766 - Mt. EverQuest (9/11/23)
Forgetful 9/11 to all our listeners. We start today’s show with an examination of the various kinks of American states. Then: Elon aka Mr. Too-Damn-Cap claims to have disabled starlink to scuttle a drone attack in Ukraine; and a chronical of the various humiliations Rudy aka Mr. Too-Damn-9/11 has suffered lately. Finally, a harrowing piece on the private companies attempting to foist metaverse VR into children's education.
Link to Karl Stevens’ and Jaime Lee Curtis’ new graphic novel Will plugs at the end of the show: https://bookshop.org/p/books/mother-nature-jamie-lee-curtis/18322363?ean=9781787739130
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Hello Lisa! I'm Genghis Khan. You'll go where I go. Defile what I defile. Eat who I eat. Hmm?
What's the 1619 project and why is it bad
It’s about the history of American slavery. Conservatives don’t like it because it frames slavery as America’s original sin and true legacy.
As a Hoosier I’m surprised ours wasn’t like missionary or some shit lol but I do love me a good creampie
INDIANA IS CUM! Proud Hoosier right here!
They can pry our comically big pork tenderloin sandwiches from out cold dead hands
Felix do an episode on Dark Souls or Elden Ring lore
Mathblasters gang rise up
Brandy old fashioneds are so good.
I thought it would be step-sister across the map. This is some relieving news.
The list is based on outlier searches unique to that state, so unfortunately not time to feel relieved.
Optima Academy IS THE FUCKING MAGIC SCHOOL-BUS, only with shittier animation and “interactive experiences” which use Second Life-level graphics to mimic real life experiences which could happen in the real world much cheaper and more effectively and—duh!—interactively. VR outside of games for entertainment is basically the “Virtual Mall” of the 2020s. When’s the last time you shopped in one of those? Would buying things online be a better experience if we had to roam virtual mikes of virtual shelves like disembodied Amazon pickers to find the product we needed?
Except this version of Ms. Frizzle is also a victim being ground to dust by the vampires forcing it on them.
I have never commented before. I work in a school thank you Felix
Butlerian jihad
This episode has no business being so damn good. The dry boys were each at the top of their game
my professor was going to be on real or fake and they unexpectedly didn't air any footage of his segment and he's really pissed
I wondered if the Oregon pirates thing has anything to do with The Goonies, which would be sorta fucked up
Could almost guarantee that this episode marks the first time in history that anyone has compared Rudy G to Memphis Bleek. But, if you had just asked me “who would compare Rudy G to Memphis Bleek,” without skipping a beat, I would answer, “Felix Biederman.”
i put a suit on to fly because i want to bring back the dignity of such a beautiful invention
Ref Metaverse for kids: I don't think you guys are accounting for how popular Roblox is and how used to and accepting of terrible graphics these kids are
That came to mind for me as well.
New Orleans and most of southern Louisiana has virtually no public stigma of public intoxication and there's bars on almost every street. We could outdrink Wisconsin any day of the freakin' week! Fight me!
gotta love a drive-through daiquiri
So about New Hampshire's alcohol consumption. The state has a liquor monopoly and a chain of state-run liquor stores, and their prices are lower than the surrounding states. So a lot of our shithead tourists load up on booze on their way home and inflate the numbers.
I despise tourists, as we all must, but if they’re getting their bottles and fucking off back home, that’s good, right…?
another L take on Ukraine, but alas, skippable, otherwise a very good episode
Moving to Wisconsin
Hey guys, can you give an update on the #freeChasten movement? Is there still hope or has he turned into a hardened political wife?
My guess is softened or at best, semi-hard.
Lmao the “real or fake product” game show concept is literally a YKS segment
Writer of that New Yorker article is a big fan of mid 90s FMV games apparently
This has been an outstanding episode for mentions of the word, "Oregon". I now appreciate my avatar on here in a new light. Come to Medford, we'll dress like pirates and party down the local Margaritaville. Also, Matt, in talking about states that love their beer, look no further.
About 90 minutes south of Portland in rural Oregon (not even on the coast!) there is a pirate-themed festival called Tortuga/Port Nassau, and I've heard it can get kinky if you want it.
This push on the right for charter schools shares the same dna as their dream of privatizing social security: both represent the last sectors of untouched public wealth, two vast frontiers waiting to be plundered, securitized, and sold at cost to private interests. New pain points, new rent seeking opportunities, and a new, permanent underclass of uninsured, uneducated workers who have no choice but to spend a lifetime toiling anonymously and in precarity for the comfort of their bosses. They would destroy society so it could be run it like an airline, because of course none of these assholes need to send their kids to public school or live on a fixed income when they’re old. They’ll be untouched by all of it, so why not bust the place out? All we can do now is resist their propaganda and wait. Wait for the fire to start and prepare to serve when the time comes. God knows I’ll be the first in line.
the rise of smartphones has been pretty brutal to the IT/software sector. kids come into the industry and don't know the difference between "a file" and "the network"
So much Wisconsin lore on the show in the last year! so grateful to Matt & Katherine for taking our shithead swag worldwide, go Pack go Bucks go Brew’rs
🎵Women look good here, with their suits on, it suits them…Men look good here, with their suits on - it befits them…🎵
As a teacher I would love a Chapo type Praeger U channel. Shit I already teach American History as the drive for free real estate.
I'm friends with one of the victims of Danny Masterson. She might be down to talk with you all if you want to do a scientology episode. She's got so much dirt on them and other celebrities.
Chapo scientology episode would be amazing. I hope they interview her.
You do have to admit, though, Giuliani has a beautiful singing voice and perfect pitch. I mean I assume he does. I'm about to listen to the audio clip from The Masked Singer that Chris has no doubt dropped in there. But first a sip of scalding hot coffee
So are you just like pausing the episodes after each sentence to write a comment? Challenging Ettiene and Gumbo Pie for title of most annoying chapo reply guy
“Cocaine residue”
The truly horrific part about this Metaverse school nonsense is that it's not even FOR the future doordashers. Those goggles aren't cheap. Nobody is handing them out to kids who don't even get their own textbooks. Nope, instead it's a way for white christian nationalists to (a) avoid having to pay taxes to actual public schools, and (b) brainwash their kids without evil "liberals" coming in with different ideas about equality.
Yup came here to say this. classical education with a focus on western (white) civilization is subtle white supremacy. Loads of this stuff coming from neo-confederate Doug Wilson out of Idaho and spreading around the conservative Christian circles
i once went to a taping of the masked singer and it was one of the worst experiences of my life
Anti-masker
millennials getting portraits of their cats
Does Felix want anyone to not kill themselves?
I never feel more seen than when Felix tells someone to kill themselves
Same when Matt screams at McArdle
Felix will pivot hard towards VR when the Vision Pro comes out and the tech is no longer slathered in Zuckerberg's weird antiseptic stench and Bishop from Aliens blood
Everyone's ballin till the human ashtray empties his foreskin and there's still some tobacco left in some of the crushed out cigs
Robert E Lee, the military genius who *flips page* lost his whole army while looking for a shoe factory in PA and surrendered to a 'drunk'
is Everything, Everywhere, All At Once a horror movie? it is now! also, matt is right - they're shoving this metaverse down our kids throats, they get em hooked to it while they're young. they grow up with nostalgia for the fucking shit, then they build their own games in the metaverse. BOOM, zucks got a whole generation of obedient freaks to milk all their money for the future
YKS is owed royalties by the perfidious David Spade for IP theft
I would have children just so Matt can teach them about the 100 years war.
Alabama loving “enforced bedtime” is just good advice. The body needs rest
Great slop, thanks!
Us pervert Oregonians saw clips from those pirate pornos that were produced some years ago and it broke our collective brains. Now all we want to see is pirate dong and pirate gash.
Just reading the word EverQuest gets me sweating for another log in. It’s been over 20 years now since I began and I quit in 2012 video games are not good for you
I would sign up for Felix's advanced metal gear studies, and his history of the lands between. Also it would fr be a funny live show to just have Matt give a tour of like Gettysburg or something.
it was pretty funny reading a transcription of a rant where an indian is talking shit straight to a Frenchman about how shitty European "civilization" is and he's like "you motherfuckers eat nothing but COD EVERY DAY" oh also I will never not mention that Musk's stupid "truck" that he tried to get rid of was 1000% his failed bid to replace the Humvee
"Close but no cigar", you might say?
Excited to send my kids to school to farm Crushbone belts for xp
And "interrogation" in Virginia just sounds like there's Mkultra stuff going on
When someone truly deserving is repeatedly and sincerely told to self parody. That’s the good stuff.
Did they remove the option to download the final mix? :( The audio player breaks all the time for me, that makes me sad
"business suit" just sounds like coded language for prostitution
The Kinks song at the end really ties it all together
Talk about posting Ls- is this article supposed to be inspiring?
More Felix MMA references in my slop please
why would you go after US Grant for "alcoholism" when "attempting to evict all Jews out of his department because he believed they as a collective class were behind rampant cotton speculation/smuggling" is right there!
Because that’s too deep lore. It’s like asking why someone didn’t reference Mara Jade
"Most bars in New York don't even stock brandy", Will clearly isn't considering Hennessy or Remy Martin here.
This site sucks balls. Podcasters should get together and create their own. There’s enough of you with some clout now
Chris was so close to saying "close but no cigar" re: Ohio
That 9/12 feeling 🥰
Can't wait for kids to start learning history from the inevitable VR game 9/11 Hijacker Simulator
The point of that kind of education is that a few years down the line you can replace the teacher with "AI" and just print money.
Chronical
For some reason I think Felix wants me to hook up with an Elden Ring waifu now, which is confusing to me because I thought he wanted me to get with Jodie Foster?
Please answer this question as I refuse google this. Who the hell is Grimes? Was she ever known as a musician or artist or whatever or is this just because she is associated with Musk? No need to tell me if she sucks or not. I am sure that she sucks badly.
yea she got really big around 2012
the only way to protect our children from technology is to dress them as gorillas
I'm clipping through the Senate floor and rotating as Caesar is gutted by a guy with acne scars.
Teaching children the gamer virtues of yelling in your headset because the Hannibal Crossing the Alps classroom is laggy af
west virginia represent
I teach at a public high school and this vr shit would be miserable. Zoom was bad enough
Ya I'm a counselor in a high school, the virtual/hybrid years of 2020-21 massively sucked
Some people appreciate the the Tracy McGrady suit. It’s like jazz: all about the curves you don’t see.
Ahh fuck. Metaverse is the new Microsoft Windows? Please god no. How many more children must the patriots liberate?! Wait if it's conservatives doing it now does that mean their kids get to see the Crucifixion in first person? Can they hold the spear? We really need to limit the kind of technology kids are exposed to in school before highschool. Only open source computer shit allowed.
What we really need is to get the youth of America into Free and Open BSD
Please do a show in Washington State lol
felix on point about video game immersion. I've been trying to say this but he said it besr
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i don’t remember the exact details, but william sherman stopped grant from killing himself about half way through the war. think he ran out of booze or something
Probably the drones failed because it wasn't a good plan, and this lets the situation in Ukraine look as though it is remotely feasible and also makes Elon look slightly important. He had a bunch of weird stories where people claimed Teslas crashed because they were "too fast and powerful." We are just constantly being lied to for increasingly absurd and pointless reasons. Elon wouldn't even know enough about what anyone is doing to shut down a specific area of internet. Are the Elon nut huggers jerking off to lolis because Elon specifically approved it. Like UFO aliens we are lied to for basically no reason at all.
The Ohio thing could be related to weed and the rebellious, sexual thrill that the aspiring suburban crowd here seems still seems to get from it
that virtual school shit is dark
Education in the ancient world consisted of a 90%+ illiteracy rate.
happy 9/11 to those who celebrate, and happy birthday to my good friend Heimdall 🥳🥳🥳
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The Elon Ukraine story is obviously fake, for a million reasons. Either he's exaggerating how serious the attack he disrupted was, or the whole thing is just cap. I think the latter is more likely.
You doubt Elons power?
Brandy old fashion with the cherryyyyy😂😂
Matt absolutely cooking from the jump
Went to an illegal wedding reception in madison in 2020 where the father of the groom drank four brandy old fashioneds and gave a speech about how america was going to collapse and we need more good catholics to rebuild it.
Sounds like the Midwest I know and love/hate (coming at you from IL/OH/MI family and home).
Always love it when Felix whips out a basketball joke. He must be a fan, because they're always on point.
Why haven’t we got a 9/11 episode where they talk about the black eagle trust and free fall speed and how you can’t make a fucking phone call from an airplane.
Look up "seatback phones" or "airfone". In the 1990s and early 2000s, these were common on commercial flights for major airliners. Yes, 100% you could make an inflight call (if you were willing to spend $10-$15 on a two minute phone call).
Lol. Life long Wisconsinite here, at my last doctor's visit we both talked about how ludicrous the new drinking guidelines are. Even medical doctors here are like "It's fucking fine these losers should shut up" unless you're in liver failure. Not the first, second, or fifth MD I've had similar discussions with.
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Matt Christman > 9/11
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Dank Chapos Melt Steel Beams!!!
Happy 9/11 everyone!
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over the years ive developed a fine set of anal lips
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