wellRED podcast - #307 - MLK Day, Dolphin Stuff, & The Aughts!

Episode Date: January 18, 2023

Recording on Martin Luther King Jr. day, the boys talk briefly about how the holiday was treated in their small southern towns. Naturally the conversation turned to dolphins, and then the boys discussed what they would put in a time capsule to represent Trae's favorite era: The Early Aughts!Go to TraeCrowder.com to see Trae (and sometimes all of em) on tour!Check out Drew's New podcast Gravy Baby!To read Corey's essays, poetry, see bonus videos and podcasts and more, go to PartTimeFunnyMan.comFor bonus stuff from Trae, go to Patreon.com/TraeCrowder

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They're the they're the liberal rednecks they like cornbread but sex they care way too much but don't give a fuck. They're the liberal rednecks that makes some people. People upset, they got three big old dicks that you can suck. Well, here we are digitally together. It's Martin Luther King Day. It's not when people hear this, but we're recording it on MLK Day. Yeah. It is still very much, wait, no, this isn't Black History Month.

That's next month. I'm an idiot. Yeah, they gave them the shortest month. Yeah, right. It should start now and end at the end of February. I agree. Actually, that would make, yeah, I could get behind that. Corey, I was wondering, is it, also, I swear to God, if anyone knows this at the course of this broadcast,

it's not at all intentional that I wore my grizzly shirt today. That's just a bit of a unfortunate coincidence. I didn't want anyone to get the wrong idea, like literally right before we started, because I had all this stuff I wanted to ask you about a holiday and whatnot, and I sort of just like, look down, I was like, oh, my God. Because I started. That's fine. Reping.

You're right. I know, but I started that song by Turnpike Triboradors, 1968 or whatever. That's the best one. Which references his assassination. I had that playing in my head and I got to the part where he says, you know, that happened to Memphis, Tennessee and then thought of that and looked down to my shirt. I was like, Jesus fuck. Anyway, okay.

Corey, in Chickamauga, you've often said that when you were a kid, Martin Luther King Day was a snow day, right? Yes. Do you know what it is right now? Amber teaches there, right? What's the current situation in Chequamaga? I'm pretty sure that now it is recognized as Martin Luther King Day, but see, what it was when I got to high school, it was Martin Luther King Day slash Snow Day, which what that meant was, what that meant was is that you're off for that day unless we had to miss a day earlier in the year because of snow, and then we will make it up on Martin Luther King Day. I mean. Wow. So, yeah.

So, but I'm pretty sure now that it's just Martin Luther King Day, like they recognize it. And I don't think there's any trouble. Because I saw on Twitter earlier, somebody posted a thing that had the seal of Alabama, the seal of the state of Alabama at the top. So it looked very official. And it was like the calendar for 2023 was the Robert E. Lee Day. Official state holidays of Alabama.

And today was listed as Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee Day in the state of Alabama. And I was like, dude, I did not realize that we was still doing that, honestly. Yeah. And so it got me to thinking about, so I wanted to ask you about Chickamauga because we know how Chickamauga Bay. But I also was just wondering, like, what, how all that is going in, like, towns like ours and stuff. Because I would have thought it would be better than it was when we were like kids there. Yeah. I'm not so sure anymore.

And I'm just curious. When I was a kid, you know, like I said, it was it was mainly recognized as a snow day. But then people would like bring up, but you know, it's Martin Luther King Day too, yada, yada, yada. And no one was ever, first off, most kids are just happy to not have to go to school, I think. Right. You know. And it was never really like, nobody was ever like, I ain't celebrating him. This is Robert E. Lee Day.

Now, there are some people around here who do that. But what it was always weird to me, the conversation around Martin Luther King, was the people would never say, I'm glad he got shot or he didn't hit. But, but, but they would go out of their way to only talk about his adultery. Right. You know what I mean? Like they would just, they were about, you know, the FBI, he was cheating on his wife. And I was like, oh, well, then I guess all of y'all need to be shot.

Yeah, I, I, I just did one of my Patreon things right before this. And I was saying, not everybody, but I had teachers who was like, they would make it a point to be like, Just so you know, like, he cheated on the life all the time. And like, he wasn't that. And they did, I remember doing like similar things with Abraham Lincoln, too. They would be like, you know, he had. Really? Yeah.

Because I remember him saying like he wasn't great, you know, with the Indians or whatever, as though Andrew Jackson doesn't hit for these people, you know. Right. And, uh, but yeah, it was just, it's funny looking back on that. Because I feel like when you're a kid, you don't, I don't know. You don't like really read into all that shit as much. Of course. Or whatever.

looking back on it, it's just like so comically obvious. Like, there's only one reason to be that way about somebody like Martin Luther King, you know. But yeah, I definitely had some of that going too. I mean, I definitely. That still happens. I definitely remember as a kid, until I got old enough to like think for myself, I definitely did remember thinking like, oh, Martin Luther King was a bad guy about being confused about it. But like, just because the way they talked about him,

But with Lincoln, nobody ever talked shit about Lincoln. What they did, they did the thing where, like, there's like, just so you know, Republican. You know what I mean? He's a Republican. And it's just like, Jesus Christ. But, yeah, no, I think they're, I think they're getting better. I mean, Amber teaches second grade. So these kids are not going to be too vocal about it, you know.

Yeah. I'm pretty sure that I can remember, I think, like in my head, I think I think I can remember when Salina started. recognizing Martin Luther King Day. But it wasn't a snow day before that for us. It just wasn't, you know, wasn't recognized. So I, and I, like, in my head, I feel like, cool. Yeah, that's how I remember it. It, like, wasn't a thing.

And then it became a thing when I was, I feel like I was in, like, fourth grade. I want to say. So that would have been, like, 95. I don't ever remember it being called, like, Robert E. Lee Day or Confederate Memorial Day. I think that's pretty. but I do think that I can remember it going from, yeah, we don't do that to, okay, we're going to do that now, I think. But I could be wrong about that. I know that by the time I graduated and stuff, it was a thing for sure.

Isn't it a bank holiday? Yeah. I mean, yeah. And it's been a bank holiday for a while. Like, pretty sure. Earlier than, like, it was a bank holiday when we were children. Yeah, I mean, I remember when I was a kid. I remember hearing mom be like, oh, yeah, the mail's not running today because Martin Luther King, you know what I mean?

And like the trash don't run and shit. It plays my mind that your school didn't do a bank holiday. Yeah, right. I don't know why. Like, it feels like the move would be to rename it if you were offended by it or whatever. I just checked Morgan County Schools. It's called MLKDow on the calendar. Does it say slash snow day?

No. And I don't think it ever did. Certainly doesn't now. I don't remember any of that. Not to say that there was anything special about my school or less racist. I just don't remember that that particular thing sticking in their craw. I did want to ask, Trey, what is the seal of Alabama? Is it just like a grease smudge in the shape of a pork chop?

Or like what? It said it looked like the official seal, and I was very curious. A manatee that says the N-word. Yeah. Yeah, down in Gulf Shores. The people who don't know, being in Tennessee and Georgia, we love to hit on Alabama because it's fun and the football game. Well, we don't do Mississippi a lot.

And I think it's because it's like, Alabama does. It was like, that's kind of true about Mississippi, though. Yeah. No, I mean, I know you're just hitting, but I wouldn't have recognized it. It literally says like in the seal of Alabama. The thing that's anyway, it like says seal of Alabama on it. So that's why that's how I recognized it as the seal of Alabama. I just got the manatee joke.

I was like, why do you go with a manatee? Are there many manatees on the Alabama coast? Oh, probably. But a seal that looks like it has an extra chromosome. I'm really happy that you still laughed at it, Drew. I really appreciate that because you definitely were like, I did. I thought it's funny.

I thought it made sense because they probably do have manatees down there on the coast of Alabama. That was what I was laughing at. I was like, all right. They're kind of like a seal, but they don't have actual seals in Alabama. And I didn't want to say seal. Yeah. I thought it was good. I didn't want to say seal because I'd already said seal in the setup.

You know what I mean? So I just live edited it, changed it to Manatee. Yeah. I really thought after I did figure it out that it is because manatees look like there's something wrong with a seal. Yeah, they do. That seal got swollen. They are funny because it's like they just refuse to. I can relate to Manatee because like despite.

despite what, like, despite the clear messages that the universe sends them repeatedly, they steadfastly refused to change their ways, you know, like they just stay getting hit by boats and it just seems like they just sort of like go, huh, and then keep floating in the same place. You know what I mean? Like they just get run over and sort of shake it off and go back to whatever they do. What do they eat? How do they eat? They don't.

I don't know, but they're definitely The bulldogs. They're definitely bulldogs. They're definitely bulldogs if sealed with dogs, too. So this is all checking out. Do you know what I mean? Like, Trey hates seals because those are just ocean dogs. Except for manatees.

Those are pretty good. What do manatees eat? They are known as sea cows. They're herbivores, so they do eat kelp. I was right. Yeah, kelp, all right. Kelp daddies. Because they're too lazy to fucking actually hunt a fish.

That's what I was. I bet if kelp hits for you, eating it hits, because it's literally just like, there's fields of it, right? Like there's beds, whatever you call it. If that's what seaweed salad kind of is from the Japanese places, then I'm a huge fan of it. I think that they're related, but it's different. But I do think humans can eat kelp, but I mean like if that's your shit like it is for a manatee. It's like the bamboo with panda. Like you just hang out in there, son.

Root around. Yeah. I wonder if it's like, oh, sharks can't get in here. I'm protected. You know, it's funny. Well, I was actually just, it's funny you say that because I was just thinking, I was like, how do boats fucking run over them all the time? Because if it's like a big span of kelp floating there, it seems like that's where they be,

you wouldn't want a boat through that. They must be going from kelp plane to kelp plane when they get hit by, you know, a drunken alligator person on a boat. They have to, they have to breach to breathe, right? They don't breathe underwater, do they? They're mammals. Yeah. Yeah. So, well, that's what it is.

They come up and go, or, and hit the above. Breach is such a funny, like, word to it. It's just like, this is a thing they have to do to survive, but in and of itself, it's lazy. It's like, in order to survive wolves have to hunt. In order to survive, sharks have to hunt. In order to survive, crabs have to protect themselves. Manatees, man, we just need to go out of breeze, dude. Breach.

We just got a breach. We just got a breach. It's the only time the word breach is, it's used. in a positive connotation too, because you've got like a breach and security, a pregnancy breach, and then what manatees do. Well,

right, because they breach the surface of the water, the way that, like, you know, a compromised asset breaches this veil of security in the fucking CIA or whatever. But it does seem to be much more

whimsical and fun, I suppose, the idea of a manatee breaching. It's wild because, like, some animals, some water animals, Man, I really pivoted hard for Martin Luther King stuff.

That's what I was about to say. I was about to say that. I had more on that note. I guess I'll circle back to it in a minute. But like, some other animals breach in a really, like, hitting them majestic way. You know what I mean?

Like, or like a wild that you ever seen a shark fucking jump all the water or whatever? They make their tail go. It's wild looking, you know. And it is. When a manatee breached. reaches, it just sort of like floats up like a turd. It's wild that they can, it's wild that they can do that because like all they're,

they're pushing off the water. You know what I mean? Like, that's fucking crazy to like, if my time playing Echo the Dolphin is any indication, what you do is you start at the bottom and swim real hard at the top and you hit the boost button right before the top, which shoot you out of the water and you can do a little flip and land. I mean, that's how I used to do it anyway. but yeah.

No, I don't know the actual physical. I mean, yeah, dude, it seems like it would be, I mean, like try to fucking jump out of a pool or something.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Insane. But that's that element, but like, you know, they can't walk. Right.

Yeah, exactly. We ain't built for that. Like, and also I feel like you get, you get, you get this motion going. Do you know what I mean?

Like, where you like, come up and then down and up and then down, in and out of water. You know, you get like a momentum. them, dolphins hit at that. They do.

Dolphins hit at most things. Yeah, rape, especially. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, they rape. Yeah, they do rape. Only rape that's funny. Well, now that we've gotten to rape, I think we should take a break in here from our sponsors. Dolphin rape specifically.

Dude, I've been, I think I told you all, I try to do a bit about it. It's like not going to work ever, but like, it's true. It's the only kind of rape that's funny. It's like if your buddy got raped by a dolphin, it would be horrific. But when he opened with, you would just start laughing, almost nervously. Like, what did you just say? Hey, Bill, how was your vacation? Well, I was raped by a dolphin.

Yeah, you've done. I don't want to get too dark, but even other people who have experienced similar things, Well, they wouldn't have as much empathy for you either. No. Like, if you went to a group for victims of the, see, it's too dark. You can't get into it. And then there's this guy who thinks he's like us. And it's like, in some ways it's worse.

You're under the ocean. Did we ever talk on the show about that lady who used to jack off the dolphin and then she stopped jacking him off and the dolphin killed himself? I think we've done it multiple times here and on Bubba. Yes. We did it like a whole thing on Bubba. I consider. to me, the first episode of Well,

where that ever came up is like a seminal classic episode as far as I'm concerned, because I'm pretty sure that's the same episode that had pussy dick butts in it. Cloacas or whatever, talking about birds and stuff. And, like, we was just on one with animal talk, as we often are on that episode. But yeah, that lady, if you're newer to the show, you should either go back and find that episode or just look up

the lady who jacked off that dolphin until it killed itself after she stopped. And that was government money, too, was fun. That was a government, that was a government funded research project to try to teach dolphins to talk or something. And her methodology ended up including jacking it off because she was like, he ain't listening. He won't listen anything I say. I got to jack it off just to get him to calm down enough to listen. And he loved it so much.

Imagine if she was the other one having any fucking success. He was. that's what happens. That's exactly what actually happens. The methodology is a little bit out of left field, but guys, I hear a dolphin put together a whole paragraph. Let this lady jack one of them off.

He'll write you a sonnet. I got to use pussy dick butt in a sentence the other day and organically. We were on the golf course and there were some ducks and one of my buddies was just like, my buddies was just like, don't, man, don't they only have, like the one hole and i was like yeah it's a pussy dick butt and dude he fell the fuck out and i didn't

i didn't tell him that that had been workshoped before i just let it seem like it just came off he goes god damn old pussy dick butt they sure do sure do oh man well uh well anyway dr martin luther king's yes happy martin luther king day everybody and i got to take the ball for that I'll acknowledge that I wanted to do a dumb joke about the seal of Alabama, and here we are. Three minutes later, pussy dick, but. Anyways. Well, we did talk about how the holiday is treated in, and I mean, dude, listen, what more can you say about Martin Luther King, Jr.? Tragedy, gone too soon, obviously, and he should get, he should probably get more than a day.

Yeah, I agree. And you're right. With that reverential note, we should move on. I have one race-related story that ain't got anything to do with Martin Luther King. I threaded y'all about it. But before I tell that story, because it's just like I don't see any way to draw any conclusions from it that aren't race-related. But, again, it ain't got nothing to with Martin Luther King. It involves white privilege.

But anyway, before we get to that, I wish Smart Mark was on here right now because we brought up that lady who, jacked off that dolphin, right? And I said it was, it was government funded. And I'm pretty sure it was. It made me think, like, the shit the U.S. government has spent money on over the years, like the studies and the research projects and stuff. And it's like a passion thing on here.

Yeah, DJ too. But Mark also is real into that. He thinks it's so funny, the dumb ass shit they spent money on. But like the CIA especially. Yeah, right. Yeah. But yeah, fucking trying to teach dolphins to. talk by jacking them off and stuff but yeah

if dolphins talking if dolphins talking is like playing with lebron james you're not allowed to pick it because it's unfair you know bo jackson tecmobo don't pick the raiders who what's your first round draft pick of weird fit the government has spent money on and if somebody ends up taking yours you can acknowledge that it wasn't

your first pick um if you need me if you need to think about it i can go first because i know what mine is but i think it was when they They spent a lot of money to destroy warehouses filled with cheese. I didn't know about that. Of course, yours is cheese-related. And of course, you're up in arms about it. You know the dumbest thing he ever did?

Got rid of that cheese. Tell me about that. I don't know about it. It was when, Trey, you tell him, it was the government cheese thing, but it was right before that, and Reagan was going to just destroy it all. Yeah, I was about saying, I'm actually, if I recall, correctly, they didn't like actually end up getting rid of it all. But they were going to.

They were going to. So Drew, during the whole welfare queen part of the Reagan administration. So we had a backlog of government cheese. And then the welfare queen situation came on and they were like, well, fuck feeding people then. Yeah, burn it. Kind of. Yeah. So during the welfare queen part, government cheese was a big part of that narrative.

And then like in when all that was going on, they found out there was this huge warehouse with like millions. of dollars of government cheese just sitting there going bad or whatever because they, you know, weren't giving it to people or whatnot. And it was a big scandal and everything. And they got, you know, shamed for it. And I think then distributed it after that, which led to an end of a cheese economy, you know. That's so funny. That's why I remember that. I figured that was the order it went in. It would have been perhaps funnier if they just ended up with a big cheese surplus and so they were like it's going to go bad i guess we'll destroy it and then somebody was like ah just give it to the pores and that's where government cheese came from yeah it hits too

yeah i like government cheese um all right my favorite one is is this part of it's like either part of or adjacent to the mk ultra stuff yeah they had a whole thing where they thought you could meditate that certain people could meditate and then send their brain to other places and spy. Like you could spy. It's almost like the way they use psychics to solve crimes, like, oh, I found the body or whatever. So they had this program where they were getting a bunch of hippie woo-woo people, people like Andy.

And they were bringing them in and paying them money to like go spy on Russia through their mind. And I know that a lot of the people they brought in believe they could do it. But I love to think about some real smart dude who was just hanging out with some hippie broad or whatever that he was probably fucking are down there to get the free drugs when they come rounding them up. And he's like, hell yeah, I can do that, dude. Give me, give me a check. I can totally tell you where they're going on in Russia. Yeah.

Oh, that's wild. That's why I said if Mark was on there, because I'm sure he has a bunch of different examples in the back of his mind. But I always just think about MK Ultra too, you know, then like basically like created the Unabomber with drugs. Yeah, basically. Yeah, the Harvard study things. They were trying to like, like, I said it was like a unbomber.

Right. Yeah, for sure. Dude, he was. Mind controlled, telepathy, all this, like, you know, not even pseudoscience. Like straight up supernatural comic book shit that they were trying to, like, unlock with funding and stuff. But I'm sure. And also, I know in, like, some of the wars they trained, like, you know, rats to fucking carry grenades on their backs and shit like that. Not anything that's a bad ass, though.

There's a movie. There's a movie about, I sent you guys a clip from it with no context, and it's there one day about a kickboxing kangaroo from the 70s that was supposed to be like an Oscar-bait movie. It's like fucking Rocky. hilarious. With a dude in a kangaroo suit. And when you watch the trailer, it's so clearly, you know, some boxers, some brer or some brer or, Hispanic guy or somebody in a kangaroo suit just fucking working this bag and stuff.

It's so fucking ridiculous. The human star of it is Elliot Gould. Oh, yeah. I'll watch anything with Elliot Gould. And so it's just like, that's talking about the old dumb shit, the government spent money on. But dude, the cocaine-fueled projects of, you know, the past few decades, 70s and 80s in Hollywood. that's also a fucking gold mine of dip shittery there and you're like what was this?

There was a movie I think with Denise Richards called Tammy and the T-Rex right in the early 90s And if the thing I read is true The director of that movie Just like got an opportunity To have an animatronic T-Rex for like a month Right There's like hey we got this T-Rex

T-Rex sitting around if you need to use it for something. And then he was like, I'll just make a whole movie out of that. Like the whole movie. I've always went to watch that. The whole movie just sprung up from the fact that this T-Rex animatronic thing became available. And they were like, well, we should do something with that. Yeah. Tammy and the T-Rex.

There was another movie where Whoopi Goldberg was like partnered with a T-Rex and solved crimes or something. Yes. It was like called Fred or something. something. Now, Eddie was the name of the movie where Whoopi Goldberg was a basketball coach. That's right. But hang on. I wasn't saw that.

I'm looking it up. It didn't hit for me. Right. Whoop and dinosaur. Why all look it up? That was my favorite. Theodore Rex is the name of it. Oh, yeah.

I remember that. Theodore Rex. That hit, though. I mean, those cocaine-cule ideas hit for seven-year-olds. You know what, dude? He looks. Exactly like the dinosaur from dinosaurs. I almost said they used the dinosaur from dinosaurs after looking at that.

It looks exactly like that's another one, dude. That fucking show hits. The show ends with the world ending. That show ends with the media. And fucking they all die in a Holocaust at the end of that family sitcom. He watched it recently. The other reason that that is. I've watched that stain recently.

Yeah. The whole show is about environmentalism and how we are going to kill ourselves. The entire show, that's what's going on. It's on Disney Plus. And so I was like, man, I loved that show when I was a kid. And so I pulled it up and watched the pilot. And first off, absolutely holds up in terms of like comedy. It was funny.

But like, yeah. But yeah, man, like there was a lot of commentary that I obviously missed as a kid. But like, dude, I mean, it's fucking, it's like Roseanne. with dinosaurs. Right. It's exactly what it is. Yeah. I was probably the pitch for it.

What if Rosam was a dinosaur. Yeah. Have we ever talked about on here if, speaking of cocaine-fueled ideas that worked? This would have been my pick if the question was CIA story. That's just your favorite, not a dumb one, that they wrote the scorepins hit, wins of change. What? That. It's like a propaganda thing.

And I don't know if it worked as propaganda. but I can't call it dumb because they at very least they made a lot of money off of it. So what's wild about that for me just to make this about myself? Tell me the whole thing. I don't even know the thing. The Berlin Wall fell. Go ahead. Go ahead.

The Berlin Wall fell and in that part of the world, they very much wanted people to believe what we have been taught here and it's been rammed down our throats. that that was absolutely the most beautiful thing ever. And I'm not like whether it was or not sure, but like the idea is they wanted Europe, especially Eastern Europe, to be like when the Berlin Wall fell, that was a great day for us.

Because for some people, communist socialists, they were like, that was the day we started to lose. You know what I mean? So they just wrote this song called Winds a Change that was like this really moving beautiful 80s anthem rock, you know,

about how great it was. So the CIA wrote it or they commissioned those people to write it? I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure about that part either. But like that story first broke, or at least I first heard about it, I first became aware of that being a thing. When I was in the middle of trying to write that as a. That Amazon show. And that, but that actually hit for me, though.

So like, I've referenced it. I had an Amazon pilot for a minute and, of course, didn't get made. And the premise of it was that this country band in Nashville started being used unwittingly for propaganda purposes, like to do a bunch of fucking Toby Keith, Trace Atkins, fucking red, white, and blue shit to gin up the dipshits in middle America or whatever, right? And they didn't know about it. And while I was like pitching that and writing that and all this stuff, I was like, dude, I don't know. Like, this is, I mean, this is pretty wild, you know. like this is a pretty wild premise or concept or whatever. But then in the middle of that whole process,

that story came out about the CIA literally doing that with the band, the Scorpions in the late 80s or whatever. And I was like, well, that's the wildest fucking Bader-Mannhoff type shit that's ever happened to me before. For sure. Yeah, it was kind of validating. Because we started like referencing that in pitch meetings and stuff. Like just so you know, this kind of did actually.

happen or whatever. But yeah, that shit was crazy. Dude, we should do an episode with Smart Mark where we talk about CIA stories but relate them to the most popular drugs of the era so that we can compare the schemes and we can see how the CIA being on acid and mushrooms led to this idea. And then cocaine being on cocaine led to this idea. I mean, and then in the 50s, I guess it'd be pot. I think that'd be really interesting.

I mean, it would, they probably had mesclan or something the whole time. We'd be making it up. It could be funny. Back to the movies, the cocaine-fuel movies, one that's been on my mind recently, and I texted y'all about it. And there's a whole entire key and peel sketch about this. So this is already, you know, this ground has been broken before. But like, when I was a kid, I really liked the Gremlin's movies.

And I really liked the second one, especially, and everything. And I have sons of my own now. So I went back and revisited the Gremlin's movies. And the first Gremlin's movie is like, it's like an age. horror in air quotes, like horror movie for kids, like a horror movie with cutesy elements and stuff or whatever. And it's a fun time and whatnot. Little puppets raising hell causing mayhem. There's one scene in it, though, that thankfully I remembered, so I sped through it because of the age of my kids were at the time. But towards the end of that movie, Phoebe Kate's tells this insane and totally out of left field story about like, like her dad, I'm going to butcher it now, but it's like her dad getting dressed up as Santa Claus and getting stuck in the chimney and asphyxating and dying in front of the whole family. I have to get, have to get, but it ends with her, it ends with, the story ends with the reason I skipped it is because the story ends with her saying.

And that's the day I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real or something. Oh, so the like, punchline of the story is her, how she found out Santa Claus wasn't real. It's a crazy horrific story that they do, right? But that's really the only wild-ass moment in that movie. I mean, other than all the wild choice for actors. That's a wild choice for a kid's movie to make. And I'm not even talking about the exfixating part, but to be like, kids are going to watch this and we're going to tell them all that Santa Claus isn't real.

Right. So you know what I mean? Like, you know how many pissed off parents there were in the theaters? Right. So because I skipped it with the boys, because I remembered it, I'm probably getting some of the details wrong. I just know it was a brutally dark and upsetting story that ends with her declaring that Santa Claus isn't real. But that's just that one scene. But bro, we got the Grimlins too. And it is the most unhanged coat-fueled lunatic shit you can fucking imagine. But like

in a way it hits in a hits for it, dude, it I could, it was killing me how fucking insane that movie is. And then I went back and rewatch the key and peel sketch where it's like, this must have been the room where they pitched Grimlins. You know, it's like, what did that look like when they came up with Grimlins too? And it's pretty funny, but like, oh, we did a sketch like that. We did it with the Lion King. It was an odd choice, really. Like, I mean, the Lion King's like a classic tale.

Yeah, right. That's a stolen story. That's what our thing was based around was the idea of like, because we, isn't it, is it Shakespeare? Is that Hamlet? What is that? It's Hamlet. Yeah, it's like Hamlet. with animals.

Well, I think the premise of the sketch, I was about to say, I think the premise of the sketch wasn't, the line king's so crazy, they must have been on Coke to do it, but the premise of the sketch was, this is a family movie or whatever, but you know the executive Disney were on Coke,

so let's still see the, I mean, I didn't write it. I think it was Rick. Rick did write it, but yeah, I think you're right about the premise. And the other thing about it is like, like, to me the joke was like, how the fuck did they,

come up with Timoan and Pumba and then Elton John's thing and you know and it's just like and then and then we're going to get the dude the dude the gay guy you know what I'm talking about yeah Elton fucking John I like that sketch I did too yeah there's a whole series on YouTube now it's called it's called pitch meeting where they do basically that one guy all kinds of movies and they're pretty good but anyway in Grimlins two dude there's a gremlin made entirely out of lightning there's a gremlin that's a spider gizmo is rams. all of a sudden. I remember that.

The movie stops. The movie, it does rule. It all ruled. I love it all. Like there's a cross-dressing fucking sexual assaulting gremlin. Can we do a real horny for dude ass? Don't spoil too much of it because I want to watch it. Well, and then in the middle of it, there's a scene where Hulk Hogan interrupts the movie to tell the

Grimlins to chill out, brother, and get your shit together and stop derailing the movie and stuff. It's fucking, it's nuts, bro. It's crazy. Can we do a special, special well-read episode where we watch that and then just talk nothing but that? Give our notes. It's fine with me. Yeah, I don't care. I'd love to do that.

It's like, it's a pretty famous Key and Peel sketch. I don't know. We're kind of like, you know what I mean? Like, it's sort of been done. So I don't know. Well, we're not going to do a sketch. Either way. Well, they don't know.

We can still review a movie, pretty sure. So, all right. You would tell my the white privilege? I texted y'all in this story. Yes, please. Yes, please. So fucking Ed Begley Jr., right, who hits for me. He's great.

I love Ed Begley Jr. He's great. He's super white, right? Like, that's part of his thing is being real like Connecticut white guy type, right? And so I didn't know, and this is on brand and on theme of what we're talking about. But early in his career in like late 60s and 70s up to almost, I think it was like around, almost 1980. He was a fucking

Coke Coke-fueled maniac and drunken lunatic who was a, yeah, like a mad madman. That he drank like, yeah, right. He was just off his fucking gourd all the time, Ed Begley,

Jr. And so he told this. Is he Bryce's dad? That is very briscy. Yeah, he, uh, he told this story about in like the early 70s, right? It was New Year's Eve.

he got fucking hammered and was on all kinds of pills. You know, this was back before they outlawed the head. Hewleds and fucking speedballs and like yellow jackets. God, I want to quail. All that shit. Pimper tenors, whatever it was called. All that stuff. He was on all them pills, drunker and fuck.

And he was driving in his car, of course, who was somebody used to just drive drunk all the time. Like it was his favorite thing to do was driving drunk. And he fucking, on New Year's Eve, he smacked. ashes into this other guy's car, right, in a way that, like, fucks the other guy's car up beyond driving. But, you know, this is back for, as Andre 3000 put, when things were metal instead of plastic value with cars, right?

Yeah. Cars were stronger. So fuck both the cars up. The guy he hid, his car was not drivable, but his car was somewhat drivable. But it was a bad wreck. The duty hit was limping and stuff. The cops come. When the cops get there, in his drunken fucking drug-addled mind, he hatches this scheme to like, his idea, his plan is to like make them think that his brakes went out and he's planning on suing the car company for it, right?

So that's his justification. And then he goes from there to that means I need them to arrest me for that story to work or something. which I wasn't really following. But my point is, when the cops pull up, fucking hammered out of his mind, Ed Begley Jr., start screaming at them, put the handcuffs on me, take me to jail right now. Please take me to fucking jail. It's like, just unhinged completely. And the cops are like, what are you talking about, sir, you know?

And he's like, he says, the brakes went out in this car, there's no fault of my own. and I'm going to sue the Ford Motor Company or whatever, and being arrested would really help my case, my court case, or whatever. It barely makes, it doesn't make any sense. I see where this is going. And he's clearly fucked up.

And the cops heard and see all this. And the other dude who he hit is over there like, yeah, you should take him to jail. He's clearly not doing well, you know, whatever. And the cops hear all this and they're like, do you say you're having some kind of mechanical problem, sir? We can check that out for you.

And they like get up and under the car and like do a full inspection on his brake lines and stuff. Get out, declare, no, your brakes are fine, sir. You were mistaken on that. And then make Ed Begley Jr. drive the other dude home while still hammered drunk. He said the other dude was in the car like fucking crying, begging him to slow down and shit. And he's calling him a pussy and stuff. It's swerving, but like, just those fucking cops. It's so funny.

Like, that's a brilliant. Being a white dude. Like, still is like, but especially then was like, it's such a comical representation of, you know, the difference between being that guy and being, you know, a black guy in any scenario. But especially something like that, it's like it's just, it's so absurd, but so real, too. My dad, back in the 70, yeah, 70s, he graduated 77. He told me that this one night he was drunk over at his buddy Peanuts, Peanut Huffstettler's house, phenomenal name. I believe I mentioned that on the well-red redneck names episode. I can't decide if that's trash red or money.

red. Well, it was Huffstettler. Well, it was trash red in this particular situation. Yeah. He's over at Peanut Huffstettler's

house and he called a girl on the phone. They'd been, he'd been like, he told this girl, I'm going to be at Peanuts house. Here's his number. So this girl called the house phone,

which is the only way that you could do it back then. And it's like one in the morning, my dad is hammered drunk. And right before all this happened, the, transmission in his car was fucked up and it would literally the only gear that worked was reverse like nothing now like his car would just go backwards and he had to go get it fixed

but this girl called him wanting to throw a piece of pussy at him and my dad drove from rossville georgia to east ridge tennessee which is about 13 minutes you know but drove completely backwards the entire time just put his car across straight lines, hammered as fuck, and nothing happened. Now, this is what dad said.

I don't know why he would make that up. I mean, it does hit, but did he get seen, though? I mean, maybe, but he's like,

I didn't get pulled over or nothing. Like, you know, well, that could just be getting lucky. You know what I mean? Right. Like,

he might have just not got seen, but I mean, you know, he probably would have got away with it either way. So, yeah, for sure. My favorite one is,

teats. I was with teats, of course, drunk on a balcony, the 4th of July. He started shooting bottle rockets at the cars in his apartment complex of people he didn't like. And then we all started doing it. We were on the balcony. And then we saw the cops, like on the road about to turn into the complex without their lights on, like headlights or nothing at night. So we all like dispersed or whatever. And I was working for the state of the time and I was underage and drunk. So I hid in the bedroom, got in the covers, took all my clothes off. So when the cops came in there to the house looking for people who were on the balcony, I pretended I'd been asleep and it worked. But outside, Kevin was talking to him and he knew one of them because it was

the campus cop, but the town cops were there too. And I could hear Kevin. And one thing that happened to the dude was like, look at that. He put a black mark on this car. That right there is vandalism, probably felony. And Kevin goes, and just cleaned it all. And just cleaned it all. And then he goes, I don't see nothing. Kevin was the, like, he was a writer for the school newspaper in a college town, and he did the crime reports or whatever. And he was a senior at the time, and Slager, the campus cop, basically told the other cops, this dude, like, is kind of connected for a student and will be a headache for you if you

fuck with him and they just let him go hammered drunk there was a kid with him that was under raised drunk they gave that kid a citation he had supplied booze to miners shot fireworks at cars was kind of a dick to all the cops and just walked away with literally nothing i'm and i know that that story didn't take place back in the 70s and and i'm certainly glad that our world is less insane now for so many reasons but like i would give just about anything to go live two or three weeks in the 70s and really experienced that pure distilled white privilege. Like, we still have white privilege now for sure. But like the shit that my dad talks about, I just want to get one piece of that and just

see what it was like. Because like, you can see why the boomers are upset now, you know, at things shifting back towards equality because it was just fucking right this way, sir, you know, fucking like, yeah, I get it, you know. I see. I saw a bit the other day that went viral. It was a guy at the conference. comedy seller, and it was an older guy that I'd never seen before.

So maybe he's just like a New York comic who just ain't been on TV. But he starts out, he's like, people will tell you it's hard to be a white guy now. It's hard to be. Nobody, that's not true. Because my colleagues, people stand on this stage, famous, rich white guys. And be like, it's hard to be a white guy. It's hard to be a white guy now. What are ridiculous things.

It's not hard to be a white guy. But it's not as good as it used to be. Like, can we just, can we admit that? It's not as cool as it used to be. Yeah, and that's for 100% sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, we really hit it at the wrong time, you know.

Martin Luther King Day, everybody. Yep, happy Martin Luther King Day. Oh, my God, let's take a break. Let's do it. And we're back. We are back. Joe, you've got something you're wanting to talk about, right? Yeah, yeah, I wanted to ask you all.

You know, I'm a big fan of the early alts. And I think we all are. That was when a lot of us were, those three were probably like in our prime. You know what I mean? Like at least physically or whatever. And I was just thinking, I was wondering,

because I've done this with the 90s before, because we actually did have to make a time capsule. And when I was in fifth grade, and it was a bunch of 90s shit. But like, if we were, if right now we had to make a time capsule that represented the early alts,

what are some of the first things that you're putting in it? I'll lead off with. there has to be a nickelback CD, obviously. Dane Cook special. Yes. I would do. The N1, the N1 mixtape tour. And, and one shorts and shit like that, for sure.

Jinko jeans, maybe. I feel like that was late 90s into 2000s, but I'll allow it. No, I'll allow it. Like, it didn't end until like 03. Yeah, right. Some Kobe and Shaq Lakers stuff. Yeah. Sure, for sure.

I'm going to go with Mark McGrath. What is that? Sugar Ray. I'm going to go not with a Sugar Ray CD, a Sugar Ray poster. Because I feel like you've got to see them to understand why they're in the time capsule. Yeah, that's for sure. Songs, I think that, and this doesn't mean it has to be the best song from that era, but the song that maybe most represents that era.

And it's hard to pick a better one than what's the, God damn it, what was that song? Butterfly, the, uh, sugar, baby. Yeah. Come, come, my lady. You're my butterfly.

Come, my lady. Baby. Crazy sound. Yeah. You think that song is just like so alt. Yeah. Well, that is the most ridiculous when you got to do boy bands and Brittany and all that too.

And I guess you got to do corn, don't you? Fuck yeah. I would love to put corn in there. They're probably right. By the way. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, the boy bands and corn and stuff, weren't they sort of like, like very tail into the 90s, early, early 2000s, like more so. That's when maybe haven't.

Okay. Backstreet boys definitely, Backstreet boys put out back in blue, black and blue in 2001, I think, because I was a big, big fan of the backstreet boys. Still am,

frankly. I mean, I still, I still, what about movies? Yeah. Right. It was.

The movie 300. I got to that. Yeah. The movie 300, that's very otsy. Uh, Transformers. Yeah. Michael Bayes. Yeah.

I mean, you do have the beginning of, yeah, you got the beginning of what we now are inundated with, right? That's when that all started. Transformers, Marvel, D.C., all those things taken on. The Iron Man was 2008. Yeah. That's the beginning of the MCU. I think the aughts.

Like, when you were in the aughts, do you remember thinking, this hits? Or is it just now look at, see me either? Like, during the aughts, I remember thinking, because, like, you know, there was a time of my life where, like, I grew up listening to classic rock and stuff like that because of my dad. And, like, I still fucked with rock and the arts, but I do remember thinking, like, man, whatever the reverse of a renaissance is, that's what we're in right now. But now that I look back on all of it, I'm like, dude, that was such a fucking fun, probably the last fun era will ever have. It killed country music. It fucking killed country music. And what did it was 9-11 was 9-11.

9-11 for country music. Like, you can draw a line between what country was before 9-11 and what country was after 9-11. And that to me killed country music. I agree with you, Corey. It wasn't that it was fun, but like, all right, the part of the reason I loved so much, the Kings of Leon was that it was like, finally, a fucking band from this time period that's getting it right and isn't shitty or whatever. Now, rap, though, rap was fucking kicking ass. That's one of the best eras of rap ever. Like the Ying Yang twins and Nelly were, you couldn't touch them.

They were fucking great. Ludicrous. That was the, that was the, ludicrous, for sure. that was the time that was during a period when almost every rap song had to have some sort of corresponding dance to go with it and I really I really enjoyed that era where every like the song would come on and everybody know and now we're all white kids we're doing it bad but every you know soldier boy like we all knew the you what's me you yeah I got another later you guys might want to stay with songs what's the follow up uh what's uh a little good flow and let me see your hip swing you know that one yeah drop it down yeah right that was soldier boy too that was his uh was his next attempt i like look i i think that generally speaking the i think the aughts are viewed largely as a cultural wasteland but i'm not going

front i'm not going front i fucking was loving all of it i mean i've i've already mentioned why like Like I was, you know, in my, really, because I was in, Chimstrap. I was in, Chinstrap played, right? I was in college for 2004 to 2009, college and grad school, just so everybody knows. But anyway, in those five years. But the second half of the aughts is really what I'm talking about. But, I mean, yeah, it's pure nostalgia and all that shit. But I was, dude, I like, I still go back and fuck with that.

Yeah, me too. music all the time. I miss it. But I don't, there's no equivalent now. Rap is still going and they're still plenty of rap that hits and what. There's no Chevelles.

No. None. None at all. It's just, okay, I'll go back and fuck with it. But like, I love Dane Cook.

I love fucking, you know. All right, but like, does it, does it like compare, like, I'll fucking, dude, I'll get drunk and listen to fuel. But I also acknowledge that fuel

does not at all hold up compared to other rock bands. It's very, like, one-dimensional. Himmer? No, it hits for me super hard, but, like... Shimmer? Dude, those are great songs. Sincerely great songs, but you're going to try to tell me that they're as good.

Even if I like them more than, you know, any Led Zeppelin song. Oh, well, no, they don't fucking, they don't compare. It's like, that's why I think people call it that. We don't have to move off from music, but we got to get the TV at some point before we get out of here. Dude, what about the wire and fucking, Breaking Bad. Cipranos. It was kind of the beginning of golden television.

It wasn't the golden era, but it was the beginning of it. Was that the Aught? Well, Breaking Bad and Mad Men both started right at the end of the Outs, right? Breaking Bad was 08. I was thinking 08 or 09 for both of them. I think Mad Men maybe started like the year before Breaking Bad or by the first. Yeah, 2007. Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah. And again, as I said, family guy. And I think that the aughts were really when South Park was crushing it the hardest. Like they started, they started in the 90s, but like they were in like season, you know, five and six in the, like, some of their truly insanely classic. Now, granted, this is because like, of course I say that because like that's when I was watching it the most. But like Daily Show, Colbert rapport. I think you got to throw those in there as cultural touchstones. I mean, that dude, do you like, now granted, a lot of it is due to the.

fact that people don't watch cable television as much anymore because they're streaming. But it's, it would be hard to explain to a kid nowadays that at one point, the most famous comedy show was a legitimate news program, like a legitimate, yes, they made jokes, but like they were reporting the news in a funny way. And that was the best thing you ever saw. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I agree with you. I mean, Dave Chappelle. Chappelle, you got to throw Chappelle in there, dude. For sure. Chappelle, for sure, fucking Will Ferrell, I think. Oh, Will Ferrell's the king of the aughts comedy. Absolutely. Fucking Anchorman, Tadaldaugan Nights.

All that shit was during the aughts. All right, what about fashion? We got to do Abercrombie. You got to throw a bottle of Abercrombie colline there, maybe a pucoshell necklace. Yeah, for sure. I wore both of those things. Low-rise jeans on the girls.

I would do a picture of a beautiful. Beyonce's butt crack. Mm-hmm. Or J-Lo. J-Lo's butt was big. Jessica Simpson. She didn't do the, let it hang out the top thing, as I recall, and I feel like I remember that. The, if you, if you told me to name a poster that sticks out the most to me from the

alts, it would be, uh, there was a Jessica Simpson, um, she had a perfume. And then she also did the Daisy Dukes shoot because of the movie. And Jessica Simpson was, there was, I had a poster of her vacuuming. Reality television. Oh, yeah. But Survivor. So I'm cheating a little bit. I looked up like Outs movies.

That's okay. A couple of things. So first of all, Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, both were huge. Oh, shit. Harry Potter. Yeah, okay. I was about say, this is one of those things that makes me feel old. The last Harry Potter movie came out in 2011.

I know, dude. fucking 12 years ago. So Harry Potter was solidly. Don't tell me solidly the aughts. Yeah, it don't hit for me either. But that means Harry Potter was solidly the aught. So yeah.

Oh, for sure. Because I mean, it don't get no bigger than Harry Potter. Dude, I was so pumped in the, so before when the last Harry Potter was about, Maine girls is a hell of an awesome. Oh, yeah.

Dude, me and Annie were just talking about that. Quick aside that y'all are going to love. She sent me some, uh, thing that went viral, like a joke or whatever. And it was like, it was something like, uh,

dudes take mushrooms in their 20s and figure out what 13 year old girls figured out in their bedroom when they were 13. It's like empathy being connected or whatever. Right. And I was like, yeah, dude, 13 year old girls, known Bastion group of, uh, having empathy and caring about people. Yeah. Yeah.

She's like, oh, but girls do figure out then. I'm like, mean girls is one of your favorite movies in the entire premise. Yeah. Is that teenage girls are horrible people. Yeah. And the thing is, it's like, well, yeah, well,

there's some. Some girls are mean and some girls are not. Well, it's like, yeah, there's also 13-year-old boys who are super sensitive in the band and not at all. We're not a lot of talk about it. You get made fun of. That's why you don't hear about it. And then you talk about it in your 20s and then some girl goes viral making fun of you then too. Yeah, exactly.

But like, yeah, dude. Like mean girl, like that reason that movie smashed so much everybody knows like middle school and high school girls, if they want to be our, you know, supreme bitches. All this name girl talk made Trey upset. Yeah. Did you leave? Because we were talking about mean girls. am I still here? Yeah, yeah, you're still here.

Every time Trey asked a literal question, it just sounds very existential. Corey, I don't know if it's just on my end or what, but it just, on my end, it said the recording just ended. And now a new recording has started is what it said. Okay, well, it'll send me both of them because you're still recording. All right. We're right around the end anyway, right?

So it won't be. Yeah, we are. No, it's fine. I wrote down the timestamp. So we're good. Yeah, who fuck was. is it it's funny because this we haven't had any delay issues in this episode is weird

it's like fuck a delay just leave yeah right so who fucking knows I'm sure we're missing something but like culturally well I guess we are doing kind of white culture I mean and I know we did rap but like that's what we were fucking with back then well yeah I mean I can't speak for I'm sure that like if a black person was on here they would say some shit that I'd never even heard of

You know what I mean? Like, oh, wow. 50 cent outcast. And Alcass is what I was about to say. Yeah. Also, Freaknik, the party, the festival or whatever. I think it went on through the 90s. I think it ended maybe in the odds, but I think it was a big deal.

Yeah, Freak Nick, one of the ladies who, oh, poor Miss Peggy, I think she's doing bad. I used to work with her up at Greenville Tech in the bookstore. And she was this sweet little old black lady who I remember she was super sweet and like, you know, never, you know, she didn't go blue or nothing. But once we got to know each other a little bit better, one day out of nowhere, I was talking about driving home through Atlanta. And she goes,

I used to go to Freak Nick, Freak Nick, ride a motorcycle and pull my titties out, child. And it was out of nowhere. And prayers up for Miss Peggy, because I think she had a stroke. I was incorrect. Freak Nick ended in 99. I guess I heard about it in the aughts

and thought it sounded awesome. But I was off by a decade. Yeah, outlawed the hits. Can't have freaking hit too hard. Oh, I mean, the dark night was 2008. Yeah. No one was, no one had a huge running all. Oh, wait.

Absolutely. You'll be better at this. There's got to be a lot that we can talk about internet culture-wise from that time period. I know the internet started in the 90s and now it's so ubiquitous. But I feel like we was living on the internet for the first time. First of all, wasn't Facebook? Wasn't Facebook? Yeah.

Yeah. Facebook became a thing in the aughts. MySpace before. I would say aughts to me, Internet, Myspace. What were those hot or not? What were those? Yeah, hot or not. What were those websites that we would go on to watch videos like break something?

New Grounds and E-bombs world. E-bombs world. College humor. All those places still exist. But yeah, those were big shit in the aughts. Yeah. Yeah. What was the dark ones?

Cracked. The dark one, there was a, God damn it. Rodney.com. That was rough. Maddox, you remember Maddox? Yeah. He was like an edge lord. His picture looked like Che Guevara.

And it was like, the website was like, hold on just a second. I got to find this shit. I'm pretty sure. While you're looking for it, the served beer and hell guy. Yeah. Oh, yeah, dude. Taylor, something. Fratire.

What the fuck is that guy's name? Tucker. Tucker Max. Tucker Max. Tucker Max. That's it. Tucker Max. Yep.

Maddox was the best page in the universe. Yeah. That's what it was called the best page in the universe. He had a book, too, that one of my roommates had, I think, called the something of manliness or something. It was like ironic, but not. It was just misogynous jokes and shit, basically, is what it was. Superbrose.

I mean, that's what I've said before on this show. And this is a good example of it. So much of this shit. To me, the aughts were just like the bro-yest time in America. Yes, they were. Yeah. Bro culture permeated spike TV. That's a relative to odds.

Like, it was just, the aughts were super-fucking bro. Dude, I lived on that Maddox website, man. That's like that was just. And I was growing out and loving every minute. Really? So there you go. I'm not in the age difference because like two years can be a long time when you're that age. Yeah, when you're the age difference that we are like now we're all, it doesn't matter,

we're all the same, you know, but like when you're in high school, the difference between, you know, a senior and a sophomore or freshman, like there's a lot of shit going on. Like me and Robbie are obviously better friends now that we're older than we were like in middle school and high school when that gap was a bit larger, you know. Dude, I was just talking with my doctor about it this morning. and this is a little sad, but he was like, are you and your brother close?

And I was like, well, we're four years apart. And, you know, he went to prison before we figured out how to bridge that gap. Yeah, right. I realized we're doing pop culture, which is what, you know, kind of what these things are for if we're going to do a time capsule. But I'd be very curious to ask my mother and father what the aughts were all about. Right. I wonder what was going on in the news or the economy.

In the adult world. Yeah, like, you know, Bush. I remember Bush the War. First black president. First black president. All kinds of bullshit, really. Yeah. Tom Brady and Bill Belichick's New England Patriots.

Oh, yeah. Dominance and the aughts. Yeah. They're definitely, if you go all sports, I think the Patriots are the team of the arts. If we were having to only select one thing, it'd be like, they're the team of the odds. Dane Cook is the comedian of the aughts.

Nickelback is the band of the aughts. And 300 is the movie of the aughts. Like if I had to just, you know what I mean? For our age demographic, yeah, I think I'm completely with you. Well, that's all that counts. Yeah, well, I think if we made a time capsule, though, you should just put a picture of the Twin Towers being crashed into. Don't hit.

Oh, yeah, that was the awesome. And then picture 300 does hit. Does hit. Dude, I haven't seen 300 since it came out, and I bet you it don't hit for me anymore. There is a 300 filter on, there's a 300. filter on Instagram that's fucking cool. I have no videos that need it, but it looks fucking cool.

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