Hello friends, it's Thanksgiving and so we're exploring the ancient White tradition of making slapdash travel plans and then eating one another! We're watching the 1999 film Ravenous with renown White Cannibalism expert, Alex Jonse. How will we fare in our stroll through this White madness? Tune in to see which host gets eaten!

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Building an empire requires hordes of dipwads yearning to fill their pockets with dollars. At some point you have to ask yourself, why did we build the dipwad machine? Did we really need to have built that? It's the Introduction to "The Utes Must Go!"

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(00:20:29) The Discussion Zone

Our book is "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People by Peter Decker. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠⁠⁠Abebooks⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

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Many people have asked, why does American-style activism seem like a hamster wheel through which the hope of the young is transformed into a massive money machine that is both unable and unwilling to root out the cause of all suffering? The answer is simple: it sure is.

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(00:24:40) The Discussion Zone

Guess the heck what? It's new book time! Our second reading for the pod will be "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People, by Peter Decker. This book details the story of indigenous removal in Colorado and all the attendant genocidal, anticommunist handwringing of 1880's America. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for ⁠Abebooks⁠ and ⁠Amazon⁠. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

Our book is Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris. Pick up a copy from the publisher ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and read along with the pod!

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Imperialist, competitive societies are always scrambling for new ways to make profiteering cheaper. Owners spend untold fistfuls of cash to invent the cheapest production scheme they possibly can. Owners call this "efficiency" and say it is good. On the other hand, paying your employees zero money and threatening them with death if they disagree is probably the most profitable economic system owners have ever invented. The masses call this "slavery" and say it is bad. Who can really say which side is right? Oh yeah, us! It's chapter 6 of Kids These Days!

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(00:00:00) Getty Update

(00:09:55) Opening Theme

(00:37:28) The Discussion Zone

The next episode will be the last episode reading Kids These Days! That means it's new book reveal time! Our second reading for the pod will be "The Utes Must Go!" American Expansion and the Removal of a People, by Peter Decker. This book details the story of indigenous removal in Colorado and all the attendant genocidal, anticommunist handwringing of 1880's America. I can't find this book from the publisher anymore, so here's a buy link for Abebooks and Amazon. I found my copy in a box of free books outside a bookstore at the mall five years ago. So you could try that too.

Our book is Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris. Pick up a copy from the publisher ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and read along with the pod!

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The episode started off like any other, but had very poor quality audio. If you've heard the original audio for Mattress Money Cartel, it was similar, but less stable. The first act was fairly normal, but the way the hosts acted was a little off. Trinity was angrier, Jodi seemed depressed, the guest behaved anxiously, and Diego appeared to have genuine anger and hatred towards her parents.

The episode was about the hosts going on a plane trip. Near the end of the first act, the plane was taking off. Diego was fooling around, as you'd expect. However, as the plane was about 50 feet off the ground, Diego broke a window and was sucked out.

At the beginning of the show, Trinity had an idea that the audio style of The Great Satan's Good Time Era represented life, and that death made things more realistic. Hence why it was used in this episode. The picture of Diego's corpse was barely recognizable. They took full advantage of it not having to move, and took an almost photorealistic picture of her dead body.

Act one ended with the shot of Diego's corpse. When act two started, Trinity, Jodi, and the guest were sitting at a table, crying. The crying went on and on; it became more pained and realistic, better acting than you would think possible. The audio started to decay even more as they cried, and you could hear murmuring in the background. The hosts could barely be made out. Their audio was stretching and blurring, sounding like deformed shadows with random bright sounds cascading over them. There were faces speaking in the window, wailing in and out so that you were never sure what they sounded like.

This crying went on for all of act two.

Act three opened with a title card saying one year had passed. Trinity, Jodi, and the guest were skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There was no sign of recording equipment or their pets.

They decided to visit Diego's grave. California was completely deserted, and as they walked to the cemetery, the houses became more and more decrepit. They all looked abandoned. When they got to the grave, Diego's body was lying in front of her tombstone, looking just like it did at the end of act one.

The hosts started crying again. Eventually they stopped and just stared at Diego's body. The microphone moved very close to Trinity's face. According to summaries, Trinity tells a joke at this part, but it isn't audible in the version I downloaded, so you can't tell what she's saying.

The sound faded out as the episode came to a close. The tombstones in the background had the names of every guest on the Great Satan's Good Time Era on them. Some that no one had heard of in 2025, some that haven't been on the show yet. All of them had death dates as well.

For guests who died since, like Alex Jones and Markiplier, the dates were when they would die. The credits were completely silent, and seemed rushed. The final sound was the hosts on their couch, like in the live episodes, but all speaking in the hyper-realistic, lifeless style of Diego's corpse.

A thought occurred to me after seeing the episode for the first time. You could try to use the tombstones to predict the death of living The Great Satan's Good Time Era guest stars. But there was something odd about most of the ones who haven't died yet.

All of their deaths are listed as the same date.

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Hey friendos! It's an off-week for the pod so you know what that means: it's a bonus episode! Over on the Patreon, we're watching three episodes of that beloved TV sitcom, iCarly. So please enjoy this extended preview of our discussion about the iCarly episode, iFix a Popstar.

What on Earth is iCarly, you ask? Why, the world of iCarly is a sinister mirror of our own. It is a place in which parents are fully absent from their children's lives, teens do professionalized labor in their free time, and children make high-budget internet television using their parent's no-limit credit cards to national acclaim. iCarly's SpecOps Air Force dad didn't slit all those throats in Yemen to have his children not grow up in a hype loft. U! S! A! U! S! A!

If you want to watch along, we watched:

• S03E18 - iPsycho, Part 1
• S03E19 - iPsycho, Part 2
• S03E14 - iFix a Popstar
• S04E23 - iMeet the First Lady

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We're continuing our investigation of what the junk happened to Millennials! Did you know that in a competitive economic system, a class-differentiated ideology of temporarily-embarrassed-superstardom will emerge in which parents cope with the material consequences of dwindling Good Life Outcomes by fantasizing about their child becoming the most important goober in the universe? Well it's true! What happens when an intergenerational star search passes over everyone but the most networked few? Well, let's just say it makes for some incredibly overworked, anxious, and unsocialized children whose first adult experience is learning that they are, in fact, significantly less talented than their parents let on. We didn't give ourselves all those got-dang gold stars! And I thank my lucky stars that I threw my child-sized violin out the window at the age of six. It was the best decision I ever made. It's chapter 5 of Kids These Days!

Chapters:

(00:24:02) The Discussion Zone

Our book is Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris. Pick up a copy from the publisher ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and read along with the pod!

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The ancient American Empire worshipped a universal force called "The Market." People back then believed that if they reduced all social relationship to a financial transaction, The Market would favor them and give them prosperity. The Americans were very competitive. They entered their children at birth into a society-wide competition to follow all of the rules and not get "in trouble." The Americans had a very strict legal system and were fearful of "Rulebreakers." They called their leader the Great White Father and it was His job to approve new rules. Every year new rules were made, others were amended, and everyone had to always follow them in order to be "good." Anyone caught breaking the rules would be captured and imprisoned in a large concrete fortress. The Americans believed that Rulebreakers were a burden on The Market, whose disfavor would bring suffering. However, if a prisoner had enough money, they were allowed to buy themself out of imprisonment. If they had significantly more money saved up, they were allowed to buy themself "out of trouble" all together and back into The Market's favor. Most people did not have that much money, so the Americans built many, many compounds to isolate the unworthy. The American Empire had a social structure based on economic service. People who lived their lives in service to The Market and did great deeds on its behalf were revered as heroes. It's chapter 4 of Kids These Days!

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(00:19:08) The Discussion Zone

Our book is Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials by Malcolm Harris. Pick up a copy from the publisher ⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠ and read along with the pod!

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