Episode 213 - Sticky Peppermint Pocket

Ho ho ho. It’s Christmas and Santa has been busy this year. Spreading a non-deadly virus across the planet. Creating a new army of Karens to steal the freedoms from actual human beings. Dropping off new Galaxy S500s to all the “Frontline” nurses to create Tik-Tok dance routines in stunning 4K! Over dosing criminals, and free for all riots across the world. Stealing presidential elections. Through it all though he couldn’t give you $1 to make your life better, but I can hear him on the roof and he’s about to teabag you with his sack full of…The Desire to See Terrible ThingsRooting for the EmpireThinking You Can Change Someone’s MindCandy CanesSome people like gross out media. How many people in your life watch that pimple popper MD youtube channel? Why do we need to slow down at the site of an accident? How many times have you been at work and someone gets their hand crushed by a semi truck trailer and you gotta rush out there and look at it? Ok that one is just me, and I only ran out because I was required to make a report on it, and I had to just block it from view with a clipboard otherwise I might have passed out.Media shapes our culture, and our culture shapes our media, yet somehow we’ve run across a complete oxymoron in that our media constantly portrays the government as stupid or corrupt, and corporations are either evil, or just bafflingly stupid. Yet in this year we’ve completely forgotten about those stories where one man who follows his own conscience saves the day, in favor of the Veep, West Wing, Amazon solution. Where unilateral power is used to subjugate the people, all the while mega corporations stomp out their small time competition to crate a greater stranglehold on the people, and the government, and what’s worse? WE CHEERED! We truly aren’t watching TV, it’s just lights to keep us from burning it all down.Can we stop arguing? It’s completely meaningless, I’m not reading the huffpo opinion piece you sent me, and I just sent you the most Alex Jones source I could find to predict how quickly you’d jump into smug derision. So why don’t we both just call it quits and admit you’re wrong?Every season has it’s stand out candy, like the Cadbury Cream Egg, and every season has its terrible candy, like the candy corn. Christmas has the worst of the worst. The Candy Cane. This unreasonably shaped sweet confection isn’t a good enough cany to warrant the hassle. It’s not unique enough to warrant being special. Yet here we are. It’s December so a whole aisle of the Christmas section of your local Walmart is 5,000 different versions of a candy nobody wanted.All that plus, making up voicemails, Tim’s greatest fan, and why Tab is going to have his feet cutoff from diabetes. If you enjoy the show join us on DISCORD where we hang out quite often. Give us some support on PATREON pledges as little as $1. Or you can swing over to the merch store and BUY A SHIRT!