid. They're so moronic.

Yeah, I mean, just shit stupid. Shit stupid. It's Toby Keith saying that, like, you know, we're going to waive our boners at the taliban that's what it is there's no enigma there's nothing there's no fucking deeper investigation about human nature a political economy or law or anything we've made no contributions a boring boring boring nation the only thing we're good at is music that's it music and art but which sometimes can be you know could be an outgrowth of being bored yeah especially when james jones is like trying to like co-opt it for i did see that james jones also consulted for libya but then the united states government made him stop they were like that's offensive sir you've gone too far

sir you've got actually we're going to scapegoat that guy a little bit down the road so if you could just you know distance yourself right now right that'd be great it doesn't appear like james jones ever married so so let me get this straight toby keith hung out on the lake every weekend with a confirmed bachelor yes i'm not i'm not saying anything a guy who styled himself as a supreme ally commander listen i don't and i don't want to go you remember when like liberals were like oh trump's sucking off putin look at him he's sucking he's fucking sucking off putin i don't want to do that because i think that's distasteful i think it's you know i am just saying it's interesting oh man look at trump all he does all day suck off fucking putin they love that shit remember just jacking their hogs thinking about it

american dude it's the thing it's why probably is why the american thing is so boring compared to the french one it's because like all american libidinal energy is channeled through politics in france they get all that libidinal shit out in the proper place politics yeah i say that it's a nation of degenerates and perverts i mean who knows it's a nation of sex pests but yeah in america we're all sex pests but we all funnel it into the fucking politics yeah but you have to get into politics first before you become a sex pest yeah and that's why it's boring yeah i just can't find anything in it that's compelling like there's no set p

there's nothing in it partially because of um the geography of america it's so massive even already at this time the 13 colonies is way bigger than france was at that time it's just like everything takes place over these massive distances the only fucking part of it that's any even remotely compelling is the knox expedition when henry knox slipped out of new york and went to what saratoga slipped out of new york and went to what saratoga uh or ticonderoga for ticonderoga and brought back all these fucking guns and cannons and shit and and had to like bring it over mountains you know what i mean like fucking 300 miles this massive artillery train that's cool i like that shit yeah i'd watch a movie of that that's i always like, what would I watch a movie of?

I don't want to fucking watch a movie of, like, the Battle of Trenton. What is cool about that? You know what I mean? Like, I want to watch a fucking artillery train movie where they're, like, you know, fucking British soldiers and loyalists are taking pot shots at them. And they're fucking, like, what are the logistics? They're mapping out the logistics.

That's what I like to see. Here's what I'm going to make is a Jonathan Glazer-style movie, but it's just two and a half hours of Washington and the boys crossing the Delaware. Which wouldn't take two and a half hours, obviously, but I'm going to make it kind of stretch it out. And instead of having any plot or anything it's gonna be kind of voyeuristic in that same way and it's just going to be like them sitting around like talking about titties and drinking beer and stuff and like you know it's in the winter time and everything's freezing it's

cold whatever but just two and a half hours of the fellas in a boat crossing a river that might have took, I don't know. No, I've just looked it up. It apparently took them 11 hours. Really? Yeah. So I'm going to have to do like Ken Burns style. Yeah.

You have to do like a four part series. Like longer piece. Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Why did it take them so long? mm-hmm how why did it take them so long well like back you know like things were on like wooden wheels or probably iron wheels or something like sometimes your shit gets rutted out like you have to fucking replace your wheels on your wagons everybody's got diarrhea

how wide is the delaware yeah i guess that you gotta stop every you know three feet because everyone's got diarrhea constantly. Yeah. All anybody ate back then was hardtack, which was a big saltine cracker, basically. It was a massive saltine cracker. Everybody's malnourished. Yes. Yep.

This is probably before we were fortifying foods with essential vitamins and minerals. There's just, there's nothing there. And to connect it to my original point, it's like that's fully embodied in the work and worldview of one Toby Keith, in my opinion. Yeah, that's true. You know what I mean? The banality of America just wrapped up.

Yeah, he had to try to make it a little more interesting. Uh-huh. You know. Yeah. It's like by the end of his career man he was just like i don't know i i i agree should have been a cowboy still bangs though and honestly he was not wrong i should have been a cowboy You know how much a little happier I'd be? You should have. That's true. And also, you know, there is a kind of a sad story I heard of him, like, probably a year before he died.

Somebody saw him in a bar in Lexington singing karaoke by himself. Like, that's like sad. like that's like sad i mean to be like you're on top of the world you got a direct fucking line to power in the early 2000s all this stuff only to end up like kind of a sick old man like you know dude damn dude that's that's okay i take it back that's pretty poetic only in america could you get that yeah i mean it's almost kind of like Bill Clinton just staring out and saying, I was the leader of the free world for eight years. I was the leader of the free world for eight years. Like, if I could, Jack Torrance.

Yeah. All work and no play makes Bill a dull boy. Without Toby Keith, the thing is, dude, is that people think that Toby Keith's major contribution to American culture was courtesy of the red, white, and blue, was American soldier, his big Iraq War anthems and stuff. No. What Yellowstone proves was that his largest contribution

to American culture was, I should have been a cowboy because that's how we all feel. We all feel like we should have been cowboys. That's true. We're all gay. Everybody really wants to hang with the fellas and ride a pony on a sleep in the bunkhouse. Right?

Exactly. We want to sleep in the, in the bunkhouse. I just got that. in the in the bunkhouse i just got that shocking y'all's a play on shock and awe ah it's the y'all star version that's pretty bad dude what's worse shocking y'all or or what's the new Taylor Swift called? The Tortured Poets Department? Tortured Poets. I don't know. That album's going to bang, no question.

That's just an incredibly bad title. Tortured Poets Department? Yeah. And shocking y'all, for that matter. Well, I think the thing is, I think she knows it's bad, and I think that's part of the bit. But that in and of itself is cringe like she you know what i'm saying like she thinks that's really clever and funny that she's that self-aware maybe that's what it is maybe it's the idea that like it in the irony of me being a billionaire and and still saying i'm a tortured poet or whatever or maybe we're missing the whole

thing you know well she that is topical because i'm pretty sure toby keith signed her is that right i'm pretty yeah pretty sure toby keith is like responsible for her entire fucking career basically or or that could be something the right wingers are saying because they're pissed off about her and travis kelsey so they may be trying to like retroactively they're doing revisionist history one day when travis kelsey dies we're going to get he was an enigma wrapped in a something wrapped in a da da da da and what's funny is just like a one hit quitter guy from like Metro Cincinnati, just normal dumb guy is going to be remembered as this like liberal icon just because somebody paid him to do a vaccine commercial one time. Yeah. I promise you that man has not really thought about these things that much in his life.

Dude, I'm going to tell you something straight up, right? Hmm. about these things that much in his life i'm gonna tell you something straight up right i am i think that no one has a better life than that guy i think he like legitimately might be the best i agree i i envy him so much because he's stupid as shit he's a millionaire or i mean it's dayton taylor swift he's on top of the world i envy him i don't even really care one way the other about taylor swift what i'm really envious of him is that he's just a fucking idiot and i just wish that i was like a slobbering idiot you know what i mean and it's not too late start playing rec league football Get knocked around for about five years and you'll get there. Okay, this is the truth on Taylor and Toby. Okay, Keith was a major figure in Swift's early years.

He helped found the Cruel Summer singer's first record label, Big Machine, along with Scott Borchetta. Okay, so he owned her first label. Yeah, but he left six months okay so he owned her first label yeah but he left six months later to focus on his own label show dog nashville so i don't know the titles keep getting and listen this coming from a man whose thing has a dumb title yeah i don't know if that's the same thing as helped give her a start i'm not sure if that's yeah i don't know man i that's a fairly tenuous connection yeah i'm gonna say that that's bing bing bing i'm calling revisionist history on that one i'm gonna i'm gonna rate that at

about two pinocchios it's not untrue but it's not untrue, but it's not the whole story. It's not the whole story. He probably just fronted some cash and then dipped out. It's not like he was like, he saw the fucking artistic potential of her. She has the possibility of becoming the biggest superstar

in the 21st century America. It's not that. He probably just fronted some cash and was like, I got to go do show dog national. Yeah. There was like six months of overlap between them. Yeah. Yeah.

Dude, yeah, it's revisionist history. It's the right wingers trying to glom on it. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm going to have to give that a pants on fire rating. Or pants smoking. Yeah, yeah, the pants caught, just caught on fire. Yeah, there's some smoke coming out of the pants.

Yeah, we've not really noticed that they're ablaze yet. Right, right, right. Okay. Okay. Well, I think that probably about covers it for this week. um well i think that probably about covers it for this week um the moral of today's show all right if you're looking for a grand lesson the moral of today's show is never let your best friend who's a supreme allied commander talk you into writing the most racist jingoistic violent battle song uh of earliest 21st century it will not age well and i think if

there's another takeaway it's that if you're shit stupid and or otherwise brain compromised it's better that way 100 yeah because like it's you can tell it's not even fun for biden because biden is shit stupid but you can tell that like we live in his like uh charlie kaufman-esque like life retrospective like you can you can see like when he has that moment the the mitterand gaffe was at an event where people were chanting C Spire Now. And you can see him having this moment where he turns back and the spotlight's on him. And there's people cheering him on. And he's like, Francois Mitterrand. Francois Mitterrand in a helmet coat.

And you can see all the fucking past characters of his life coming out of the sides of the stage. Because life's a theater. Life's all big act, man. Life's a play. It's a tragic comedy. You know what I mean? And it's the Charlie Kaufman. All of America is the giant warehouse in Seneca Key, New York,

that the director built for us all. And we live in it. And because we live in it, like we because we live in it as it starts to deteriorate because his mind is deteriorating we also start to deteriorate are deteriorating with him yes yeah so as he inches closer and closer to Jeff Goldblum in the fly level so so do we as a nation yeah so do we and so that's why travis kelsey has the better degenerative a necrotic nation that's where we're like the future of america will be deciding whose degenerative brain disorder is better than the because like we're all gonna have

degenerative brain disorders from being on our cell phones all the time. Like we're going to have massive like growths coming out of the sides of our heads, like Eric Andre in that episode of Righteous Gemstone. Right. Like we'll all have that. And then the leaders will have like, you know,

obviously like the Mitch McConnell, like shutting down and Joe Biden and Sydenham to keep New York syndrome and all that. And then, you know, Travis Kelsey will have the. What is it called when you see it? Yeah. Traumatics, encephalopathy. That'll be the future of America. We'll all be sitting around comparing brain degenerative brain disorders.

Oh, my God. That's it, dude. Microplastics that can cross the blood-brain barrier. Barrier. Half of us will have plastic brains. Yeah, we'll have... Yeah, it won't be the glass delusion. It'll be the plastic delusion.

The plastic delusion. We'll all think we're made out of plastics. And the sick thing is we won't really be wrong. It'll be true. We'll have, like, radioactive-caused tumors growing out of our plastic brains that have been degenerated from, like, too many head concussions.

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