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[00:00:00] I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. Social media is facking up. Ukraine is still China. Vice President Kamala Harris literally threatens our entire democracy. She and Doug have become toxic. 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking, 48 Minutes of Dogs Barking.

[00:00:34] 48 minutes of dog barking. 48 minutes of dog barking. I've heard from the stitches. Oh, my penis horts. Groys. Groys. My penis horts. My penis horts. All right. Well, welcome to the show. It's 48 minutes of dogs barking. My name is Jason. This is Brian. You want to do a shot? Oh, sure. Yeah, let's do it.

[00:01:03] You got your fireball. I got the bird dog. Bird dog. Bird dog. Bird dog. I did photo work for a band. I have a bass player who was a weird little Hoosier guy from Columbia. And he named his dog Bird Dog. Hell yeah. And I heard a story one time about how he was on mushrooms at band practice. And he was looking for his dog. He's going, Bird Dog. Bird Dog. And there's always this corn fed. He was a nice fellow.

[00:01:30] But he was definitely a corn fed mid-Missouri boy. Yeah. But just the idea of him on shrooms is going, Bird Dog. Bird Dog. Bird Dog. Bird Dog. Oh. All right. Well, all right. This one's for you, sir. Here we go. This is for you. I got the fireball, too, which is the real. That is the real. That is the gentleman's. Hoosier. That's bullshit. Yeah. Here we go. Little airport bottles. Had to go back for the second gulp. That's how you know. Yeah. Because if you're drinking fireball, like. Modesty or moderation?

[00:02:01] Neither one. Yeah. Not a part. So Bird Dog whiskey is fine dandy. Yeah. Flavored stuff I'm not so sure about. Really? Not a fan of the peanut butter, huh? As far as like peanut butter flavored whiskey goes, it's pretty good. Yeah. But also tastes like cheap candy. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like if you got like the poor kids Reese's. The off-brand. Yeah. Yeah. Like I could see in a certain mixed drink that'd be fine. Oh, sure. We've got the salted caramel at the house. Oh, well. It's okay. Yeah. Did you do this?

[00:02:30] Have you done the salted caramel yet? I have, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Four, eight minutes of talking about alcoholism. Yeah. You think it's cool to have alcoholism, Ray? Someone asked me at work yesterday if I drink. And I said, not since lunch. Mm-hmm. And they said, why? I'm like, come on, man. You're working in a warehouse. I was going to say. Yeah. The rule is you drink, you drive, you spill in the warehouse. Well, every time someone has what we call an incident on the forklift, you just spill your drink.

[00:03:00] Well, I say, I want you to say like, well, hey, man, I know like this fucking cheap ass pallet that they put 40 grand of telecommunication material on. Like they even use the right length of nails when they built it. Right. I understand you're going to have to go talk to our safety guy and it's going to be a whole bullshit. You're going to have to be on level one speed for 30 days, which is also a bullshit. But hey, man, at least you didn't spill your drink. That's true. That's my little bedside manner joke. Well, you didn't spill your drink. Your rum and Coke's still good to go, chief.

[00:03:28] Like, so while we're waiting for safety to show up, why don't you polish that off? Yeah. I have a Stanley cup full of Jack and Coke. Yeah. Thankfully, I don't work in that kind of warehouse. But I have worked in a sort of warehouse where there were people that would show up not with a Stanley cup, but with a big gulp. Oh, yeah. Like a styrofoam one. Sure. Oh, boy. When they would get on a forklift, you'd be scarce. I'm going to be over there now. Yeah. Oh, absolutely. I got to get out of here.

[00:03:53] I've had a few times where working overnights and working in IT, there have been people who, when we were still in the office, they would come in 10 p.m. starting their shift. And I could smell it on them. Like, damn, brother. Oh, I work with guys. So many stories about how they would see night shift come in. And those guys would be tossing their empties in the trash can outside the door. I'm tired at that point. I'm just going to go to bed. So I don't know how they're doing it.

[00:04:21] I just, you know, this is a whole level of degeneracy I have not reached in my life where it's like, I'm going to the bar before work. Yeah. Like, that sounds like really cool to do when you're like 21 and you got like your first tattoo of like a Chinese character. Right. Yeah. You don't realize it, but it says like pork bun. Yeah. Or a sweaty mom. A moist woman. Moist woman. Uh, I think we had to get a little, uh, a little. Oh yeah.

[00:04:50] Cause, uh, I came into a conclusion today. Hmm. You know, Donald Trump is president again. My president is black. Okay. That was supposed to get some sort of weird chuckle from you. That wasn't, I'm waiting. I was waiting for a followup. I didn't know. Well, so I was, I think the, cause we think about the first time on this ride, the amount of like, you know, resistance and so on. The pushback that this isn't us. Right. This is, you know, um, we are better than this moment. So on and so forth.

[00:05:20] And there's just a absolute lack of that. Yeah. We're very much resigned to fate. Yeah. And I don't even think it's that we are just beaten or bowled over by fascism and nationalism. I think is that the average person has been so demoralized by the democratic party. Yeah. This is the only game in town and both is like three card Monty that you can never win. Yeah. With that in mind, Bernie was the ball. Yeah. That was it.

[00:05:49] And there's a Chapo Trap House, Vanny Fair piece that went live today that definitely feels like a moratorium on like, Hey, remember that moment for like three or four years where we thought we could be a socially progressive, you know, a nation with a left movement. And like, yeah, it's kind of done. And we have, uh, and the reason is Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and the DNC. It's not Donald Trump. It's not any of his cronies. It's not the oligarchs is literally the people that have been telling us since we were little kids. We're the good guys over and over and over again.

[00:06:18] Lucy and the football. And we keep going for it. Yeah. And I see fucking Drey McKesson on fucking Twitter, a guy who's never going to be anything more now, I think in the history books, then someone that's going to be remembered as a useful idiot for entities like the DNC to pacify and defang any progressive notion that was coming out of things like Ferguson and Baltimore saying, um, you know, I see a lot

[00:06:45] of people on, on the internet, uh, that told people not to vote to Kamala being really upset about Trump. You know, I try to be starky, but, uh, you know, I wonder why that, you know, what's up with that? And, uh, it's like, dude, because like it, uh, I think Amber Lee Frost called her the Xanax milf. Yes. We could have had the Xanax milf, but she could not distance. She could not distance herself enough from the policies of Joe Biden. And she was weird. We coconut pilled was a real fucking doomer ass expression and notion.

[00:07:15] If we really want to get down to it, Donald Trump said he was going to make, uh, uh, eggs cheaper. You know, like I hate this. I know. Like, uh, I mean, what was Kamala's platform? Who knows? We're being told like, uh, we have this weird existential idea of what a better world could be, or I could make you fuck better. And people are like, wait a second, I can fuck better. I mean, I already pretty fucked pretty good, but I can fuck a little bit. You know, it's, it's, it's like the squid billies joke about, I'm just ain't saying you're going to make your pecker a bigger, but I ain't saying that ain't.

[00:07:43] We are living in a country full of Dan Halen's. I think that's really what's happening. Uh, Dr. Horny. Fly into a Bev rage. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's where we're at. That's where we're at as a society. It only gets stupider from here. Dennis! I'm raising from a cub! Yikes.

[00:08:13] You want boys and Barry? Jesus. So one of our oligarch friends, I know, I'm trying, man, I'm trying. One of our oligarch friends, uh, friends in big quotes there, Elon Musk gave himself a nice little Nazi salute the other day. The only real press coverage of it was like, oh, maybe he was being autistic. What's he doing? Not to go tell you listen to another podcast, but Citations needed a very great, uh, what

[00:08:42] they call news brief this week about that. Basically that the, uh, establishment media needs to, uh, keep their access and curry favor with the, our new, our new overlords. Mm-hmm. So they're going to tell you, uh, don't believe what your eyes are telling you. But, uh, why are you? It's a Nazi salute! Yeah. I was with one of my, uh, my paramours in my quote unquote blunt rotation, uh, looking at

[00:09:06] Pier Marquette, looking at bald eagles and looking over this beautiful winter snowscape and all that. And I had checked my phone for the first time in 40 minutes. And I was like, hey, Elon Musk, uh, Nazi salute! Shoot. And, uh, that was it. And she was like, what? And I showed it to her and she's like, oh my God, I know! Oh yeah, what the fuck's going on? Yeah. And it's only been like three days since this happened. Uh, so the only real group to get this right was Wired.

[00:09:34] David Gilbert writing the article, obviously David Gilbert not doing the headline. The headline, Neo-Nazis love the Nazi-like salutes Elon Musk made at Trump's inauguration. Simple. Punchy. Easy. That's how, that's, that's how fucking easy it is, folks. And a lot of people, you know, were like, oh, give him the benefit of the doubt. He's autistic. He's sending his heart out. Whatever dumb shit they used to defend him. So, so it made a good point. I wish I could remember what account it was on Twitter, but they made the argument, which

[00:10:02] was if it was not intended to be a Nazi salute and it was just him being overwhelmed with emotion and so on and so forth, he'd be like, oh no, I, he would be on social media being like, hey, I am deeply sorry. That, I understand what it looks like, but that was not what I was expressing. Putting distance, being like, hey, I, I just was caught up in the moment and that was not, I understand it looks like a Nazi salute, but that was just me being full of, you know, just being, I was spurging out. Yeah.

[00:10:29] Well, and Laura Ingram did that same thing at one of the RNC stops. At the RNC, she put the armor from her and then rotated it to like the side. Uh-huh. And. Which is insane. And then, but then later said, well, no, that's why not what it was and tried to like walk back and equivocate and all that. Elon Musk did not do that. Oh, he fucking, he, he doubled down. You've got this tweet here, which. Yeah, you read this. Don't say HES to Nazi accusations. Some people will go and blow anything down.

[00:10:59] Stop groaning your enemies. His pronouns would have been he, Himmler. Bet you did not see that coming, which I believe is a season one family guy joke. Yeah. At best. At best. Of course, the cry laughing emoji. That's his personal favorite. He loves to pull that one out whenever he's very. I'm not mad. Yeah. He's very, very clearly not corncobbing. The blood in his mouth is actually victory wine. Actually. So. Jesus.

[00:11:28] And so our good friend of the show, Brendel, the cry laughing emoji means it's funny so you can laugh at it. Sort of like the laugh track on the Big Bang Theory, a show that is also very smart and about geniuses. Jesus Christ. Our oligarchs are completely fucking losing the plot and their minds. I haven't really watched the inauguration, obviously, because I was out with a girl. I was hitting sliz, you know?

[00:11:56] I was getting some slit. No. We had like a really nice day date. God damn. Because for her profession, she had Monday off. So we had a nice little day date. And we went to like Old Bakery in Alton, Illinois. No news. Which has really great food and really great beer. Had a couple of really nice, tasty beverages. And kind of doom scrolled for a little bit when we got there. Right. Just like, oh, this is really upsetting.

[00:12:22] Like all the stuff that he's repealing and all of the, it's like Gulf of America. Which, I'm sorry, Gulf of America does not slap. No. Gulf of Mexico sounds enticing. What's going on there? Yeah. That's right. What's going on? Like, I like Mexico. I like Mexican food. Yeah. Gulf of America. I mean, technically, Mexico is part of America. It'd be better if it was the Gulf of the United States. It's like also the language of the anti-trans executive order, which technically means we're all female. We're all female. Yeah, apparently.

[00:12:51] So one of our many... Brian Johnson, the singer from ACTC. That's right. Who made who? This guy, apparently. He's got a clone out there in Provo, Utah. No, so he unfortunately shares the same birthday with me, which really upsets me. And he's also only four years older than me, but he's also doing psycho shit. You're familiar with... He's the anti-aging guy. He's definitely a guy that jacks off jellyfish style.

[00:13:18] I don't even know what that means, but I'm just going to go ahead and roll with it. Yeah. Like this. Oh, okay. Over the glance. Yeah. Which is not incorrect. It's valid, sure, but I mean... But what the fuck are you doing? Like that's some shit if they caught you doing it at summer camp, you'd never live that down. Well, I mean, he grew up in Utah, so... He had to be doing it jellyfish style. Exactly. Through the magic underwear. It's kind of a... It's kind of a given. The elder taught him how to do that.

[00:13:45] Between illegally laundering guns so they could buy a fake piece of Mormon memorabilia. Oh, God. It's like my favorite story is always like this big Mormon scandal to buy some shit that was fake. Yeah. That ended up like getting people killed and firebombed. And it was like over some shit that was like dipped in tea water. Yeah. So Brian Johnson is only four years older than me. He does have a son who is 19.

[00:14:12] Now, he for some reason posted this on Twitter. Brian underscore Johnson. Nighttime erection data from my 19-year-old son. And then he tags him. At Talmadge Johnson and me, his duration is two minutes longer than mine. Raise children to stand tall, be firm, and be upright. He's putting a device on his son's dick to measure the son's erections. God.

[00:14:40] I mean, good for him at 47 having apparently by these metrics the average erection quality of 90. Yeah. AndroAid shows them both at 22. So his son's aging rapidly. Yeah. His boners. He has the boner of a 22-year-old. The androAid says 22. His son's 19. He better start blood-boying. There's time. Tultly?

[00:15:09] Talmadge. Tultledge? Talmadge. Tuttle? Yeah. So this was brought to us courtesy of At Crang on Blue Sky, America's Lounge Sanger, of course. But then, Crang figured out what the device was that they were using, and apparently it's called Atom Health. It's an Atom Sensor. It bills itself as the world's first and only... Looks like a chiclet. Nighttime erection monitoring device. Can I read this copy? Yeah, please.

[00:15:39] The Atom Sensor is a compact device designed for comfortable wear during sleep. It tracks nighttime erections by monitoring changes in penile size throughout the night. As your penis becomes erect, it increases in size. The Atom Sensor detects these size changes. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Good Pussy. Yeah. And so... Jesus. So this is the device. It looks like something that comes out of an industrial freezer. Yeah. It's like the...

[00:16:09] It's like that random piece that you find when you're, like, putting together a sofa. Oh, yeah. You're like, what the fuck is this? For the rest of your days, you're going to be like, I hope this is not the thing that keeps my sofa from falling apart randomly. Exactly. Yeah. What the fuck is this? And then, yeah, at Kate, Beast Guys Social, imagine getting an F in erection quality from your robot cock ring. At Cult Papa responding, sorry, guys, I can't come out and play. I flunked boners.

[00:16:40] Oh, geez, we should use the Patreon money to get me one of these because my dick doesn't work. It'd be a real... I want to get F in boners. Okay. Let's do it. How much is the Atom? You know what? Let's look it up. 149 pounds. Let's do the math here. It's like 200 or something. Yeah, it's about 184 US dollars. That's before shipping. So... It's not too bad to know if I got a good dick or not. Yeah. In the grand scheme of things, people go their whole entire life without knowing if they got good dick or not.

[00:17:09] I know this one's a little weird. It's a little inside baseball, but I was witness to... One of the weirdest... Hydrogen bomb versus the dread pitcher. A little different. A little different. Hydrogen bomb versus coughing baby, more like. So then... This... And then... So this all started... It was like, oh, don't you look away, you know, for this moment. And someone quote tweeted that with like, ah, actually, this kind of sucks.

[00:17:38] And the world is a piece of shit. And fuck you. And this guy, Cat Whispered, who has since deactivated, responded to a mutual of ours, Kalen B. Some of you may know him from being the owner of the beautiful boy, Cowboy the dog. Fantastic beast. Fantastic dog. Love Cowboy. But, hey, Kalen, go fuck yourself until you pass out, you unemployed bitch.

[00:18:05] I'm coming to Santa Monica and I cannot wait to meet you in person just south of the 10. I am eager. Are we clear? You want my phone number? You want to get real? You unemployed bitch? Twice he calls him an unemployed bitch. Last time I checked, he worked at like the Maple Story developers or something weird. Kalen's not unemployed. Let's start there. He does not know how to iron the shirt. But that's neither here nor there. Cat Whispered continued this harassment. Why are you hiding, bitch?

[00:18:35] Put your name out there. It's literally my user handle, Kalen responds. What do you think your anger is going to accomplish in your best case scenario? Cat Whispered responding, not sure, but I'd be happy to apply a brick with force to your face. Is that clear? What has to happen, Kalen asks. You know you're so tough. You're the keyboard warrior. Cowboy seems young and cute. This is all very clear to me. I'll see you soon. User just kind of jumps in. Rouse Aldolazal. Love it.

[00:19:06] The dog is cute, Kalen. Do you understand? It's all so clear to me now, you cute dog having shit. You could probably rub his belly and tell him he's a good boy. Do you fucking hear me? Cat Whispered jumps in. He might do that while crossing lines that he knows he crossed. Hindsight is always 20-20. My guess is he'll wish he had more foresight. But he's an internet bully who's going to get checked. I always kind of took him as an internet bully.

[00:19:33] Even since the Something Awful days. Well, the whole thing really kicked off when, in response to a lot of this abuse, he pulls up this guy's spec script and started picking it apart. Amazing. That is kind of funny, though. I feel like God nuts. And this all, by the way, are screenshots from Kalen saying, for posterity stake, not sure if Blue Sky banned him or he wisely deleted. But for context, dude threatened to find me IRL and hurt cowboy.

[00:20:03] Hope he gets the help he needs, but also good riddance. They were angrily DMing people about Kalen. It's like, he took the piss out of your screenplay. If you have such a thin skin that you're going to yell about coming down to where the guy lives and killing his dog, maybe you need to rethink your life. Yeah, I just kind of think Kalen's a jerk sometimes. At the same time. Don't want to kill his dog. Cowboy's super cute. He's kind of a jerk. That's not my favorite guy on the internet.

[00:20:32] Both things can be true. Yeah, I think it's a little upsetting. This guy got so unhinged. And I do agree. I hope that he gets to go outside, touch grass, all that stuff. Like, I don't know, man. Fucking smoke a cigar. Eat some good cheese. Like, do anything but stare at the bad rectangle. For a little bit of a timeline cleanse, I'm going to give you some good news, Brian. Finally, science has achieved what we long have hoped for. That's right, folks. Soup you can suck on.

[00:21:04] Courtesy of General Mills and Progresso. That's right. It is Progresso chicken noodle soup like you've never experienced. A convenient on-the-go soup experience available this National Soup Month. The byline Minneapolis, Minnesota. Enjoy soup like never before. Progresso, your go-to for comforting premium soups, is innovating beyond expectations this cold and flu season with the launch of our first-ever limited edition Soup Drops.

[00:21:33] What is Soup Drops? It is a soup you can suck on. That's right. It is a hard candy flavored like Progresso chicken noodle soup. I don't know whether this is the best thing or the worst thing. And I kind of want one. And I realize... Again, I realize this. A savory cough drop. A savory cough drop. At the same time, I'm like, yes, this is marketing. Yes, this is... Whatever. It's still... It's science gone mad.

[00:22:03] I don't know. Has science gone too far? Yes? I mean, a soup cough drop? Yeah. I could fuck with that concept. Yeah. This just seems like soup in like a lozenge form. Yeah. I'm kind of torn. Like, I kind of see the appeal. Well, I mean, it's, you know, chicken stock, right? And a little bit of the flavoring.

[00:22:30] Obviously, it's not going to have any actual like noodles in it, but it's just going to be like flavored. I don't know. I'm kind of curious. A package is only $2.49. That's reasonably priced. Now with a buck for shipping. Yep. Yeah. I mean, so many times we talk about limited edition food things here, and it's like, oh, they only sent them to like a thousand influencers and shit like that. And you're like, fuck that. It's okay. Cool. If I want to buy one, it's the Heinz Everything bottle. Oh, that thing. Which should be in every store. For sure.

[00:22:59] Give me my slop. The last one I was able to actually like get was the Coca-Cola did a soda that was supposed to taste like cyber or whatever it was. It's like. Oh, I thought you were going to talk about the Coke Zero Oreo. I got that one too. Yeah. I've done all those. Did you try the actual Oreos that were supposed to taste like Coca-Cola? Yeah, it was fine. That's okay. I didn't hate it. Yeah. I liked the soda better than I liked the Oreo. Didn't try the soda. The soda seemed like a little too much.

[00:23:26] The Peeps flavored Pepsi was another one where I was like, eh, make it a diet maybe and I'll enjoy it. It's too much sugar. But yeah, the Coca-Cola cyber was the last one I actually got. And I got one for my uncle who collects Coca-Cola shit. And I was like, here, this is something you don't have. I don't know. For like three bucks with shipping, I'm going for it. You're going to do it? You're going to get the soup drop? Yeah, sure. Why not? I mean, I'm still kind of on the tail end of whatever the hell we had last week. And I don't know.

[00:23:55] It just sounds like a neat little treat. Obviously, it's not going to replace soup. It's just going to have that. Yeah. If it were like a delicious cube of like chicken noodle soup broth that you could suck on and it would taste delicious, I could fuck with that. My understanding is that's what it is. I mean, it's reading this press release. So our crypto scam of the week here is a doozy. Yeah, it's crypto scam of the week time, folks.

[00:24:21] You're listening to 48 minutes of dogs barking the podcast. And now it's time for the crypto scam of the week. Oh, boy. Well, no, it's not one, not two, but three. We got a triple. Oh! So first, January 17th, this according to Molly White, Web3 is going great. Trump launches a shit coin. That was dollar sign Trump.

[00:24:49] I saw this minutes old and my brain broke. So I first saw this at a market cap that was in the millions. Yeah. Which, if I were playing this fucking game, this went to a, I want to say, what, 50 to 70 billion dollar valuation at one point? Yeah, let's look at the chart here. Like right now, it's, I mean, it's been kind of, that's insane. It's at the tail end now. It's still 5.87 billion.

[00:25:19] So I guess it's like at 30 billion because the max supply is 99.99 million. Right. So it went to 70 billion. I saw it at like 10 million. Wow. And I was like, is this real? Like, did someone hack his account? Right. Nope. He came out with it. His actual account. My new official Trump meme is here. It's time to celebrate everything we stand for winning. Join my very special Trump community to get your dollar sign Trump now. And there's the wallet address. Go to trumpmemes.com.

[00:25:49] Have fun. Again, that just feels so, is that real? Yeah. You know, like there's so many things like, is that the fucking guy who's now president of the United States launched a shit coin. Yeah. Puff Daddy launched a shit coin today. Mm-hmm. He said, do you think I'm going to get out of this? Do you think I'm going to miss this cycle? I wish you did. Yeah. It kind of feels like. Get your baby. Slide your baby oil ass out of the conversation.

[00:26:17] But yeah, so this was a Solana coin that he launched on the 17th. Two days later, Melania Trump getting in on the action, releasing a meme coin of her own. This here, a tweet by Melania Trump. The official Melania meme is live. You can buy dollar sign Melania now. That one pretty much cut the Trump token off at the knees. Shitcoin 101. If you got a runner, don't launch a second one. No.

[00:26:46] I hate to say, I've seen it happen. I've seen a shit coin pump and go crazy, and then the dev launches another one and has another one that pumps. They both crater. Folks, folks. Yep. That's how you exist in the space. Not to be outdone, though. Two days after that, a Twitter account that cross posts things that Trump posts to Truth Social created their own fake meme coin.

[00:27:11] At Trump Daily Posts has 1.3 million followers on Twitter. The account does automatically cross post to Twitter any post Trump makes on his True Social account. It also posts Trump related news and other tweets. They then said, introducing a new official meme, dollar sign power, a token for patriots who stand with my vision for a strong America. This is your chance to join the movement, etc. So, yeah, not great. It says here, again, Molly White.

[00:27:40] It's not clear if the Trump Daily Posts Twitter account was hacked or if those running it decided to scam their followers. However, by sharing the now deleted posts to their large following, they made around $1.25 million from people who were hoping to hop on the trend and buy in early to new Trump-backed meme coins. Three in a row, folks. Oh, dude, they're still going. No, I'm saying, like... Sure, sure. That's within the past five days. Oh, no, there's more. Oh, no, I'm sure there are.

[00:28:10] MIA, Made in America. There's USA. There's even, like, a Barron Trump one that pumped because, guess what? Barron Trump's IRL friends followed the Twitter account? Dude, it's fucking... Again, it's fucking crazy. Yeah. Like, I got a busy life now. I don't have time for, you know, combing this shit like when we first started this podcast.

[00:28:35] I can find 10 minutes here or there to kind of, like, catch up on some Telegram channels and just like, oh, wow, we're back. We're back. The insanity is back. Yeah. And with Pump.Fun and with Solana being so easy to kind of generate this shit, it's only going to get worse, folks. You know, we got the crypto president in power, which isn't going to make things easier. They thought today that he was... There was going to be an announcement of his strategic...

[00:29:04] Folks, my strategic Bitcoin reserve. Oh, the strategic Bitcoin reserve. Yeah. Oh, dude, did you... If you can watch... If you watch on the 12-hour chart, Bitcoin, it's pricing. And you look on the 20th. Yeah. You can see it slowly pumping. And then you get to Trump's speech. And then you realize that he doesn't say anything about crypto. And it fucking just absolutely goes off a cliff.

[00:29:30] And we're thinking we're pumping now because we're doing it again. We're talking about a Bitcoin reserve. Well, they thought he was going to say something about crypto in his inaugural address. He didn't. So it dropped like, I don't know, 5% or something. But someone in the administration today, some senator, I don't even know who the fuck she is, like, oh, big things happening today. Crypto's pumping because they think it's going to be an announcement of the strategic Bitcoin reserve.

[00:29:57] And I guess the announcement that she got a job. There's going to be an announcement at, you know, 10 a.m. Eastern time. And, like, everyone's, like, freaking out. People are, like... People are doing the whole, like... It's happening. Yeah, no, people are, like... And there's, like, people on crypto Twitter being, like, hey, remember to take profits. You know, like, that kind of shit. Yeah, yeah. I'm, like, I'm at work. I'm, like, what the fuck is going on? And I'm able on a break to, like, kind of put it together. I'm, like, oh, some broad guy job. Crypto will pump and crash over anything. Yeah.

[00:30:25] It's such a volatile scene. I think we're only at the very beginning of where people are going to completely fuck up their lives. Yeah. Of this cycle. Yeah. And we're just getting started, folks. Yeah, we got a whole entire year. Just like how it was in 21. It seems to be the first year of a new presidential term. Seems to be where shit goes really weird for the economy, and particularly in crypto.

[00:30:51] I think the new Bored Ape Yacht Club has not been born yet, but is incubating in someone's head. And it's going to cause so much destruction and weirdness in this world. And it, of course, gets a Rolling Stone cover. Of course. Yes, absolutely. Well, someone who never will get a Rolling Stone cover is the creator of this webcomic. Yes, two webcomics in a row, Brian. Yes. Last week we picked an Edgelord comic that didn't make you laugh. I know.

[00:31:19] And this week we picked an Edgelord comic that might actually get genuine laughter from you for its absurdity and vulgarity. Or it will get you banned from the internet in several countries, much like the website was. That's right, folks. It is electric re- Now, I'm going to beep this every time I say it, so this episode is going to be filled with that sort of thing. I may also alternate with R word. It depends on how we feel. Electric rectangle. There you go.

[00:31:50] Electric rectum. There we go. I don't know which one's worse. So. I wish I could share this with you. This is an audio podcast. I forgot. I forgot. He was just asking me, what are we going to do? I don't know. Electric r***er. And I was just pulling it out of my ass. I forgot this is what the homepage looked like. Oh.

[00:32:20] There's two banners. One on the right is a racist one towards Asian people. And the one on the left is you have won clown aids. And it clicked to get them. Amazing. And then also, on the top left, they had to add this after about a couple years into the webcomic there. Banned in Germany with a swastika.

[00:32:45] And then on the right side is Hitler pointing at you, the viewer. Ich wünsche sie das aborzige. You must click here to find out how. No. Electric rectangle bills itself as an entrancing comic strip suitable for children. Which, by the way, it absolutely is not. Just in case you were wondering. If you didn't get that from the clown aids or the band in Germany, no.

[00:33:15] It's absolutely not for children, human beings, or really life. Now, what's super interesting about this is that most places have scrubbed this website from existence. And rightfully so. It is not a thing that should exist. I don't know about that. I think there are certain comics that shouldn't exist. Oh, man. Okay. I feel some friction here. Well, hold on. There's a limit. I have a hard limit. Okay.

[00:33:42] I think this goes right up to it and crosses it. No. This crosses every fucking line I have. I hate this comic with every fiber of my being. And I want this person found and punished. The creator of the web comic known as Electric R Word is Eric Vaughn. Now, Eric Vaughn has a whole backstory that we'll get into later. We'll start with what the comic says. Is it the Christian of Australia? Sure. Why not? I don't know.

[00:34:10] It's really hard to find information on him after a certain point on the web. I wonder why. Yeah. I'm starting to wonder why. So, again. I think he was removed from society. It kind of feels that way. Yeah. So, Electric R Word is an entrancing comic strip suitable children set in the atypical American suburb of Sunny Hills in the town of Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Electric R Word depicts the perfectly ordinary lives of freedom-loving Americans and their journeys to find wealth, love, and happiness.

[00:34:39] Now, that is from the official About page. Under characters, Mr. Brown is the beloved mayor of Oak Creek with a cheerful disposition and a big smile. He's dedicated to making his town a clean, safe environment. The next character, Giant Naked Hitler, is the local horrifying monster and tourist attraction. His inability to find love causes him to become very upset and go on rampages.

[00:35:03] The third character, Shitman, suffered irreversible brain damage from cancer treatment. He now harbors an unhealthy obsession with his feces and their applications. Next character here, Mr. Rogers, is the lesser-known evil twin brother of another Mr. Rogers. Like his late sibling, he too aspires to have his own TV show, although the content differs.

[00:35:31] The worst of the bunch, Rapeface, is a serial-killing Nazi pedophile escaped from prison. He constantly seeks sexual arousal via mutilation of children. The history of the website is listed... I heard the adult swim didn't pick up the pilot. I don't know why they put Assy McGee on.

[00:35:56] Anyway, Electric R Word has been drawn in MS Paint by a guy named Eric since early 2007. For some reason, a lot of people do not like Electric R Word, including the governments of Germany, Australia, and China, about five web hosts, Oak Creek High School, Eric's parents, and just about half of the entire internet. Electric R Word has been subjected to countless DDoS attacks, hacking attempts, and death threats.

[00:36:22] Kicked off seven hosts, banned in Germany, and lots of other bad stuff. Attempting to remove Electric R Word from the internet is futile, so stop trying already, you assholes. And then it gives the artist's bio. Eric is an underground video game maker, radio show host, husband... How? Okay. Unabashed misanthropist, and self-described internet terrorist. He is also known as Sigveteer. That will come up later, remember that.

[00:36:52] Eric, aka Sigveteer, has the temerity to publish probably... ...the worst comics in existence. Now listen, I like edgy humor as much as the next guy. The most recent one before this website was taken down, and this is the one where the actual archive ends, is comic number 43 titled Zombies. That walks down the street, sees a bunch of guys, thinks they're zombies. Matrix-styled, two pistols out. You got the Dutch angle here on this frame.

[00:37:22] He's blowing the brains out of these people. Yep. And, oh, he's very glad. And then the last frame is he's shocked to find out he was opening fire outside in Methadone Clinic. Not a lot of laughs there. Let's go further back into the archives. The first comic... Jesus Christ. The first comic, Electric R Word, put out. Number one, traumatized children.

[00:37:49] You see here a Nazi soldier standing next to a Nazi flag, and there are apparently a pile of dead bodies, assuming that they're Jews. Mass grave here. Yeah, mass grave of some sort. A big crane picks up a bunch of the bodies and sprinkles them all over the Sunny Hills Center for Traumatized Children. That's the first comic, right? I mean, this is already better than Penny Arcade. How to Cook Steak. How to Cook Steak.

[00:38:17] So you've got a generic wife standing there watching the husband eat a steak, children off to the side. He's very unhappy, based on the facial expression of the steak. Yells with a mouth full of it, You cooked it wrong again! I'm sick of your shit, you fucking whore, he says as he stabs the steak knife in the eye. The children screaming, No, Dad, no. You're the worst family a man could ever have. He turns on the children. I'll show you how to make steak, you cunt.

[00:38:46] He cuts the boy's penis off, fries it in a pan, and then jacks off on it. Oven master. The oven master. Jacks off on the mutilated boy's penis in the pan, and eats the freshly prepared boy penis while his dead family are hanging from nooses in the background. That is how to cook a steak, Ryan. That's how to cook a steak.

[00:39:15] That's an interesting Chris Benoit tribute. He didn't tap out. Daniel, why didn't you tap out? Let's go Menards. Yeah, sure. A homeless fellow seeing an angel on one shoulder, devil on the other. The devil saying, You must buy a chainsaw and cut off your head. And the angel says, You must cut off your head. And so he walks to the Menards. In the Menards, asking the guy, Hey, I need to buy a chainsaw.

[00:39:42] The Menards employee instead gets an erection so big it punctures through the man's eye. And that's the end of the comic. That's Menards, Brian. That's how it feels like shopping in Menards. Let's try Poopsicle. Here we go. Poopsicle opens with a naked man, very hairy, shitting on a plate. He then puts the plate in the freezer next to the ice cream sandwiches, of course.

[00:40:11] A clock showing you the time. He then takes the Poopsicle out of the freezer, naked still. Runs out of his home, again, naked. Sees a man on the street. Stabs him with it. And then fucks the man in the stab wound. That is Poopsicle. That's the comic. Poopsicle. Let's go a little further. Paralympics? Paralympics. Sure, Brian. Let's go Paralympics. Paralympics shit.

[00:40:41] Paralympics. Okay, there it is. All right. So a gentleman at the Olympics. He's got the goggles on. He's got the rifle there, number 402. He's aiming the rifle down. And he shoots a black guy in the audience, not the target. The TV News Live, it says, Paralympics shooting for the blind, a massive failure. Paralympics shooting for the blind. All right.

[00:41:12] You asked for this, by the way. I know. How about N-word removal, Brian? Do you want to read the comic that says N-word removal? Let's do that. Here's a black guy trying to break into a car with a coat hanger. He gets into the car. There is a white guy in the back seat. What's going to happen? The white guy pulls out a gun. He blows the black guy's brains out all over the car.

[00:41:37] He leaves a card that says, Brown Company Vehicle Security invoice $100 for N-word removal. Smiley face. The next day, a guy gets to the car and picks up the card. That's the end of the comic for N-word removal. Okay. Yeah, I really like that one. These are the fucking jokes, folks. These are the fucking jokes. Here's another race one.

[00:42:07] KFC and watermelon. Yeah. There's a black guy walking down the street. Blue hoodie. There's... Oh, he happens upon, in an alley, a slice of watermelon and a bucket of KFC. What's going to happen in this comic? He goes to pick it up. Oh, and then we see him through the scope of a sniper rifle. The gentleman on the roof, dressed in a black tank top, fires with an AWP. Yeah. Blowing the black man's head clean off.

[00:42:37] He then turns around. There's a cop behind him, paying him money for doing the sniping. Oh, this is social commentary. Let's go to Sandbox, Brian. This one's... Mm-hmm. Yeah. Oh, no. I read all of these. Young girl playing in a sandbox. Here comes a guy, naked, probably the same Poopsicle guy. I think it's a Poopsicle guy. I think there's some continuity. Screaming, carrying an axe.

[00:43:01] He takes the young girl's pants off, takes the axe to her vagina, shits into the axe wound, fucks it. That's the comic, Brian. Electric R-word, folks. Yeah. Here's the last one I'm going to read for you. Here it is. Number 23, Braces. Establishing shot. Dentist's office. He goes, dentist speaking to a young woman. All right, little girl, you ready to get braces? She goes, yep.

[00:43:30] He turns up the nitrous oxide, takes her panties off, Brian. He fills a gas can and puts a hose to her vagina. He fills till her belly swells up, sets a lighter in front of her vagina, opens the door, tells the mom, your daughter's braces are finished. Climbs on a desk.

[00:43:54] Jumps on the girl, expelling the gas can and puts a ball of flame. That's braces. Electric R-word, everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Upsetting. Okay? Yeah. Upsetting. When I think of this comic, I think of the Poopsicle one. Mm-hmm. Still.

[00:44:20] Don't really think about things like this one, because they are really vulgar and upsetting. The Poopsicle one seems like anything your shitty weird friend would have drawn in high school. Sure. This is, uh... It goes farther than that. There's also the giant naked Hitler, which I haven't even gotten into, where he skewers a woman on his giant naked Hitler penis. It's fucking vile. I mean... It is.

[00:44:50] Like, it's fucking vile. This also came around a time in the internet where being edgy as fuck was, like, the norm. Like, everyone was trying to figure out where the fucking line was. I know. I'm glad that we're better than this. Yeah. I like to think that we are. For me, it's like, this is a strange, bizarre relic from this era of the internet. I'm not saying it's good. No.

[00:45:18] I would never recommend anyone look at these webcomics, ever. If you wanted to, you could. For some reason, Archive.org has the entire website archived in its entirety, including the forums, which I will get to. The FAQ of the website, I thought, was very interesting. FAQ. Is electric R word really banned in Germany? Eric responding. Currently, it is blacklisted, and linking to it from a website hosted in Germany is punishable

[00:45:47] with fines or a trip to the gas chamber. Huh. They still do that? Where did the name electric R word come from? It was a scrapped name for my friend Mark and I's Hitler worship and... We ended up calling ourselves the Mexican wheelie bin rapists. Ironically, Mark now lives in Germany. How do you make them? MS Paint and a cheap mouse. You're a liar. Looks like Photoshop to me, buddy.

[00:46:15] The site graphics are not comics. F slur. How often do new comics come out? Electric R word comics come out whenever. Do you draw all the comics yourself? Yes. How do I contact you? You can't. Leave me alone. I'm going to sue you slash take you down. It's only been tried about 10 billion times. Please spend your life's precious moments achieving your true potential, which is not blaming all your misery on the action of others, you pathetic weakling.

[00:46:42] Not content with being extremely vile in comic form, they also had forums. The giant header. The gay bar. The gay bar. Now the forums didn't get a lot of action, I gotta say. Grand total of, what, about 15,000 posts maybe? Grand total? There was an entire sub-forum called the Militia Bunker.

[00:47:07] Board is for war and raid planning against other people, forums, and websites. Revealing electric R word to our enemies in any way whatsoever will get you banned. And then here's someone with a gaping asshole profile. This chiming in to say that the board automatically adds hyperlinks to post the links, so you have to remove the HTTP colon slash slash www. Eric, make this board only available to registered users who have above 20 posts.

[00:47:36] And he also went by the charming Appalachian, Mr. Buttholes. Why would they have this? Well, because the electric R word fans were probably 4chan edgelords, right? Yeah. Brigading, going to other places and making yourselves known. Even the fine folks at the Encyclopedia Dramatica had a lot to say about electric R word. You know, you're on the wrong side of history when Encyclopedia Dramatica takes your edelord

[00:48:05] shit and is like, I don't know about this. And calls you a pedophile and all that. Yeah. Pedophile. Mate, you're a pedophile. Pedophile. Oh, no. Oh, no. He's a pedophile. Oh, no. Defender of all things John Solomon, the gentleman behind your webcomic is bad and you should feel bad website.

[00:48:30] He was quoted as saying that the pedophile who makes electric R word, and yes, he literally is a pedophile, thrives off people complaining about his webcomic. I have no intention of feeding that addiction as much as I have of sending him a six-year-old girl. So the Encyclopedia Dramatica folks were very, very happy to post the picture of the creator of Electric R Word, Eric Vaughn, on their website, and also a nude photo of him from

[00:49:01] Amazing. From a forum out of Brisbane, and here he is hanging dong. That is a very Australian-looking man. Uncut. Uncut, which is, you know, good. There's two things that Eric Vaughn has to answer for that are not this webcomic. First and foremost, he did post on something awful. His username was SigVader, so we know this is him, and also his face matches in a later

[00:49:31] picture, but here we go. From the comedy goldmine, the thread title, Keyboard Goop. I decided that my keyboard needed to be cleaned after years of disgusting finger goop being wiped on them. There's a very gross-looking Logitech keyboard. And here he is scraping the keyboard goop. Yep, you can see all the black gunk on his fingernail there. Puts it down on a piece of paper. And continues on with the rest of the keys. And there's just a...

[00:49:59] It looks like the really bad resin from a really shitty one-hitter. Yes. It looks really nasty. And there's a lot of it. People say you can't smell a photograph. I feel like I could smell this picture. Yeah, it's bad. Well, and then he introduces his dick to the photo. Which, I mean, there was a forum poster, Wayne Gretzky. That was his gimmick. Yeah. Was slipping his dick into the bottom eighth of a photo. This wasn't even a trick. This is just like...

[00:50:29] This is dong. And then he comes on it. He comes on the keyboard goop. And then there he is, licking it. That's upsetting. There he is with both the keyboard goop and the cum dripping from his mouth. And then immediately there, user was banned for this post. Amazing. This was in 2009. El Pinto Grande requested it. And El Pinto Grande approved it. This was a permaban.

[00:50:55] And the punishment reason, I don't even know what to put in the ban reason. Now, previously, Sigvider had been a band for a number of things. Asking people for stuff. Starting stupid fights outside of Fayad. Things like that. But also for being involved with... Muslim Massacre, Brian. Ugh. Yeah, buddy. Anyway, 2008, Eric Sigvider Vaughn created a video game for Windows called Muslim Massacre

[00:51:25] colon the game of modern religious genocide. According to Wikipedia, he explained the game was, quote, something along the lines of metaphorically destroying the stereotypical depiction of a Muslim. The game had a promotional ad on its front page reading, quote, Don't be a liberal. Download the game now.

[00:51:48] It is a twin-stick shooter, very much like your Robotrons, your Berserks, your Smash TVs, your Total Carnages, etc. So players control an American soldier armed with a pistol parachuting into the Middle East. Your very standard Ikari warriors or your metal slug type of situation. The player must kill every character on screen. Some Muslims are dressed as civilians. Others depicted as stereotypical terrorists wearing a suicide vest, etc.

[00:52:16] PC World compared it to the Atari game Berserk, commenting that without any meaning to it, it's a parody that feels, quote, utterly devoid of anything remotely Swiftian and which viewed at the mechanical level is pretty weak, monotonous sauce. He noted that as opposed to banning it, people who don't like it should boycott it while parents should supervise what their children play.

[00:52:40] In an article for Kotaku, Michael McWeeder called it a straightforward shooter, calling its visual style well-crafted. Now, of course, not being seven years after 9-11, not a great time to release. About the seventh anniversary, if you were. Yeah, September 10th, 2008. Michael McWeeder writing this for Kotaku. This is not good. You kill hundreds of faceless men and women, some with suicide vests, some unarmed,

[00:53:06] as you work your way up to bosses like Osama bin Laden and ultimately Allah himself. It's unwaveringly offensive by design, he says. Now, of course, maybe four days later, Eric Vaughn then came out with an apology. And his apology reads like this. I would like to make a public apology for any offense I might have caused through releasing the game, and to Muslims in particular.

[00:53:32] My intentions when releasing this project were to mock the foreign policy of the United States and the commonly held belief in the United States that Muslims are a hostile people to be held with suspicion. I would like to make it clear that I have never shared such a belief, and my intention was to mock those who actually do believe these things. It quickly became obvious to me that releasing this game did not achieve its intended effect, and instead only caused hurt to hospitable innocent people.

[00:53:57] I believe removing this game and website will do much more to attain my desired effect than leaving it on the internet, so I am doing just that. I would like to ask for the forgiveness of Muslims around the world, and to make it clear that I did not release this game with ill intent. So without further ado, I would like to say that I am truly apologetic for what I have done, and will take full responsibility for all offense that has been caused. I can only hope that any further misgivings can be laid to rest.

[00:54:28] Sincerely, Sigvedere. In retrospect, as a game player designer and as a person with an immutably bizarre sense of humor, I believe this game's messages could only be interpreted as it was intended by dedicated gamers and people who share my tendency to find humor where you would least expect it. I at no point stended my intentions for the game either personally or in the game itself. Yeah, um... Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I feel dirty. Yeah. I'm going to have to shower when I get home. Mm-hmm. You had no idea what you were doing. I brought this to me.

[00:54:55] Again, I just remember Poopsicle and a couple other comics that are just really absurd and vulgar and forgot about the stuff that was much more darker and definitely line crossing. Yeah. And it's things like Style Project and Rotten and a couple other things we've talked about on this podcast. Right. Find that line and maybe cross it a little bit, but don't go so far.

[00:55:24] I think when most people talk about this webcomic, it's really just... It is like how fucking wild this was a thing. Yeah. And that it was such a relic of its time. A time when the internet was like... Oh, you can do that? But should you? Should you? No. I mean, I'm going to say unequivocally no. I will gladly sit through another 90-minute puke fetish video before I will look at another comic about Mecha Hitler raping someone. Right.

[00:55:52] So it's one of those things where it's not just tasteless. It crosses several lines at once where I'm like, you know, this is no longer funny. That's just me. I have a limit. And this fucking comic crossed it for me. Yeah. I will take a thousand fucking shredded mooses over this. Okay? You got to understand that. That's how vile I felt like this was. It's pretty... Yeah, it's definitely something that like...

[00:56:20] Again, I remembered it for a couple comics. I remember being fucking... And then revisiting it with here, I'm like, oh yeah, there was a bunch of shit here that was also just like too much. I'm not even mad at you. I'm mad at him for doing this to me. I want more poop. I want more poopsicle. I want less weird child rape shit. Which unfortunately... Is the majority of it. Is a lot of it. Yeah. Like, I'm a big defender of obviously humor that doesn't pull any punches. Absolutely. Sure. But this doesn't have any depth to it.

[00:56:50] No. There's no... What's the joke? What's the joke? What's the joke? Why is that funny that you go to get braces and then someone fills your vagina with gasoline? What's funny there? I don't know. I don't know. I sure as shit don't know. It seems weird to want to try to transition to shock.jpg after this. Yeah, we already picked... I know. But I found one that is kind of... At least it's funny. Okay. At least we can do something that's funny. And now we covered You're the Man Now, dog. The electric f***er guy?

[00:57:20] Didn't he get arrested? A lot of that stuff has been kind of lost to time. I've been searching all week. Incognito. Thank God. For what the f*** happened to this guy. The last I saw was he had all that shit with the Muslim Massacre video game. He got banned from something awful for jacking off on keyboard crud and then eating it. And that's the last I've seen of him. I haven't seen his name come up in credits for any video games he's been working on. But apparently that was an interest, obviously, because of the Muslim Massacre and a couple of other things he was working on.

[00:57:50] Since about 2008, 2009, the trail goes cold. Like, I've been looking, which is unfortunate because, again, my sanity is trying to find this fella. And he probably, you know, changed avatars. He changed names. Sometimes he probably was like, eh, I'm going to distance myself from this. Or, you know, maybe try something else. You know, he's changing careers. Whatever it was. He's gone quiet. And that's fine. Because I never want to see his shit again.

[00:58:20] Yeah, it's absolutely fine with me. And now, the moment you've all been waiting for. Shock.jpg. So, Shock.jpg this week, Brian, is called Fisherman. And it is a You're the Man Now dog page. We've covered You're the Man Now dog here on the show before. But for those of you who maybe missed that episode, You're the Man Now dog was a website where you'd get a GIF and a little bit of looping music and your own little URL.

[00:58:47] And this one was fisherman.ytmnd.com. And it's still up, by the way. Great. So, let's do this. Let's hit play. So, there is the image for Fisherman. It is a gentleman laying on his side. Looks like two bass. A very hairy guy, completely naked, with two bass in his asshole. It's the beautiful piano music. So, say what you will about anything else we've seen so far today.

[00:59:16] Yeah, this is a little bit more palpable than... A giant Hitler coming on people. Because at least with Fisherman, it's like, well, he very clearly was into this because the fish don't just go up there. Fish don't do that. Not normally. I got to imagine there was like two guys are out on a fishing boat. I bet I can put this fish in my ass. Well, yeah. Well, I bet you you can't put two in there.

[00:59:47] Jesus Christ. Hopefully, hopefully the fish, you know, were already dead. Which is kind of a weird thing to say. I know. But it's a weird fucking day. I don't know. I just can't. I can't get my mind around it. So, that was Shocked on JPEG. That was Fisherman. It was a very quick and easy one. The beautiful piano music really sold it for me. And also, just like, yeah, two fish in the ass. Why not? After all this, sure. Let's do it. It's time for your mom's favorite part of the show. It's time for the Breathman.

[01:00:17] Well, I guess that means it's time for the Breathman. It does. It does. What does that mean for you, Brian? Well, folks, David Lynch died. He did indeed. Indeed. Yeah, that was our... He didn't get to see Donald Trump's second term. Good for him. Yeah. Neither did Carter. No, that's true. Yeah, neither did Jimmy Carter. And I think Carter said, like, I'm peacing out. Fuck, man. I ain't gonna make it. I'm coming, Martha. Yeah, yeah.

[01:00:44] Yeah, David Lynch, you know, I did just this past Friday, we put out the Mind Zone. And my Mind Zone was about David Lynch. My Mind Zone was about my favorite David Lynch film, which is Lost Highway, which I did watch. After his passing. And really soaked in the dark American Gothic neo-noir beauty of it all. Funny, because that's why I watched. You did? I don't know about that one. No? Nope. I need more connective tissue.

[01:01:13] You mean between Fred and the mechanic character? Yes. There's a reason why they need to be switching places kind of thing? Mm-hmm. Okay. I also have not gone out and read any interpretations of... You don't need to. What you bring to the film is what you take away from it. That's his whole deal. If you feel like there was something missing, there might have been. I think it's a movie about being unsatisfied. Mm-hmm.

[01:01:41] And the havoc that comes with wanting. Yeah, there's definitely that. There's that bit where Patricia Arquette's character, whose name escapes me right now, but after she's finished seducing the guy, he goes, you will never have me, and then disappears from the story. Yeah. And it's wanting, longing, right? It's about that desire for the thing that you can't have. Fred, the jazz musician, can't have mystery in his life because he's stable. He's got this and that.

[01:02:11] So he kind of becomes this other person because that's what's missing, his mystery and excitement, right? And he gets it, but in probably the worst way. Yeah. And I think the Robert Loja character and even the Richard Pryor characters are just kind of vestiges of that Fred persona. Like his better angels? Kind of, yeah. Yeah. I could see that. It's really sad that that was the last Richard Pryor film performance.

[01:02:41] It is. It is very sad. There are definitely parts of it I really liked. And maybe I need to watch it a second time. Was that your first time seeing it? Yeah. And this is weird because I've been basically being told I need to see that movie for, oh, geez, almost 20 something years. Yeah. I think that might be the first Dave Lynch film I've actually watched. Really? Besides Dune. Okay.

[01:03:07] Like I've seen parts of his other films, but I think that's the first one I've actually watched, like front to back. I thought the soundtrack was interesting. I thought there was a lot of interesting directorial choices. I also, like little things, I'm like, I'm sure this is on purpose, but like, why does Fred's house feel like a really like unsettling dentist's office? Yeah. I think that's on purpose. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:03:33] You're meant to kind of have that, that dream logic of this is a place that's not a place. Mm-hmm. And when he has the party, right? And Robert Blake's character tells him, you know, I'm in your house. Probably the most unsettling three minutes that David Lynch has ever filmed. And it's just two guys talking. Yeah. But there, but there's also just, yeah, stuff happens in the film and you're like, oh, all right, I guess that's a thing.

[01:04:00] Because it opens with, he gets, you know, somebody knocks at his door and says, Dick LaRance is dead. Who the fuck is that? What does that, what does that mean? And that kind of spirals off the whole thing. And you find out that it's like a loop. Right. Right. Yeah. That, that I think is the big reason to revisit the movie because it is a loop, right? And the film starts where it ends and the care, and the only difference is that the characters

[01:04:27] have gone through some stuff and, and you as the audience are kind of seeing the loop close. That is where I really started paying attention to Trent Reznor as someone who's putting together music, right? Because he, he did the whole soundtrack. Um, he got a bunch of bands to donate songs basically. Um, yeah. Uh, Marilyn Manson, uh, um, uh, Apple Sodom. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

[01:05:20] The song Perfect Drug, which was a huge hit from that. I think the only other movie that I'd seen with Trent Reznor doing the soundtrack before that was Natural Born Killers. But a lot of that was like, well, how much of this is drawing, doing these needle drops and all this stuff and versus like trying to actually set a mood. And, and then you see Lost Highway. Oh, okay. Well, there's actually, he's going for a whole vibe. He's creating it out of music. And, and then eventually I think that really led him into doing him and Atticus Ross doing

[01:05:49] actual scores. Yeah. It's interesting to see the genesis of that almost like 20 years before he really started seeing his teeth into it. I think it's a movie worth watching. Yeah, for sure. And like I said, there's definitely stuff that's going to stick with you and there's stuff that's really interesting and I do think there is, like I said, a commentary on like wanting and desire and being unsatisfied. I think there's also commentaries, a commentary about like suburb.

[01:06:15] I mean, all this stuff I think hits on some level, like a commentary on suburban white bread life. Not even strictly suburban, but just like middle class or upper middle class ennui. Yeah. This kind of feeling of like, is this all there is? And Fred, the, the, the, the, the Bill Pullman character. I think he does a great job. No, I think he's, he's a standout. And, and honestly, when it's the movie shifts into Balthazar Gettys zone, I'm like, eh, I

[01:06:44] kind of, kind of miss Bill. Where's Bill? Yeah. Where's Poochie? Yeah, I know. I know. It's, it's, it's just a shame, but it's true. So, but then, you know, when, when Balthazar Gettys on, then you've got, you know, just a masterclass of character actors just kind of breezing through the movie. But yeah, I think of the movies set in Los Angeles, it's one of the better ones.

[01:07:11] Um, I would definitely not recommend you jump directly to Inland Empire, but I would say Boy Mulholland Drive, if you haven't seen it in a while, definitely go back for another, another dip on that one because there's just, there's so much there. And I think David Lynch understood Los Angeles as a character in a way that I think only other directors like maybe Michael Mann does.

[01:07:41] Maybe Quentin Tarantino. Yeah. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood for sure. I mean, uh, Jackie Brown. Jackie Brown. Yeah. Um, yeah. Pulp Fiction. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Pulp Fiction does take place in LA. That's right. And I mean, so is Reservoir Dogs or at least implied. It's implied. Yeah. That one's less explicit, but yeah. But that part of California is a character. Yeah. Or Robert Altman in the shortcuts or Paul Thomas Anderson. Somebody's doing those bits and boogie nights, you know, like. Yeah.

[01:08:10] There's a handful that really kind of get, um, that there's a specific character to a place. Yeah. And Lynch really gets it. I mean, I've only been to LA once. It was over 10 years ago, but I found it to be an endlessly fascinating place. Oh, for sure. Um, it smelled like pee. A lot of pee smell. But I found that, look, I mean, having, I mean, having, uh, you know, the buddy head folks on,

[01:08:39] they kind of, you know, ribbed me a little bit for finding LA to be in. But I, but I, it was. Yeah. I, and people were like, oh, you're from St. Louis, you're from the Midwest. Oh, that's neat. And, you know, well, of course they're probably from somewhere that was just as boring as where I'm from. Right. Um, there's some, some, you know, kinship there, but like, I've, that's the only place I've ever been where I told someone I was from St. Louis and they didn't have like a frown.

[01:09:05] Well, and, and not to give too much away, but in, in Mulholland Drive, the character that Naomi Watts plays is kind of a, a Midwestern girl come out to the Hollywood to make good. Right. Well, she's not an American actress.

[01:09:21] And so there's this great, like there's five layers of abstraction between reality and, and this character that she's playing, but she's also playing with such a straight faced earnestness that you just can't help but like feel for her. Cause like, yeah, this is, this is how it is in LA, I guess. I'll be honest with you. I always liked David Lynch as a career person.

[01:09:46] And I always liked what he had to say about life and experiencing it and being creative. I can't only say that I loved his output the same. Oh, sure. I feel like it's the same way I feel about Steve Vai. Sure.

[01:10:04] Like when I read interviews with Steve Vai, where he talks about the creative process, where he talks about music or talking about playing guitar or talking about musical equipment or just anything about everything he does. But the noises he makes with a guitar, I find to be like worth his time, worth my time. I should say. Yeah, sure. Like if, yeah, I'll get like a YouTube recommend, like an interview with Steve Vai about, you know, what it was like recording with such and such. I'm like, yeah, I'll, I'll watch this five minute interview.

[01:10:32] That was a cool, like, cause unlike, um, a lot of other guitar virtuosos, like he isn't really up his own ass. Like you would think he's very, like a lot more down to earth. And I think a little bit more understanding of the, the crazy shit he's got gotten to do. Right.

[01:10:51] Whereas people like Slash seem to not necessarily understand like their significance and in a way that's illuminating or interesting. Yeah. And Steve Vai is aware of that and he has some humility towards it. That definitely is, that, that, that tracks. Yeah. I, I, I can certainly understand that because I've, I've been inundated with Steve Vai stuff since I was in high school.

[01:11:16] And every friend of mine who played guitar was always trying to get me to like, yeah, listen to the Steve Vai. I'm like, yeah, but I'd rather hear him like talk about philosophy instead. I'd rather hear him talk about. Like, I like, oh, they're like, he's like an actually interesting person. Right. Like interview and like listen to. Yeah. He seems like a real down to earth kind of fellow. For, yeah. For being like, you know, and the, I mean, he fucking played with Zappa. Right. Yeah. Like, it was just still a weird thing to comprehend that he like worked with Zappa.

[01:11:44] But that list is very long of people that worked with Zappa though. I mean, that includes the fricking Smothers brothers. So, I mean, you know, like. But like, but like having, but it's like a thing like, yeah, he like, and is reverential to his time with Zappa. And, and, and that, that period of his, his life as a musician. Whereas like someone like Slash is like, oh, it was a cool thing I did. Yeah. Very nonplussed about the whole deal. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:12:12] I, I'm not interested in people to do extraordinary things that don't understand that they're extra or don't have the right reverence towards like, oh, wow. That was a point in time that can never be revisited. Yeah. And I was a part of it. And wow, we did something cool. But when it comes to, to, to Lynch, I always like his stuff about transcendental meditation, you know, his, his, his bits about creativity. I got a great book of his called Catching the Big Fish. I've heard that's a great book. Fantastic. Fantastic. It's a slim little volume.

[01:12:42] I mean, kind of keep it in your bathroom for reference because, you know, it's, he didn't write a lot, but what he wrote was pretty profound. You know, he talks about when he was doing, I think he was in the middle of doing Dune and Stanley Kubrick calls him up. Come over to the house. Yeah, sure. It's Stanley Kubrick. You're not, you're not going to say no to Stanley Kubrick. Right. And Stanley tells him that Eraserhead's his favorite movie. Now that had to be pretty fucking humbling. Right.

[01:13:11] As a, as a young artist, this is maybe your second feature you're working on. And, and someone said the first thing that there's a big name thing that you did is their favorite films. And this is Stanley Kubrick we're talking about. And he said, no, no, I've, I've, I've screened it at my home for every guest who's, who comes through here. And, and this was, you know, he, it was, it had to have been a, a reel to reel, you know, like he had to have like a 35 print or something, something like that.

[01:13:38] And he's set up in his home and it's a pretty amazing story. Speaking of, you know, uh, a tour film, I, uh, had the, the chance of seeing a little, uh, comedy from the Spanish part of the world. Yeah. Made in the late 80s called, uh, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Oh my gosh. I still have not seen this yet. Well, how was it? It was fantastic.

[01:14:08] Um, I went with, um, a member of the Blunt Rotation. Yeah. I always trust her tastes in movies. Like, okay. It's like Antonio Banderas' first big. Oh, okay. I believe it's his first big role. Um, it's the one that broke him out. And, um, the. Director who, name escapes me at this moment, is also going to do a bunch of stuff. Really cool, important shit.

[01:14:35] Um, and we're at the High Point, which is kind of St. Louis' last like art house-y theater. And. Oh, that's Pedro, Pedro Almodovar. That was actually my first time at the High Point. Oh, okay. I was, I was a Tivoli guy. Oh yeah, sure. But, the High Point is for, in case people don't know, kind of like the last art house theater in St. Louis.

[01:15:02] Because the Tivoli's now owned by like a really nasty Christian church. Which is so bizarre and unfortunate on so many fucking levels. Very nasty. Very nasty. Very nasty. Very rude. Folks, folks. They're not doing the Rocky Horror Picture Show anymore. They're not showing Perfect Blue at midnight. God, I actually did see Perfect Blue at midnight screening at the Tivoli. Fuck, that was amazing. Anyways.

[01:15:30] It reminded me of all the old theaters in North County that my mom would take me to as a kid. Oh, like the Dollar Theater out there? Like the Dollar. I mean, there was one at Village Square. Yep. There was one at Cross Keys. Yep. These are older theaters. I mean, the closest thing besides the Tivoli that's left is probably St. Andrews out in St. Charles off of 70. I mean, we don't have the mood line anymore. But I just really love the aesthetic. And one of the guys that was working was like, oh, yes, yes. I've got this. I've seen it.

[01:15:59] It's a beautiful print. Oh. And like it's a 35 millimeter print. How beautiful it can be. And it has that 35 millimeter crunch to the image. And the fucking audio is tinny and kind of shitty. And I'm like, this is such a great experience. Yeah. Because it's very pure. It's very pure. It's imperfect. It's very fucking funny.

[01:16:27] You barely can recognize Antonio Banderas. He's such a baby face. For a guy that has looked like he is 38 and has like eight kids and drives him nuts for pretty much the majority of my life knowing that he exists. Yeah. It's super impressive. It has an interesting rhythm to it. It doesn't take itself too seriously. But once it has value in the story that it's telling. Yeah. Which I think is something that's lost.

[01:16:54] A lot of, you know, comedy films or humorous films these days. Is it like, it doesn't want to commit. No, yeah. I mean, that makes sense. And this is very much a movie that is funny and is also committed to the story that it wants to tell. And the plot is important. The continuity is important. The mechanisms which the plot moves through are important. They're well defined.

[01:17:21] There's a comedy of error of a phone tag. That's part of the the absurdity of it. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Yeah, because it's what you would call like a like a screwball comedy. Like there's just so many wacky things happening in the film. Right. And it's also very European because like the woman who you were following as a protagonist is like someone's mistress.

[01:17:46] And no one's really ever really being upset that that this man, Ivan, who's the everything's revolving around him in this plot. No one's like really like, oh, he has a mistress. How dirty. It's just like, yeah, he has a mistress. He's a Spanish man. It's just this is how it is. Yeah. Yeah. This is the way things are. But yeah, that was so much fun. No, it sounds like a great time. I'm looking forward to seeing that.

[01:18:10] I'm really hoping they get a nice HD release for it because we're seeing a lot of his films come out. Criterion style, you know, he's got a new film coming out as well. Sure does. Yeah. But yeah, that was fun. That was again, I had full trust in my cohorts, tastes and film and it paid off. What you got? What you got this week? The only thing I really have this week is a squid game two. Brian, what'd you think of it?

[01:18:38] First, I have to start by saying I know it's part one. And so it's because they're doing that stupid thing with Netflix where they're putting out the first half of the season, letting you watch it all. And then later they're going to come out with the second half of the season. That's fine. It's whatever. It's OK. It's fine. I do like a lot of the things about it.

[01:19:00] It is one of those sequels that really didn't need to exist, but I'm kind of glad it does because it does a lot of things well that I wasn't expecting a sequel to do. So the main character, 456, comes back to the games. It takes two episodes to get there where he's spending all of his prize money from surviving the first season into finding the guy. The recruiter. The recruiter.

[01:19:28] And yeah, so he spends all this time and money trying to find the recruiter. He finds him and he convinces him to get me back in the games. And he's got the cop from the first season with him. They extract his tooth and they put a fake tooth in with a GPS tracker and they're going to track him to the island and like stop the games once and for all. And I think the real joy in the season is we know what's coming. Right. We know the games are going to happen.

[01:19:58] But we also have this dual tension of like are the cops going to find the island in time? You know, are these people going to get rescued? Is the game going to proceed as it was before? Then you also have the added wrinkle. Now, if you remember the first season, the old man was player number one and he was the actual creator of the games. He dies. Now, player number one this time around is the games master.

[01:20:28] He comes into the games as a player to throw a wrench in the works. And like, you know, and so there's this tension. Four, five, six doesn't know that one is the games master, but you as the audience do. Obviously. There's that wonderful, that wonderful thing. Obviously, the first game, red light, green light is the same. But after that, it's completely different. Everything that you expect is not going to happen.

[01:20:56] Then I'm really enjoying just the way the show looks. It's still got that really visual assaulting style. I love the new characters that they're bringing in. And they have a trans character that's handled really, really sensitively, which I was not expecting. Very well done. From a South Korean drama. And they've even got a great character that you're kind of rooting for who is working for the games. She's a North Korean defector.

[01:21:26] Yeah. Former sniper who made her way across the border and now is working for these people running squid games. And like, oh, okay, where is this going? Yeah. I thought it was an interesting exercise. And like, it didn't need to exist, but I'm kind of glad it does because it does stuff. It builds upon a lot of really interesting things. A lot of things that are, I think, kind of universal, which is like capitalism sucks. Right.

[01:21:52] And like what we do to tear each other down for material comfort, you know, which is, you know, why the beast games are so disgusting. Yeah. Because it's like you missed the point completely. Yeah. This is a commentary on exactly what you're doing. Are there's the fucking, have you seen the Squid Games like fucking like Pizza Hut or Domino's commercial? Yeah. It's really unsettling. Like that made me uncomfortable. Like, yeah, they broke the cookie. They die.

[01:22:22] But you then, oh, but I got a pizza. I'm not going to die because there's a pizza. Yeah. Which, which again, it feels like capitalism has no choice but to weave its way into every bit of art or expression. Right. No matter how anti-capitalist it is, there's still going to be that seed there. And you're still going to have to swallow it because you want the thing.

[01:22:52] Yeah. It feels bad. It feels really bad. It feels, feels really uncomfortable, particularly when I feel like Squid Games is a very entertaining show, but it doesn't beat you over the head with its politics. It definitely explains them. Right. And it puts them in a way that I think most people can understand. I think it's a great metaphor. Oh, absolutely. It kind of steps outside of that metaphor in season two. I think that the telecompelling story, which is fine.

[01:23:22] I'm okay. Sometimes you have to kind of break away from it a little bit. I think it was shedding some of your politics or some of your, your thesis in the service of telling a compelling narrative. Yeah. I mean, there's a little bit of copaganda with, with how much we're, you know, we're expected to, to believe that this cop's going to be like throwing it all away to, to help these people. So. Well, I'm not opposed to the idea of an individual. If it had been like a whole entire squad of cops. Sure. Because everyone that's helping him are hired hands. Yeah.

[01:23:50] And they're all hired like goon squad guys. Yeah. Like sub sopranos, gangsters. Yeah. Well, the, the first round, but like the, once they get the, like on the fishing boat. Yeah, you're right. It's like, and also the funny, one of the things that you forget is that like you're conscripted in the military service in Korea. True. I think it's, I mean, it's like the same, same as like the idea of Columbia and like even Brazil maybe. Cause that's like the whole thing with like the K-pop. Yes. Boy bands is like some, sometimes they have to go on hiatus so people could do their, so members can do their military.

[01:24:20] Right. Right. So there's also like a lot of like little instances where, um, like it's also a great cover for why certain people in the show, certain contestants know how to like handle guns. Cause they, they were fucking. Right. Like the, the trans woman. Yeah. Fucking handles her own. Well, yeah. I mean, she mentions the fact that she got fired from the military when she came out. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but there's, there's some, some good, you know, narrative armor there.

[01:24:46] It's like, well, yeah, this is based in a country where you're like conscripted pretty much to be this, like have one or two years of military service when you become of age. Mm-hmm. Uh, because South Korea is a hyper capitalist hellscape that exists to prop up this idea that American style democracy, which is never really had. Fuck man, one of the fucking heads of states was killed by like his high school best friend because he said, kill the fucking student protesters or some shit.

[01:25:15] That was fucking wild. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, I mean, fucking Korean politics are fucking insane. It is like, it is the, the dying fever dream of the American experience. The only other thing that comes close is the assassination of Shinzo Abe. God, he got hit with the fucking fallout gun. He got hit with a doohickey. I'm not going to lie.

[01:25:41] There was a good, there was a good couple of weeks of podcasts after that happened that people just riff it. Oh, well, yeah. Even podcasts that were not funny because. Yeah, he got hit with the doohickey. The fucking, the atomic toaster. Yeah. Just. My man's got fallen by a fucking, something that shot Lego bricks. Yeah, just, you get murked by some random piece of equipment. Just completely ridiculous.

[01:26:06] And like, and everyone thought that was like, well, he was murked because his great grandfather, or his grandfather was like the insane fascist that the Americans put in power after World War II. Nope. All the other insane Japanese fascists were kind of like, hey, not that guy. That guy's a little much. Like the other crazy Japanese fascists. Maybe tone it down a little bit. Yeah. They're like, hey, not that guy. That guy. Listen, listen. He's fun at parties. He's fun at parties, man. But working with him?

[01:26:36] Yeah. Not so cool. No. Yeah. Like, hey, you know what? He can do the four, he can set up the five Ks. We don't want that guy. Like, that's how fucking crazy this dude was. So that's why people are like, oh, he's the grandson of the crazy. Right. Because like Shinzo Abe was also like the guy that brought all of these terrible milquetoast neoliberal policies to Japan. Yeah. There's a lot of reasons why someone would hit him with the doohickey.

[01:27:04] But it turned out the reason was a very good reason. Yeah. His hobnobbing with the Moonies. Yep. And that's a whole other fucking subject. Jesus. But it was like, you know, a lot of people were kind of walking away like this might be the one political assassination of our time that people are kind of like, yeah. Yeah. No. No harm, no foul. Yeah. A lot of shrugs. Fucking it checks out. No, we're good. There's a million reasons people want him dead.

[01:27:34] And anyone's as good as the other. Yeah. It's just like, yeah. Yeah. I kind of see that happening. Yeah. He kind of walked into it. Yeah. Apparently where he was murked. There's this like a shameful car. Yep. There's like a little shame memorial garden. That's like maybe a couple yards wide. So amazing. You were the head of fucking state. He left the game because he had poo poo problems. He had IBS. I forgot about that.

[01:28:04] But he came back. He's like, I'm better at shitting. He's like Boris Johnson. I fixed my shit problem. I fixed my shit problem. The guy. He got fucking hit with the doohickey. Oh, God. Yeah. Anyways. I think that's about it. I think we're going to tell you where to find us online. Brian, where can people tell you how to construct your very own doohickey? Gosh. You can find me on Twitter at ishockedibor.

[01:28:33] I-S-H-O-T-G-U-I-D-B-O-R-D. You can also find me on other social media platforms, including Blue Sky and Instagram at amusicphotographer. If you want to go to my portfolio website, it's assholemusicphotographer.com. I have no idea what I'm ever going to fucking fix amusicphotographer.com. Bluehost basically kind of locked me out of my own sight. Damn. I do not have the time or patience to deal with tech support. Maybe I'll do that this weekend. Who fucking knows?

[01:29:03] Maybe I will eat an edible and watch movies. Hell yeah. Who fucking knows? Who fucking cares? Let's go. Let's fucking go. Where else can they find you on the web there? Oh, you can go over to theartsstl.com, the last and only good music media website left in St. Louis. Still posted some end of year stuff. My Suki Warhouse photos, all five of them that her people approved.

[01:29:32] Still kind of pissed about that. There's stuff on there that I was going to put in my portfolio. No. That I like so much. I mean, that's the same thing when I shot Nine Inch Nails. Yeah. Okay, you approved every photo I hate. Of course. That's how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. And there's some other photographers in St. Louis who I will not name who said, fuck that. I'm just going to post whatever. All right. And I'm like, cool. Well, I, you know, I, you know, that's ballsy, baby. It is ballsy. Well, I mean, fuck, man. I can't.

[01:30:02] I get punished for trying. I know. So it's like, I'm like, man, you're the one that always gets caught, I think is the real. I'm the one that always gets fucking cinched up. And as far as I know, this one individual has not gotten any static from the venue. Scott free. Yeah. Yeah. But if like I had done that. No. Yeah. It'd been hell to pay. Instant. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways. I mean, go on them. Like their fucking foes rule. Oh, sure. My foes were awesome. You just won't ever see them. Same thing with my Nine Inch Nails foes. Yeah.

[01:30:33] Which never got fucking public. I can't ever. I can't. I like per my release. Can't legally show them anyone. But anyways, I feel weird saying I did it. Yeah. It's like saying I didn't flush a toilet. Right. Owning up to it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was me, man. That was me. Yeah. I don't really have a lot coming up. I got ads. A guest list for Jory Greep. Nice. This Saturday. All right. Taicho Sunday, which will be cool.

[01:31:03] I like weird ambient music. Got up kids Thursday. Oh, yeah. Might be photographing Billy Gibbons. I think St. Louis is going to have another good year of music. Some years coming up. You know, March, April. April especially. Yeah. April. We got fucking the soul coffee. Soul coffee. Tons of shit. Tons of shit in April. April's slapping. Slapping hard. We got smoking popes in February. We got fucking smoking popes in late February. Yeah. It's some bangers. It's going to be another good year for me.

[01:31:32] And we got the Weird Al about September-ish. Yeah. A lot of good stuff being announced. I've heard some rumblings about some other things that may happen. It's going to be a good year. It's going to be a good year. Jason, where can they find you? Oh, they can find me any place there's a video crime. Chances are that's me. V-I-D-E-O-C-R-I-M-E. We're talking Blue Sky or we're talking Letterboxd or wherever else you think there's a video crime. Nine times out of ten, that's me. You can also find me as part of a podcast that's not this one.

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[01:33:58] Now who ate all the pussy? Have a good night folks. Have a good night.