Eating Crudité in the Metaverse (8/20/2022)

CW: some audio from a mass suicide, discussion of suicide

In today's episode, your tour guides discuss Amanda Montell's book, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. They go over a few prominent examples of cults before applying her thesis to Christian nationalism.

We play and discuss clips from the Jonestown tapes from roughly 54:45 to 1:13:35 if you don't want to hear them at all. The disturbing clips start around 1:05:10 if you only want to skip the particularly rough stuff.

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Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Some Garageband loops lol
Hungry - Liadiii
90's Lofi type beat - Liadiii

Jonestown tape (CONTENT WARNING)
Heaven's Gate tape (Just a recruitment tape, not disturbing like Jonestown tape)
Fr. Altman: You cannot be Catholic & a Democrat. Period.

In today's episode, your tour guides hang out and talk about Grimace and how Phil used to be a scare actor, and also Josiah tries to make everyone watch the BBC show Red Dwarf. If you prefer episodes where we have some sort of general point or research, this is not the episode for you.

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Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
It's Cold Outside (Red Dwarf Theme) - Howard Goodall

In today's episode, your tour guides are joined by Gaius (@guy_freire) from Tribunate (@TribunateYT) to discuss Roman history, and how he thinks about Roman history as a Christian and a leftist.

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Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Fly Away (Prod. Coffeyshop)
Onion (Prod. Lukrembo)
Chill Day - Lakey Inspired

In today's episode, the fellas discuss the Republican presidential bids and all the fun, scary cranks we have for 2024.

Note: Josiah briefly mentioned a case from the 1990s regarding assisted suicide that he didn't remember the details of well. He was referring to the Terri Schiavo case for those interested.

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Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Nomad - Liadiii
Onion (prod. lukrembo)
Far Away (prod. riddiman)
I Wanna Be at the RNC - Nick Lutsko
Chris Christie announces bid (WMUR-TV)
Maturin the Turtle explained (HN Entertainment)
Jared Leto on Conan (Team Coco)
Larry Elder (Forbes)
Asa Hutchinson (ABC News)
Nikki Haley (Nikki Haley's YouTube)
Perry Johnson (Perry Johnson's YouTube)
Vivek Ramaswamy (Hillsdale College)

In today's chill episode, Phil and Finch hang out and talk about Christian discourse online.

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Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
And So It Begins - Artificial Music
Gregorian Chant Rap Beat - sero.k
Downtown Cafe - Homie Cat

Alt title: Josiah gets high and laughs at George Santos' Wikipedia page for an hour and a half.

In today's episode, your tour guides discuss the clowns in Congress and also Tucker Carlson getting fired.

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Bibliography
Politico: NAACP travel advisory
Politico: Florida DEI ban
Democracy Now: Florida lawsuits
CNN: Debt limit
Business Insider: Santos expulsion blocked
CNN on YouTube: Interview with Jamaal Bowman
C-SPAN on Youtube: Articles of impeachment
Business Insider: Tucker Carlson fired
Variety: Tucker Carlson replacement
CNN: Tucker Carlson on Twitter
The Hill: PAC to draft Tucker for president

Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Whatever - 80 Horse
Just Roll With It – DJ Quads
Hungry - Liadiii
Chill Day - Lakey Inspired
Text to speech mp3
Gutfeld talking about NAACP
Ron Desantis, Democracy Now
Jamaal Bowman on CNN
Articles of impeachment

In today's episode, your tour guides discuss the American vigilante mentality, or "Bronson Syndrome", in light of the murder of Jordan Neely.

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Bibliography
BBC: Murder of Jordan Neely
NYT: Background on Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely
NYT: Conservatives rally around Daniel Penny
YouTube: 1st Death Wish Clip
Screen Slate: Review of Death Wish by Patrick Dahl
YouTube: 2nd Death Wish Clip
Roger Ebert's review of Death Wish

Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Coffee (Prod. Riddiman)
Downtown Cafe - Homie Cat
Opening scene from Death Wish 3
Dirty Harry scene
Gutfeld being an ass
Rashad Richey on the murder of Neely

Kyrsten Sinema?... or Christian CInema? Finch and Alien talk about Renfield and The Pope's Exorcist.

Alien accidentally refers to Lost in the Funhouse as Welcome to the Funhouse. This is the author he is referring to: John Barth

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Audio Credits
Vamp Anthem (Instrumental) - Playboi Carti
Whatever - 80 Horse
Beer - Reel Big Fish
WatchMojo Pope's Exorcist
I'm Gonna Steal the Declaration of Independence

In today's episode, your tour guides go resistance lib mode. Also they briefly talk about some entertainment news, the dumb doge twitter thing, and the tornadoes in the American Midwest and South.

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Bibliography
Pin Cushion Killer
Bloomberg: Entertainment news
Reuters: Dogecoin
CNBC: Dogecoin
CNN: Tornadoes
Des Moines Register: Tornadoes
CNN: Indictment
NYT: Indictment
Al Jazeera: Indictment
Newsweek: Protest Ron
NYT: More indictment
NYT: Quote Phil read
Newsweek: Evangelical reactions
The Guardian: Evangelical reactions
Religion News: Indictment
Religion News: MAGA and evangelicalism

Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Sunflower (Prod. Lukrembo)
Sentimental - Dan Darmawan
Succession theme song
Chill Day - Lakey Inspired
Elon Musk on SNL, Weekend Update
Deadly tornadoes across country
Trump guys protesting Desantis is from some Claremont asshole on Twitter I don't want to link
Reactions to indictment
Rudy Giuliani on NewsNation

In today's episode, your tour guides discuss the Covenant School shooting, anti-trans legislation in Iowa, and some more thoughts about the SBC sex abuse epidemic, before moving onto an article about how The Last of Us Part II is related to the Israeli apartheid and an article about how AIs deserve rights.

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Bibliography
WFAA: Covenant Shooting
AP: Iowa anti-trans legislation
Texas Tribune: Recent SBC case
Vice: The Last of Us and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Hill: We need an AI rights movement

Audio Credits
Noah - The Jubalaires
Feeling Good - Lakey Inspired
The Past
Chill Day - Lakey Inspired