BONUS EPISODE: The Battle of Haçova
Nate emerges from a vat of paprikas boykibble to take the reins and bring us the story of The Battle of Haçova, a decisive clash between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, the implications of the Hamburger Helper Mascot, and Smurf racism.
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Comments (39)
Fun story about Frank Zappa, he let house guests sleep with not in the kids bed but WITH his children. Zappa was def a spook or spook adjacent. Literally grew up on a base famous for psy ops and weird events. I have trouble separating him from the art because if half is true about FZ, then he is one of the biggest scum bags in music history and that says a lot.
Okay that polish name and the alternative kill me there
I completely feel the reverse seasonal affected disorder. When spring finally breaks, I get so happy that winter is leaving and then have a massive crash. The seasonal struggle is real.
For anyone living in a buggy area and with seasonal allergies, Spring is only the herald of six months of torture.
Given I get thrown a lot of food videos on YouTube, I'm surprised I've never run across the term "Boy Kibble" before now. However it's a perfect description of it. "Girl kibble" would be some awful abomination involving kale, seeing as women tend to go down the raw vegan route.
This has been one of the best LLBD episodes, and I appreciate y’all for the fun.
canadian indigenous turks, the snow turk
Salo or the 120 days of goulash. Good god 😂
I don’t know if anyone mentioned it as a critique for prior episodes but I’m really happy that Nate has slowed down his narrating pace. Some prior episodes were really hard to follow but this was much much easier to digest.
It's precious that they think Mścisław isn't also a name prominently found in Polish medieval history. ;) And the "Jan Zamojski" bit falls very flat when you're Polish. Because that's a high-aristocratic surname which for pretty much all of us* Polish folk screams "inbred condescending snob bastard with a really punchable face". The name "Zamojski" comes from the city of Zamość and it's environs this family owned until the fall of the Kingdom of Poland during the Partition era. And the city was founded from the ground up as a personal and direct fiefdom of the inbred gaggle of fail(upwards)lords. When Joe talks about how much life sucked for the average Russian serf, their Polish counterparts aren't faring much better under the heel of aristocratic shits like this one. So we get the mindset they got this bit from, but it doesn't really translate into our history very well. * Except maybe the tiny fetid swamp of quasi-royalist nazi shitlords who just like the nobility they cosplay as think of themselves as the master race of "sarmatians". The pre-partition "golden age" era nobility literally invented a separate racial identity for themselves, and found the serf Slavs literally subhuman and by divine mandate destined to subservience. P.S. We're always giggling at their pronounciation of Mścisław. It's so silly and fun for us we can't even think of correcting them.
"You can cut it, I don't care" so we know Tom isn't an intactivist
For Nate (and everyone, really.): since you happened to mention colloidal silver. Check out the new US ambassador to south Africa. Dude looks exactly like the blue colloidal silver guy https://x.com/bbcworld/status/2031846199666331825?s=46
This is sloppy. I’ll do it on twitter. Mea culpa.
Boy kibble is bachelor chow from Futurama
I will goul-your-lash if you make a "Sour Cream Team" shirt.
Infant chow.
This is one of the best LLBD episodes
I'm with Nate how did this episode get so gross? From Hungarian sour cream bukkake to Joe's foreskin jacket listening to this is like a dive into the psyche of a repressed English noblemen from the period. Is this what the sun does to people in Europe? Do we need to turn winter back on over there?
Anyways, excellent episode
Nate: "That sounds racist, sorry". Anyway fuck Hungarians.
Just listened to the Frank Zappa Asshole song. This shit is great.
No smartass comment. Thank you Nate.
My hairy house burned down and now the whole neighborhood smells like someone downed two wigs in a toaster
Turning Nate into Hungarian Kratos by covering his skin in paprika instead of ash
Whats... tatars precious?
It's the muslim version of eastern horseodoxy.
Polish Valhalla is reserved for those who chocked on a kielbasa or died in submarine related accidents
Polish Valhalla is easy to conguer. Just walk in backwards thru the back door and tell them you are leaving.
The Siege of Szigetvar is another great Turk Time
Brothers bow your heads, in the name of the father, the son, and the holy context
So in Buffalo the Polish Cadets building is where the local hema club has space and it seems as though part of the rental agreement is that they always have weekly Polish Saber classes
Laughing at this so hard. Descendants of peasants fleeing crushing poverty caused by the still de facto in place serfdom turning to cosplaying the inbred failsons their ancestors ran away from.
Okay but Zappa doing the Church of Appliantology whereby you pay L Ron Hoover to tell you that you’re a latent appliance fetishist is pure gold.
Wasn’t Hefty Smurf the strong Smurf?
#TeamSourCream
I skimmed the show notes and for a second I thought you cited the unibomber's phd thesis
Mel Gibson is actually American, he was born in Westchester County, NY and his crazy Catholic father moved the family to Australia when Mel was 12.
He has Australian citizenship. But his father moved his family to Australia to avoid Mel Gibson’s older brother being drafted into the Vietnam War.
fifteen minutes in, i can report that the first fifteen minutes is like having a fever dream during a bout of severe indigestion; highest complements