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My name is Jack bettas Miles, and we're going to get into that story.
Of his wife.
That's right, if you say it is, my wife is gonna sue you.
Okay, cool, all right, the guy your wife stand behind. In some cases, it is tough to stand behind your wife when everybody's saying the song you wrote is a gay anthem.
Then you have to, you know, be like.
Uh, first of all, yeah, would I be married to this woman?
Human woman?
Second, anyway, she's gonna sue you anyways.
First, some quick updates on the CEO assassination. It continues to be a very popular story online. The most celebrated murder that I've I think I've seen in my life.
Just generally even up there. I don't know.
In the same Ben Laden, I think, I think is the last time like you saw, like I remember, I thought there were people dancing in the streets that day, Like there was some light dancing in the street.
Yeah, there was some heavy dancing in the streets.
They so the updates as of now they know what the shooter looked like. Because he took off his mask at a Starbucks, which leads leads me down the path of not the super Jason Bourne assassin that some people thought it might be.
Risen up the barista Starbucks before.
He has pictures of him, He has a smile on his face that just looks like he is being so charmed by whatever the barista just said to him in a way.
Does that not indicate some kind of like cold, methodical person too, I don't know.
Or does it not indicate the Starbucks when you're here, you're home, you know. I'm just saying Starbucks might want to be like this guy couldn't even remember to keep his mask on to hide his identity.
He felt so comfortable, comfortable.
Just like smiling warmly inside the confines of Starbucks. The bullets had messages on them, So we're saying it's unclear what the motive is, Like, is the motive going to just be some strange thing where it's like that guy's shirt is too bright blue or something, you know.
What I mean?
Yeah, like just completely random, yeah, random. But the bullets actually had the words denied, defend, and depose written on them. On the casings. I did see someone post one of those wooden like wine mom signs with like denied, defend, depose written and like this so impressive on driftwood.
The speed at which the like the memes are how is also mind blowing.
Like it's it's almost like everyone needed.
A way to articulate all of this anger at our fucked up healthcare system suddenly and it's like a wave of shit posts.
I feel like, if we're going to have a French revolution today, like this is like that, this is how the sentiment that fueled the French Revolution would come out today is via shit posts, you know, right, But it does seem like there's a sentiment here.
It would seem you.
Know, no, definitely an escalation and I think, you know, it's a just quick class consciousness heat check.
Let's just see.
Okay, Well, a lot of people are quickly realizing they don't aren't siding with this person. But the other thing is that those three words den I, defend a pose. A lot of people are saying like that. It seems like it's referencing just a thing within the healthcare industry. And a book called Deny, Delay, defend, which is like and the subheader of that book was how like insurance company try to deny coverage and how you can avoid that basically.
Yeah, so things has a certain self or a certain class like warfare edge to it. But you were saying that depose is also a thing, like they're like depose, like put someone through deposition if they.
The legal Yeah, the legal quagmire just gunk up the process by being like, all right, take us to court because you don't have We can be in court forever, can you.
Yeah.
The one person who's most on my mind at this moment is the multi billionaire owner of Cardier, who you know mentioned before that he was already losing sleep over the idea that poor the poor might rise up, and like that was back in twenty fifteen, so who knows like he might be down to like twelve eleven hours of comfortable sleep at night at this point.
Yeah, this is so worry anyways, it is.
I wonder what those people are think, like the rationalizing people, their level of wealth.
I mean, they were already I think a little bit terrified, So I feel like this wouldn't be shocking too.
Yeah, do you think you're going to see like weird like diet Maya Kulpas from billionaires to be like, WHOA, let's turn the heat down, guys. I'm giving away like five percent of my wealth today.
There's no probably not in the immediate future. I think in the media future, we'll just see them doubling down on uh.
Like personal security and.
Security and like in pushing the limits of uh, you know, weaponized like ways to be followed around by a drone, right, you know that will kill anybody who moves too quickly towards you. All right, We're moving on to Prampis. We've talked recently about this idea that America just has this amazing ability to block out the darkness, only let in the light, just eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, their history and really just everything that goes.
On around them.
And it turns out Santa Claus is one of those things where we've only let in the cheerful person who knows when you're asleep and knows when you're awake. And there's a sinister other side to that coin called crampis that you know, I think people on the Internet are aware of. But it does seem like it's kind of becoming more of a thing, you know, as a major figure in Red one a film that I don't know anyone who might have seen that.
Yeah, it's not.
Even it's probably so scary too. All the trailers they played in front of that way too scary. Yeah, there is a good there's a good depiction of Crampis because you know that's the sort of that's like the duality of the characters.
There's JK.
Simon's or Simmons as Santa and then Crampis played by the red hair guy from Game of Thrones.
Right, Yeah, good casting for Crampus. Anyways, San Antonio, which a surprisingly German place. I went to a wedding in San Antonio and they like one of the events was at this bar that had like people dancing and leader hosen and I was like, why is this happening in Texas? And they were like, oh, this place is like mostly German for a lot of its history, like a lot of the settlers who came in from elsewhere.
The Colvins.
Yes, that since eighteen forty German noblemen formed the addols Varin group to protectl immigrants coming to Texas.
Okay, so now San Antonio is going to hold its first ever Crampis Walk this week, which will feature live jazz music, photos with Crampis, and an acrobatic wrestling match between Saint Na Glass and Crampish.
Looks like a.
Horror movie villain. If you don't know, you know, horned, they're facial.
Scarring is yeah, It's like yeah.
The central question of the central tension of Nightmare Before Christmas is that it only exists because we edited out this Crampus figure. And you're never gonna guess how American Christians in San Antonio are responding to the Crampis Walk and they're like cool, very good it rock looks fun, was their official statement.
Christians.
They're calling it an attack on our kids, arguing Crampus is not welcome in San Antonio. They even staged a protest outside a city hall, urging the city say no to Crampis. Uh, say no to Crampus, choose peace. God has not giving us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind.
What does that have to do with fucking Crampis?
Dude, Dude, pull up a.
Fucking Bible verse that's calling out Crampis dog.
Crampis is twisted dog. You don't know, I mean, Crampus ain't even in the Bible.
What's the problem because he's demonic?
Yeah, fine, isn't that where we get demonic from in the Bible? Pikeville, Kentucky, I'll shout out the South getting their letting their crampis flag fly. They also had plans to throw a Crampis parade, but it saw such backlash as the city eventually capitulated to the demands of critics and straight up canceled it, which then led to a backlash to the backlash and people bemoaning the war on crampus.
I just love that.
Do that?
Like like a local journalist is like, you know, the city cave to cancel culture.
But in this version, it's the version of right wingers being like, get fucking Crampis out.
Yeah, I mean it's the idea of being canceled has been used so widely that it.
Has lost all means. Yeah, it's completely meaningless.
It's just like whoa when when somebody gets sick and has to cancel a tour date, it's canceled culture because the show is canceled.
Yeah, It's like when I throw away expired yogurt, cancel culture.
Crampus parades do have a tendency to get pretty rowdy and even violent. At the Austrian One this year, a drunken brawl involving fifty people broke out. But that does not seem to be the reason that Crampis was canceled. It seems to have more to do with like knee jerk satanic panic freakouts.
Yeah, I the interesting thing about crampis, right like to your point of like we don't like to acknowledge any sort of darkness that exists within our culture, whereas like many other cultures, like they have these figures that are like yeah, and that's like kind of like this dark figure that can mess with you or influence you or whatever. In America, it's like all sanitized. It's like there's no such thing like ship that's a bar, Like don't I
know you blew out of his ears? You guys fucking got my eyes are bleeding and ship because like I think you've said to like how horror is like the closest we come as a culture to actually acknowledging the darkness that exists within our culture, rather than having some expressly manifest figure folklore figure that kind of we can.
Like touch on to be like yeah, and then there's this thing.
It's always like done, none that exists, but none that now that exists.
No, no, no, and then you just throw up. You're like, yeah, it's a it's a very healthy, healthy uh binge and purge. That that's legit. Why it's purge we binge and purge. We uh completely purge ourselves of any darkness and then it all comes out all at.
Once when tally the purge is more like the binge.
Yeah, the binge. Indeed.
Miles Indeed related story about like why maybe America's Christmas culture needs something like this. Mariah Carey was just celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of her Christmas album with a tour and a stop in Saint Louis, Missouri, and.
People just start punching each other in the face.
So we don't laugh too hard at the crampus fist fight because two old whites just started punching each other right in the face. As all I want for Christmas is you started playing like, you know, this.
Shit looked like Phil Donahue or some shit I think when a woman throws some wine on it, Yeah, and this one just goes, oh, just splash her with a wine, gave her a slap, the husband's holding her back. Philer comes Phil Donahue. Is he gonna throw a straight right up? We don't get to see the punch thrown, but yeah, Hey, the.
Only reason we have this is because it happened to be happening in the background as somebody was taking a selfie and as the song started, which.
Is great because I don't know if it was done cheekily or just like that perfect comedic timing where like a couple's like, babe, let's do our selfie video. There's Mariah sing in the hit song and then you're like, oh they're I mean, they get the initial win wine splash, So I feel like they couldn't have possible unless they.
She's like watch this shit.
They've been talking ship. It is about to go up.
All right, let's take a quick break and we'll come back and talk about YMCA.
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So this ties into something that we've talked about before, because you went and saw the Village people had last year in concert last year, and you were pointing out how like one of the things.
Well, first of all, I just want to say why I went to see those village people?
Okay, because The thing.
Is they had discounted tickets at the Hollywood Bowl because I bought them the day of and I got really good seats for forty dollars that would normally cost hundreds.
So that that's why.
I was there, Uh huh watching them, because it was for the deal for the seats. Now, go on, I don't know what you're about to say about one. You were there with you were what and I was there with my human wife. That's email, But you were set.
You were pointing out that during that show, like one of the members kept taking the mic and like talking about how, yeah.
How he has a wife. It was very odd because yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The specifically the guy who played the soldier. It wasn't the lead singer whatever willis that guy's name. It was the It was the guy who played the soldier. He was the one introducing the like the other village people members, and he had been like the longest serving, so he had the honor of like going down and introducing everyone.
But he like reiterated at least two times in a way that was completely unrelated that he was married to a woman, Like in this very very ham fisted kind of way where it's just sort of like, and you obviously, I've been with the Village People for very long, and this is a very storied group I'm honored to be a part of.
And you know, I just want to say.
My wife of thirty five years is out in the crowd tonight. I love you baby, my human lady wife. All right now Native American come up to like human lady introducing everybody.
And they came back, and when it was done, he's like, and thank you so much.
And again my wife, who is in the audience, who does exist.
I love you baby, let's sing macho man.
Yeah.
So they yeah, they're they're whether it was this person in particular. It seems like in this band, in this group, there has been some difficulty, some internal conflict happening with the legacy of their music and who they think of
themselves as. Right, So one of the lead singers announced, come January twenty twenty five, my wife will start suing each and every news organization that falsely refers to YMCA, either in their headlines or alluded to in the base of the story that YMCA is somehow a gay anthem, because such notion is based solely on the song's lyrics alluding to illicit activity for which it does not. That sounds like somebody trying to pretend they have a legal degree.
Yeah. I mean again, you ask anywhere whether you like it or not. You know, YMCA did become a gay anthem, but they are very they're to do about that. You can't get music like your song? Yeah, what that's cool?
But yeah.
Oh and Victor does point out on the chat he said, well be careful now, uh, you know, we should. We might have to edit this out because we don't want another lawsuit from the villages. But actually, you know what, Victor and our defense he said, starting January twenty twenty five, so we can get it in until then.
Get your licks in, boys.
Yeah, that's what he said. It's SOT on January sixth, so get your licks in boys.
It is really odd, I mean, and I guess it makes sense for somebody who is such a like a Trump supporter like this, the like lead singer is of the village people, that he would then be doubling down on like his homophobia and being like this is like the most mainly fucking shit ever. Dude, what else have you seen a ripped construction? Worker, a ripped Native American with very problematic costume on a biker Like it's just yeah, I don't know this. Yeah, I feel bad for him.
I feel bad for him, but I don't because he's also making so much money, So just fucking deal with it.
He did say the financial benefits have been great.
YMCA is estimated to grow several million dollars since the President of lex continued use of the song. Therefore, I'm glad I allowed the president of a lex continued use of YMCA, and I thank him for choosing to use my song. All his statements sound like they were yeah, generated by like chat GPT, but like a bad version.
Yeah, it's interesting.
Again, there was another thing that it was supposed to be, I think originally San Francisco, and then it became YMCA.
Sam Francisco, Yeah, became YMCA, like and I don't know apparently, like I've just been reading other articles with this that lead singer, the Willis Guy, and he's I guess forever been so defensive about this.
Like always sings like I don't see it like that. I don't see it like that.
He's like, why won't you focus on my other songs about completely straight subjects like in the Navy and Macho Macho man uh, which you were. We're reading some lyrics for before we start recording, and people people can go do the genius.
Yeah, just whatever. Who gives a shit? Who's honestly, but they're.
Fucking making so much money. Yeah, I know. It's just like, just shut up, dude, I saw you live. Bro, you had to sit down for half the.
Show, so fucking miss me with all this nonsense about like, bro, save your energy so you can stand and breathe and just enjoy what time we have on this precious marble.
That's right, all right.
Those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the fact and get your flu shot. Don't do nothing about white supremacy. No, and we will talk to you all tomorrow.
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