The spiritual center of this show is really the mid-2000s, or at least it was at one point. I'm not sure what the

spiritual center really is. But, well, Michael Moore, he's still in the title of the show, you know,

he's still our patron saint, and everything kind of comes out through him in circles, you know.

That's how the universe of this podcast has been built. And he resides in the mid-2000s, and so too do we.

Anyway, horribly off track already.

But that's a long way of saying that I was thinking about a mid-to-late 2000s figure today

by the name of Tucker Max, who some of our younger listeners may not know.

That's crazy, isn't it?

Like, Tucker Max just so dominated culture, at least dominated culture for people 18 to 25 for a couple years, you know, 2007, 2008.

Did you ever read Tucker Max?

I can't say I did.

You know who he is, though, right?

Well, yeah, because you've told me.

Okay.

Well, Tucker Max was a bestselling author.

He had four bestselling books, but the first of them, which was the runaway bestseller,

you could get it at every, like, hot topic.

You could get it at every urban outfitters. Any one of those like clothing stores that had a

book section, you would find this one next to like Chuck Norris facts. You get you get this at

blue notes along with like the same Nirvana or pink Floyd t-shirt that like every single other

kid at your school had. And it was a collection of

blog posts. He started as a blogger chronicling his sexual misadventures. And it was very bro-y.

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